SNS Week of 12/4/2016

We are into December, and again, Fitz and the Tantrums tops the chart for the third week with "Roll Up".   Maybird, Miike Snow flip positions 2 and 3, while Sam Roberts Band advances to #4.

Calvin Harris has the highest new entry onto the top 20 with "My Way", which breaks a mini-slump for him.   He had three consecutive top 10's from his previous album, but a slight departure from his usual style saw his last couple of released stall in the middle of the chart.    Billy Spanton Band returns to the top 20 as "Shake Your Soul" continues its resurgence in the wake of keyboardist and friend Ron Pietranowicz's passing.

Rihanna has the big mover on the list with "Love on the Brain" (78-40).  The Knocks, already moving up with "I Wish", featuring Matthew Koma (44-33) are back with "Purple Eyes" which features Phoebe Ryan, debuting at #74.    This debut means that we have sort of a "community" with Matthew Koma, Phoebe Ryan, The Chainsmokers and The Knocks having multiple entries on the list, with others being featured artists.    The Chainsmokers have three songs, one featuring Ryan, who now has three as well.    She is also featured on one of the new Knocks songs, one of which also features Koma, who has a solo song as well.   Got that?

We have our second holiday song debuting on the list,; that would be "Here We Come A Wassailing" by a band called Under the Streetlamp.    The song actually is from a 2012 album.  Normally, holiday songs are limited to the year they are released.   However, I've been hearing it on Sirius XM's "Holly" channel, and since I haven't heard the song before this year, I will make an exception.   Any similarities to "Rock This Town" by the Stray Cats was purely intentional; but it surely is infectious.

Also entering this week are Bishop Brigg's "Wild Horses", her follow-up to "River"; and Milky Chance's "Cocoon".

My next blog will be the last new one of the year and possibly for good and will cover December 11 and 18th.    I will then cover my annual top 100 of 2016.  It was an unusual year for music that I listened to, as many of the year-end lists, as well as American Music winners and Grammy nominations are much different from what I was listening to this year.    

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100

December 4, 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 (3 weeks at #1)	8
2	3	Maybird - Turning Into Water	10
3	2	Miike Snow - My Trigger	9
4	6	Sam Roberts Band  - If You Want It	9
5	5	Paul Czekaj - A Place I Once Called Home	14
6	8	Jake Owen - If He Ain't Gonna Love You	11
7	7	Trails and Ways - My Things	15
8	4	Michael Kiwanuka - One More Night	15
9	10	Colony House - You and I	10
10	9	Wild Belle - Our Love Will Survive	9
11	12	Kjband - Waves	10
12	17	Capital Cities - Vowels	7
13	11	Red Hot Chili Peppers - Go Robot	8
14	15	Twenty-One Pilots - Heathens	10
15	18	Kings of Leon - Waste A Moment	10
16	20	Deerhunter - Snakeskin	16
17	13	Us Commoners - Fallin'	12
18	14	Leon Bridges - Better Man	17
19	24	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: CALVIN HARRIS "My Way" (Single Only)	7
20	23	Billy Spanton Band  - Shake Your Soul	19

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

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.