Typical Summer delays, but it’s Good 4 Olivia Rodrigo

As is typical the summer season spreads me thinner than the rest of the year, so it is harder to keep up with Beyond Radio. This year is especially challenging as I started a new job that is taking up a good amount of my time, while I also am leading up to my 60^th birthday at the end of July.  With that and the coming out of COVID, there has been more travel, and that will continue through the summer. Also, my annual music party will be back after a detour last year. That will happen on July 31, a few days after my birthday.

The podcast and my writings have taken a temporary back seat in all of this. I’m hoping to have another episode out in the next few weeks.

“Good 4 U” unsurprisingly vaults into the #1 position on the BR250 and #1 Trending on the strength of 44 adds. Olivia Rodrigo places a second song in the Trending top 10 with “Brutal” at #5, while “Déjà Vu” sits at #11 and “Traitor” at #22. Galantis and Maneskin, in the Trending silver and bronze positions, follow “Good 4 U” into the BR250 top 15 on strong early June action. “Heartbreak Anthem” has a great summer song vibe, I’d be shocked if they don’t push this in the States. “Zitti E Bouni” will not see the same action though I love that it won Eurovision.

At #4 Trending, Chvrches collaboration with the Cure’s Robert Smith “How Not To Drown” has had strong out of the box success, landing at #43 on the BR250 this week. This is by far my favorite Chvrches track, none of their songs have cracked my top 25 and this could possibly go to #1 on my list.

Another ‘80s era band, Duran Duran, return at #8 Trending with “Invisible” while ‘70s artist Nile Rodgers of Chic, appears at #19 Trending on the Keith Urban track “Out The Cage”, possibly his least Country song ever. Not that that is unusual for him. He has been a stellar performer on my personal chart since 2002 when “Somebody Like You” went to #1 on my chart. At the time I felt that was a Pop hit waiting to happen. Since then, he has had 17 songs reach #1 on my personal chart and another 13 reach my top 10.

The return of Lorde, 2013’s Olivia Rodrigo or Billie Eilish (you pick), lands her at #25 Trending. “Solar Power” seems like a bright song even though it starts out a bit sluggish. I would expect it to move towards the upper reaches of the BR250 on the June 30 chart.

Trending June 2021

1              OLIVIA RODRIGO              Good 4 U

2              GALANTIS f/ DAVID GUETTA & LITTLE MIX             Heartbreak Anthem

3              MANESKIN         Zitti E Bouni

4              CHVRCHES f/ ROBERT SMITH       How Not To Drown

5              OLIVIA RODRIGO              Brutal

6              COLDPLAY           Higher Power

7              BTS         Butter

8              DURAN DURAN Invisible

9              GO_A    Shum

10           MARSHMELLO f/ JONAS BROTHERS          Leave Before You Love Me

11           OLIVIA RODRIGO              Deja Vu

12           ANNE-MARIE & NIALL HORAN    Our Song

13           CALVIN HARRIS f/ TOM GRENNAN            By Your Side

14           DUA LIPA             Love Again

15           KATY PERRY        Electric

16           JESSIE WARE       Hot N Heavy

17           REGARD f/ TROYE SIVAN & TATE MCRAE You

18           BLEACHERS         Stop Making This Hurt

19           KEITH URBAN f/ BRELAND & NILE RODGERS         Out The Cage

20           SIGRID  Mirror

21           THE VACCINES  Headphones Baby

22           OLIVIA RODRIGO              Traitor

23           VANCE JOY          Missing Piece

24           THE WEEKND f/ ARIANA GRANDE             Save Your Tears

25           LORDE   Solar Power

26           SHARON VAN ETTEN f/ ANGEL OLSEN      Like I Used To

27           JOHN MAYER     Last Train Home

28           MANESKIN         I Wanna Be Your Slave

29           YEARS & YEARS Starstruck

30           CREEPER              Midnight

31           ELLE KING & MIRANDA LAMBERT              Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)

32           WILLOW f/ TRAVIS BARKER          Transparant Soul

33           PINK      All I Know So Far

34           MO        Live To Survive

35           GARBAGE            Wolves

36           ELTON JOHN f/ YEARS & YEARS  It’s A Sin

37           DADI FREYR         10 Years

38           LITTLE MIX          Confetti

39           DOJA CAT f/ SZA               Kiss Me More

40           MANIC STREET PREACHERS          Orwellian

41           OLIVIA RODRIGO              Jealousy, Jealousy

42           BLANKENBERGE No Sense

43           OMNIA Beautiful

44           BILLIE EILISH       Lost Cause

45           GREEN DAY         Pollyanna

46           NCT DREAM       Hot Sauce

47           JAKE BUGG         Lost

48           DUA LIPA             Levitating

49           WOLF ALICE        How Can I Make It Okay

50           MADDIE & TAE  Woman Got You

51           MARINA              Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land

52           JESSIE WARE       Please

53           BILLIE EILISH       Your Power

54           POPPY  Fear Of Dying (Jack off Jill)

55           BROTHERS OSBORNE      I’m Not For Everyone

56           LAURA MVULA  Got Me

57           OLIVIA RODRIGO              Favorite Crime

58           MARINA              Venus Fly Trap

59           LONDON GRAMMAR      Lord It’s A Feeling

60           OLIVIA RODRIGO              Enough For You

61           LIL NAS X              Sun Goes Down

62           ANGELS & AIRWAVES     Euphoria

63           ONEREPUBLIC   Run

64           BELLA PAORCH  Build A Bitch

65           RINA SAWAYAMA f/ ELTON JOHN             Chosen Family

66           HIGHLIGHT         Not The End

67           JOYWAVE            Every Window Is A Mirror

68           MK         Chemical

69           TWENTY ONE PILOTS      Saturday.

70           AESPA   Next Level

71           PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING              People, Let’s Dance

72           ST. VINCENT       Down

73           TINASHE              Pasadena

74           NOTHING BUT THIEVES  Futureproof

75           SLEATER KINNEY               Worry With You

76           SELF ESTEEM      I Do This All The Time

77           ASHLIE AMBER  Open

78           MARTIN GARRIX f/ BONO & THE EDGE    We Are The People

79           BREEZER               Alive

80           JORJA SMITH      Bussdown

81           OLIVIA RODRIGO              1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back

82           MITCHELL TENPENNY     To Us It Did

83           RYAN HURD & MAREN MORRIS  Chasing After You

84           SAM FELDT f/ SAM FISCHER         Pick me Up

85           CHRIS STAPLETON           Cold

86           KENNYHOOPLA f/ TRAVIS BARKER            Hollywood Sucks

87           RAMKOT              Am I Alright Now

88           CHRIS MALINCHAK          Closer Every Day

89           LEON BRIDGES  Motorbike

90           ARIANA GRANDE             POV

91           COLISION            Hell Will Wait

92           EVERGLOW         First

93           GRIFF    One Foot In Front Of The Other

94           GARBAGE            No Gods No Masters

95           AGNES  24 Hours

96           CHRIS MORENO Shot At Your Heart

97           MAHMOOD        Klan

98           TA TOY BOY        Dark Fantasy

99           OLIVIA RODRIGO              Happier

100         TIX          Fallen Angel