SNS Week of 9/3/2017

 Another "catch-up" week sees, Trapdoor Social score a fourth week at the top with "Winning As Truth", but loses points in doing so.   Nick Waterhouse's "It's Time" also loses slightly but is now closer to the top, a position it held for a week before Trapdoor Social took over.  It could conceivably move back to the top.  Portugal.The Man's "Feel It Still" holds at #3 but gains a point.  The song has spent 12 weeks at the top of the Billboard Alternative songs chart, and has hit the top 20 pop.   Here it still has a chance to hit the top if the aforementioned songs slip.   It would be injustice if P.TM didn't hit the top of my chart.   This is a band that I had followed way before pop or even alternative success, with four top 20 songs between 2011 and 2013.   We will see next week what happens.  Meanwhile, Tennis is gunning for its second number one as "In the Morning I'll Be Better" moves 8-4 for their third top five song here.  "Origins" had a two week stint at the top in early 2012.  Rounding out the top five is Foxygen's fifth entry in that elite circle, with "On Lankershim".

Electric Guest has the big mover in the top 10 with "Oh Devil", the National and Griswolds also move big in the top 20.   "Despacito", which had a big jump and was knocking on the SNS top  20 door, slide back to #23.   The song has been designated "Song of the Summer" by Billboard, and tied the record for most weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 with 16, before finally succumbing to the new Taylor Swift single,  "Look What You Made Me Do", which moves 77-1 on the Billboard chart and is a Tremor (my version of "bubbling under") on the SNS this week at 107.  "Despacito" has set worldwide records with three billion views on You Tube alone.

Beck's long awaited album Colors is due very soon, the follow-up to the Grammy winning Morning Change, and the first single, "Up All Night" is the top debut at #75.   He had released two singles in the meantime, the SNS #1 "Dreams", in 2015 and the #19 SNS "Wow" last year.   At first listen, "Up All Night" is a more accessible, up-tempo song, a bit more pop with his eclecticism thrown in, as opposed to the hip-hoppish "Wow".    Established artists who have hit my charts before also debut, including yet another Cold War Kids song (there's three of them on the list this week), "So Tied Up", a duet with Bishop Briggs.  Cold War Kids, like Portugal The Man, were a band I discovered before any mainstream airplay, but are now household names in the alt-rock world.   Dan Auerbach, BORNS, Fall Out Boy, and Saint Motel also debut.

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100

September 3, 2017

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	1	NUMBER ONE: TRAPDOOR SOCIAL "Winning As Truth" Album: Trapdoor Social (4 weeks at #1)	11
2	2	Nick Waterhouse - It's Time●	12
3	3	Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still●	20
4	8	Tennis - In the Morning I'll Be Better	7
5	7	Foxygen - On Lankershim	9
6	9	Saint Motel - Sweet Talk	9
7	14	Electric Guest - Oh Devil	5
8	12	Øffguard - Maybe	10
9	6	Twenty-One Pilots - HeavyDirtySoul●	18
10	4	Fitz and the Tantrums - Fool	8
11	11	Miley Cyrus - Malibu●	13
12	18	The National - The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness	7
13	5	Dan Auerbach - Shine on Me	11
14	10	Pageants - Lingr	11
15	16	Matthew Koma - Hard to Love	10
16	17	The Greeting Committee - She's A Gun	14
17	23	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: THE GRISWOLDS "Feels So Right" Album: High Times for Low Lives	8
18	20	Weezer - Feels Like Summer	14
19	19	Courtney Barnett - How To Boil An Egg	10
20	22	Middle Kids - Edge of Town	19

21	34	Foster the People - Doing It For the Money	5
22	39	Beth Ditto - I Wrote the Book	4
23	21	Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee f. Justin Bieber - Despacito	6
24	33	Alvvays - In Undertow	8
25	29	Sam Hunt - Body Like A Back Road	6
26	31	Kaleo - No Good	6
27	36	Christina Taylor - That Girl	6
28	30	Grizzly Bear - Mourning Sound	7
29	32	The Bleachers - Don't Take The Money	7
30	24	Red Hot Chili Peppers - Goodbye Angels	10
31	28	Phoenix - J-Boy	10
32	15	Keith Urban f. Carrie Underwood - The Fighter▲	24
33	13	Pop Etc - Routine	13
34	37	Blondie - Long Time	7
35	27	LP - Lost on You●	18
36	25	The Hounds of Winter - I Get You●	15
37	51	Iration - Borderlines	4
38	40	Cage the Elephant - Whole Wide World	6
39	42	Haley Reinhart - Baby It's You	6
40	26	Foster the People - SHC●	13
41	61	Chastity Belt - Different Now	4
42	60	Milky Chance - Blossom	5
43	45	Ed Sheeran - Shape of You●	25
44	53	Ty Segall - Orange Color Queen	12
45	35	Hanson - I Was Born	12
46	49	The Lumineers - Angela	15
47	38	Jake Owen - Good Company	11
48	70	The Cranberries - Why	3
49	43	The Palms - Push Off▲	24
50	46	New Politics -One Of Us	12
51	59	The Weeknd f Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming	6
52	63	Arcade Fire - Everything Now	7
53	74	MOVER OF THE WEEK: COLD WAR KIDS "Invincible" Album: L.A. Divine	3
54	55	Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Walking In My Sleep	8
55	62	The Killers - The Man	7
56	69	Phoebe Ryan f. Blackbear - Forgetting All About You	3
57	48	Christina Taylor - Don't Look Good in Your T-Shirt Anymore●	24
58	68	Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life	4
59	44	Alison Ireheta and Halo Circus - Band-Aid●	13
60	41	Michelle Branch - Hopeless Romantic	12
61	47	Calvin Harris f Frank Ocean and Migos - Slide	16
62	58	Fitz and the Tantrums - Get Right Back●	21
63	66	Queens of the Stone Age - The Way You Used to Do	6
64	52	Thomas Rhett - Star of the Show●	18
65	65	Kings of Leon - Reverend●	18
66	54	Alt-J - In Cold Blood	14
67	67	Lo Moon - This Is It	6
68	64	Royal Bangs - Octagon	21
69	85	Pink - What About Us	2
70	56	Zac Brown Band - My Old Man	21
71	57	Harry Styles - Sign of the Times	13
72	73	Regrettes - Seashore	6
73	50	Foo Fighters - Run	9
74	72	Kjband - Best Kept Secret	5
75	---	TOP DEBUT:   BECK "Up All Night" Album: Colors	1
76	81	St. Vincent - New York	3
77	76	Barns Courtney - Golden Dandelions	5
78	84	George Ezra - Don't Matter Now	4
79	75	The Hounds of Winter - Lesson Learned●	24
80	80	Joywave - It's A Trip	4
81	90	Thomas Rhett f. Maren Morris - Craving You	2
82	86	Arkells - Knocking At the Door	3
83	94	Manchester Orchestra - The Gold	2
84	---	Cold War Kids f. Bishop Briggs - So Tied Up	1
85	71	Parquet Courts - Human Performance●	21
86	---	Dan Auerbach - Stand By My Girl	1
87	78	Haim - Want You Back	9
88	96	Lord Huron - The Night We Met	2
89	---	BØRNS - Faded Heart	1
90	87	The Record Company - Baby I'm Broken	5
91	77	Circa Waves - Fire That Burns	18
92	97	Banners - Someone To You	2
93	95	Charlie Puth - Attention	3
94	82	Coin - I Don't Wanna Dance●	23
95	83	DMA's- Timeless●	22
96	---	Fall Out Boy - Champion	1
97	---	Saint Motel - Destroyer	1
98	104	Imagine Dragons - Thunder	1
99	91	Bleeker - Where's Your Money	4
100	99	Demi Lovato - Sorry, Not Sorry	3

Tremors:

101/ Dirty Heads, "Vacation"
102. Zedd and Alessia Cara , 'Stay"
103. Honors, "All My Life"
104. X Ambassadors, "Ahead of Myself"
105. Kesha, "Praying"
106. The War on Drugs, "Holding On"
107. Taylor Swift, "Look What You Made Me Do"

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.