Country continues Hot 100 Mastery; Beach band The Tonez #1 on SNS (SNS week of 9/3/2023)

 To my readers.   I know this is very late.  I composed this chart last week and it will be presented below.  As many of you know, I had a freak accident while geocaching on Saturday, as I stepped on a ground hive of yellowjackets, got stung 30+ times, and passed out three times.    Thanks to two of my friends who were with me, they called 9-1-1 and one delivered CPR to revive me.    I was quickly taken to the ER at Bayshore  Community Medical Center in Holmdel NJ, where they had done various tests on my heart and other concerns.    I felt myself later that night as I stayed over for observation and was discharged on Sunday.   Only now am I getting to my blog.

I had so many things to discuss this past week.   Country music scored another #1 (that's four in a row, if you're keeping track) when, as predicted, Zach Bryan and Kasey Musgraves' "I Remember Everything" debuted at #1.     We lost two noted musicians last week.   Gary Wright, who grew up in Cresskill NJ and was part of the British band Spooky Tooth and performed with many notable musicians such as George Harrison, B.B.King, Foreigner's Mick Jones, and many others.   He had back-to-back #2 hits with "Dream Weaver" and "Love is Alive", both from 1976, but my favorite of his was 1981's "I Really Want to Know You".    We also lost Steve Harwell, the lead singer for alt-pop band Smash Mouth.  The band had two top ten's 'Walkin' On the Sun" (1997) and "All-Star", and the #11 "When the Morning Comes" (both 1999).

I was also going to discuss the upcoming annual Roselle Park Arts Festival (September 30), as well as some words about Charlotte Sessions, who lives there and will perform.  I added her song, "Should I Be the Man" this week.    Also, the next blog will close out the annual "Song of the Summer" contest.

Finally, beach music scores another #1 on the SNS 100 as "Caught Up" by The Tonez, featuring Laura Kepley, hits the top.  It's the seventh beach music song to top my chart this year, and the sixth to feature at least one of the "Carolina Queens" of "Shoop Shoop Song" fame.   Iration, Lesa Hudson, Taylor Swift and Hozier round out the top five.

Fall Out Boy's cover of "We Didn't Start the Fire" lands the Impact award (39-16), Thee Sacred Souls, and The Record Company also enter the top 20.  Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond", although it drops to #6 on the Hot 100 after two weeks at #1, does score the Mover award here (62-42), but Starbuck's "On the Sand" also is a big mover (61-41).  "Dancing On My Own" by The Regrettes, a cover of a Dance Club hit in 2010 by Swedish singer Robyn, advances from the Tremors list to nab Top Debut.   New on my charts this week include the aforementioned Luke Bryan/Kasey Musgraves song "I Remember Everything", the latest from Miley Cyrus, the nice ballad  "Used To Be Young".  The return of Black Pumas with "More Than a Love Song", "Desire", the Cannons' follow-up to "Loving You", and the aforementioned Charlotte Sessions' "Should I Be the Man".   Entering Tremors is '"White Horse" by Chris Stapleton, "NYE" by Local Natives featuring Suki Waterhouse, the Natives' follow-up to the #2 "Just Before Morning", and Chicago-based/Internet band The Wheelgunners' "Girls Alright" which features Italy-based drummer Daniele Silvestri, who also drums for Einsteins Dad.   Silvestri sent me an email introducing himself and his band's music.  This song captures the classic 1970's rock sound but still sounding fresh.  Finally, beach music entity The Sand Band enter with their beach hit "I'll Come Running Back to You".

I hope to have this week's blog out sometime later this week.    

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100 Playlist

September 3, 2023

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	2	NUMBER ONE: THE TONEZ "Caught Up" Album: Sunshine and You (Various Artists)	16
2	1	Iration - Daytrippin'●	11
3	3	Lesa Hudson - Count On Me	13
4	4	Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer	10
5	6	Hozier - Francesca●	10
6	8	Luke Combs - Fast Car	11
7	10	Pollyanna - Good For You●	11
8	11	SZA - Snooze	8
9	9	Say She She - Reeling	15
10	7	Kesha - Only Love Can Save Us Now▲²	12
11	16	Colorjoy - Apathy	6
12	5	Morgan Wallen - Last Night	21
13	13	LP - One Like You	10
14	15	Say She She - Astral Plane	6
15	14	Too Much Sylvia - It Still Is	15
16	39	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: FALL OUT BOY "We Didn't Start The Fire" Album: So Much (for) Stardust (Deluxe Edition)	3
17	22	Thee Sacred Souls - Running Away	6
18	26	The Record Company - Talk To Me	7
19	12	The Faithful Brothers - Dance My Hurt Away	9
20	17	Jason Aldean - Try That In A Small Town●	7
21	25	Sir Prize and the Twomorrow Knightz - Automatic Satin Circus	10
22	19	Jerry Powell - One More Summer Night	19
23	27	Lainey Wilson - Watermelon Moonshine	7
24	38	Michael McMeel with Marlisa Kay Small- I'll Be Around	4
25	24	Marlisa Kay Small and Jerry Thomas West - Love Really Hurts Without You●	18
26	20	Say She She - Don't You Dare Stop▲	15
27	31	Roger Smith - Baby Boomers	10
28	21	Orbis Max with Lisa Mychols ft. Ed Ryan - R U OK	23
29	33	Cat5 Band - What's Love Got To Do With You	12
30	41	Olivia Rodrigo - Vampire	9
31	42	Gary Lowder and Smokin' Hot ft. Bridger Warlick - Picture of You	6
32	32	Danielle Ponder - Roll The Credits	10
33	18	Miley Cyrus - Jaded	16
34	23	Elle King - Jersey Giant	10
35	28	John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band - Day In the Sun	14
36	29	Arlo Parks - Devotion	12
37	36	Deb Browning - Think I Found Forever▲	25
38	37	The Holiday Band - Happy Music	10
39	43	Highwind - Never Sitting Pretty	12
40	52	Rivermist - Right Place Right Time	3
41	61	Starbuck - On the Sand	2
42	62	MOVER OF THE WEEK: OLIVER ANTHONY MUSIC "Rich Men North of Richmond" (Single Only)	3
43	50	Jim Quick and Coastline - Eight Four Three	5
44	46	Einsteins Dad - Anytime Blues	15
45	30	Dua Lipa - Dance The Night	14
46	35	Jon Pardi - Your Heart Or Mine	8
47	45	The Main Event Band ft. Sharon Woodruff - Love Makes The World Go Round	19
48	47	Nick Waterhouse - Hide and Seek	8
49	34	Lana Del Rey - Say Yes To Heaven	10
50	57	King Tappa - One Day	3
51	40	Rev. Bubba D. Liverance and the Cornhole Prophets - Dreamsicle	13
52	44	Orbis Max - No Hero	15
53	60	Pepper - Get Me Ready	3
54	65	Metric - Just the Once	4
55	75	The Revivalists - Good Old Days	4
56	49	Colorjoy - Vacant Side●	18
57	69	Queens of the Stone Age - Paper Machete	4
58	71	Juliet Callahan - Heal	4
59	82	Deer Tick - Forgivering Ties	2
60	48	Cannons - Loving You	14
61	55	Rhonda McDaniel - Say A Prayer	16
62	56	Thee Sacred Souls - Love Is The Way	18
63	78	Rev. Bubba D. Liverance and the Cornhole Prophets - Edisto	3
64	51	Randy Clay Band - Wildflower	9
65	68	Loverboy - Release	9
66	81	Middle Kids - Highlands	2
67	74	Phillip Phillips -- Dancing With Your Shadows	5
68	84	Cold War Kids - Run Away With Me	2
69	59	Say She She - In My Head●	27
70	53	Gabby Barrett - Glory Days	8
71	66	Demi Lovato - Swine	7
72	67	Orbis Max - The North	6
73	72	Grace Potter - Good Time	9
74	54	Jenny Lewis - Psychos	20
75	76	Beck and Phoenix - Odyssey	6
76	93	The National - Eucalyptus	2
77	63	Molly Burch - Physical	7
78	70	Allison Ponthier - Character Development	7
79	58	Beach Weather - Sex, Drugs, Etc.	11
80	94	Thundercat and Tame Impala - No More Lies	2
81	87	The Struts - Too Good at Raising Hell	3
82	102	TOP DEBUT: THE REGRETTES "Dancing On My Own" (Single Only)	1
83	---	Zach Bryan ft. Kasey Musgraves - I Remember Everything	1
84	89	Thirty Seconds to Mars - Stuck	5
85	100	Mitski - Bug Like An Angel	2
86	---	Miley Cyrus - Used To Be Young	1
87	---	Black Pumas - More Than A Love Song	1
88	73	David F. Porfirio - No Way Out	6
89	96	Portugal. The Man ft Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Summer of Luv	2
90	103	Momma - Bang Bang	1
91	---	Cannons - Desire	1
92	86	The Carolina Queens - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)	23
93	91	Donna Missal - God Complex	5
94	64	Frankie Cosmos - Abigail	11
95	85	Arlo Parks - Weightless▲	29
96	90	The Hives - Bogus Operandi	3
97	101	Noah Kahan - Dial Drunk	1
98	---	Charlotte Sessions - Should I Be The Man	1
99	77	Pageants - Worse	15
100	79	Allison Ponthier - Hollywood Forever Cemetary	17

Tremors:

101. Chris Stapleton, "White Horse"

102. Bryan Hansen Band, "Death of a Yes Man"

103. The Wheelgunners, "Girls Alright"

104. Local Natives ft Suki Waterhouse, "NYE"

105. Daisy Jones and the Six, "Look At Us Now (Honeycomb)"

106. The Sand Band, "I'll Come Running Back to You"

Tremors: Songs which have steady or increasing points but not enough to chart on the SNS 100.

▲Song garnered most plays on Spotify, for the  month, with a superscript following the symbol if most played for multiple months ● Song among top 5 most plays on Spotify.  Awards given during the last blog of each month.

Songs on the SNS 100 are included on the following public Spotify playlists

 

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves Top 40:  Contains songs in positions 1-40 on the SNS 100

Scenes Up and Coming:  Songs below #40 that are moving up the chart.

Scenes Recurrents: Songs which have dropped below the top 40 but are still on the SNS 100