2010

 

1. Ellie Goulding

2. Marina and the Diamonds

3. Delphic

4. Hurts

5. The Drums

6-15 (in no particular order) : Daisy Dares You, Devlin, Everything Everything, Giggs, Gold Panda, Joy Orbison, Owl City, Rox, Stornoway and Two Door Cinema Club.

 

2009

 

1. Little Boots

2. White Lies

3. Florence and the Machine

4. Empire of the Sun

5. La Roux

6. Lady GaGa

7. VV Brown

8. Kid Cudi

9. Passion Pit

10. Dan Black

11-15 (in no particular order). The Big Pink, Frankmusik, Master Shortie, Mumford & Sons and The Temper Trap.

 

2008

 

1. Adele

2. Duffy

3. The Ting Tings

4. Glasvegas

5. Foals

6. Vampire Weekend

7. Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong

8. Black Kids

9. MGMT

10. Santogold

 

2007

 

1. Mika

2. The Twang

3. Klaxons

4. Sadie Ama

5. Enter Shikari

6. Air Traffic

7. Cold War Kids

8. Just Jack

9. Ghosts

10. The Rumble Strips

 

2006

 

1. Corinne Bailey Rae

2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

3. The Feeling

4. Plan B

5. Guillemots

6. Sway

7. Chris Brown

8. Marcos Hernandez

9. Kubb

10. The Automatic

 

2005

 

1. The Bravery

2. Bloc Party

3. Kano

4. The Game

5. Kaiser Chiefs

6. KT Tunstall

7. The Dead 60s

8. The Dears

9. Tom Vek

10. The Magic Numbers

 

2004

 

1. Keane

2. Franz Ferdinand

3. Wiley

4. Razorlight

5. Joss Stone

6. McFly

7. The Scissor Sisters

8. The Ordinary Boys

9. Tali

10. Gemma Fox

 

2003

 

1. 50 Cent

2. Electric Six

3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4. The Thrills

5. Dizzee Rascal

6. Interpol

7. Audio Bullys

8. Mario

9. The Datsuns

10. Sean Paul

Edited May 20, 201015 yr by Bert for Lashes

I think the biggest fail of ALL TIME in music industry is placing McFly AHEAD of the Scissor Sisters in 2004 :o

 

Having 50 Cent at number 1 2003 makes me puke too.

It's really weird how WRONG they got it so often :o

 

Nearly every year the more successful artists were lower down.

whats this got to do with retro?

 

retro starts 2000

Wish they told us the 6-10 positions for this year.

 

And they got Lady GaGa so wrong, only #6 last year :lol:

And they got Lady GaGa so wrong, only #6 last year :lol:

The majority of the time is celebrating new UK music, so if they placed Lady GaGa at #1 (such as if they'd placed Owl City at #1 this year) they'd get quite a bit of backlash.

Ok so arguably the most successful artists in each year were:

 

2010

1. Ellie Goulding

 

2009

6. Lady GaGa

 

2008

2. Duffy

 

2007

1. Mika

 

2006

7. Chris Brown

 

2005

5. Kaiser Chiefs

 

2004

1. Keane

 

2003

5. Dizzee Rascal

 

2006 went a bit wrong, not sure who to pick there... otherwise they've had some good winners and some not so good winners.

Why has this been moved to the "Pop" forum?

There's lots of pop acts on there, but there's also some urban and rock acts.

 

I initially put it in the "Retro" forum cause it is a retrospective of the BBC Sound chart.

The majority of the time is celebrating new UK music, so if they placed Lady GaGa at #1 (such as if they'd placed Owl City at #1 this year) they'd get quite a bit of backlash.

 

I understand, and I guess it's right they have mainly British acts, but Empire Of The Sun was #4 last year, and they're Australian, and they didn't do as well as GaGa, so they did still kind of get it wrong.

 

I guess Ellie Goulding for this year is right, since her album went to #1

I understand, and I guess it's right they have mainly British acts, but Empire Of The Sun was #4 last year, and they're Australian, and they didn't do as well as GaGa, so they did still kind of get it wrong.

Lady GaGa was already a worldwide phenonomen though. :lol:

What happened to Kubb? :lol:

What happened to Kubb? :lol:

God knows :lol: I remember one song, which I actually quite liked and that was 'Grow'. :wub:

 

Also, 2006 success in the UK surely went to Corrine & The Feeling as opposed to Chris Brown? :unsure: Chris didn't really take off here until his last era. One or two hits yeah, but his albums didn't do that well did they? :unsure:

GaGa didn't need this win. At all. This list is created to create hype (no matter how it sounds) for the sake of it. Acts need promoting and what else can be implemented but that feature?

 

Also, WOAH at some of the acts out here, i never knew they were in this list. Like Bloc Party. Or Electric Six! :o Runner-ups are much more amazing than winners tbf!

It isn't one person choosing - it's a cross-section of music industry professionals etc. Some had the sense to realise that GaGa was essentially guaranteed to be huge and didn't need the hype, so didn't list her. Others put her on theirs anyway. Hence the lower position.

God knows :lol: I remember one song, which I actually quite liked and that was 'Grow'. :wub:

 

Urgh, that was dreadful. 'Wicked Soul' however was awesome.

 

Having 50 Cent at number 1 2003 makes me puke too.

 

Which is why I can never take these "sound of..." lists at all seriously. What a talentless twat.

I completely forgot The Bravery won in 2005 :o Weird to see Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 2nd in 2006, too. Decent enough band but I don't think they had a single chart hit.

 

One interesting thing to think about on these lists (apart from the artists that completely failed) is the artists that didn't really take off in the years they were shortlisted like most of them do, but had their success much later. Just from a quick skim I can spot Wiley, Dizzee Rascal and Plan B who fit into this group. They may be the only ones at the moment.

 

Having 50 Cent at number 1 2003 makes me puke too.

And that was a pretty good year too, with Electric Six, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dizzee Rascal, Interpol and Audio Bullys. God knows how he won over that lot.

Edited May 21, 201015 yr by superbossanova

Let's be honest, 50 Cent doesn't have talent indeed, but he obviously had the most hype around him and potential to be huge. Talent isn't always required. :(