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Well folks, it's New Year's Eve, and we're down to the finish of my year-end recap of the biggest hits on my weekly music chart for 2019. You can catch up with parts one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , and the also-rans, as well as the entire series by clicking here. Now let's end this... #10 - " Truth Hurts " by Lizzo           from the album Cuz I Love You (Deluxe Edition) (2019)           Highest rank: #1 (seven weeks)           Weeks on the chart (in 2019): 23 (still charting for 1 week more i 2020)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1           Billboard Adult Top-40 peak: #9           Billboard Dance Airplay peak: #1           Bi...

We're almost to the end of my year-end countdown of the biggest "hit" songs on my weekly music chart . You can catch up with parts one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , and eight , or the whole series so far by clicking here . And away we go... #20 - " Senorita " by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello           from the albums Shawn Mendes (Deluxe Edition) and Romance (2019)           Highest rank: #2 (one week)           Weeks on the chart (in 2019): 22 (still charting)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1           Billboard Adult Top-40 peak: #1           Billboard Dance Airplay peak: #2           Billboard Dance Club Play peak: #20   ...

We've passed the halfway mark on this year's recap of the top songs of the year on my weekly music countdown . You can catch up with parts one , two , three , four , and five , or the whole series to date by clicking here . And here we go, on the post-Christmas side... #50 - " Millionaire " by Chris Stapleton           from the album From A Room, Volume 2 (2017)           Highest Rank: #8 (one week)           Weeks on the chart (in 2019): 19 (was on for two weeks in 2018)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #47           Billboard Country Airplay peak: #2 (three weeks)           Songwriters: Kevin Welch The roots country artist took "Broken Halos", his #1 country hit from From A Room, Volume 1 to #73 on my year-end chart for 2018. This time around his offering from Volume 2 , which stopped at the runner-up spot on the coun...

We're coming up to the halfway point on my year-end countdown of the biggest songs of my weekly music chart this past year. You can catch up with parts one , two , three , and four , as well as the whole series by clicking here . And away we go... #60 - " ME! " by Taylor Swift featuring Brendon Urie           from the album Lover (2019)           Highest Rank: #9 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 20           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2           Billboard Adult Top-40 peak: #6           UK Singles chart peak: #3           Songwriters: Taylor Swift, Brendon Urie, Joel Little Taylor has certainly had an odd year in 2019. First off, her presence in media culture was undeniable, but not as monolithic as it was on the release of Reputation in 2017. Her two big singl...

It's time for round four of my ten-plus part recap of the biggest hits on my weekly music chart this year. You can check up with part one , part two , or part three , or even the whole series by clicking here . #70 - " Chances " by Backstreet Boys           from the album DNA (2019)           Highest rank: #19 (three weeks)           Weeks on the chart (in 2019): 17 (was on for one week in 2018)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: "bubbled under" the chart at #107           Billboard Adult Top-40 peak: #19           Billboard Dance Club Play peak: #9           Songwriters: Ryan Tedder, Zach Skelton, Shawn Mendes, Geoff Warburton, Scott Harris, Fiona Bevan, Casey Smith, Edei I usu...

I'm back with the third installment of this year's recap of the biggest songs on my weekly music chart . You can catch up with Part One and Part Two by clicking here . #80 - " Rescue Me " by OneRepublic           from the upcoming album Human (2020)           Highest rank: #20 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 17           Billboard Hot 100 peak: "bubbled under" at #105           Billboard Adult Top-40 peak: #14           Songwriters: Ryan Tedder, Brent Kutzle (OneRepublic)   Since the turn of the millenium, it seems like it had always been a race between Maroon 5, Imagine Dragons, and OneRepublic as the prevalent pop/rock band, but even though the Denver rockers haven't had the success of Levine tribe or the consistency of the Dragons, they have an ace in the hole with Tedder, one of t...

Well folks, we're up to round two of my recap of the biggest hits on my weekly music hitlist. You can catch up on part one by clicking here . And away we go.... #90 - " Look What God Gave Her " by Thomas Rhett           from the album Center Point Road (2019)           Highest Rank: #20 (one week)           Weeks on the chart: 19           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #32           Billboard Country Airplay peak: #1           Songwriters: Thomas Rhett, Rhett Akins, Julian Bunetta, Josh Ryan, Jacob Kasher, Ammar Malik You can tell legacy country singer Thomas Rhett wasn't even pretending to be "country" anymore with this lead single from his fourth album. I mean, the song was co-written by the guy behind "Mov...

I said 2017 was the "hold my beer" year. Then a year later I said that 2018 was like a roller coaster derailing. On this day where the third president in history gets impeached by the House of Representative for only a miniscule fraction of the amount of crimes that he's done while his cult is proclaiming that he's being treated worse than Jesus is pretty much where we are right now. The only thing is I can confidently say that the mainstream music scene, with all of its faults and dullness, did pull out to be better than last year's nadir of scum. Sure, there's still the shovels full of drug-and guns-induced rap being made and devoured by scores of brain-dead white kids, but in a world where the biggest story out of the genre was the record-breaking success of a "soundcloud rapper" who decided to come out of the closet just as his genre-bending hit was at its peak is nothing short of, well, breathtaking . Especially how matter-of-fact it a...