Ha! You thought we forgot to do this. And you’d be right. But we’re here now so let’s talk about September’s charts. They were an anomaly this month because first, they were actually pretty good top to bottom and second, they were dominated by the three albums that pretty much charted in their entirety. But by now you know how we felt about the month because you’ve heard the show and then… oh, you haven’t? Well let’s take care of that first and while you do that you can check out my full rankings for the month.

So really briefly, here’s what I do when I review the hot singles of the month. I listen to a song and immediately give it a 0-100 score. Then I listen to the song again, adjust that number and write some notes about it. Lather, rinse, repeat a few times and you get something that looks like this.