Board Thread:Off-Topic/@comment-29512888-20181229213452

Official Charts hasn't updated its list yet, so I'll give you a link to Spotify's New Music Friday archives in Genius.

Before going to the Recommendations, I would like to make an important announcement about the two music series I've been running since January (which is completely copy-pasted from the K-Pop thread from this Monday because I'm a lazy butt): the "New Songs of the Week" series is ending, and I will make a list of "Best Songs of the Month" instead. There are 3 reasons why:
 * 1) Spotify's New Music Friday playlist has more songs than Officialcharts.com's New Releases list (although the songs showed in the latter are usually different).
 * 2) The former are archived by Genius while the latter aren't.
 * 3) Last but not least, the series lost its meaning over time. When I started, I wanted to rate every single song in the Official Charts list and in Kpopalypse's post respectively, but then I realised such task was too big for me, especially considering school and other things in real life; therefore, I ended up focusing more on my own musical recommendations rather than on the new songs of each episode.

The new "Best Songs of the Month" series will be divided into Western music and K-Pop, just like the current one, and I will make a list of the best songs I found each month (the number depends on how much stuff I found). Also, videos will be embedded and not directly uploaded to the wiki, because I don't want to fill it with useless stuff. I don't know how long I can keep the consistency of this series, but hey, I can't know if I don't try! :)

Recommendations I should have probably put this in my Best list as a Honorable Mention, it's just very relatable (I guess that's not a word but who cares). We close the last episode of my series with one of the most pleasant surprised of the year: a great song from Charlie Puth's Voicenotes! I really enjoyed going through a lot of what this year had to offer in terms of music, even though I'm sure I've missed something great somewhere. Most of all, I enjoyed myself a lot trying to find recommendations every week, even from past decades (such as the 2000's and the 90's). My next music-based thread will be next month to introduce my "Best Songs of the Month" experiment, so all I want to say now is: thank you so much for following me throughout 2018! Yeah, I haven't had much success, but hey, at least it's something! Also...

WOOP WOOP WOOP! (it was my most listened song from this year so I couldn't refuse to pay homage to it lol) 