M10 show week # 50

 

And it's back to this once again....

...this time, we lost Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac. So we are going to do things a lot different here today.  First off, I'm going to get my actual chart- the chart for last week AND this week- out of the way in as fell a swoop as I can do.  And because of something I want to do later on, there'll be just links to the new debuts.  Deep breath, here we go...

10- Last week this was new stuff from Tennis, called One Night With The Valet . It climbs to #7 this week.  The #10 this week, and you really have to read this guy's wiki to appreciate the character we're dealing with here, is a debut from a dude calling himself Joji, and his new tune Die For You.

9- last week was another debut- and why I can't explain, but as much as this song gets to me, it gets too much to me, and becomes a one week wonder- Panic! At The Disco with Don't Let The Light Go Out.

8- last week was Alvvays and Belinda Says, actually climbing back one spot, but then dropping this week.  This week is another odd debut, a tune from a new released best of called Four Seasons, Six Decades, and where else they might have done it I have no clue- Frankie Valle and the Four Seasons and Sleeping Man.

7- Broken Bells moved up one last week with Saturdays; they repeat that performance to 6 this week.

6- Last week, Brooke Annibale was here with Social Anxieties; this week, she's at #9.

5- Beach Weather with Sex Drugs Etc., both weeks.

4- Alvvays with After The Earthquake- not a bad 8 weeks now with a song that never got higher than 4- both weeks.

3- Talk and Run Away To Mars moved up one, and repeated that this week to #2.

2- Broken Bells held at #2 last week with Love On The Run, and slipped to #3 this time.  That makes it the biggest hit of 2022, and 3rd-biggest in M10 history.

1- And Lucius held down #1 for their second and third weeks with The Man I'll Never Find.

 

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 So what I am about to give you next is, in a way, a testament to what Fleetwood Mac accomplished for all these years.  I am going to step by step give you three top ten lists. One will be the Spotify most streamed, (labeled S) one will be my favorites NOT including the ones on the Spotify list (labeled C), and the third will be the highest charting songs on Billboard (B) that Spotify and I missed- and that will really give you the idea.    And keep in mind, there was an instrumental they did- called Albatross- that was not only their only UK #1  back in 1969- but was re-released in 1973 and hit #2!  Ready?

10- S- Never Going Back, a cut from Rumours; C- Sentimental Lady, a cut from Bare Trees which Bob Welch sang and would later take into the top ten himself (with Christine's help); B- Oh Well, an early track that most Mac fans remember, that hit #55.

9- S- Gypsy, a #12 from Mirage; C- Seven Wonders, a #19 from Tango In The Night; B- A live version of Landslide (you know, the Bud Christmas song with the horse?), #51.

8- S-Don't Stop, a #3 from Rumours; C- Second Hand News, another cut from Rumours (of which nearly the whole of the lp played on AOR stations); B- As Long As you Follow, a #43 from their Greatest Hits lp.

7- S- Little Lies, a #4 from Tango; C- Monday Morning, a cut from the 1975 self-named album; B- Save Me, their last US top 40 at #33, from Behind The Mask, written and sung by Christine.

6- S- Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win), an #11 from the 1975 lp, also known by fans as The White Album (yeah, they had one, too); C- Sara, a #7 from Tusk; B- Love In Store, a #22 from Mirage.

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If you didn't read the heartbreaking tribute letter Stevie Nicks posted on Twitter, you should...

5- S- Landslide, the original from the White Album, not released; C- Say You Love Me, also an #11 from the White Album; B- one that just missed my list, Think About Me, a #20 from Tusk.

4- S- Everywhere, a #14 from Tango; C- also from the White Album, the #20 Over My Head (yes, it charted that low); B- You Make Loving Fun, a #9 from Rumours.

3- S- Go Your Own Way, a #10 that everyone sings along to from Rumours; C- Gold Dust Woman, another cut from Rumours, later made into an alt hit by Hole; B- the title track from Tusk, at #8.

2- S- without a doubt the best song they ever did, The Chain from Rumours; C- From 1973's Mystery To Me, Hypnotized; B- Big Love, a #5 from Tango.

And at the top of each...

S- their only #1, Dreams from Rumours (which leaves just 3 songs on the lp we haven't mentioned- yet); 

B- Hold Me, a #4 from Mirage;

And finally, the song that just says Christine to me, and a finer tribute in her own voice I cannot give.  From Rumours, it was the flip side to Dreams...