Taiga's Top 40 (May 11, 2024)

[Taiga]

These past few weeks got me wondering how, while I don't really listen to the radio anymore, I essentially keep my listening habits akin to what radio stations do with their playlists.
That led me to conceptualize my weekly charts as if I actually had a radio station, and I thought... why not, lol?

Hopefully I'll have time to keep this thread updated once a week, unlike my previous attempts on having a weekly chart lol, but here it goes!
If you wanna be tagged, let me know!

Current week
May 11, 2024 (Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us)

Archive
April 2024
April 20, 2024 (Taylor Swift - Fortnight f/ Post Malone)
April 27, 2024 (Twenty One Pilots - Overcompensate)

May 2024
May 4, 2024 (Twenty One Pilots - Backslide)

[Taiga]

Songs Added
Taylor Swift - Fortnight f/ Post Malone
Taylor Swift - Florida!!! f/ Florence + The Machine
Taylor Swift - Guilty as Sin
Taylor Swift - Cassandra
Taylor Swift - So High School
Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso
Dua Lipa - Illusion
Benson Boone - Slow It Down
Billie Eilish - my strange addiction

Taylor's Poets Department had an album bomb of sorts, even if it came late in the tracking week (I decided to follow Saturday to Friday because odds are I'm most likely to have time to update this thread on weekends, lol). The newest singles by Dua Lipa, Sabrina Carpenter and Benson Boone were also added, while Billie Eilish gets an add for a random 2019 track (why not?) to drum up hype for her upcoming album.

On Power Rotation
Taylor Swift - Fortnight f/ Post Malone
Taylor Swift - Florida!!! f/ Florence + The Machine
Twenty One Pilots - Overcompensate
Twenty One Pilots - Next Semester
Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
Incubus - Drive
Luke Hemmings - Shake
Kali Uchis - telepatía

TTPD gets its lead and the Florence feature on power rotation right away, joining the pilots' two released tracks for the upcoming album Clancy; plus, Luke's lead single for boy, Benson's current US Pop #1 hit, and two older tracks by Kali Uchis and... Incubus. (While I named this thread "Taiga's Top 40", you may notice that, if I actually ran a radio station, odds are it'd be an Alt-leaning Hot AC instead of Top 40, but for the sake of listing my top 40 songs for every week, you get the reason behind the title, lol.)

The Top 40 (total streams: 511)

LW	TW	Artist	Song	Spins	Bullet	Share
--	01	TAYLOR SWIFT	Fortnight f/ Post Malone	13	+13	2.54
--	02	TAYLOR SWIFT	Florida!!! f/ Florence + The Machine	13	+13	2.54
--	03	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Next Semester	13	+8	2.54
--	04	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Overcompensate	12	+7	2.35
--	05	TAYLOR SWIFT	Guilty as Sin?	12	+12	2.35
--	06	BILLIE EILISH	Six Feet Under	10	+6	1.95
--	07	INCUBUS	Drive	9	+8	1.76
--	08	LUKE HEMMINGS	Shakes	9	-2	1.76
--	09	BENSON BOONE	Beautiful Things	9	-4	1.76
--	10	KALI UCHIS	telepatía	8	+2	1.57
--	11	SABRINA CARPENTER	Eyes Wide Open	8	+7	1.57
--	12	SABRINA CARPENTER	Espresso	8	+7	1.57
--	13	TAYLOR SWIFT	hoax	7	+7	1.36
--	14	OLIVIA RODRIGO	deja vu	7	+1	1.36
--	15	TEDDY SWIMS	Lose Control	7	-2	1.36
--	16	HOZIER	Too Sweet	7	-3	1.36
--	17	LANA DEL REY	Chemtrails Over the Country Club	7	+2	1.36
--	18	ALESSIA CARA	October	6	+1	1.17
--	19	BILLIE EILISH	Therefore I Am	6	=	1.17
--	20	BEYONCÉ	LEVII'S JEANS f/ Post Malone	6	-3	1.17
--	21	DJO	End of Beginning	6	-8	1.17
--	22	TAYLOR SWIFT	So High School	6	+6	1.17
--	23	DUA LIPA	Illusion	6	+5	1.17
--	24	SABRINA CARPENTER	Sue Me	6	+3	1.17
--	25	BEYONCÉ	TYRANT f/ Dolly Parton	6	-1	1.17
--	26	DOJA CAT	Say So	5	-2	0.98
--	27	TAYLOR SWIFT	Cassandra	5	+5	0.98
--	28	BILLIE EILISH	my strange addiction	5	+5	0.98
--	29	POST MALONE	Chemical	5	+1	0.98
--	30	BENSON BOONE	Slow It Down	5	+4	0.98
--	31	DUA LIPA	Training Season	5	-2	0.98
--	32	DUA LIPA	Love Again	5	=	0.98
--	33	FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS	I Just Wanna Shine	4	-1	0.78
--	34	EMPIRE OF THE SUN	We Are the People	4	-7	0.78
--	35	EMPIRE OF THE SUN	Walking on a Dream	4	+4	0.78
--	36	ARIANA GRANDE	we can't be friends (wait for your love)	4	+4	0.78
--	37	LIL NAS X	MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)	4	-1	0.78
--	38	DASHA	Austin	4	-2	0.78
--	39	FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS	Out of My League (Chill AF)	4	-2	0.78
--	40	FALL OUT BOY	Immortals	4	-1	0.78

Recurrents and Purges
Given that this is the first week of the chart, I'll use this section to explain my criteria for what is a "recurrent", what gets "purged" and how either case can chart again (i.e. get back to "current" status):

Songs are moved to recurrency once they get two consecutive weeks of negative bullets if they are below #10 (Djo's End of Beginning is losing spins for two consecutive weeks and is below #10, so if not purged, it'll likely be recurrent next week). Songs get purged if they are removed from my Spotify library at any time during the current tracking week and are not re-added by the time the chart is posted (Wallows' Your Apartment is no longer on my playlist as of tonight, so even though it got 10 spins this tracking week, it wasn't allowed to chart and would therefore be considered purged).

To be reinstated as a current track, it needs to have a positive bullet for two consecutive weeks (like Doja Cat's Say So) or have a large bullet gain within the tracking week (such as Taylor Swift's hoax). Other situations may be examined case-by-case; and unlike actual radio stations, there are plenty of older songs that have current status here because I simply didn't knew them before, so they are therefore on their initial run (see Incubus' Drive as an example).

Tags
It's been, what, 5 years or so since my last attempt at a weekly chart? lol
I honestly have no idea as to whom may it interest anymore, but I'll tag my followers. If you want to be removed, it's fine, just tell me below! Also, if you want to be tagged, do comment!
willapted33 SabrinaFan sportytheartist

[SabrinaFan]

I don't usually follow personal charts on here, but this chart is serving such taste! I loved seeing "October" on here, and "Sue Me" and "Eyes Wide Open" are some great Sabrina tracks. Some of the older songs on here are some cool underrated picks as well; "Telepatía," "My Strange Addiction," "I Just Wanna Shine" and especially "Walking on a Dream" are all amazing! "Austin" and "End of Beginning" are also some of my current faves; the latter of which being front-runner for my favorite song of the year so far. As someone who still watches radio charts very closely, I love the idea of conceptualizing your chart as a radio station! Thanks for the tag, this chart has me intrigued and I will definitely be following it! 

[sportytheartist]

This is such a cool concept! I’d like to be tagged to this 👍

[Taiga]

Well, first off, thanks to all the listeners who tuned into our countdown last weekend! The radio deejay work feels less lonely when the audience chirps in, lol. Without further ado, let's dive in this week's list!

Songs Added
Taylor Swift - I Look in People's Windows
Taylor Swift - How Did It End?
Current Joys - New Flesh
Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
Big Red Machine - Renegade f/ Taylor Swift
Billie Eilish - all the good girls go to hell

Taylor's Poets Department scores two new adds this week, while Billie Eilish (like last week) gets another older track added, sprinkled with a Paramore track my boyfriend introduced me to. (The deejay accepts requests and recommendations, btw!) We also see newcomers Chappell Roan and Current Joys, plus Taylor's feature on Aaron Dessner's and Justin Vernon's side project Big Red Machine, getting their first hits here at TAIGA-FM!

On Power Rotation
Taylor Swift - Fortnight f/ Post Malone
Twenty One Pilots - Overcompensate
Twenty One Pilots - Next Semester
Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
Incubus - Drive
Hozier - Too Sweet
Luke Hemmings - Shakes
Kali Uchis - telepatía

As the 8th day effect settles in for the TTPD tracks, we see Fortnight remaining on power, while Florida!!! is moved to medium power. Most of the other songs from last week remain, with Hozier's Too Sweet replacing the Taylor-Florence collab. Now, before we head into the Top 40 proper, the talking heads here at the station have some announcements, since it's hard to keep a (fictitious, but still, lol) show on air:

- The charts now follow Mediabase's standard formatting of "ARTIST Track f/ Features", just to keep it nicer-looking, lol.
- In order to keep data consistent with the building charts I've been doing to test this model since the beginning of the year, the tracking week is now Saturday to Friday. Last week's countdown has been updated with that timeframe's data.
- Last but not least, we now have a "Share" column! Since the audience of the tracks is essentially me (and occasionally my boyfriend), to simulate audience data, I chose a simple metric. "Share" takes the song's plays for the week and divide it by the number of plays across all tracks I've listened for the week, to give it in a percentage (this week's ). That also makes it easier to compare airplay for weeks with way different total streams; case in point, this week's got almost 100 streams more than last week, lol. Last week's chart has also been updated to reflect it.

The Top 40 (total streams: 607)

LW	TW	Artist	Song	Spins	Bullet	Share
04	01	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Overcompensate	23	+11	3.79
01	02	TAYLOR SWIFT	Fortnight f/ Post Malone	16	+3	2.63
16	03	HOZIER	Too Sweet	13	+7	2.14
09	04	BENSON BOONE	Beautiful Things	13	+5	2.14
03	05	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Next Semester	13	=	2.14
08	06	LUKE HEMMINGS	Shakes	12	+3	1.98
10	07	KALI UCHIS	telepatía	11	+3	1.81
07	08	INCUBUS	Drive	11	+2	1.81
--	09	CURRENT JOYS	New Flesh	11	+11	1.81
--	10	BIG RED MACHINE	Renegade f/ Taylor Swift	10	+10	1.65
05	11	TAYLOR SWIFT	Guilty as Sin?	10	-2	1.65
02	12	TAYLOR SWIFT	Florida!!! f/ Florence + The Machine	10	-3	1.65
--	13	TAYLOR SWIFT	I Look in People's Windows	9	+8	1.48
34	14	EMPIRE OF THE SUN	We Are the People	9	+5	1.48
15	15	BENSON BOONE	Slow It Down	9	+4	1.48
--	16	TAYLOR SWIFT	How Did It End?	9	+8	1.48
27	17	TAYLOR SWIFT	Cassandra	9	+4	1.48
22	18	TAYLOR SWIFT	So High School	9	+3	1.48
15	19	TEDDY SWIMS	Lose Control	9	+2	1.48
35	20	EMPIRE OF THE SUN	Walking on a Dream	8	+4	1.32
21	21	DJO	End of Beginning	8	+2	1.32
14	22	OLIVIA RODRIGO	deja vu	8	+1	1.32
--	23	PARAMORE	Decode	7	+5	1.15
12	24	SABRINA CARPENTER	Espresso	7	-1	1.15
37	25	LIL NAS X	MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)	6	+2	0.99
26	26	DOJA CAT	Say So	6	+1	0.99
15	27	ALESSIA CARA	October	6	=	0.99
--	28	BRING ME THE HORIZON	Follow You	6	+5	0.99
39	29	FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS	Out of My League (Chill AF)	6	+2	0.99
17	30	LANA DEL REY	Chemtrails Over the Country Club	6	-1	0.99
--	31	CHAPPELL ROAN	Good Luck, Babe!	5	+5	0.82
--	32	BILLIE EILISH	all the good girls go to hell	5	+5	0.82
--	33	LIL NAS X	Industry Baby f/ Jack Harlow	5	+5	0.82
33	34	FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS	I Just Wanna Shine	5	+1	0.82
28	35	BILLIE EILISH	my strange addiction	5	=	0.82
23	36	DUA LIPA	Illusion	5	-1	0.82
11	37	SABRINA CARPENTER	Eyes Wide Open	5	-3	0.82
38	38	DASHA	Austin	4	=	0.65
36	39	ARIANA GRANDE	we can't be friends (wait for your love)	4	=	0.65
19	40	BILLIE EILISH	Therefore I Am	4	-2	0.65

Recurrents
Post Malone - Chemical (peak: #1 for 3 weeks)
Beyoncé - LEVII'S JEANS f/ Post Malone (peak: #7)
Beyoncé - TYRANT f/ Dolly Parton (peak: #8)

Purges
Dua Lipa - Training Season (peak: #6)
Dua Lipa - Love Again (peak: #8)
Fall Out Boy - Immortals (peak: #13)
Sabrina Carpenter - Sue Me (peak: #6)
Taylor Swift - hoax (peak: #13)

As you may notice, purges are fairly more common than going into recurrent status, given that both my playlist and my charts are generally too volatile for a song to actually be recurrent, lol. That's not a knock on the songs that get purged, though; as you see, many of them were top 10 peaks.

That concludes this week's recap! Again, I'm happy to see that y'all liked this mock radio of sorts; it takes hours to input the data in the table format (I started this post 3 hours ago, lol) due to the technical limitations, but this makes it all worth it. Hope to see you again here next week!

Tags
willapted33 SabrinaFan sportytheartist

[SabrinaFan]

Just wanted to call into this week's show to say that the PD made an awesome pick to add "Renegade" this week lol. I still return to it a decent amount even though it unfortunately seems to be a less popular track in Taylor's discography. "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" is a great add too, that's one of my favorite Billie tracks.

Exciting to see "Walking on a Dream" make the second biggest jump on the chart and climb to top 20! Definitely rooting for that one. I was also inspired to check out "We Are the People," which I had heard of before (fun fact: there's a real life CHR that still plays both of these songs!), but I'd never listened to previously. I will admit I didn't really love it at first, as the first half sounds like he's kinda straining his voice imo. However, it turns into a really cool song in the second half, and I love the eerie/atmospheric vibe when the production shifts. "Walking on a Dream" will always be my fave though, and I also like "Aeiou" (their song from last year) more, but I could see myself returning to it (or if nothing else, I suppose I could invent my own "radio edit" which conveniently removes the first verse for me hahaha).

Super impressive you spend three hours making this, wow! Also, that's sweet that your boyfriend's listens get included in the audience stats haha.

[Taiga]

Apr 27, 2024 21:51:05 GMT -5 SabrinaFan said:

Just wanted to call into this week's show to say that the PD made an awesome pick to add "Renegade" this week lol. I still return to it a decent amount even though it unfortunately seems to be a less popular track in Taylor's discography. "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" is a great add too, that's one of my favorite Billie tracks.

Exciting to see "Walking on a Dream" make the second biggest jump on the chart and climb to top 20! Definitely rooting for that one. I was also inspired to check out "We Are the People," which I had heard of before (fun fact: there's a real life CHR that still plays both of these songs!), but I'd never listened to previously. I will admit I didn't really love it at first, as the first half sounds like he's kinda straining his voice imo. However, it turns into a really cool song in the second half, and I love the eerie/atmospheric vibe when the production shifts. "Walking on a Dream" will always be my fave though, and I also like "Aeiou" (their song from last year) more, but I could see myself returning to it (or if nothing else, I suppose I could invent my own "radio edit" which conveniently removes the first verse for me hahaha).

Super impressive you spend three hours making this, wow! Also, that's sweet that your boyfriend's listens get included in the audience stats haha.

We stumbled upon Renegade after it got on Spotify autoplay when evermore finished, back on the "an album a day" challenge the Swifties (aka my boyfriend, lol) were doing pre-TTPD release. I was marvelled at how it fitted perfectly with the album yet, as it's actually a Big Red Machine release, obviously it wasn't part of it. (Eventually, I found out who Big Red Machine were, then it all made sense, lol). It's only been a few days, and I might've just jinxed it now, but it may very well end up being one of my fave Taylor songs!

Wow, does Empire of the Sun really get spins on a US Pop radio station in 2024? We stan! lol
Jokes aside, I had heard of the band before, but their material started to click with me earlier this year, when one of my friends played We Are the People at one of their house parties. I wasn't even minding what was being played on at first, but when the second half kicked in, I knew I had to Shazam it so I could add to my Spotify playlist, lol. Two months later, as WATP neared its peak, I started to look for my second single of sorts, then came Walking on a Dream. By the way, thanks for the rec! I'll check AEIOU later; maybe it even gets added this week, haha.

I think it'd be wise for me to include him as co-PD given he's influenced plenty of my taste in music since we started dating (see "Swift, Taylor" above, lol). To be fair, it's a two-way street, since now he also likes a handful of my favourite artists, lol.

[SabrinaFan]

Apr 28, 2024 11:55:58 GMT -5 Taiga said:

We stumbled upon Renegade after it got on Spotify autoplay when evermore finished, back on the "an album a day" challenge the Swifties (aka my boyfriend, lol) were doing pre-TTPD release. I was marvelled at how it fitted perfectly with the album yet, as it's actually a Big Red Machine release, obviously it wasn't part of it. (Eventually, I found out who Big Red Machine were, then it all made sense, lol). It's only been a few days, and I might've just jinxed it now, but it may very well end up being one of my fave Taylor songs!

Wow, does Empire of the Sun really get spins on a US Pop radio station in 2024? We stan! lol
Jokes aside, I had heard of the band before, but their material started to click with me earlier this year, when one of my friends played We Are the People at one of their house parties. I wasn't even minding what was being played on at first, but when the second half kicked in, I knew I had to Shazam it so I could add to my Spotify playlist, lol. Two months later, as WATP neared its peak, I started to look for my second single of sorts, then came Walking on a Dream. By the way, thanks for the rec! I'll check AEIOU later; maybe it even gets added this week, haha.

I think it'd be wise for me to include him as co-PD given he's influenced plenty of my taste in music since we started dating (see "Swift, Taylor" above, lol). To be fair, it's a two-way street, since now he also likes a handful of my favourite artists, lol.

Oh, I'd forgotten all of these songs charting are ones you're discovering for the first time! Yeah, I love how well it fits with Evermore too. In fact, I'd say I like it a little better than a lot of the tracks on Evermore. "Long Story Short" is one of my faves from that album, and "Renegade" has a similar sound to me, which is why I enjoy it so much.

Yep haha. The station kind of marches to the beat of their own drum and has some really obscure throwbacks in rotation, but I've always thought it was cool that they still play both "Walking on a Dream" and "We Are the People."
That's really cool! I'd discovered them way back in 2016 when "Walking on a Dream" charted on pop radio due to being in that car commercial. I never checked anything else from them, although I did get into "Walking on a Dream" again a bit last year when "Aeiou" came out after their long hiatus from music.

Maybe he could be your MD (music director), since if I understand how the two roles work together correctly, the PD has most of the control over the station, but the MD has a say in suggesting songs that the station should add lol.

[Taiga]

Hello there, listeners! How'd your week go? Here at TAIGA-FM it was pretty busy, so let's get to our recap!

Songs Added
Twenty One Pilots - Backslide
Taylor Swift - Down Bad
SEB - seaside_demo
Alessia Cara - Sweet Dream
Billie Eilish - wish you were gay
Billie Eilish - idontwannabeyouanymore
Empire of the Sun - Changes
Dua Lipa - These Walls
Majid Jordan - Waves of Blue
Glass Animals - Heat Waves

Dua's new album score an early add, Taylor gets another one from TTPD, and Empire of the Sun had a new single out (a few weeks ago, but still, that's news to me lol). There are also a handful of 2021 Pop radio hits added, as do a couple of Billie's older tracks. (Fun fact: Heat Waves gets added because I originally charted the iann dior remix, which was the version my CHR played, lol. Incidentally, there's been a heat wave going on since last weekend.) 10 new adds means that at least a quarter of the chart is new this week!

On Power Rotation
Twenty One Pilots - Backslide
Twenty One Pilots - Overcompensate
Twenty One Pilots - Saturday
Incubus - Drive
Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
Empire of the Sun - We Are the People
Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
Big Red Machine - Renegade f/ Taylor Swift

I intentionally buried the lede on this week's hot shot debut, huh? Backslide, the new Pilots single, was released in last week's tracking window, but while the jury was still out back then, it got added on Sunday and went straight to #1, the second topper from Clancy (and the album's not even out yet, lol). The song also name-drops Saturday, which got a nice boost to break out of recurrency and reenter at #10. Back to power is We Are the People, this time with Walking on a Dream. Taylor lead single loses steam after a fortnight, but she's still here with her feature on Renegade. The Pilots' lead single (after being overcompensated last week), Beautiful Things (new peak in spins) and Drive (new chart peak) remain on power.

The Top 40 (total streams: 537)

LW	TW	Artist	Song	Spins	Bullet	Share
--	01	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Backslide	24	+24	4.47
01	02	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Overcompensate	19	-4	3.54
08	03	INCUBUS	Drive	17	+6	3.16
04	04	BENSON BOONE	Beautiful Things	14	+1	2.61
14	05	EMPIRE OF THE SUN	We Are the People	13	+4	2.42
20	06	EMPIRE OF THE SUN	Walking on a Dream	12	+4	2.23
10	07	BIG RED MACHINE	Renegade f/ Taylor Swift	11	+1	2.05
15	08	BENSON BOONE	Slow It Down	11	+2	2.05
09	09	CURRENT JOYS	New Flesh	11	=	2.05
--	10	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Saturday	11	+11	2.05
21	11	DJO	End of Beginning	10	+2	1.86
03	12	HOZIER	Too Sweet	10	-3	1.86
07	13	KALI UCHIS	telepatía	9	-2	1.67
22	14	OLIVIA RODRIGO	deja vu	9	+1	1.67
02	15	TAYLOR SWIFT	Fortnight f/ Post Malone	9	-7	1.67
23	16	PARAMORE	Decode	9	+2	1.67
05	17	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Next Semester	9	-4	1.67
27	18	ALESSIA CARA	October	8	+2	1.49
19	19	TEDDY SWIMS	Lose Control	8	-1	1.49
13	20	TAYLOR SWIFT	I Look in People's Windows	8	-1	1.49
11	21	TAYLOR SWIFT	Guilty as Sin?	7	-3	1.30
16	22	TAYLOR SWIFT	How Did It End?	7	-2	1.30
39	23	ARIANA GRANDE	we can't be friends (wait for your love)	6	+2	1.12
31	24	CHAPPELL ROAN	Good Luck, Babe!	6	+1	1.12
40	25	BILLIE EILISH	Therefore I Am	6	+2	1.12
--	26	SEB	seaside_demo	6	+6	1.12
--	27	ALESSIA CARA	Growing Pains	5	+1	0.93
36	28	DUA LIPA	Illusion	5	=	0.93
29	29	FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS	Out of My League (Chill AF)	5	-1	0.93
34	30	FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS	I Just Wanna Shine	5	=	0.93
32	31	BILLIE EILISH	all the good girls go to hell	5	=	0.93
--	32	TAYLOR SWIFT	Down Bad	5	+2	0.93
--	33	GLASS ANIMALS	Heat Waves	4	+4	0.75
--	34	ALESSIA CARA	Sweet Dream	4	+2	0.75
--	35	BILLIE EILISH	wish you were gay	4	+4	0.75
--	36	BILLIE EILISH	idontwannabeyouanymore	4	+4	0.75
--	37	MAJID JORDAN	Waves of Blue	4	+4	0.75
--	38	DUA LIPA	These Walls	4	+4	0.75
--	39	EMPIRE OF THE SUN	Changes	4	+4	0.75
18	40	TAYLOR SWIFT	So High School	4	-5	0.75

Recurrents
No recurrents this week.

Purges
Luke Hemmings - Shakes (peak: #3)
Taylor Swift - Florida!!! f/ Florence + The Machine (peak: #2)
Taylor Swift - Cassandra (peak: #17)
Doja Cat - Say So (second-run peak: #17)
Bring Me The Horizon - Follow You (peak: #28)
Lana del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club (peak: #17)
Billie Eilish - my strange addiction (peak: #28)
Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso (peak: #12)
Sabrina Carpenter - Eyes Wide Open (peak: #11)
Dasha - Austin (peak: #18)

Dropouts
Lil Nas X - MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)
Lil Nas X - Industry Baby f/ Jack Harlow

There's been plenty of changes to our station playlist this week... but the two Lil Nas X songs are still on rotation and haven't fulfilled the recurrent status, so they may chart again if inside the Top 40.

Tags
willapted33 SabrinaFan sportytheartist

[Taiga]

Hi everyone! We're back with our weekly countdown of the most-played songs here at TAIGA-FM. This week, much like on Spotify at large, we saw big numbers! Total streams for the past 7 days are the highest in almost 6 months (dating back to the week ending November 25, 2023). So, without further ado, let's recap, shall we?

Songs Added
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
Glass Animals - Youth
Doja Cat - Need to Know
Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Macklemore - Glorious f/ Skylar Grey
Post Malone - I Like You (A Happer Song) f/ Doja Cat
Royel Otis - Oysters in My Pocket
Billie Eilish - Bored
Justin Bieber - Ghost

The Kendrick-Drake beef, much like in real like, is very much one-sided: Not Like Us debuts straight at #1, while also sparking a renewed interest in K-Dot's back catalogue (see HUMBLE., charting again for the first time since 2018.) Speaking of catalogue hits, we have a couple of Doja Cat, Post Malone and Justin Bieber tracks that are brand new here; a Glass Animals fan favourite, the first Royel Otis entry and yet another Billie Eilish song round things up. And, of course, back to current news, A Bar Song (Tipsy) also marks the first add by Shaboozey and, as Hind's Hall is finally up on Spotify, to hold the tide while I waited, Macklemore is surely feeling Glorious.

On Power Rotation
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
Twenty One Pilots - Backslide
Twenty One Pilots - Saturday
Glass Animals - Youth
Glass Animals - Heat Waves
Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
Empire of the Sun - We Are the People
Benson Boone - Beautiful Things

In a week which pretty much every song seemed to be on power, we have plenty of "dual singles" of sorts, by Empire of the Sun, Glass Animals and, surely, Twenty One Pilots (who is going to tour here in January, by the way, so expect plenty of 'em for the remainder of the year, lol). As the heatwave forecast remains for the foreseeable future, expect Not Like Us to hold down the fort and, perhaps, Benson Boone to leave (unless the heat finally subsides, that is).

The Top 40 (total streams: 896)

LW	TW	Artist	Song	Spins	Bullet	Share
--	01	KENDRICK LAMAR	Not Like Us	26	+26	2.90
01	02	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Backslide	24	=
--	03	GLASS ANIMALS	Youth	23	+23
06	04	EMPIRE OF THE SUN	Walking on a Dream	21	+9
33	05	GLASS ANIMALS	Heat Waves	20	+16
05	06	EMPIRE OF THE SUN	We Are the People	19	+6
34	07	ALESSIA CARA	Sweet Dream	17	+13
04	08	BENSON BOONE	Beautiful Things	17	+3
10	09	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Saturday	17	+6
02	10	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Overcompensate	16	-3
35	11	BILLIE EILISH	wish you were gay	16	+12
--	12	DOJA CAT	Need to Know	15	+14
13	13	KALI UCHIS	telepatía	14	+5
18	14	ALESSIA CARA	October	14	+6
23	15	ARIANA GRANDE	we can't be friends (wait for your love)	14	+8
32	16	TAYLOR SWIFT	Down Bad	14	+9
37	17	MAJID JORDAN	Waves of Blue	14	+10
--	18	SHABOOZEY	A Bar Song (Tipsy)	14	+13
--	19	MACKLEMORE	Glorious f/ Skylar Grey	13	+11
36	20	BILLIE EILISH	idontwannabeyouanymore	13	+9
19	21	TEDDY SWIMS	Lose Control	13	+5
--	22	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Shy Away	13	+13
--	23	POST MALONE	I Like You (A Happier Song) f/ Doja Cat	13	+9
14	24	OLIVIA RODRIGO	deja vu	13	+4
--	25	ROYEL OTIS	Oysters in My Pocket	12	+12
38	26	DUA LIPA	These Walls	12	+8
24	27	CHAPPELL ROAN	Good Luck, Babe!	12	+6
--	28	BILLIE EILISH	Bored	12	+12
27	29	ALESSIA CARA	Growing Pains	12	+7
30	30	FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS	I Just Wanna Shine	11	+6
11	31	DJO	End of Beginning	11	+1
08	32	BENSON BOONE	Slow It Down	11	=
28	33	DUA LIPA	Illusion	11	+6
--	34	JUSTIN BIEBER	Ghost	11	+10
--	35	KENDRICK LAMAR	HUMBLE.	10	+10
09	36	CURRENT JOYS	New Flesh	10	-1
25	37	BILLIE EILISH	Therefore I Am	9	+3
12	38	HOZIER	Too Sweet	9	-1
21	39	TAYLOR SWIFT	Guilty as Sin?	9	+2
07	40	BIG RED MACHINE	Renegade f/ Taylor Swift	9	-2

Recurrents
Twenty One Pilots - Next Semester (peak: #3)

Purges
Incubus - Drive (peak: #3)
Taylor Swift - Fortnight f/ Post Malone (peak: #1 for a week)
Taylor Swift - I Look in People's Windows (peak: #13)
Taylor Swift - How Did It End? (peak: #16)
Taylor Swift - So High School (peak: #18)
Paramore - Decode (peak: #16)
SEB - seaside_demo (peak: #26)
Fitz and the Tantrums - Out of My League (Chill AF) [peak: #29]
Billie Eilish - all the good girls go to hell (peak: #31)
Empire of the Sun - Changes (peak: #39)

Once again, over a quarter of the chart wasn't here the week before, so there's plenty of turnover, eh? There's a great Taylor Swift purge, as most of the Tortured Poets tracks depart the rotation, joined by a couple of slow burners. There's also Next Semester, which gets sent to recurrent-land after dropping out of the top 40 altogether. Anyways, thanks for following us for another week. See ya!

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