My Top 30 Songs for November 15-21, 2026

I’m still besotted with “Marianne” by Fontaines D.C., thus it holds onto the top spot for a fifth consecutive week, making it the second song this year – after sombr‘s “12 to 12” – and only the third song so far this decade, to spend five weeks at #1 (the other being “The Faithful Heart” by Wons Phreely + The Horses at the beginning of 2025). And “Metastasized” by the outstanding and enormously-talented Canadian indie rock band Bealby Point advances four spots to #2. Their songs are always ear worms that continue to grow on you, and “Metastasized” keeps sounding better with every listen. There are two new additions to my chart this week, starting with the joyously upbeat “Talk It Over” by Texas-based singer-songwriter and producer Leon Bridges, one of my favorite male vocalists making music today. The song is from his fifth album Happiness Anytime, released on September 25th. Several of this songs have appeard on my charts, two of which – “Bad Bad News” in 2018 and “Peaceful Place” in…

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