Acclaimed Music Forums

Hello and welcome to instalment 19.37 of the Weekly Chart.

Noteworthy:

117 votes this week (+30)

New Number One for Foals

New entries for Leonard Cohen and fka Twigs

CHAMPS and Michael Kiwanuka kicked out

No-one moves to the Hall of Fame



The chart:


Hall of fame:


2019 Chart (number of weeks as n°1)

Cat Power : Woman (1)
Vampire Weekend : Harmony Hall (3)
Sharon Van Etten :Seventeen (3)
Lana Del Rey : hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it (1)
The Black Keys : Lo / Hi (3)
Vampire Weekend : This Life (5)
Lana Del Rey: Doin' Time (2)
The National: Rylan (2)
Kaiser Chiefs: Record Collection (1)
Bruce Springsteen: There Goes My Miracle (1)
Sufjan Stevens: Love Yourself (2)
Charli XCX / Christine & the Queens: Gone (1)
Purple Mountains: Margaritas At The Mall (4)
Lana Del Rey: Looking For America (1)
Tool: Fear Inoculum (1)
Sturgill Simpson: Sing Along (1)
Marika Hackman: I'm not where you are (3)
The HU: Юу вэ юу вэ юу?(1)
Foals: The Runner (1)

Great to have so many votes last week, let's keep that going

Probably too late for Borderline to be withdrawn (I've checked, it was released in April) but Rdwdbob should be credited with bringing that and It Might Be Time to the table, rather than me. Not a criticism as this chart's vital for introducing me to new music, here's hoping the votes keep rising!

mileswide wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:20 pm Probably too late for Borderline to be withdrawn (I've checked, it was released in April) but Rdwdbob should be credited with bringing that and It Might Be Time to the table, rather than me. Not a criticism as this chart's vital for introducing me to new music, here's hoping the votes keep rising!

Thanks Mileswide. Not that it really matters to me who gets the credit. I'm with you ... I follow this chart primarily to share and get turned on to new music. For example I really hadn't given Foals a chance until I heard 'The Runner'. I've subsequently downloaded both of their newest releases and will almost certainly find them in my 2019 top ten. Big thanks to whoever nominated that one!

Futurebirds - 'Trippin'

Anna Meredith - Ribbons
Lucy Dacus - Fool's Gold

Rdwdbob wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 3:04 pm Thanks Mileswide. Not that it really matters to me who gets the credit. I'm with you ... I follow this chart primarily to share and get turned on to new music. For example I really hadn't given Foals a chance until I heard 'The Runner'. I've subsequently downloaded both of their newest releases and will almost certainly find them in my 2019 top ten. Big thanks to whoever nominated that one!

It's done you a service by switching you on to Foals alone! They're responsible for some of the best guitar music this decade for me, their 2010 album Total Life Forever at the very least will be high in my EOD list and In Degrees off Everything Not Saved Part 1 should be in my EOY top 5 songs

That's made me think- I don't know if this is what happens every year but it might be worth having a Best of 2019 Weekly Chart at the end of this year. We could either vote on the Hall of Fame entries/weekly #1s or everyone nominates their favourite discoveries from 2019's WC, then we choose the best 10.

I take it back if it's a daft idea or if it'll end up in more work for TheLastEnemy but what do people reckon?

So pleased my nomination made it to the top after some hairy moments (they almost got kicked out several times). Finally a great rocker which is liked by the crowd.
Now to the Hall of Fame

My nomination for this week : a little French psych-rock band from Toulouse I never heard of before, but this track is great : Karkara - Proxima Centaury

mileswide wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:10 pm

Rdwdbob wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 3:04 pm Thanks Mileswide. Not that it really matters to me who gets the credit. I'm with you ... I follow this chart primarily to share and get turned on to new music. For example I really hadn't given Foals a chance until I heard 'The Runner'. I've subsequently downloaded both of their newest releases and will almost certainly find them in my 2019 top ten. Big thanks to whoever nominated that one!

It's done you a service by switching you on to Foals alone! They're responsible for some of the best guitar music this decade for me, their 2010 album Total Life Forever at the very least will be high in my EOD list and In Degrees off Everything Not Saved Part 1 should be in my EOY top 5 songs

That's made me think- I don't know if this is what happens every year but it might be worth having a Best of 2019 Weekly Chart at the end of this year. We could either vote on the Hall of Fame entries/weekly #1s or everyone nominates their favourite discoveries from 2019's WC, then we choose the best 10.

I take it back if it's a daft idea or if it'll end up in more work for TheLastEnemy but what do people reckon?

I kinda like the idea of taking all of the Hall of Fame entries for the year and having everyone rank them in order of their favorites to determine a definitive AMF Weekly Chart end of year Top 10.

Haim -'Now I'm In It'

Rdwdbob wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 3:01 pm

I kinda like the idea of taking all of the Hall of Fame entries for the year and having everyone rank them in order of their favorites to determine a definitive AMF Weekly Chart end of year Top 10.

I actually suggested that in 2018 I think, to no great enthusiasm. But opinions change and you seem to have a bit more following. Happy with a top 10 that way too

I was thinking about suggesting something similar myself, so am happy to host it. I will give some thought to how best to work it. Always the option to do a similar thing for previous years.

Noumoucounda - Yewala (the album was released this October 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpn7NlXYz_w

King Princess - "If You Think It's Love"

White Lies - Hurt My Heart

Firmly approve of the Hall of Fame poll plans!

Agnostic Front - Spray Painted Walls

Ozzy Osbourne - Under The Graveyard

No more nominations please. I would like plenty more votes though (preferably not for Borderline as it shouldn't be there).