Should have been bigger? 40 big songs that have missed the Top 40 this year

Trivia: the most successful band never to reach the top 40 is Welsh folk rock band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. They had eight singles charting between numbers 41 and 65!

Nina Nesbitt's "Loyal to Me" deserved to be a big hit but it didn't even make the top 100.

take that - out of our hands was #26 in sales chart but it didnt have an enrty

Yeah it's a shame No Roots wasn't a hit. It certainly sounded like one, and wasn't short of radio plays (at least on Radio 2 where it caught my ear). Oh well maybe it will be another slow burner like Feel It Still which was one that missed out this time last year, then suddenly took off.

So many to add to this list, although I'd disagree with a few up there:

Tom Grennan - Found what I've been looking for (amazing pop track, TBF all his songs
released this year were worthy of chart hits)

Black Coffee - Drive (absolute dance tune, great to drive to also)

Dodie - Human (If I could call a tune sweet perfection, then this would be it, with a feature from Tom Walker on backing vocals, they dont come better than this)

21 pilots - My blood (how are 21 pilots not massive already? This track is great and deserved to be a hit)

Robin Schulz - Sugar (Robin has released so many amazing dance tunes the last few years, some with great artists too, this is no exception. If you haven't heard any of his released tracks this year I urge you to take a listen to any of them and you wont be disappointed)

Zedd & Elley Duhe- Happy now (another great dance track, expected this to do far better)

Robyn - Honey (she needs no introduction but how this song wasnt a hit is amazing, I guess will have to wait until it gets covered by another artist shame as Robyn has the perfect voice for the track anyway)

Bugzy Malone with JP Cooper - ordinary people (with all these rap stars becoming big and scoring hits this year how on earth is bugzy malone not the biggest of them all? His rapping is spot on with feeling in every word, the production on every track is perfect, the melodies phenomenal. This track is so heart felt but I guess being a rapper these days you need to be slagging off other rappers, swearing constantly, bragging about sleeping with loads of girls, get somebody doing a lame dance etc etc. Seems real talent is just overlooked ☹

Bugzy malone with rag n bone man - Run (wow if I had to include ordinary people then I cant miss run out. Another amazing track with so much emotion from both Bugzy and also rag N bone man, this should have been massive. Listen to any other rap song then this and see which one is better after a few listens)

There are so so many more to add to this list but I'd be here all day. I'll leave you a list.

Sia and dolly Parton - Here I am
Lana Del Ray - Mariners Apartment Complex
All of Kygos tracks this year
All of imagine dragons tracks this year
Bebe Rexa - I'm a mess
Purple disco machine - dished
Dermot Kennedy- power over me
Paloma Faith - loyal
All of Jay Puttys tracks this year
One republic - start again
Florence and the machine - Patricia
Sean Paul with Ellie goulding - Bad love
Lily Allen - trigger (bang bang)

I don't know about now but in the past it was always important to hit the Top 75. That is when your song became a hit. It was also the point where you'd have retailers ringing up the labels/distributors and ordering larger numbers of stock.
Personally speaking I think as long as streaming is included the charts are worthless.

Johnny Marr - Hi Hello, Gaz Coombes - Deep Pockets, James - Better Than That, Manic Street Preachers - Distant Colours, Franz Ferdinand - Feel The Love Go, Unknown Mortal Orchestra - American Guilt, The Coral - Sweet Release, Breeders - Nervous Mary, Underworld & Iggy Pop - Bells & Circles, Goat - Let It Burn are among my fave songs of this year, and of course none of them would hit the top 100 let alone the top 40 but such is life.

A majority of my playlist songs don’t enter the top 100 at all... it is a shame! So many good tracks out there!

Didn’t think of the main stream playlists to be honest as I don’t listen to them. I have my own that has a massive variety of music which I usually source from New Music Friday. When I do listen to Radio 1 it has been the hits that have just been around for ages so usually switch over! Thanks for the comments guys. Interesting to hear people’s thoughts.

The charts is now incredibly hard to get into. Radio 1 now control the charts even more than before, resulting in tracks being consistently streamed as it’s the only songs they hear. Streaming obviously is now how music is listened to and I understand that completely, it also incredibly difficult as there is so many artists now releasing music which is great, moren choice isn’t a bad thing. We need music shows like TOTP to come back. It then give gives artists an opportunity to promote their music as well as the artists that are in the chart. Feel sorry for artists that are making a comeback like All Saints, Boyzone, Backstreet Boys etc who are just played on Radio 2 they haven’t got a chance.