Entering the Rhelm - (SNS Week of 11/27/2016)

Another layoff, and again I apologize for the weeks between blog entries.    My work schedule has been erratic and the time I do have available doesn't get me here too often.   And, to be honest, I haven't really listened too much to new music lately.    I write this just before Christmas even though this is dated just after Thanksgiving.    I hope to pump out three new blogs before I do take my year-end hiatus (which may be permanent...but more on that later).

I do want to start out by thanking everyone for their responses and well wishes regarding my friend Ron Pietranowicz's sudden passing last month.   I had gotten the most responses and Facebook likes on that blog more than any other.   Ron's sister even gave my blog a shout-out at the funeral service.   Once again, my condolences to his family, his wife Kathy and his many friends.

Also, I mentioned that another local singer, Jamie Heath, who is still ill.  I had referenced him as the lead singer of The Hounds of Winter, and while he indeed has done work with Tom Corea's studio outfit, he actually is the frontman for Tom's bar band Bad Attitude.  Once again, prayers to him and his family for a quick recovery.

Fitz and the Tantrums' "Roll Up" spends a second week at the top, with a pretty solid top 10, including Miike Snow, Maybird and Michael Kiwanuka in the next three spots.    Capital Cities get their third top 20 as "Vowels" moves into that region of the chart.

Some veterans debut this week, led by Rihanna's surprisingly blues-oriented "Love on the Brain".   As far as pop singers go, Rihanna's in my top echelon, and I have put some of her songs into my top 20.   But this one blows me away.   As usual, I am late on current pop, but I will move this one up pretty quickly.    Lest we not forget that she ranks fourth all time with most #1 songs on Billboard's Hot 100 with 14.   Only The Beatles, Mariah Carey and Elvis Presley have more.  "Stay" is her current high mark on my blog; it reached #21 in 2013, but she's made the top 20 twice with Enimen: 2010's "Love the Way You Lie" (#11), and 2013's "The Monster" (#20).   "Love on the Brain" should easily eclipse those, assuming it doesn't burn out with me.   

We have our first holiday song on the chart; it goes to Train with their rendition of the recent standard "This Christmas".   It's from their Christmas in Tahoe set released last year, but the song, on my blog last year by Seal, is being serviced as a single this year and has been picked up by Adult Contemporary stations. 

Two popular songs by blog superstars (one of them an international one), with top 20 streaks going, have songs debuting.   Adele's four single from 25, "Water Under the Bridge" is one of her fresher tracks and is gunning to be her 12th straight top 20.  Meanwhile, I pull a third track off of Rachel Allyn's Next Year's Girl.  This one is a slower ballad, "No Second Chances (Tennessee)" which looks to be 13th straight top 20.   Also debuting is the latest from The Dreamers, "Sweet Disaster".  It follows the #3 "Wolves' and #22 "Drugs".

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100

November 27, 2016

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	1	NUMBER ONE: FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS "Roll Up" Album: Fitz and the Tantrums (2 weeks at #1)	7
2	2	Miike Snow - My Trigger	8
3	4	Maybird - Turning Into Water	9
4	3	Michael Kiwanuka - One More Night	14
5	5	Paul Czekaj - A Place I Once Called Home	13
6	10	Sam Roberts Band  - If You Want It	8
7	6	Trails and Ways - My Things	14
8	11	Jake Owen - If He Ain't Gonna Love You	10
9	13	Wild Belle - Our Love Will Survive	8
10	15	Colony House - You and I	9
11	16	Red Hot Chili Peppers - Go Robot	7
12	17	Kjband - Waves	9
13	7	Us Commoners - Fallin'	11
14	8	Leon Bridges - Better Man	16
15	19	Twenty-One Pilots - Heathens	9
16	9	The Hounds of Winter - Oh Paige	12
17	23	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: CAPITAL CITIES "Vowels" (Single Only)	6
18	21	Kings of Leon - Waste A Moment	9
19	18	The Chainsmokers f. Daya - Don't Let Me Down	10
20	20	Deerhunter - Snakeskin	15

21	14	Santana - Blues Magic	16
22	12	Dinosaur Jr - Tiny	12
23	28	Billy Spanton Band  - Shake Your Soul	18
24	32	Calvin Harris - My Way	6
25	25	Meghan Trainor - Me Too	12
26	30	The Chainsmokers f. Phoebe Ryan - All We Know	7
27	22	Two Door Cinema Club - Are We Ready (Wreck)	16
28	38	Phoebe Ryan - Boyz n Poizn	4
29	35	KT Tunstall - Evil Eye	8
30	33	The Hunna - You and Me	15
31	27	The Doughboys - For Your Love	16
32	29	Coldplay - Hymn For the Weekend	19
33	26	St. Paul and the Broken Bones - All I Ever Wonder	14
34	31	Disturbed - The Sound of Silence	19
35	36	Glass Animals - Life Itself	16
36	34	DMA's -  Too Soon	17
37	37	Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - Wasting Time	10
38	40	Zac Brown Band - Castaway	15
39	48	The Raveonettes - NVRLND	3
40	60	Jim James- Same Old Lie	3
41	39	Charles Kelley- Lonely Girl	26
42	41	Band of Skulls - Bodies	12
43	45	Lady Gaga - Perfect Illusion	6
44	49	The Knocks and Matthew Koma - I Wish (My Taylor Swift)	5
45	56	Young the Giant - Silvertongue	3
46	42	The Avalanches - Subways	9
47	50	The Veils - Low Lays the Devil	7
48	47	Catfish and the Bottlemen - 7	9
49	53	Shannon Marsyada - The Ends of Me	5
50	61	Pretenders - Holy Commotion	4
51	51	Charlie Puth f. Selena Gomez - We Don't Talk Anymore	7
52	44	The Head and the Heart - All We Ever Knew	12
53	55	The Struts - Put Your Money On Me	7
54	64	Christina Alessi - Leave the Light On	5
55	66	The Chainsmokers f. Halsey - Closer	4
56	24	Gregory Brothers f "Weird Al" Yankovic -  Bad Hombres and Nasty Women	6
57	43	Foals - What Went Down	18
58	46	M83  - Go	19
59	69	Two Door Cinema Club - Bad Decisions	5
60	59	Kaleo - Way Down We Go●	33
61	52	Halo Circus with Allison Ireheta - Nothing At All	14
62	54	Finish Ticket - Color	20
63	57	The Big Takeover - Come Before Five	8
64	77	Bruno Mars - 24K Magic	2
65	78	The XX - On Hold	2
66	70	Paper Route - Chariots	6
67	62	The Strokes - Oblivius	18
68	65	Fitz and the Tantrums - HandClap●	29
69	58	Rachel Allyn - For What It's Worth	13
70	68	Passenger - Somebody's Love	15
71	71	Ray Lamontagne - The Changing Man	13
72	63	Fitz and the Tantrums - Complicated	18
73	67	Barns Courtney - Fire	18
74	72	The 1975 -Somebody Else	10
75	73	Jimmy Eat World - Sure and Certain	5
76	83	Maroon 5 f Kendrick Lamar - Don't Wanna Know	2
77	80	July Talk - Push + Pull	7
78	---	TOP DEBUT: RIHANNA "Love On the Brain" Album: Anti	1
79	89	Matthew Koma - Kisses Back	2
80	---	Train - This Christmas	1
81	---	Adele - Water Under the Bridge	1
82	90	Judah and the Lion - Take It All Back	3
83	---	Rachel Allyn - No Second Chances (Tennessee)	1
84	75	Phoebe Ryan - Chronic	19
85	74	Jeff the Brotherhood - Punishment	11
86	87	The Weeknd f. Daft Punk - Starboy	4
87	88	The Griswolds - Out of My Head	3
88	---	Dreamers - Sweet Disaster	1
89	76	The Wombats - Be Your Shadow	11
90	79	Shovels and Rope - I Know	11
91	84	The Revivalists - Wish I Knew You	24
92	82	Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dark Necessities●	24
93	85	Nothing But Thieves - Wake Up Call	9
94	91	Beck - Wow	21
95	81	City and Colour - Wasted Love	22
96	94	Paul Czekaj - That Old New Jersey	22
97	93	Coin - Talk Too Much	17
98	86	The Blossoms - At Most A Kiss	19
99	92	Young the Giant - Something to Believe In	18
100	96	Twenty-One Pilots - Ride	25

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.