The Chart Show: Best of 2018
by Mark Wheat
December 27, 2018
The Top 20 this year is made up of all the songs that got to Number One. The WKS column indicates how many weeks they stayed at the top and the TB column is a tie-breaker, the total of all the other positions they held on the chart. So the smaller the number the better! First Aid Kit are above Brandi at #8 because "The Joke" started it's stay on the Chart in 2017. And Leon is in the basement as "Bet Ain't Worth The Hand" was the only #1 not to stay on the chart for 10 weeks. Brandi Carlile must reign as the Queen of our Chart this year for having 3 songs on. First Aid Kit and Trampled By Turtles are runners up, both having two! Six local entries is very impressive and CHVRCHES are the only non Americans! And reflecting the year in general 8 out of the Top 10 are female fronted acts.
Submit your Chart Show ballot this week for a chance to win The Current's Lemon Twigs giveaway at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN on January 26, 2019!
| TW | Wks | TB | The Current Chart Show | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist | Song | |||
| 1 | 9 | Childish Gambino | This Is America | |
| 2 | 5 | 27 | Janelle Monae | Make Me Feel |
| 3 | 5 | 28 | Bad Bad Hats | Write It On Your Heart |
| 4 | 5 | 39 | Brandi Carlile | The Mother |
| 5= | 4 | 33 | First Aid Kit | Fireworks |
| 5= | 4 | 33 | CHVRCHES | My Enemy |
| 7 | 3 | Dessa | Good Grief | |
| 8 | 2 | First Aid Kit | Tender Offerings | |
| 9 | 2 | Brandi Carlile | The Joke | |
| 10 | 1 | 40 | Trampled by Turtles | The Middle |
| 11 | 1 | 45 | Leon Bridges | Bad Bad News |
| 12 | 1 | 48 | Greta Van Fleet | Highway Tune |
| 13 | 1 | 51 | Trampled By Turtles | Kelly's Bar |
| 14 | 1 | 52 | Death Cab For Cutie | 60 And Punk |
| 15 | 1 | 64 | The Decemberists | Severed |
| 16 | 1 | 65 | Jack White | Connected By Love |
| 17 | 1 | 66 | Hippo Campus | Bambi |
| 18= | 1 | 83 | Jeremy Messersmith | Purple Hearts |
| 18= | 1 | 83 | Brandi Carlile | Hold Out Your Hand |
| 20 | 1 | Leon Bridges | Bet Ain't Worth The Hand |
