Jade Bird ends Bakar's Run at the Top (SNS week of 1/31/2021

 This one will be really brief.

One British singer knocks out another as Hexham, Northumberland's Jade Bird's "Headstart" ascends 3-1 to end Camdentown, London's Bakar's six week reign at the top with "1st Time", although that song remains for a second week at #1 on Billboard's Triple-A listing.     Bakar drops to #3, behind  New Jerseyan Elise Farnsworth's "Pixie Dust" which holds at #2 for a fourth straight week.   The top three songs are bunched up, six points separate the three, and conceivably any of the three have a chance next week.   Meanwhile, another "Jersey Girl" whose name starts with "E", Emily MacMahon advances 6-4 with "Only Us" but is probably a couple weeks away still, from a chance at the top.   And don't forget Ariel Pink's "Crybaby" and another Brit outfit, Tinkers Lane's "Honey Honey", both making impressive moves within or into the top 10.  

Big movers further down the list include Aaron Frazer's "Over You" (28-15), Bryan Hansen Band's "Waiting For Tomorrow" (38-24); David F. Porfirio's "That Night On Bergenline Avenue" (60-31, Mover of the Week) and Frances Forever's "Space Girl" (65-34).

Eight adds this week, headed by psych-rockers Maybird, best known for their blog #1 from 2017 "Turning Into Water".   "Dreamcatcher" is a more slowed-down dreamy psych-pop confection, off the EP Bird Sides.  Close behind is Future Islands' "Plastic Beach".   The Baltimore band had a blog top 5 song in 2015 with "Seasons (Waiting On You)".  The new one is a mid to up-tempo emotional song, with Samuel T. Herrings vocals soulful and deep, which in a way reminds me of 1960's-70''s balladeer Larry Santos.

Also added are Californian Gracie Abrams' "Friends", her blog debut; Sunflower Bean, the Long Island, NY band that hit my top 30 in 2017, is back with "Moment in the Sun";  Clairo is a singer from Massachusetts who enters with "Sofia" and whose "Bags" got up to #75 on the blog two years ago; the new one from veterans Weezer, with "All My Favorite Songs", and finally Mabel follows her top 10 "Mad Love" with a collaboration with Clean Bandit and current pop hitter 24KGoldn with "Tick Tock".  Incidentally, Mabel's mother is Neneh Cherry, noted for her big 1989 hit "Buffalo Stance" and a couple of 1993 songs on my year-end list.   Cherry is also featured on the current Avalanches' "Wherever You Go" which peaked at #9 a few weeks ago.

 

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100 Playlist

January 31, 2021

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	3	NUMBER ONE: JADE BIRD "Headstart" (Single Only)	11
2	2	Elise Farnsworth - Pixie Dust	11
3	1	Bakar - 1st Time	12
4	6	Emily MacMahon - Only Us	5
5	5	Gia Ness ft Ariel Walton - Across the Universe	10
6	10	Ariel Pink - Crybaby	4
7	4	Shannon Marsyada - The Road	7
8	7	Cannons - Fire For You	7
9	14	Tinkers Lane - Honey Honey	5
10	8	Fitz - Head Up High	12
11	16	Gwen Stefani - Let Me Reintroduce Myself	8
12	17	Django Django - Spirals	16
13	9	Winnetka Bowling League - Congratulations	11
14	21	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: THE MYSTERY LIGHTS "It's Alright" Album: Too Much Tension	10
15	28	Aaron Frazer - Over You	4
16	11	Chris Stapleton - Cold	13
17	12	Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky●	20
18	22	James Hunter Six - I Can Change Your Mind	9
19	25	Molly Burch ft. Wild Nothing - Emotion	5
20	15	Brittany Howard - You'll Never Walk Alone	11
21	29	Blake Shelton ft. Gwen Stefani - Happy Anywhere	6
22	23	Miley Cyrus ft. Dua Lipa - Prisoner	8
23	13	Caamp - Officer of Love	13
24	38	Bryan Hansen Band - Waiting For Tomorrow	3
25	27	The Blue Stones - Let It Ride	15
26	18	David F. Porfirio - Evening At the Pier	12
27	20	The Avalanches - Wherever You Go	14
28	19	Deep Sea Diver ft. Sharon Van Etten - Impossible Weight	14
29	26	Fleshtones - Alex Trebek	12
30	35	Kitten  - WhatYear Are We In	5
31	60	MOVER OF THE WEEK: DAVID F. PORFIRIO "That Night on Bergenline Avenue" (Single Only)	2
32	34	Delacey - Unlovable	5
33	43	Surfer Blood - Parkland (Into the Silence)	4
34	65	Frances Forever - Space Girl	2
35	24	Donna Missal - Just Like You	11
36	30	The Backseat Lovers - Kilby Girl	28
37	42	Morgan Wallen - More Than My Hometown	6
38	31	Iration - Right Here Right Now	22
39	36	Surfer Blood - Karen	21
40	33	Meg Myers - Any Way You Wanna Love	12
41	32	The Strokes - The Adults are Talking	11
42	55	I Don't Know How But They Found Me - Leave Me Alone	4
43	45	Ed Sheeran - Afterglow	5
44	73	Kings of Leon- The Bandit	2
45	44	Cage the Elephant - Skin and Bones	14
46	54	ZZ Ward - Giant	8
47	64	Illiterate Light ft. Devon Gilfillan - Freedom	3
48	37	New Order - Be A Rebel	15
49	46	The Knocks ft Foster the People - All About You	9
50	56	Glass Animals - Heat Waves	4
51	70	The Hounds of Winter - One More Time	2
52	61	The Black Keys - Keep My Name Outta Your Mouth	3
53	53	Foo Fighters- Shame Shame	10
54	39	Bright Eyes - Mariana Trench	17
55	59	Peach Tree Rascals - Mariposa	4
56	62	Kjband - Rock Star	4
57	63	Iration - Coastin	3
58	40	Mabel - Mad Love	18
59	58	Elle King - Another You	4
60	75	Paul McCartney - Find My Way	2
61	52	All Time Low ft. Black Bear - Monsters	17
62	69	Harry Styles - Golden	3
63	41	Black Pumas - Black Moon Rising	19
64	48	Dan Croll - Away From Today	21
65	47	Devon Gilfillan - The Good Life	20
66	71	Wallows - Are You Bored Yet?	5
67	72	Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am	9
68	50	Tennis - Superstar	16
69	78	Cold War Kids - 1 X 1	2
70	51	Fleet Foxes - Can I Believe You	17
71	79	Awolnation - Radical	2
72	49	Christina Alessi & the Toll Collectors -  Where the River Flows	14
73	76	My Morning Jacket - Run It	3
74	---	TOP DEBUT: MAYBIRD "Dreamcatcher" Album: Bird Sides (EP)	1
75	80	Baby Strange - More! More! More!	2
76	---	Future Islands - Plastic Beach	1
77	66	Shannon Marsyada - A Love That Doesn't Hurt	26
78	67	Screen Age - Blue Eyed Addiction●	37
79	68	Ray Lamontagne - Roll Me Mama Roll Me	5
80	82	The Jacks - Just a Little Bit	2
81	84	Foster the People - The Things We Do	2
82	---	Gracie Abrams - Friend	1
83	77	Finneas - Can't Wait to Be Dead	4
84	---	Sunflower Bean - Moment in the Sun	1
85	74	Pickwick - Never Gonna Be Enough	21
86	---	Clairo - Sofia	1
87	86	The Hold Steady - Family Farm	2
88	---	Weezer - All My Favorite Songs	1
89	---	Clean Bandit and Mabel ft 24KGoldn - Tick Tock	1
90	57	Molly Burch - Holiday Dreaming	10
91	81	Animal Island - Tonight	22
92	83	David F. Porfirio - Driving at Dusk	24
93	85	Tame Impala - Is It True	22
94	94	AJR - Bang!	31
95	87	Phoebe Ryan - Ring	18
96	88	Real Estate - The Main Thing	21
97	89	The Hounds of Winter - Is It Over Yet?	6
98	90	Ian Roberts - Christmas At Our House	8
99	91	Elle King - The Let Go	21
100	92	Michael Kiwanuka - You Ain't The Problem	24

Songs with the greatest increase in favorite points over the prior week.   ● Songs with 25 or more plays on iTunes/iPods ▲   Songs with 50 or more plays.