Monday, May 19, 2014

A Couple on the Radar - 4/18 -4/25/2014

BACK UP:  I will make this blog brief, as this chart was compiled a couple weeks back.   It's been very hectic and I haven't had time to blog recently, but here is my chart for the last two weeks of April.     Foster the People holds off Pharrell Williams, as the latter spent a 10th week at Billboard's #1.   The Black Keys storm into the top 10, as well as "Alternative Nation" finds MS MR with the infectious "Think of You".   "Amy's World" by the Hounds of Winter also lands into the top 20.


NEW:   An unlikely debut is at #41 with Mac DeMarco's "Chamber of Reflection", a somber but great song that I discovered when I flipped the dial one notch to "Sirius XM U", an offshoot alternative channel, playing more songs associated with college radio (as opposed to the mainstream alternative (how's THAT for an oxymoron?).   Another high debut is Boyce Avenue, "I'll Be the One".    I was at work and grabbing a cup of coffee at our office cafe, when the TV on there was showing Good Morning America, and this really cool band was playing live.   I had to do some research to figure out who is was, and turned out to be this Puerto-Rico-American rock band based in Sarasota, Florida.    They are a YouTube viral sensation, and it caught my ear.

Finally, "Out of My League" by Fitz and the Tantrums logs its 60th week on the SNS 100.

Scenes 'n' Soundwaves 100
April 21 - 28, 2014




This Week

Last Week

ARTIST-Title

Weeks on List

1

1

NUMBER ONE:


FOSTER THE PEOPLE
"Coming Of Age"
Album: Supermodel
(3 weeks at #1)

14

2

2

Pharrell Williams - Happy

9

3

5

Phantogram - Fall in Love

16

4

3

Young the Giant - It's About Time

21

5

4

Tired Pony - All Things All At Once

22

6

28

TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK:
 
THE BLACK KEYS
"Fever"
Album: Turn Blue

3

7

6

Fitz and the Tantrums - The Walker

24

8

11

Cage the Elephant - Take It or Leave It

7

9

7

Haim - Forever

23

10

13

Kings of Leon - Temple

20

11

8

Caveman - Shut You Down

21

12

15

Wild Belle - It's Too Late

12

13

9

Shannon Marsyada Trio - What You Do To Me

23

14

10

Broken Bells - Holding On For Life

20

15

12

Capital Cities - Kangaroo Court

19

16

41

The Hounds of Winter - Amy's World

3

17

20

Rachel Allyn- Triggerman

12

18

17

Dum Dum Girls - Lost Boys and Girls Club

18

19

62

MOVER OF THE WEEK:
 
 MS MR
"Think of You"
Album: Secondhand Rapture

3

20

21

Beck - Blue Moon

12





21

22

Lucius - Turn It Around

18

22

16

Hellogoodbye - Everything Is Debatable

16

23

14

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know

19

24

19

Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes

16

25

23

Zedd f. Hayley Williams - Stay the Night

14

26

25

Hospitality - Going Out

12

27

24

U2 - Invisible

9

28

75

Junior Prom - Sheila Put the Knife Down

3

29

76

Broken Bells - No Matter What You're Told

3

30

33

Temples - Shelter Song

13

31

37

Kongos - Come With Me Now

12

32

40

Avicii - Hey Brother

13

33

61

Young the Giant - Crystallized

3

34

34

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Lariat

14

35

44

Sleeper Agent - Waves

7

36

29

Zedd f. Foxes - Clarity

31

37

39

Silversun Pickups - Cannibal

13

38

38

Golden Void - Smiling Raven

7

39

18

Paul Czekaj - Elvis in Heaven

16

40

49

Temples - Keep In the Dark

9

41
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TOP DEBUT:
 
 MAC DEMARCO
"Chamber of Reflection:
Album: Salad Days

1

42

43

Mind Spiders - The Steady

18

43

48

Hospitality - Rockets and Jets

9

44

27

Those Darlins - In the Wilderness

17

45

36

Phoenix - SOS in Belaire

14

46

51

Papa - Put Me to Work

9

47

35

Wild Belle - Backslider

24

48

59

Birdy - Skinny Love

12

49

31

Field Mouse - How Do You Know

36

50

42

Franz Ferdinand - Bullet

17

51

53

Imagine Dragons - On Top of the World

14

52

56

Wild Club - Thunder Clatter

16

53

60

No - Leave the Door Wide Open

5

54

30

Man Man - Pyramids

21

55

54

Sam Roberts Band - We're All in This Together

9

56

64

Brick + Mortar - Locked In A Cage

12

57

47

The Fray - Love Don't Die

22

58

50

Alt J - Tesselate

21

59

32

Of Monsters and Men - Dirty Paws

19

60

26

King Tuff - Sun Medallion

25

61

69

Magic Man - Paris

5

62

52

Vance Joy - Riptide

14

63

55

New Politics - Tonight You're Perfect

20

64

66

Capital Cities - I Sold My Bed But Not My Stereo

5

65
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Boyce Avenue - I'll Be the One

1

66

67

Grouplove - Shark Attack

13

67

73

Afghan Whigs - Algiers

5

68

70

Bad Suns - Cardiac Arrest

7

69

83

Chromeo - Jealous

3

70

58

Cate Le Bon - Are You With Me Now

23

71

65

Augustines - Walkabout

12

72
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Terraplane Sun - You Never Know

1

73

57

Katy Perry - Unconditinally

20

74

63

Ylvis - The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)

22

75

68

Fitz and the Tantrums - Keeping Our Eyes Out

33

76

78

Birds of Tokyo - Lanterns

5

77

45

Eminem f. Rihanna - The Monster

19

78

87

Sir Sly - Gold

3

79

96

Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better

5

80

82

Eagulls - Possessed

3

81

81

Coldplay - Magic

5

82
----
Band of Skulls - Hoochie Coochie

1

83

46

Lorde - Team

20

84

86

Bruno Mars - Young Girls

7

85
----
Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High

1

86

94

Elbow - New York Morning

3

87

93

Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me

5

88

74

Terraplane Sun - Get Me Golden

37

89

89

Crosses - The Epilogue

7

90

99

Damien Jurado - Silver Timothy

3

91
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Jack White - Lazeretto

1

92

77

Emiliana Torrini -Speed of Dark

25

93

80

Lost in the Trees - Past Life

13

94

98

Cherub - Doses and Mimosas

5

95
----
Big Data - Dangerous

1

96

92

Fitz and the Tantrums - Out of My League

60

97

95

White Sea - They Don't Know

7

98
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The Hold Steady - Spinners

1

99

79

Portugal. the Man - Modern Jesus

20

100

88

Cage the Elephant - Come A Little Closer

35