So, we have reached a milestone of 100 weeks of TBFM Official Charts. When we set out on this project I don’t think we thought it was going to last but not only has it become one of the most listened to shows on TBFM, it has changed things for many bands. Having a number one song, the most listened to song of the last 7 days can really give a booster to a band. OK so they haven’t sold 17,000 singles but still, they had the most listened to song of the week on the UK’s biggest independent radio station. That is a massive achievement.
So here’s some facts and figures for you. In 100 weeks:
- 53 bands have had number one’s
- 72 different tracks have been at number one
- 22 bands have had a number one more than once
- Only 4 bands have reached number one for a total of 3 weeks or more (Bonafide, Matty James, The Main Grains & A Tower Of Crows)
- Only 1 band has had the top of the charts for 3 consecutive weeks (A Tower Of Crows)
- A Tower Of Crows is the most successful chart topper with 7 weeks in total at number 1 with Livewire
9 bands have had 2 different tracks at number one:
Black State Highway (Trouble / Broken)
Bonafide (Better Safe Than Sorry / Fill Your Head With Rock)
Healthy Junkies (Je Suis Free / Danny Trash)
Last Great Dreamers (Glitterball Apocalypse / Dope School)
Mongrel (Fuck Off And Die! / Over and Over)
Quiet The Thief (Wake Up The Dead / Slow Running Train)
Resin (Open Heart Trauma / Burn)
The Main Grains (We’re Happy Round Here / Unscrewed)
The Senton Bombs (Trailblazer / Mainstream)
2 bands have had 3 different tracks at number one:
Massive Wagons (Welcome To The World / Fight The System / Red Dress)
Reign Of Fury (Gates Of Sanity / The Love of a Dying God / All Is Lost)
2 bands have had 4 tracks at number one:
Electric Cake Salad (Scene Of The Crime / Dimenticato / Superstar / Baby Firefly)
The Idol Dead (Bar At The Edge Of Time / Travelling Man / Black Eyes and Prose / Silver Bullet Cocktail)
Mucka Jay, founder of TBFM said “when you consider over 2,000 tracks per week are played on TBFM with approximately 70% coming from unsigned and independent and only around 20% of those are repeated that means there is around 1,100 unsigned & independent artists getting airplay on TBFM every single week (*these are rough calculations based on 2015 history). It is one hell of an achievement for each band, they should be extremely proud!”
So, we thank all the bands for giving us such a great variety of awesome music. TBFM is all about discovering new favourite bands. We don’t play a band then throw them in the cupboard until they are well known, we are here to support each and every band around the world. As long as its rock, punk or metal… we will give it airplay.
Massive shout out to all the TBFM DJ’s too. They work tirelessly going through thousands of bands music every single week, sometimes taking 6 hours to prepare a 2 hour radio show. Every one of the staff here at TBFM is as dedicated as the bands that make the music. This is what we do, this is what we love… The Best For Music - TBFM, the best online since 2009!
Please do check out all our TBFM Official Chart number one bands and remember to tune in Thursday’s at 4pm UK time for the show (repeated Saturday’s 6pm UK time):
A Tower Of Crows - https://www.facebook.com/atowerofcrows
Absolva - https://www.facebook.com/absolva
Acid Reign - https://www.facebook.com/acid.reign.thrash
Autumn Ghost - https://www.facebook.com/AutumnGhostBand
Beholder - https://www.facebook.com/BeholderUK
Black Bombers - https://www.facebook.com/BlackBombers150
Black State Highway - https://www.facebook.com/blackstatehighway
Bonafide - https://www.facebook.com/Bonafiderocks
Bulletproof Rose - https://www.facebook.com/BulletproofRose
Chainfist - https://www.facebook.com/chainfist
Chase The Ace - https://www.facebook.com/ChaseTheAceBand
Chris Appleton - https://www.facebook.com/chrisappletonuk
City of Thieves - https://www.facebook.com/cityofthievesuk
Crashgate - https://www.facebook.com/CrashgateOfficial
Deified - https://www.facebook.com/Crestfallenuk
Dirtbag Republic - https://www.facebook.com/dirtbagrepublic
Electric Cake Salad - https://www.facebook.com/electriccakesalad
Eradikator - https://www.facebook.com/eradikatoruk
Evil Masquerade - https://www.facebook.com/evilmasquerade
Fear The Fallen - https://www.facebook.com/fearthefallenuk
Gehtika - https://www.facebook.com/gehtika
Healthy Junkies - https://www.facebook.com/healthyjunkiesband
Hell’s Addiction - https://www.facebook.com/HellsAddiction
I.C.O.N. - https://www.facebook.com/iconukonline
Kill All The Gentlemen - https://www.facebook.com/killallthegentlemen
Kyrbgrinder - https://www.facebook.com/Kyrbgrinder
Last Great Dreamers - https://www.facebook.com/lastgreatdreamers
Lost Gravity - https://www.facebook.com/lostgravityofficial
Mad Hatter 2.0 - https://www.facebook.com/hattertude20
Massive Wagons - https://www.facebook.com/MassiveWagons
Matty James - https://www.facebook.com/themattyjames
Mongrel - https://www.facebook.com/MongrelOfficial
Neck - https://www.facebook.com/Neck.PsychoCeilidh
Outcry - https://www.facebook.com/outcryrocks
Quiet The Thief - https://www.facebook.com/ThiefQTT
Reign of Fury - https://www.facebook.com/reignoffury
Resin - https://www.facebook.com/resinonline
Role Models - https://www.facebook.com/rolemodelssoho
Screaming Eagles - https://www.facebook.com/screamingeaglesrock
Shadows & Mirrors - https://www.facebook.com/shadowsmirrors
Siren On The Moon - https://www.facebook.com/SirenOnTheMoon
Southfall - https://www.facebook.com/SouthfallBand
Superhooch - https://www.facebook.com/superhooch
System Of Hate - https://www.facebook.com/systemofhate
The Heretic Order - https://www.facebook.com/thehereticorder
The Idol Dead - https://www.facebook.com/theidoldead
The Main Grains - https://www.facebook.com/Maingrains
The Midnight Dogs - https://www.facebook.com/TheMidnightDogs
The Senton Bombs - https://www.facebook.com/thesentonbombs
The Sick Livers - https://www.facebook.com/TheSickLivers
Triggerman - https://www.facebook.com/triggermanrocks
Trucker Diablo - https://www.facebook.com/TRUCKERDIABLO
Where Fires Are - https://www.facebook.com/wherefiresare
