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We've reached the final installment of my year-end recap of the biggest hits on my weekly music chart for 2016. These are the songs that had gone the highest and/or stuck around the longest in the year. You can click over to catch up on the whole countdown or on parts one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , and the 25 also-rans ... #10 - " Ophelia " - The Lumineers           from the album Cleopatra (2016)           Highest rank: #2 (one week)           Weeks on the chart (in 2016): 41 (still charting)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #66           Songwriters: Wesley Schultz, Jeremy Fraites Back in 2012, the indie-folk trio had the #10 song of my year-end recap with "Ho Hey" and landing a nomination for a Grammy for Best New Artist. Four years later, they are back at #10 with the moody and plodding switched with flashes of shanty song "Ophelia". It took a while for this gem to catch on with the bright and fla

Friday's here, and it's time to run down my top 100 tunes from the previous week. "24K Magic" from Bruno Mars remains on top for a sixth week, while Sting (pictured above) climbs into the top ten. Songs from Chris Young/Vince Gill, Green Day, and Rihanna make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red ), while former big hits from Adele, Justin Timberlake, OneRepublic, Christina Aguilera, Calvin Harris, Jonas Blue, LoCash, and Kiiara drop off my list. Don't forget, I'll be rolling out the top ten hits of 2016 on my chart later on today... This Week           Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. 24K Magic - Bruno Mars (1) 2. Waste A Moment - Kings Of Leon (2) 3. Starboy - The Weeknd f/Daft Punk (3) 4. Don't Wanna Know - Maroon 5 f/Kendrick Lamar 5. Song For Another Time - Old Dominion (6) 6. Heathens - twenty-one pilo

" Tell Me Why " - Exposé from the album What You Don't Know (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9 (one week) Weeks on the Top-40: 11 Today's Song of the day comes from the dance-pop trio Exposé , whose sophomore effort What You Don't Know continued their streak of top ten hits in the U.S. with " When I Looked At Him " and the title track . The third single from the album would have them delve into deeper lyrical waters with "Tell Me Why". Written and produced by Lewis Martineé, it may not solve the problems of urban gang violence, but it was at least asking questions. Like "What You Don't Know", Gioia Bruno handled the vocals on this (her last lead on a top-40 Expose track)... "Tell Me Why" became the group's seventh straight top-10 pop hit in America in February of 1990. The song also climbed to #3 on Billboard 's Dance Club Play chart. Internationally, the single was a top-40 hit in Canada at #34, a

I'm almost through with this year's recap of the biggest hit songs on my weekly music chart, as I enter the top-20. You can click over to check out parts one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , and eight , as well as the 25 that almost made it ... #20 - " All We Ever Knew " - The Head and the Heart           from the album Signs Of Light (2016)           Highest rank: #2 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart (in 2016): 25 (still charting)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: did not chart           Songwriters: Josiah Johnson, Jonathan Russell, Charity Thielen, Chris Zasche, Kenny Hensley, Tyler Williams (The Head and the Heart) The Seattle indie-folks outfit claim their biggest rock hit to date with this ethereal yet sing-along-ready reminiscence piece. The sunny side of regret, perhaps. Killer lyrics: We've been here before,                       Don't drag me through this again,                       We tried everything under

"Was It Nothing At All" - Michael Damian from the album Where Do We Go From Here (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #24 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 9 Today's song of the day comes from actor/singer Michael Damian , who had parlayed his celebrity from his starring role on the daytime "soap opera" The Young And The Restless to a recording career, scoring a #1 pop hit with a cover of David Essex's " Rock On " as well as a top-40 follow-up with " Cover Of Love ".  The third single from his Where Do We Go From Here album was the break-up ballad "Was It Nothing At All". Written by Damian himself, it had the lush air of the sophisti-pop that had graced the mid-80s from the UK, and a touch of guitar like in George Michael's "A Different Corner"... "Was It Nothing At All" became Damian's third and final top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in February of 1990. The single was a big hit on Adult Contempor

I'm heading higher up my countdown of the top 100 tunes from my weekly music chart for 2016, and as we enter the top-30, you can click to check out my recaps on parts one , two , three , four , five , six , and seven , as well as the 25 "also-rans" ... #30 - " Die A Happy Man " - Thomas Rhett           from the album Tangled Up (2015)           Highest rank: #20 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart (in 2016): 26 (was on for five weeks in 2015)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #21           Songwriters: Thomas Rhett, Sean Douglas, Joe Spargur (Joe London) Thomas Rhett, son of 90s country singer Rhett Akins, was on last year's list at #49 with "Make Me Wanna", and we saw him on yesterday's post at #36 with "T-Shirt", but it was this John Mayer-ish love song that made him claim the longest reigning #1 country airplay song of the year, spending six weeks at the summit. The track also became a respectably big pop hit

" What Kind Of Man Would I Be? " - Chicago from the album Chicago 19 (1988) & Greatest Hits 1982-1989 (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 12 Today's song of the day comes from the veteran jazz-rock band turned soft-pop hitmakers Chicago , whose numerical release 19 continued their success with a trio of top 10 hits with " I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love ", " You're Not Alone ", and Billboard 's Top Pop hit for 1989, " Look Away ". A fourth single from the album, the love ballad " We Can Last Forever ", made it to #12 on the Adult Contemporary chart, but missed the pop top 40 at #55. A fifth track from the album would be remixed and included in their third greatest hits set, spanning most of the decade. "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?", written by the band's Jason Scheff, who sings lead, along with Bobby Caldwell and Chas Sanford, was yet another easy listening

As we roll along with my recap of the 100 biggest songs on my weekly music chart for the year 2016, I'm up to part seven. You can click over to catch up on parts one , two , three , four , five , and six , along with the 25 that almost made it . I know reach the top 40... #40 - " Just Like Fire " - P!nk           from the album Alice Through The Looking Glass (Original Soundtrack) (2016)           Highest rank: #29 (three weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 29           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10           Songwriters: Alecia Moore (P!nk), Max Martin, Karl Schuster (Shellback), Oscar Holter It's been four years since P!nk's last studio album, but she re-emerges with a great song from a shitty movie, in this case the sequel in the Johnny Depp franchise film series for Alice In Wonderland. Her daughter and husband get cute cameos in the video, as well. Killer lyric:  I'm walking on a wire trying to go higher,                      Feel

" Janie's Got A Gun " - Aerosmith from the album Pump (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 13 Today's song of the day comes from the hard blues-rock band from Boston, Aerosmith , whose decade-closing Pump album had scored them a top-5 pop hit with " Love In An Elevator " in the fall of 1989. The next single from the set would take them in a more serious route. "Janie's Got A Gun", primarily written by lead singer Steven Tyler with bassist Tom Hamilton, their party-style ways were put on the shelf as topics as child abuse and gun violence are tackled. Without being tacky, and Steven providing an impassioned and angry vocal, this may indeed be their best artistic moment, if not one of them... "Janie's Got A Gun" reached the top-5 on the American pop chart in February of 1990. The single also went to #2 on Billboard 's Mainstream Rock radio list. Internationally, the song topped the si

" Pretending " - Eric Clapton from the album Journeyman (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #55 This week's "robbed hit" comes from rock god Eric Clapton , who had spent a big chunk of the 1980's battling a drug and alcohol addiction, emerging sober but more serene, with two albums in the later half of the decade produced by Phil Collins. In the spring of 1985 his single " Forever Man " hit the American top-40, but after that pop radio wasn't as kind. While he topped the Mainstream Rock radio chart with " (It's In) The Way That You Use It " and reached #5 with "T earing Us Apart " with Tina Turner, neither song made even a dent into the pop Hot 100. With Eric's last studio set of the decade, Journeyman , he set a little bit of blues, like in the lead single "Pretending", still the record was dominated by adult pop. Written by Jerry Lynn Williams (who also penned "Forever Man"), the single was

We've hit the halfway mark on my year-end recap of the biggest hits on my weekly music chart for 2016, and I'm ready to roll ten more out from the top 50. You can check out the other five parts and the 25 that almost made it by clicking here . #50 - " Closer " - The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey           from the EP Collage (2016)           Highest rank: #2 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart (in 2016): 16 (still charting)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1           Songwriters: Andrew Taggart (the Chainsmokers), Ashley Frangipane (Halsey), Shaun Frank, Frederic Kennett, Isaac Slade and Joe King (The Fray) After being a popular DJ/remixing team who had a novelty hit a couple years back with "#SELFIE", the duo of Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall became legitimate pop stars in 2016, with three top ten pop hits in America, all of which made my top 100 of the year. First up at #50 was their "biggest" on the Hot 100 in the U.S., s

" Tender Lover " - Babyface from the album Tender Lover (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 9 Today's song of the day comes from soul/pop singer/producer/songwriter Babyface (aka Kenny Edmonds), who had landed success away from his old band The Deele with the top ten hit " It's No Crime " in the fall of 1989. The second single from his second album was the title track, "Tender Lover", a mid-tempo break-up song written by the singer with Perri Reid (otherwise known as the singer "Pebbles") and L.A. Reid, who he produced the song with. Bobby Brown also makes a rap appearance on the "single mix" of the track... "Tender Lover" became the second top-20 hit from the album in February of 1990. The song also was his third consecutive #1 R&B hit (after "It's No Crime" and "Love Saw It" with Karyn White). Internationally, it was his first minor in the UK a

Hey gang, we're gone halfway through my countdown of the 100 biggest songs on my weekly music chart for 2016. You can catch up on parts one through five by clicking here . As a bonus, here's the 25 songs that just missed out, including some real gems. (FYI 543 different singles reached my top 100 during the year.) Happy Holidays!!! #125 - "Waste A Moment" - Kings Of Leon             from the album WALLS (2016)             Highest rank (in 2016): #2 (three weeks so far)             Weeks on the chart (in 2016): 11 (still charting)             Billboard Hot 100 peak: did not chart, "bubbled under" at #102             Songwriters: Caleb, Nathan, Jared, and Matthew Followhill (Kings Of Leon) The current runner-up on my chart just missed the year-end. They had topped the year end back in 2009 with "Use Somebody". (Click below to see the rest of the post)

" Peace In Our Time " - Eddie Money from the album Greatest Hits: Sound Of Money (1990) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #11 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 9 Today's song of the day comes from rock singer Eddie Money , who had scored a top-10 pop hit in the winter of 1988 with " Walk On Water ", as well as a #1 rock radio hit follow-up with " The Love In Your Eyes ". He closed out the decade with a greatest hits album, which had three never released songs on it. One of them, the anti-war anthem "Peace In Our Time", was put out as a single. Written by Englishmen Andy Hill and Peter Sinfield, the latter a former member of progressive rockers King Crimson, the song was one of those feel better world healing songs that always appear in the turning of a year... "Peace In Our Time" stopped one rung short of the American pop top ten in February of 1990. The song also climbed to #2 on Billboard 's Mainstream Rock radio chart,

We're at part five of my year-end countdown of the biggest hit songs on my weekly music chart for 2016. You can click over to check out part one , part two , part three , and part four to catch up... #60 - " Shame " - Tyrese           from the album Black Rose (2015)           Highest rank (in 2016): #14 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart (in 2016): 16 (was on for 26 weeks in 2015)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: did not chart, "bubbled under" at #103           Songwriters: Tyrese Gibson, Warryn Campbell, DJ Rogers Jr, Sam Dees, Ron Kersey The second of three songs to make a repeat performance on my year-end top 100, this was at #26 last year, reaching the top-20 and slowly moving down the chart, before reversing course back up, helped by its return to #1 on the Adult R&B chart in Billboard magazine. Epic video featuring Jennifer Hudson, who sings backup on the single, the emotional sponge of a track interpolates Atlantic Starr&#

Friday's here, and it's time to run down my top 100 tunes from the previous week. Bruno Mars reigns for a fifth week, while Old Dominion (pictured above) climbs a couple notches in the top ten. Former big hits from Blink-182, the Lumineers, Calum Scott, and Betty Who drop off my list, while songs from Lodato/Joseph Duveen, Empire of the Sun, and Rag N' Bone Man make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red ). And don't forget, I'm counting down the biggest hits on this here chart ten at a time every weekday until New Year's - you can click here to catch up... This Week         Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. 24K Magic - Bruno Mars (1) 2. Waste A Moment - Kings Of Leon (2) 3. Starboy - The Weeknd f/Daft Punk (3) 4. Don't Wanna Know - Maroon 5 f/Kendrick Lamar (4) 5. Heathens - twenty-one pilots (6) 6. S

" Fool For Your Loving '89 " - Whitesnake from the album Slip Of The Tongue (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #37 (two weeks) Weeks in the Top-40: 3 ( Ed. Note : this single was the last to "peak" in the 1980's....it's all 90's from here on in, baby!) Today's song of the day comes from the British hard rock/metal band Whitesnake , who had finally broke through on American radio at the end of 1987 with their self-titled album, which replaced most of the band save for lead singer David Coverdale, but rewarded them with a #2 hit with " Is This Love " and a chart-topping cover of one of the group's earlier singles, " Here I Go Again ". Despite Coverdale's success with the album, he again ditched the players on the album save guitarist Adrian Vandenberg for the videos and tour behind the album. In 1989, recording the follow-up record, Slip Of The Tongue , injury prevented Vandenberg from playing, so axe master Steve

We're chugging along on my countdown of the 100 biggest songs of 2016 on my weekly chart, as I tally who went the highest and/or stayed the longest. You can check out the first three parts of my recap by clicking here ... #70 - " Off The Ground " - The Record Company           from the album Give It Back To You (2016)           Highest rank: #10 (one week)           Weeks on the chart: 18           Billboard Hot 100 peak: did not chart           Songwriters: Chris Vos, Alex Stiff, Marc Cazorla (The Record Company) It was a good year for blues rock, with notable releases from the likes of Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Blues Pills, and this trio, whose debut album is a great driving play. This groovy opener, which topped the Adult Alternative Songs list, had such a fluid guitar hook I still can't get it out of my head, and lyrics that are more aspirational than a hundred fake Joel Osteen missives. Killer lyric: Well, my head is heavy and

" I'll Be Good To You " - Quincy Jones featuring Ray Charles and Chaka Khan from the album Back To The Block (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #18 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 8 Today's song of the day comes from producer, musician, and record mogul Quincy Jones , who besides producing the biggest names in pop music, like Michael Jackson's Thriller and Bad albums, had also released his own set The Dude in 1981, that had spun off three top-40 pop hits with "Ai No Corrida", "Just Once", and " One Hundred Ways " (the last two with James Ingram). He also helped arrange the massive charity effort single "We Are The World" by USA for Africa in 1985. Four years later, Jones released his second album under his name in the decade, Back On The Block . This time with contemporary stars like Siedah Garrett, Tevin Campbell, and rappers like Ice-T and Kool Moe Dee, it was a departure from his soft-pop leanings on The Dude . The

We're up to part three of my year-end recap of the biggest hits on my weekly music chart for 2016. You can check out parts one and two by clicking here ... #80 - " Fix " - Chris Lane           from the album Girl Problems (2016)           Highest rank: #10 (one week)           Weeks on the chart: 16           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #65           Songwriters: Abe Stoklasa, Sarah Buxton, Jesse Frasure This may sound more Maroon 5 than Nashville, but who cares when this country hunk-ie delivers this addictive slice of crossover heaven that's got more soul than a ton of beer and truck tracks currently at the format. Killer lyric: I got that love medicinal,                     I'll make you feel invincible,                     I'm more than recreational... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

" I Remember You " - Skid Row from the album Skid Row (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 13 Today's song of the day comes from the hard rock band Skid Row , who had landed a top ten hit in the fall of 1989 with the bad-boy anthem " 18 and Life ". The third single from their self-titled debut album is the power-ballad "I Remember You". Written by guitarist Dave Sabo and bass player Rachel Bolan, it was the song rocker chicks were serenaded by in the winter of 1990. Sebastian Bach's searing and soaring vocals gave more "oomph" to the run-of-the-mill looking back lyrics... "I Remember You" became Skid Row's second top 10 pop hit in the U.S. in February of 1990. The single also climbed to #23 on Billboard 's Mainstream Rock radio chart. Internationally, the single climbed to #2 in New Zealand, and made the top-40 in Australia (#12), Canada (#14), and the UK (#36). The following

Round two of this year's final recap of the biggest hits on my weekly music chart is up right now, as I count down the songs that went the highest and/or stuck around the longest on my list. You can check out part one in case you missed it by clicking here ... #90 - " Keep You In Mind " - Guordan Banks           from the single " Keep You In Mind " (2015)           Highest rank: #18 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 18           Billboard Hot 100 peak: did not chart           Songwriter: Guordan Banks This Philadelphia native provided this year's cruising anthem, with a fluid synth-bass providing the foundation for songwriter Banks' D'Angelo-esque falsetto in this song that topped the normally stodgy Adult R&B chart. We're still waiting on a proper album though, even though this was originally released in the summer of 2015. Killer lyric: I see you 'round, but now I think its time to take some time off,          

Here's the top ten hits in France this week, according to their official singles chart , as "Lost On You" from LP remains on top for a fourth non-consecutive week... 1. " Lost On You " - LP (1) 2. "Petit Baba Noel" - Baba featuring Amine (DEBUT) 3. " Human " - Rag N' Bone Man (2) 4. " I Feel It Coming " - The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk (6) 5. " 24K Magic " - Bruno Mars (3) 6. " Heathens " - twenty-one pilots (8) 7. "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" - Zayn & Taylor Swift (DEBUT) 8. "Just Hold On" - Steve Aoki & Louis Tomlinson (DEBUT) 9. " Starboy " - The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk (4) 10. " Black Beatles " - Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane (5) "Baba", the creation of Tunisian/French comedian/TV personality Cyril Hanouna, rockets in at #2 with "Petit Baba Noel", an charity record appropriation of the classic French Christmas c

" Two To Make It Right " - Seduction from the album Nothing Matters Without Love (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2 (two weeks) Weeks in the Top-40: 14 Today's song of the day comes from the dance-pop trio Seduction, an act formed by producers/remixers/writers David Cole and Rob Clivilles (aka what will be the C+C Music Factory). Meant to provide a quick-set act after the success of the single " (You're My One & Only) True Love ", they had their "Milli Vanilli" moment when it came out that Martha Wash (of the Weather Girls and Two Tons of Fun) actually was the one singing on the record, with the newly-hired group lipsynching for the video. However, unlike the German boys, this slip went relatively unnoticed and the trio of Idalis Deleon, Michelle Visage, and April Harris recorded the rest of their debut album Nothing Matters Without Love . Their first single released from those sessions (and the third single from the album overall) was