Magnus's Top 30: Week 2 2021: New look + #1s list updated

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So, I finally decided to start posting my weekly top 30 chart here! The chart has existed since June 2000, with charts from January 2000 computed retroactively, I just never got around to posting it here.

Latest Chart (week 2 2021)

Chart Rules

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The 60 Most Recent #1s

	Artist, Title	Listen	First	Weeks
	Annemarie Eilfeld Hör nicht auf zu tanzen	S V	Dec 2020	2
	Celeste Kellogg Last Chances	S A	Dec 2020	2
	Анастасия Уколова Ты забудешь	S V	Nov 2020	3
	Олевия Кибер Меж двух эпох	S A	Nov 2020	1
	Анастасия Сотникова Ненормальная	S A	Sep 2020	4
	AniKa Dąbrowska Sitowie  Current #1	S A	Jun 2020	17 (13)
	Maryana Ro Помоги мне	S V	Jun 2020	1
	Ева Тимуш Давай останемся друзьями	S A	Mar 2020	1
	Маша Вебер Моя любовь	S A	Feb 2020	2 (1)
	Анастасия Некрасова Расцвела	S V	Jan 2020	6
	Maryana Ro Чёрные розы	S A	Nov 2019	8 (6)
	Надежда Гуськова Осторожно, это любовь	S A	Nov 2019	1
	Molly Опалённые солнцем	S V	Aug 2019	5
	Sarah Darling Fire	S V	Aug 2019	1
	Maryana Ro Ливни	S A	Jun 2019	28 (8)
	Саша Спилберг Медляк	S V	May 2019	3
	Celeste Kellogg There's a Beach Somewhere	S V	May 2019	1
	Jannike At Forever's End	S V	May 2019	1
	Lacey Caroline Dirty	S A	Apr 2019	4
	AniKa Dąbrowska Małe skrzydła	S V	Mar 2019	6 (4)
	Amelia Nie pozwolę nam się bać	S V	Mar 2019	1
	Avril Lavigne Souvenir	S A	Feb 2019	1
	Cassadee Pope If My Heart Had a Heart	S A	Jan 2019	5
	Joyce Jonathan Que veux-tu de moi ?	S A	Nov 2018	4 (3)
	Joyce Jonathan Une parenthèse	S A	Oct 2018	5
	Avril Lavigne Head Above Water	S V	Oct 2018	1
	Клава Кока Я полюбила	S A	Sep 2018	4
	Catherine McGrath Enough for You	S A	Aug 2018	2
	Amy Shark Don't Turn Around	S A	Aug 2018	2
	Tone Damli Strangers	S A	Jun 2018	8
	Kacey Musgraves Happy & Sad	S A	Apr 2018	16 (11)
	Katelyn Tarver Never Fade	S V	Mar 2018	3
	Leah Daniels 1st	S V	Feb 2018	3
	Jessie Chris Heart to Break Your Heart	S A	Jan 2018	4
	Vanessa Mai 1000 Lieder	S A	Jan 2018	1
	Jamie-Lee Coming Home for Christmas	S V	Dec 2017	3
	Catherine McGrath Thought It Was Gonna Be Me	S V	Nov 2017	3
	Echosmith Baby Don't Leave Me  (All Alone on Christmas)	S A	Nov 2017	1
	Meghan Patrick Country Music Made Me Do It	S V	Nov 2017	2
	Alyssa Micaela Clean Break	S A	Oct 2017	4
	Maia Tusind ord	S A	Sep 2017	2
	Kate Todd You're Gonna Find Out	S V	Jul 2017	5
	Dove Cameron & Sofia Carson Space Between	S V	Jul 2017	1
	Julia Michaels Issues	S V	Jun 2017	2
	Alma Après l'aurore	S A	May 2017	5
	Alee Bad Habit	S A	Apr 2017	3
	RaeLynn The Apple	S A	Mar 2017	1
	Maia Du' kærlighed for mig	S A	Feb 2017	13 (5)
	Erna Mist Pétursdóttir I'll Be Gone	S A	Feb 2017	1
	Lauren Alaina Same Day Different Bottle	S A	Jan 2017	4
	Candi Carpenter Burn the Bed	S A	Jan 2017	2
	Franziska Halbes Gefühl	S	Dec 2016	2
	Poppy Altar	S A	Nov 2016	1
	Chelsea Lankes Paralyzed	S A	Nov 2016	6 (3)
	Grete Paia Rääkimata lood	S A	Oct 2016	5 (4)
	Cappa Nirvana	S A	Sep 2016	4
	Britney Spears Man on the Moon	S	Aug 2016	3
	Demi Lovato Body Say	S A	Aug 2016	1
	Olivia Holt History	S V	Jul 2016	1
	Dove Cameron If Only	S V	Aug 2015	8 (4)

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Rules for Songs Top 30 Chart

In short:

1. The chart is based on plays (with plays from earlier weeks also weighted in) during each ISO calendar week (Monday to Sunday) and I usually post updates on Monday or Tuesday the following week.
2. To be eligible for the chart, as song must be from the current year or the year before, with at most 365 days having passed since I started listening to it. This rule also means a song may spend a maximum of 53 (or rarely 54, see below) weeks on the chart.
3. It does not matter if a song is released as a single or if it's just an album track, EP track etc.

In excruciating detail, including the Albums chart which I'm not currently posting:

(NOTE: The examples in here were last updated in 2016.)

Eligibility:

To be eligible for the chart, a song must at the start of the week not be older than 365 days
measured from when it got its first registered play and it must be released (or
otherwise strongly associated with) the current year or the year before, where the current
year is the calendar year when the week started.

All songs are eligible regardless of if they are released as singles or tracks on albums or EPs,
B-sides etc. There is no limit to how early a song may chart, i.e. it is not necessary
that a song has been officially released. In fact, even a private recording not available anywhere
could in theory chart (although so far this has not happened and I also reserve the right to
arbitrarily exclude such songs).

The original motivation for these eligibility rules was to prevent "old" songs from making random
comebacks. But a consequence is of course also that it limits the maximum number of weeks a song
may spend on the chart. If a song gets its first play on a Sunday (the last day of the week) and
enters the chart that same week, then its maximum number of weeks (if it doesn't miss any weeks)
is 54. If it gets its first play on any other day the maximum is 53. And of course, if a song
enters the chart later than the first week the number will be lower. In retrospect, to avoid the 54
vs 53 issue I should have defined the maximum age to be 364 instead of 365 days. But because there
actually is a song that spent 54 weeks on the chart (Diana DeGarmo Reachin' for Heaven, in
2005-2006) it's too late to change this now.

Because the age rule is only defined in terms of release year (i.e. with no regard to the exact
date) and days since I started listening, it's fully possible that a song may in fact be almost
two years old when it enters the chart. For example, a song released on January 1st 2016 will
still be allowed to enter the chart week 52 2017 (which starts on 25th December) if I
didn't listen to it for the first time until 26th December 2016 or later. In this case the song
will only be able to chart a single week because week 1 2018 starts on 1st January 2018 and then
the song no longer fulfills the rule that it must be released the current year or the year before.

In addition to making sure that the chart is always "fresh" (relatively speaking) I like the fact
that when a song's eligibility has run out its chart performance will never again change and it
becomes possible to talk about it in the past tense, instead of never knowing if a song might return.

Score:

The chart ranking is based on a score that is computed mathematically from the number of registered
plays. Weeks are ISO calendar weeks, i.e. Monday through Sunday (which means the chart is usually,
but not always, updated the following Monday). The score is computed as the number of plays the
current week plus half of the score (not number of plays) from the previous week. All plays the
current week are always included even when the song will be ineligible the following week.

The motivation for this system is to make the chart more "chart-like" than it would be if it were
based on plays only that single week. I experimented with this in 2000 and didn't like the random
action that often happened, especially during weeks with few plays overall. By including half of
the score from the previous week there is never any problem with not having enough songs to fill
the chart and when a low-volume week follows one or more higher volume weeks instead of a near-
random chart the chart will tend to be mostly unchanged. It makes sense to me that if I listen a
lot (often several hundred) times to a song one week it should still get some credit for that the
following weeks even if it then gets only a few or no plays at all. I'm extremely happy with how
this has worked out in practice and have never felt any need for "manual intervention". This rule
definitely does not prevent songs from entering directly at #1 because hot new songs tend
to be played so much that other songs' score from the week before usually aren't nearly high enough
to compete, although of course it sometimes happens that the week's most played song isn't #1 that
week.

A special feature of my chart is that for songs that got their first play the current year, the
number of plays and the resulting score is usually hidden until the end of the year, i.e.
even I don't get to see them. There are some exceptions to this, for example when I sync the numbers
from my iPod (which tend to account for less than 10 percent of total listening) I usually can't
avoid seeing the number of plays there (since the previous sync), and especially early in the year
it's often possible to accurately estimate the number of plays from the score of older songs still
charting (for example, if there are old songs at #2 and #4 with a score of 100 and 90 respectively
and the #3 is a new song that was first played that week, then I will be able to tell that it was
played at least 90 and at most 100 times, but notice that this will can never never put an upwards
limit for #1!) But I don't use Last.FM or anything else that would allow me or anyone else to see
the numbers in real-time. This means that my weekly chart as well as my year end charts are often
exciting and contain surprises even to myself! Another advantage is that I avoid exposure to too
much unnecessary detail during the year, while still being able to see everything when the year is
over. (This rule will be suspended if it becomes likely that I won't survive until the end of the
year or in similar extreme circumstances.)

When there are several versions of what is essentially the same song, the general rule is that I
will combine them to a single entry and usually use either the first available or the most common
title. This includes remixes as well as when the lyrics exist in several languages. If a new version
is released years later than the original, the song will not be allowed to chart again, i.e.
eligibility is always counted from the first version. Of course, this does not include cover
versions made by a dfferent artist, those are treated as completely separate songs.

Mobile plays were first included in May 2005 when I got my first iPod. Before that mobile plays
were simply excluded (i.e. I never tried to count them manually), but I didn't listen as much
on-the-go those years as I've done later.

Unlike for my year end charts, there is (for historical reasons) no defined tie-breaking rule for
the weekly chart. I.e. if two or more songs happen to have the exact same score the order between
them is "random". In practice, it appears that the song that was entered into my database first
will be placed higher, but since this is not defined it's not guaranteed to always work that way.
However, because I tend to listen a lot and because of how the score system works it's not terribly
common that two songs have the exact same score. It mostly only happens for new entries that enter
low and had no plays the previous week. (For the albums chart (especially with the new rules), it
becomes even more unlikely that two albums have the exact same score.)

Male artists are allowed on the chart! From a quick glance at my chart, one might sometimes be led
to believe that it is a "female only" chart, but that is (of course) not the case. It just so
happens that I generally prefer to listen to female artists and this has also had a self-reinforcing
effect over the years because I search more for new music by female artists.

Rules for Albums Chart from week 5 2016 onwards

Eligibility:
The eligibility rules for my albums chart re intentionally totally different from those for
the songs chart! There is no limit to how old an album is allowed to be, how many weeks it may
chart or how many times it may re-enter. On the other hand, an album must have been officially
released (anywhere in the world) before it is allowed to chart. It does not matter if the release
is physical or only in electronic ("digital") format.

To be eligible for the chart, at least three songs on the album must have been played at least
two times each (in total, not the current week). EPs are eligible if they fulfill this
rule, as long as an album with the same song(s) has not yet been released. The number of tracks
is irrelevant; if for example there is an EP with five tracks but where four of them are remixes of
the same song that EP will never be allowed to chart because it's not possible for three different
songs to be played, i.e. plays for different versions of the same song are combined in the same way
as for the songs chart. A Best Of or Greatest Hits album or some other type of compilation is in
general not allowed to chart and the reason for that is that the songs on such an album
instead contributes to the original album where they were first included. An exception to this is
if there are three or more songs on a Best Of album that were not included another album, then the
Best Of album will be allowed to chart based on plays for those new songs only. A soundtrack will
be eligible only if an artist appears on at least 80 percent of the included songs. If that is the
case it will be treated as an artist album by that artist (unless the songs have already been
released on another album). In practice, for an album/EP/soundtrack to be able to chart I have to
manually make a note of the release date which I will usually do only if I have actually listened
to it. This means that sometimes an album/EP that would otherwise be eligible won't appear on the
chart simply because I don't know or don't care that it exists.

Score:
The score is computed similarly to for the songs chart but with a twist to favour albums where I
have listened a lot to many songs. The number of plays for the songs included on (any version of)
the album are summed and then multiplied by something I call the breadth factor. How this
breadth factor is computed will be described below. In general this breadth factor will change from
week to week, but it depends only on the total plays up until and including that week, regardless
of when they happened. After the summed plays have been multiplied by the breadth factor the total
score is that number plus half of the score from the week before, i.e. if the breadth factor is 1.0
then this is exactly the same as for the songs chart. The score is computed independently of the
eligibility rules which means that when an album has just been released but some songs on it were
already played previous weeks then those weeks when the album was not yet released will still
contribute to the total score in exactly the same way as if it had already been released. This means
that in theory an album that has just been released could enter the chart at #1 without a single
play that week! (If one or more songs on it were already available and played a lot before,
especially if it was the weeks immediately before.)

Note that while these new rules were not applied retroactively to the older charts, the charts for
week 5 2016 onwards are computed as if the new rules applied earlier, i.e. for example the half of
the score from week 4 that is used for the chart week 5 is not the half of the score on the actual
week 4 chart but half of the score as it would be if week 4 had already used the new rules!

The Breadth Factor:
It's not really necessary to understand exactly how this is computed so unless you like a little
math I recommend completely skipping this part! It's enough to know that the more evenly distributed
the plays are among the songs on the album the closer the breadth factor will be to 1.0. If just one
song on the album has been played it will be 0.1 which is the lowest possible breadth factor for an
album that has non-zero total plays (but because at least three songs on the album must have been
played at least two times, an album that is charting can never have exactly 0.1 but only approach
that value). Note that unlike the total plays and the score the breadth factor for an album is
visible to me immediately when the chart has been computed (rather than up to 12 months later).
I decided to make this so because for example this can be a useful hint that I should try and check
out an album again if the breadth factor is unusually low.

This description first assumes an album with ten songs. I will describe later what happens for
albums (including EPs) with fewer or more songs. First, an average of the number of plays for the
ten songs is computed, but it's not the usual average (called the arithmetic mean) but a special
square root average. The square roots of the number of plays for each song are added. This sum is
divided by 10 and then squared (multiplied by itself), so that the dimension is again "plays" and
not "square root of plays". This means that songs that have more plays than the average will affect
the average less than if the ordinary arithmetic mean was used (it's sort of the opposite of the
popular RMS average where high values will affect the average more). Then for each of the
ten songs, we first compute the ratio between the number of plays and the average. If that ratio
is 1 or less, i.e. the song had fewer than or up to the average number of plays, the number of
plays is added as-is. If it is higher, then we instead add the square root of the ratio multiplied
by the average. The resulting sum is then divided by the total number of plays and the result is
the breadth factor. So the square root is used twice, first when computing the average and then
when adding the plays for songs that have more plays than the average. To make this completely
clear, let's look at a couple of examples. Say that all ten songs have been played the same number
of times, say 9 times. To computed the average we then add up the square roots of this number, i.e.
10 * 3 = 30, divide this by 10 and get 3, then multiply this by itself and get 9. So, not surpri-
singly, the square root average when all songs have the same number of plays is the same as the
ordinary average. Of course, this means that in the next step every ratio will be 1.0 and the sum
is also just the ordinary sum of all the plays, which leads to a breadth factor of 1.0. We may call
this "perfect breadth". Now let's change it so instead nine of the songs have only 4 plays but the
tenth has 54. The total number of plays is still the same, 90. The square root average now becomes
9 * 2 + 7.3485 (where the last number is the rounded square root of 54) = 25.3485, divided by 10
and then squred gives 6.4255. Now the ratio will be less than 1 (0.6225) for the first nine songs
so we just add their play counts (4). For the tenth song the ratio becomes 54 / 6.4255 = 8.4040.
We take the square root of this = 2.8990 and multiply this by the average = 18.63. This is the
number we now use instead of the actual number of plays (54) and the sum becomes 9 * 4 + 18.63 =
54.63. This divided by the total plays (90) is the breadth factor which works out to 0.607. (These
computations for the actual albums are of course done automatically by a computer program so this
will still work in the future even if I forget what a square root is!)

Note that with this algorithm (unlike the much simpler one I used for my albums YEC 2015) no play
is ever completely "wasted"; the breadth factor will go down if a single song gets more plays
relative to the other songs but it won't go down so much that the total score will completely stop
increasing. It's definitely possible that an album can still be successful on the chart with a
single song that's gotten a lot of plays and only a nominal amount (enough to be eligible) of plays
for the rest, but it won't be so easy as it was before.

Now let's see how albums with fewer or more than ten songs are treated. For fewer songs we simply
treat it (in the computation of the breadth factor) as if it had ten songs where the additional
songs have zero plays. The implication of this is that if an album, or EP, actually has fewer than
ten songs then its breadth factor can't reach 1.0 even if the plays are perfectly evenly distributed.
For example, for an EP with only five songs, if all of them have the same number of plays the
breadth factor will be 0.5 and for a three-song EP just 0.3. This is intentional because I want
the chart to primarily be an albums chart that won't run the risk of being completely dominated
by EPs. It's still definitely possible for EPs to have success with these rules simply because it's
common that some songs get so many plays that the total score will be high even with a low breadth
factor.

To compute the breadth factor for an album with more than ten songs, we first sort the
songs in order of decreasing number of plays, then sum the plays for the 11th and later songs and
distribute them evenly among the first ten. This means that for example if we have an album with
15 songs where 10 songs have 10 plays each and the other five have 4 this will be equivalent to a
10-song album where each song has 12 plays. This means that for the breadth factor to be exactly
1.0 it's only necessary that the ten most played songs have the same number of plays and for the
rest of the songs the distribution won't matter. Why did I decide to do it like that instead of
just using the above computation over all of the album songs? There are actually two distinct
reasons for this. The first is that I don't want to punish an album for having additional songs,
even if those songs are crap and only get a single play. Because I typically never actually listen
to physical CDs I can always just exclude/delete songs that I don't want to listen to. So it would
feel wrong that an album would get a lower score just because it includes additional unlistenable
songs. (Note that this won't happen for short albums either, for example 9 great songs and 1 crap
won't be worse (actually a tiny bit better, but I can live with that) than an album with 9 great
songs and no more.) The second reason is that the number of songs on an album sometimes increases
over time, as new bonus tracks and re-release tracks become available. This would be a mess to
handle if the breadth factor was computed over all tracks because I would either have to keep
track of exactly when the number of tracks change or have the breadth factors change retroactively.
With the procedure above this issue is completely avoided and additional tracks that appear at a
later time can only give a contribution (and never a negative one) from the point in time where I
start listening to them.

Note that the breadth factor is always computed for the total plays up to and including the current
week, never just for the current week separately (except of course if this is the very first week
the album gets any plays). What this means in practice is that if an album has had good breadth
historically it can get success on the chart a specific week even if I only listened to a single
song that week. While this will cause the breadth factor to go down (usually just slightly, unless
I listen a huge amount compared to the total plays before) it won't explicitly punish an album
because it had poor breadth that specific week. I think this makes sense because if an album has
had good breadth historically it means I still like the entire album even if some week I only
listen to one of the songs on it. Also, one thing I try to avoid is having my charts influence what
I listen to (instead of the other way around) and there would be a big risk of that happening if I
knew that listening to a certain song on an album could give a much bigger boost to the album that
week than if listened to some other song. (This effect still exists but is tiny compared to what it
could be with a different system.)

As you can see, I have spent a fair amount of time thinking about how to design this so it won't
cause any unforseen problems and so I hopefully won't ever feel the need to change the rules again!

Rules for Albums Chart week 1 2000 to week 4 2016

The rules up until week 4 2016 differed from the current rules in the following way: There was no
breadth factor, i.e. it worked as if the breadth factor was always 1.0 and it didn't matter how the
plays were distributed among the songs on the album. In addition, two thirds of the score was kept
from the week before instead of only half. Furthermore, only two songs instead of three had to have
at least two plays for the album to be eligible but EPs were eligible only if they had six
or more songs. Also, Best Of albums could never be eligible even if they included three or more new
songs.

DISCLAIMER: The fact that a song (or sometimes album) is on the chart does not have to mean
that it is good in any way. Even I may not like it (anymore). It only means that at the time I
listened to it a lot relative to other chart-eligible songs. My taste in music can probably be
described as "weird" and I often joke that it hasn't changed since I was 8 years old (which is
somewhat true). Also, a song not charting doesn't have to mean I don't like it. There have
been songs in the top 100 on my year end chart that never charted on the weekly chart. My listening
habits often vary a lot from week to week. The record low score for #1 is just 7.1 (week 1
2001) while the record high for #30 (excluding 2016) is 32.0 (week 12 2015). And of course,
the reason a song isn't on the chart could also be that I simply haven't discovered it (or, even
though extremely rare nowadays, that I have heard and liked it but don't have it available to listen
to).

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Welcome Magnus!!

Chart for week 16 2015 (13 - 19 apr) Volume: 1340

5 (11) Ashley Monroe - On To Something Good (2 weeks)
17 (14) Kelly Clarkson - In The Blue (7 weeks, peak #7)
21 (19) Carrie Underwood - Little Toy Guns (6 weeks, peak #17)
24 (22) Kelly Clarkson - Let Your Tears Fall (7 weeks, peak #15)
30 (24) Kelly Clarkson - War Paint (6 weeks, peak #19)

Love these
Great to see Asley so high, OTSG is such a great song, so catchy and sooooo feel good.
You're a Carrie fan too? That's great, Little Toy Guns is brilliant, really nice song.
Love the Kelly entries, are you liking the new album? I think it's great and the three songs on your chart are some of the highlights.

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NOTE 1: This first posted chart was originally in the post above now used for the chart rules.

NOTE 2: Because the layout didn't look right anymore I updated this and the other chart posts on the first page (first 25 posts only) to have the current (2021) look!

Top 30 for Week 16 2015 (13th – 19th April)

Chart #: 798, Volume: 1,340

TW	LW		Artist, Title, Chart Run	Listen	Weeks	Peak
1	1		Dove Cameron As Long As I Have You  1-1	S A	2	1 (2 w.)
2	3		Stine Bramsen Not What I Came For  3-2	S	2	2
3	2		Rachel Platten Fight Song  21-1-1-2-3	S V	5	1 (2 w.)
4			Dove Cameron Say Hey  NEW ENTRY	S A	1	4
5	11		Ashley Monroe On to Something Good  11-5	S V	2	5
6	7		Phoebe Ryan Dead  12-7-6	S V	3	6
7	4		María Ólafsdóttir Lítil skref  1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-4-7	S V	10	1 (6 w.)
8	5		Stine Bramsen Karma Town  3-3-3-2-3-3-5-8	S V	8	2
9			Cozi Zuehlsdorff Overruled  NEW ENTRY	S A	1	9
10	6		All Time Low Kids in the Dark  11-4-4-4-6-10	S V	6	4
11	15		Krista Siegfrids On & Off  12-5-5-8-11-11-11-15-11	S V	9	5
12	8		Invader Girl Stuck on Me  2-2-2-3-5-5-8-12	S V	8	2
13	18		Billie Give Me the Knife  19-25-19-20-17-16-18-13	S V	8	13
14	9		Evan Vacker som du  12-8-6-9-14	S	5	6
15	13		Phoebe Ryan Mine  9-4-5-6-9-13-15	S V	7	4
16	12		Isa Don't Stop  6-5-6-7-8-12-16	S V	7	5
17	14		Kelly Clarkson In the Blue  20-9-7-10-10-14-17	S A	7	7
18	16		Megan & Liz All the Way  26-29-24-18-14-13-16-18	S A	8	13
19	10		Served Få meg til å le  10-9-7-10-19	S A	5	7
20	21		Erika Selin Break Me Up  6-4-4-6-8-15-19-21-20	S V	9	4
21	19		Carrie Underwood Little Toy Guns  30-24-19-17-19-21	S V	6	17
22			Ofelia I Will Meet You There  NEW ENTRY	S	1	22
23	27		Marion Ravn Like a Moth  28-24-24-27-23	S	5	23
24	22		Kelly Clarkson Let Your Tears Fall  16-17-15-18-20-22-24	S A	7	15
25	17		Alex Winston We Got Nothing  22-16-14-17-25	S A	5	14
26			Lila The Day You'll Find Me  13-10-13-17-28-x-28-29-x-26	S A	8	10
27	20		Tori Kelly Nobody Love  11-7-9-13-18-20-27	S V	7	7
28	23		Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir Í kvöld  18-16-24-16-13-12-15-23-28	S A	9	12
29			Vanbot Trooper  NEW ENTRY	S V	1	29
30	24		Kelly Clarkson War Paint  21-19-22-21-24-30	S A	6	19

Welcome Magnus!!

Chart for week 16 2015 (13 - 19 apr) Volume: 1340

5 (11) Ashley Monroe - On To Something Good (2 weeks)
17 (14) Kelly Clarkson - In The Blue (7 weeks, peak #7)
21 (19) Carrie Underwood - Little Toy Guns (6 weeks, peak #17)
24 (22) Kelly Clarkson - Let Your Tears Fall (7 weeks, peak #15)
30 (24) Kelly Clarkson - War Paint (6 weeks, peak #19)

Love these
Great to see Ashley so high, OTSG is such a great song, so catchy and sooooo feel good.
You're a Carrie fan too? That's great, Little Toy Guns is brilliant, really nice song.
Love the Kelly entries, are you liking the new album? I think it's great and the three songs on your chart are some of the highlights.

Thank you! Yeah, OTSG is definitely great and probably hasn't reached its peak yet.

About Carrie, no can't really say I'm a proper fan since most of her songs have failed to enter my chart (her biggest hit is So Small from 2007, reached #11). Little Toys Guns is probably my subjective favorite among all of the songs by her that I've heard.

I like the new Kelly Clarkson album and about half of the songs from it charted. However, I like some of her previous albums more and even Heartbeat Song, despite spending three weeks at #1 in the beginning of the year, is pretty far behind her very best.

[Storyteller]

Welcome Magnus!!

Chart for week 16 2015 (13 - 19 apr) Volume: 1340

5 (11) Ashley Monroe - On To Something Good (2 weeks)
17 (14) Kelly Clarkson - In The Blue (7 weeks, peak #7)
21 (19) Carrie Underwood - Little Toy Guns (6 weeks, peak #17)
24 (22) Kelly Clarkson - Let Your Tears Fall (7 weeks, peak #15)
30 (24) Kelly Clarkson - War Paint (6 weeks, peak #19)

Love these
Great to see Ashley so high, OTSG is such a great song, so catchy and sooooo feel good.
You're a Carrie fan too? That's great, Little Toy Guns is brilliant, really nice song.
Love the Kelly entries, are you liking the new album? I think it's great and the three songs on your chart are some of the highlights.

Thank you! Yeah, OTSG is definitely great and probably hasn't reached its peak yet.

About Carrie, no can't really say I'm a proper fan since most of her songs have failed to enter my chart (her biggest hit is So Small from 2007, reached #11). Little Toys Guns is probably my subjective favorite among all of the songs by her that I've heard.

I like the new Kelly Clarkson album and about half of the songs from it charted. However, I like some of her previous albums more and even Heartbeat Song, despite spending three weeks at #1 in the beginning of the year, is pretty far behind her very best.

Good, I hope it peaks at #1

Carrie is one of my favourite singers, It’s nice you like some of her songs. Glad you like Little Toy Guns.

Yeah I prefer most of Kelly’s older album to Piece By Piece tbh, the only album’s I consider it better than are My December & her debut.

[Magnus]

Good, I hope it peaks at #1

Unfortunately, as much as I like the song this most likely won't happen, at least not in the near future. Its timing kinda sucks because I'm completely nuts about my current #1 (possibly my favorite song in almost two years) and Stine Bramsen's ballad at #2 is also very strong. Anything is possible later on though. It could reach number 3 or 4 now, fall off the chart and then make a comeback in January and reach #1 in the first week of March 2016. Stranger things have happened.

Yeah I prefer most of Kelly’s older album to Piece By Piece tbh, the only album’s I consider it better than are My December & her debut.

This is pretty much exactly how I feel too! Assuming we completely exclude the Christmas album.

[Tansike]

Welcome to the PC section

17 (14) Kelly Clarkson - In The Blue (7 weeks, peak #7)
21 (19) Carrie Underwood - Little Toy Guns (6 weeks, peak #17)
24 (22) Kelly Clarkson - Let Your Tears Fall (7 weeks, peak #15)
30 (24) Kelly Clarkson - War Paint (6 weeks, peak #19)

I like these four songs this week, glad to see them doing well

Need to check out that Invader Girl song, i really liked "Starting Fires"

[Magnus]

Welcome to the PC section

17 (14) Kelly Clarkson - In The Blue (7 weeks, peak #7)
21 (19) Carrie Underwood - Little Toy Guns (6 weeks, peak #17)
24 (22) Kelly Clarkson - Let Your Tears Fall (7 weeks, peak #15)
30 (24) Kelly Clarkson - War Paint (6 weeks, peak #19)

I like these four songs this week, glad to see them doing well

Need to check out that Invader Girl song, i really liked "Starting Fires"

Thank you for commenting! Yeah, if you liked the brilliant Starting Fires you will probably like Stuck On Me too! It's available in Spotify and on YouTube (with a video, but the song itself is much better than the video).

[luckyONE]

I definitely enjoy all of those tracks by Kelly Clarkson.

[Magnus]

I definitely enjoy all of those tracks by Kelly Clarkson.

Thank you for commenting! You probably would have really liked the chart for week 43 2011; Kelly then had 17 of the 30 spots, including the entire top 8! Compared to that the new album is a bit of a flop, but I still like it.

[JSparksFan]

I just listened to your #1 and it's nice. I guess it's what most people would call cheesy, but I can definitely appreciate it.

It's good to see the Kelly songs, but my favourite song on your chart has to be "Little Toy Guns".

1 (1) Dove Cameron - As Long As I Have You (2 weeks)
17 (14) Kelly Clarkson - In The Blue (7 weeks, peak #7)
21 (19) Carrie Underwood - Little Toy Guns (6 weeks, peak #17)
24 (22) Kelly Clarkson - Let Your Tears Fall (7 weeks, peak #15)
30 (24) Kelly Clarkson - War Paint (6 weeks, peak #19)

[Magnus]

I just listened to your #1 and it's nice. I guess it's what most people would call cheesy, but I can definitely appreciate it.

Thanks for commenting, and for listening to my current #1! Yeah, I understand that people would call it that and I don't mind. I realize the target audience for it (the TV show and the album/soundtrack it's from) is far away from most people who hang out here (including myself). But I often like cheesy! Back in 2005-2006 I even had six #1 songs by someone named Brie . (And most of those songs I still like.)

[Magnus]

NOTE: This has been updated to have the 2021 look. See note above.

Top 30 for Week 17 2015 (20th – 26th April)

Chart #: 799, Volume: 1,381

Now with streaming links:
S = Spotify, V = YouTube Video, A = Audio, L = Live performance

TW	LW		Artist, Title, Chart Run	Listen	Weeks	Peak
1	1		Dove Cameron As Long As I Have You  1-1-1	S A	3	1 (3 w.)
2	2		Stine Bramsen Not What I Came For  3-2-2	S	3	2
3	5		Ashley Monroe On to Something Good  11-5-3	S V	3	3
4	4		Dove Cameron Say Hey  4-4	S A	2	4
5	6		Phoebe Ryan Dead  12-7-6-5	S V	4	5
6	3		Rachel Platten Fight Song  21-1-1-2-3-6	S V	6	1 (2 w.)
7	8		Stine Bramsen Karma Town  3-3-3-2-3-3-5-8-7	S V	9	2
8			Maddie & Tae Fly  NEW ENTRY	S V	1	8
9	9		Cozi Zuehlsdorff Overruled  9-9	S A	2	9
10	7		María Ólafsdóttir Lítil skref  1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-4-7-10	S V	11	1 (6 w.)
11			Emilie Esther Undiscovered  NEW ENTRY	S V	1	11
12	13		Billie Give Me the Knife  19-25-19-20-17-16-18-13-12	S V	9	12
13	11		Krista Siegfrids On & Off  12-5-5-8-11-11-11-15-11-13	S V	10	5
14			Moa Morfeldt You and I  NEW ENTRY	S V	1	14
15	10		All Time Low Kids in the Dark  11-4-4-4-6-10-15	S V	7	4
16	12		Invader Girl Stuck on Me  2-2-2-3-5-5-8-12-16	S V	9	2
17			Ida LaFontaine Shut Up and Kiss Me  NEW ENTRY	S V	1	17
18			Carly Rae Jepsen All That  NEW ENTRY	S A	1	18
19			Avril Lavigne Fly  NEW ENTRY	S V	1	19
20			Dove Cameron Count Me In  ...13-17-25-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-20	S V	12	5
21	21		Carrie Underwood Little Toy Guns  30-24-19-17-19-21-21	S V	7	17
22			Sophie Elise Love Like That  NEW ENTRY	S V	1	22
23	20		Erika Selin Break Me Up  6-4-4-6-8-15-19-21-20-23	S V	10	4
24			Becky G Lovin' So Hard  NEW ENTRY	S V	1	24
25	18		Megan & Liz All the Way  26-29-24-18-14-13-16-18-25	S A	9	13
26	17		Kelly Clarkson In the Blue  20-9-7-10-10-14-17-26	S A	8	7
27			Stefanie Scott I Don't Wanna Let You Go  NEW ENTRY	S A	1	27
28	22		Ofelia I Will Meet You There  22-28	S	2	22
29	16		Isa Don't Stop  6-5-6-7-8-12-16-29	S V	8	5
30			Sabrina Carpenter Two Young Hearts  NEW ENTRY	S A	1	30

Dropouts:
-- (14) Evan Vacker som du (5 weeks, peak #6) S
-- (15) Phoebe Ryan Mine (7 weeks, peak #4) S V
-- (19) Served Få meg til å le (5 weeks, peak #7) S A
-- (23) Marion Ravn Like A Moth (5 weeks) S
-- (24) Kelly Clarkson Let Your Tears Fall (7 weeks, peak #15) S A
-- (25) Alex Winston We Got Nothing (5 weeks, peak #14) S A
-- (26) Lila The Day You'll Find Me (8 weeks, peak #10) S A
-- (27) Tori Kelly Nobody Love (7 weeks, peak #7) S V
-- (28) Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir Í kvöld (9 weeks, peak #12) S A
-- (29) Vanbot Trooper (1 week) S V
-- (30) Kelly Clarkson War Paint (6 weeks, peak #19) S A

[Alicepotter]

First of all: You make your charts since 2000? WOW!

Idk much of your singles chart. But Fly is cute!

[Magnus]

First of all: You make your charts since 2000? WOW!

Idk much of your singles chart. But Fly is cute!

Yeah, I started to log all my listening on 19th December 1999, with software I developed myself, and turned that data into a weekly chart in June 2000. I had always been interested in charts but found it too much work to create weekly charts "manually"; in 1993-1999 I only did end of year charts with just 10 positions.

I like Fly (I assume you mean the Avril one ), although it feels a bit "under-produced" for my taste. If the entire song sounded like the bridge it would for sure have been a top 10 hit, now it probably won't reach the top 10 and may already have peaked.

[Tansike]

Good entries for Carly Rae Jepsen and Avril Lavigne this week

[Storyteller]

Great to see In To Something Good is still doing great so close to #1.
Nice seeing Little Toy Guns still in there, it's a great song.

[Magnus]

Great to see In To Something Good is still doing great so close to #1.
Nice seeing Little Toy Guns still in there, it's a great song.

It's close to #2 (closer than I thought it would be a week ago), but not close to #1. There is likely a bigger gap in score between #1 and #2 than between #2 and #30. Little Toys Guns has really been underplayed ever since I first started listening to it. Unless I find a bunch of new very good songs very soon it will probably reach the upper half of the chart for the first time next week!

[Storyteller]

Great to see In To Something Good is still doing great so close to #1.
Nice seeing Little Toy Guns still in there, it's a great song.

It's close to #2 (closer than I thought it would be a week ago), but not close to #1. There is likely a bigger gap in score between #1 and #2 than between #2 and #30. Little Toys Guns has really been underplayed ever since I first started listening to it. Unless I find a bunch of new very good songs very soon it will probably reach the upper half of the chart for the first time next week!

That's ok, #2 is still amazing
Glad to hear that Lityle Toy Guns might move up a bit next week.

[Magnus]

NOTE: This has been updated to have the 2021 look. See note above.

Top 30 for Week 18 2015 (27th April – 3rd May)

Chart #: 800, Volume: 1,211

TW	LW		Artist, Title, Chart Run	Listen	Weeks	Peak
1	1		Dove Cameron As Long As I Have You  1-1-1-1	S A	4	1 (4 w.)
2	3		Ashley Monroe On to Something Good  11-5-3-2	S V	4	2
3	2		Stine Bramsen Not What I Came For  3-2-2-3	S	4	2
4			Allie Gonino Mazes  NEW ENTRY	S	1	4
5	4		Dove Cameron Say Hey  4-4-5	S A	3	4
6	5		Phoebe Ryan Dead  12-7-6-5-6	S V	5	5
7	8		Maddie & Tae Fly  8-7	S V	2	7
8	7		Stine Bramsen Karma Town  3-3-3-2-3-3-5-8-7-8	S V	10	2
9	14		Moa Morfeldt You and I  14-9	S V	2	9
10	21		Carrie Underwood Little Toy Guns  30-24-19-17-19-21-21-10	S V	8	10
11	17		Ida LaFontaine Shut Up and Kiss Me  17-11	S V	2	11
12	11		Emilie Esther Undiscovered  11-12	S V	2	11
13	9		Cozi Zuehlsdorff Overruled  9-9-13	S A	3	9
14	6		Rachel Platten Fight Song  21-1-1-2-3-6-14	S V	7	1 (2 w.)
15	10		María Ólafsdóttir Lítil skref  1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-4-7-10-15	S V	12	1 (6 w.)
16	20		Dove Cameron Count Me In  ...17-25-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-20-16	S V	13	5
17	22		Sophie Elise Love Like That  22-17	S V	2	17
18	12		Billie Give Me the Knife  19-25-19-20-17-16-18-13-12-18	S V	10	12
19	30		Sabrina Carpenter Two Young Hearts  30-19	S A	2	19
20	18		Carly Rae Jepsen All That  18-20	S A	2	18
21	13		Krista Siegfrids On & Off  12-5-5-8-11-11-11-15-11-13-21	S V	11	5
22	19		Avril Lavigne Fly  19-22	S V	2	19
23	16		Invader Girl Stuck on Me  2-2-2-3-5-5-8-12-16-23	S V	10	2
24	24		Becky G Lovin' So Hard  24-24	S V	2	24
25			All Time Low Old Scars / Future Hearts  NEW ENTRY	S A	1	25
26	23		Erika Selin Break Me Up  6-4-4-6-8-15-19-21-20-23-26	S V	11	4
27			Maria Hazell Killing All My Darlings  NEW ENTRY	S V	1	27
28			All Time Low Runaways  NEW ENTRY	S A	1	28
29	25		Megan & Liz All the Way  26-29-24-18-14-13-16-18-25-29	S A	10	13
30			All Time Low The Edge of Tonight  NEW ENTRY	S A	1	30

Milestone reached: 800 charts since the beginning! 3502 songs have been seen on the chart, with 205 songs reaching the top spot. There are five new entries on this week's chart, one of which was very hot at the beginning of the week and enters at #4. On To Something Good reaches #2 on its 4th week and Little Toy Guns finally cracks the top 10 on its 8th week!

Dropouts:
-- (15) All Time Low Kids In The Dark (7 weeks, peak #4) S V
-- (26) Kelly Clarkson In The Blue (8 weeks, peak #7) S A
-- (27) Stefanie Scott I Don't Wanna Let You Go (1 week) S A
-- (28) Ofelia I Will Meet You There (2 weeks, peak #22) S
-- (29) Isa Don't Stop (8 weeks, peak #5) S V

[Tansike]

Good to see the climb for Carrie's "Little Toy Guns", it's a great song

[Magnus]

Good to see the climb for Carrie's "Little Toy Guns", it's a great song

Thanks for commenting! I don't know why it took me song long to really appreciate this song. Positive comments from people here probably helped to make it finally happen. It's very rare that it takes 8 weeks for a song to become a top 10 hit on my chart; usually if a song doesn't enter in the top 10 or quickly climbs there, it will never be.

[Storyteller]

2 (3) Ashley Monroe – On To Something Good (4 weeks) S V
7 (8) Maddie & Tae – Fly S V
10 (21) Carrie Underwood – Little Toy Guns (8 weeks) S V
22 (19) Avril Lavigne – Fly V

Great to see Fly by Maddie & Tae It’s great, Have you heard Girl In A Country Song?
OTSN still at #2 Glad to see you’re still loving it.

[Magnus]

2 (3) Ashley Monroe – On To Something Good (4 weeks) S V
7 (8) Maddie & Tae – Fly S V
10 (21) Carrie Underwood – Little Toy Guns (8 weeks) S V
22 (19) Avril Lavigne – Fly V

Great to see Fly by Maddie & Tae It’s great, Have you heard Girl In A Country Song?
OTSN still at #2 Glad to see you’re still loving it.

Yeah, Girl In A Country Song charted last year, reached #25 the last week of November. That was/is a fun song and it might have become a bigger hit if I had discovered it last summer when it was released. Fly is so different but I really like the sound.