Year-End Review 2018 - 10 - 7

10 – 7

		international	note
10		no success	Luke Sital-Singh – Killing me Points: 1914.4 Peak: #1 (1) Weeks: 30 Album: Time is a riddle Airplay: #8 Chart Debut: December 30, 2017 First week at #1: March 3, 2018 Writer(s): Luke Sital-Singh Producer(s): Luke Sital-Singh, Tommy McLaughlin British singer-songwriter Luke Sital-Singh really can celebrate his success on my chart. “Killing me” isn’t only his highest ranked song in this review it is also his first Top 10 hit in a year-end review. Since I started charting him with his debut album and his 2017 follow up he reached for four times the top spot. “Killing me” is from his 2017 album “Time is a riddle” which had two #1 hits so far.
9		no success	Kate Voegele – Bad bad drug Points: 1917.3 Peak: #2 Weeks: 29 Album: Canyonlands Airplay: #7 Chart Debut: January 13, 2018 First week at #2: March 10, 2018 Writer(s): Kate Voegele Producer(s): Tim Lauer, Jim McGorman, Kate Voegele Last year Anouk rocked my chart and in the end she had three songs within my year-end Top 10. This year Kate Voegele did the same. She placed two songs from her “Canyonlands” album in my Top 10 and her non-album single “Shoot this arrow”. “Bad bad drug” had become the first song which hadn’t peaked at #1 in my year-end Top 10. That’s absolutely great. 2018 had been definitely her year on my chart.
8		no success	Taylor Swift – I did something bad Points: 2132.9 Peak: #1 (3) Weeks: 28 Album: Reputation Airplay: #9 Chart Debut: June 16, 2018 First week at #1: July 21, 2018 Writer(s): Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback Producer(s): Max Martin, Shellback For me it all started with her song “Love story”. This song had been the first song by her I listened to in phase I hardly listened to music. Since this time several things changed, but although she left her country roots behind she still has multiple hits on my chart. “I did something bad” is a song from her “Reputation” album which has never been released as a regular single. Therefor this song wasn’t represented well on personal charts. This didn’t bother me and so it reached #1 for three weeks during summer 2018.
7		no success	LANY – Thru these tears Points: 2145.8 Peak: #1 (4) Weeks: 22 (still charting) Album: Malibu nights Airplay: #15 Chart Debut: July 28, 2018 First week at #1: August 11, 2018 Writer(s): Paul Klein, Jacob Goss, Alexandra Yatchenko [Sasha Sloan], Henry Allen Producer(s): LANY, Mike Crossey, King Henry This part of my chart definitely shows that I give a s**t on what are the big hits. Sure I’m still charting songs which are really big, but most of my songs in my year-end Top 10 are relatively unknown. Also mostly unknown are the US indie pop band LANY. I’ve charted them before their breakout in 2018, but in my eyes “Thru these tears” is their best song so far. Four weeks at #1 shows that this band is going to be an important factor on my chart.