Wud Records: November 2025 top ten published at SoundCloud

The November 2025 Chart

The top ten tracks for November 2025 from Wud Records have been published in a new compilation at SoundCloud.

Changes are underway at Wud Records…

Regarding the new chart, we shall elaborate further with regard to each platform where our music is represented.

Bandcamp Is Still the Best Platform for Artists

If you are not yet a member of Bandcamp, we strongly suggest you sign up, whether you are an indie label, a musician or a fan of music, or all three. Do it now! It’s free to join. Just click here. :)

For any independent artist or label wanting to sell music or merch, there is no better place on the web to do so. If you don’t believe us, check out any search engine to see what other artists have to say about what the best site is for independent artists and labels. Bandcamp are simply Numero Uno. Finito!

When you subscribe to a music streaming platform, you don’t actually *own* any of the music. You’re just renting a bit of bandwidth on their distribution service, and most of the rent revenue you are paying for it goes to big corporations rather than the artists you love. It’s a terrible business model, both for artists and fans alike.

Consider also this. There is always a danger that streaming services might remove music or artists from their platform (e.g. the recent dispute between Universal Music Group and TikTok), or the platform may even cease to exist altogether. Remember VitaminIC, MySpace, FriendsReunited?

To avoid having the soundtracks to your life erased, we strongly recommend buying physical media and downloads so you can listen to your favourite songs whenever you wish. You know it makes sense!

Whilst several music platforms offer music downloads, they all charge a lot more and take a much bigger percentage of that higher price then Bandcamp does.

This means that you pay more, the band receives less, and a big greedy corporation takes a big old chunk of the money you paid to support the artist all for itself, just because it can. It’s a lose-lose situation, unless you happen to be a big greedy corporation who can rip people off however the fancy takes them.

Buying music from Bandcamp will cost you less and support the artist more. About 80% to 85% of what you spend at Bandcamp goes directly to the artist or their label, and is paid daily.

So it’s always a good idea to download from Bandcamp whenever possible, as they are the best site for supporting artists. For us, one download of a €7 album is worth about 3300 snotify streams.

You can even pay more than the asking price for music on Bandcamp if you wish to add a little extra support for the artist. Again, this goes to the artists themselves, not some greedy anonymous megacorporation who only care for money, not the music you love.

There is also a rather fabulous Community feature at Bandcamp, and you can join ours by clicking here.

SoundCloud

Just as we were enjoying the best month we ever had on SoundCloud, our account was unexpectedly deleted by mistake. The account was subsequently restored, but was still badly damaged. It took until mid-October for it to be properly repaired.

In the meantime, there was not a single word from SoundCloud themselves regarding what they were doing to repair our account. This was the catalyst for a number of the changes that are happening.

We still do not fully trust the information we get from SoundCloud and its slowly improving Insights system. However, there has been enough improvement in data quality in the last couple of months for it to be useful again.

Shitify

We removed all of our music from spotify a few months ago. We highly recommend you do the same, if you have any there. We also highly recommend that you cancel your subscription, and move your playlists (and so on) to a more ethical streaming service. Every other streaming platform is more ethical than snotify.

We don’t say this lightly. Nor do we say so from a position of ignorance. There are many very good reasons to remove all your music from spotify and to cancel your sub. Do it now!

For more information, please refer to this news post: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/wud-records-boycott-spotify/

Tidal, Coda, YouTube, Amazon, Deezer, Apple Music, etc.

We use data from our distributors Globex, Soundrop and CD Baby for information regarding streams on platforms such as Coda, Tidal, YouTube, Deezer and so on when reckoning the monthly charts.

Data from the streaming services filters through to us via our distributors, and we are not very trusting of it. At best we can get a general feel of what is going on across all of the streaming services this way. Because the data arrives several days, or even weeks, late, we only use it to extrapolate general trends.

HearThis, Audius, Audiomack

We have started organising our music at HearThis since the recent debacle with SoundCloud. Unfortunately, their stats are not terribly helpful and rather time-consuming to collate, although to be fair, they are improving.

The aforementioned debacle with SoundCloud was the catalyst for ourselves taking the decision to add our music to both Audius and Audiomack. Both platforms came highly recommended, although their stats, like at HearThis, are also not especially informative.

In Conclusion…

If somebody actually pays to download something, they must have liked it! Our artists and ourselves are always very grateful to our supporters in this respect. It genuinely helps keep the fires burning and the wheels turning.

When somebody reposts a track, that gives it the opportunity to be heard by a potential new fan. This is always a tremendous help for creative souls. It enables that track to be discovered and enjoyed by the community of the person doing the sharing, which can generate new fans.

A ‘like’ is nice, but reposts actually helps the artist reach a bigger audience. You create the chance for that to happen. Recommending a song costs you nothing at all and can be a massive help for an independent artist. Why not do it now? :)

How Did We Calculate The November 2025 Chart?

The algorithm we use gives greater weight to downloads and reposts, then comments and likes (active engagement), then plays (passive engagement). Different platforms perform differently and are given different weightings based on standard deviation calculations.

We use general tendencies and trends that have occured over the last calender month, as well as specifics where they are available. The data has been amalgamated together from all of the different platforms to make the new Top Ten. Archive tracks and bonus tracks are ignored, as is anything from people who clearly didn’t listen to the music.

Only you, the listener, can influence our next chart. So if there is a song you particularly like, keep playing it! Leave a comment, repost it, share it to your social media feeds! Download it from our Bandcamp! Add it to a playlist! It absolutely can make a difference.

Thanks For All Your Help!

Massive thanks go out to everybody who helped to support all of us during November 2025 by listening to, commenting on and reposting our bands’ tracks on SoundCloud, Bandcamp and elsewhere.

All the wonderful fans of our bands who supported us with downloads from Bandcamp are especially appreciated. Just one download of a €7 album is worth about 3300 snotify streams. By buying a download, you genuinely help us keep the fires burning, and collectively we thank you for that most graciously. May you be blessed by the gods of rock n roll! :)

We would also like to say a special thank you to all the splendid people on Twitter and BlueSky who have been enjoying and reposting our tracks to their followers. All the support and positive feedback has been incredibly heartwarming for us all. It makes our endeavours here feel worthwhile.

Thank you very much to everyone who bought items from our merch store. Anyone who shares a photo of themselves with their Wud item on social media will receive an extra goody from ourselves once we have seen it and shared the photo on to our community as well.

If you buy something cool from the Flicker merch store, or the Dark Company merch store, we shall also send you an extra goody if you show us a photo of yourself (or friend, or environment) on social media with the item you purchased.

Last and by no means least, we would like to say thank you very much to all of the splendid people who have been buying us coffees at BuyMeACoffee. It’s very kind of you to help us out. All of these things absolutely contribute to ourselves being able to keep going, and spend more time making beautiful music for you to enjoy. It is truly appreciated very much indeed.

Who’s In The November 2025 Top Ten?

The latest top ten features four different acts. There are four songs from Dark Company, four from BSoD + D², and one each by the Band of Georges and Mark Drower and the Everyones. Six of the songs are new entries, two are re-entries and two are fallers.

Dark Company

Congratulations to Dark Company! They enjoyed another excellent month and claimed the top four spots of the newest chart. All four songs are new releases, and belong to the SNAFU CD of their forthcoming triple-CD album A for Acronym.

Straight in at number one is Committed by Dark Company, from their growing SNAFU CD. All of these songs are work-in-progress, although many of them are not too shabby and give a decent idea of where the songs are going.

Committed is a lyric that Pete wrote in December 2010 and describes his extreme sense of alienation from everything that he felt ‘normal’ people did. He was always very thankful that he’d forged his own path and never had any interest in conforming to what society expected of him. He really was the most unqiue of characters.

The music for Committed is unusual as well. The original guitar part was abandoned, although the original bass part still stands. The bass plays the main riff always in the ascension, even though to do so seems counter-intuitive. The guitars play single notes in harmony with the bass to make the triads that form the chords of the song, which is in the key of B minor.

A new entry at number two is another song by Dark Company from their A for Acronym album. This one is called Helping Hands, and is a solid slab of classic rock or britpop in the key of E major.

Whilst recording his bass part, the normally quicksilver-fingered thudmeister Maxx laughed with puzzlement upon discovering that his part was rather harder to play than it sounds. Dark Company have a couple oof future plans for the ending of Helping Hands, which are reassuringly goosebump-inducing.

Helping Hands undergoes a rather unusual key change in the third verse, which happened completely by accident when Pete couldn’t quite remember where the melody went. The result turned out to be splendid, and the band went with it and kept it.

The third new entry this month is at number three. This is also the third Dark Company song to hit the chart and is called Conspiracy. It starts with Sven’s thundersome drums accompanied by industrial grade heavy guitars in the key of E, then moves up to A for the verses. There is no chorus.

Conspiracy is one of Dark Company‘s heavier songs and features some splendid synth work from Josh. The lyric was penned by Pete in the summer of 2010.

Another new entry at number four is Project Terminated, the last of the latest batch of the newest Dark Company songs. Pete wrote the lyric for Project Terminated in January 2011. The guitar was composed on an instrument in standard tuning that had been lowered by a full tone, and with a drop-D – effectively, a drop-C.

Project Terminated describes the various ingenius ways humanity has discovered for sawing off the branch of the tree upon which is stands, thereby rushing with a certain amount of inevitability towards its own doom. It may seem a dark subject, but it is done with plenty of dark humour, and perhaps an alternative future may yet exist for us all.

BSoD + D²

The new release by The Bastard Sons of Dennis with Dave Danielli, Cruelty to Blues, has provided the newest chart with four splendid songs, including two new entries.

Cruelty to Blues was only released last month and has already gone very well. Further news regarding the album will appear in the coming days.

Down from number one to number five is the first song this month from BSoD + D². Seven Screaming Diz-Busters is a highly esoteric and extraordinary piece of progressive rock composition, beautifully interpreted by The Bastard Sons of Dennis with Dave Danielli on bass. It is a song for which The Bastard Sons of Dennis were well known.

Originally this song was released by Blue Öyster Cult on their 1973 Tyranny and Mutation album. It was big crowd favourite at a live performances by The Bastard Sons of Dennis and you can enjoy watching a video of them playing it live by clicking here.

Then Came the Last Days of May is a new entry for BSoD + D². Blue Öyster Cult perform this song in the key of E minor, and our tremendous trio have transposed it to A minor for their cover version.

Then Came the Last Days of May tells the tragic story of three young men who were killed in a drug deal that went wrong. It is a very wistful and beautiful song, and The Bastard Sons of Dennis with Dave Danielli base their version more on the live On Your Feet Or On Your Knees version than the original studio version on Blue Öyster Cult’s 1972 eponymous album.

Falling five places from number three to number eight is a song which is also from the new Cruelty to Blues album by BSoD + D². Astronomy is a profoundly beautiful and haunting creation. It was composed by the Bouchard brothers, Joe and Albert, and Sandy Pearlman. It is the final track of Blue Öyster Cult’s 1974 Secret Treaties album, and an absolute masterpiece of progressive rock composition.

The version of Astronomy by The Bastard Sons of Dennis with Dave Danielli is more ‘produced’ than live performances. They would often end a show with Astronomy, introducing it as a song that was famously covered by Metallica. “We wrote it, of course; ahem, cough…” Chuck would quip.

The second new entry for The Bastard Sons of Dennis with Dave Danielli is at number nine. It is a cover of Blue Öyster Cult‘s fabulous song The Subhuman, from the 1974 Secret Treaties album. This cover version leans heavily on the breathtaking awesome live version found on Blue Öyster Cult‘s 1975 live album, On Your Feet Or On Your Knees.

Despite its length and with plenty of lead guitar breaks, those guitar parts were learned and composed, and were performed almost exactly the same every time The Bastard Sons of Dennis gave The Subhuman a live outing. There is a video of them playing it here… and here. The video is in two parts due to a member of the audience having an accident with the camera person.

Band of Georges

A few months ago, we absolutely could not have anticipated the level of dominance over the charts the Band of Georges has had recently. Why? We were not even expecting to release any of these songs at the start of March!

The Wud Records website was launched in 2008, replacing the old Wud site which simply disappeared soon afterwards. Ever since before the Wud Records website went live, various people tried to persuade George to allow his old Tascam 244 portastudio demos to be released. He always refused, point blank. There was no arguing with him. It was just: “No.” And that was that.

And then, suddenly, he seems to have had a change of heart. He allowed a few of us to listen to his demos, which we thought were surprisingly good. Certainly a lot better than we had anticipated, given everything he had said about awful they were. Whatever it was that happened, we are delighted that it did. Because now, we have been allowed to release all of the volumes of his early songs in their demo form.

We have done very little work to these recordings. They were just lifted from their master cassettes and digitised in our studios, and normalised to 0dB. That was it. Everything sounds just as it was. The cassettes, nearly 40 years old, have stood the test of time very well.

There are no pages for the Band of Georges at Explicit Music at this time, although some may appear following further negotiations. Each released song from the Band of Georges has a comment or a memory from George on its album’s page here at the Wud Records website. Some of that information, along with other facts regarding each song, appears at its page on SoundCloud. There is likely to be extra information given on the two separate pages, so we recommend you check out both.

Losing Your Grip is an odd and perhaps under-rated song, especially so when it was contemporary. There is a glorious chorus and three verses, each being about a different person and their gradual descents via entropy into insanity. The sections between the verses are in 3/8, or are atemporal dissolutions into strangeness and noise, with all the knobs on the Electric Mistress turned up to full.

Losing Your Grip was performed by Wud. Ken did a fine job of singing the vocal parts. You can enjoy the Wud version of Losing Your Grip at the HearThis website by clicking here.

Mark Drower and the Everyones

It has been a very good month for Mark Drower and the Everyones, with a song from their seminal Blaze Tape recording landing at number ten.

Treasure by Mark Drower and the Everyones has a redoubtable history and was often jammed and made into other songs entirely, songs which never saw the light of day beyond the rooms they were jammed in.

Treasure is a fabulous song that Mark created. Its wonderful lyrics were often quoted, and those obscure chords in drop-D tuning that Mark taught us never appeared in any chord dictionary. The drop-D tuning is still known as Drower Tuning by many of the wider Wud posse.

Treasure features the seminal lead guitarings of a teenage Pok the Bard. Lisa Williams, who played the part of Treasure during the play, reads the talkover at the beginning.

* None of our other acts made it onto the November 2025 chart. *

Listening Options

If you would like to go to SoundCloud to hear the top ten songs from Wud Records in November 2025, as played, liked, commented upon and reposted by listeners, please click here.

If you prefer to listen right here at the Wud Records website, you will find that it is the new default music player. You will find it on all non band-specific pages at the site, including our Links collection and homepage.

The November 2025 chart has its very own dedicated page among the charts pages of this website. You can listen to the new compilation on its page by clicking here.

Each of the previous charts also has its own page in the charts section of this website. If you would like to see all our old charts, or for any previous month you are especially interested in, all of them can be accessed easily by clicking here.