#70

 

KYLIE MINOGUE

“All The Lovers”

from the album “Aphrodite”

[June 2010]

4-6-3-9-12-12-17-21-26-32-43-54-61-72-84-91-99-x(4)-88-x

 

 

~ 1,084 points // 18 weeks // #3 peak ~

 

All The Lovers was the first single from Australian pop (former?) superstar Kylie Minogue’s eleventh studio album Aphrodite. It was actually quite a big hit, going as it did top 3 in the UK and outshining the #4 peak of her last lead single 2 Hearts (#4 in 2007, the lead single from the album X) and the album was her first UK #1 album since 2001’s Fever, but aside from these high peaks Kylie has showed signs of becoming a fanbase artist and appears to be getting increasingly irrelevant as time goes by. All The Lovers was the only real hit from the album, with the follow-ups Get Outta My Way and Better Than Today peraking at #12 and #32 respectively. The latter’s peak was especially disappointing when considering it was performed on just about every high-profile TV slot near the end of 2010. Its many performances did at least help it have greater longevity in the chart than expected, matching the 8 weeks on the chart Get Outta My Way got. And Aphrodite didn’t exactly sell in huge numbers after its first week, only coming 43rd in the end of year albums chart and failing to go platinum before 2010 was out. Still, there are signs that Kylie is still popular to people outside her immediate fanbase as Taio Cruz’s 2011 single Higher was released in three forms initially - the album version featured Taio on his own and the single version contained a version featuring Travie McCoy (which had been receiving airplay and was the version released Stateside) and a version featuring Kylie Minogue and Travie McCoy. The version with Kylie and Travie made the iTunes top 10, while the original stalled in the top 15 and the Travie version barely made the top 100. However, since then a version featuring only Kylie (the version used in the music video for the song) was released and it flopped. Confused yet? I’m just going to shut up now.

Edited February 19, 201114 yr by Bray

I don't like All the Lovers. :( I Believe in You sounded pretty similar, but was much better. :wub: I preferred Get Outta My Way, Better Than Today and Higher to All the Lovers too.

#70

 

KYLIE MINOGUE

“All The Lovers”

from the album “Aphrodite”

[June 2010]

4-6-3-9-12-12-17-21-26-32-43-54-61-72-84-91-99-x(4)-88-x

 

 

~ 1,084 points // 18 weeks // #3 peak ~

 

All The Lovers was the first single from Australian pop (former?) superstar Kylie Minogue’s eleventh studio album Aphrodite. It was actually quite a big hit, going as it did top 3 in the UK and outshining the #4 peak of her last lead single 2 Hearts (#4 in 2007, the lead single from the album X) and the album was her first UK #1 album since 2001’s Fever, but aside from these high peaks Kylie has showed signs of becoming a fanbase artist and appears to be getting increasingly irrelevant as time goes by. All The Lovers was the only real hit from the album, with the follow-ups Get Outta My Way and Better Than Today peraking at #12 and #32 respectively. The latter’s peak was especially disappointing when considering it was performed on just about every high-profile TV slot near the end of 2010. Its many performances did at least help it have greater longevity in the chart than expected, matching the 8 weeks on the chart Get Outta My Way got. And Aphrodite didn’t exactly sell in huge numbers after its first week, only coming 43rd in the end of year albums chart and failing to go platinum before 2010 was out. Still, there are signs that Kylie is still popular to people outside her immediate fanbase as Taio Cruz’s 2011 single Higher was released in three forms initially - the album version featured Taio on his own and the single version contained a version featuring Travie McCoy (which had been receiving airplay and was the version released Stateside) and a version featuring Kylie Minogue and Travie McCoy. The version with Kylie and Travie made the iTunes top 10, while the original stalled in the top 15 and the Travie version barely made the top 100. However, since then a version featuring only Kylie (the version used in the music video for the song) was released and it flopped. Confused yet? I’m just going to shut up now.

 

 

How wonderfully negative lol. I dont really understand why you have to talk about the promotion and success or lack of for Get outta my way, Better than today and Higher when its All the lovers that was in the countdown. And how is she "getting increasingly irrelevant" ?

How wonderfully negative lol. I dont really understand why you have to talk about the promotion and success or lack of for Get outta my way, Better than today and Higher when its All the lovers that was in the countdown. And how is she "getting increasingly irrelevant" ?

 

Because GOMW and BTT aren't in the top 200, the only chance I get to talk about them is on Kylie's only entry.

 

By 'getting increasingly irrelevant' I mean she's clearly losing mass appeal over time. She'll still get one big hit per album but anything after that will be bought only by her fanbase regardless of promotion.

#69

N-DUBZ FEAT. MR HUDSON
“Playing With Fire”
from the album “Against All Odds”
[November 2009]
-16-15-16-14-21-22-31-45-52-53-46-51-52-58-69-81-83-91-x



~ 1,085 points // 19 weeks // #14 peak ~

Playing With Fire, the second single from N-Dubz’ second studio album Against All Odds, is the highest entry on this countdown for both N-Dubz themselves and the featured Mr Hudson. This song is rather unusual among N-Dubz songs in that it was actually considered a fairly good song by a lot of BuzzJack. Their only other songs to achieve anywhere near this status are Strong Again and to a lesser extent We Dance On (feat. Bodyrox). In a fairly uninteresting coincidence, this was in the chart around the same time as another song by an artist whose stage name ends in a ‘z’ and contains a hyphen and their song featured Mr Hudson as well - Jay-Z’s Young Forever. Perhaps Mr Hudson has some very exact requirements for people whose songs he wants to feature on (although this theory was blown when Mr Hudson lodged a third 2010 chart entry later on in the year as the vocalist on Love Never Dies (Back For The First Time) credited to Caspa and Mr Hudson). Playing With Fire may have only peaked at #14 (their fourth highest peak as a lead artist behind the #5 I Need You, #6 We Dance On (feat. Bodyrox) and #10 Best Behaviour) but it is their longest running song on the top 100 singles chart with 25 chart weeks, narrowly ahead of Strong Again’s 24 (which was also incidentally its peak). It was the group’s 3rd top 20 hit as the lead artist, 4th including their featured credit on Tinchy Stryder’s Number 1 and they’ve since racked up another 4 top 20 hits. 7 top 20 hits as the lead artist in a little over 2 years is quite a feat, so well done N-Dubz.

On the subject of N-Dubz, I mentioned in the commentary for Best Behaviour long ago that they have 15 top 100 hits - this figure has since increased to 16 due to their featured credit on Loick Essien's Stuttering.

Edited February 21, 201114 yr by Bray

#68

CEE LO GREEN
“F**k You!”
from the album “The Lady Killer”
[October 2010]
1-1-4-4-6-10-15-12-13-21-16-13-



~ 1,096 points // 12 weeks // #1 peak ~

If you had no prior knowledge of this song (and if so, you must live under a rock or something) and I said this was one of the biggest airplay hits of 2010, spending 6 consecutive weeks at #1 on the airplay chart, then you looked at the title, you’d probably think ‘how the hell?’ Well, the track itself is incredibly radio-friendly aside from the minor issue of it saying the word ‘f**k’ (censored as per the official title) sixteen times. This problem was avoided by replacing the expletive with the less offensive word ‘forget’ which, while keeping the general message of the song intact, weakens the impact of the words of US singer Cee Lo Green (real name Thomas Callaway - it’s the vocalist from Gnarls Barkley, most famous of course for their 9-week #1 million-selling smash Crazy). Nonetheless, F**k You! is well on its way to being one of the best remembered songs of 2010 and with good reason, as it’s an outstanding song (albeit a bit overplayed now). As I mentioned in the commentary for Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow’s Shame, this song appropriately denied that song from #1 against all expectations. This song started out as a viral hit on YouTube, originally uploaded with a simple yet effective video which consisted just of the lyrics popping up as Cee Lo sings, notably without censoring. It soon picked up massive support from radio under the clean edit and was given a much more glamorous proper video which you can watch above, although YouTube has blocked it for people under the age of 18 because apparently a few F-bombs and S-words are too powerful for our young minds. Bollocks. This song is a notable slow burner in Green’s native USA, peaking at a modest #17 at first, but after extra exposure from being used on Glee it re-peaked at #9 on its 13th week in the Billboard Hot 100. It then re-peaked once more at #7 on its 25th week on the Hot 100 after being performed at the 2011 Grammy Awards. Back to the UK charts, the follow-up single It’s OK was only a small hit, peaking at #20, partly due to sounding like an exact copy of F**k You! but mostly because its predecessor was still overshadowing it in airplay terms - radio stations just couldn’t let go of precious F**k You! and at the time I’m writing this (February 21st, 2011) F**k You! is STILL at #10 in the airplay chart. His album has done pretty well though - it initially only got to #10 and fell quickly but in the new year its chart fortunes have turned around and it’s re-peaked at #3 and has spent 6 weeks in the top 10. I promise I’ll shut up soon but I will note, if I may, that this song was performed as a duet with noted flopstar Paloma Faith at the 2011 BRIT Awards. The performance wasn’t brilliant, but with the combination of boosted sales of the original version and the sales of the available-to-download live duet with Paloma being combined with the original version, F**k You! reclimbed to #19 in its 20th straight week in the top 40. This song came 40th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Apologies for the long-winded commentaries on some of these songs but when an artist only has one entry in the top 200 I feel like cramming in as much information as I can. :P

Edited February 21, 201114 yr by Bray

Playing with Fire is awesome. :wub: I could think of so many ways to make the instrumental even better though!

 

And I definitely do not agree that Forget You is outstanding. :(

Edited February 21, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

I love F*** You and Playing With Fire, I also like All The Lovers, It grew on me a lot.

#67

PLAN B
“Stay Too Long”
from the album “The Defamation Of Strickland Banks”
[January 2010]
9-18-19-23-32-45-47-53-55-54-58-48-57-42-37-49-59-57-89-99-x(3)-83-89-x



~ 1,100 points // 22 weeks // #9 peak ~

If you remember the commentary for Prayin’, I promised to explain the bit of the story of Strickland Banks detailed in this song when I got to it. Well we’re finally here so I can now fill you in. Of course, Plan B’s second studio album The Defamation Of Strickland Banks is a concept album and this track, Stay Too Long, is track 3 of the album. The first two songs on the album (fifth single Love Goes Down and upcoming sixth single Writing’s On The Wall) were both just songs Plan B’s alter-ego Strickland Banks was performing at a gig. Stay Too Long describes the events immediately following the gig, mostly involving Strickland getting very drunk and engaging in a one night stand with an unnamed woman who would become the subject of track 4 on the album, the second single and Plan B’s biggest hit to date She Said (still to come on this countdown). What happened with Plan B and the mysterious woman? Find out when I get to She Said, but be prepared for quite a long wait. Anyway, chartwise this was the second top 10 hit for Plan B following his featured credit on Chase & Status’ 2009 #9 hit End Credits. It was also Plan B’s first ever appearance in the top 40 as a lead artist. His début album Who Needs Actions When You Got Words made #30 in 2006 but the highest peaking single taken from it was the #41 hit Mama (Loves A Crackhead). Increased awareness of Plan B thanks to End Credits combined with big support from Radio 1 was what allowed this to be as big as it was. The only real problem with it was the rap at the end of the song was a little too aggressive and sweary to be big with other radio stations. This problem was eradicated with follow-up singles She Said and Prayin’ which were both big airplay hits.

Edited February 22, 201114 yr by Bray

I didn't really hear "Stay Too Long" that much, it sounded alright, from what I heard though.

#66

AGGRO SANTOS FEAT. KIMBERLY WYATT
“Candy”
from the album “Aggrosantos.com”
[May 2010]
5-5-7-8-5-14-19-28-28-34-37-43-49-57-73-96-x



~ 1,108 points // 16 weeks // #5 peak ~

The first and biggest hit for Brazilian-born UK-based rapper Aggro Santos (real name Yuri Santos) was this, Candy featuring former Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt. That’s right, there were other members of The Pussycat Dolls besides Nicole Scherzinger - I’ll give you a minute to recover from the shock. ... You back with me yet? Okay. Candy suffered from product placement syndrome just as bad as another #5 hit, N-Dubz’ I Need You. As well as going for a Facebook reference, Aggro also indulges in some shameless self-promotion by mentioning his own website, aggrosantos.com, in the chorus. He even had the nerve to name his début album that, much like Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em who named his first album ‘souljaboytellem.com’. Most of BuzzJack will be relieved to know Soulja Boy’s only appearances on the longlist of this countdown are the two versions of Turn My Swag On as used on The X Factor (the Greg Street feat. Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em and Keri Hilson version at #213 and the Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em-only original at #290). Enough about Soulja Boy though. For some reason MTV declared the promotion of Facebook acceptable to be aired but felt the need to censor the promotion of aggrosantos.com. How utterly bizarre. The immediate follow-up to this song, Saint Or Sinner which didn’t credit the female vocalist who did the chorus, was a big flop only reaching #19 and spending 4 weeks in the top 100. However, in 2011 he somewhat saved his singles career by going down the route of ‘feature a Kimberl[e]y W who is/was a member of a girl group’ for a second time, his third single Like U Like (feat. Kimberley Walsh, of Girls Aloud fame) reaching #8 on the chart. This was also aided by his appearance and sixth place finish on the 2010 series of I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! as won by Stacey ‘2009 X Factor third place’ Solomon. His album totally bombed though, not even reaching the top 100. Rap albums tend to not do anywhere near as well as the singles but Aggrosantos.com surely must be the most extreme example of that.

Edited February 23, 201114 yr by Bray

I didn't realise Aggro Santos had an album out, lol what a flop

Candy was an absolute TUNE!!! :D

#65

PROFESSOR GREEN FEAT. ED DREWETT
“I Need You Tonight”
from the album “Alive Till I’m Dead”
[April 2010]
3-6-6-9-14-20-26-33-42-45-51-57-56-50-51-64-74-94-99-94-x



~ 1,126 points // 20 weeks // #3 peak ~

Professor Green’s second of two entries on the top 200 is his début single and biggest hit to date, I Need You Tonight, featuring British singer Ed Drewett (formally Edward Drewett). The song revolved almost entirely around a sample from INXS’ song Need You Tonight, making it just perfect for hate from certain people of the mindset that rappers can just steal other people’s songs and talk over them to make it ‘their own song’, requiring no talent at all, especially as Pro Green (good to see him supporting the environment) has quite a talky rap style compared to some other rappers. Green gave the complete wrong impression of his début album Alive Till I’m Dead with the two pre-album releases, as aside from this and second single Just Be Good To Green (feat. Lily Allen) none of the songs on the album are built around samples. It seems a bit odd given the trend for rap albums to underperform compared to the singles that Alive Till I’m Dead actually peaked at #2, one place higher than I Need You Tonight. Maybe being white somehow reverses the trend (see also Eminem and Plan B if he counts as a rapper). This song completely failed to spark any interest in the upcoming solo career of featured singer Ed Drewett, his début solo single Champagne Lemonade peaking at just #84.

Edited February 24, 201114 yr by Bray

I have a friend that's EXACTLY like Professor Green. Just like their mannerisms, and facial expressions, and the way they look. Even the way they sit down. It's pretty funny. :lol:

 

Anyway, for Professor Green songs, for me, it goes:

 

Monster>>>>>Game Over>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Just Be Good to Green>>>>>>>>>>>Jungle>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I Need You Tonight

#64

KINGS OF LEON
“Sex On Fire”
from the album “Only By the Night”
[september 2008]
-30-38-51-60-56-57-61-68-66-70-74-71-68-84-66-73-87-84-89-87-99-x(1)-93-91-91-94-87-84-90-85-81-71-72-67-74-83-85-89-78-80-92-83-70-82-79-93-x(1)-93-91-x(2)-92-



~ 1,139 points // 48 weeks // #30 peak ~

Finishing in the year end top 70 for the third year in a row following its 39th place finish on the 2008 chart and its 2nd place finish in the 2009 chart, coming in as ridiculously high as #64 is a song which was #1 for 3 weeks in September 2008 and just refused to leave the chart for more than 1 or 2 weeks until the start of 2011 - it’s Sex On Fire, the highest entry from Kings Of Leon, beating out a single they actually released in 2010 (Radioactive, way down at #154). After spending all 52 weeks of 2009 in the chart, being the only song to do so, it spent 48 out of 52 weeks of 2010 in the chart as well, the second highest out of all the songs. When added to the 16 weeks it was in the chart for 2008 and 2 more weeks in 2011 before it seemingly dropped out of the top 100 for good, it has a marathon run of 118 weeks in the top 100, almost unbroken save for two gaps of one week and one gap of 2 weeks. This makes the song the third longest chart runner of all time, trailing only Frank Sinatra’s 1969 #5 classic My Way with 124 weeks and Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars on an enormous 142 weeks, a record that seems unlikely to be broken any time soon especially given Chasing Cars still makes periodic re-appearances to the chart - although having said this Chasing Cars’ chart run died off dramatically in 2010 making only 5 appearances compared to 19 in 2009, 49 in 2008, all 52 in 2007 and 17 in 2006. Anyway, Sex On Fire’s remarkable longevity can mostly be put down to radio stations only letting it go fairly recently. It was consistently either in or just outside the radio airplay top 50 right from its release until the tail end of 2010. It also received a revival after its use on The X Factor by Jamie Archer in 2009 which saw it return to as high as #6 in the chart almost bang on a year after its release. Within 2010 Sex On Fire was confirmed to be the 101st million-selling single in the UK, with The Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling just beating it to the major milestone of #100. At the time of writing Sex On Fire has been absent from the top 100 for a full six weeks so it seems its chart run may have been cut off for good... at least until it gets used on a TV programme again that is. This song was recently promoted by one point due to an OCC error printings its position one place too low. This song was recently promoted by one point due to an OCC error printing its position one place too low. This song came 2nd in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited June 9, 201114 yr by Bray

Okay, I really don't like Sex on Fire (because I find it painful, although it'd probably excite Rihanna :magic:), but it's chart run is seriously, wow! :o

#70

 

KYLIE MINOGUE

“All The Lovers”

from the album “Aphrodite”

[June 2010]

4-6-3-9-12-12-17-21-26-32-43-54-61-72-84-91-99-x(4)-88-x

 

~ 1,084 points // 18 weeks // #3 peak ~

 

All The Lovers was the first single from Australian pop (former?) superstar Kylie Minogue’s eleventh studio album Aphrodite. It was actually quite a big hit, going as it did top 3 in the UK and outshining the #4 peak of her last lead single 2 Hearts (#4 in 2007, the lead single from the album X) and the album was her first UK #1 album since 2001’s Fever, but aside from these high peaks Kylie has showed signs of becoming a fanbase artist and appears to be getting increasingly irrelevant as time goes by. All The Lovers was the only real hit from the album, with the follow-ups Get Outta My Way and Better Than Today peraking at #12 and #32 respectively. The latter’s peak was especially disappointing when considering it was performed on just about every high-profile TV slot near the end of 2010. Its many performances did at least help it have greater longevity in the chart than expected, matching the 8 weeks on the chart Get Outta My Way got. And Aphrodite didn’t exactly sell in huge numbers after its first week, only coming 43rd in the end of year albums chart and failing to go platinum before 2010 was out. Still, there are signs that Kylie is still popular to people outside her immediate fanbase as Taio Cruz’s 2011 single Higher was released in three forms initially - the album version featured Taio on his own and the single version contained a version featuring Travie McCoy (which had been receiving airplay and was the version released Stateside) and a version featuring Kylie Minogue and Travie McCoy. The version with Kylie and Travie made the iTunes top 10, while the original stalled in the top 15 and the Travie version barely made the top 100. However, since then a version featuring only Kylie (the version used in the music video for the song) was released and it flopped. Confused yet? I’m just going to shut up now.

#68

 

CEE LO GREEN

“F**k You!”

from the album “The Lady Killer”

[October 2010]

1-1-4-4-6-10-15-12-13-21-16-13-

 

~ 1,096 points // 12 weeks // #1 peak ~

 

If you had no prior knowledge of this song (and if so, you must live under a rock or something) and I said this was one of the biggest airplay hits of 2010, spending 6 consecutive weeks at #1 on the airplay chart, then you looked at the title, you’d probably think ‘how the hell?’ Well, the track itself is incredibly radio-friendly aside from the minor issue of it saying the word ‘f**k’ (censored as per the official title) sixteen times. This problem was avoided by replacing the expletive with the less offensive word ‘forget’ which, while keeping the general message of the song intact, weakens the impact of the words of US singer Cee Lo Green (real name Thomas Callaway - it’s the vocalist from Gnarls Barkley, most famous of course for their 9-week #1 million-selling smash Crazy). Nonetheless, F**k You! is well on its way to being one of the best remembered songs of 2010 and with good reason, as it’s an outstanding song (albeit a bit overplayed now). As I mentioned in the commentary for Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow’s Shame, this song appropriately denied that song from #1 against all expectations. This song started out as a viral hit on YouTube, originally uploaded with a simple yet effective video which consisted just of the lyrics popping up as Cee Lo sings, notably without censoring. It soon picked up massive support from radio under the clean edit and was given a much more glamorous proper video which you can watch above, although YouTube has blocked it for people under the age of 18 because apparently a few F-bombs and S-words are too powerful for our young minds. Bollocks. This song is a notable slow burner in Green’s native USA, peaking at a modest #17 at first, but after extra exposure from being used on Glee it re-peaked at #9 on its 13th week in the Billboard Hot 100. It then re-peaked once more at #7 on its 25th week on the Hot 100 after being performed at the 2011 Grammy Awards. Back to the UK charts, the follow-up single It’s OK was only a small hit, peaking at #20, partly due to sounding like an exact copy of F**k You! but mostly because its predecessor was still overshadowing it in airplay terms - radio stations just couldn’t let go of precious F**k You! and at the time I’m writing this (February 21st, 2011) F**k You! is STILL at #10 in the airplay chart. His album has done pretty well though - it initially only got to #10 and fell quickly but in the new year its chart fortunes have turned around and it’s re-peaked at #3 and has spent 6 weeks in the top 10. I promise I’ll shut up soon but I will note, if I may, that this song was performed as a duet with noted flopstar Paloma Faith at the 2011 BRIT Awards. The performance wasn’t brilliant, but with the combination of boosted sales of the original version and the sales of the available-to-download live duet with Paloma being combined with the original version, F**k You! reclimbed to #19 in its 20th straight week in the top 40. This song came 40th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

 

Apologies for the long-winded commentaries on some of these songs but when an artist only has one entry in the top 200 I feel like cramming in as much information as I can. :P

#67

 

PLAN B

“Stay Too Long”

from the album “The Defamation Of Strickland Banks”

[January 2010]

9-18-19-23-32-45-47-53-55-54-58-48-57-42-37-49-59-57-89-99-x(3)-83-89-x

 

~ 1,100 points // 22 weeks // #9 peak ~

 

If you remember the commentary for Prayin’, I promised to explain the bit of the story of Strickland Banks detailed in this song when I got to it. Well we’re finally here so I can now fill you in. Of course, Plan B’s second studio album The Defamation Of Strickland Banks is a concept album and this track, Stay Too Long, is track 3 of the album. The first two songs on the album (fifth single Love Goes Down and upcoming sixth single Writing’s On The Wall) were both just songs Plan B’s alter-ego Strickland Banks was performing at a gig. Stay Too Long describes the events immediately following the gig, mostly involving Strickland getting very drunk and engaging in a one night stand with an unnamed woman who would become the subject of track 4 on the album, the second single and Plan B’s biggest hit to date She Said (still to come on this countdown). What happened with Plan B and the mysterious woman? Find out when I get to She Said, but be prepared for quite a long wait. Anyway, chartwise this was the second top 10 hit for Plan B following his featured credit on Chase & Status’ 2009 #9 hit End Credits. It was also Plan B’s first ever appearance in the top 40 as a lead artist. His début album Who Needs Actions When You Got Words made #30 in 2006 but the highest peaking single taken from it was the #41 hit Mama (Loves A Crackhead). Increased awareness of Plan B thanks to End Credits combined with big support from Radio 1 was what allowed this to be as big as it was. The only real problem with it was the rap at the end of the song was a little too aggressive and sweary to be big with other radio stations. This problem was eradicated with follow-up singles She Said and Prayin’ which were both big airplay hits.

Three of my favourite chart hits of 2010. I guess the fact none of them even made the top 50 means I can probably officially say they all deserved MUCH better. Ha. And yeah, I know that Cee Lo Green was never going to go that high here due to only having, like, 12 weeks worth of points on his total.

 

All The Lovers is glorious, mesmerising and incredibly relaxing. Kylie's vocal on it is PERFECTION and it would probably only be half as good in someone else's hands. It actually made me listen to her album, too (which I didn't like), but at least I can say I fulfilled my stereotypical gay aim by actually liking at least one Kylie song this time - I never usually do, even ones like Can't Get You Out Of My Head. I think the last one I really liked before ATL was Come Into My World, and before that probably Confide In Me!! So clearly I only like one Kylie song every 8 years, so that means no more until 2018.

 

And Stay Too Long is just incredible - especially the ending. Which definitely isn't aggressive at all. It's beautiful music to my ears.

#63

THE BLACK EYED PEAS
“Meet Me Halfway”
from the album “The E.N.D.”
[October 2009]
-3-10-17-24-22-25-31-37-46-51-54-52-54-47-48-66-75-72-74-85-98-x(1)-92-x



~ 1,139 points // 22 weeks // #3 peak ~

*cue Eric Blob orgasm* At #63 it’s the last of a trio of #1s from The Black Eyed Peas’ fifth album The E.N.D. It didn’t get to #1 in 2010, peaking in week 50 of 2009, but it did cling on at #3 in the very first week of 2010. The third week of 2010 was the first chart in an insane 35 weeks to not feature a single by will.i.am & Co. in the top 10. Way back on week 20 2009 Boom Boom Pow entered the chart at the top spot. It spent 9 weeks in the top 10 and on its ninth week it was joined in the top 10 by follow-up single I Gotta Feeling climbing to #10 from #39. I Gotta Feeling flew the BEP flag in the top 10 alone for an impressive fifteen weeks before being joined in its seventeenth week by this, third single Meet Me Halfway. 17 proved to be the limit for top 10 weeks for I Gotta Feeling (the overall record for the 2000s, just beating the 16 weeks of Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie (feat. Wyclef Jean)) but Meet Me Halfway spent ten more weeks in the top 10. Throughout this marathon 34-week run of being in the top 10 with at least one song the Peas managed five separate one-week stays at the top, both Boom Boom Pow and I Gotta Feeling unusually spending two non-consecutive weeks at #1 and Meet Me Halfway spending one solitary week at the top. The E.N.D. was a pretty big era for them. Strangely, despite containing 3 big #1s, the album itself only peaked at #3 (on eight different occasions), although it sold over a million in the UK which matters far more than its peak. Enough chart stats anyway though. This song is pretty decent. This song came 10th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Yes, I know I have to catch up another 3 days, I'll endeavour to post 3 results today. I just forgot about this, again.

2 months to go. Think you can make it? :heehee: