Tuesday, October 24, 2017

SNS week of 10/15/2017

YOU'RE THE MAN:  It's now top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.   17th week atop the Alternative chart.  Now number one on the Adult top 40 chart.   And "Feel It Still" continues atop the SNS 100 for a fourth week.     Portugal. The Man now lengthens its lead on the #2 Tennis' "In the Morning I'll Be Better" as the latter falls off a bit, while the crossover hit remains steady.   "Feel It Still" is now in its 24th week on my playlist.  Only Wild Belle's "Keep You" had been #1 this late in its chart life, lasting to its 29th week and still at the top.

 Will Portugal. The Man top that?   It has a chance to if it keeps rising on the pop chart, especially if it hits number one.  To be honest, in my opinion it's not the best song they've done, but as I have mentioned in prior blogs, it's great to see a band that you've followed for years, get a big hit.

As for follow-ups, last week I added "Rich Friends", also from their Woodstock set; it moves to #75 this week; however, the consensus is that the new official single, "Love In the Moment" is the one getting most of the airplay and will add that in a week or two.   After all, if Cold War Kids can have two songs moving up the charts (and both are doing so in the top 20 this week), then Portugal. The Man deserves a shot.

As for the next number one, it looks like it's Beck's to win or lose.   "Up All Night" moves from 6 to 3.   "Dreams" hit the top spot in 2015 for him.   Iration also impresses with a move from 8-5.  As mentioned above, Cold War Kids have two songs moving up in the second part of the top 20, with "Invincible" (15-12), and "So Tied Up" (28-17), the latter a duet with Bishop Briggs.  Rochester NY outfit Joywave has the Impact award this week with "It's A Trip" (23-16).  The other new top 20 entry is Dan Auerbach's second solo outing, "Stand By My Girl" (22-20).

Outside the top 20, Offguard's "Strawberry Moon" is in command with the Mover award.   The Palms, Fall Out Boy, and Pageants, also make significant moves.

YOUR 'PLACE' OR MINE:   Nick Waterhouse continues in the top 10, with "It's Time", an unexpected gem which topped my list for a week and is still at #8.   From this 2016 album Never Twice, as nobody that I am aware of has playing anything from this album (Triple-A, where are you?), I definitely had to pick something as a follow-up.  Thus, "Old Place" is the Top Debut at #84.  Although it doesn't have that "hot summer of '70 jam" feel to it like the prior song did, it's still retro and actually resembles more of a 1960's garage band-like sound, not unlike The Doughboys.   With a few listens, it's bound for my top 20.    Weezer had a bit of a comeback of sorts with "Feels Like Summer" hitting my top 20.   Their follow-up "Happy Hour" has more of that commercial sound that the band had been lacking during most of this decade.   This band has been around for well over twenty years, and always had much potential, but not really explored too much with their last several albums (although they are still getting alternative airplay on them).   This one, I think will do the trick and finally get them in my top 10 in the blog era.  It enters at #87.


Foreign Air, a duo from Washington DC by way of North Carolina has their first song on SNS, with "Lying".  The latest from Grouplove and K. Flay also enter the list.


STUBBORN:  You might notice that some songs, after peaking, fall off the chart rapidly, while others seem to just hang out for weeks and weeks after they peak.   There seems to be a distinct group of songs that have been doing that on the SNS 100 lately.   Most, if not all, had peaked in the top 10 or even #1, but are taking their sweet time in dropping.   Ed Sheeran's "Shape Of You" leads the list, but also included are Kings of Leon's "Reverend", Keith Urban's "The Fighter", The Palms' 'Push Off", Fitz & the Tantrums, "Get Right Back",  Christina Taylor's '"Don't Look Good in Your T-Shirt Anymore", and Hounds of Winter's "Lesson Learned".   Perhaps I had dropped these too early from their peak and just want to hold on to listening to them in active rotation a bit further.   Some of them are still talked about by friends as well.  

Speaking of Fitz & the Tantrums, who, with two songs still on my list, have continued their mastery of the SNS 100 going back well over four and a half years now.   Their most recent, "Fool", which peaked at #3 (breaking a long string of five #1's in a row), and dropped down quickly, has stabilized in the 30's for the fourth week.   I had mentioned that the record sort of bombed as it didn't make the rock charts nor the Hot 100 during the summer, and the song was definitely in a pop vein designed to do just that.   Well, not so fast.    Seems that the song, originally released as a summer record, is slowing climbing the Adult Top 40 list, where it is #19 on the latest Billboard chart for that format.   So there's still hope.  Then again, this band has made a living out of slow-breaking records.    If "Fool", "Get Right Back" or anything they may release coming up, keeps them on my list into February 2018, I may have to have a fifth anniversary commemorative party!



Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100

October 15, 2017





This Week Last Week ARTIST-Title Weeks on List
1 1 NUMBER ONE:


"Feel It Still"
Album: Woodstock
(4 weeks at #1)
24
2 2 Tennis - In the Morning I'll Be Better 11
3 6 Beck - Up All Night 5
4 5 The National - The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness 11
5 8 Iration - Borderlines 8
6 7 Beth Ditto - I Wrote the Book 8
7 3 Electric Guest - Oh Devil 9
8 4 Nick Waterhouse - It's Time 16
9 10 The Cranberries - Why 7
10 11 Christina Taylor - That Girl 10
11 12 Matthew Koma - Hard to Love 14
12 15 Cold War Kids - Invincible 7
13 14 Haley Reinhart - Baby It's You 10
14 16 Chastity Belt - Different Now 8
15 9 Øffguard - Maybe 14
16 23 TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK:

"It's A Trip"
Album: Content
8
17 28 Cold War Kids f. Bishop Briggs - So Tied Up 5
18 13 Foster the People - Doing It For the Money 9
19 18 Cage the Elephant - Whole Wide World 10
20 22 Dan Auerbach - Stand By My Girl 5



21 25 The Killers - The Man 11
22 24 Milky Chance - Blossom 9
23 27 Phoebe Ryan f. Blackbear - Forgetting All About You 7
24 26 Blondie - Long Time 11
25 39 Pink - What About Us 6
26 17 Trapdoor Social - Winning As Truth 15
27 34 Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life 8
28 19 Saint Motel - Sweet Talk 13
29 66 MOVER OF THE WEEK:


"Strawberry Moon"
(Single only)
2
30 21 Kaleo - No Good 10
31 40 BØRNS - Faded Heart 5
32 20 Alvvays - In Undertow 12
33 30 Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee f. Justin Bieber - Despacito 10
34 31 Miley Cyrus - Malibu 17
35 44 George Ezra - Don't Matter Now 8
36 47 The War on Drugs - Holding On 5
37 43 St. Vincent - New York 7
38 37 Fitz and the Tantrums - Fool 12
39 69 The Palms - Levitate 2
40 46 Arkells - Knocking At the Door 7
41 29 The Bleachers - Don't Take The Money 11
42 65 Fall Out Boy - Champion 5
43 32 Foxygen - On Lankershim 13
44 79 Pageants - Chai ('n) 2
45 36 Middle Kids - Edge of Town 23
46 38 Twenty-One Pilots - HeavyDirtySoul 22
47 58 Saint Motel - Destroyer 5
48 64 Lord Huron - The Night We Met 6
49 35 The Greeting Committee - She's A Gun 18
50 33 Weezer - Feels Like Summer 18
51 57 Kjband - Best Kept Secret 9
52 56 Banners - Someone To You 6
53 50 Ed Sheeran - Shape of You 29
54 78 Moon Taxi  - Two High 3
55 41 Grizzly Bear - Mourning Sound 11
56 61 Manchester Orchestra - The Gold 6
57 52 Thomas Rhett f. Maren Morris - Craving You 6
58 54 The Lumineers - Angela 19
59 68 Imagine Dragons - Thunder 5
60 60 Kings of Leon - Reverend 22
61 71 Kesha - Praying 4
62 51 Phoenix - J-Boy 14
63 53 The Hounds of Winter - I Get You 19
64 42 Sam Hunt - Body Like A Back Road 10
65 45 The Griswolds - Feels So Right 12
66 49 Keith Urban f. Carrie Underwood - The Fighter 28
67 48 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Goodbye Angels 14
68 63 Queens of the Stone Age - The Way You Used to Do 10
69 80 Charlie Puth - Attention 7
70 86 Miley Cyrus - Younger Now 2
71 83 Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Over Everything 3
72 55 Courtney Barnett - How To Boil An Egg 14
73 59 Dan Auerbach - Shine on Me 15
74 84 Doughboys - Manic Reaction 3
75 87 Portugal. The Man - Rich Friends 2
76 73 The Palms - Push Off 28
77 74 Fitz and the Tantrums - Get Right Back 25
78 75 Christina Taylor - Don't Look Good in Your T-Shirt Anymore 28
79 62 Arcade Fire - Everything Now 11
80 70 Pageants - Lingr 15
81 67 Foster the People - SHC 17
82 82 X Ambassadors - Ahead of Myself 4
83 97 Flagship - Midnght 2
84  --- TOP DEBUT:



"Old Place"
Album: Never Twice
1
85 77 LP - Lost on You 22
86 89 Lo Moon - This Is It 10
87  --- Weezer - Happy Hour 1
88 90 Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do 3
89 76 Pop Etc - Routine 17
90 95 Demi Lovato - Sorry, Not Sorry 7
91 100 Bermuda Triangle - Rosey 2
92  --- Foreign Air - Lying 1
93 72 Ty Segall - Orange Color Queen 16
94 96 Zedd and Alessia Cara - Stay 3
95 101 Chai Khat - Ghosts In the Void 1
96  --- K.Flay - Giver 1
97 88 The Hounds of Winter - Lesson Learned 28
98 99 Foo Fighters - The Sky Is A Neighborhood 2
99  --- Grouplove - Remember That Night 1
100 81 Jake Owen - Good Company 15



 
Tremors:

101. Filthy Friends, "The Arrival"
102. Sleeping With Friends, "Legends"
103. Blake Shelton, "She's Got A Way With Words"
104. Niall Horan, "Slow Hand"
105. Sam Smith, "Too Good at Goodbyes"
106. Front Bottoms, "Peace Sign"


 

Songs with the greatest increase in favorite points over the prior week.

    Songs with 25 or more plays on my iPod.
      Songs with 50 or more plays on my iPod.
 

The “Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100” is a list of current and recent song playlist which I am listening to.