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Well, it's New Year's Eve, and we're down to the top ten biggest songs of 2017 on my weekly music chart . These are the ones that climbed the highest and stuck around the longest for the year, and you can catch up with parts one through nine (plus my 25 also-rans) by clicking here . #10 - " Despacito " - Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee           from the album Despacito & My Greatest Hits (2017)           Highest rank: #1 (five weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 28           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1           Songwriters: Luis Rodriguez (Luis Fonsi), Ramon Ayala (Daddy Yankee), Erika Ender It's totally fitting that in the first (and hopefully last) year of the Creamsicle Pretend-King, that this Spanish-language reggaeton track by two Puert...

We're getting close to the end of my year-end countdown of the biggest songs on my weekly music chart for 2017. You can catch up on everything so far by clicking here and checking out parts one through eight... #20 - " Stay " - Zedd & Alessia Cara           from the album Everything, Everything (Original Soundtrack) (2017)           Highest rank: #7 (six weeks)           Weeks on the chart (in 2017): 27           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7           Songwriters: Anton Zaslavski (Zedd), Alessia Caracciolo (Alessia Cara), Linus Wiklund, Sarah Aarons, Anders Frøen (Mood Melodies), Jonnali Parmenius (Noonie Bao) Russo-German DJ/producer Zedd, who had the third biggest song on my countdown for 2013 with "Clarity" and at #47 the year after with "Stay The Night", returns to the year-end with his collaboration with Canadian ...

The eighth installment of my year-end recap of the biggest songs on my weekly music chart is up right now. You can catch up with the other seven parts as well as my list of also-rans by clicking here ... #40 - " Don't Wanna Know " - Maroon 5 featuring Kendrick Lamar           from the album Red Pill Blues (2017)           Highest rank (in 2017): #4 (four weeks) (was also #4 for two weeks in 2016)           Weeks on the chart (in 2017): 19 (was on the chart for seven weeks in 2016)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6           Songwriters: Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Kendrick Duckworth (Kendrick Lamar), Benjamin Levin (Benny Blanco), the Arcade (Kurtis McKenzie & Jon Mills), Jon Ryan, Jacob Kasher, Ammar Malik, Alex Ben-Abdallah This tale of heartbreak and longing for your ex is made sweeter by this tropical-house experiment by the biggest A...

We're down to the top-40 of my year-end countdown of the biggest songs on my weekly music chart for 2017. You can catch up with parts one through six along with my also-ran halftime show by clicking here . #40 - " A Million Reasons " - Lady Gaga           from the album Joanne (2016)           Highest rank: #9 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 22           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4           Songwriters: Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga), Hillary Lindsey, Mark Ronson After the lead single from Gaga's fifth album Joanne , "Perfect Illusion", relatively stiffed here in the States, missing the top ten on the pop chart and falling fast and quick after its release, Gaga took a left turn with this country-style ballad co-written with that genre's g...

We've reached the halfway point of my year-end countdown of the biggest songs on my weekly music chart ; the ones that climbed the highest and/or stuck around the longest. You can catch up on parts one through five by clicking here , and yesterday's recap of the 25 also-rans can be found by clicking here . Let's get back into it... #50 - " Drinkin' Problem " - Midland           from the album On The Rocks (2017)           Highest rank: #3 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 19           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #45           Songwriters: Midland (Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy, Jess Carson), Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne Who'd have thunk that a former soap opera actor would front the best of the neo-traditionalist bands of this year? Wystrach, an alum of Passions fronts this trio that sounds like they took the baton from Joe...

Hey gang, we've gone halfway through my countdown of the 100 biggest songs on my weekly music chart for 2017. 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. #125 - " Mi Gente " - J. Balvin & Willy William featuring Beyonce             from the single (2017)             Highest rank: #18 (two weeks)             Weeks on the chart (in 2017): 14 (still charting)             Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3             Following on the heels of "Despacito", Columbian singer J. Balvin and French DJ Willy William had the next Latin breakout success with this track, which was actually a much better suited club and...

Wow, I'm already approaching the halfway mark on my countdown of the 100 biggest songs on my weekly music chart this year. You can check out by clicking part one , part two , part three , or part four ... #60 - " Cold " - Maroon 5 featuring Future           from the album Red Pill Blues (2017)           Highest rank: #13 (one week)           Weeks on the chart: 20           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16           Songwriters: Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Josh Ryan, Jacob Kasher Hindlin (Jacob Kasher), Justin Tranter, Phil Shaouy For a while it seemed like Adam Levine's music career was getting to be a side job from his gig as a mentor on The Voice , but after missing out on last year's list, his band Maroon 5 places three songs on the tally. This trippy dance-pop experiment sported a video that convinced me never to do drugs ever. The...

I've been counting down the 100 biggest songs from my weekly music chart from 2017, and we're up to part four....You can check out the other parts by clicking here , here , and here ... #80 - " Wild Thoughts " - DJ Khaled featuring Rihanna & Bryson Tiller           from the album Grateful (2017)           Highest rank: #5 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 16           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2           Songwriters: Khaled Khaled (DJ Khaled), Robyn Fenty (Rihanna), Bryson Tiller, Jahron Braithwaite (Partynextdoor), [Carlos Santana, Wyclef Jean, Jerry Duplassis, Marvin Moore-Hough, David McRae - from the sample of "Maria Maria"], Johnny & Leonardo Mollings (Nasty Beatmakers) After releasing the sugary shitpile that was his collabor...

I'm up to part three of my recap of the songs that climbed and highest and stayed the longest on my weekly music chart . You can check out the first two installments by clicking here and here ... #80 - " Closer " - The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey           from the EP Collage (2016)           Highest rank (in 2017): #11 (two weeks) (was #2 for two weeks in 2016)           Weeks on the chart (in 2017): 15 (was on for 16 weeks in 2016)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (twelve weeks)           Songwriters: Andrew Taggart (Chainsmokers), Ashley Frangipane (Halsey), Shaun Frank, Frederic Kennett (Louis The Child), Isaac Slade & Joe King (the Fray) The bro-dance duo's massive hit from last year (it was #50 on 2016's list) carried over to t...

Round two of my year-end recap of the biggest songs on my weekly music chart for 2017 is up right now. You can check out part one by clicking here ... #90 - " All The Pretty Girls " - Kenny Chesney           from the album Cosmic Hallelujah (2016)           Highest rank: 12 (one week)           Weeks on the chart: 15           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #63           Songwriters: Josh Osborne, Tommy Lee James, Nicolle Galyon After a period of Buffett-ish island fare, Chesney (who was on last year's list at #71 with "Setting The World On Fire" featuring Pink) brings back the guitars for this rockin' ode to the lovely ladies. Not as corny as it could be in more naive hands. Killer lyric: All the seventeens said I'm getting outta Dodge,   ...

Last year: "2016 was a truly fucked up year." 2017: "Hold my beer." Well, it seems like the aftermath of the calamitous (and most probably rigged) 2016 election gave the United States a heaping morsel of "how many shitty things can happen AT THE SAME time" along with "how can the government be stacked with the absolute worst people on earth". Between the Creamsicle's filling of the White House administration with the swampwater he promised to drain, along with the daily gun death massacre totals, along with the planet saying "fuck this" and trying to kill us in a various amount of ways, it's been a total shitshow of a year. As the sane among us wait for any bit of encouraging news from the investigation to this con artist, and taking measly scraps of comfort from elections in Virginia and Alabama, it looks like human potato head Ajit Pai is trying his best to destroy the internet forever. Meanwhile, in the artistic world, ...