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The Mayhem Charts – July 2025 August 18, 2025

Filed under: Mayhem Monthly Chart,Mayhem Top 20 Chart — justwilliam1959 @ 6:56 pm
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Here is the Mayhem chart for July 2025, a little late (just like last month) I know, but better late than never right? Regular readers know the chart is based on my streaming listening habits. These are gathered over the last month by obscurify.com. My taste in music dropped one point to 98% more obscure than the rest of the UK! The chart remains contemporary-ish (but if a classic artist releases something new they might feature in the chart). However, last month’s top three “Legacy” artists were David Bowie, Carole King and Bob Marley. Obscurify also suggests the most obscure artists I have listened to for March and they are Liz Davinci, Dead Rat Society and The Dead Zoo. Bowie, Dead Rat Society, Liz Davinci and David Bowie have retained their obscure and legacy positions from last month.

Panic Shack sit atop the artist chart for July 2025. party Nails was the only act that remained in the artist chart from last month, falling from number 1 to number 10. Three artists appear in the artist chart and the song chart: Scene Queen, Panic Shack and the Dead Zoo. Scene Queen smashes her way to the top of the song chart with her wonderful single and future disco classic “L-Shaped Couch” 70% of the artist chart is female or female fronted and the song chart is not far behind! ALT BLK ERA and Delilah Bon make a welcome return to the artist chart. So without further ado here are those charts in full! Click on the Spotify link below to listen to the famous (or infamous) five! Seventeen minutes of fabulous music!

Mayhem Artist Chart July 2025

1 Panic Shack
2 The Dead Zoo
3 Paul Weller
4 Jah Wobble
5 Scene Queen
6 ALT BLK ERA
7 Delilah Bon
8 Cassyette
9 Kindelan
10 Party Nails

Mayhem Song Chart July 2025

1 L-Shaped Couch – Scene Queen
2 Thelma And Louise – Panic Shack
3 Catherine – Rival Consoles
4 Catch 22 – Specky Cult
5 Bruise – The Dead Zoo

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The Mayhem Charts – April 2025 May 28, 2025

Filed under: Mayhem Monthly Chart,Mayhem Top 20 Chart — justwilliam1959 @ 3:41 pm
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Here is the Mayhem chart for April 2025, rather tardy I know, but better late than never right? Regular readers know the chart is based on my streaming listening habits. These are gathered over the last month by obscurify.com. My taste in music remains 99% more obscure than the rest of the UK! The chart remains contemporary-ish (but if a classic artist releases something new they might feature in the chart). However, last month’s top three “Legacy” artists were David Bowie, Max Romeo and the Isley Brothers. Obscurify also suggests the most obscure artists I have listened to for March and they are Liz Davinci, Dead Rat Society and Kindelan. Bowie, Liz Davinci and Kindelan have retained their positions from last month.

Millie Manders and the Shutup are the top artist for April’ up from number three in March . Millie and the gang are the only artist in the artist chart remaining from last month. The artist chart, I am pleased to say, is made up of 70% female or female fronted acts. These include Lexi Jones, Emma-Jean Thackray, Litany, Greentea Peng and the amazingly talented abs! Three artists feature in both the artist chart and the song chart; Cassyette (7 – artist, 2 – song), Dead Rat Society (4 – artist, 4 – song) and Apollo Junction (10 – artist, 5 – song). One of Mayhem’s favourite bands tops the song chart with cracking current single “Take Down”, yes it is one of York’s finest bands, Lost Trends! So without further ado here are those charts in full! Click on the Spotify link below to listen to the famous (or infamous) five! Nearly fifteen minutes of great music!

Mayhem Artist Chart April 2025

1 Millie Manders and the Shutup
2 Abs
3 Lexi Jones
4 Dead Rat Society
5 Greentea Peng
6 Litany
7 Cassyette
8 James and the Cold Gun
9 Emma-Jean Thackray
10 Apollo Junction

Mayhem Song Chart April 2025

1 Take Down – Lost Trends
2 This World Fucking Sucks – Cassyette
3 Elephant – Neckbreakers
4 The Night – Dead Rat Society
5 Settle Down – Apollo Junction

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The Mayhem Charts – December 2024 January 1, 2025

Filed under: Mayhem Monthly Chart,Mayhem Top 20 Chart — justwilliam1959 @ 5:49 pm
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Here is the Mayhem chart for December 2024. Regular readers know the chart is based on my Spotify listening habits. These are gathered over the last month by obscurify.com. Apparently, my tastes have fallen by four points to 92% more obscure than the rest of the UK! It must be all the Christmas standards I have listened to last month. Incidentally no Christmas songs are included in the chart. But the most popular Chrimbo tune was Mr. Strange with “Santa Clause Hates The Poor”. The chart remains contemporary-ish (but if a classic artist releases something new they might feature in the chart). However, last month’s top three “Legacy” artists were David Bowie, Cat Stevens and Wham! Obscurify also suggests the most obscure artists I have listened to for November: Liz Davinci, Sleuth Gang and Carol Hodge. Carol also appears in the artist chart and the song chart. There is a top ten artists chart and a top 5 songs chart. There is the usual eclectic mix of artists, including three that were in the top ten last month. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds went up from number 2 to number 1. Herorangecoat is staying at number 7. Delilah Bon is staying at number 9. Delilah has been in the artist charts now for 13 months! Two artists appear in both lists for December: Delilah Bon and Carol Hodge. The number one song comes from HANDSHAKE IN SPACE. So without further ado here are those charts in full! Click on the Spotify link below to listen to the famous (or infamous) five!

Mayhem Artist Chart December 2024

1 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
2 Carol Hodge
3 Cassyette
4 Taylor Swift
5 Lana Del Ray
6 Du Blonde
7 HerOrangeCoat
8 Mannequin Pussy
9 Delilah Bon
10 Bobbie Dazzle

Mayhem Song Chart December 2024

1 Let’s Control It – HANDSHAKE IN SPACE
2 Not The President – Delilah Bon
3 Shake The Slack – Avalanche Party
4 Hunt You Down – ALT BLK ERA
5 Manoeuvres – Carol Hodge

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Mayhem’s Top Songs Of 2024 December 28, 2024

Filed under: Song Of The Year — justwilliam1959 @ 8:57 pm
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A couple of weeks ago you will have read all about Mayhem’s Top 20 albums of 2024. Well here are our top 10 songs of 2024. What were your favourite songs this year? Some of these artists also featured in the top 20 albums list too.

1 Life’s A Fucking Miracle – James
2 Maverick – Delilah Bon
3 My Drummer’s Girlfriend – ALT BLK ERA
4 Two Years This May – Molly Rymer
5 Ipecac – Cassyette
6 Millions Of Heartbeats – Kate Nash
7 I Really Fucked It Up – girli
8 Best Junkie You Adore – Jazmin Bean
9 Age Of Stupid – Jellybricks
10 Collateral Damage – Avalanche Party

You can find them all on a playlist below too 🙂

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The Mayhem Charts – September 2024 October 1, 2024

Filed under: Mayhem Monthly Chart,Mayhem Top 20 Chart — justwilliam1959 @ 7:44 pm
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Here is the Mayhem chart for September 2024. Regular and constant readers know that the chart is based on my Spotify listening habits over the last month gathered by obscurify.com. Apparently, my tastes have risen slightly to 98% more obscure than the rest of the UK! The chart remains contemporary-ish (but if a classic artist releases something new they might feature in the chart). However, last month’s top three “Legacy” artists were Stevie Wonder, Kate Bush and David Bowie. Obscurify also suggests the most obscure artists I have listened to for September: Liz Davinci, Kindelan, and Birdlands. There is a top ten artists chart and a top 5 songs chart. There is the usual eclectic mix of artists, including two that were in the top ten last month; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (falling from 3 to 10) and Delilah Bon (a huge rise from 9 to number 1)! Delilah has been in the artist charts now for ten consecutive months. Two artists appear in both lists for September Delilah Bon and Cassyette! The number one song is “Ballad 2 (Skin Off My Back)” by, the delightful, HerOrangeCoat. So without further ado here are those charts in full! Click on the Spotify link below to listen to the famous (or infamous) five!

Mayhem Artist Chart September 2024

1 Delilah Bon
2 Cassyette
3 Birdlands
4 The The
5 Nick Lowe
6 Sabrina Carpenter
7 The White Roses
8 Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip
9 The Courettes
10 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Mayhem Song Chart September 2024

1 Ballad 2 (Skin Off My Back) – HerOrangeCoat
2 Mad Woman – Lloren
3 Villain – Delilah Bon
4 This World Fucking Sucks – Cassyette
5 Aggravate Me – Read The Room

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Mayhem’s 12 Days Of Christmas – Day 8 – Cassyette December 21, 2023

Filed under: Christmas — justwilliam1959 @ 12:18 am
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Day 8 of Mayhem’s 12 Days of Christmas series for 2023 features Cassyette, one of the UK’s finest music talents and another artist that I discovered thanks to Spotify’s Misfits 2.0 playlist. She has been described as nu-metal, but personally I think she just takes metal to new, hardcore heights that it has not reached before. But it’s not only metal she also skillfully blends elements of electro and punk into her songs. Since “Jean” exploded into the world in 2019 there have been an incredible collection of great songs from Cassyette. Plenty of great singles, many of which were collected on the rather wonderful ‘Sad Girl Mixtape’ album from 2022. Her new single “Boom” is a beautiful, bombastic banger and her cover of Harry Styles’ “As It Was” is sublime. Cassyette will only get bigger and better in 2024, be there!

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