Your Favourites (2018)
Happy New Year from ‘all of us’ (that’s me) at Carte Blanche Music! Like the past year, 2019 will undoubtedly be full of musical surprises. Especially when you’re open to let some new sounds into your life. And if you don’t have the time to find them yourself, please let me help! Simply follow the Carte Blanche Music playlist on Spotify for daily updates of great new music, or bookmark this blog.
Carte Blanche Music doesn’t intend to list all new releases. On the contrary: I make a strict selection and only give you the best new music, twice a day. Since last year, I restrict the number of recommendations to two per day: one around 9AM, and the other around 7PM (CET). This limitation provided for a 35% increase of the number of views per post in 2018.
This brings us to the question: which of my recommendations have been viewed the most throughout the year? In other words: what are your favourites of 2018? The answer is: a totally different set of songs than my year-end list, the Carte Blanche Music Top 2018 😉 and that’s totally fine!
Just a few statistics to kick things off:
- Your Favourites (2018) contain nine songs that were in Your Favourites (2017) already, and apparently stuck with you
- The full Top 3 of your list contains Dutch artists (in total, there are 21 tracks by acts from the Netherlands. Dutch fans are the best)
- 36% of the visitors are Dutch (like myself… Hi mom!)
- 19% of the visitors are Americans, 16% are from the UK; a total of 87 nationalities have come by in 2018 (dank je wel, thanks, merci, obrigado, danke schön, etc.!)
- 26% of all traffic comes from direct searches for specific titles, so Carte Blanche Music also seems to have an archive function
- Other important referrers are Facebook (22%), and Twitter (13%)
- Impressive: the relatively high position of Mokono’s debut single Signs, the final Carte Blanche Music Wildcard of 2018
Okay, I can hear you thinking: ‘Don’t bore us, get to the chorus’, so here they are… Just two more things: all of these great songs (plus 1.000 more) are in my Carte Blanche Music 2018 playlist, and the links below direct you to my original recommendations for more information. Now, enjoy the music!
- Nona – It’s Alright
- Gruppo Sportivo – (This Is A) Normal Song
- Sir Notch – Gimme That Sunshine
- DRMS & L’Isle – La Vague
- Shanguy – La Louze (WC)
- AKA George – Manic Machine
- Mamas Gun – I Need A Win
- James – Better Than That
- Cute Mess – Untied (WC)
- Barns Courtney – “99” / Good Thing
- Danko – Hit Me Up
- Inge van Calkar – Imaginary
- Shed Seven – Won’t Get Home Tonight
- Angèle – La Loi De Murphy
- Freak Power – Hear My Call
- The Revivalists – All My Friends
- Ed Struijlaart – Make It On Your Own
- Nona – Last To Know
- The Dark Light – It’s Alright
- The Nectars – We Will Run
- eMMa – Fått Deg På Hjernen
- Stalking Like Candy – Can You See The Light
- Sophie & The Giants – Bulldog
- Gecko Turner – Cortando Bajito
- Mokono – Signs
- Waylon – That’s How She Goes
- Your.Regular.Boy. – Crazyland
- The Knocks (feat. Sofi Tukker) – Brazilian Soul
- Jonas Brøg feat. Laura Mathilde – I Think Of You I Cry (WC)
- The Nectars – Heaven (WC)
- Lume – Tip Of Your Thumb
- The Chordaes – Something New (Remix)
- Belle & The Beats – Deeper
- Jimi Charles Moody – Happy Song (*)
- TenTemPiés – Only You
- Buika – Deadbeat
- Arthur Adam – O
- Sophie & The Giants – Waste My Air
- Parov Stelar feat. Muddy Waters – Soul Fever Blues
- Cookin’ On 3 Burners feat. Kaiit – Warning (WC)
- Eckhardt & The House – If She Cannot Talk
- Cesár Sampson – Nobody But You
- Ana & The Changes feat. Dan Byron – Take My Hand
- Saveus – Time Can Heal A Man (WC)
- Mamazzoop – Summer Is Shining
- Ronald Maas – Lines In The Darkness
- Julian Velard – Sweatpants On The Living Room Floor
- Priest – Lost Lions
- Joan – Stop And Stare
- Sun Gods – Subtle Science
- Paljaz – Uniek
- Harts – Shake Ya Pants (WC)
- JZMN JYN – Going Under (WC)
- Audio Adam – Emma Watson
- Gecko Turner – Un Limón En La Cabeza
- Nicole Atkins – Brokedown Luck
- Mylène Farmer – Rolling Stone
- Yorick van Norden – More Than Words
- Corine – Il Fait Chaud
- Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank (Sam La More Remix Edit)
- Feu! Chatterton – Zoé
- Hoshi – Je Vous Trouve Un Charme Fou
- The Greyhound Factory – New Year’s Eve
- High Contrast – God Only Knows
- Buffalo Tom – All Be Gone
- Airways – Reckless Tongue
- Ed Struijlaart (feat. The Hornaments) – Guitar
- Luz Casal – Que Corra El Aire
- Lead Pony – Soul Sucker
- Radkey – Basement
- Dermot Kennedy – Moments Passed
- Satellite Stories – The Fame
- Stereo Honey – Through The Dark
- Jerry Williams – Left And Right
- The Dead-On / The New Madness – Lovesick
- a-ha feat. Ingrid Helene Håvik – The Sun Always Shines On TV (MTV Unplugged)
- Bernhoft & The Fashion Bruises – Humanoid (WC)
- Tiny Fighter – New Century (WC)
- Charmless I – Fire Up (Here We Go)
- Your.Regular.Boy. – Get Down Make Love
- Dreadzone – Area Code (*)
- Creeping Jean – Bandit
- Peggy Gou – It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
- Sam Fender – Dead Boys
- Aviator Stash – Shot Song
- Club Drive – Satisfied
- Julian Velard – Don’t Ask Me About Hamilton (Anymore) (WC)
- TANA – Leave Away (WC)
- Stillmode – Wild One
- Eckhardt & The House – Put Me In A Cape
- You Me At Six – Back Again
- Haerts – No Love For The Wild
- Maicø – Hey Hey
- Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel
- Piroshka – Everlastingly Yours
- The New Schematics – Who Do You Think You Are?
- Kat Eaton – Robbing You Blind
- Knife Club – When My Eyes Are Heavy
- Young Gun Silver Fox – Take It Or Leave It
- 1010 Benja SL – Ultimaby
(WC) ex Carte Blanche Music Wildcard
(*) album track

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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