End of Year Singles Chart on 1/1/2021

im glad Ferrari Horses is here

How is Riptide here? That song didn't chart at all in 2021. It hasn't charted since 2015.

My year-end rankings! :)

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Its interesting to see the interchangeable use of terms at times for Biggest Song (Streaming, Download and Physical), referred to here as Biggest Single. In the earlier News announcement they also note Most Streams and Best Selling (being Downloads, Physical & sausage-roll shaped sales).

The change towards 83.1% music consumption by streaming leads to some real chart throwbacks like Mr Brightside, the Shooting Guns and the Dancing Monkeys not going away (not discontinued or unavailable for purchase like the old 7" vinyl). The Baby Sharks are always lurking in the depths of the charts, or should I say the Shallows. Even though they do not really break through the 'bubbling under' category, it does add up to a lot over a year. I am wondering whether this also ignores ACR in some way, or whether newer long running songs are actually still penalised, but the perennial Christmas cheese just blasts through the older-track multiplier effect based on volume of streams alone for one month.

I hate ACR (like most of you in this chat room) when it prematurely curtails a good chart run. But some of these aforementioned tracks seem to be bomb proof when it comes to the year-end chart and are likely to reoccur every year. It does leave us older 'Pop Masters' yearning for the simpler times: when the Year-End chart (which was never been perfect by the way due to historical timing issues) generally reflected the hottest tracks of the times. If I had to now compile a list of the biggest hits of 2021 (Channel 5 series style) it would be polluted with a long list of old songs, with many of these charts (in 2022, 2023, plus) starting to repeat themselves.

I guess, just like ACR, its called progress... (Oh, I was being sarcastic).

best 10 songs on the year-end: (must all be debuts)
1. traitor - olivia rodrigo
2. drivers license - olivia rodrigo
3. good days - sza
4. obsessed with you - central cee
5. happier than ever - billie eilish
6. rapstar - polo g
7. good 4 u - olivia rodrigo
8. body - russ millions, tion wayne
9. kiss me more - doja cat, sza
10. latest trends - a1 x j1

worst 10 songs on the year-end: (again, debuts only)
1. without you - the kid laroi
2. talk about - rain radio, dj craig gorman
3. shivers - ed sheeran
4. didn’t know - tom zanetti
5. the business - tiesto
6. wellerman - nathan evans, 220 kid, billen ted
7. bad habits - ed sheeran
8. astronaut in the ocean - masked wolf
9. friday (dopamine re edit) - riton, nightcrawlers, mufasa & hypeman
10. let’s go home together - ella henderson, tom grennan

top 10 best songs of 2021 that didn’t make the list:
1. family ties - baby keem, kendrick lamar
2. heart attack - dave
3. coloratura - coldplay
4. canvas - polo g
5. cloud 9 - beach bunny
6. still runnin - lil baby, lil durk, meek mill
7. introvert - little simz
8. 2055 - sleepy hallow
9. off the grid - kanye west, fivio foreign, playboi carti
10. tombstone - rod wave

top 10 best albums of 2021:
1. sour - olivia rodrigo
2. we’re all alone in this together - dave
3. happier than ever - billie eilish
4. the voice of the heroes - lil baby & lil durk
5. sometimes i might be introvert - little simz
6. an evening with silk sonic - silk sonic
7. donda - kanye west
8. if i can’t have love, i want power - halsey
9. call me if you get lost - tyler, the creator
10. hall of fame (+ 2.0) - polo g

I guess we're not getting rid of Baby Shark do do do do do do anytime soon.

'Easy On Me' almost made the Top 10 despite being so late into the year, she did sell amazing though so I'm not as surprised.

#24 is easily my personal highlight. :)

Is this really 'Merry Christmas Everyone's 1st YE list? Glad 'Fairytale Of New York' made this list and good job Wham! and Mariah for making the Top 40 even with them being Christmas songs!

Disappointed that 'By Your Side' is so low here! I was expecting it to be a lot bigger. :/

'Levitating' did remarkably well here when you consider that it only peaked at #5 in the weekly charts!

It absolutely deserved the success it got though. :)

'Wellerman' as the biggest EDM hit of last year! 😍

So this is apparently the highest 'Mr Brightside' has ever appeared in a Chart Of The Year even though it was released in the early 2000's & isn't a Christmas song! 😂

God 2022 should have better music please.