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[sabre14]

"Lay Low" made the top 10!

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Good section!

[trustypepper]

Lay Low, Something in the Water, and Night Changes. <3

[bboat11]

LOVE LOVE LOVE "Lay Low", "Something In The Water", and "Better Than You Left Me"!!! I didn't see any of them coming either; I can't believe I forgot about them.

A hoot and a half, huh? I see you borrowed my expression from the Reba DZ thread! ;)

Also, top 5 prediction:

5) Going Out Like That - Reba
4) God Made Girls - RaeLyn
3) I Got The Boy - Jana Kramer
2) Love Me Like You Mean It - Kelsea Ballerini
1) Good Love Is Hard To Find - Queen

[Sean]

Yes Reba! Get that top 5 finish!!! <3

So excited for the rest of this!!! :)

[trebor]

Huge songs in the Top 10! Great finish for the country songs and 1D!  :)

[.indulgecountry]

The first two of the Top 5! The last three will come soon. ;)

5) "Going Out Like That" - Reba McEntire
Peak: #1 (2 weeks)



"Going Out Like That" is so full of energy and fun from any angle you examine it from. The production is modern and catchy and Reba sells the hell out of it like only she can with a great vocal performance. It reminded me of like an even better version of "Turn On the Radio" (a song that I also loved a lot). Very strong and appropriate comeback single of sorts, and I'm glad that it at least did moderately well on the charts and that I heard it plenty on the radio during its run. It's too bad it couldn't have been a big #1 hit, but it at least had the pleasure of doing so on my chart.

04) "God Made Girls" - RaeLynn
Peak: #1 (3 weeks)



"God Made Girls" is one of the best debut singles I've heard in the past couple years and I love everything about it. What surprised me most is that I thought RaeLynn was awful on The Voice and then I heard this track for the first time and I was like "wait a minute..." The chorus is absolutely perfect melodically and vocally and the production throughout the song is just beautiful (it's quite organic and country at heart but with a modern edge). The inflections/twang of her voice are really enjoyable here, much different than the harshness I remember from when she was on The Voice, and the whole feel of the song gives off a youthful, fun vibe that just fits RaeLynn so well. I'm still really bitter that this one stalled out shy of the Top 15 when it was selling so well and that her label didn't have an album ready to go when it did. I need that record in my life asap. :'(



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[trustypepper]

God Made Girls yas yas!

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I do kinda like "Going Out Like That" minus the autotune (it's there) so I kinda like it. I have nothing nice to say about Raelynn or her singing abilities or the lyrics but I'll refrain myself from saying anything more.

[fearlessarrow]

I also like "God Made Girls"!

And Reba :)

[bboat11]

Oh my God, so far my top 5 prediction is 40% correct!!!

[.indulgecountry]

3) "Good Love Is Hard to Find" - Sara Evans
Peak: #1 (2 weeks)



"Good Love Is Hard to Find" was my favorite track off Slow Me Down, so naturally I had to chart it when faced with the dilemma that Sara Evans wouldn't be putting out any singles over the course of 2015. The instrumentation on the track, which starts off with that absolutely beautiful dobro intro, is definitely the first thing that really grabbed me about it. It's one of the "countrier" and more organic-leaning production treatments on the album, which has a lot of songs with a modern spin to them. The use of the dobro (and mandolin) is just a work of art. Beyond that, Sara Evans' vocal performance is amazing on it and the melody and lyrics are very catchy. There's a real brightness to the whole track from Sara's vocal to the way it's produced to the lyrical content. It is an incredibly tight and all-around perfect country tune, imo.




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The Top 2 are all that's left! ;)

[bboat11]

Dagnabbit!!! I was wrong about your #1!

Also, the instrument in the intro is a dobro. But the song totally has mandolin too! The dobro is the more prominent instrument, but mandolin can be heard plucking around up high during the chorus with the dobro still sliding around in the same range as the intro melody. 1:50 is a good example of where the mandolin comes through clearly as a lead-in to the 2nd chorus :)

#themoreyouknow

[.indulgecountry]

Jan 22, 2016 20:17:10 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Dagnabbit!!! I was wrong about your #1!

Also, the instrument in the intro is a dobro. But the song totally has mandolin too! The dobro is the more prominent instrument, but mandolin can be heard plucking around up high during the chorus with the dobro still sliding around in the same range as the intro melody. 1:50 is a good example of where the mandolin comes through clearly as a lead-in to the 2nd chorus :)

#themoreyouknow

Thank you! I really can never tell the difference between the two. I can usually recognize about any other instrument, but those two I can never tell which is which, lol. I'm glad to have that cleared up though. <3

[popstop]

I hope it's Jana at #1.

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Jana vs Kelsea either way I win cause I love both songs.

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Another Sara Evans sighting.

[bboat11]

Jan 22, 2016 20:21:04 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

Jan 22, 2016 20:17:10 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Dagnabbit!!! I was wrong about your #1!

Also, the instrument in the intro is a dobro. But the song totally has mandolin too! The dobro is the more prominent instrument, but mandolin can be heard plucking around up high during the chorus with the dobro still sliding around in the same range as the intro melody. 1:50 is a good example of where the mandolin comes through clearly as a lead-in to the 2nd chorus :)

#themoreyouknow

Thank you! I really can never tell the difference between the two. I can usually recognize about any other instrument, but those two I can never tell which is which, lol. I'm glad to have that cleared up though. <3

Haha yeah, I get it. For awhile I struggled with mandolin, dobro, and banjo. Like, when hearing a song with all 3 the differences would be pretty obvious, but then if I only heard one of them in a song my brain would seize up and freak out.

I finally realized that dobro has a slide like a steel guitar. So if it sounds kinda like a banjo but is sliding around like a steel, it is a dobro. Haha that realization finally eliminated all my confusion :)

[.indulgecountry]

These two were the biggest hits of the year for me, easily. It looks like the majority correctly predicted my #1, though it was still fairly close between these two. ;)

2) "Love Me Like You Mean It" - Kelsea Ballerini
Peak: #1 (3 weeks)



"Love Me Like You Mean It" is my favorite debut hit of 2014 ("God Made Girls" ain't far behind) and it really hit its stride for me in the spring of 2015. The melody of this is one of the most infectious things to hit country radio in the past year, hands down. It is also one of the "countriest" elements of the song and help, at least for me, define it as not being a pop song. I heard it a lot of times on the radio where the pop elements in the production had been largely swapped out for fiddles and acoustic instruments and it really showed how country the root of the song really is. I like the original rendition as much if not more though and I just think it's insatiably catchy. It's not hard to see why it connected so well and defied the odds for new female artists in the genre. Kelsea's vocal is just totally fun and enjoyable, too and the lyrics make a nice, inoffensive statement of independence.

01) "I Got the Boy" - Jana Kramer
Peak: #1 (3 weeks)



"I Got the Boy" is a song that I swear I love a little more every time I listen to it. I just never tire of it at all and still get excited every time I hear that beautiful dobro riff (much like with "Good Love Is Hard to Find"). The instrumentation of this track is literally holy country perfection and the song is lyrically and vocally fantastic too. It was a great example of a song being interpreted in such a way that the artist gives off the feel that they wrote it for themselves, which Jana has said as much about picking the Jamie Lynn Spears-penned track for herself. Seeing such a neo-traditional release become a big success, and for a female artist no less, was such a wonderful treat, and if it had taken off sooner and not been held back by her gender and an unwillingness of country radio to play this style of music today, I believe it had a great chance to go all the way to the top. It was still a huge win for Jana Kramer and hearing it so much on the radio was blissful. I love her music, but this is easily her best song for me and one of the very best things I've heard in the past few years.



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And with that, my countdown comes to an end. Thanks for following y'all and excusing my slowness (I wanted to finish this a lot sooner than I ended up doing, lol).

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#2.

Great countdown.

[trustypepper]

Great top 2 and great list overall!

Nice job, indulge!

[fearlessarrow]

Love your top 2 :)  Great to see "I Got The Boy" finish at #1!!!

Great countdown!!!

[bboat11]

Your work ain't done yet! Now you owe us 4 weeks of 2016 charts :kii: 8D

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Jan 25, 2016 18:56:41 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Your work ain't done yet! Now you owe us 4 weeks of 2016 charts :kii: 8D

Be nice on him, the man can only do so much.

[.indulgecountry]

Justin Bieber holds it down at the top for a second week to start off the new year how he ended the last one. Adele breaks into the Top 5 with her mega-smash "Hello," while Kacey Musgraves and Darius Rucker score Top 10 placements. Ashley Monroe rockets into the Top 20 with "The Blade" in her eleventh week on, while Tim McGraw slides into the threshold as well. Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande continue their quick starts as they bound into the Top 30, and Cassadee Pope and George Strait also score their first Top 30 hits. Carrie Underwood and Janet Jackson break into the Top 40, while "Sorry" moves into the Top 50. Two new entries this week come from Ashley Campbell and Brothers Osborne.

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Chart Dated January 3, 2016: Week 1



LW  TW  WK  PK       Song                                Artist

01  01  18  01    "What Do You Mean?" - Justin Bieber *2 WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE*
02  02  18  02    "Wildest Dreams" - Taylor Swift
04  03  31  03    "I'm Comin' Over" - Chris Young      
03  04  25  03    "Burning House" - Cam         
06  05  11  05    "Hello" - Adele                 
08  06  20  06    "Dibs" - Kelsea Ballerini                 
09  07  24  07    "Crazy Too" - Lucy Angel                          
11  08  18  08    "Dime Store Cowgirl" - Kacey Musgraves                               
05  09  19  05    "Gonna" - Blake Shelton                    
12  10  26  10    "Southern Style" - Darius Rucker                   

14  11  18  11    "Until They Don't Love You" - Reba McEntire                      
18  12  15  12    "I Cheated on You" - Terri Clark                           
19  13  22  13    "Move On" - Clare Dunn                      
07  14  19  01    "Smoke Break" - Carrie Underwood *1 WEEK AT NUMBER ONE*                  
10  15  27  01    "Stitches" - Shawn Mendes *1 WEEK AT NUMBER ONE*             
17  16  40  01    "I Got the Boy" - Jana Kramer *3 WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE*                              
20  17  22  17    "Little Bit of You" - Chase Bryant                     
23  18  11  18    "The Blade" - Ashley Monroe                                  
21  19  17  19    "Top of the World" - Tim McGraw                               
13  20  20  12    "Live Forever" - The Band Perry                                

22  21  16  21    "El Perdón (Forgiveness)" - Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias                            
15  22  27  01    "Me and Johnny Cash" - Rainey Qualley *1 WEEK AT NUMBER ONE*                                 
16  23  26  13    "Back It Up" - Prince Royce f/ Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull                   
26  24  24  24    "Rumors" - Jake Miller                              
31  25  09  25    "Confident" - Demi Lovato                              
29  26  18  26    "Dance Like We're Making Love" - Ciara                                         
30  27  10  27    "Like I Do" - Erica Nicole f/ Jamie O'Neal                                                 
35  28  07  28    "Focus" - Ariana Grande                                  
34  29  11  29    "Cold Beer Conversation" - George Strait                     
33  30  15  30    "I Am Invincible" - Cassadee Pope                          

24  31  22  18    "Nothin' Like You" - Dan + Shay                        
37  32  09  22    "Pain Killer" - Little Big Town                
38  33  08  33    "Shut Up and Fish" - Maddie & Tae                          
27  34  21  01    "Drag Me Down" - One Direction *1 WEEK AT NUMBER ONE*                  
36  35  13  35    "Next Boyfriend" - Lauren Alaina                               
25  36  28  10    "35 MPH Town" - Toby Keith                          
42  37  03  37    "Heartbeat" - Carrie Underwood                       
41  38  07  38    "BURNITUP!" - Janet Jackson f/ Missy Elliott                            
39  39  14  39    "Night's on Fire" - David Nail                          
40  40  12  40    "Friend Zone" - Danielle Bradbery  

28  41  05  28    "My Christmas Caroline" - Kellie Pickler             
43  42  18  42    "When Love Hurts" - JoJo     
48  43  06  43    "Perfect" - One Direction         
44  44  13  44    "Train Track" - Ashley Gearing             
45  45  11  45    "Crazy Over Me" - Dylan Scott                 
46  46  14  46    "Yup" - Easton Corbin            
49  47  06  47    "Real Men Love Jesus" - Michael Ray  
51  48  06  48    "Same Old Love" - Selena Gomez 
58  49  02  49    "Sorry" - Justin Bieber 
50  50  09  50    "Boy and a Girl Thing" - Mo Pitney       

52  51  09  51    "My Father's Daughter" - Jewel f/ Dolly Parton    
53  52  08  52    "Mind Reader" - Dustin Lynch  
54  53  07  53    "I Met a Girl" - William Michael Morgan         
55  54  04  54    "But You Like Country Music" - Sunny Sweeney f/ Brennen Leigh 
56  55  04  55    "Freaks Like Me" - Joe Nichols
59  56  02  56    "By the Way" - Lindsay Ell
57  57  04  57    "Southern Belle" - Scotty McCreery 
60  58  02  58    "Body on Me" - Rita Ora f/ Chris Brown
ne  59  01  59    "Remembering" - Ashley Campbell *DEBUT*
ne  60  01  60    "Stay a Little Longer" - Brothers Osborne *DEBUT*

Dropping Off:
32 - "21" - Hunter Hayes (Peak: 22 Weeks: 26)
47 - "Back Together" - Robin Thicke f/ Nicki Minaj (Peak: 36  Weeks: 15)

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Nice to see Confident and Heartbeat advancing.

[fearlessarrow]

Great top 10 and great chart!!!

I love seeing "The Blade" move up nicely! It's such a beautiful song :)  

Also can you add me to your tag list from the next chart?

[Unhinged]

Love that No. 1 .indulgecountry!

[.indulgecountry]

Taylor Swift scores her second Number One hit on my chart with the beautiful "Wildest Dreams," which is easily my favorite from the 1989 record, dethroning the Biebs after a 2-week stay with "What Do You Mean?" Chris Young inches up into the runner-up position, with Adele advancing to the Top 3 and Kelsea Ballerini scoring her second Top 5 hit. Reba McEntire cracks the Top 10 with "Until They Don't Love You" while a number of songs break into the Top 20, led by Demi Lovato's big 9-point leap for "Confident." Carrie Underwood's second Storyteller single continues it's hot start as "Heartbeat" jumps into the Top 30 in only its fourth week on the chart and Justin Bieber brings another song into the Top 40 with "Sorry." A lot of songs lower on the chart take advantage of a bit of house-cleaning this week and have their best movements in weeks, while also freeing up the chart space to welcome four new songs from the likes of Shawn Mendes, Craig Morgan, Tinashe, and Rascal Flatts. 

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Chart Dated January 10, 2016: Week 2



LW  TW  WK  PK       Song                                Artist

02  01  19  01    "Wildest Dreams" - Taylor Swift *1 WEEK AT NUMBER ONE* 
03  02  32  02    "I'm Comin' Over" - Chris Young
05  03  12  03    "Hello" - Adele      
01  04  19  01    "What Do You Mean?" - Justin Bieber *2 WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE*          
06  05  21  05    "Dibs" - Kelsea Ballerini                 
07  06  25  06    "Crazy Too" - Lucy Angel                 
04  07  26  03    "Burning House" - Cam                            
08  08  19  08    "Dime Store Cowgirl" - Kacey Musgraves                               
10  09  27  09    "Southern Style" - Darius Rucker                    
11  10  19  10    "Until They Don't Love You" - Reba McEntire                   

12  11  16  11    "I Cheated on You" - Terri Clark                      
13  12  23  12    "Move On" - Clare Dunn                           
18  13  12  13    "The Blade" - Ashley Monroe                      
17  14  23  14    "Little Bit of You" - Chase Bryant                   
21  15  17  15    "El Perdón (Forgiveness)" - Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias             
25  16  10  16    "Confident" - Demi Lovato                              
09  17  20  05    "Gonna" - Blake Shelton                    
16  18  41  01    "I Got the Boy" - Jana Kramer *3 WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE*                                    
24  19  25  19    "Rumors" - Jake Miller                               
15  20  28  01    "Stitches" - Shawn Mendes *1 WEEK AT NUMBER ONE*                                

27  21  11  21    "Like I Do" - Erica Nicole f/ Jamie O'Neal                           
26  22  19  22    "Dance Like We're Making Love" - Ciara                                 
14  23  20  01    "Smoke Break" - Carrie Underwood *1 WEEK AT NUMBER ONE*                   
19  24  18  19    "Top of the World" - Tim McGraw                                
28  25  08  25    "Focus" - Ariana Grande                               
29  26  12  26    "Cold Beer Conversation" - George Strait                                        
20  27  21  12    "Live Forever" - The Band Perry                                                    
22  28  28  01    "Me and Johnny Cash" - Rainey Qualley *1 WEEK AT NUMBER ONE*                                  
37  29  04  29    "Heartbeat" - Carrie Underwood                     
30  30  16  30    "I Am Invincible" - Cassadee Pope                          

32  31  10  31    "Pain Killer" - Little Big Town                      
23  32  27  13    "Back It Up" - Prince Royce f/ Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull                  
33  33  09  33    "Shut Up and Fish" - Maddie & Tae                          
35  34  14  34    "Next Boyfriend" - Lauren Alaina               
43  35  07  35    "Perfect" - One Direction                              
38  36  08  36    "BURNITUP!" - Janet Jackson f/ Missy Elliott                        
39  37  15  37    "Night's on Fire" - David Nail                       
40  38  13  38    "Friend Zone" - Danielle Bradbery                            
42  39  19  39    "When Love Hurts" - JoJo                          
49  40  03  40    "Sorry" - Justin Bieber  

47  41  07  41    "Real Men Love Jesus" - Michael Ray              
48  42  07  42    "Same Old Love" - Selena Gomez     
44  43  14  43    "Train Track" - Ashley Gearing          
45  44  12  44    "Crazy Over Me" - Dylan Scott            
46  45  15  45    "Yup" - Easton Corbin                 
52  46  09  46    "Mind Reader" - Dustin Lynch            
50  47  10  47    "Boy and a Girl Thing" - Mo Pitney 
51  48  10  48    "My Father's Daughter" - Jewel f/ Dolly Parton 
58  49  03  49    "Body on Me" - Rita Ora f/ Chris Brown 
54  50  05  50    "But You Like Country Music" - Sunny Sweeney f/ Brennen Leigh       

53  51  08  51    "I Met a Girl" - William Michael Morgan     
59  52  02  52    "Remembering" - Ashley Campbell  
56  53  03  53    "By the Way" - Lindsay Ell        
55  54  05  54    "Freaks Like Me" - Joe Nichols 
57  55  05  55    "Southern Belle" - Scotty McCreery
ne  56  01  56    "I Know What You Did Last Summer" - Shawn Mendes f/ Camila Cabello *DEBUT*
60  57  02  57    "Stay a Little Longer" - Brothers Osborne  
ne  58  01  58    "When I'm Gone" - Craig Morgan *DEBUT* 
ne  59  01  59    "Player" - Tinashe f/ Chris Brown *DEBUT*
ne  60  01  60    "I Like the Sound of That" - Rascal Flatts *DEBUT*

Dropping Off:
31 - "Nothin' Like You" - Dan + Shay (Peak: 18  Weeks: 22)
34 - "Drag Me Down" - One Direction (Peak: 01  Weeks: 21)
36 - "35 MPH Town" - Toby Keith (Peak: 10  Weeks: 28)
41 - "My Christmas Caroline" - Kellie Pickler (Peak: 28  Weeks: 05)

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[trustypepper]

Happy to see Wildest Dreams reach the top! One of her strongest singles from 1989 in my opinion.

Nice chart!