Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Wrapping It Up: June, Mid Year Standings and Summer Songs Kickoff

June has already come and gone, and July is already starting to take shape (wow that was fast). That means it's time to run down the top 20 highest scorers of the the past month (the past 4 weeks), the top 20 highest scorers of the first three weeks of the 2014 Summer Songs Competition and the top 40 highest scorers of the first 6 months of 2014.

Summer Songs (First 3 Weeks) & June 2014 Chart Toppers
Leading off the month of June 2014, Kiesza's "Hideaway" took first place with a solid 198.26 points. While that's a bit off the track's 200 score during the month of May 2014, that's still an incredible hold at #1, given the fact that it beat out the month's #2 ranking song by a mere 0.04 points (the smallest gap between monthly tracks ranked at numbers 1 and 2). Through the third week of the 2014 Summer Songs competition, Kiesza's "Hideaway" ranks second (swapping spots with the track that took #2 for the overall month of June. For the full year of 2014, Kiesza's "Hideaway" ranks at #38 with 398.36 points. At this rate, the track should finish with a final total north of 1000. It'll reach 500 by mid July.

In a fairly tight second place position, Sanna Nielsen's Euovision entry "Undo" scooped up 198.22. The track (which just took a second frame atop the Hot 50) is headed for a massive finish (though it currently ranks just outside the top 40 for 2014 as a year so far) by the end of its run. As the Celine Dion inspired track continues to roar within the Hot 50's upper reaches, it comfortably leads the 2014 Summer Songs competition (besting Kiesza's "Hideaway" after a tie that occurred during week 2) through the annual season's third week. With a possible 3rd week at #1 just right around the corner, "Undo" should wind up as one of summer 2014's biggest performers (it has already set several airplay records).
In a distant third place, Coldplay's "A Sky Full of Stars" brought in just over 186.25 points, down significantly from the second place
song (Sanna Nielsen's "Undo" scored 12 points more). So what brought "A Sky Full of Stars" way down? It's record slip in the final week of June. On the chart dated June 26th, "A Sky Full of Stars" crashed 3-9, which set the record for the biggest drop within the top 10 (a 6 position drop). For the year to date, the track ranks at #39 with 367 points (which is fairly strong given the track's short run of 8 weeks). Unfortunately, the track is likely to drop out of the top 20 when the monthly July rankings pull through. With "Magic" also dropping quickly and "Midnight" capping off at an underwhelming #31 peak, don't expect to see much more from Coldplay throughout the rest of the year.

In a strong 4th place, Iggy Azalea's breakthrough smash single "Fancy (feat. Charli XCX)" wound up with an astonishing 182.5 point total. That brings its overall haul to 469 points, which ranks 26th for the year to date. Through the first 3 weeks of the 2014 Summer Songs competition, "Fancy" racks up a strong 137 points, enough to rank #4 behind Coldplay's "A Sky Full of Stars", Kiesza's "Hideaway" and Sanna Nielsen's "Undo" (which rank at numbers 3, 2 and 1 respectively). At the rate that the song is growing, it's likely to cap off with just over 800 points, which could propel it into the top 20 for the entire year.


Rounding out the top 5, OneRepublic's "Love Runs Out" ended June 2014 with 179 points, which narrowly squeezes in between Iggy Azalea's 182 point scooping debut ("Fancy") at #4 and Clean Bandit's 175 point grabbing chart debut ("Rather Be"). While OneRepublic's previously released single, "Counting Stars", capped off as the all time best performing track on CDS Music Chart (it's actually still on the chart as of June 26th), "Love Runs Out" will be lucky to scrape together 900 points. Why? Mainly because the track has slipped fairly quickly, and should rapidly descend the chart. The track ranks at #35 for the year so far, but I don't see it rising any higher than that when the year is all said and done.

2014 Front Runners
For 2014 as a whole, OneRepublic's 2 week #1 single "Counting Stars" comfortably leads with a massive 1130 points (1508 overall), up 90 points from its biggest competitor. Additionally, the track was recently crowned the all time best performing track on CDS Music Chart. At this point, the track is nearly guaranteed to end within the top 5 of 2014. Even more surprisingly, the track is still on the Hot 50, while 5 out of the other 9 tracks in the top 10 of 2014 are already off the chart, while only 1 of the 4 remaining still ranks within the chart's top 20 (Clean Bandit's "Rather Be", which bounds 7-4 on this week's chart). It's going to be a brutal competition for a top 5 slot is all I'm going to say.

Surprisingly, Katy Perry's "Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J)" wound up in second place with a massive 1040 point total by the time the mid-year analysis stats rolled around. Unfortunately, the track is no longer ranked within the top 50, which will likely cause it to slip under a noticeable amount of other competitors. Despite this, it's highly likely that the track winds up in the top 5 (if this year goes anything like last year). Additionally, this could be the third year in a row that an act completes the year with 2 tracks lodged in the top 10 (Perry's "Unconditionally" has a chance at cracking the top 10). While it would definitely be extremely hard, there's an outside chance it could end happening (depending on how other releases play out). Previously, Maroon 5's consecutive #1 singles "Payphone (feat. Wiz Khalifa)" and "One More Night" doubled up in the top 10 at numbers 2 and 5 back in 2012, while Avril Lavigne's 5 week #2 peaking "Rock N Roll" took 7th place and her 4 week #1 peaking "Here's to Never Growing Up" narrowly took 9th place to dominate the upper tier in 2013.

Just a mere 18 points behind Katy Perry's "Dark Horse", Lorde's "Team" takes 3rd place through the mid year standings with a strong 1022 points. The 3 week #1 single has easily brome the newcomer artist's best performing track (by a long shot) and while it likely won't reach a 2x Platinum certification (1250 overall chart points or more), it's bound to end up as one of the best performers when the end of the year rolls around. That beats the 500 point earning "Royals" which ended 2013 as the 49th best performing track, a mediocre performance at best. Thankfully, Lorde's performance on "Team" was received much better by myself, and quickly became a favorite of mine this year. I'm waiting for Lorde's next album, as it's likely to include at least one more hit that'll knock my socks off.

See the top 20 highest scorers of June 2014, the top 20 highest scorers of the 2014 Summer Songs competition (so far) and the top 40 highest scorers of 2014 (so far) below.

June 2014 Top 20 Highest Scorers
#
Song
Artist
Total
1
Hideaway
Kiesza
198.26
2
Undo
Sanna Nielsen
198.22
 3
A Sky Full of Stars
Coldplay
186.26
4
Fancy (feat. Charli XCX)
Iggy Azalea
182.5
5
Love Runs Out
OneRepublic
179.34
6
Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)
Clean Bandit
175.7
7
Magic
Coldplay
173.58
8
Pills N Potions
Nicki Minaj
169.14
9
A+D
Vita Chambers
162.26
10
Dare (La La La)
Shakira
160.5
11
Latch (feat. Sam Smith)
Disclosure
159.46
12
All of Me
John Legend
158.66
13
Do It Again
Röyksopp & Robyn
156.14
14
Problem (feat. Iggy Azalea)
Ariana Grande
143.25
15
Empire
Shakira
138.62
16
Team
Lorde
134.14
17
Chandelier
Sia
132.5
18
Summer
Calvin Harris
127.14
19
G.U.Y. (Girl Under You)
Lady Gaga
123.86
20
The Big Bang
Katy Tiz
118.46

Summer 2014 Top 20 Highest Scorers
#
Song
Artist
Total
1
Undo
Sanna Nielsen
149.18
2
Hideaway
Kiesza
148.21
3
A Sky Full of Stars
Coldplay
138.21
4
Fancy (feat. Charli XCX)
Iggy Azalea
137.39
5
Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)
Clean Bandit
134.54
6
Love Runs Out
OneRepublic
133.27
7
Pills N Potions
Nicki Minaj
129.12
8
Magic
Coldplay
126.45
9
Dare (La La La)
Shakira
125.39
10
A+D
Vita Chambers
125.21
11
Do It Again
Röyksopp & Robyn
118.12
12
Latch (feat. Sam Smith)
Disclosure
116.36
13
All of Me
John Legend
114.51
14
Problem (feat. Iggy Azalea)
Ariana Grande
111.21
15
Chandelier
Sia
102.39
16
Summer
Calvin Harris
101.12
17
Empire
Shakira
99.48
18
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Alyssa Reid
96.06
19
Team
Lorde
91.87
20
The Big Bang
Katy Tiz
90.36

2014 Top 40 Highest Scorers
#
Song
Artist
Total
1
Counting Stars
OneRepublic
1130.63
2
Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J)
Katy Perry
1040.75
3
Team
Lorde
1022.55
4
Drunk In Love (feat. Jay Z)
Beyoncé
956.03
5
Unconditionally
Katy Perry
789.35
6
Mind Controller
Ayah Marar
756.7
7
Can't Remember to Forget You (feat. Rihanna)
Shakira
752.1
8
Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)
Clean Bandit
746.9
9
Talk Dirty (feat. 2 Chainz)
Jason DerĂĽlo
745.76
10
Empire
Shakira
745.53
11
The Monster (feat. Rihanna)
Eminem
721.99
12
Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly)
Lady Gaga
705.51
13
Love Me Again
John Newman
699.31
14
All of Me
John Legend
667.71
15
Happy
Pharrell Williams
642.67
16
Danse (feat. Dev)
Mia Martina
612.25
17
Under Control (feat. Hurts)
Calvin Harris & Alesso
609.31
18
G.U.Y. (Girl Under You)
Lady Gaga
577.48
19
Applause
Lady Gaga
565.51
20
Goodness Gracious
Ellie Goulding
563.1
21
Timber (feat. Ke$ha)
Pitbull
550.69
22
Magic
Coldplay
547.36
23
Losing Sleep
John Newman
525.1
24
Latch (feat. Sam Smith)
Disclosure
517.91
25
Jump
Rihanna
501.1
26
Fancy (feat. Charli XCX)
Iggy Azalea
469.05
27
What If?
Vita Chambers
467.8
28
What Now
Rihanna
464.96
29
Rock n Roll
Avril Lavigne
445.5
30
Into the Blue
Kylie Minogue
442.71
31
Venus
Lady Gaga
439.2
32
XO
Beyoncé
438.51
33
Dare (La La La)
Shakira
429.05
34
Live For the Night
Krewella
427.69
35
Love Runs Out
OneRepublic
425.55
36
Hey Brother
Avicii
420.36
37
Partition
Beyoncé
405.9
38
Hideaway
Kiesza
398.36
39
A Sky Full of Stars
Coldplay
367.36
40
Chandelier
Sia
364.05

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