Edition 707 puts a wrap on the BILLCS Top 30 for 2024. Of course, I’ll have one more chart in two weeks that will count towards 2025, and I’ll be focusing on preparing this year’s Top 90 of 2024 and accompanying radio program, so do watch for all of the good things to come in the next two weeks!
Check out information about my ONLINE RADIO SHOWS after the chart below as they are now directly tied in with this blog. As most of you know, I host 3 online radio shows – The Big 20 and two iterations of Your Weekend New Music Mix – and produce 2 online radio segments – my new music and retro picks of the week – that are all pre-recorded. The Big 20 and the picks of the week are happily being syndicated and you can find the current schedule for all at the bottom of the home page of this blog.
TELYKast and Sam Gray find themselves with another chart-topper as the classic deep house sounds of “Surrender Your Love” (above) joins 2021/22’s “Unbreakable” as their second #1 song together!! You can also check out TELYKast’s latest release “All I Know”, below.
Hot on the heels of “Surrender Your Love” is “Finally” by Swedish House Mafia with an outstanding vocal by Alicia Keys, and it climbs 8-3. Swedish House Mafia has only charted three times on this chart, and each time they have reached the Top 3, including #1 with “Don’t You Worry Child”. As for Ms Keys, she reached #1 with 2004’s “You Don’t Know My Name”.
PLS&TY and Georgi Kay’s “Feel Love” (above) is locked in at #4 again, and you can check out PLS&TY’s recent single with Linney called “Just One Touch”, below.
Bud Cahill’s imaginative “Intergalactic Highway” is one of the rare instrumentals – with big props to Bud’s violin work – to reach my Top 10, and it rises 11-8.
Duran Duran’s Simon LeBon has rarely sounded better in recent years than on “Evil Woman”, their remake of the 1976 ELO hit. It climbs 14-9, becoming their first Top 10 entry in 13 years since “All You Need Is Now” peaked at #8.
Canadian singer/songwriter Dan Talevski is now 5 for 5 with his Top 10 entries on my chart as the unusual and touching “mine”, his first entry since 2017, makes short work of the chart, climbing 16-10.
Phoenix dance producer charges through the middle of the chart with his second entry, the busy and disco-influenced “Take Me Home”, which rises 18-12.
The euphoric 2010’s retro VIP mix of GT_Ofice’s “Someone Else” looks to be headed for the Top 10 as it climbs 21-15.
The Fastest Riser on the chart is the worldwide dance smash “Somedays” by Sonny Fodera, Jazzy and D.O.D., which soars 25-16. Jazzy’s warm vocal and the uplifting music would sound great on Top 40 radio if programmers were more receptive to dance music.
We’ve been waiting for it for most of the year, but New Zealand’s Will Swinton’s debut EP has arrived called December. Among the songs on it are “Flames”, which climbs 22-18. Does anyone else think that the beginning guitar work recalls Eagle-Eye Cherry’s beloved “Save Tonight”?
A new name to watch in 2025 is Bay area dance producer Angrybaby whose riveting “Back To Life” in its Mashbit VIP remix rises 26-20. He’s playing my city in January, so I might have to check it out.
Leading off the first of three new entries is a return to the chart for Grammy-winning San Jose native Miguel. His new song at #25, “Always Time”, is a deft mix of rock, pop and R&B from his upcoming fifth album called Viscera. This one may pass by your ears on first listen but with every listen you’ll appreciate it more, especially his fine vocal. It’s his sixth chart entry and first since December 2017 – his song “Pineapple Skies” from the War & Leisure album was my #1 song of 2018.
Next at #26 is Toronto’s sensational Alexander Stewart – and I can add that adjective knowingly, having seen one of my favourite performances of the year by Alexander a few years back. His new song “His Problem Instead” deserves to be an international hit, and is already in the Top 20 at Top 40 radio in Canada. It follows his recent album Bleeding Heart, which includes hits like “broken by you”, “blame’s on me” and “i wish you cheated”, which reached #13 on this chart last year. “His Problem Instead” gives him two songs on the chart, as “Wrong Way” (with Two Friends) slides to #11 from its #3 peak.
Rounding out the new songs at #30 is a song whose hook you won’t be able to get out of your head. It’s “In The Back of My Cadillac” in its Eric Kupper remix by Houston newcomer NYNE along with the group for which he is musical director, K.C. & The Sunshine Band. The song is also co-written and co-produced by K.C. himself, and like its predecessor “I Get To Love You” (which just peaked at #12), “Cadillac” comes in a bevy of remixes to enjoy.
ONLINE RADIO SHOWS
You can hear me and many of my blog choices on this growing list of online radio stations and features!
Listen to The Big 20 from 10pm to Midnight EST on Wednesdays as “The Musicman” James Rogers and I bring you the latest in new songs. The show also repeats on Saturday evening at 6 pm EST. You can hear recent episodes of The Big 20 at the following link: The Big 20.
My New Music Pick of the Week debuts each week on The Big 20. It airs more than 25 times during the week and you can view its schedule by clicking at the following link: Schedule.
On Saturdays and Sundays from 8pm to Midnight EST I bring you “Your Weekend New Music Mix”, four hours of commercial-free music from the 2000’s including many song choices from this blog.
My Retro Pick of the Week airs each week on Russ Horton’s “Top 40 Timeline”, Saturdays at 4pm EST. You can view its schedule by going to the lower right corner of the home page of this blog.
The 3D Variety Show by Planet Radio Canada
I’m now featured Tuesdays between 7 and 7:30 pm EST with my Retro Pick of the Week on the live online radio show “The 3D Variety Show”, now powered by both www.xstreamrockradio.com and Lil Rawkers with “The Musicman” James Rogers. I also join occasionally for looks at music from our past through some live segments. You can hear recent episodes of The 3D Variety Show at the following link: 3D Variety Show. The show repeats on Alberta’s www.katpowerhit.ca on Wednesdays at 6pm EST. The 3D Variety Show will be on hiatus until April 2025 after its December 17 show.
Canada’s Party Dog Radio now anchors Hunter Wilbur’s “Modern Hype” on Saturdays at 6pm EST, which airs my New Music Pick of the Week. Party Dog Radio also airs “The Big 20”, where you can also hear my New Music Pick of the Week on Sundays after 9pm EST. Please note that “Modern Hype” is on holiday hiatus until January 2025.
For other details about all of the shows, such as dates and times of broadcasts, go to my home page and scroll down to the bottom right side! Schedules are updated regularly.
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