I quite liked Fragma, I remember I bought one of their singles on tape but I can't remember which, I know it wasn't either of those two though. I certainly never disliked any of their songs though...

 

'Other Side of the World' is lovely.

stats for the songs left;

 

2000 - 2

2001 - 3

2002 - 2

2003 - 1

2004 - 4

2005 - 1

2006 - 2

2007 - 4

2008 - 3

2009 - 3

 

any predictions on any of these songs? I'll give £1000 to anyone who correctly guess the 2005 song :kink:

I quite liked Fragma, I remember I bought one of their singles on tape but I can't remember which, I know it wasn't either of those two though. I certainly never disliked any of their songs though...

 

'Other Side of the World' is lovely.

 

You Are Alive perhaps? was another #1 in my chart but didn't reach my chart of the decade

Ah yes. 'You Are Alive' forgot about that one. I also prefer that one to 'Toca's Miracle' well not at the time, but since 'Toca's Miracle' became vastly over used LOL.

 

30. Shakira - Whenever, Wherever - 2002 Pop classic. Although I do actually prefer other singles. One of which is undoubtedly 'Hips Don't Lie' which I am going to put as your number 1 :kink:

28. Delerium feat Sarah McLachlan - Silence - 2000 I think this is one of those songs that I don't remember, until I listen to it... I think I liked it though... :unsure: Will youtube later and get back to ya...

27. Madonna - Hung Up - 2005 Meh. Completely average. 'Sorry' and 'Jump' are far better imo.

26. Delta Goodrem - Born To Try - 2003 Without a doubt her best single to date. Would have been a perfect winning song for the winner of X-Factor! Diana especially! :wub:

 

Great choices.

 

Some predictions:

 

2000 - 2

2001 - 3

2002 - 2

2003 - 1

2004 - 4

2005 - 1

2006 - 2 - 'Hips Don't Lie'

2007 - 4 - 'Rule The World'

2008 - 3 - 'Love Song'

2009 - 3 - 'Release Me', 'Stay the Night'?

 

Hmmm... that's all I have at the moment LOL...

LOL a 2005 song isn't a ESC one? :kink:

Ah yes. 'You Are Alive' forgot about that one. I also prefer that one to 'Toca's Miracle' well not at the time, but since 'Toca's Miracle' became vastly over used LOL.

 

30. Shakira - Whenever, Wherever - 2002 Pop classic. Although I do actually prefer other singles. One of which is undoubtedly 'Hips Don't Lie' which I am going to put as your number 1 :kink:

28. Delerium feat Sarah McLachlan - Silence - 2000 I think this is one of those songs that I don't remember, until I listen to it... I think I liked it though... :unsure: Will youtube later and get back to ya...

27. Madonna - Hung Up - 2005 Meh. Completely average. 'Sorry' and 'Jump' are far better imo.

26. Delta Goodrem - Born To Try - 2003 Without a doubt her best single to date. Would have been a perfect winning song for the winner of X-Factor! Diana especially! :wub:

 

Great choices.

 

Some predictions:

 

2000 - 2

2001 - 3

2002 - 2

2003 - 1

2004 - 4

2005 - 1

2006 - 2 - 'Hips Don't Lie'

2007 - 4 - 'Rule The World'

2008 - 3 - 'Love Song'

2009 - 3 - 'Release Me', 'Stay the Night'?

 

Hmmm... that's all I have at the moment LOL...

 

thanks Jonjo :D

 

we'll have to see if those 5 songs feature, at least one definitely does!

 

30. #1! wow, we'll see I guess, it's definitely still to come :D

28. really :drama: it's incredible :wub:

27. disagree :o it's legendary! although I loved Jump and Sorry too :wub:

26. I disagree :kink: there is ONE other UK Delta single still to come! and possibly one which wasn't released here...

LOL a 2005 song isn't a ESC one? :kink:

 

nope :P

 

here's a clue - the 2005 song left reached #134 in the UK charts and is by an Australian artist (not Delta) :w00t:

nope :P

 

here's a clue - the 2005 song left reached #134 in the UK charts and is by an Australian artist (not Delta) :w00t:

I thought it might be 'Ten Days' but Wiki says #133!

thanks Jonjo :D

 

we'll have to see if those 5 songs feature, at least one definitely does!

Well I'm 99.9999999% sure of 4 of them :smoke: It's just Alcazar, I'm debating on :kink:

I thought it might be 'Ten Days' but Wiki says #133!

 

ok I was one place out and I owe you £1000 :arrr: :kink:

Well I'm 99.9999999% sure of 4 of them :smoke: It's just Alcazar, I'm debating on :kink:

 

well there's still three 2009 songs to appear so maybe it's one of them :o

a lot of great trance songs here, from the trance-pop sound of Kelly Llorenna, to the eurotrance sound of Fragma, Alice DJ and Ian Van Dahl, to the more Ibiza-esque trance sound of Delerium , Aurora and Thrillseekers. It was good to listen to the radio back in 2000/2001.

 

Not a huge fan of Spiller, a bit overrated imo. You know what I think of Eternal Flame :P Shakira and ATC, 2 huge european anthems. I really hate The Promise, blah. Loved the All Saints comeback, it definitely rocked!

a lot of great trance songs here, from the trance-pop sound of Kelly Llorenna, to the eurotrance sound of Fragma, Alice DJ and Ian Van Dahl, to the more Ibiza-esque trance sound of Delerium , Aurora and Thrillseekers. It was good to listen to the radio back in 2000/2001.

 

Not a huge fan of Spiller, a bit overrated imo. You know what I think of Eternal Flame :P Shakira and ATC, 2 huge european anthems. I really hate The Promise, blah. Loved the All Saints comeback, it definitely rocked!

 

I thought you'd appreciate all the trance-pop :D 2000 was definitely the best year for that genre :wub: nice to see somebody else appreciate Synaesthesia :cheer:

 

I must say I prefer that song in instrumental mode, which was the one out way back in mid-2000. It then got the vocal treatment like thousands of others, but I didnt love that one as much. Still, its a tune!

don't think I heard the instrumental, although Synaesthesia topped my chart first time in autumn 2000 so I definitely heard it before the UK release...god knows where I used to discover this music because I didn't have much access to the internet back in 2000

 

Everytime You Need Me topped my chart in November 2000 as well, I really can't remember how I came across it so soon before release!?!

My faves so far:

 

51. Groove Armada feat Mutya - Song 4 Mutya - 2007

53. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone - 2005

54. Nerina Pallot-Everybody's Gone To War – 2006

55. Charlotte Perrelli – Hero - 2008

57. Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry - 2007

58. Mariah Carey - We Belong Together - 2005

59. Ian van Dahl - Will I? - 2001

61. Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo & Kanye West - Knock You Down - 2009

62. Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child – 2006

63. DHT feat Edmee - Listen To Your Heart - 2005

64. Lily Allen-Smile - 2006

65. Rihanna-Disturbia - 2008

66. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor - 2001

67. Alice Deejay - Will I Ever - 2000

 

 

50. Spiller feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) - 2000

48. Kelly Llorenna - Tell It To My Heart - 2002

46. Natasha Bedingfield - These Words - 2004

45. The Corrs - Summer Sunshine - 2004

43. Atomic Kitten - Eternal Flame - 2001

42. Thrillseekers feat Sheryl Deane - Synaesthesia (Fly Away) - 2000 :wub:

40. Aurora feat Naimee Coleman - Ordinary World - 2000

39. Delta Goodrem - Not Me, Not I - 2003

38. ATC - Around The World (La La La La La) - 2002

36. Girls Aloud - The Promise - 2008

35. Fragma - Toca's Miracle - 2000

34. KT Tunstall - Other Side Of The World - 2005

33. All Saints - Rock Steady - 2006

32. Fragma feat Maria Rubia - Everytime You Need Me - 2001

31. Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky - 2001

30. Shakira - Whenever, Wherever - 2002

28. Delerium feat Sarah McLachlan - Silence - 2000 :wub:

27. Madonna - Hung Up - 2005

26. Delta Goodrem - Born To Try - 2003

 

Some great ones in there! I forgot all about The Thrillseekers - classic tune! :wub:

Everytime You Need Me, Whenever Wherever & Hung Up are somewhere in my Top 100 :wub:

thanks AH Gold! Synaesthesia should have been a much bigger hit :( so underrated chartswise at least - it's a bit of a classic to those 'in the know'

thanks AH Gold! Synaesthesia should have been a much bigger hit :( so underrated chartswise at least - it's a bit of a classic to those 'in the know'

 

I loved it at the time. Did it even go Top 40 in the end?

#27 iirc

 

I bought it on release week :D

25. Delta Goodrem - Mistaken Identity - 2004

 

Personal chart peak: #1 (for 1 week)

 

Late November 2004 and I rushed out of college in my lunch break to buy probably my most anticipated album of all time - Delta Goodrem's Mistaken Identity. Promised to be a maturer and darker album, due to her personal life, which indeed it was, I still fell in love with it straight away. No track was more instant for me than the excellent Mistaken Identity. Referring to the Delta of old 'the girl in the chair with the long golden hair', the lyrics were harsh, honest and cutting and the song was seen as a huge risk in Australia where it was released as a single. It reached #7 there, a huge step down after her first six releases had all gone to #1!!! Risk or not, musically the song is one of Delta's finest moments - like Tori Amos at her most emphatic - and it even fits in a brilliantly executed key change and ad libs at the end!!!

 

 

24. Maria Haukaas Storeng - Hold On Be Strong - 2008

 

Personal chart peak: #1 (for 3 weeks)

 

So onto the highest Eurovision song on the countdown and of course it's back over to Norway who have been on fire the last few years, easily the most dominant Western country. Norway have a way of getting classy pop songs into the top five despite having only one neighbouring country, and the excellent Maria Haukaas Storeng returned the country to the top five in 2008. Instantly a favourite of mine when I first heard it in 2008, the song fit in perfectly with the soul-pop sound of 2008. With the best opening line of any song ever - 'love can be hard sometimes, yes it can catch you off guard like bad crimes'!?! Maria's live vocal was spot on and having been planning to vote for Sweden (Charlotte Perrelli - Hero), my support isntantly went to Norway after her flawless contest closing performance and Maria became one of my favourite artists. Stunning pop song and I still really can't understand why she wasn't launched here in 2008. Hold On Be Strong and Mine All Mine were so accessible and commercial that they would have been easy top ten hits with promotion...

 

23. Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme - 2004

 

Personal chart peak: #1 (for 5 weeks)

 

Quite easily my favourite house song of the decade, dance had been a bit weak throughout 2003 and early 2004 had showed little signs of promise with looped 80's house rubbish starting to become the norm. However, British dance act Shapeshifers, along with vocalist Cookie, changed all that with the brilliantly uplifting dance anthem Lola's Theme, written about Lola, the wife of one of the band members. A powerful vocal by a classic house vocalist, it was like the best song never released in the mid 90's and went straight in at #1 denying Rachel Stevens' electro pop classic Some Girls from the top spot. Great fairground video too - along with Natasha Bedingfield's These Words, this song absolutely ruled summer 2004 for me!!!

 

22. Kim Lukas - All I Really Want - 2000

 

Personal chart peak: #3 (for 1 weeks)

 

The oldest song in the countdown, rewinding right back to early 2000 and I was on holiday in Tenerife. I turned on the radio and British singer Kim Lukas' All I Really Want, something of a Europop hit on the continent, came on - I recorded the song on tape and quickly became obsessed with it listening to the radio non-stop to try and find out what it was. When I got back from holiday I typed some of the lyrics into a search engine and found out, and from that moment on it became one of my favourite pop songs of all time. Nothing groundbreaking, but a cheerful pop song with a very sweet partly animated video, the song was produced by Eiffel 65 and you can hear it, the background of the song is practically identical to Blue (Da Ba Dee). It's a shame that this never got a UK release as it could have done big things.

 

 

21. Lady GaGa - Bad Romance - 2009

 

Personal chart peak: #1 (for 6 weeks)

 

Onto THE song of the moment, I only first heard it less than three months ago but it's practically ruled my life ever since. To launch The Fame Monster, GaGa's own special way of doing a deluxe album repackage which featured eight brand new songs, she teamed up with RedOne again to make a song that can only be described as absolutely sensational. A killer chorus, the video of the decade, subtle nods to Poker Face throughout, the excellent 'ra ra ah a ah a GaGa ooh la la' singalong elements. The song has already been a huge worldwide hit and is still growing!!! Perfect pop song - this could well end up as one of my favourite songs of all time - but it was released just that tiny bit too late to quite catch up with the top 20 of the decade...