This is the first of 3 episodes focusing on a few music-oriented stories from this past summer. The first episode talks about things from my 40th annual music party (the Castlist 002 episodes from the fall of 2018 talk about the #1’s at the parties). It was a great party, the weather cooperated and there were a few key moments that I talked about in the episode. Here I am posting the top 50 songs from the party game and the top 50 artists of the last 40 years.

We mentioned and/or used 43 songs in this episode. And I brought up the Peanuts cartoon and the TV Kids Incorporated.

The top 50 for the party game.

1 PINK Never Gonna Not Dance Again
2 KELLY CLARKSON Happier Than Ever
3 HARRY STYLES Music For A Sushi Restaurant
4 SAM SMITH & KIM PETRAS Unholy
5 PINK Trustfall
6 LIZZO About Damn Time
7 MILEY CYRUS Flowers
8 MANESKIN The Loneliest
9 HARRY STYLES As It Was
10 HARRY STYLES Late Night Talking
11 GHOST Jesus He Knows Me
11 THE WOMBATS This Car Drives All By Itself
13 MAMMOTH WVH Mr. Ed
14 JVKE Golden Hour
15 TAYLOR SWIFT Anti-Hero
16 SHINEDOWN A Symptom Of Being Human
17 GUSTER Emily Ivory
18 LEWIS CAPALDI Forget Me
19 PALAYE ROYALE f/ LP Line It Up
20 CARLY RAE JEPSEN Beach House
21 KEITH URBAN Brown Eyes Baby
22 PANIC! AT THE DISCO Don’t Let The Light Go Out
23 GHOST Spillways
24 KELLY CLARKSON Mine
25 DOLLY PARTON World On Fire
26 LUKE COMBS The Kind Of Love We Make
27 KATE BUSH Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
28 ELTON JOHN & BRITNEY SPEARS Hold Me Closer
29 ED SHEERAN Eyes Closed
30 SZA Kill Bill
31 LIZZO f/ SZA Special
32 WE ARE SCIENTISTS Handshake Agreement
33 JESSIE WARE Free Yourself
34 MAMMOTH WVH Epiphany
35 SON MIEUX Multicolor
36 WE ARE SCIENTISTS Turn It Up
37 DOJA CAT Vegas
38 DNCE Move
39 BEYONCE Summer Renaissance
40 IMAGINE DRAGONS Bones
41 FALL OUT BOY Love From The Other Side
42 BEYONCE Break My Soul
43 LIVE Operation Spirit
44 MANESKIN Gossip
45 BEYONCE Cuff It
46 RUFUS DU SOL On My Knees
47 TEGAN & SARA Smoking Weed Alone
48 ARCADE FIRE Unconditional (Lookout Kid)
49 COIN Brad Pitt
50 CARLY RAE JEPSEN Talking To Yourself

Top Music Party Artists 1983-2023

pos/# of songs/Points
1. 27 1421.4 MADONNA
2. 25 1342.4 U2
3. 26 1292.5 PINK
4. 16 958.5 LADY GAGA
5. 19 830 KELLY CLARKSON
6. 19 818.9 BRUNO MARS
7. 14 738.2 DUA LIPA
8. 13 716.9 ELTON JOHN
9. 11 690.4 ADELE
10. 13 619.8 R.E.M./MICHAEL STIPE
11. 18 617.6 EURYTHMICS/ANNIE LENNOX
12. 11 576.6 INXS
13. 12 546.4 MATCHBOX 20/ROB THOMAS
14. 10 544 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE/N-SYNC
15. 8 542.5 ED SHEERAN
16. 11 540.6 CHRISTINA AGUILERA
17. 12 525.2 KYLIE MINOGUE
18. 8 524.3 ALANIS MORRISSETTE
19. 15 523.9 BEYONCE/DESTINY’S CHILD
20. 13 522.9 BRITNEY SPEARS
21. 9 502.4 HARRY STYLES/ONE DIRECTION
22. 10 492.4 THE KILLERS
23. 11 474.5 MAROON 5/ADAM LEVINE
24. 9 459.9 CELINE DION
25. 10 454.2 BACKSTREET BOYS
26. 11 451.2 GEORGE MICHAEL
27. 9 439.8 BLACK EYED PEAS/FERGIE
28. 9 422.4 IMAGINE DRAGONS
29. 10 419.1 SHINEDOWN
30. 11 415.9 FOO FIGHTERS
31. 8 413.3 SAM SMITH
32. 9 411.2 ARIANA GRANDE
33. 8 407.7 KEANE
34. 11 404.8 RIHANNA
35. 11 398.3 JANET JACKSON
36. 9 375.2 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
37. 9 368.3 PRINCE
38. 9 361.7 TAYLOR SWIFT
39. 10 361.6 MARIAH CAREY
40. 6 358 LINKIN PARK
41. 10 356.7 KATY PERRY
42. 9 353.5 STING/THE POLICE
43. 8 352 COLDPLAY
44. 8 350.9 THE WEEKND
45. 7 345.8 DAVID BOWIE
46. 6 344.4 LIZZO
47. 8 342.6 JONAS BROTHERS/DNCE/NICK JONAS
48. 5 336.3 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
49. 7 336.2 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
50. 5 330.3 TRAIN