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: PORTUGAL. THE MAN "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: JOYWAVE "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: ØFFGUARD "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: NICK WATERHOUSE "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.