March 28, 2017
jmunney
Billboard Charts, Billboard Hot Rock Songs, Music
Billboard, Billboard Hot Rock Songs, Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode
Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange the top 25 based on my estimation of their quality. I used to rank all 25, now I just rank the cream of the crop.
Original Version
1. Imagine Dragons – “Believer”
2. twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
3. Linkin Park ft. Kiiara – “Heavy”
4. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
5. Rag’n’Bone Man – “Human”
6. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
7. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”
8. Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, & Imagine Dragons with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign ft. X Ambassadors – “Sucker for Pain”
9. Chuck Berry – “Johnny B. Goode”
10. twenty one pilots – “Heavydirtysoul”
11. Linkin Park – “Battle Symphony”
12. The Revivalists – “Wish I Knew You”
13. Lana Del Rey – “Love”
14. Zach Williams – “Chain Breaker”
15. Green Day – “Still Breathing”
16. NEEDTOBREATHE – “Testify”
17. Weezer – “Feels Like Summer”
18. Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still”
19. MISSIO – “Middle Fingers”
20. Papa Roach – “Help”
21. Spoon – “Hot Thoughts”
22. Ocean Park Standoff – “Good News”
23. Chuck Berry – “You Never Can Tell”
24. Chuck Berry – “Maybellene”
25. Cold War Kids – “Love is Mystical”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Johnny B. Goode
2. Human
3. Way Down We Go
4. You Never Can Tell
5. Heavydirtysoul
6. Feel It Still
7. Maybellene
8. Love is Mystical
9. Love
10. Hot Thoughts
March 28, 2017
jmunney
Billboard Charts, Billboard Hot 100, Music
Billboard, Billboard Hot 100, Chained to the Rhythm, Katy Perry
Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot 100, and then I rearrange the top 20 based on my estimation of their quality. I used to rank all 20, now I just rank the cream of the crop.
Original Version
1. Ed Sheeran – “Shape of You”
2. Bruno Mars – “That’s What I Like”
3. Zayn and Taylor Swift – “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)”
4. Migos ft. Lil Uzi Vert – “Bad and Boujee”
5. The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk – “I Feel It Coming”
6. Kodak Black – “Tunnel Vision”
7. The Chainsmokers and Coldplay – “Something Just Like This”
8. Drake – “Passionfruit”
9. Drake ft. Quavo and Travis Scott – “Portland”
10. The Chainsmokers – “Paris”
11. Rihanna – “Love on the Brain”
12. KYLE ft. Lil Yachty – “iSpy”
13. Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul and Anne-Marie – “Rockabye”
14. Big Sean – “Bounce Back”
15. Drake – “Fake Love”
16. Sam Hunt – “Body Like a Back Road”
17. The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey – “Closer”
18. Drake – “Free Smoke”
19. Katy Perry ft. Skip Marley – “Chained to the Rhythm”
20. Kygo x Selena Gomez – “It Ain’t Me”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Chained to the Rhythm
2. Tunnel Vision
3. I Feel It Coming
4. Love on the Brain
5. Rockabye
6. Closer
7. Bad and Boujee
March 22, 2017
jmunney
Billboard Charts, Billboard Hot Rock Songs, Music
Billboard, Billboard Hot Rock Songs, Human, Rag'n'Bone Man
Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange the top 25 based on my estimation of their quality.
Original Version
1. Imagine Dragons – “Believer”
2. twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
3. Linkin Park ft. Kiiara – “Heavy”
4. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
5. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
6. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”
7. Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, & Imagine Dragons with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign ft. X Ambassadors – “Sucker for Pain”
8. Rag’n’Bone Man – “Human”
9. twenty one pilots – “Heavydirtysoul”
10. Lana Del Rey – “Love”
11. Green Day – “Still Breathing”
12. The Revivalists – “Wish I Knew You”
13. Zach Williams – “Chain Breaker”
14. NEEDTOBREATHE – “Testify”
15. Papa Roach – “Help”
16. Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still”
17. Shinedown – “How Did Love You”
18. MISSIO – “Middle Fingers”
19. The Lumineers – “Angela”
20. Cold War Kids – “Love is Mystical”
21. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – “Fire Escape”
22. alt-J – “3WW”
23. Coldplay – “Hypnotised”
24. Kaleo – “All the Pretty Girls”
25. The xx – “On Hold”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Human
2. Way Down We Go
3. Heavydirtysoul
4. 3WW
5. Feel It Still
6. Love is Mystical
7. Love
8. Ride
9. All the Pretty Girls
10. On Hold
11. Middle Fingers
12. Hypnotised
13. Heathens
14. Fire Escape
15. Help
16. Angela
17. How Did You Love
18. Wish I Knew You
19. Heavy
20. Believer
21. Still Breathing
22. HandClap
23. Sucker for Pain
24. Testify
25. Chain Breaker
March 22, 2017
jmunney
Billboard Charts, Billboard Hot 100, Music
Billboard, Billboard Hot 100, Chained to the Rhythm, Katy Perry
Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot 100, and then I rearrange the top 20 based on my estimation of their quality.
Original Version
1. Ed Sheeran – “Shape of You”
2. Bruno Mars – “That’s What I Like”
3. Migos ft. Lil Uzi Vert – “Bad and Boujee”
4. Zayn and Taylor Swift – “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)”
5. The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk – “I Feel It Coming”
6. Kodak Black – “Tunnel Vision”
7. Rihanna – “Love on the Brain”
8. The Chainsmokers and Coldplay – “Something Just Like This”
9. The Chainsmokers – “Paris”
10. KYLE ft. Lil Yachty – “iSpy”
11. Big Sean – “Bounce Back”
12. Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul and Anne-Marie – “Rockabye”
13. The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey – “Closer”
14. Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Lil Wayne – “No Frauds”
15. Katy Perry ft. Skip Marley – “Chained to the Rhythm”
16. Maroon 5 ft. Future – “Cold”
17. Kygo x Selena Gomez – “It Ain’t Me”
18. Sam Hunt – “Body Like a Back Road”
19. Future – “Mask Off”
20. Shawn Mendes – “Mercy”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Chained to the Rhythm
2. Tunnel Vision
3. I Feel It Coming
4. Love on the Brain
5. Rockabye
6. Closer
7. Bad and Boujee
8. Shape of You
9. That’s What I Like
10. Cold
11. It Ain’t Me
12. Something Just Like This
13. No Frauds
14. Mask Off
15. Paris
16. Bounce Back
17. I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)
18. iSpy
19. Body Like a Back Road
20. Mercy
March 14, 2017
jmunney
Billboard Charts, Billboard Hot Rock Songs, Music
Billboard, Billboard Hot Rock Songs
Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange the top 25 based on my estimation of their quality.
Original Version
1. Imagine Dragons – “Believer”
2. twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
3. Linkin Park ft. Kiiara – “Heavy”
4. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
5. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
6. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”
7. Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, & Imagine Dragons with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign ft. X Ambassadors – “Sucker for Pain”
8. Coldplay – “Hypnotised”
9. Lana Del Rey – “Love”
10. twenty one pilots – “Heavydirtysoul”
11. Rag’n’Bone – “Human”
12. Zach Williams – “Chain Breaker”
13. Green Day – “Still Breathing”
14. The Revivalists – “Wish I Knew You”
15. Highly Suspect – “My Name is Human”
16. NEEDTOBREATHE – “Testify”
17. Kings of Leon – “Waste a Moment”
18. Shinedown – “How Did You Love”
19. The Lumineers – “Angela”
20. Skillet – “Stars”
21. MISSIO – “Middle Fingers”
22. Cold War Kids – “Love is Mystical”
23. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – “Fire Escape”
24. Papa Roach – “Help”
25. Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Human
2. My Name is Human
3. Way Down We Go
4. Feel It Still
5. Love is Mystical
6. Heavydirtysoul
7. Love
8. Ride
9. Middle Fingers
10. Hypnotised
11. Heathens
12. Fire Escape
13. Help
14. Angela
15. How Did You Love
16. Wish I Knew You
17. Waste a Moment
18. Heavy
19. Believer
20. Still Breathing
21. HandClap
22. Stars
23. Sucker for Pain
24. Testify
25. Chain Breaker
March 14, 2017
jmunney
Billboard Charts, Billboard Hot 100, Music
Billboard, Billboard Hot 100, Green Light, Lorde
Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot 100, and then I rearrange the top 20 based on my estimation of their quality.
Original Version
1. Ed Sheeran – “Shape of You”
2. Migos ft. Lil Uzi Vert – “Bad and Boujee”
3. Bruno Mars – “That’s What I Like”
4. Zayn and Taylor Swift – “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)”
5. Rihanna – “Love on the Brain”
6. Kodak Black – “Tunnel Vision”
7. The Chainsmokers – “Paris”
8. Big Sean – “Bounce Back”
9. Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul and Anne-Marie – “Rockabye”
10. The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey – “Closer”
11. The Chainsmokers and Coldplay – “Something Just Like This”
12. The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk – “I Feel It Coming”
13. Katy Perry ft. Ziggy Marley – “Chained to the Rhythm”
14. KYLE ft. Lil Yachty – “iSpy”
15. Shawn Mendes – “Mercy”
16. Bruno Mars – “24K Magic”
17. Sam Hunt – “Body Like a Back Road”
18. Kygo x Selena Gomez – “It Ain’t Me”
19. Lorde – “Green Light”
20. Maroon 5 ft. Future – “Cold”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Green Light
2. Chained to the Rhythm
3. Tunnel Vision
4. I Feel It Coming
5. Love on the Brain
6. Rockabye
7. Closer
8. Bad and Boujee
9. Shape of You
10. 24K Magic
11. That’s What I Like
12. Cold
13. It Ain’t Me
14. Something Just Like This
15. Paris
16. Bounce Back
17. I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)
18. iSpy
19. Body Like a Back Road
20. Mercy
March 7, 2017
jmunney
Billboard Charts, Billboard Hot Rock Songs, Music
Billboard, Billboard Hot Rock Songs, Human, Rag'n'Bone Man
Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange the top 25 based on my estimation of their quality.
Original Version
1. twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
2. Imagine Dragons – “Believers”
3. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
4. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
5. Lana Del Rey – “Love”
6. Linkin Park ft. Kiiara – “Heavy”
7. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go
8. Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, & Imagine Dragons with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign ft. X Ambassadors – “Sucker for Pain”
9. twenty one pilots – “Heavydirtysoul”
10. Rag’n’Bone Man – “Human”
11. Godsmack – “Come Together”
12. The Lumineers – “Cleopatra”
13. John Mayer – “Still Feel Like Your Man”
14. Zach Williams – “Chain Breaker”
15. Green Day – “Still Breathing”
16. The Revivalists – “Wish I Knew You”
17. Highly Suspect – “My Name is Human”
18. Kings of Leon – “Waste a Moment”
19. NEEDTOBREATHE – “Testify”
20. Shinedown – “How Did You Love”
21. John Mayer – “Helpless”
22. John Mayer – “Love on the Weekend”
23. John Mayer – “Emoji on a Wave”
24. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – “Fire Escape”
25. Seether – “Let You Down”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Human
2. My Name is Human
3. Way Down We Go
4. Heavydirtysoul
5. Love
6. Ride
7. Heathens
8. Fire Escape
9. How Did You Love
10. Still Feel Like Your Man
11. Wish I Knew You
12. Waste a Moment
13. Helpless
14. Cleopatra
15. Come Together
16. Heavy
17. Believer
18. Still Breathing
19. HandClap
20. Let You Down
21. Love on the Weekend
22. Sucker for Pain
23. Emoji on a Wave
24. Testify
25. Chain Breaker
March 7, 2017
jmunney
Billboard Charts, Billboard Hot 100, Music
Billboard, Billboard Hot 100, Chained to the Rhythm, Katy Perry
Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot 100, and then I rearrange the top 20 based on my estimation of their quality.
Original Version
1. Ed Sheeran – “Shape of You”
2. Migos ft. Lil Uzi Vert – “Bad and Boujee”
3. Zayn and Taylor Swift – “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)”
4. Bruno Mars – “That’s What I Like”
5. The Chainsmokers and Coldplay – “Something Just Like This”
6. Rihanna – “Love on the Brain”
7. The Chainsmokers – “Paris”
8. Kodak Black – “Tunnel Vision”
9. Big Sean – “Bounce Back”
10. The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey – “Closer”
11. The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk – “I Feel It Coming”
12. Katy Perry ft. Skip Marley – “Chained to the Rhythm”
13. Justin Timberlake – “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”
14. KYLE ft. Lil Yachty – “iSpy”
15. Machine Gun Kelly x Camila Cabello – “Bad Things”
16. Drake – “Fake Love”
17. Shawn Mendes – “Mercy”
18. Bruno Mars – “24K Magic”
19. Alessia Cara – “Scars to Your Beautiful”
20. Sam Hunt – “Body Like a Back Road”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Chained to the Rhythm
2. Scars to Your Beautiful
3. Tunnel Vision
4. I Feel It Coming
5. Love on the Brain
6. Closer
7. Bad and Boujee
8. Shape of You
9. 24K Magic
10. That’s What I Like
11. Can’t Stop the Feeling!
12. Something Just Like This
13. Paris
14. Bounce Back
15. I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)
16. iSpy
17. Bad Things
18. Fake Love
19. Body Like a Back Road
20. Mercy
March 4, 2017
jmunney
Best of 2016, Best of Music 2016, Music
A Tribe Called Quest, Alessia Cara, Ariana Grande, BANKS, Beck, Beyoncé, Bishop Briggs, Childish Gambino, Drake, Flume, Glass Animals, Gold, Gucci Mane, Highly Suspect, Kaleo, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Kiiara, KONGOS, Lady GaGa, Leonard Cohen, Phantogram, Rae Sremmurd, Rag'n'Bone Man, Rihanna, Sean Paul, Sia, Tove Lo
All songs on this list were released as singles in 2016, or 2015 but didn’t make an impact until 2016.
1. Kiiara – “Gold” – An ingenious production trick wins the top spot. The best music in the world rewires your brain.
2. Beyoncé ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Freedom” – Beyoncé BUSTS out every emotion of the year.
3. Phantogram – “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore” – I can feel myself dissolving in the despair.
4. Lady GaGa – “Perfect Illusion” – GaGa’s crying out in beautiful pain.
5. Kanye West – “Fade” – From another dimension.
6. Rag‘n’Bone Man – “Human” – The blues are alive and kicking.
7. Sia – “The Greatest” – Sia’s career is the soundtrack for perseverance.
8. Alessia Cara – “Scars to Your Beautiful” – What could have been an anodyne message piece instead infuses an influx of attitude.
9. Flume ft. Tove Lo – “Say It” – An airy, effervescent blast from 2016’s top DJ.
10. Childish Gambino – “Me and Your Mama” – Where did this burst of neo-P-Funk come from?!
11. Rae Sremmurd ft. Gucci Mane – “Black Beatles” – This sounds like nostalgia and the future.
12. Glass Animals – “Life Itself” – Alternative quirk’s top spot of the year.
13. Bishop Briggs – “River” – I need at least one lady rocker belting it out like this per annum.
14. Beyoncé – “Formation” – The production is so much more adventurous and more mature from Queen Bey than ever before.
15. BANKS – “Gemini Feed” – Icy and boopy, with attitude to spare.
16. Leonard Cohen – “You Want It Darker” – I’m vociferously nodding along to every declaration Mr. Cohen makes.
17. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go” – That title is sort of like musical onomatopoeia.
18. Highly Suspect – “My Name is Human” – These guys from Cape Cod ought to be rocking stadiums to their core.
19. Beck – “Wow” – Beck’s gonna keep uncovering these strange corners in the aural landscape.
20. Kongos – “Take It From Me” – These South African rockers are totally in control.
21. Tove Lo – “Cool Girl” – Tove keeps freaking up the airwaves.
22. A Tribe Called Quest – “We the People” – A necessary anthem.
23. Sia ft. Sean Paul – “Cheap Thrills” – Bounce along when you’re looking for fun.
24. Ariana Grande – “Into You” – Features the year’s most killer opening line
25. Rihanna ft. Drake – “Work” – One of those great songs that defy natural analysis.
February 28, 2017
jmunney
Billboard Charts, Billboard Hot Rock Songs, Music
Billboard, Billboard Hot Rock Songs, Human, Rag'n'Bone Man
Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange the top 25 based on my estimation of their quality.
Original Version
1. twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
2. Lana Del Rey – “Love”
3. Linkin Park ft. Kiiara – “Believer”
4. Imagine Dragons – “Believer”
5. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
6. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
7. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”
8. Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, & Imagine Dragons with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign ft. X Ambassadors – “Sucker for Pain”
9. twenty one pilots – “Heavydirtysoul”
10. Rag’n’Bone Man – “Human”
11. Judah & the Lion – “Take It All Back”
12. The 1975 – “Somebody Else”
13. Zach Williams – “Chain Breaker”
14. The Lumineers – “Cleopatra”
15. Green Day – “Still Breathing”
16. All Time Low – “Dirty Laundry”
17. Highly Suspect – “My Name is Human”
18. Kings of Leon – “Waste a Moment”
19. The Revivalists – “Wish I Knew You”
20. NEEDTOBREATHE – “Testify”
21. blink-182 – “She’s Out of Her Mind”
22. Shinedown – “How Did You Love”
23. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – “Fire Escape”
24. Papa Roach – “Help”
25. John Mayer – “Love on the Weekend”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Human
2. My Name is Human
3. Way Down We Go
4. Heavydirtysoul
5. Love
6. Somebody Else
7. Ride
8. Heathens
9. Fire Escape
10. Help
11. How Did You Love
12. Wish I Knew You
13. Waste a Moment
14. Cleopatra
15. Heavy
16. Believer
17. Take It All Back
18. Still Breathing
19. HandClap
20. Dirty Laundry
21. She’s Out of Her Mind
22. Love on the Weekend
23. Sucker for Pain
24. Testify
25. Chain Breaker
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