The Revolving Door (SNS Week of 6/17/2018)

REVOLVING DOOR:   Another week and another number one on my SNS chart which doubles as a playlist for my iPod (yes, I still use one of them).   This time it's Neko Case taking charge with "Bad Luck".  It's her first chart-topper here and her third top 20 entry, following "People Got A Lot Of Nerve" and "Man".   The catchy song is from her fifth solo effort, Hell-On.  She has cooled off since her 2009 peak with Middle Cyclone which peaked at #3 on Billboard's album chart; the current set only reached #31.  What I remember most about the 47-year old singer/songwriter is that when I posted my Top 100 of 2009 on Facebook (my first year-end list since 2003), and the first on social media which was a precursor to this blog, was that friends noted I left out her songs on that list.   Naturally, I went back and listened to that album and added "People Got a Lot of Nerve" (which I erroneously referred to a few weeks back as "Maneater"), and it peaked it at #8.   Case is getting some moderate airplay with her current set, but it took off here to the point where it is this week's chart topper.

Right behind is Curtis Hardings' "Need Your Love" which is just a few points behind.   Will we see another new number one next week?  Stay tuned.  

Meanwhile, the top 10 is still very competitive; in fact positions 5, 6 and 7, hold steady with bullets (indicating a significant point gain).  In the case of The War on Drugs' "Pain", and Phillip Phillips' "Magnetic", it does so for the second straight week.   The biggest jump, however is the 27-9 rise of Kungs vs Cookin' on 3 Burners' "This Girl", the 2016 track I heard at Martell's a few weeks back. 

KILLER B's :  Three artists beginning with "B" enter the top 20:  Mid-Hudson valley reggae act (The) Big Takeover, Beck, and Bishop Briggs.   It's the fourth top 10 for TBT, and fifth for Beck, and the second solo top 20 for Bishop Briggs, although she was featured on Cold War Kids' #1 "So Tied Up" recently.

TENNIS, ANYONE, PART FIVE:   The Top Debut is "My Emotions Are Blinding", yet another single from the duo Tennis' album Yours Conditionally.   The set, which failed to make any impact, is an awesome album, and this is the fourth song, all released as singles, I have added from it.  It follows the #1 "Modern Woman".   The new song, which enters at #65, echoes their "Origins", their #1 SNS songs from 2012, to an extent.   Alaina Moore's vocals always seem to chill the spine.  Another winner there.   Cigarette After Sex's follow-up to "K", "Apocalypse" is another awesome song, possibly even better than the former, which peaked at #9 and is still at #20 this week. 

TELEVISION TIME:  I also, as indicated a few weeks ago, added the 'coronation songs' of the two recent winners of the music competition shows, American Idol and The Voice.   The "Idol" winner, Maddie Poppe, "Going Going Gone", enters at #96.   She won season 16 of the recently-revived show.    Trent Harmon, the winner of season 15, made #6 with his song, "Falling", although he hasn't followed that song up, nor has he released a debut album yet.   Before that, you have to go back to season 12, in which Candace Glover went to #29 with "I Am Beautiful", but that song only made a brief appearance on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking only at #93 which was at the time, an all time low.   The last "successful" winner of "Idol" was Phillip Phillips, who has two SNS top 10's from his latest ("Miles", #6) and the current "Magnetic" at #7), his first top here (his coronation song, "Home" went to #11 here).  But even his new album sold poorly.    Of course, "Idol" has made major stars out of Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and a few others.

I also add The Voice season 14 winner Brynn Cantelli, who was on Clarkson's team.  While many Idol contestants have dotted my chart over the last eight years, the highway has been very empty for Voice winners.   The show, despite its popularity (mostly because of the banter with the coaches), still hasn't produced a superstar.    The only singer from that show that has made a dent on SNS was Vicci Martinez, who finished third in that shows' first season.  She reached #3 in 2013 with "Come Along" which featured her team coach on that show, Cee Lo Green.    Ms. Cantelli's coronation song "Walk My Way", enters at #94.

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100

June 17,, 2018

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	2	NUMBER ONE: NEKO CASE "Bad Luck" Album: Hell-On	8
2	4	Curtis Harding - Need Your Love	7
3	1	Nick Waterhouse - Straight Love Affair	8
4	3	James Bay - Pink Lemonade	7
5	5	The War on Drugs - Pain	9
6	6	Florence + the Machine - Hunger	6
7	7	Phillip Phillips - Magnetic	9
8	11	Leon Bridges- Bad Bad News	9
9	27	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: KUNGS vs   COOKIN' ON 3 BURNERS "This Girl" Album: Layers	3
10	10	Cold War Kids - Can We Hang On?	9
11	9	Lovelytheband - Broken	11
12	8	Swimming With Bears - French Girls	9
13	13	The Neighbourhood  -Scary Love	12
14	25	The Big Takeover - Rainboots	6
15	23	Beck -Colors	7
16	15	Tennis - Modern Woman●	13
17	20	Foster the People - I Love My Friends	9
18	21	Bishop Briggs - White Flag	7
19	14	Jeff Rosenstock - All This Useless Energy	13
20	16	Cigarettes After Sex - K	13

21	26	Camila Cabello - Never Be the Same	8
22	17	Big Thief - Shark Smile	15
23	22	The Raveonettes - Ghost	10
24	34	Alice Merton - Lash Out	5
25	29	Middle Kids - Mistake	11
26	24	The Decemberists - Severed	15
27	18	The Vaccines - I Can't Quit	13
28	19	Amy Shark - Adore	13
29	30	Sunflower Bean - I Was A Fool	8
30	32	Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks	10
31	33	Ray LaMontagne - Such A Simple Thing	8
32	31	Alice Merton - No Roots●	23
33	41	Lord Huron - Wait By the River	6
34	35	Portugal. The Man - Live In the Moment●	23
35	50	Zedd f. Maren Morris and Grey - The Middle	4
36	42	The Heirs - Suburban Wonderland	14
37	44	The Regrettes - Come Through	6
38	52	The Doughboys - Sink or Swim	4
39	43	Two Feet - I Feel Like Dorwning	7
40	28	Django Django - In Your Beat	13
41	62	Dreamers  - Screws	3
42	36	AJR f. Rivers Cuomo - Sober UP	11
43	57	Car Seat Headrest- Hervous Young Inhumans	5
44	64	Smash Palace - It Happened to Me	3
45	73	Hegazy - Smolder	2
46	12	Halo Circus - Narcissist	12
47	70	Beach House - Lemon Glow	4
48	37	Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - You Worry Me	15
49	48	Ash - Buzzkill	7
50	56	Bebe Rexha f. Florida-Georgia Line - Meant to Be	7
51	79	Iration - Press Play	2
52	38	Joywave - Doubt	12
53	39	The Palms - Don't Waste My Time	14
54	61	Bleachers - Alfie's Song	5
55	45	Moon Taxi  - Two High●	26
56	53	Obesza f. Leon Bridges - Across the Room	10
57	60	Everything Everything - Breadwinner	6
58	82	MOVER OF THE WEEK; ØFFGUARD "Tension" Album: Hidden Messages (EP)	2
59	46	Ed Sheeran - Perfect●	22
60	40	Christina Taylor - American Dreamin'	15
61	65	The Knocks f. Foster the People - Ride or Die	6
62	47	Vance Joy - Lay It On Me●	20
63	69	Panic at the Disco - Say Amen (Saturday Night)	6
64	77	Caroline Rose - Soul No. 5	3
65	---	TOP DEBUT: TENNIS "My Emotions Are Blinding" Album: Yours Conditionally	1
66	51	St. Vincent - Los Ageless	14
67	55	Cold War Kids f. Bishop Briggs - So Tied Up▲	28
68	83	Lake Street Dive - Good Kisser	2
69	81	Meg Myers - Numb	3
70	78	Calvin Harris f. Dua Lipa - One Kiss	5
71	80	The Wombats - Turn	3
72	59	Hegazy - Alive●	21
73	58	Walk the Moon - One Foot●	21
74	76	Foster the People - Sit Next To Me●	21
75	49	Charlie Puth - How Long	11
76	68	Weezer - Happy Hour●	24
77	54	Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending	14
78	72	The Neighbourhood - 24/7	20
79	---	Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse	1
80	85	Jade Bird - Lottery	5
81	67	Bleachers - I Miss Those Days●	15
82	75	The Wombats - Lemon to A Knife Fight	15
83	94	Vance Joy - Saturday Sun	2
84	71	Kid Rock - American Rock n Roll	9
85	90	Morgan Saint - Just Friends	4
86	63	Jessica Lea Mayfield - Sorry Is Gone	15
87	92	Imagine Dragons - Whatever It Takes	5
88	---	Arctic Monkeys - Four Out of Five	1
89	86	Awolnation - Handyman	7
90	89	Cold War Kids - Invincible▲	30
91	66	Metz - Cellophane	15
92	93	Nick Waterhouse - It's Time▲	39
93	97	Blue October - I Hope You're Happy	2
94	---	Brynn Cantelli - Walk My Way	1
95	96	Miley Cyrus - Malibu▲	40
96	---	Maddie Poppe - Going Going Gone	1
97	88	Muse - Thought Contagion	8
98	99	Selena Gomez - Back To You	2
99	87	Ty Segall - Alta	12
100	95	The War on Drugs - Holding On▲	28

 

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.