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    Well, we're here, the last installment of my countdown of the biggest "hit" songs on my weekly music chart for 2022 has arrived. You can check out the rest of the series (including the 25 "also rans") by clicking here . And away we go... #10 - " Numb Little Bug " - Em Beihold           from the EP Egg In The Backseat (2022)           Highest rank: #2 (three weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 29           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #18           Billboard Pop Airplay peak: #6           Billboard Adult Contemporary Airplay peak: #9           Billboard Adult Top-40 Airplay peak: #1 (four weeks)           Official Bri...

    We're almost to the end of my year-end countdown of the biggest hit songs on my weekly music chart for 2022. You can catch up on the rest of the series so far by clicking here .   #20 - " Love's Train " - Silk Sonic           from the album An Evening With Silk Sonic (2021)           Highest rank" #14 (one week)           Weeks on the chart: 30           Billboard Hot 100 peak: did not chart, "bubbled under" at #111           Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay peak: #9           Billboard Adult R&B Airplay peak: #1 (13 weeks)           Songwriters: Michael Cooper, Felton Pilate II    After releasing three successful singles from their Silk Sonic collaborative album (one of them, "Smoking Out The Window", is at #49)...

    I'm deep in my year-end countdown of the biggest songs on my weekly music chart for 2022, and it's time for part eight. You can check up on the rest of the series (including my 25 also-rans) by clicking here .     #30 - " Don't Come Lookin' " - Jackson Dean           from the album Greenbroke (2022)           Highest rank: #3 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart (in 2022): 22 (still charting)           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #50           Billboard Country Airplay peak: #3            Songwriters: Jackson Dean, Luke Dick    Country rocker Dean's breakthrough single took a long time to catch on at radio, but it's bluesy charm cannot be denied. The sing-along chorus is perfect bar-band material. (Click below to see the rest of the ...

    We've entered the top-40 of my year-end countdown of the biggest "hit" songs on my weekly music chart from the past year. You can catch up on the rest of the series so far by clicking here .    #40 -  " Where Are You Now " - Lost Frequencies featuring Calum Scott            from the single (2021)            Highest rank: #22 (three weeks)            Weeks on the chart (in 2022): 29 (was on for four weeks in 2021)            Billboard Pop Airplay peak: #35            Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs peak: #4            Official British Singles Chart peak: #3            Songwriters: Felix de Laet (Lost Frequenc...

     Hey everyone, I hope you had a great weekend, and it's time to start back in with my countdown of the biggest "hit" songs of 2022 on my weekly music chart . You can check out the rest of the series (including my "bubbling under" 25) by clicking here .   Just a little background - each week I take the songs making certain levels on the Hot 100 and various airplay charts in pop, rock, country, R&B, and dance music, along with the biggest hits in the UK, and come up with a top 100 chart on Friday. I took every song that made the list from December 21, 2021 to December 13, 2022 (506 in total for this year) and gave points for each week they were on the list in inverted order (1 point for #100, 99 points for #2) with extra points for multiple weeks at #1. After that, I simply ranked the scores, breaking ties with peak position, weeks at that peak, and weeks on the chart. Hence some surprises, with both long chart runs and long stays at #1 getting an edge. So...

    We've come to the halfway mark of my countdown of the songs which made the biggest impact on my weekly chart this past year. I calculated the points for each week a song was on my list, and let the disc fall as they lay. It's time to take a breather, though, and do a quick spotlight on the songs that almost scored enough points to make the top 100 for 2022. Mind you, there were 506 songs that reached my chart in the timeframe, so these 25 should get some love, especially since some are here only because of timing; my "year" went from December 24th of last year to December 17th of 2022, so songs that had been big in between years got left, including the final #1 of the period, which is here. You can check out the rest of the series by clicking here .... #125 - "Tippa My Tongue" - Red Hot Chili Peppers             from the album Return Of The Dream Canteen (2022)          ...

    We're coming up on the halfway mark on my countdown of the biggest "hit" songs on my weekly music chart for 2022. You can catch up with the series so far by clicking here .   #60 - " Hrs & Hrs " - Muni Long           from the album Public Displays Of Affection (2022)           Highest rank: #14 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 22           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16           Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay peak: #1 (eight weeks)           Billboard Adult R&B Airplay peak: #2           Billboard Rhythmic Airplay peak: #3           Official British Singles Chart peak: #41   ...

    On we go with my countdown of the "biggest" songs to make my weekly music chart . You can catch up with the rest of the series so far by clicking here ...   #70 - " So Good " - Halsey           from the single (2022)           Highest rank: #9 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 18           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #51           Billboard Pop Airplay peak: #10           Billboard Adult Contemporary Airplay peak: #19           Billboard Adult Top-40 Airplay peak: #9           Billboard Dance Airplay peak: #27           Official British Singles Chart peak: #67           Songwriters: Halsey (Ashley Frangipane), Sarah Aarons, Sammy Witte     This year saw many music artists and band openly fighting their o...

    It's time for the third installment in this year's countdown of the biggest hits on my weekly music chart. You can check out part one or part two or the whole series (so far) by clicking here .   #80 - " I Hate U " - SZA           from the album SOS (2022)           Highest rank: #10 (two weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 23           Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7           Billboard Pop Airplay peak: #33           Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay peak: #1 (four weeks)           Billboard Adult R&B Airplay peak: #4           Billboard Rhythmic Airplay peak: #1 (one week)     ...

    It's time for round two of my year-end countdown of the biggest hits on my weekly music chart for 2022. You can check out part one by clicking here ...  #90 - " Afraid To Feel " - LF System           from the single (2022)           Highest rank: #9 (four weeks)           Weeks on the chart: 15           Billboard Dance Airplay peak: #33           Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs peak: #34           Official British Singles Chart peak: #1 (eight weeks)           Songwriters: Joseph B. Jefferson, Richard William Roebuck, Charles Simmons  One of the biggest surprises on the British charts this year was the success of former working-class men turned DJ duo from Scotland that took a forgotten nugget from the 70's ...

    How can a year feel like it was eternal yet too short by half at the same time? Well, between our neverending affair as a country of playing Russian Roulette with our lives, while Russia itself decides to bomb the hell out of neighboring country that never attacked them, along with the "football-style" politics that has turned network news into a reality show no one asked for, 2022 was better and worse than 2021 in so many ways. The music business got somewhat back on track, with acts going on tour again spotting by the occasional "we had to cancel because X members of the band got COVID", while Spotify seems to have perservered after all the calls to drop the service because of taintstain "guy at the party no one likes" Joe Rogan (if only Apple wasn't so monopolistic and Amazon weren't determined on being the Zune of streaming with their better-sounding but wonky app). And for music artists , there were just two major forces on the scene, Harr...