Opposite of Adults was my worst song of 2010, literally massacring a truly amazing song and shouting over it about how amazing they are- it just defines why rappers should leave this stuff alone! :( its success still baffles me :wacko:

Opposite of Adults was my worst song of 2010, literally massacring a truly amazing song and shouting over it about how amazing they are- it just defines why rappers should leave this stuff alone! :( its success still baffles me :wacko:

 

Really? I love it! :D Such a tune! I love Kids too, of course (that sounds really wrong :rofl:). :)

 

It's success was surprising, but that's just because I never heard it anywhere until like 2 weeks after it started charting, so I don't know how people discovered the song in the first place. I might just not've been in the right place at the right time, I suppose. But I can see why people would want to buy the song. :) I don't think it massacred the original at all.

#87

JASON DERÜLO
“What If”
from the album “Jason Derülo”
[July 2010]
40-19-15-12-13-15-20-26-36-42-49-45-55-72-82-x



~ 974 points // 15 weeks // #12 peak ~

The second of four top 200 entries for the umlaut deviant himself, Jason Derülo. This time it’s his self-titled début album’s fourth single What If. This is by far the highest entry of that name on this chart - after being used in Britain’s Got Talent the Kate Winslet song also entitled What If re-charted at #76 for one week, enough to see it land at #662 on this countdown. I used to be a massive loon of Mr. Derülo back in the days of In My Head (still to come in this countdown as well as Ridin’ Solo), I even changed my BuzzJack name to ‘BrayFish Derülo’ for a while, but I’m now finding it extremely difficult to find enough to talk about regarding his entries in this chart. Forgive the short-ish comment with almost no information in it at all. This is a pretty good song but it broke his top 3 run, not even making the top 10.

#86

EXAMPLE
“Won’t Go Quietly”
from the album “Won’t Go Quietly”
[January 2010]
6-9-10-16-21-27-45-64-56-62-61-67-78-98-96-x(4)-96-95-96-42-47-70-80-99-x



~ 982 points // 23 weeks // #6 peak ~

The lower of two entries in the top 200 for British singer and rapper Example (real name Elliot Gleave - get it? EG? Example? Ha ha ha) is the second single from his second and breakthrough studio album Won’t Go Quietly, the song of the same name. It seems a bit strange to me. If you’re going to release an album after 3 singles and you’re going to name the album after one of the singles, it’d make sense to name it after the first or the third single, but naming it after the second single just seems odd. Anyway, this was Example’s first UK top 10 hit, with his breakthrough single Watch The Sun Come Up only making #19 in 2009. Third single Kickstarts did even better and went as high as #3. That song is still to come in the countdown… but WHERE? All shall be revealed. Anyway, his album did pretty well, charting at #4, but then the singles predictably did progressively worse after this. Fourth single Last Ones Standing only made #27, but this was huge compared to the fifth and final single Two Lives which made a pathetic #84. Aside from his 5 singles Example was also credited to two further top 30 hits in 2010, Professor Green’s #27 hit Monster and Tinchy Stryder’s #22 hit Game Over, the full crediting of which reads Tinchy Stryder feat. Chipmunk, Tinie Tempah, Devlin, Example, Professor Green and Giggs. That crediting doesn’t even come close to the longest crediting of 2008 though! The #26 hit charity single Just Stand Up! which is sometimes credited to ‘Artists Stand Up For Cancer’ for brevity, is fully credited as Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Natasha Bedingfield, Miley Cyrus, Leona Lewis, Carrie Underwood, Keyshia Cole, LeAnn Rimes, Ashanti and Ciara. Phew. Anyway, yeah. Congratulations on the big year Example. This is his best single in my humble opinion so if you somehow haven’t heard it yet go ahead and give it a play on the video above.

Edited January 12, 201114 yr by ★BlindFaithBray★

Won't Go Quietly sounds like one of those old songs that they play on the radio all the time, which you know really well, but you can't remember the name of them.

 

And guess what, I can't remember what it's called. It's killing me. :( Time for google!!

is this topic going to be updated?

is this topic going to be updated?

 

No :lol:

is this topic going to be updated?

 

One day, one day.

 

I'm currently having some problems with my internet, it keeps disconnecting :P

#85

THE SCRIPT
“For The First Time”
from the album “Science & Faith”
[september 2010]
5-4-4-7-12-18-24-30-41-49-54-62-72-86-81-70-



~ 997 points // 16 weeks // #4 peak ~

Sorry about the video, it appears the official video is bizarrely not on YouTube, so I’ve been forced to put up a lyrics video. Anyway, For The First Time was the first single from Science & Faith, the second studio album by Irish ‘rock’ band The Script (Danny O’Donoghue, Mark Sheehan, Glen Power). I say ‘rock’ because according to the powers that be the Official Charts Company this song was one of just three ‘rock’ tracks to be among the top 100 highest selling singles of 2010. The other two are the even more laughably categorised Hey, Soul Sister by Train and the slightly more understandable Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey (both of these songs are still to come in the countdown). For The First Time provided a second top 10 hit for the ‘rockers’ following massive 2008 #2 hit The Man Who Can’t Be Moved. The album also provided a second #1 album for the band, and also strangely a second consecutive album that returned to #1, though Science & Faith did it a lot quicker, starting its chart run 1-2-1 (denied a second consecutive week by, bizarrely, Phil Collins with Going Back) while début The Script spent 2 weeks at #1 in August 2008 before returning for a third week of glory in the start of year sales in January 2009. The Script have recently seen huge US success with their third UK single Breakeven, renamed Breakeven (Falling To Pieces) for its US release, with the song peaking at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. They were a bit late on that bandwagon, the song making #21 in the UK in January 2009. The Man Who Can’t Be Moved was released as their second US single and made a more muted peak of #86. The US are still playing catch-up to The Script’s releases as For The First Time has only recently been released there (making #91 so far) but it can be assumed The Script won’t bother releasing UK début single We Cry or non-top-40 hits Talk You Down, Before The Worst and Nothing Stateside so the releases will probably be synchronised for album 3. This is the last song on the countdown to have not made the 1,000 points mark. The number of releases reaching this mark has stayed amazingly close to last year, with 83 making the 1,000 in 2009.

See? I can do updates :(

Edited January 16, 201114 yr by ★BlindFaithBray★

#84

DJ FRESH FEAT. CE’CILE
“Gold Dust”
from the album “Kryptonite”
[August 2010]
24-27-24-27-25-30-26-29-34-38-39-44-45-51-63-89-x



~ 1,001 points // 16 weeks // #24 peak ~

Definitely one of, if not the, most surprisingly long-lived chart hits of the year was this, Gold Dust by UK drum n bass DJ and producer DJ Fresh (real name Daniel Stein) featuring someone called Ce’cile. It had a lot going against it even making the top 40 in the first place. It is a drum n bass song after all. Unless you’re Chase & Status it’s almost impossible to get drum n bass into the top 40. To even have a chance you’d need Radio 1 A-Listing you (as Radio 1 are pretty much the only radio station that would support such a rebellious (?) genre) and absolutely rinsing your song. This got to #24 and spent 11 weeks in the top 40 (eight of those in the top 30) without any support from Radio 1 whatsoever, not even making the In New Music We Trust playlist. It’s not even as if DJ Fresh has a loyal music-buying fanbase - previous single Hypercaine (which actually DID get Radio 1 playlist support, as did the #98 follow up single Lassitude (DJ Fresh and Sigma)) didn’t make the top 100 and neither did his album Kryptonite. So what on Earth possessed this country to go against the rules of what should be successful and what should not? I think it’s just because deep down we all LOVE skipping. Just watch that video. Isn’t it entrancing?

MORE UPDATES TO COME.

Edited January 16, 201114 yr by ★BlindFaithBray★

Didn't like that Script song at all. :( And it only spent 4 weeks in the top 10, but it seemed to stay there forever.

 

I LOVED Gold Dust. I also don't have a clue how it became a hit. It was just such a catchy, fun song though. :lol: It was like an upbeat version of Katy On a Mission.

CLAP YOUR HANDS, EVERYBODY JUST

STOMP YOUR FEET, EVERYBODY JUST

SNAP YOUR FINGERS, EVERYBODY JUST

COME AND JUMP WITH ME! :wub:

 

The Script however, hated the song at first, started to like it a bit when it was falling down the chart, hate it again after overplayed by the radio!

 

Right, I have plans to do some serious work on this countdown over the weekend. Sorry for being so lazy the past week. I've been too ill to think. Or something.

Edited January 21, 201114 yr by ★BlindFaithBray★

#83

JAY SEAN FEAT. SEAN PAUL AND LIL JON
“Do You Remember”
from the album “All Or Nothing”
[December 2009]
RE-91-78-52-23-15-14-13-17-15-22-27-34-40-42-55-76-100-x



~ 1,003 points // 17 weeks // #13 peak ~

The highest entry from Jay Sean on this countdown, then, is the second single from his third studio album All Or Nothing. I failed to mention in the commentary for Down (feat. Lil Wayne) earlier that for all of Jay Sean’s success in the UK and US singles charts, the album was a big flop in the UK, reaching just #62. Anyway, Do You Remember featured two stars well past their prime chartwise - Jamaican-born reggae singer Sean Paul (real name Sean Henriques) who was most popular from 2003 to 2005 scoring several UK top ten hits and US rapper Lil Jon (real name Jonathan Smith) who hadn’t even seen the top 100 since 2005 prior to this. The featured artist factor probably still helped the song out a lot at least in the US, with the track making #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and proving Jay Sean to not be a one hit wonder over there. It didn’t do quite as well back in Sean’s homeland, only reaching #13, but nonetheless had a decently consistent chart run.

#82

INNA
“Hot”
from the album “Hot”
[March 2010]
8-6-9-7-10-15-17-26-36-51-66-73-74-98-x(1)-81-83-x(1)-76-89-91-x



~ 1,003 points // 19 weeks // #6 peak ~

And we finally come to the highest entry by the Romanian girl with the extremely long and difficult real name but a short and simple stage name, Inna. Hot was the first of 2 major hits of 2010 to come from Romania, the other being Stereo Love by Edward Maya featuring Russian singer Vika Jigulina which made #4 and features later in this countdown. Hot peaked slightly lower and dropped off slightly quicker, making #6 and spending 19 weeks in the top 100 compared to Stereo Love’s 25 weeks. However, it is this that spent longer in the top 10 surprisingly, spending 5 weeks in the upper quarter of the top 40 compared to just 2 for Stereo Love. Hot had a yo-yo start to its career, going up two places then down three then up two then down three. Unfortunately the pattern didn’t continue and it fell from there on out, barring two short-lived re-entries to the top 100.

Oh, is this still going? :o

 

The irony of Bray's signature. I think the world will have ended before this countdown gets finished.

Oh, is this still going? :o

 

The irony of Bray's signature. I think the world will have ended before this countdown gets finished.

 

It's been on a hiatus the past week and a half or so owing to my reluctance to do anything because of my illness.

 

Hopefully it'll pick up a bit soon :P

#81

KELIS
“Acapella”
from the album “Flesh Tone”
[April 2010]
5-7-9-10-10-12-22-32-41-47-54-53-55-74-77-x



~ 1,007 points // 15 weeks // #5 peak ~

The only entry in the top 200 for US singer Kelis (full name Kelis Jones) is this, the David Guetta produced Acapella, the first single from her fifth studio album Flesh Tone. The song was her eighth top 10 hit in a surprisingly long chart career (her first top 10 hit being 2000’s Caught Out There). The title of this song is frustratingly misspelled - firstly ‘a cappella’ is two words and secondly the ‘cappella’ part has two Ps. I can deal with misspellings when they’re obviously done on purpose for effect, normally hip hop songs, but this seems like a genuine oversight that Kelis & Co. forgot to consult the dictionary about. The lyrics, if you assume she’s singing about a man she’s fallen in love with as most songs by female artists tend to be, seem a little bit odd. ‘My heart that you play on, grab like a crayon’? It makes more sense when you find out it’s actually about her infant son Knight. This song seems to have been a short-lived boost to Kelis’ career. She’s never exactly been an albums artist having never had a top 10 album but Flesh Tone was a flop even by her standards, peaking at #46 and spending just three weeks in the top 100. The follow-up single 4th Of July (Fireworks) also hardly set the charts alight, peaking at just #32.

If I can do one result per day for the rest of the countdown I can be finished by... 16th April :lol:

Edited January 25, 201114 yr by ★BlindFaithBray★

If I can do one result per day for the rest of the countdown I can be finished by... 16th April :lol:

 

Don't worry! I'll still be reading. :lol:

 

And Acapella is a brilliant song. So classy and un-generic imo. I did think it would be #1 at one point though, but it still did very well.

Aye, Acapella is a very good song, I wan't even aware it was mispelled! :o