There’s so much great music out now, I have at least 50 songs I’d like to put on my Weekly Top 30. “Seventeen Going Under” by Sam Fender remains at #1 for a second week. Closing in at #2 is Arcade Fire‘s heartwarming ““Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)”, while Lizzo slides into the #3 spot with her funk-pop earworm “About Damn Time”. German alt-rock band Milky Chance enter the top 10 with their cool song “Synchronize”. For some reason I cannot fathom, the song has not been anywhere near as popular as their previous single “Colorado”, even though I think it’s a better song.
Two songs make their debut this week: “Bones” by Imagine Dragons and “Grey” by Welsh rock band Holy Coves. While I’m a fan of Imagine Dragons, I didn’t care for their previous single “Enemy”, a massive hit now in it’s 35th week in the top 40 of the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart, nine of them at #1, but I do like “Bones” a lot. (“Enemy” and “Bones” currently hold the #4 and #5 spots on the Alternative chart.) I’ve resisted putting “Bones” on my chart for the past several weeks, but it’s just too damn infectious! “Grey” is the second song by Holy Coves to appear on my Weekly Top 30; their single “The Hurt Within” spent 11 weeks on my list this past Spring.
- SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER – Sam Fender (1)
- UNCONDITIONAL I (LOOKOUT KID) – Arcade Fire (3)
- ABOUT DAMN TIME – Lizzo (5)
- TELL ME THE TRUTH – Two Feet (2)
- BELIEVE – Caamp (4)
- A LITTLE BIT OF LOVE – Weezer (6)
- 2am – Foals (9)
- AS IT WAS – Harry Styles (8)
- MY LOVE – Florence + the Machine (7)
- SYNCHRONIZE – Milky Chance (12)
- THE FOUNDATIONS OF DECAY – My Chemical Romance (13)
- CLOSER – The Frontier (14)
- LONELY – Sea Girls (15)
- THE FUNERAL – YUNGBLUD (17)
- IN THE MIRROR – The Interrupters (18)
- WARNING SIGNS – Band of Horses (19)
- MISTAKES – Sharon Van Etten (21)
- CHASING TRAINS – HULLAH (10) 19th week on list
- WILD CHILD – The Black Keys (11)
- DESPERATELY WANTING – Brian Lambert & Marc Schuster (22)
- LIN MANUEL – Onism E (23)
- FAILURE TO COMPLY – MISSIO (25)
- BROKEN RECORD – NAVE (27)
- BLOODRUSH – The Amazons (16)
- UNTIL I FOUND YOU – Stephen Sanchez (29)
- SUPERMODEL – Måneskin (30)
- BEDS ARE BURNING – AWOLNATION feat. Tim McIlrath (20)
- LOVE BRAND NEW – Bob Moses (26) 21st week on list
- BONES – Imagine Dragons (N)
- GREY – Holy Coves (N)