It’s finally time to yet again take a look a the health of the current ARIA Singles top 20 with Top 20 Ranked for the week of September 29th 2020 and really, it has been such a long time between rankings mostly due to the fact that the singles chart has been to a point kind of slow where even hit songs from 2019 are still in the top 50 (Looking at you, “Dance Monkey”, “Someone You Loved” and “Circles”!) well into October 2020 however there’s been just enough turnover to allow for this ranking of the chart to go ahead as there are only three songs that I have talked about in a previous ranking (the last one was in May). You all know by now how this works so let us dive right into it…
There are no songs in the awful tier, so we start in the bad
tier…
BAD.
20. “Lemonade” by Internet Money & Gunna feat. Don
Toliver and NAV
Let’s be real here, NOBODY expected a song featuring two of
the worst rappers in the current hip hop scene to be any good, right? Not to
mention bringing along the usually mediocre Don Toliver.
I’ll give “Lemonade” this though, the melody of the song is
good and I can understand why people like it from that point of view , it’s
just such a shame that the rappers on this song offer nought in the way of
charisma or personality when they are bragging about all the sex, drugs and
jewellery they have. I’ll stick to the Beyonce album of the same name and the
sweet drink.
19. “You Broke Me First” by Tate McRae.
Australia, I get Billie Eilish has had a relatively quiet
year but there is no need to fill the chart with bland derivative rip offs that
none of Billie’s charisma or can match her intensity. This song about a fractured
relationship is ugly and not good. Pass.
18. “Holy” by Justin Bieber feat. Chance the Rapper
Justin Bieber is likely going to be making my top ten worst
hit songs twice and guess what? He might get a third entry on the worst list
because “Holy” does nothing of what it claims to do. Gospel has passion in the
vocals and soaring instrumentation, this has none of that with Bieber crooning
that the way his wife or Jesus holding him makes him feel “Holy” and it’s
seriously lame then Chance The Rapper comes along to make the song even worse
in his verse referencing both Joe Pesci and Lionel Messi…this song is token
garbage dressed as ‘gospel’
MEH
17. “One Too Many” by Keith Urban and Pink
This almost wound up
in the bad tier because of how much I dislike the fact that this song just
strips away Pink’s personality and Keith Urban is a shell of that interesting
country artist he was back at the end of the 2000s but if neither of them sound
like they care…why should I?
16. ‘For the night” by Pop Smoke
15. “Mood Swings” by Pop Smoke
I just do not have an opinion on Pop Smoke’s music.
Objectively I can see why people would like these two songs though
14. “Roses” by Saint Jhn
This weird discordant song that seems to go in one ear out
the other is still here. WHY?
13. “Laugh Now, Cry Later” by Drake feat. Lil Durk
Well it is better than the dross he was releasing in 2018
but it’s not better than “Money in the Grave” from 2019 but I’d argue that it’s
the sample that makes this song just meh rather than bad.
12. “Take You Dancing” by Jason Derulo
This song is saved from the bad tier by that incredible
groove under the hook. Everything else about this song is annoying. It also
feels like a re-tread of “Savage Love”…Speaking of which….
DECENT
11. “Savage Love” by Jawsh 685 and Jason DeRulo
I don’t hate this song; I actually think it’s stupid enough
to actually work even if Jason Derulo’s vocals are a mess…that said the
discourse around this song is getting progressively worse especially after a
recent remix that sent this song number one on the Hot 100 so I may sour on
this song before the year is out.
10. “Come & Go” by Marshmello and Juice WRLD
I have come around on this one as while Marshmello’s production
is still a bit questionable here, this is actually a pretty solid rap rock song
that Juice WRLD sells well. Let’s just hope those involved with Juice WRLD’s
legacy aren’t going to milk him for all it’s worth like the music industry did
to XXXtentacion.
9. “Rockstar” by DaBaby and Roddy Ricch
No change for this song, it is still just decent…it is the
best thing DaBaby has done all year though.
8. “Dynamite” by BTS
This song is just a bit of fun. It would have been cool if
the song had a little more explosive presence though and reflected the title of
the song but otherwise it’s just a nice pop song to have around.
Good
7. “Breaking Me” by Topic feat. A7S
I can’t lie I am a little tired of this song now but its
still pretty good…A7S sells the song well enough and the groove is there so
yeah, I’ll take it.
6. “WAP” by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion
I can’t see how me placing this song here isn’t going to be
controversial but here’s the thing…nakedly brazen sexuality in popular music
from women has been a thing in popular music for years and “WAP” really isn’t
doing anything that’s all that new but my god this song is so much fun to
listen to, the “get a bucket and a mop for this wet ass pussy” line never fails
to crack me up and Megan Thee Stallion just absolutely nails her verse here.
If you are that offended by the song, maybe you need to take
a chill pill because all you effectively are doing is the work of Cardi B’s
marketing team for them.
5. “Midnight Sky” by Miley Cyrus
This is not quite Miley’s best song but my god its close.
Sampling “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks, Miley just sounds great here and
while the 80s worship has at times felt a little overdone at times especially
this year, Miley does it well here. I can see this growing on me even more.
Great
4. “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles
Once I got past the fact that this song isn’t better than
“Adore You” (“Adore You” is the best song on that last Harry Styles album), I
actually got to appreciating this song more. It is the second blatant vagina
song in the top 20. Harry really wants that high from eating pussy…this is a
great track that took its time to really grow on me and furthers the argument
that One Direction are better off not reuniting as Harry and Niall are making
better music now as solo acts.
3. “Head & Heart” by Joel Corry and MNEK
So much like “Watermelon Sugar”, this former UK number one
grew on me A LOT mostly because I realized that this song sounds like something
straight out of the dance music out of the early 90s and given a 2020 twist, it’s
a catchy Eurodance/pop/house song where MNEK’s heart is telling him that this
connection he had made with somebody is more than a crush but his head is telling
him something other, it’s that moment we’ve all experienced. This is a darn
good song that I am glad became a hit.
So here we go again….
2. “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd
Like the last ranking I was all set to put this song at number
one but another song during this period came along and stole my heart much like
“Adore You” by Harry Styles did but “Blinding Lights” is still an amazing song
and one of the The Weeknd’s best songs of his career but it isn’t going to top
this ranking so what could be better?
1.
“Mood” by 24k Goldn feat. Iann Dior.
Yeah…a trap rock song is topping this ranking. I cannot believe
it however this song is something special even if it is quite basic, that hook
is one of the most ridiculously catchy things I have heard in a very long time
and those guitars are bright and colourful not exactly something I’ve ever
associated with music associated with trap but its more than welcome and I more
than welcome this song’s run at the top of the ARIA singles chart.
So that wraps up this ranking:
We had 0 AWFUL songs
3 BAD songs (1 point) = 3 points
6 MEH song (2 points) = 12 points
4 DECENT songs (3 points) = 12 points
3 GOOD songs (4 points) = 12 points
4 GREAT songs (5 points) = 20 points
This gives us a total of 59 out of 100 which is a big
improvement on the last rankings but the charts can still be better.
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