News: Get Ready to ROCK! announces top albums of 2024 based on weekly chart and poll (December 2024)

Get Ready to ROCK! The Best of 2024 - Top 30 Albums

Popular rock music website Get Ready to ROCK! has announced its end of year Top 30 album chart.  This is based on weekly activity at the website and via social media.

News and reviews editor Jason Ritchie explains: “We introduced a regular Top 10 album chart each week back in early 2021.  This reflected activity at the website and in social media.

More recently, we have had input from an active Facebook group and they have contributed to this year’s poll.”

The website has announced entries 11 to 30, with the Top 10 countdown featured in a special radio show on Sunday 29 December (22:00 GMT).

The website’s radio station Get Ready to ROCK! Radio features the weekly listing every Sunday as part of  ‘Assume The Position’ presented by David Randall.

Says David: “This regular weekly countdown demonstrates the healthy range of music reviewed by the website and featured on the radio station.  Frequently we have entries for pop, folk or Americana rubbing shoulders with heavy metal.”

Jason adds: “With the input from our Facebook group, the Top 30 listing adds to the end of year reviewer ‘Best of’ selections.  We hope it helps signpost some additional and worthy albums from this year’s releases.”

The website has recently published the reviewer “Best of 2024″ selections and these will be featured in a  special radio show on Sunday 22 December at 22:00 GMT.

Top 30 (11-30)

SAXON- Hell, Fire and Damnation

11 SAXON  Hell, Fire and Damnation
12 BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION V
13 THE TREATMENT Wake Up The Neighbourhood
14 THE QUIREBOYS Wardour Street
15 VIRGINMARYS House Beyond The Fires
16 BIG BIG TRAIN The Likes Of Us
17 WILLIE DOWLING The Simpleton
18 SWEET Full Circle
19 MOGGS MOTEL
20 A’PRIORI Voodoo Love

21 WE THREE KINGS By Royal Appointment
22 THE BLACK CROWES Happiness Bastards
23 NESTOR Teenage Rebel
24 ECLIPSE Meglomania II
25 JON ANDERSON & THE BAND OF GEEKS True
26 THIEVES OF LIBERTY Shangri-La
27 DEVIN TOWNSEND PowerNerd
28 GUN Hombres
29 WALTER TROUT Broken
30 DEMON Invincible

The Best of 2024 (Reviewer selections)


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David Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sundays at 22:00 GMT, repeated on Mondays and Fridays), when he invites listeners to ‘Assume The Position’. The show signposts forthcoming gigs and tours and latest additions at getreadytorock.com. First broadcast on 1 December 2024.

UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). This show was first broadcast 3 December 2024.

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Power Plays w/c 9 December 2024

In this sequence we play ‘The Best of 2024′ GRTR! reviewer selections

Featured Albums w/c 9 December 2024

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2024 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003-2024 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2024 (Singer Songwriter)



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