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    Well here we are at the end of our journey through the "hit" tunes that went the highest and/or stayed the longest on my weekly music chart for 2021. You can check out all the other parts (plus the intermission of the 25 that almost made it) by clicking here . Now let's close this thing out....  #10 - " Kings & Queens " - Ava Max           from the album Heaven & Hell (2020)           Highest rank (in 2021): #1 (four weeks) (was #1 for four weeks in 2020)           Weeks on the chart (in 2021): 23 (was on for 13 weeks in 2020)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #13           Billboard Adult Top-40 peak: #1           Billboard Adult Contemporary peak: #3       ...

    We're getting close to the end of this year's countdown of the biggest "hit" tunes on my weekly music chart for 2021. You can catch up with the rest of the series by clicking here . Now let's get rolling...   #20 - " Famous Friends " - Chris Young & Kane Brown             from the album Famous Friends (2021)           Highest rank: #15 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 32 (still on the chart 12/17/21)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #21           Billboard Country Airplay peak: #1           Songwriters: Chris Young, Corey Crowder, Cary Barlowe This year's big "buddy country" hit came from Young and Brown who regale on their "small town past" with this song that again radio won't...

    My countdown of the biggest "hit" songs on my weekly music chart rolls on, and we now enter the top 30. You can catch up with the rest of the series posts by clicking here . Let's get it started...  #30 - " Deja Vu " - Olivia Rodrigo           from the album Sour (2021)           Highest rank: #10 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 24           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3           Billboard Adult Top-40 peak: #5           Billboard Adult Contemporary peak: #19           UK Singles chart peak: #4           Songwriters: Olivia Rodrigo, Dan Nigro, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, Annie Clark (St. Vincent) If t...

    It's time to enter the top 40 in my recap of the biggest "hit" tunes on my weekly music chart for 2021. You can catch up with the rest of the series so far by clicking here . Now let's get going...  #40 - " Fire For You " - Cannons           from the album Shadows (2019)           Highest rank: #5 (one week)           Weeks on the chart (in 2021): 19 (was on for 3 weeks in 2020)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: did not chart           Billboard Rock Airplay peak: #3           Billboard Alternative peak: #1           Billboard Adult Album Alternative (Triple-A) Rock peak: #2           Billboard Dance/Electro...

    Hey folks, we're over the "hump" and on to the top half of my year-end countdown of the songs that went the highest and/or stuck around the longest on my weekly music chart. You can catch up with the rest of the series (including yesterday's of the 25 that almost made it) by clicking here . And away we go....  #50 - " ily (i love you baby) " - surf mesa featuring Emilee           from the stand-alone single (2019)           Highest rank: #11 (three weeks)           Weeks on the chart (in 2021): 20 (was on for 32 weeks in 2020)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #23           Billboard Adult Contemporary peak: #14           Billboard Adult Top-40 peak: 7        ...

    Hey folks, I hope those who celebrated had a great Christmas. I'm at the halfway mark on my countdown of the 100 biggest songs on my weekly music chart for this past year, and it's time to take a break to serve up the songs that "bubbled under", that almost made the list. Mind you, it was a little harder out this year, as six of the songs here would've made my main year-end in 2020, including Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats (pictured above).  You can catch up on the rest of the series by clicking here . So here we go...   #125 - " In Da Getto " - J. Balvin & Skrillex             from the album Jose (2021)             Highest rank: #45 (three weeks)             Weeks on the chart: 21 (was still on the chart 12/17)             Billboard Hot 100 peak: #90   Colombian reggaeton singer/rapper Balvin takes a short trip to the clu...

    We're approaching the halfway point in my countdown of the top 100 "hit" tunes on my weekly music chart for 2021. You can catch up with the rest of the series by clicking here . Now let's get going....  #60 - " Love You Like I Used To " - Russell Dickerson           from the album Southern Symphony (2020)           Highest rank (in 2021): #18 (one week) (peaked at #14 in 2020)           Weeks on the chart (in 2021): 21 (was on for 11 weeks in 2020)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #31           Billboard Country Airplay peak: #1           Songwriters: Russell Dickerson, Casey Brown, Parker Welling Like Lee Brice's "One Of Them Girls" from earlier on the series, this slice of smarmy "boyfriend count...

    My countdown for 2021 continues, with the "hit" songs that went the highest and/or stayed the longest on my weekly music chart . You can catch up with the series so far by clicking here . Let's get rolling...  #70 - " Nobody " - Dylan Scott           from the EP Nothing To Do Town (2019)           Highest rank: #17 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 20           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #50           Billboard Country Airplay peak: #2           Songwriters: Dylan Scott, Matt Alderman, Dallas Wilson Yeah, more "boyfriend country". With Nashville the way it is, it's hard to avoid. And this could just as easily be a Justin Bieber record, but at least Scott's gruff vocal gives a more pleasant liste...

    we're up to round three of my 2021 year-end countdown of the biggest "hit" tunes on my weekly music chart . You can catch up with the first two installments by clicking here . And on it goes...   #80 - " Big Big Plans " - Chris Lane           from the album TBA (2022?)           Highest rank: #9 (three weeks)           Weeks on the chart (in 2021): 16 (was on for 8 weeks in 2020)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #42           Billboard Country Airplay peak: #1           Songwriters: Chris Lane, Ernest Smith, Jacob Durrett      Previously on the countdown I mentioned the rise of "boyfriend country" in the last few years, where pin-up ready hunks coo romantic verses to woo the ladies. Chris Lane is one of those interchangeable singers, and while this is a pleasant proposal song, complete with the music vi...

    It's time for the second installment of my 2021 recap of the songs that went the highest and/or stayed the longest on my weekly music chart on this little corner of the interwebs. You can catch up on part one by clicking here . And away we go...  #90 - " Afterglow " - Ed Sheeran           from the non-album single (2020)           Highest rank: #8 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 13           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #29           Billboard Adult top-40 peak: 7           Billboard Triple-A rock peak: #38           Songwriters: Ed Sheeran, Fred Gibson, David Hodges    After taking a break for a year and a half, Sheeran emerged right in the middle of the pandemilovato at Christmastime with this sparse and open ballad ...

    Well here we are. 2021 turned out to be the sequel to 2020 that we didn't want, with the pandemilovato back to full force at no small part due to a portion of Americans being cultist dillweeds, one that started with an attempted coup on our democracy, and pretty much a state of suspension for our lives for yet another year. But as opposed to last year, the music business was able to get relatively back on its feet, and while the dominance of streaming has stunted a lot of returns for artists, in some ways it gave some an outlet they never had before, reaching an audience previously unreachable by traditional "record stores" and what's in stock and such. The mainstream pop landscape is still a mess though, with steamroller campaign promotions for an elite set of acts along with such obvious payola shenanigans in the streaming world, as well as the even more so fragmentation of the musical genre market that often left markers of success to the stan fanbase and the b...