ajmkv's Top 75, Week 678 (2021, Week 9)

February is all wrapped up, so let's dive into Week 9 of the ajmkv charts~

Alexandra Ungureanu remains steady at #1 with "Daca N-am Fi Impreuna" still reigning over the competition. An ex-#1 is hot on her heels, though, as GFriend's "Mago" comes back to the Top 2 and continues its stunning streak of sixteen weeks in the Top 10, of which twelve have been in the Top 2. Who would have thought that GFriend would evolve into one of my favorite K-Pop acts? And speaking of K-Pop and $ucce$$, Weki Meki have a lot of it since this week their smash hit "Cool/100Facts" both reaches the 20-week mark AND re-peaks at #3. I really loved that song since its release and it's been super consistent on my charts for the past five months. I'm happy to see it re-peak! At #4, Antonia's "Taifun" falls one spot, and at #5 Melanie C notches a second Top 10 hit (the last one was ten years ago!) with "Into You" which climbs 31 spots. Another two songs re-peak in the Top 10: Samantha Jade has a similar achievement as "New Boy"  (#8) becomes only her second Top 10 hit after her first, eight years ago; and Amna continues her winning streak as "Cine Pe Cine" (with Robert Toma, #10) becomes her 22nd Top 10 hit and extends her pattern—her next official single will likely be #1 if this pattern holds!

There are nine new entries this week. The first four are all from Park Ji Yoon, whom I adore. She's released a string of songs in the past few years that I've mostly slept on for some reason, and many of them debut this week, one after the other: "Forget You", "Flower", "Letter From", and "Journey" (debuting at #s 18-21 respectively). Side note: one of my most prized possessions is a signed Park Ji Yoon album; I just adore her. After PJY, Alexandra Stan has a couple new songs: "Tembleque" (with a whole slew of other people—Nosfe, Sak Noel, and Los Tioz, whoever they are) debuts at #23, and the shimmery "Aleasa" enters at #29. At #34, André (the iconic Romanian duo comprised of two faves, Andreea Balan and Andreea Antonescu, both of whom have had long careers on my charts—in fact, Andreea Balan was the very first Romanian singer I fully stanned and she pioneered the genre on my charts) finally debut their "Nostalgii" on my chart, after it had been languishing on my playlist since late last year. One spot below at #35, Liviu Teodorescu and Jo's "Fluturii" re-peaks thanks to the debut of its Adrian Funk & OliX remix, and at #42, Inna has a second hit from her latest album with "Flashbacks" (which I see is being pushed as the lead single on Romanian radios, and I have to say... good choice).

We've discussed all of the re-peaks this week, so the only thing left on the songs chart is a congratulations to Kylie Minogue's "Real Groove" for reaching the 10-week mark. So, congrats!

On the albums chart, Kylie's "Disco" stays at #1 for a fourteenth week. It's getting up there with the longest-reigning #1 albums of all-time (the longest-reigning #1 album ever is Lora's "Despre Demoni Si Iertare", which was #1 for a staggering 25 weeks between 2017-2019, yikes) so that's a huge accomplishment! There's a little bit more movement than usual on the albums chart this week: Inna's aforementioned "Heartbreaker" climbs to a new peak of #2, Park Ji Yoon's "Forget You" (a compilation made by me because, as we know, I hate orphan singles) debuts at #4, and her 20th Anniversary Concert album also makes an appearance, at #17. Finally, Alexandra Stan's upcoming fifth album re-enters at #19 (yes, it hasn't even been announced but that's just how the album charts work chez ajmkv), and Melanie C's self-titled album debuts at #25.