Malone & Wallen Back at Hot 100 #1; Deb, Marlisa and Sylvia lead SNS 100; Sabrina Places 2 in Top 10 (SNS week of 6/30/2024)

 AGAIN, this is going out late, thus it will be brief.   Last week my wife's sister and her boyfriend came up from the Charlotte area of North Carolina for the week, thus we were entertaining.   I hope you all had a nice Fourth of July.    There are many topics I would love to discuss, but it will have to wait a while.   In the meantime...

As we start the month of July, it's apparent that Post Malone and Morgan Wallen will be on the fast track to be Billboard's Song of the Summer for 2024.   "I Had Some Help" moves back to the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, for a sixth week, knocking out Sabrina Carpenter's "Please Please Please", which falls to #5.  It's the longest running #1 song this year on the big chart thus far.  The song is echoing Wallen's "Last Night" which was in and out of the top spot a year ago and was that year's "Song of the Summer".    Post Malone is a hip-hop artist by trade and has been around since 2016, but it appears that he is transitioning into country music, with his soon-to-be-released album, F-1 Trillion.  Aside from his duet with Wallen, he also debuts at #12 on the Hot 100 with "Pour Me a Drink", another duet, this time with Blake Shelton.   Ironically, he recently topped the Hot 100 with Taylor Swift, who started out as a country artist before moving to pop.   That song, "Fortnight" is currently #17 on the Hot 100, and #41 on the SNS 100, after peaking at #25 a few weeks ago.   

On the SNS 100, "I Had Some Help" continues its upward movement, going from 64 to 50 this week.   Malone first charted here in 2022 with "Love/Hate Letter to Alcohol", in a duet with Fleet Foxes; that reached #55 that year.

MEANWHILE on the blog chart, it appears that we may have a front-runner for "SNS Song of the Summer" as well, as "Sunshine and Summertime" by the beach music duo of Deb Browning and Marlisa Kay Small.  Already touted as such in the beach music community, the song remains at the top of the SNS 100 for a fifth non-consecutive week.  That too, is the longest running #1 song this year thus far on the blog tally.   That contest started the week of May 12, and it had appeared it would be a tight race between it and Jalen Ngonda's "If You Don't Want My Love", which had a three-week stay, and which interrupted Deb and Marlisa's run at the top.  However, the Ngonda song is fading as it drops to #5 this week.  "Sunshine" is #1 on Riptide Radio, The Wave (4 weeks in a row), and top 5 on several other beach music charts.

Hanging tough at #2 is another from the Grand Strand, "Good Love Don't Come Easy" by Sylvia Johns Ritchie.    Ms. Ritchie tops Don Mark's Surfside Top 20 this week.   

However, it's the #3 song, Hozier's "Too Sweet" that is racking up the impressive chart numbers.   Originally a #1 song on Billboard's Hot 100, it still sits at #7.    But it leads three airplay charts this week:  It is number one on Hot AC, Alternative and Triple-A, and moves 32-29 on John Hook's Beach Music Top 40 listing. Here, "Too Sweet" originally peaked at #3 a few weeks back, dropped as low as #9, but has resurged in the past couple of weeks.    It was almost a year ago that Hozier's "Francesca" topped the blog chart, and now his first entry since then has a renewed chance to do the same.   If it does, it will be the artist's third blog-topper.

Sabrina Carpenter, already entrenched in Billboard's Top 10, enters that area on the SNS 100 with both "Espresso" and "Feather".

As Lissie's 'Night Moves" bullets from 9 to 6, we have three new songs in the top 10, two of them by Sabrina Carpenter who has been hot lately.     While I have yet to add "Please Please Please", her two prior singles enter the top echelon:   "Espresso", after stalling at #11 for a couple of weeks, moves 11-8, while "Feather", holding at #4 on the John Hook's beach list, bullets 15 to 10.    Also moving into the Top Ten are The Mac Daddy's Band's first SNS entry, "Flip Flops and Margaritas" advancing 12-7. 

While Dua Lipa, Starbuck, and Suki Waterhouse continue to advance in the second ten, we have three entries into the Top 20.   C. Lynne Smith snags the Impact award with the topical "Follow It Down" (21-18).   That is followed by two beach music songs:   The Pink Slips Band's "Dance", still #1 on Riptide Radio's chart, moves 23-19 and Rhonda McDaniel has her third Top 20 (second solo) with "Better" (22-20).

The middle part of the chart is very competitive with strong songs only able to move up a notch or two, but big movers include Royel Otis' "Foam", the Mover of the Week (45-32), Beabadoobee's "Take A Bit" (44-34), and The Tonez' "I Hear You Knocking" (54-42).

DEBUTS:  An interesting array of adds this week, headed by the latest from country artist Lainey Wilson, "Hang Tight Honey" at #83.   It's a nice, uptempo foray with great guitar work, and of course Lainey's vocals; she is definitely having a great time doing this song.  It's definitely her strongest entry since her blog top 10 "Watermelon Moonshine" last year.   

The Decemberists follow their top 20 "Burial Ground" with "Oh No".   There seems to be a lot of Latin-infused songs lately.  First Starbuck's "Beach A Go Go", then Gary Lowder's "Wild Fire", and now this one.   While the horn section sounds more like The Kinks' "Come Dancing", the rhythm does have that Latin feel.  Initially the mix of Colin Meloy's voice and the instrumentation sounds a bit strange, but you get used to it.   A little different from past releases, but this band has been a fixture on SNS since almost the beginning of the blog, and should be a big chart presence both here and on Triple-A. 

Alice Merton is probably most remembered for her blog #2 "No Roots" from 2017, but she returns with "run away girl".    Alice definitely belts the vocals which just keep moving.    A fixture on Sirius XM Alt Nation's "Alt 18", she is very busy delivering the sound of this song.  A lot of "oh oh oh's" in this catchy outing.

One of my all-time beach music favorite songs was "Inventory on Heartaches" by the husband-and-wife duo of Donny and Susan Trexler.   While Susan scraped the chart a few months ago with "Whole Lotta Me", it's Donny's turn as he debuts with "Just a Little Bit of Your Love".    Like The Holiday Band song I added a couple of weeks ago, this is the sound that made me fall in love with Carolina beach music.   Very retro-soulful and that bouncy beat that puts you in shag heaven.   Again, listening to this takes you down to the boardwalk at North Myrtle Beach.     

Another beach artist, J.D. Cash, enters with "Chances Are".   This is a great soulful, and tender ballad.  Heck, after you shag to "Just a Little Bit of Your Love", you can slow dance to this one.   Cash's "This Song Will Last Forever", really didn't do so here; it peaked at #99, but this one should be here for quite a while.  It enters at #91. 

Also entering is L.A. based AWOLNATION, with "Panoramic View", which is another ballad and an ambiance-filled one at that.   New Jersey-based band The Gaslight Anthem covers a Billie Eilish song, "Ocean Eyes", and dresses it up, alternative rock style, with strong vocals as well as backup ones.   Finally, there's Smitty and the Jumpstarters, on the beach charts with the bluesy George Thorogood-like "Let's Walk".   A nice jam!

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100 Playlist

June 30, 2024

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	1	NUMBER ONE: DEB BROWNING and MARLISA KAY SMALL "Sunshine and Summertime" (Single Release) (5 Weeks at #1)	12
2	2	Sylvia Johns Ritchie - Good Love Don't Come Easy	13
3	6	Hozier - Too Sweet	12
4	4	Kacey Musgraves - Cardinal●	10
5	3	Jalen Ngonda - If You Don't Want My Love▲²	17
6	9	Lissie - Night Moves	7
7	12	The Mac Daddy's Band - Flip Flops and Margaritas	11
8	11	Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso	9
9	5	Anna Lavigne - Butterfly	15
10	15	Sabrina Carpenter - Feather●	6
11	14	Dua Lipa - Illusion	8
12	8	Deb Browning - Put Your Hand in the Hand	14
13	20	Starbuck - Beach A Go Go	5
14	16	Rivermist -Don't Walk Away	15
15	19	Suki Waterhouse - My Fun	8
16	10	The Black Keys - On the Game	10
17	17	Bon Jovi - Legendary	11
18	21	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: C. LYNNE SMITH "Follow It Down" (Single Release)	8
19	23	Pink Slips Band - Dance	7
20	22	Rhonda McDaniel - Better	7
21	24	Shang Hi Los - Op-Operator	10
22	18	Einsteins Dad - To The Moon	10
23	27	Juliet Callahan -Burning Up●	32
24	13	Royel Otis - Murder on the Dance Floor	15
25	7	Juliet Callahan - Don't Phase Me▲	11
26	28	Teddy Swims - The Door	5
27	25	Lenny Kravitz - Human	8
28	30	Lesa Hudson - Groovalicous	7
29	29	Orbis Max and Lindsay Murray - Fields	7
30	31	Billie Eilish - Lunch	4
31	33	Travis - Gaslight	6
32	45	MOVER OF THE WEEK: ROYEL OTIS "Foam" Album: Pratts & Pain	3
33	35	Abi Carter - This Isn't Over	5
34	44	Beabadoobee - Take A Bite	3
35	37	Foster the People - Lost In Space	4
36	26	Benson Boone - Beautiful Things	19
37	38	I-42 Band - Looking So Good	8
38	43	The Holiday Band - I Got It Bad For You	3
39	40	The Beaches - Edge of the Earth	6
40	49	Kate Hudson - Gonna Find Out	3
41	32	Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone - Fortnight	9
42	54	The Tonez - I Hear You Knocking	3
43	42	Green Day - Dilemma	18
44	48	Orbis Max - Waiting All Night	5
45	34	Mumford and Sons ft Pharrell Williams - Good People	17
46	53	David F. Porfirio - Spanish Harlem	6
47	41	Charlotte Sessions - I've Fallen For A Dragon▲²	21
48	55	Eavesdrop - Only One	5
49	57	The Ampifier Heads - The Best It's Gonna Be	5
50	64	Post Malone ft. Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help	4
51	36	Zac Brown Band - Tie Up	11
52	58	Too Much Sylvia - Another Day	5
53	60	Cage the Elephant - Good Time	4
54	74	Phantogram - All A Mystery	2
55	39	Eavesdrop - Honest●	13
56	46	SZA - Saturn	16
57	66	Nada Surf - In Front Of Me Now	3
58	77	Kings of Leon - Nowhere to Run	2
59	81	Gary Lowder and Smokin Hot - Wild Fire	2
60	82	Einsteins Dad -After the Rain	2
61	47	Starbuck - Spring Break Shake▲	17
62	50	Black Pumas - Sauvignon●	26
63	63	The Marias - Run Your Mouth	9
64	67	Fontaines DC - Starbuster	6
65	70	Whiskey-Chitto Ramblers - Radio On	3
66	51	The Six Piece Suits - I Thought You Knew●	18
67	78	Say She She - Slippery People	2
68	76	Northern Tracks - Deceiving Minds	3
69	85	Steve Cheek - Last Summer	2
70	59	Randy Clay Band - Party Street	13
71	61	Rivermist - Everything's Changed●	25
72	73	Train - Long Yellow Dress	4
73	80	The Early November - About Me	3
74	72	Michael Marcagi - Scared to Start	4
75	83	The Red Clay Strays - Wanna Be Loved	2
76	52	Winnetka Bowling League - America In Your 20's	8
77	75	Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - Heartless	5
78	89	Beach Bunny - Vertigo	2
79	62	Gary Clark Jr ft. Stevie Wonder - What About the Children	8
80	69	Black Pumas - Mrs. Postman	4
81	84	Zach Bryan - Pink Skies	3
82	88	Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby	4
83	---	TOP DEBUT: LAINEY WILSON "Hang Tight Honey" Album: Whirlwind	1
84	56	Orbis Max and Tim Izzard - You Know What You're Doing	10
85	65	Sadie Leigh - Finger Wave●	18
86	---	The Decemberists - Oh No	1
87	---	Alice Merten - Run Away Girl	1
88	79	The Black Keys - Beautiful People (Stay High)●	22
89	87	Nadia Shutkufski - Top Down	19
90	---	Donny Trexler - Just A Little Bit of Your Love	1
91	---	J.D. Cash - Chances Are	1
92	---	AWOLNATION - Panoramic View	1
93	---	The Gaslight Anthem - Ocean Eyes	1
94	---	Smitty and the  Jumpstarters - Let's Walk	1
95	68	Say Sue Me - 4 AM	16
96	71	Beyonce - Texas Hold Em	18
97	86	Orbis Max - Not This Time	14
98	91	Jaime Wyatt - Feel Good	18
99	90	Whiskey-Chitto Ramblers - Cigarette	7
100	92	Sheryl Crow - Alarm Clock	22

Murmurs:

Ray Lamontagne - Steep Into Your Power

Public - Make You Mine

The Heavy Heavy - Happiness

Good Neighbors - Home

The Offspring -Make It Alright

Clairo - Sexy To Someone

Beach Weather -  high in Low Places

Norah Jones - Running

Joy Again - Angel

Isn't It Always? - Dream Again

311 - You're Gonna Get It

Laufey - Bored

Anna Lavigne - Falling

Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please

Orbis Max and Jim Ritchey - Learning to Love

Wilco - Annhilation

Post Malone ft. Blake Shelton - Pour Me Another Drink

Cage the Elephant - Rainbow

Claire Cottrill - Sexy To Someone

Murmurs: Songs which are in the queue for future adds onto the Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100 Playlist.

 

Songs with the greatest increase in favorite points over the prior week ▲Song garnered most plays on Spotify, for the  month, with a superscript following the symbol if most played for multiple months; or if a song was among the top 5 most plays for two months. ● Song among top 5 most plays on Spotify.  Awards given during the last blog of each month.  To qualify, the song must be currently or have peaked in the top 40.

 

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