Week No. 19

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Enrico’s Hitlist Week 19 (06/05/2013-12/05/2013)

Rank Last Week Artist(s) / Band(s) Song Title Weeks
1 NEW Hayden Panettiere Hypnotizing 1
2 2 Jo Dee Messina I’m Alright 2
3 1 Carly Rae Jepsen Tonight I’m Getting Over You 2
4 3 Icona Pop & Charli XCX I Love It 7
5 4 Carlos Baute Loquitos De Amor 5
6 9 ESDM Contigo Hasta El Final 9
7 NEW James Morrison I Won’t Let You Go 1
8 6 Nashville Cast Ho Hey 5
9 13 Paramore Still Into You 2
10 10 Robin Stjernberg You 4
11 14 Eva Santa Maria Hombres 10
12 RE-ENTRY Sophie B. Hawkins As I Lay Me Down 1
13 17 Martin Solveig & Dragonette Hello 2
14 5 Bonnie Tyler Believe In Me 4
15 15 Dolly Parton Straight Talk 7
16 RE-ENTRY Lady Gaga The Edge Of Glory 1
17 8 Glee Mamma Mia 8
18 RE-ENTRY Fun. Out On The Town 1
19 12 Bastille Pompeii 9
20 7 Shakespear’s Sister Was It Something I Said 2

Well, what can I say?! Yes I know it’s late (again) but hey ho (or should I say ‘Ho Hey’?!) there is a new Number 1 in the house! And it’s the second number 1 Hit for Nashville Star Hayden Panettiere with her latest single ‘Hypnotizing’ which is featured in the amazing US TV show ‘Nashville’! A very captivating tune which caught my attention a while ago and finally it is out there!! I’ve tried to just insert a media file so you could listen to the song, however my technical abilities are limited this late at night so I gave up (for now!) and you have to stare at the gorgeous Hayden Panettiere whilst hopefully enjoying the latest Number 1 in Enrico’s Hitlist, as it is kind of hypnotizing!

Another noteworthy new appearance happens to be from James Morrison with ‘I Won’t Let You Go’ which makes a debut at Number 7! I don’t know how I missed this song when it was released like two years ago. Ah well, better late then never right?! OK I admit it, I came across this beautiful song last night watching ‘The Voice’ and of course I had to get the original version!! You see, Enrico’s Hitlist is always up for surprises and like on this weeks charts open for very late entries!!!

Another video I’d like to share this week is referring to a re-entry on position 12 this week. 4 years ago ‘As I Lay Me Down’ by Sophie B. Hawkins was last seen in Enrico’s Hitlist! This song helped me this week staying calm and going through my studies (which I’m sweating over right now, because my first exam is less than a month away). It is possibly my going to sleep song this evening! Very fitting lyrics eh?!

Enjoying

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I really start enjoying these weekly reviews of previous chart entries! It usually brings back some good memories or if it’s a sad song some not so good ones. I am certainly getting excited though for my holiday which will begin next week! Yes I know, it is still 9 days away but I can recall me desperately counting down a couple of months ago and suddenly it is literally just around the corner. In a few weeks time I also shall reveal how songs actually do enter Enrico’s Hitlist. So stay tuned!

And I’m starting again with a song which won the Eurovision Song Contest back in 1986. On the 8th of May 2006 (and therefore almost 20 years after it’s original release/appearance) ‘J’Aime La Vie’ by Sandra Kim enters Enrico’s Hitlist. She has spent 12 weeks in the Top 20 and scored 101 points in total, which gives her rank 487 in the All Time Charts. The song made a re-entry back in 2011, after the following video was released. I think it’s actually brilliant to see young Kim next to the current one 25 years later. Did you know that back in 1986 Kim was only 13 years old and the youngest ever Eurovision winner. And current rules require Eurovision Song Contest participants to be at least 16, so unless the rule is changed Kim’s record will never be broken.

 

For the next song we have to go back a bit further in time. ‘Overload’ became the Sugababes’ first success not just in Enrico’s Hitlist. It was the UK Girl groups first international chart placing. On the 7th of May in 2001 it entered the Top 20 and remained there for 13 consecutive weeks. It occupies rank 277 in the All Time Rankings with the 161 points it has so far accumulated! I totally forgot about this video too which is a bit Atomic Kitten like! And oh my god how this group has transformed itself and none of it’s original members are part of it anymore! Crazy eh?!

 

Whitney Houston had a minor hit in Enrico’s Top 20 in 2004 with ‘How Will I Know’, which entered on the 10th of May that year. Originally released in 1985 it was a commercially world wide success for the American recording artist and multiple Grammy Award winner! However it only survived 4 weeks in my charts with just 39 points, which means it merely makes it into the All Time Top 1000 at current position 949! Who would have guess that this song initially was meant to be sung by Janet Jackson who passed on it! I bet she regretted it as soon it became such a big hit!

 

And I have a fourth song I’d like to share with you this evening! ABBA’s most successful song in Enrico’s Hitlist is ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ and not ‘Mamma Mia!’, ‘Fernando’, ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Waterloo’ etc. like most of you might have thought! It entered the Top 20 on the 11th of February in 2002 and is the highest ranking song in the All Time Charts without having reached the Number 1 spot! It has spent a staggering 64 weeks in the charts so far and is currently ranked Number 18 with 775 points! Not that I wish back winter weather anytime soon (and the weather has been great recently!), but it is a wonderful video given that it was recorded back in 1976! A truly timeless song I can listen over and over again!

 

Week No. 18

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Enrico’s Hitlist Week 18 (29/04/2013-05/05/2013)

Rank Last Week Artist(s) / Band(s) Song Title Weeks
1 NEW Carly Rae Jepsen Tonight I’m Getting Over You 1
2 NEW Jo Dee Messina I’m Alright 1
3 3 Icona Pop & Charli XCX I Love It 6
4 1 Carlos Baute Loquitos De Amor 4
5 2 Bonnie Tyler Believe In Me 3
6 4 Nashville Cast Ho Hey 4
7 NEW Shakespear’s Sister Was It Something I Said 1
8 5 Glee Mamma Mia 7
9 6 ESDM Contigo Hasta El Final 8
10 7 Robin Stjernberg You 3
11 9 Nelly Hey Porsche 3
12 10 Bastille Pompeii 8
13 NEW Paramore Still Into You 1
14 11 Eva Santa Maria Hombres 9
15 12 Dolly Parton Straight Talk 6
16 13 Alyona Lanskaya Solayoh 2
17 RE-ENTRY Martin Solveig & Dragonette Hello 1
18 8 Meat Loaf I’d Do Anything For Love 3
19 14 One Direction C’mon C’mon 3
20 20 Glee Hell To The No 4

Having a first look at this week’s Top 20, it seems that the trend is downwards (simply by the seeing so much red!). I do like to point out though that the reign of Carlos Baute over the past three weeks is now over as he is falling down three ranks to Number 4 with this single ‘Loquitos De Amor’. So yes this means there is a new Number 1 in Enrico’s Hitlist.

Canadian pop sensation Carly Rae Jepson who is more known for her smash hit ‘Call Me Maybe’ has done it again and is debuting on top of the charts with her latest single ‘Tonight I’m Getting Over You’. Friends from the US capital Washington D.C. who were in town last week mentioned this fab tune to me and it instantly stuck inside my head. Feel free to judge for yourself!

Another new entry which obviously narrowly missed out on becoming Number 1 is from country-pop singer Jo Dee Messina, who’s biggest success so far this year has been ‘Heads Carolina, Tails California’! Her ‘latest’ entry ‘I’m Alright’ is a very easy song to listen to and funny enough it was first released on the 11th of May in 1988 almost exactly 25 years ago which I find very cool!

A second song which includes the Canadian electronic music band from Toronto/Ottawa Dragonette sneaks in as a re-entry on Number 17. This collaboration with Martin Solveig and their hugely successful single ‘Hello’ was recently featured in an ad to promote the UK Television channel TLC and like with Carly Rae Jepsen I got hooked onto this amazing tune again, like I did in 2011, when it first made an impact in my charts. I find this video – which I haven’t seen before – hugely entertaining!

Arrived

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My holiday month has finally arrived and in less than three weeks I shall be setting off to my little tour across the United States of America. Me being excited is probably an understatement. I am glad, that all the travel has been finalised and the cities I am going to see are New York City/New York, Chicago/Illinois, Los Angeles & San Francisco/California and Seattle/Washington! I am so desperate for a proper vacation and it is certainly well deserved and about time.

Biggest test for me however will be if my commitment & determination towards this website will remain whilst I am travelling from coast to coast! Not many people know this, but I had a similar project on the run in 2011 where I started blogging about my weekly Top 20, but once I went on holidays only a few weeks into that year I forgot to update the site and never got around to update it again. It actually is still left in the state back from February that year. Fingers crossed that won’t happen again!

And without further fuss I am now looking back into Enrico’s Hitlist around this time of the year and see what new songs the month of May had in store!

On the 1st of May 2006 – whilst I was living and having fun  in sunny Sydney/Australia – a Eurovision song made its debut at Number 1 to became Denmark’s most successful entry in my charts! Sidsel Ben Semmane’s ‘Twist Of Love’ certainly left a lot of love, as she retained the top spot for two weeks in a row. This oldie like song stayed in the Top 20 for 19 weeks whilst scoring 359 points for the smallest Scandinavian country giving it rank 79 in the All Time list! It must have been a Eurovision discovery week back those 7 years ago, because 8(!) new songs all related to one of the biggest yearly TV shows made their first appearance in Enrico’s Hitlist!

The Glee Cast had a minor impact on the 2nd of May 2011 with their brilliant cover version of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Go Your Own Way’! I love how Lea Michele aka Rachel Berry says ‘Hit It’ and therefore I’d like to share this little video sequence with you. If your impatient – skip to 18 seconds and enjoy it from there!! I am saying minor impact, as contrary to the Danish Eurovision entry from above this song only remained 6 weeks in the charts. Up until today it has scored 88 points which equals rank 561 in the All Time Charts!

Oh and who doesn’t remember Lipps Inc. with their 80′s smash hit ‘Funkytown’?!  I’d like to share this little treasure with you, which entered Enrico’s Hitlist on the 30th April in 2001 as we farewell this years one! It spent the same amount of time as ‘Go Your Own Way’ by the Glee Cast however it did manage to score 7 points more and therefore the slightly better position 515 in the overall rankings. ‘Funkytown’ is often considered to be one of disco’s last stands and it was Lipps Inc’s only U.S. Top 40 hit.

Week No. 17

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Enrico’s Hitlist Week 17 (22/04/2013-28/04/2013)

Rank Last Week Artist(s) / Band(s) Song Title Weeks
1 1 Carlos Baute Loquitos De Amor 3
2 3 Bonnie Tyler Believe In Me 2
3 4 Icona Pop & Charli XCX I Love It 5
4 2 Nashville Cast Ho Hey 3
5 5 Glee Mamma Mia 6
6 6 ESDM Contigo Hasta El Final 7
7 10 Robin Stjernberg You 2
8 16 Meat Loaf I’d Do Anything For Love 2
9 9 Nelly Hey Porsche 2
10 7 Bastille Pompeii 7
11 8 Eva Santa Maria Hombres 8
12 11 Dolly Parton Straight Talk 5
13 NEW Alyona Lanskaya Solayoh 1
14 13 One Direction C’mon C’mon 2
15 15 Dolly Parton Light Of A Clear Blue Morning 2
16 17 Glee Anything Could Happen 11
17 RE-ENTRY Glee I Wanna Dance With Somebody 1
18 14 Neon Genesis Evangelion Opening Theme 4
19 18 Lindi Ortega The Day You Die 10
20 19 Glee Hell To The No 3

Sorry for the late and short release but better late then never!  The two videos I’m sharing tonight are for the songs which had kind of the most impact this week as they had the biggest gains compared to last week! However I do have to point out that Carlos Baute is still managing to cling onto his number one position for a third week in a row which makes him this years longest so far! I promise there will be more next time!!

Strange

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I am so achy this evening, so I have to keep it short! I did a double workout today which means a 1.5 hour gym session was followed by 1.5 hours in the swimming pool! This means everything hurts right now and I should try to get a decent sleep so my muscles can recover for more action in the pool tomorrow evening! I know I am a bit addicted to the water! I think swimming was much more painful, probably because I didn’t stretch properly after lifting a few (heavy) weights! But you know what they say: no pain no gain!

It was also extremely warm today (both in the gym and in the leisure centre my club is training at) which makes exercising even harder! I do find it strange how some people in the gym work out without sweating at all, whilst I start to be dripping wet just minutes after my warm up on the rowing machine and listening to Lady Gaga’s smash-hit ‘The Edge Of Glory’! I think it’s going to be a myth to me, like how guys also just go to the gym to do a kind of fashion show (and not everyone who’s walking by, shaking their ass is not that good looking). It does however keep me entertained like the songs I’m listening to whilst pumping the iron!

So my flash back this week starts with a song which entered Enrico’s Hitlist back on the 23rd of April in 2001. Yes (!), a staggering 12 years ago! It definitely isn’t a song I’d have on whilst working out, but back then I couldn’t care less! Irish singer Enya managed to stay 15 weeks in total in the Top 20, whilst scoring 218 points, which gives her all time rank 174 at this stage. It is her second most successful single in my charts only a few points behind her Number 1 Single – originally released in 1988 – ‘Orinoco Flow’, which also made its debut in 2001. ‘Anywhere Is’ followed in 1995 and became a minor international hit for this grammy-award winning singer and instrumentalist. Apparently (according to Wikipedia) her record sales are making her one of the world’s most-selling artists of all time!

 

Exactly Six years after Enya’s first appearance a British alternative rock group called Transvision Vamp debuted at Number 1 for one week in Enrico’s Hitlist! I woud like to point out, that ‘I Want Your Love’ did not just became a hit in my charts, as it also went onto the top spot in the Norwegian Singles Charts! Despite the initial high ranking though the song only lasted nine weeks before it dropped out again, which leaves them with a total score of 152 points or rank 304 in the all time rankings! The song was initially released in 1988 and was the bands first UK Top 40 hit. I do think that to a slight degree Karmin’s video to ‘Brokenhearted’ is the modern version of this one!

 

One song which I have to admit I was listening to earlier on whilst working hard in the gym was the Glee version of ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’. Since Whitney Houston’s original from 1987 is the most successful one though, I would like to share her video instead of the short one from the US TV-Hit show, which by the way got extended last Friday for another two seasons! Glee entered the charts on the 23rd of April in 2012, fiive years later than Transvision Vamps ‘I Want Your Love’ with nine weeks in the Top 20 as well, but only 103 points and position 473 out of currently 1915 songs listed in total! Whitney’s version easily surpasses this, having spent 36 weeks since her first appearance back in March 2001! She’s occupying all-time rank 111 with her 294 points and therefore narrowly missing out on the Top 100! Surprisingly both versions never reached the Top Spot, but no matter what anyone is thinking right now,  this tune is a winner for the dance floor!!! And my bed is a winner now as well! See you Sunday for the next release of Enrico’s Top 20!!

Week No. 16

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Enrico’s Hitlist Week 16 (15/04/2013-21/04/2013)

Rank Last Week Artist(s) / Band(s) Song Title Weeks
1 1 Carlos Baute Loquitos De Amor 2
2 7 Nashville Cast Ho Hey 2
3 NEW Bonnie Tyler Believe In Me 1
4 2 Icona Pop & Charli XCX I Love It 4
5 6 Glee Mamma Mia 5
6 3 ESDM Contigo Hasta El Final 6
7 4 Bastille Pompeii 6
8 5 Eva Santa Maria Hombres 7
9 NEW Nelly Hey Porsche 1
10 NEW Robin Stjernberg You 1
11 14 Dolly Parton Straight Talk 4
12 9 Pink & Nate Ruess Just Give Me A Reason 5
13 NEW One Direction C’mon C’mon 1
14 11 Neon Genesis Evangelion Opening Theme 3
15 RE-ENTRY Dolly Parton Light Of A Clear Blue Morning 1
16 RE-ENTRY Meat Loaf I’d Do Anything For Love 1
17 12 Glee Anything Could Happen 10
18 8 Lindi Ortega The Day You Die 9
19 15 Glee Hell To The No 2
20 NEW Emmelie De Forest Only Teardrops 1

As you can see, the only non-mover this week appears to be able to retain his number 1 position for a second week in a row. Carlos Baute manages – with his comeback single ‘Loquitos De Amor’ – to fight off ‘Hey Ho’ from the Nashville Cast who moved up five positions from last week’s seventh rank.

It is however another week dominated by some Eurovision Song Contest entries such as the highest one being the representative for the United Kingdom in Malmo this year Bonnie Tyler, who’s biggest success in Enrico’s Hitlist so far has been ‘Bitter Blue’. I would rate her Eurovision single ‘Believe In Me’ as a typical Bonnie Tyler song, given the melody, voice, arrangements etc and it grew on me this week which means, the 3rd place is more than justified. Check it out and let me know what you think.

 

Other new Eurovision entries this week are from the host nation Sweden itself in form of Robin Stjernbergs ‘You’ (which has been dominating the Swedish Top 60) and Denmarks Emelie De Forest with ‘Only Teardrops’. Robin wins the fight over Denmark at the moment as he is debuting on position 10 compared to Emelie’s 20th place!

You might also notice that American Grammy-Award singer Nelly made his first appearance in Enrico’s Hitlist with his latest single ‘Hey Porsche’ which is yet another example of the huge diversity in my charts, especially this week. Notable drop outs have been Tina Arena’s ‘The Flame’ which – like Carlos Baute – made a surprise comeback seven days ago and the Dixie Chicks’s country themed single ‘I Can Love You Better’! Funny is that UK X-Factor boy group One Direction manages to replace themselves by entering with ‘C’mon C’mon’ on Position 13 and kicking out their very own ‘They Don’t Know About Us’.

 

I would also like to welcome back Dolly Parton’s second most successful single in Enrico’s Charts: ‘Light Of A Clear Blue Morning’. I had a few friends over last night for dinner and I think I managed to impress them with my cooking skills. Anyway, I made them watch the 1992 comedy movie ‘Straight Talk’ (this helped her single with the very same name climbing up again to number 11 from last weeks 14th position) with Dolly herself! This movie also features ‘Desperate Housewives’ star Teri Hatcher! Long story short: this song is one of the most inspiring songs ever written (FACT!) and it is the tune I’d be listening to before every swim race. If my swim training goes well like it is at the moment, I shall be competing again come July  and you can bet that this tune will be ringing through my headphones! I’ll probably humming to this tomorrow morning on my way to work too!