M50- the Ever-Lovin' finale

Yep, we have finally made it to the end of the M50- and what a countdown it was!

I hope you don't just...

...Walk On By and miss the Four Seasons, as that's the song at #10!  The oldest #1 in chart history, Walk On By is a song that stops me in my tracks no matter who does it- and it was a double blessing to find out that one of my favorite bands had covered it!  It spent the last week of March at the top, racking up eight weeks on the chart.


Oh, I'm doing this last installment with a bit more "reverence"; so please don't be upset if I don't continue from the other posts my...

...Funny Ways, which Quiet Hollers took to #2 in mid-August (couldn't get past the song at #5 on the countdown), becoming the only top 10 on our list not to hit #1.  I was sold when they started doing the Zombies riff ("..tell it to me slowly...") in the second verse.  So with this one at #9, we'll go right to #8, because...

...You Won't Be Missing That Part Of Me, which Melody's Echo Chamber had at #1 the week of Laurie's and my birthday back in May.  BTW, I don't remember if I shared this, but Melody Prochet was on her way to recording a new lp and kicking off a concert tour last July when she was involved in a terrible accident.  The family was understandably curt with details, but Melody posted on her FB page around Thanksgiving saying that the recovery was going slow but well, and was looking forward to returning to work- although not so much to the additional surgeries looming in the future.


After that, I need to lighten up the room, and what better way than by opening the...

...Sunroof in my head, in my head, like courtship. did this summer, streaking to the top and holding it for most of July- until that pesky #5 song struck again.  And, as with Funny Ways, this song got the Laurie Seal Of Approval!  Sunroof finished at #7, which isn't far from #5, but might as well be...

...Across The Multiverse, as Dent May- with a little help from Frankie Cosmos- sits at #6!  Dent took the top spot in late September, then took the entire month of October moseying on out of the countdown!

Okay, so now we are up to that rascally #5 song- like Dent's, another Laurie Seal Of Approval tune.  So brace yourself, get comfortable.  In fact, come over here and...

...Sit Next To Me, with which Foster The People became the first of two acts to have a 4-week #1 in 2017!  And better late than never- even though it has been 18 weeks SINCE it fell off the M10 (after a run at #1 from July 26 to August 16), it has been on the Billboard alternative charts FOR the last 17 weeks, currently sitting at its high of #11! (And if you think that's funny, how about our #25, Moon Taxi's Two High, which fell off my chart 22 weeks ago and is currently #28 in its 11th week on that same chart!)


So what comes next?  I guarantee it's...

...Something Good!  The Derevolutions hit the top the first of November, and went on to spend the 6 weeks on the chart, four of them in the top 3.  For our number three, we need to take a little walk because our destination is...

...Six Blocks Away, the three-week top dog for Lucinda Williams, who dominated the first part of September.  And that leaves just two more, and the one at number 2 held the top spot for the year for almost ten months!    Almost but not quite for an act whose road took a...

....Peppermint Twist at the very end!  Sweet's 1974 Australia-only release hit the top on February 22nd, completing a near-record 7 week climb to the top (thus they got double-bridesmaided!).

And that leaves us with the #1 for the whole year- and M10 history!  In fact, I have inside info that this week she WILL become the first act to have a song on the M10 for ELEVEN weeks!  The other four-week #1, the last of the Laurie Seal Of Approvals, who else could it be but....










And there you have it- the biggest hits of the M10 2017!  So tune in tomorrow for your regularly scheduled Time Machine- well, kinda- and then next week is the great big Beauty Contest!