First issue with an actual chart attached. We finally know which tracks you're rewinding instead of just which ones we liked posting. Numbers stay our little secret — you get the standings.

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We started keeping score. From now on the newsletter opens with what you actually played the most this month, not what we felt like hyping. No view counts, no dashboards — just the order, and from next week, who’s climbing and who’s getting bumped. Consider this the opening bell.

The Charts

The inaugural board. Everything’s a debut this week, so nobody’s been knocked off yet — that bloodsport starts next issue.

1. AVE – Meet Me In The Dark — top of the very first chart. You have taste. Listen →
2. MXTR & Tyler Garrett – Disconnected — refused to leave the rotation. Listen →
3. Don Toliver – Cardigan (Knock2 Remix) — the Knock2 flip did its job. Listen →
4. RL Grime & ISOxo – Jewel — two of the heaviest names in the game, behaving accordingly. Listen →
5. HEDEGAARD, Arash – Say My Name — snuck into the top five on pure replay value. Listen →
6. J Ribbon – Man On Fire — earned it. Listen →
7. Omar Souleyman – Allishiryan — the one nobody saw coming and everybody kept playing. Listen →
8. Quoone – Don’t Stop — took the title literally. Listen →
9. SubDocta, Wubbaduck – Wobble Dance — WAKAAN weirdness, charting. Good. Listen →
10. Surreal – Inbetween — scraped onto the board and we’re glad it did. Listen →

Track of the Week

AVE – Meet Me In The Dark

It’s number one because you put it there, not because we told you to — which is exactly the point of doing this. It’s the kind of track that quietly becomes the one you reach for, and apparently a lot of you reached. Listen →

The New Drops

Sixty-three new ones hit the site this week. The split:

Electronic (27) — the big tent did most of the heavy lifting, as usual.

Drum & Bass (13) — second place and not even close for the runner-up. DnB had a week.

House (9) / Deep House (6) — four-on-the-floor stayed busy on both ends of the temperature scale.

Trance (8) — hands stayed in the air, led by Above & Beyond – 1001 (Live From ABGT200) doing exactly what an ABGT moment should.

Experimental Bass (6) / Hardstyle (6) — the weird and the relentless, tied. Chozen b2b Noetika – Live Red Rocks Set for the former, D-Charged – RE:WIND for the latter.

Also banged this week:

• 2ACES & Josh Le Tissier – Like Home — clean. Listen →
• Benda & Z3LLA – Sleepless — dubstep that earns the title. Listen →
• Don Jamal – Breaking Through — deep dubstep, low and patient. Listen →

See you next week — when the chart finally has arrows. Coldplay still sucks.

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