The War on Drugs take over the top spot on my final Weekly Top 30 of 2021 with their bittersweet “I Don’t Live Here Anymore”, featuring beautiful backing vocals by indie pop band Lucius. Canadian-born and now L.A.-based singer-songwriter Shimmer Johnson enters the top 10 with her lively dance-pop song “Starts With You”, and debuting this week are “Chapstick” by Nashville pop-rock band COIN, and the delightfully funky “Head in the Clouds” by Sydney, Australian band Thunder Fox.

1. I DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE – The War on Drugs featuring Lucius (2)
2. BEGGIN’ – Måneskin (1)
3. DON’T BRING ME DOWN – Two Feet (3)
4. LOVE LOVE LOVE – My Morning Jacket (5)
5. GOOD FRIEND – dwi (8)
6. I DON’T WANNA TALK (I JUST WANNA DANCE) – Glass Animals (4)
7. LOVE IN OCTOBER – Ships Have Sailed (7)
8. ALL TOO WELL (10 Minute Version) – Taylor Swift (6)
9. JUSTIFIED – Kacey Musgraves (9)
10. STARTS WITH YOU – Shimmer Johnson (12)
11. TIME IN DISGUISE – Kings of Leon (13)
12. CRUTCH – Band of Horses (15)
13. SURVIVOR – Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (11)
14. EASY ON ME – Adele (10)
15. THE TIPPING POINT – Tears For Fears (16)
16. REARVIEW – G. Samedi (14)
17. I SEE THE SUN – Solar Eyes (19)
18. TWO CAR FAMILY – Apollo Junction (20)
19. LEFT BEHIND – a million rich daughters (21)
20. SMILE – Wolf Alice (17)
21. KALEIDOSCOPE – Soda Cracker Jesus (23)
22. JOURNEYMAN’S BALLET – Sam Rappaport (24)
23. U&ME – alt-J (25)
24. ONE AND THE SAME – Future Theory (26)
25. WAKE ME UP – Foals (27)
26. THE HARDEST CUT – Spoon (29)
27. UNTIL I COME HOME – Two Feet & grandson (30)
28. NEVER LOOKED BACK – The Zangwills (18)
29. CHAPSTICK – COIN (N)
30. HEAD IN THE CLOUDS – Thunder Fox (N)