songs i thought about the most this week (2021 week 35)

the week i resumed to charting as well albeit one with lenient recurrent rules. 

revised recurrent rules:

• i'm allowing songs that came out in the last two years. so anything from 2019 onward qualifies. HOWEVER, i'm not allowing for re-entries unless they're for songs that came out before january 1, 2020

• as well, this rule applies for songs that gained in popularity in the past couple years. those count too. no re-entries that gained in popularity before 2020 though.

• songs that would've qualified for the chart previously with these new rules (i.e. Hot Freaks - Puppy Princess,) *do* qualify however. for those wondering what that song's chart run would've looked like, it would've been a 4 week reign at no.1 with a pretty steep decline. 

• to determine what qualifies as gaining in popularity, i look at rym, genius annotations, and youtube comments for each song and for the album holistically. these will be determined on a case by case basis. for instance, while Gelid Ascent and We Will Commit Wolf Murder by of Montreal may be on the same album, only We Will Commit Wolf Murder would qualify for the chart. 

• as well, any song that charted on the billboard hot 100 before gaining in popularity is ineligible for the chart.