New Music United Top 20 Chart (January 7, 2012)

Here are the 20 most popular blog singles in the first week of 2012 with notes.

1. Amazingly, my favourite blog single from 2011 is this week’s number one! No, I did not cheat. I did, however, promote Koudlam a lot on all the social media platforms.
2. There are already five 2012 blog singles on the chart: Destroyer, Air, The Quiet Americans, Scissor Sisters and Bon Iver (vinyl release) have already released new material this year. (The David Lynch remix of Zola Jesus is also from 2012).
3. There are five rediscovered artists on the chart: Tom Jones with CSNY, Vanilla Fudge, Kid Loco (this is already 10 years old!), The Cult (the funk band) and Les Rallizes Denudes (the cult band of all cult bands).
4. Bryan Black released two of the biggest blog singles last year under the Motor and Black Asteroid monikers.
5. Our common friend Martin Gore from Depeche Mode is featured on two blog singles: Motor and VCMG.
6. As always, there are Danish artists on the chart. This week Tim Christensen and Spleen United are waving with the oldest flag in the world.

Koudlam – Alcoholic’s Hymn (2011)		1
Tom Jones & Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – Long Time Gone (1969)		2
Destroyer – Leave Me Alone (New Order Cover Version) (2012)		3
Tim Christensen & The Damn Crystals – Surprise Me (2011)		4
Zola Jesus – In Your Nature (2011)		5
Black Asteroid – Engine 1 (2011)		6
Vanilla Fudge – Some Velvet Morning (1969)		7
Motor feat. Martin Gore – Man Made Machine (2011)		8
Air – Sonic Armada (A Trip To The Moon) (2012)		9
Kid Loco – Cocaine Diana (2002)		10
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross feat. Karen O – Immigrant Song (2011)		11
The Quiet Americans – Weird Mountain (2012)		12
VCMG – Spock (Original Version) (2011)		13
Kieran Leonard – Harold Pinter Is Dead (2011)		14
Spleen United – Days Of Thunder (2011)		15
The Cult – The Mail Must Go Through (1976)		16
Rituals – Walk Away (2011)		17
Scissor Sisters – Shady Love (2012)		18
Bon Iver – Towers (2012)		19
Les Rallizes Denudes – Strung Out Deeper Than the Night (1977)		20