#108

 

B.O.B FEAT. RIVERS CUOMO

“Magic”

from the album “The Adventures Of Bobby Ray”

[October 2010]

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~ 819 points // 12 weeks // #16 peak ~

 

The third single release from The Adventures Of Bobby Ray, the début album by humorously named US rapper B.o.B (real name Bobby Ray Simmons), was this, Magic featuring Rivers Cuomo who is of course better known as the vocalist of the US alternative rock band Weezer. Due in part to not having a full chart run represented here but mainly because it was released months after its parent album (which peaked at #17) it is the lowest entry on this list for B.o.B, unless you count his pre-fame featured appearance on Giggs’ Don’t Go There which only spent one week in the top 100 at #60. Magic had a disappointingly low peak of #16 after both of B.o.B’s previous singles Nothin’ On You (feat. Bruno Mars) and Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams) got to #1 and didn’t even manage to beat the peak of Weezer’s most successful song, 2005 #9 hit Beverly Hills. Although, to be fair, it’s not like it was expected to be another massive hit - in B.o.B’s native USA Nothin’ On You got to #1 while Airplanes was only a #2 but greatly outsold its predecessor, but Magic only peaked at #10, sort of pre-empting what would happen in the UK.

Edited January 3, 201114 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

#107

THE TEMPER TRAP
“Sweet Disposition”
from the album “Conditions”
[August 2009]
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~ 825 points // 29 weeks // #41 peak ~

And so we come to the highest charting song to have not made the top 40 in 2010 and it comes from Australian indie band The Temper Trap (Dougy Mandagi, Jonathon Aherne, Lorenzo Sillitto, Toby Dundas). Sweet Disposition was an unexpected (but fully deserved) #6 hit for the band last year. After a relatively slow start, entering at #52, constant use on TV adverts and montages saw it slowly climb up the chart until it hit its peak and it’s been selling consistently ever since then. Though it only ever went as high as #41 in 2010 it had 3 separate chart runs of 13, 6 and 8 weeks respectively with peaks of #41, #64 and #51, plus two other one-week chart runs at #96 and #75. Its consistency in the chart means it has charted higher than many of 2010’s #1s on this countdown. Sadly it has missed out on the top 100 by just 39 points and all 106 songs to come are 2010 top 40 hits. The Temper Trap attempted a follow-up to Sweet Disposition this year with Fader but only managed to go as high as #76. At least the album did pretty well, originally getting to #26 in 2009 but beating that peak by 1 in early 2010.

I no longer hate Start Without You, but it was still so average, glad it had an awful chart run

#106

NELLY
“Just A Dream”
from the album “5.0”
[October 2010]
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~ 834 points // 10 weeks // #8 peak ~

One of the more unexpected successful comebacks of 2010 was that of US rapper Nelly (real name Cornell Haynes). Nelly has, of course, had four #1 hits in the UK - 2002’s Dilemma (feat. Kelly Rowland), 2004’s My Place, 2005’s Over And Over (feat. Tim McGraw) and 2006’s Nasty Girl (The Notorious B.I.G. feat. P. Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge and Avery Storm) - but his last two ‘comebacks’ resulted in one or two small hits and nothing else. In 2006 he got to #26 with Grillz (feat. Paul Wall and Ali & Gipp) and in 2008 he got to #14 with Party People (feat. Fergie) and #17 with Body On Me (feat. Akon and Ashanti). It was widely assumed Nelly was over in the UK. But then he came out with this, big US hit Just A Dream, which finally saw Nelly return to the UK top 10 just in time for his tenth anniversary of breaking said barrier with 2000 #7 hit (Hot S**t) Country Grammar. Perhaps the most shocking thing about it is that he didn’t have to rely on a collaboration with another big artist, instead deciding to go it alone. The album 5.0 (inaccurately titled given it was his sixth studio album), however, was a huge flop in the UK becoming his first ever album to miss the top 20, only making #59. Is Nelly *now* over? That remains to be seen. Album track Liv Tonight (feat. Keri Hilson) did well in the album’s week of release, making #58, so there may be another big hit to come for Nelly in 2011 should he choose to release it as a single.

Edited January 3, 201114 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

#105

DUCK SAUCE
“Barbra Streisand”
stand-alone single
[October 2010]
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~ 842 points // 11 weeks //#3 peak ~

Possibly one of the strangest top 3 hits of the year was this, the second single released by US/Canadian DJ duo Duck Sauce (Armand Van Helden, Alain Macklovitch/A-Trak). It’s the second song on the countdown to sample Boney M. (RIP Bobby Farrell, again), with the infectious ‘woo-oo-oo-oo’ running through the entire track being sampled from their song Gotta Go Home. Aside from this the only vocals present in the song are a man repeating the name of 68-year-old pop star Barbra Streisand, hence the title of the song. There are other vocals present in the video for the song but the version in the video is completely different to the version you’d hear on the radio. By entering the chart at #3 it was the highest new entry in its release week, beating off the first (technically second) single by 2009 X Factor winner Joe McElderry, Donkeyboy cover Ambitions. You know you’re a fail of a winner when your début single is outcharted by a man saying ‘Barbra Streisand’ a few times over a Boney M. sample. Barbra Streisand was a much bigger hit than the first single released by the duo of Armand Van Helden and A-Trak under the name Duck Sauce, peculiarly credited 2009 #22 hit aNYway (Armand Van Helden and A-Trak pt. Duck Sauce). Duck sauce, if you're wondering, is a genuine sauce used in some Chinese restaurants. It doesn't contain actual duck, though, it's made out of sugar, vinegar, ginger, chillis and any of apricots, plums or peaches.

Edited January 3, 201114 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

Is Poker Face in the poll, because that also samples Boney M (although it's only a vocal sample)?

 

Also, I really liked Start Without You. I thought it was an absolutely brilliant song, and I did find it kind of hilarious that it got 2 weeks at #1. :lol:

 

Let The Sunshine was really disppointing from Labrinth imo. He's going around making incredible masterpieces like Frisky, and then as his own lead single he comes out with that dreary pop song? A bit disappointing tbh. :( However, he's got another single ready, and people who've heard it are saying it's really good.

 

Also, Magic and Sweet Disposition are amazing. :wub:

#104

MICHAEL BUBLÉ
“Haven’t Met You Yet”
from the album “Crazy Love”
[October 2009]
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~ 847 points // 24 weeks // #23 peak ~

The second and highest entry in the top 200 for Michael Bublé is this, the 2009 first single from Crazy Love titled Haven’t Met You Yet. I mentioned earlier how this is easily his biggest single with a peak of #5. Well, it was also his biggest single of 2010 on this countdown despite him releasing new material. I suppose this countdown is biased to earlier releases though. Anyway, this song had 2 separate runs in the top 40 in 2010, the first being what was left over of its original run and the second when it was propelled back up to #38 thanks to a TV special in his honour. Another one of these a few months later saw it rise back to #55. Something I can now comment on is that this was recently announced as the 94th biggest selling download of all time. That sounds like a great achievement but downloads have only really existed since 2004 and they didn’t sell in any great numbers until 2008. I’ll fill you in on the chart positions of other songs I’ve already announced in this countdown: Alexandra Burke’s Bad Boys (feat. Flo Rida) was 18th, The Black Eyed Peas’ The Time (Dirty Bit) was 92nd, Ellie Goulding’s Your Song was 76th, Rihanna’s What’s My Name? (feat. Drake) was 96th, Beyoncé’s Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) was 47th, Jason Mraz’s I’m Yours was 59th and David Guetta’s Sexy Bitch (feat. Akon) was 27th. The entire top fourteen on this countdown made the top 100 on that chart and eighteen of the top 20 made appearances in all.

Is Poker Face in the poll, because that also samples Boney M (although it's only a vocal sample)?

 

There's a list of all the songs that made the top 200 on the first page. After I've posted #101 I'll post a list of songs in the top 100.

 

EDIT: Here's the post: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=3379491

Edited January 3, 201114 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

#103

KE$HA FEAT. 3OH!3
“Blah Blah Blah”
from the album “Animal”
[February 2010]
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~ 853 points // 13 weeks // #11 peak ~

The lowest of Ke$ha’s 4 entries as a lead artist and the second lowest of her 6 entries counting 2 featured credits is surprisingly not her fourth single, but her second, Blah Blah Blah (feat. 3OH!3). The song was a massive hit as a cherry-picked album track on iTunes, going as high as #3, leading it to enter at #11 in the week of the album’s release. It also went to #1 on US iTunes at the same time that her previous single TiK ToK was #2. This led to the song being released as the second single from her #8 début album Animal. It turned out to be a poor choice after all though, not beating its original peak after a full release and instead only reclimbing as high as #17. Its fall after this initially seemed like it’d be a slow one, with the song spending three straight weeks at #22, but it was, alas, out of the top 100 just six weeks later. Ke$ha would later return the favour to 3OH!3 by featuring on their #7 hit My First Kiss, but of course that had even less longevity as I’ve already gone past it on this countdown. Ah well, there’s still 4 more servings of Ke$ha (whose middle name is Rose by the way) to come, one of them aided by none other than Taio Cruz…

Edited January 3, 201114 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

#102

TAIO CRUZ FEAT. KE$HA
“Dirty Picture”
from the album “Rokstarr”
[April 2010]
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~ 856 points // 12 weeks // #6 peak ~

…speaking of which, here it is. Dirty Picture was the third single released from Taio Cruz’s second studio album Rokstarr after the UK and US #1 Break Your Heart (which featured Ludacris in the USA but was a solo hit here) and the, er, #42 hit No Other One. Dirty Picture was clearly a much bigger success, maybe because it featured flavour-of-the-month Ke$ha and maybe because it was a lot better and didn’t sound exactly the same as Break Your Heart. The US version of Rokstarr, released here as a ‘greatest hits’ album titled The Rokstarr Collection, contained songs from both of his studio albums, Departure and Rokstarr, plus a few new songs. Among the tracklisting was every one of Taio’s UK singles… except No Other One. Taio seems to be as guilty as The Saturdays in trying to hide the past and pretend he never released something. Anyway, this was Taio’s fourth UK top ten hit following 2008 #5 hit Come On Girl (feat. Luciana), 2009 #3 hit Take Me Back (Tinchy Stryder feat. Taio Cruz) and the aforementioned trans-Atlantic 2009 #1 Break Your Heart. It was also the third top 10 hit for Ke$ha, after the 2009 #1 Right Round (Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha) and her own 2009-released 2010-peaking #4 TiK ToK. It was also subject to one of the most ridiculous radio edits of all time, censoring the central line ‘take a dirty picture for me’ to ‘won’t you take a picture for me’. The title still had to be announced as Dirty Picture though, so everyone’s gonna know what it’s about - why bother?

Edited January 3, 201114 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

#101

PIXIE LOTT
“Cry Me Out”
from the album “Turn It Up”
[November 2009]
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~ 862 points // 16 weeks // #24 peak ~

So the unlucky song just missing out on the big top 100 is Cry Me Out, the third single taken from Pixie Lott’s début album Turn It Up. The song was a #12 hit right at the end of 2009 but spent an impressive 15 weeks in the top 40, 8 of these in 2010. Six of its eight 2010 top 40 weeks were spent in the top 30. Despite having a peak 11 places lower than its two predecessors, Cry Me Out has actually sold around the same as Pixie’s 2 #1 hits in total. Pixie still has managed to get one song into the top 100 on this countdown though. But WHICH ONE? Well, you’ll find out fairly soon if you don’t already know.

As promise, here's the alphabetical list of the songs in the top 100.

 

3OH!3 FEAT. KATY PERRY - “Starstrukk”

ADELE - “Make You Feel My Love”

AGGRO SANTOS FEAT. KIMBERLY WYATT - “Candy”

ALEXANDRA BURKE - “Broken Heels”

ALEXANDRA BURKE FEAT. PITBULL - “All Night Long”

ALICIA KEYS - “Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down”

ALICIA KEYS - “Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart”

B.O.B FEAT. BRUNO MARS - “Nothin’ On You”

B.O.B FEAT. HAYLEY WILLIAMS - “Airplanes”

BRUNO MARS - “Just The Way You Are”

CEE LO GREEN - “F**k You!”

CHERYL COLE - “Fight For This Love”

CHERYL COLE - “Parachute”

CHIDDY BANG - “Opposite Of Adults”

DAVID GUETTA AND CHRIS WILLIS FEAT. FERGIE AND LMFAO - “Gettin’ Over You”

DAVID GUETTA FEAT. KID CUDI - “Memories”

DJ FRESH FEAT. CE’CILE - “Gold Dust”

EDWARD MAYA FEAT. VIKA JIGULINA - “Stereo Love”

ELIZA DOOLITTLE - “Pack Up”

ELLIE GOULDING - “Starry Eyed”

EMINEM - “Not Afraid”

EMINEM FEAT. RIHANNA - “Love The Way You Lie”

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FEAT. PITBULL - “I Like It”

EXAMPLE - “Kickstarts”

EXAMPLE - “Won’t Go Quietly”

FLO RIDA FEAT. DAVID GUETTA - “Club Can’t Handle Me”

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE - “Dog Days Are Over”

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE - “You’ve Got The Love”

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE AND DIZZEE RASCAL - “You Got The Dirtee Love”

FYFE DANGERFIELD - “She’s Always A Woman”

GLEE CAST - “Don’t Stop Believin’”

INNA - “Hot”

IYAZ - “Replay”

JASON DERÜLO - “In My Head”

JASON DERÜLO - “Ridin’ Solo”

JASON DERÜLO - “What If”

JAY SEAN FEAT. SEAN PAUL AND LIL JON - “Do You Remember”

JAY-Z FEAT. ALICIA KEYS - “Empire State Of Mind”

JAY-Z FEAT. MR HUDSON - “Young Forever”

JLS - “One Shot”

JOURNEY - “Don’t Stop Believin’”

JUSTIN BIEBER FEAT. LUDACRIS - “Baby”

KATY B - “Katy On A Mission”

KATY PERRY - “Firework”

KATY PERRY - “Teenage Dream”

KATY PERRY FEAT. SNOOP DOGG - “California Gurls”

KE$HA - “Take It Off”

KE$HA - “TiK ToK”

KE$HA - “Your Love Is My Drug”

KELIS - “Acapella”

KELLY ROWLAND FEAT. DAVID GUETTA - “Commander”

KINGS OF LEON - “Sex On Fire”

K’NAAN - “Wavin’ Flag”

KYLIE MINOGUE - “All The Lovers”

LADY GAGA - “Alejandro”

LADY GAGA - “Bad Romance”

LADY GAGA - “Poker Face”

LADY GAGA FEAT. BEYONCÉ - “Telephone”

MAGNETIC MAN FEAT. ANGELA HUNTE - “I Need Air”

MARK RONSON AND THE BUSINESS INTL FEAT. Q-TIP AND MNDR - “Bang Bang Bang”

MIKE POSNER - “Cooler Than Me”

MUMFORD & SONS - “The Cave”

N-DUBZ FEAT. MR HUDSON - “Playing With Fire”

NE-YO - “Beautiful Monster”

OLLY MURS - “Please Don’t Let Me Go”

OWL CITY - “Fireflies”

PIXIE LOTT - “Gravity”

PLAN B - “She Said”

PLAN B - “Stay Too Long”

PROFESSOR GREEN FEAT. ED DREWETT - “I Need You Tonight”

RIHANNA - “Only Girl (In The World)”

RIHANNA - “Rude Boy”

RIHANNA - “Russian Roulette”

RIHANNA - “Te Amo”

ROLL DEEP FEAT. JODIE CONNOR - “Good Times”

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS - “This Ain’t A Love Song”

SEAN KINGSTON AND JUSTIN BIEBER - “Eenie Meenie”

SHAKIRA FEAT. FRESHLYGROUND - “Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)”

SIDNEY SAMSON FEAT. WIZARD SLEEVE - “Riverside (Let’s Go!)”

SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA FEAT. PHARRELL - “One (Your Name)”

SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA VS. TINIE TEMPAH - “Miami 2 Ibiza”

TAIO CRUZ - “Dynamite”

THE BLACK EYED PEAS - “I Gotta Feeling”

THE BLACK EYED PEAS - “Meet Me Halfway”

THE BLACK EYED PEAS - “Rock That Body”

THE SATURDAYS - “Ego”

THE SATURDAYS FEAT. FLO RIDA - “Higher”

THE SCRIPT - “For The First Time”

THE WANTED - “All Time Low”

TIMBALAND FEAT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - “Carry Out”

TIMBALAND FEAT. KATY PERRY - “If We Ever Meet Again”

TINIE TEMPAH - “Pass Out”

TINIE TEMPAH FEAT. ERIC TURNER - “Written In The Stars”

TINIE TEMPAH FEAT. LABRINTH - “Frisky”

TRAIN - “Hey, Soul Sister”

TRAVIE MCCOY FEAT. BRUNO MARS - “Billionaire”

USHER FEAT. PITBULL - “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love”

USHER FEAT. WILL.I.AM - “OMG”

YOLANDA BE COOL AND DCUP - “We No Speak Americano”

YOUNG MONEY FEAT. LLOYD - “BedRock”

 

I've ordered it by artist this time as it looks a bit better and is easier to read.

I may continue this countdown later, I may not. Depends on what I feel like.

 

Feel free to make some early predictions for the top 10 if you wish. ;o

Edited January 3, 201114 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

Gosh, I'd forgotten how good D**** Picture was! :o

 

Also, Blah Blah Blah was already confirmed as the 2nd single before it went to #3 on iTunes. It was getting airplay and everything already, which was probably why it went so high when the album was released.

Very happy to see Kylie in the top 10. Hopefully she will be in the top 50 but I highly doubt it

Looking forward to the top 100, hope Sex On Fire isn't too high!

Sorry, no updates again today. Forgot about it. I'll do a few after I get back from school tomorrow.

#100

LADY GAGA
“Poker Face”
from the album “The Fame”
[January 2009]
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~ 863 points // 33 weeks // #32 peak ~

Here we have the lowest of the 4 top 200 (and indeed top 100) finishers of 2010 from she of the meat dress Lady GaGa (real name Stefani Germanotta). This actually finished at #1 on last year’s countdown and barely scrapes into the top 100 for a second year in a row. It’s one of 3 of last year’s top 10 to have retained a top 100 position, the other 2 being last year’s #2 Sex On Fire by Kings Of Leon and last year’s #7 I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas. Anyway, Poker Face was a huge #1 in 2009 (her second #1 after Just Dance (feat. Colby O’Donis)) spending 3 weeks at the top spot. Its chart run ran for 83 consecutive weeks and it strangely hasn’t re-entered the top 100 since it first fell out way back in August. Not even the iTunes gift card effect made it re-enter. And there isn’t a ‘2010-only’ barrier on the gift card effect, as Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ (1982) climbed 20 places from it, Sex On Fire (2008) climbed 24 places and I Gotta Feeling (2009) climbed 14 places. This song nearly dropped out that week it was #100 but its chart run was extended slightly by the release of a cover of it by Glee Cast (feat. Idina Menzel). It’s safe to say the GaGa original is untroubled as the best version. This is the third song within just 11 places on the countdown to sample or closely resemble a Boney M. song (for a third time, RIP Bobby Farrell), in this case Ma Baker. But yeah, 3 more (slightly more recent) GaGa hits are still to come, including her third and fourth #1s. This song came 3rd in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited January 8, 201114 yr by ★BlindFaithBray★

#99

RIHANNA
“Only Girl (In The World)”
from the album “Loud”
[November 2010]
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~ 871 points // 9 weeks // #1 peak ~

This is the youngest hit in the top 100 and by some distance the biggest hit with a single-digit weeks figure (the next highest being Cheryl Cole’s Promise This at #123). Only Girl (In The World) was the first single released from Rihanna’s #1 fifth studio album Loud (strangely only her second #1 album). At first it looked like it would become Rihanna’s eighth different #2 hit, with it débuting at #2 despite selling 126,612 copies in its first seven days. It was initially blocked from the top spot by the aforementioned Cheryl Cole song. However, in its second week, aided by a performance on X Factor, it rose to #1 and actually INCREASED sales week on week to 134,540. She came very close to clearing 100,000 three times in a row, selling 93,426 on her third week in the chart and second week at #1. Its drop to #4 the next week seems like a big drop, but it still sold 74,248 copies on its fourth week. My point is this song was and still is absolutely massive. Though its tenth week on the chart was the first week of 2011 and it therefore isn’t shown in the above chart run, it was a non-mover at #6 selling over 50,000 (on its TENTH week) and in these ten short weeks it became the official 4th highest selling single of 2010. The OCC counts 2010’s weeks differently to me, starting a week later and ending a week later. Anyway, whether it had any right to be as big as it was is a different matter. Obviously it had the right in the way that clearly loads of people love it so why shouldn’t it be a big seller? But I’m talking more in the way that this is possibly Rihanna’s most generic song of all time. It just sounds like David Guetta. It wasn’t actually produced by David Guetta, it was actually produced by Stargate (who I’ve already previously accused of basically ripping off deadmau5), but it definitely sounds a lot like a David Guetta production. Anyway, that’s my 2 cents, I’ll allow the rest of the world to continue loving this. I’ll be over there looning the clearly superior What’s My Name? instead. This song came 15th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited January 8, 201114 yr by ★BlindFaithBray★

I love both Rihanna tracks (OG, WMN) but What's My Name is much better for me. Have you heard her 3rd upcoming single S&M, it has more of an Only Girl sound than a WMN sound but is a great track! Unless you cant see in my sig she is currently no.1 in my charts

Edited January 5, 201114 yr by *xmasG*

I love both Rihanna tracks (OG, WMN) but What's My Name is much better for me. Have you heard her 3rd upcoming single S&M, it has more of an Only Girl sound than a WMN sound but is a great track! Unless you cant see in my sig she is currently no.1 in my charts

 

I've heard a short clip of it from the chart show and it sounds exactly like Sexy Bitch (David Guetta again there)

 

Anyway, I'll probably only end up going up to #96 today - sorry I've not been making much progress on this of late :lol:

Edited January 5, 201114 yr by ★BlindFaithBray★