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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 20, 2022 0:25:49 GMT -5
#12 Jason Blaine - Go With Me
Total: 95 Average: 10.56 Std Dev: 4.80 Team: CAN CLD's ThoughtHe has a very strong vocal in this song, and the melody is quite beautiful. I still prefer End Of The Rain, or his earlier country materials, which quite often has pleasant guitar production, but I'm also hoping to see him back on the chart.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 20, 2022 0:40:46 GMT -5
#11 Ward Thomas - Boomerang
Total: 90 Average: 10 Std Dev: 4.03 (5th Lowest) Team: Global CLD's ThoughtThis song was the first song I heard from this duo, and it has been on my playlist for quite a while. I love the energy and harmony in this song, and I slightly prefer this over It's Not Just Me, while this one feels less country than ITJM. They made an appearance on the US scene in the collab with Cam, so hoping to see their name on the US scene someday.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 20, 2022 0:47:53 GMT -5
I'm gonna pause here for the night. The below is our top 10! Each team has a different number of songs remaining, interestingly. Any surprises? Feel free to drop some predictions and comments!
TEX Bri Bagwell - Don't Call
Randall King - Can’t You Feel How That Sounds Triston Marez - Day Drinking
US Mira Goto - One Step Closer Brooke Lynn - Depends On The Friend Jenee Fleenor - Good Ol' Girls Jillian Cardarelli - Lipstick
CAN Andrew Hyatt - Hang Around Kind
Global Catherine McGrath - Just In Case Missy Lancaster - Heatwave
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 20, 2022 19:34:02 GMT -5
Funny how Fanny was almost in either everyone's bottom 5 or top 5, lol.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 20, 2022 22:42:49 GMT -5
#10 Bri Bagwell - Don't Call
Total: 84 Average: 9.33 Std Dev: 6.34 (4th Highest) Team: TEX ccarter1023 - 2.indulgecountry - 3recordyear - 3bboat11 - 7castleoblivion26 - 8 🌺CountryLineDancer - 11LBTrocks - 15tim - 15nathanalbright - 20There was a tie with 84 points, so the one with higher SD is leaving. I feel like many participants are familiar with Bri, despite her never being featured in a RD (except for the collab with Kylie). She is one of the few female "A-Listers" on Texas Regional Chart, along with Kylie Frey and maybe Ariel Hutchins. This was rather polarizing, and three participants placed it in their top 3, while nathanalbright got rid of their bottom spot. CLD's ThoughtI thought this would do better. I was familiar with Bri's name, but I never found any of her songs to be that appealing, until I encountered this song. I found her to be a good writer with songs like Heroes, but her melody delivery was rather weaker than, say Kylie Frey. But for this song, I love the production and the melody, as well as her writings. I'm hoping to find more songs by her that I like. I also want her to breakthrough with Kylie Frey to the mainstream scene.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 20, 2022 22:58:33 GMT -5
#9 Catherine McGrath - Just In Case
Total: 84 Average: 9.33 Std Dev: 4 (3rd Lowest) Team: Global CLD's ThoughtThis song has a pleasant instrument, and her vocal is pretty solid. I also love the chorus melody as well. Talk of This Town is a solid pop country album, and other songs that I like would be Lost In The Middle, Good At Love, and Good Goodbyes. I hope she would start releasing more music again.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 20, 2022 23:15:47 GMT -5
#8 Missy Lancaster - Heatwave
Total: 83 Average: 9.22 (3rd Highest) Std Dev: 6.51 Team: Global bboat11 - 2🌺CountryLineDancer - 2 castleoblivion26 - 5 nathanalbright - 5 LBTrocks - 6
tim - 13 ccarter1023 - 15 .indulgecountry - 16 recordyear - 19
One point above those 2 songs, Missy Lancaster is leaving, resulting Global Team to become the first one to exit this game. Like Imogen, Missy is an Aussie singer, and was a regular hit maker on Hot Country Chart by TMN. This was rather polarizing, with four top 5 rankings and two bottom 5 rankings. Missy sometimes plays as a lead singer in a band Southbound, a female country band, with Rachael Fahim. CLD's ThoughtMissy is definitely my favourite Australian country singer. I'm not sure how I did not include her in the first round. Piece Of Me is a great pop country album. Heatwave is a jam, and I love its melody and production (definitely better than the overrated pop song with the same title). I'm not too keen on the lyrics and music video, but given how much I like the melody and energy of the song, I can definitely close my eyes to those negative points.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 20, 2022 23:27:30 GMT -5
#7 Andrew Hyatt - Hang Around Kind
Total: 82 Average: 9.11 Std Dev: 4.99 Team: CAN CLD's ThoughtI'm glad this did decently well here. I wish this was released as a single, instead of I Needed That. Not as fantastic as Neverland, but this has very strong vocal and production. I have not found out which one of his songs to send to 2022 RD yet, as Close To You is kinda meh, maybe Four Good Years, if it's actually a single.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 21, 2022 0:29:50 GMT -5
#6 Triston Marez - Day Drinking
Total: 81 Average: 9 Std Dev: 4.27 Team: TEX LBTrocks - 3 🌺CountryLineDancer - 5tim - 5 recordyear - 8ccarter1023 - 10 bboat11 - 11castleoblivion26 - 11.indulgecountry - 11nathanalbright - 17The last song to miss the top 5 is Day Drinking by Triston Marez. This is from Triston's debut self-titled full album, released earlier this year. While I stopped following Regional Chart as closely as I used to, I believe this was not released as a single in Texas (correct me if I'm wrong here). He made the appearance on New Release RD with "Once In A Blue Moon". CLD's ThoughtI found Triston's recent materials to be pretty solid, including "Blue Moon" or the collab with Ronnie Dunn. Day Drinking is a catchy jam, and one of my favs from his uptempo outputs. Overall, his materials have traditional Texas country elements, but also have mainstream influence, which I found to be a nice mix. I would like Triston to go into mainstream, like Parker McCollum or Corey Kent, who moved onto mainstream from Texas Regional.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 21, 2022 0:47:14 GMT -5
I am pausing here. The top 5 became really interesting, with a huge dominance by Team US, only losing Bailey Zimmerman at #20. Also, the previous top 3 Mira Goto and Randall King are still around. Throw some predictions/comments before moving on to the final set of the reveal sometimes soon!
US Mira Goto - One Step Closer Brooke Lynn - Depends On The Friend Jenee Fleenor - Good Ol' Girls Jillian Cardarelli - Lipstick
TEX Randall King - Can’t You Feel How That Sounds
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Post by recordyear on Oct 21, 2022 8:28:42 GMT -5
Also thought Bri Bagwell and Catherine McGrath would do better. Heard good review of that particular album by BB and this song is solid. Saw recommendations of Catherine McGrath in swifties community a few years back, but her style is just faceless country pop. She has a song written by Liz Rose which I liked for a bit.
I don't like the melody when Missy Lancaster sings the title. It doesn't fit the natural pronunciation of the words and so sounds a bit annoying.
Day Drinking has a good groove and is well-sung, even though the repetition may be too much. He is from Torrez Music Group though (same as Gabe Lee) so it will be difficult for him to go mainstream.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 21, 2022 13:27:21 GMT -5
Shocked that Bri Bagwell missed the top 5. I am perplexed that she picked up a LAST PLACE rank. Really? Wow.
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Post by nathanalbright on Oct 21, 2022 23:43:26 GMT -5
I'm definitely intrigued by the polarized nature of this particular rd, all the more so since I wasn't really familiar with any of the artists on it personally, so these were all first impressions.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 24, 2022 19:42:25 GMT -5
#5 Brooke Lynn - Depends On The Friend
Total: 75 Average: 8.33 Std Dev: 4.36 Team: US
Kicking off the top 5 reveal with the exit of Brooke Lynn. This song received three top 5 and one bottom 5 rankings. Brooke is an independent artist from Minnesota, and only 5 songs are listed on Spotify, this song being the most streamed song.
CLD's ThoughtThis song has a pleasant vibe, and I love how the chorus rolls well with fun lyrics. However, I don't think she has distinct vocal, and did not find her other songs to be as memorable as this.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 24, 2022 20:06:49 GMT -5
#4 Mira Goto - One Step Closer
Total: 70 Average: 7.78 Std Dev: 5.52 Team: US CLD's ThoughtThis song has a very distinct dark mood, and I love its lyrics as well. When it comes to the melody and vocal arrangement, I prefer Nobody Warned Me, but overall, I'm glad that she received positive rankings with this tune.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 24, 2022 20:28:46 GMT -5
#3 Jillian Cardarelli - Lipstick
Total: 65 Average: 7.22 Std Dev: 4.15 Team: US CLD's ThoughtI fell in love this song when I accidentally stumble across this when I was searching for some other songs on YouTube. I like the slight word play around "Lipstick", and her vocal is quite strong. The melody is also very catchy, and overall, it is a solid pop country tune. While I'm glad that she has been releasing new music recently, none grabbed my attention like this tune.
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Post by LBTrocks on Oct 24, 2022 20:33:26 GMT -5
"One Step Closer" was a fantastic discovery! I loved the lyrics and dark melody. I actually liked her voice, too, which even surprised me a little lol.
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Post by recordyear on Oct 24, 2022 20:35:35 GMT -5
1 vs 6
Jenee Fleenor exceeded my expectation as I felt she would have quite a few tankers. Nice for her to be top 2 at least.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 24, 2022 20:51:36 GMT -5
#2 Jenee Fleenor - Good Ol' Girls
Total: 64 Average: 7.11
#1 Randall King - Can’t You Feel How That Sounds
Total: 34 Average: 3.78 Std Dev: 3.45 (2ne Lowest) Team: TEX CLD's Thought"Can’t You Feel How That Sounds" is my fav from his newest album. "Record High" was promoted as a single on Indicator Chart, but I definitely prefer slower songs for Randall, like I enjoyed Around Forever. Again, why does Corey Kent have to breakthrough from Texas scene, not Randall...? Good Ol' Girls has a fantastic fiddle production, unsurprisingly for Jenee. I discovered this song a while ago while watching Grady Smith, and I kinda overplayed back then. She does not have the best vocal imo, but other elements of this song are perfect.
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Post by LBTrocks on Oct 24, 2022 21:06:59 GMT -5
I loved the fiddle on "Good Ol' Girls" so much. Catchy tune. Randall King's music and vocals are absolutely heavenly, "Can't You Feel How That Sounds" is another great song from him and I'm happy to see it win this. Thanks for hosting 🌺CountryLineDancer!
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Oct 24, 2022 21:07:43 GMT -5
Closing Thought: Thanks y'all for participating in my personal RD. I'm hoping to make this an annual event, so hopefully you can make some discoveries next year as well. Last year from this series, Drew Parker tried on mainstream radio. I hope some figures on the list, especially from team Texas, can grab some mainstream attention. For those who have been quiet through this reveal, it is not too late to leave your final remark! Final Result:1. Randall King - Can’t You Feel How That Sounds (34) 2. Jenee Fleenor - Good Ol' Girls (64) 3. Jillian Cardarelli - Lipstick (65) 4. Mira Goto - One Step Closer (70) 5. Brooke Lynn - Depends On The Friend (75) 6. Triston Marez - Day Drinking (81) 7. Andrew Hyatt - Hang Around Kind (82) 8. Missy Lancaster - Heatwave (83) 9. Catherine McGrath - Just In Case (84) 10. Bri Bagwell - Don't Call (84) 11. Ward Thomas - Boomerang (90) 12. Jason Blaine - Go With Me (95) 13. Fanny Lumsden - Dig (102) 14. Aaron Goodvin - You Ain't (103) 15. Clay Hollis - Here I Go Again (105) 16. Ashlynne Vince - Home (116) 17. Imogen Clark - Collide (124) 18. Bailey Zimmerman - Change (133) 19. Jade Eagleson - Hackin' Darts (144) 20. Marcy Grace - El Camino (156) 1. US (407) 2. TEX (460) 3. Global (483) 4. CAN (540) Perfect Rankings: LBTrocks - 3 bboat11 - 3 tim - 3 nathanalbright - 3 ccarter1023 - 2 🌺CountryLineDancer - 2 castleoblivion26 - 2 .indulgecountry - 1 recordyear - 0
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 24, 2022 23:08:34 GMT -5
Superb top 2! It was in the opposite order of how I ranked them, but I am just such a sucker for the fiddle so that Jenee song was a lovely discovery. I didn't realize she did music of her own and only knew she played fiddle on lots of other people's work. The Randall King song just as easily could've been my #1 though so I'm happy he won. He really does need to break into the mainstream soon. He's way too good to stay an underrated niche Texan act. Cody Johnson making waves at the format gives me hope for Randall to maybe get a hit in the near future.
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Post by nathanalbright on Oct 25, 2022 0:08:19 GMT -5
There were a lot of good discoveries here, so thanks for doing this rankdown.
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Post by recordyear on Oct 25, 2022 8:51:20 GMT -5
Oops I am the only one who didn't get a perfect ranking.
5. This is a decent and cute song of personification of drinks. Would sound better with a more distinctive vocal though. 4. I quite like the increase in counts and the idea of violence against violence in the lyrics. The melody could be more suspenseful though. 3. Good pop rhythm in the chorus. 2. I actually knew she had some own music released but never listened to them. Agree that the fiddle is excellent. Plus I don't think her vocals are terrible (maybe she sounds too old for this playlist idk?) 1. Quite unsurprising. Not bad for a winner but it is quite a bit weaker than Around Forever or Shot Glass. In fact I found his new album a bit underwhelming.
Annual rankdowns are great timeframes. I'll see who you will find next year.
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Post by ccarter1023 on Oct 25, 2022 10:50:34 GMT -5
As always, thank you 🌺CountryLineDancer for bringing some great new gems into my world. I love discovering new music so thanks again!
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