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 11th September 2016, 02:15 PM
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Amazing few sections there, Fireflies, Paradise, Falling & Blind Faith
 Have no idea how the latter did so well this year at all, Chase & Status aren't even currently active! But always lovely to see a track outperform expectations. Very pleased to see my 40 pointer, One Day Like This, get to the final this time. Hopefully can improve on it's peak in the two years it has left (that feels weird to say  )
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11th September 2016, 02:21 PM
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Awesome to see Kiesza and Ellie inside the top of 100.
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11th September 2016, 03:34 PM
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QUOTE(Chez Wombat @ Sep 11 2016, 03:15 PM)  Amazing few sections there, Fireflies, Paradise, Falling & Blind Faith Have no idea how the latter did so well this year at all, Chase & Status aren't even currently active! But always lovely to see a track outperform expectations. Very pleased to see my 40 pointer, One Day Like This, get to the final this time. Hopefully can improve on it's peak in the two years it has left (that feels weird to say )They are, it's just that no-one is noticing because they're not putting out any good songs. Seriously their singles from their forthcoming album have so far been so poor.
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11th September 2016, 03:40 PM
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QUOTE(danG @ Sep 12 2016, 03:34 AM) They are, it's just that no-one is noticing because they're not putting out any good songs. Seriously their singles from their forthcoming album have so far been so poor. Have to echo this, Control was alright & a nice switch up but everything else has been pretty awful summed up by Spoken Word one of the worst songs I've heard this year. Luckily their new track All Goes Wrong sounds very promising. |
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11th September 2016, 03:52 PM
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QUOTE(Riser @ Sep 11 2016, 06:57 AM) I'm surprised Uptown Funk has done this well, thought Buzzjack as a whole would still be tired of it from how long it was in the charts. Especially since Pharrell's Happy doesn't seem to be here at all and that's the closest equivalent I can think of. I've said it already but this shows it really could go either way for One Dance next year. Literally if I could have given Uptown Funk minus points I would've. It's one of the songs that's never gelled with me at all. If it (and sound-alikes) keep getting made and played into next year, I reckon it will drop for sure. This post has been edited by 360Jupiter: 11th September 2016, 03:52 PM |
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11th September 2016, 04:48 PM
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41 74 2009 La Roux - Bulletproof 380 ( X - 330 - 125 - 211 - 80 - 74 - 41 ) 42 153 2012 Ellie Goulding - Figure 8 374 ( 120 - 160 - 153 - 42 ) 43 51 2011 Adele - Rolling In The Deep 374 ( 8 - 18 - 24 - 51 - 43 ) 44 9 2008 M.I.A - Paper Planes 373 ( X - X - 52 - 36 - 44 - 28 - 9 - 44 ) 45 18 2007 Britney Spears - Gimme More 371 ( 40 - 52 - 67 - 62 - 92 - 132 - 16 - 18 - 45 ) 46 32 2012 Swedish House Mafia - Don’t You Worry Child 365 ( 26 - 64 - 32 - 46 ) 47 NE 2015 Years & Years - Shine 363 ( 47 ) 48 83 2006 Nelly Furtado - Maneater 363 ( 8 - 14 - 27 - 48 - 47 - 39 - 29 - 50 - 83 - 48 ) 49 194 2013 HAIM - The Wire 362 ( X - 194 - 49 ) 50 138 2011 Ellie Goulding - Lights 362 ( X - 131 - 111 - 138 - 50 ) Turns out to be a short-lived victory for HAIM as they go out with their other song in the very next batch, just one point ahead of Falling, as it happens. The Wire is nearly as good and a wonderful rhythmic guitar pop song so I hope this isn't a one year thing for the group and they can continue to make the demand clear. Another Ellie song shows up, into the top 100 for the first time after three years hanging outside - Lights, one of her most famous songs worldwide has kept some of its resonation here to be our #50. An impressive run for the next 2006 song to finish up here, although never quite reaching the top 10 like it did on the first run through, Maneater has spent most of its time being a 2006 top dog and has been in the top 50 every year apart from the last - I'm not even sure what happened there. On the same score as it is a new entry from Years & Years, the first of their two in this final to show up, a very impressive performance for a male group in ROTD, I wonder where King will finish. Don't You Worry Child was the song that got through the semis on the tiebreak that kept Midnight City out and it's made up for scraping through by putting in a very impressive performance in the top half. Also a final regular, it's had a fairly pleasing looking chart run and this sort of continues, all those even numbers... What I thought would be Britney's biggest song until it left doesn't even take that title this year as Gimme More drops after two years in the top 20. And we've also lost our first of last year's top 10 as Paper Planes can't sustain a #9 and has to make do with mid-40s. Sadly, but with the high points totals something had to shift. Rolling In The Deep reverses direction as Adele leaves the fight with what's probably going to remain her biggest song here. And that's be something I'd be happy with, Rolling is one of the few songs where her artistry really shows excitement to me these days and shows she's more than just a balladeer. Another Ellie Goulding song goes, and in actual fact, Figure 8 is her DONE here, for all her increased domination this year she hasn't yet got a song to get into the top 40 of the decade, and one of her flops, Figure 8 is the song that's apparently closest to that. Which I quite agree with, it's a huge power of a song and definitely one of her best if not THE best she's done. Sitting in the mid-100s really wasn't enough for this. I swear Bulletproof was doing even better than this on most of the adding up, it's really done incredibly well this year, it normally does well but as you can see, that chart run has never seen it quite this high. I'm even surprised it took as long as it did to become a top 100 staple, it's always one of my top picks for 2009 for being a whirlwind of a pop song, and one I would definitely support toppling Bad Romance there one of these years (let's make it happen). |
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12th September 2016, 04:31 AM
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Wow, so many great songs in the final getting massive new peaks! Fascination and Bulletproof are two of my all-time faves and Lights, Falling, and Piece of Me are high up there as well!
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12th September 2016, 11:16 AM
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36 110 2011 Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks 390 ( 54 - 154 - 107 - 110 - 36 ) 37 44 2010 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé - Telephone 385 ( 26 - 23 - 38 - 45 - 44 - 37 ) 38 47 2011 Nicki Minaj - Super Bass 382 ( 110 - 103 - 14 - 47 - 38 ) 39 163 2009 Lady Gaga - Paparazzi 382 ( 40 - 40 - 72 - 62 - 151 - 163 - 39 ) 40 121 2008 Britney Spears - Womanizer 381 ( 51 - 87 - 129 - 112 - 275 - 63 - 121 - 40 ) Well, Britney's gone down now, a lot earlier than she has in past years, although it comes with a new peak for Womanizer, never the strongest Britney challenger, in fact, looking at the run and with how the final has expanded over the years this may actually have been a first final for it, depends if the final was 50 or 60 back in 2009. It's done well, to start off a section full of pop faves. Up above it is Paparazzi which has finally done what I thought was never going to happen and reversed its decline to beat its double #40 peak. By one. It's one of the Gaga songs which has held up better so I am happy to see that, just as I'm quite interested in what caused that massive decline. Two ahead of it, it's another Gaga song, one with Beyoncé, that always does far better than I expect it to, this year more so than before as it didn't win 2010 for once and even went through the semi-final. But given its remarkable consistency that's its third best performance and it remains the second-most popular Gaga song (and for other Gaga songs, that's like winning). Finally Pumped Up Kicks has done an excellent job of being the song that bedevils and annoys pop types for this year, nearly winning 2011 and still doing well here, it's jumped back into the fray with amazing power and I hope that this indie pop anthem can sustain what's now its peak for a good few years more. |
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12th September 2016, 11:34 AM
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31 71 2010 Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) 409 ( 154 - 161 - 77 - 84 - 71 - 31 ) 32 NE 2015 Major Lazer (feat. DJ Snake & MŘ) - Lean On 405 ( 32 ) 33 24 2006 My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade 404 ( X - X - X - X - 445 - 228 - 300 - 125 - 24 - 33 ) 34 25 2007 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love 401 ( 21 - 1 - 4 - 108 - 61 - 21 - 8 - 25 - 34 ) 35 85 2008 Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music 392 ( 92 - 63 - 61 - 175 - 187 - 138 - 85 - 35 ) Bookending a fairly wonderful section, we have two Rihanna songs here, both getting new peaks. I might as well talk about them together as their runs are fairly similar. Don't Stop The Music is a bit older and always one that's a bit more divisive I'd have thought, it's the sort of song I found annoying for ages before taking a proper listen and actually rather liking its energy. Only Girl meanwhile was a hit as I started following the charts properly and really stuck with me because of that, one of the songs out at Rihanna's high point of success and in terms of ROTD, a track that's always been a bit overshadowed by all the very many other Rihanna songs around, it seems this year it's shaken that off a bit. Only a bit, mind you, as it is still only the 4th highest Rihanna song. Bleeding Love, Leona's biggest hit, is the first former winner we come across, as normal really, it's been top 10 three times in varying eras of Buzzjack but doesn't have enough consistency to do quite that well all the time and makes its penultimate appearance as the first track over 400 points in this final. Then we have the new against the old. Lean On I was always expecting to make a respectable debut like so, it's one of the few big hits that even on here there has been very little bad said about them, it kickstarted the commercial career of all acts involved through to this year and is a very well-played and enjoyable modern classic (acceptance pending). May even move up in future years, although we'll see. Against that we have the final appearance of a track whose brilliant success has really helped make running this enjoyable for me in the last few years. It's not quite a new peak for Welcome To The Black Parade but it's quite easily the second-best perfomance it's gotten and I'll take that any day over what came before. Just look at that beautiful rise. Full of strong votes from me and other wonderful people, its anthemic legacy will live on, will carry on, in ROTD memory as one of the best turnarounds on a song Buzzjack has ever had. *.* |
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12th September 2016, 12:57 PM
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Quite surprised that it's taken this long for 'Only Girl (In The World)' to place Top 40 in this! I thought it'd have had way more popularity over the years.
What an unusual run for Bleeding Love, falling out of the Top 100 only two years after winning (what went wrong that year  ), and then clawing its way back up to the Top 10. Glad to see that it has at least managed Top 40 for the past 4 years.
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12th September 2016, 01:16 PM
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good to see 'Lean On' so high already!!
an early top 10 prediction from me: 01 Lady GaGa - Bad Romance 02 Robyn - With Every Heartbeat (feat. Kleerup) 03 Rihanna - We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris) 04 Robyn - Dancing On My Own 05 Sia - Chandelier 06 Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me 07 Loreen - Euphoria 08 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 09 Clean Bandit - Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne) 10 David Guetta - Titanium (feat. Sia) yep I think it's Lady GaGa's turn again especially with the recent hype around her comeback. Wouldn't rule out either of the Robyn songs though and 'We Found Love' is guaranteed to do well again too. |
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12th September 2016, 02:45 PM
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I don't think Carly Rae will win this year (unless she does), but I would expect that track to threaten it in the future as it gets more recognised as a classic.
In other news I'm a little disappointed at my 40 throughout a few rounds, Shine, going out so early, but at the same time, I'm impressed it did so well. King was probably always going to rack up more points, but it's never done it for me - in fact, I completely dismissed Y&Y based on it. Can't quite remember what else is left. I'm guessing Umbrella and WFL are the other two Rihanna songs to come? |
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12th September 2016, 03:09 PM
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I'm in a vewy bad mood, Bwadley.
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After 'We Found Love' underperforming in its year, I'm glad to see it's still at least managed top 30. The Haim climbs are completely baffling, a disappointing year for both my Katy & Little Mix faves but I'm used to Katy being undeservedly unappreciated in this thing, compared to the other pop girls. Glad to see Super Bass doing well though and personally I'm hoping for a 'Run Away With Me' win if at all possible.
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12th September 2016, 03:09 PM
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26 189 2012 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die 431 ( 104 - 119 - 189 - 26 ) 27 23 2014 Clean Bandit (feat. Jess Glynne) - Rather Be 429 ( 23 - 27 ) 28 101 2013 Bastille - Pompeii 425 ( 46 - 101 - 28 ) 29 22 2007 Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No 416 ( X - 42 - 99 - 104 - 177 - 73 - 30 - 22 - 29 ) 30 21 2012 Solange - Losing You 411 ( 188 - 77 - 21 - 30 ) Losing You seems to have solidified its position as a completely underrated fave from 2012 and again, sees Solange move far higher than her sister. It's a small drop on last year but that's pretty inconsequential compared to the rises it had seen before. It's one of the songs that pretty much everyone likes and benefits from that despite being little known. We can definitely get our own faves here with that sort of power. Rather Be is not a contender... again. I really thought it would be at some point, I thought it would dominate in its first year and this year I thought it was looking to do even better but instead it drops 4 places. It's still a very good position but it hasn't yet got the power to reach the top 10 although I'll tempt fate and tell you to watch for this one, it won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Pompeii reaches a new peak, rather wonderfully, Bastille have been one of the great debuts of the 2010s with a pretty good fanbase on here for what is a simple alt-pop band, but Pompeii is the greatest of their works, you can feel like you are watching the destruction of the titular city through the instrumental and his voice remains one of the best and most distinctive things about their songs on here. Born To Die, I'm surprised it hasn't been higher before but Lana's seen a huge increase for her two most popular songs and so that means that Born To Die is a mere whisker away from the top 25. That's a very very big and well-earned climb, the highest in the top 40, for one of the best examples of majestic but sad pop that Lana specialises in. Then Sexy!, I have made no secret in the past of me really not understanding this one's popularity, it is easily my least favourite GA single and I see no redeeming qualities it has, whatsoever. Apparently, I'm alone in that and that's okay, but this means that for the last three years in ROTD it has come 6th in 2007, storming through the semis and making me add up points for it as much as possible over three rounds, while retaining for three years on the trot the title of my least-favourite song in the final, in the top 30 for three times in a row. Which doesn't help my feelings. Oh and it's the second-highest Girls Aloud song now owing to them losing many big contenders as 2002-2005 slip away from us. Jay or Joseph or someone will be sure to extol its virtues to balance this out. I predict it'll go even higher on its last year next time. To punish me. |
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12th September 2016, 03:10 PM
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Still can't quite believe MCR made that leap to the final just last year, I remember when I first started voting in these that it always did awfully in it's yearly round, but hooray for people finally seeing the light almost ten years after release *.* Will very much miss it from this game (indeed 2006 will be a big loss, so many amazing songs from that year).
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12th September 2016, 03:12 PM
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QUOTE(Ja˙ @ Sep 12 2016, 01:57 PM) What an unusual run for Bleeding Love, falling out of the Top 100 only two years after winning (what went wrong that year )I think, 2007 being the competitive round that it is, it only made 12th and so couldn't advance to the semis given the parameters (top 3 and then top 10, instead of top 5 and then top 15) at that time. That format can sometimes lead to very unusual runs. |
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12th September 2016, 03:31 PM
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21 42 2009 Lily Allen - The Fear 455 ( 29 - 10 - 48 - 48 - 39 - 42 - 21 ) 22 16 2013 Daft Punk (feat. Pharrell) - Get Lucky 448 ( 35 - 16 - 22 ) 23 33 2012 David Guetta (feat. Sia) - Titanium 444 ( 7 - 17 - 33 - 23 ) 24 34 2007 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right 443 ( 2 - 8 - 39 - 13 - 9 - 30 - 27 - 34 - 24 ) 25 40 2006 P!nk - Who Knew 443 ( 22 - 111 - 22 - 24 - 29 - 85 - 86 - 20 - 40 - 25 ) Funny thing about The Fear, after about half of the votes had been added, this one was the one leading the whole thing! Of course that couldn't hold, I didn't really expect it to although it would have certainly been a nice shock, it only got 114 of its points in the second half of voters so crashed down. It's nearly always the second in 2009 although it wasn't quite this year, losing to Bulletproof. But it beat that in the final anyway so all's well for Lily. And this will probably be her only real presence in this game from now on unless we see a huge rise for Hard Out Here or something. Or maybe that Keane cover could get a reprise. But very impressive performance for The Fear and I'm sorry it missed the top 20 in the end. Get Lucky is a song whose appeal is mostly lost on the more pop-oriented voters I tend to notice, instead it's a big target for the more alternative of us as one of the finest and slickest huge hits in recent years, bringing eternal relevance to Daft Punk and eternal dismay to those who protested about the 2013-14 dominance of Pharrell. It slightly slips a bit but is looking pretty good to hold where it is for the time being, unless Buzzjack gets totally overrun by even more pop fans in the near future. Some of whom may even like it. Again, Titanium also loses out a bit, although it's at least a rise from last year. Like with Rather Be I always expect this to do slightly better except in the year it came top 10 but even the strongest of dance singles can't get in there unless they're lucky, I guess. And this time it's been overtaken by another Sia song. Maybe that'll be two next year with Cheap Thrills... Say It Right was an old top 10 contender but hasn't done that so much lately, although this is just about the highest it has been for a few years, rising ten places as Nelly Furtado's highest song to draw with P!nk's highest song. Who Knew has had a bit more of a struggle consistently performing well but as a very likeable anthem about an old friendship gone it's pretty much always been her most appreciated song here. I'm not actually sure what will take the place of that next year. |
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12th September 2016, 03:32 PM
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Born To Die, Sexy No No No, Only Girl and the entire 36-40 section is incredible
Great to see Paparazzi & Womanizer score new peaks!
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12th September 2016, 04:48 PM
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Very surprised to see Born to Die only debuting in top 100 this year - I would have thought that one would solidly be at least in the 80s.
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12th September 2016, 04:58 PM
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