M10 show Week #4

 

So Merry Christmas, my friends!  As you can see, I never did get around to debating on a Christmas bash, and you all have better things to do with the holidays anyhow.

Elvis:  Better'n being with ME?

 

C'mon, King, we're talking family, gifts, the birth on earth of our Savior...

Yeah, yeah, I guess you're right...  

 

So anyway, we got a couple more debuts this week, as well as the beginning of the M10 top 40 of 2021!  Plus, if I can find the notes, some further details on the Billboard top 10 (which was released early this week!).  I think the way to start is with the debut at #10, and it might be a climber!  Though he promised Pearl Jam will bring us something in 2022, Eddie Vedder starts us off with a tune from his new solo lp, Earthlings. At #10...

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Hey, you find them notes yet?

Actually, I hadn't even looked!  Ah, here ya go...

 

Thank you! So this week, Mariah Carey broke the record- if you c'n divide apples an' oranges- an' got herself a third separate time at #1 for All I Want For Christmas Is You.  But a bunch o' others also made the week's top ten, an' we filled in some details...

At #2 is Brenda Lee an' Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree.  This is where it has peaked the last 3 years, somethin' else considerin that the original only made #14 back in 1960.

At #4 sits Bobby Helms an' Jingle Bell Rock.  The highest it's got is #3 2 years ago, while the original topped out at #29.... just crazy, man!

At #5 is Burl Ives with A Holly Jolly Christmas.  It never charted back in the olden days, by this time they were doin' a separate Christmas chart thing, but has got as high as #4 the last few years.

At #7 is Andy Williams an' It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year.  Get this, it wasn't released as a single, because the label wanted 'im to have White Christmas as the single.  Great choice, huh? It got to #81 one time.  Execs, whatcha gonna do? It has got as high as #5 a couple years back.

Oh, an' Wham was at #9 with Last Christmas.

 

Good job!  So I have been crunching- and ignoring- the numbers to put together the official M10 top 40 of the year!  I'll do 40-31 this week right here- then pick out another couple of posts to stick 30-11 on during next week- and reveal the top 10 right here next week, along with whatever else we end up doing.  

So here are 5 of that first ten... 

 

40- Beach Boys, Big Sur. From the box set Feel Flows that came out this year.  Currently by points (which actually has a week yet to run), it came in at #32. 

39- The Fratellis, Action Replay. #43 in points, it just grabs me.

38- Trini Lopez, Lalena. A Donovan cover we found searching through the years, from the 1969 lp The Whole Enchilada. Pointwise it it was #26.

37- Elton John and Dua Lipa, Cold Heart (acoustic).  I really thought I would have had this much bigger at first, but for me it flamed hot and fast and then cooled.  Pointwise it was #44.

36- The Ventures, Theme From A Summer Place.  Another one snatched from ages past- it was on their Hawaii 5-0 lp.  Pointed #28.

So Boss, why are we keepin' track of points when ya move 'em around anyway?

Framework to build from, my friend.  Now, how about you play that second debut?

Oh, yeah!  We've been floatin' this one around for a while, waiting for a spot to bring it in.  Brand new, a cover of a 2009 Bob Dylan tune, this is the latest from- Tom Jones...at #9...

 

 

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Now, it would probably be good of us to get to this weeks top songs...

8- and holding, Sweet's latest, Everything. 

7- falling 3, Our Lady Peace and Future Disease.

6- dropping one, The Explorer's Club and Hurts So Bad.

5- dropping from the runner up spot, Beach House and Once Twice Melody.

4- and powering up 3 spots, Manchester Orchestra and Inaudible (Lucius version).

Bud, do us some more of the M10 top 40!

Gotcha, man.  

35- courtship., Fuzzy. It pointed a lot higher, at #19, a fun summer song that hit at just the right time.

34- Major Murphy, Attention. Okay if'n you like playin' with yer vocals. Pointed at #18.

33- Damien Jurado, Take Your Time. Neat piano tune what just fell off the weekly chart. Pointed at #36.

32-  Hurts So Bad, The Explorer's Club.  The masters of sunny covers, currently pointing at #31 but still on the chart.

31- Dami Im, Pray. A song that got hot late.  Pointed at #30.  That's it fer this week!

 

 Thank you, my friend!  And now, the top 3 this week...

3- and holding, a song which has been on the chart 7 weeks and in the top 3 for all but one, Duran Duran with Tove Lo and the 3-week #1, Give It All Up...

2- and dropping a spot from the top, Geowulf and Open Me Up...

...and the new #1, leaping from a debut of #6 last week, the fifth time at #1 for...

...Beach House, and ESP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It might be big, it might be small, but if the Lord don't return before, the M10 show will be back New Year's Eve!