This week I introduce the Retro 100 which I started tracking in December. It will be a year to date chart and will also show the current week’s position to the left. Below that is the current week’s chart.
There are a handful of charts that track old songs and old titles show up occasionally on other charts, especially after an artist has passed. Also my chart has become increasingly influenced by older songs because of the podcasts and blog posts as I discover or re-discover them. Hopefully you’ll dive into some of these older songs as well.
Retro Top 100 (Old songs showing up on current personal charts)
TW/ 2021 YTD
14 1 THIRD DAY What Good
44 2 THE STRUTS The Ol’ Switcheroo
9 3 ALL STAR UNITED Take Me Away
27 4 THE STRUTS Who Am I?
4 5 ALY & AJ Potential Breakup Song (2020)
53 6 THIRD DAY Sky Falls Down
30 7 THE STRUTS These Times Are Changing
64 8 PARACHUTE Blame It On Me
3 9 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE Famous Last Words
56 10 DEXTER FREEBISH Everybody Knows Somebody
61 11 KEITH URBAN God Made Woman
8 12 ARABESQUE Love Is Just A Game
21 13 THE TEMPER TRAP Thick As Thieves
19 14 ARCADE FIRE Everything Now
31 15 SONS OF SYLVIA 50 Ways
6 16 JOHN MAYER I Don’t Trust Myself (With Loving You)
48 17 CAT STEVENS Lady D’Arbanville
17 18 JOHN MAYER Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
35 19 THIRD DAY Otherside
63 20 CHRIS REA Fool If You Think It’s Over
95 21 DOVES Broken Eyes
69 22 EVERCLEAR The New York Times
23 REBA MCENTIRE Rumor Has It
15 24 BERLIN A Matter Of Time
25 THE STRUTS Put Your Money On Me
60 26 CRYSTAL GAYLE You Never Miss A real Good thing
42 27 LORRAINE ELLISON Stay With Me (Baby)
67 28 STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN Dive
23 29 THE KLF f/ TAMMY WYNETTE Justified And Ancient
45 30 ALL STAR UNITED La La Land
31 GEORGE HARRISON All Things Must Pass
22 32 MIKE CURB CONGREGATION Burning Bridges
77 33 ELTON JOHN Come Down In Time
13 34 ABBA Summer Night City
35 MELISSA MANCHESTER Midnight Blue (2020)
73 36 A SILENT FILM Paralysed
86 37 GUSTER This Is How It Feels To Have A Broken Heart
7 38 JOE JACKSON Steppin’ Out
39 AC/DC Rock ‘N Roll Train
40 YVONNE ELLIMAN Love Pains
41 JOURNEY Lights
57 42 JIGSAW Sky High
71 43 TIMMY THOMAS Why Can’t We Live Together
62 44 REBA MCENTIRE Fancy (Dave Aude Remix)
45 GARY ALLAN It Would Be You
46 LEN BARRY 1-2-3
59 47 BASH & POP On The Rocks
48 ACE OF BASE Happy Nation
28 49 GIRLS ALOUD I’ll Stand By You
65 50 STEVEN TYLER (It) Feels So Good
84 51 KEITH URBAN Slow Turning
52 HEART Crazy On You
18 53 THE MONKEES Daydream Believer
54 CHARLEY PRIDE Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’
20 55 VAN HALEN I’m The One
56 MOTHER MOTHER Hayloft
1 57 SHINEDOWN Save Me
58 INSPIRAL CARPETS This Is How It Feels
81 59 LIT Night In The Life
2 60 FOO FIGHTERS Something For Nothing
61 ALPHAVILLE Big In Japan
62 KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION Drive That Fast
24 63 GENESIS In Too Deep
47 64 THE SEAHORSES Blinded By The Sun
65 MOUNTAIN Mississippi Queen
66 LONDON GRAMMAR Wasting My Young Years
52 67 DAVID BOWIE & PAT METHENY This Is Not America
70 68 BARBRA STREISAND Ordinary Miracles
68 69 GIANT Don’t Leave Me In Love
32 70 BREAD It Don’t Matter To Me
76 71 HOODOO GURUS Get Out Of Dodge
89 72 HONEYMOON SUITE Find What You’re Looking For
5 73 LED ZEPPELIN Black Dog
74 BERLIN The Metro
10 75 BRAD PAISLEY Who Needs Pictures
11 76 CARLY SIMON You’re So Vain
77 SILVERCHAIR Pins In My Needles
12 78 RICK SPRINGFIELD Love Is Gonna Come At Last
50 79 TOM JONES With These Hands
80 80 THE SEAHORSES Love Is The Law
16 81 THE RASPBERRIES Overnight Sensation
83 82 SLASH f/ FERGIE Beautiful Dangerous
83 GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS Ferry Across The Mersey
84 NEW SEEKERS Pinball Wizard
85 SKILLET The Resistance
78 86 DAVID NAIL Desiree
87 BLU CANTRELL Hit ‘Em Up Style
25 88 FERRANTE & TEICHER Midnight Cowboy
26 89 BLUE PEARL Naked In The Rain
29 90 DARYL HALL Someone Like You
33 91 ZZ TOP Tush
34 92 ALPHAVILLE Forever Young
93 IKE & TINA TURNER River Deep-Mountain High
36 94 FLEETWOOD MAC Silver Springs
37 95 BILLY JOEL Tell her About It
38 96 SUPREMES Where Did Our Love Go
97 THE KLF 3 A.M. Eternal
39 98 ELTON JOHN Skyline Pigeon
99 BONE THUGS-N HARMONY Thuggish Ruggish Bone
40 100 FOO FIGHTERS Best of You