Pointless Witterings

So, the first three months of 2017 are over. And that means we've already had a quarter of the year's charts so far. 2017 has been an odd year: there hasn't been any set template. There have been really poor weeks, really great weeks, really middling weeks, we've had the lot. So, with 2017 proving utterly unreadable, I'm going to try and look at where the high points and low points have been for these three months, which genres have done the best, and which songs have played the most important roles in defining the sound of 2017. The most immediate thing I've noticed about 2017 is that this will be the year that EDM finally bites the bullet. EDM has been struggling since the middle of 2016: once, it was the genre that hit-makers loved to plunder. Now, however, a lack of creative input and new, strong figures have critically weakened the genre to the point where it's once original beats and imaginative composition has been lost in favour of just repeating t...