Spirit rose a meter and stepped aside; Somebody took his place, and bravely cried
Here are your rankings for Week 2 (number of weeks on the chart so far in parentheses):
1. David Bowie - "Blackstar" (8)
2. David Bowie - "Lazarus" (1)
3. Radiohead - "Spectre" (1)
3. Savages - "Adore" (1)
5. Grimes - "California" (9)
6. M.I.A. - "Borders" (7)
7. Carly Rae Jepsen - "Run Away with Me" (8)
8. Grimes - "Kill V. Maim" (9)
9. Cage the Elephant - "Trouble" (3)
10. Drake - "Hotline Bling" (7)
11. Hinds - "Warts" (1)
11. LCD Soundsystem - "Christmas Will Break Your Heart" (1)
13. Hazte Lapón - "Odiar" (1)
13. Sleigh Bells - "Champions of Unrestricted Beauty" (1)
15. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - "S.O.B." (2)
15. Pusha T - "Crutches, Crosses, Caskets" (2)
17. Susanne Sundfør - "Accelerate" (8)
18. Animal Collective - "FloriDada" (1)
19. Angie Stone - "2 Bad Habits" (1)
19. Triggerfinger feat. Method Man - "The One" (1)
Total Votes: 105
The top 10 songs from last week's chart went through to this week's. So much has changed in the week since the last chart, some astounding, some momentous, some macabre. I will let the results speak for themselves.
2016 Chart-Toppers by Week (by vote count, not chart position; total weeks atop chart in parentheses):
1. David Bowie - "Blackstar" (2)
2. David Bowie - "Blackstar" (3)
2015 Hall of Fame (10 weeks of advancing votes; automatically retired from chart):
Björk - "Black Lake" (Weeks 4 - 13)
Courtney Barnett - "Pedestrian at Best" (Weeks 5 - 14)
Father John Misty - "I Love You, Honeybear" (Weeks 7 - 16)
Sufjan Stevens - "No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross" (Weeks 8 - 17)
Courtney Barnett - "Depreston" (Weeks 10 - 19)
Grimes - "REALiTi" (Demo) (Weeks 11 - 20)
Tame Impala - "Let It Happen" (Weeks 11 - 20)
Kendrick Lamar - "King Kunta" (Weeks 12 - 21)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Piss Crowns Are Trebled" (Weeks 13 - 22)
Alabama Shakes - "Gimme All Your Love" (Weeks 18 - 27)
Sufjan Stevens - "Fourth of July" (Weeks 18 - 27)
Tame Impala - "Eventually" (Weeks 22 - 31)
Florence + The Machine - "Ship to Wreck" (Weeks 24 - 33)
Beck - "Dreams" (Weeks 25 - 34)
Beach House - "Sparks" (Weeks 27 - 36)
Julia Holter - "Feel You" (Weeks 28 - 37)
CHVRCHES - "Leave a Trace" (Weeks 29 - 38)
Kacey Musgraves - "Biscuits" (Weeks 29 - 38)
Joanna Newsom - "Sapokanikan" (Weeks 33 - 42)
Deafheaven - "Brought to the Water" (Weeks 34 - 43)
Mbongwana Star - "Suzanna" (Weeks 34 - 43)
Julia Holter - "Sea Calls Me Home" (Weeks 37 - 46)
Joanna Newsom - "Leaving the City" (Weeks 39 - 48)
Julia Holter - "Silhouette" (Weeks 40 - 49)
Beach House - "Elegy to the Void" (Weeks 44 - 1)
Grimes - "Flesh Without Blood" (Weeks 44 - 1)
Songs that entered the chart in 2015 will be added to the 2015 Hall of Fame, rather than the 2016 Hall of Fame.
Here is this week's 17-song Spotify chart (with 3 songs included below via YouTube link):
Here is your 2016 AMF Chart playlist of all songs on the chart so far this year:
Thank you all for voting and nominating continuously every week! Please don't be afraid to supply us with nominations - all songs six months old and younger (or who have received promotion via album/video/single in the last six months) are accepted! And seconding nominations by others gives those songs a better chance at making the next poll!
As per usual, the next poll will be created as close to Sunday at 19:00 UTC as I can make it. Best of voting!
