Inverse Point System:
30 = 1, 29 = 2, 28 = 3 [...] 3 = 28, 2 = 29, 1 = 30, et al.
Mediabase Alt Top 30 YTD Points (2016)
1 Kaleo “Way Down We Go” 877
2 Cage The Elephant “Trouble” 789
3 The Lumineers “Ophelia” 775
4 Twenty|one|pilots “Ride” 737
5 Blink-182 “Bored To Death” 723
6 Twenty|one|pilots “Heathens” 692
Most Weeks @#1 in 2016 [8]
7 The Strumbellas “Spirits” 678
8 Bastille “Good Grief” 606
9 Cold War Kids “First” 594
Had 7 weeks at #1 in 2015, none in 2016
10 The Head and The Heart “All We Ever Knew” 580
11 Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dark Necessities” 580
12 Bishop Briggs “River” 555
Highest Song NOT to go #1
13 Nothing But Thieves “Trip Switch” 487
14 Coldplay “Adventure Of A Lifetime” 454
15 Fitz and The Tantrums “HandClap” 454
16 Phantogram “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore” 434
17 Twenty|one|pilots “Stressed Out” 422
18 Grouplove “Welcome To Your Life” 417
19 The Struts “Kiss This” 416
20 X Ambassadors “Unsteady” 407
21 Empire Of The Sun “Walking On A Dream” 400
22 Foals “Mountain At My Gates” 389
23 Green Day “Bang Bang” 389
24 Cage The Elephant “Mess Around” 367
25 Kings Of Leon “Waste A Moment” 364
26 Judah and The Lion “Take It All Back” 339
27 AWOLnation “Woman Woman” 322
28 Young The Giant “Something To Believe In” 317
29 Beck “Wow” 307
30 JR JR “Gone” 301
31 Weezer “King Of The World” 300
32 Miike Snow “Genghis Khan” 299
33 Bear Hands “2AM” 284
34 Kongos “Take It From Me” 268
35 Jimmy Eat World “Sure and Certain” 262
36 Glass Animals “Life Itself” 261
37 Catfish and The Bottlemen “Soundcheck” 257
38 The Dirty Heads “That’s All I Need” 229
39 Declan McKenna “Brazil” 219
40 Vance Joy “Fire And The Flood” 218
41 Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness “High Dive” 216
42 Silversun Pickups “Circadian Rhythm (Last Dance)” 212
43 Empire Of The Sun “High and Low” 192
44 Coin “Talk Too Much” 191
45 Foo Fighters “Saint Cecilia” 186
46 Barns Courtney “Fire” 184
47 Panic! At The Disco “Victorious” 181
48 Blink-182 “She’s Out Of Her Mind” 178
49 Joywave “Destruction” 168
50 K.Flay “Blood In The Cut” 166
51 Weezer “Thank God For Girls” 164
52 Saint Motel “Move” 158
53 Nothing But Thieves “Wake Up Call” 150
54 Imagine Dragons “Roots” 139
55 Red Hot Chili Peppers “Go Robot” 133
56 Mumford and Sons “Ditmas” 128
57 Disclosure/Lorde “Magnets” 126
58 Elle King “Under The Influence” 123
59 The 1975 “The Sound” 119
60 The Wombats “Give Me A Try” 119
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61 Silversun Pickups “Nightlight” 118
62 Disturbed “The Sound Of Silence” 116
63 The Struts “Put Your Money On Me” 106
64 Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness “Fire Escape” 103
65 The 1975 “Somebody Else” 100
66 Green Day “Still Breathing” 98
67 Weathers “Happy Pills” 93
68 Elle King “Ex’s and Oh’s” 92
69 The Strumbellas “We Don’t Know” 87
70 Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats “S.O.B.” 87
71 Catfish and The Bottlemen “7” 82
72 Death Cab For Cutie “The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive” 81
73 X Ambassadors/Jamie N Commons “Low Life” 76
74 The Lumineers “Cleopatra” 71
75 Lewis Del Mar “Loud(y)” 70
76 BØRNS “10,000 Emerald Pools” 61
77 Coldplay “Up&Up” 59
78 Coldplay/Beyoncé “Hymn For The Weekend” 52
79 888 “Critical Mistakes” 52
80 Band Of Horses “Casual Party” 49
81 The 1975 “Love Me” 48
82 Finish Ticket “Color” 46
83 Fitz and The Tantrums “Roll Up” 45
84 Chris Cornell “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart” 43
85 Foals “What Went Down” 41
86 X Ambassadors “Renegades” 39
87 Bob Moses “Tearing Me Up” 34
88 Panic! At The Disco “Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time” 31
89 Saint Motel “Cold Cold Man” 30
90 The Dirty Heads “Oxygen” 30
91 Shinedown “State Of My Head” 29
92 Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats “I Need Never Get Old” 23
93 Death Cab For Cutie “Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)” 23
94 Broods “Free” 22
95 Lukas Graham “7 Years” 17
96 Capital Cities “Vowels” 17
97 Bleeker “Highway” 16
98 Zipper Club “Going The Distance” 16
99 Dreamers “Sweet Disaster” 13
100 The Hunna “You and Me” 8
101Of Monsters and Men “Wolves Without Teeth” 5
102 Milky Chance “Cocoon” 4
103 Big Grams “Lights On” 4
104 Holy White Hounds “Switchblade” 3
105 Chef’Special “In Your Arms” 3
106 Highly Suspect “My Name Is Human” 3
107 Bishop Briggs “Wild Horses” 2
108 Radiohead “Burn The Witch” 2
109 Florence + The Machine “Delilah” 2
110 The Revivalists “Wish I Knew You” 1
111 The Avett Brothers “Ain’t No Man” 1
112 El Vy “Return To The Moon” 1
2015 (Top 20 of 113)
1 X Ambassadors “Renegades” 894 Most Weeks @#1 in 2015 [11]
2 Cold War Kids “First” 766
3 Elle King “Ex’s and Oh’s” 737
4 Walk The Moon “Shut Up And Dance” 723
5 Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness “Cecilia And The Satellite” 634 Highest Song NOT to go #1
6 Twenty|one|pilots “Tear In My Heart” 609
7 Mumford and Sons “Believe” 534
8 Mumford and Sons “The Wolf” 520
9 Death Cab For Cutie “Black Sun” 504
10 AWOLnation “Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)” 502
11 Vance Joy “Mess Is Mine” 496
12 Muse “Dead Inside” 493
13 Coleman Hell “2 Heads” 484
14 Robert DeLong “Long Way Down” 470
15 Beck “Dreams” 467
16 Death Cab For Cutie “The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive” 453
17 Modest Mouse “Lampshades On Fire” 438
18 Of Monsters and Men “Crystals” 431
19 Milky Chance “Stolen Dance” 411
20 The Struts “Could Have Been Me” 409
#1s (inverse points era):
2017:
2016: Kaleo “Way Down We Go” 877
2015: X Ambassadors "Renegades" 894
2014: Kongos “Come With Me Now” 887
2013: Capital Cities “Safe and Sound” 1,053
2012: Imagine Dragons “It’s Time” 905
2011: Foster The People “Pumped Up Kicks” 1,073