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    Hey folks, it's New Year's Eve here, and since I've already shared the top 100 (+25) songs on my weekly "hit" personal music chart, I wanted to give a shout out to the lesser-known but higher-quality artists who music got me through this food-poisoning grade shitshow of a year. There was a fuck-ton of amazing work done in 2020 by artists that really need a bigger voice. Here are just a few.   1. What's Your Pleasure by Jessie Ware     With no equal my favorite album of the year (and this is a year Kylie released a disco album). Riding in on the neo-disco wave that just seems prescient of the chaos that would come in the spring, Ware's set is more than a booty-shaking record, but her most diverse and nuanced set to date. There simply are no songs I would even think of skipping over. From the slinky "Step Into My Life" to the smooth as silk "Spotlight" (in the Ellis-Bextor fashion) to the Goldfrapp-ish electronic euphoria of "W...

    Well it's New Year's Eve, and I'm at the end of my recap countdown of the biggest "hit" songs on my weekly music chart (if you're curious to know what constitutes a "hit", see part one). You can catch up on parts one through nine (plus the post of also-rans) by clicking here . Let's get this done....  #10 - " The Bones " by Maren Morris           from the album Girl (2019)           Highest rank (in 2020): #7 (two weeks) (peaked at #4 for two weeks in 2019)           Weeks on the chart (in 2020): 40 (was on for 24 weeks in 2019)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12           Billboard Adult Contemporary peak: #1           Billboard Adult Top-40: #1         ...

    We're coming close to the end of my countdown of the biggest "hit" songs on my weekly music chart for 2020. You can catch up with the list so far with parts one thru eight by clicking here . Now let's get going...  #20 - " Say So " by Doja Cat featuring Nicki Minaj           from the album Hot Pink (2019)           Highest rank: #1 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 26           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1           Billboard Adult Top-40 peak: #7           Billboard Dance Airplay peak: #1           UK Official Singles peak: #2           Songwriters: Amala Dlamini (Doja Cat), Lukasz Gottwald (Tyson Trax...

    I'm up to part eight of my year-end rundown of the biggest hits on my weekly music chart for 2020. You can check up on parts one thru seven (along with my post of honorable mentions) by clicking here . We're getting higher and higher... #30 - " Does To Me " by Luke Combs featuring Eric Church           from the album What You See Is What You Get (2019)           Highest rank: #7 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 23           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #20           Billboard Country Airplay peak: #1           Songwriters: Luke Combs, Ray Fulcher, Tyler Reeve    Another meaty 90s-00s throwback from Combs, who pairs with country-rock king Eric Church on this reminiscing track that shows the...

    We're up to the "top-40" of my year-end countdown of the biggest "hit" songs from my weekly music chart for 2020. You can catch up with everything so far by clicking here ...  #40 - " The Hype " by twenty-one pilots           from the album Trench (2018)           Highest rank (in 2020): #3 (one week) (was #3 for one week in 2019)           Weeks on the chart (in 2020): 19           Billboard Hot 100 peak: DNC           Billboard Adult Top-40 peak: #27           Billboard Rock Airplay peak: #1           Billboard Alternative Rock peak: #1           Songwriter: Tyler Joseph (twenty-one pilots) The alt-rock d...

    I'm back from my short holiday day off to enter the top half of my countdown of the biggest songs on my weekly music chart for 2020. You can catch up on parts one to five (along with my post of also-rans) by clicking here . Onwards and upwards...  #50 - " Lovin' On You " by Luke Combs           from the album What You See Ain't Always What You Get (2020)           Highest rank: #8 (three weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 18 (still charting)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #23           Billboard Country Airplay: #1           Songwriters: Luke Combs, Thomas Archer, Ray Fulcher, James McNair Luke Combs went from being a total newcomer to the country music scene to being the hottest A-lister with ...

    Hey everyone, I've come to the halfway mark on my countdown of the top 100 "hit" songs on my weekly music chart for the year 2020. As I take a breather for the holiday, as always I'll do a quick run of the 25 songs "bubbling under" the list, the ones that almost made the cut. Out of the 508 songs that were on my list in the 52 weeks I tracked, these are definitely worth some mention. If you need to catch up with the countdown so far, you can click here to check it out...   #125 - "The Other Girl" by Kelsea Ballerini with Halsey             from the album kelsea (2020)              Highest rank: #25 (two weeks)             Weeks on the chart: 13 Country singer Ballerini goes for the big pop crossover with this "The Boy Is Mine" for the emo crowd with Jersey Girl Halsey.  (Click below to see the rest of the post)

    We're down to part five of my year-end countdown of the biggest "hit" tunes on my weekly music chart for this past god-awful 2020. You can catch up by clicking here on parts one , two , three , and four . We're almost to the halfway mark...  #60 - " Cardigan " by Taylor Swift           from the album folklore (2020)           Highest rank: #11 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 18 (still charting)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1           Billboard Adult Top-40 peak: #8           UK Official Singles peak: #6           Songwriters: Taylor Swift, Aaron Dressner If there was a gift among the dreadful decimation of the music touring industry beca...

    It's time to roll out part four of my countdown of the 100 biggest "hit" songs on my weekly music chart for the last 52 weeks. You can catch up on the best so far by clicking part one , part two , and part three . And away we goooo...  #70 - " Midnight Sky " by Miley Cyrus           from the album Plastic Hearts (2020)           Highest rank: #2 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 14 (still charting)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14           Billboard Adult Top-40: #11           UK Singles Chart: #5           UK Airplay Chart: #1           Songwriters: Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wotman (Watt), Louis Bell, ...

    It's time for the third installment of my countdown of the biggest "hit" songs on my weekly chart from the last year. You can catch up by clicking on part one or part two .   #80 - " Monsters " by All Time Low featuring blackbear           from the album Wake Up, Sunshine (2020)           Highest rank: #5 (one week)           Weeks on the chart: 19 (still charting)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: DNC ("bubbled under" at #107)           Billboard Rock Airplay peak: #1 (nine weeks)           Billboard Alternative Airplay peak: #1 (14 weeks)           Songwriters: All Time Low (Alex Gaskarth, Jack Barakat), Andrew Goldstein (FRND), Kevin Fisher, Ma...

    It's time for round two of my countdown of the biggest "hit" tunes from my weekly music chart from the past year. You can check out part one by clicking here ...  #90 - " We Back " by Jason Aldean           from the album 9 (2019)           Highest rank: #23 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart (in 2020): 18           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #62           Billboard Country Airplay peak: #6           Songwriters: Tyler Hubbard (Florida Georgia Line), Brad and Brett Warren (Warren Brothers), Jordan Schmidt Well nine albums in and Jason Aldean finds himself in the top tier of the Nashville scene, albeit being knocked down a peg when the lead single from 9 stalled below the top five on the country chart. Nevertheless...

    Well after what seems like 500 months, we're at the end of 2020, and it's time to count down the biggest "hit" songs on my weekly music chart . Every week I assemble a personal list from which songs are in the top tiers of the pop, rock, R&B, country, and dance charts in Billboard magazine, as well as the top sales and radio hits in the UK. So while there may be some very superior songs that came around this year that didn't place only since they weren't "hits" (and I hope to make a separate little list of them - needless to say I'm thrilled for the reception to Christine & The Queens' "People I've Been Sad"), this distillation of the 100 singles that went the highest and/or stayed the longest on my list is a nice little recap of the pulse of American "pop" music. I'll be doing ten a night, and we start at #100...   #100 - " I Think We're Alone Now " by Billie Joe Armstrong             ...