IRMA and RTE 2FM announce Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart focusing on the biggest tracks by Irish acts

We have also revealed Ireland's Top 20 biggest homegrown tracks of 2019 so far.

IRMA and RTÉ 2FM have today announced the launch of the brand new Irish Homegrown Top 20 Chart on Friday June 7.

The weekly chart, compiled by the Official Charts Company, will highlight the biggest tracks by Irish acts each week based on combined sales across physical, download and streaming. Eligibility rules can be found by clicking here.

As part of The Official Chart Show on RTE2FM every Friday night at 7pm, host Bláthnaid Treacy will unveil the biggest Homegrown singles of the week, with the full Top 20 published in the Charts section of this site.

Preceding the launch of the first Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart next week, and to coincide with RTÉ 2FM’s 40th birthday celebrations on May 31, the biggest Irish Homegrown tracks of the year so far have been revealed with Dermot Kennedy’s Power Over Me taking the top spot.

Power Over Me has spent 29 weeks on the Official Irish Singles Top 50 and is the biggest seller of 2019 so far by an Irish act, besting Westlife’s Hello My Love by just 70 combined sales.

"I can’t believe Power Over Me is the biggest track by an Irish act this year so far! I’m so grateful for all the support I’ve been shown with this song," Dermot told us. "Having a chart that focuses purely on Irish artists is a great way to highlight the breadth of talent in Ireland, and I consider myself very lucky to be part of it."

Hello My Love therefore, has to settle for second place on the Irish Homegrown Top 20 of 2019 so far. Westlife’s first new single since 2011, it gave them their 26^th Top 10 hit on the Official Irish Singles Chart when it peaked at Number 2 in January.

Picture This have two of the Top 5 biggest Irish Homegrown tracks of the year so far with One Drink at Number 3 and Everything or Nothing at Number 5. Both tracks are taken from their Number 1 album MDRN LV which was released in February.

Completing the Top 5 is Hozier whose Almost (Sweet Music) ranks at Number 4. Taken from his second album Wasteland Baby! which went straight to the top of the Official Albums Chart on release in March.

Wild Youth - whose song Making Me Dance ranks in 8th - are ready for "the wealth of talent" in Ireland to be recognised.

Ireland's Top 20 biggest Homegrown songs of 2019 so far

POS	TITLE	ARTIST	PEAK
1	POWER OVER ME	DERMOT KENNEDY	11
2	HELLO MY LOVE	WESTLIFE	2
3	ONE DRINK	PICTURE THIS	12
4	ALMOST (SWEET MUSIC)	HOZIER	8
5	EVERYTHING OR NOTHING	PICTURE THIS	7
6	LOST	DERMOT KENNEDY	26
7	MOVEMENT	HOZIER	40
8	MAKING ME DANCE	WILD YOUTH	73
9	KETAMINE	VERSATILE	49
10	ALWAYS	GAVIN JAMES	53
11	FOLLOW YOUR FIRE	KODALINE	20
12	BETTER MAN	WESTLIFE	8
13	MONSTER	WALKING ON CARS	N/A
14	CAN'T MOVE ON	WILD YOUTH	59
15	BROTHER	KODALINE	36
16	TOO MUCH TO ASK	NIALL HORAN	6
17	GLOW	GAVIN JAMES	65
18	COLDEST WATER	WALKING ON CARS	72
19	BEAR CLAWS	ACADEMIC	N/A
20	THIS TOWN	NIALL HORAN	6