We are obviously celebrating the past, being half way through our Top 100 albums of 2025. So let's go 2026 until tonight's continuation with a corking 28 songs on this week's LTTW playlist. I made the bold assumption that last week's playlist was one of the best ever.
Well this is at least its equal. The last as great as the first and it opens with the opening single from an upcoming album that may be the best thing that you will hear this year You know the drill. Returning favourites and new to us and you that provides a heady mix of musical delight.
The weekly playlist is largely for submissions, not just the usual stuff that we dig out ourselves. The song order is not about song preference, but how the playlist flows. All embeds open in new windows to aid scrolling. Links to the artists will also appear on I Don't Hear A Single Social Media sites over the next 24 hours. This will help you to discover more about the artists who appear here.
Today we reach Numbers 61-70 in our Best Albums Of 2025. It has been really pleasing to see followers visit the albums thus far. 2025 was a great year for the type of music we cover and it is very competitive for the remaining 60 albums in the countdown.
With it being our 10th year we thought that we could back to the old images that were posted as a bit of fun with the Audio Extravaganzas. A reminder of the old, much quieter, days for us and hopefully a bit of fun for newcomers.
61The Len Price 3 - Misty Medway Magick IDHAS Review
I've had a few questions about 2026 Reviews and when they will appear on here. They are being written in down time, but none will appear until the end of the Best Of 2025 posts. There are a lot to come. We carried over 20 odd 2026 releases from last year and loads more albums are coming in.
The reason for this is two fold. It allows us to concentrate time on completing 2025 and gives followers time to discover the albums. But most importantly, we don't want any new review to get lost in the melee of the Best Of Posts. It does mean that there is a delay in people leaning about and listening to the latest albums. But you know they will be coming.
We changed the way the Best Of Year is posted this time round. It is the most popular thing we do and takes up the most time. We don't ever want to so a list with no signposts, because not every album gets the attention it deserves, particularly albums further down the countdown. Posting 10 rather than 20 a day allowed greater focus on all the albums and you know that we post the full list at the end.
71 - 80 yesterday was up later due to a much later shift in my real life work. I knew this was going to happen, so I thought I'd look at how the new format was working. There was only 20 albums posted at that time. Being in an office without any streaming allowed due to work set online restrictions allowed me to dig further.
The early indications are that the posts are working exactly as we wanted and why we made the change. It is too much to do it across all posts, but circumstances meant it was a good time to do it. The early indications are really good.
There seems to be much less action than the past on the two individual posts. But a massive increase on the 20 Reviews. This is exactly what we wanted and why the reviews have a separate link rather than a summary. It also stops the posts from becoming too long and unwieldy. The overall affect is that site numbers for the two posts are massively up. Over 500% up on last year. Followers viewing all the albums was the main aim and that is the reason why the links open to another window.
Thanks as always for the support. I know that uninterested social media readers may get a little irritated by the daily posts, but it is normally much less social media wise from us. Four Listening To This Week posts and two Review summaries per month and this only lasts for a fortnight. Today's Best Of features Numbers 61-70 and will be up this evening.
The Countdown continues. Here are numbers 71 - 80, a little later than usual. Numbers 61 - 70 will be up at an earlier UK time tomorrow.
With it being our 10th year we thought that we could back to the old images that were posted as a bit of fun with the Audio Extravaganzas. A reminder of the old, much quieter, days for us and hopefully a bit of fun for newcomers.
The Countdown continues. With it being our 10th year we thought that we could back to the old images that were posted as a bit of fun with the Audio Extravaganzas. A reminder of the old, much quieter, days for us and hopefully a bit of fun for newcomers.
