#11

 

RIHANNA

“Rude Boy”

from the album “Rated R”

[January 2010]

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~ 2,053 points // 33 weeks // #2 peak ~

 

We hit the 2,000 points milestone, this being the unlucky song that passes that mark but still doesn’t make the top 10 (although there were two such songs in 2009 and five in 2008 - but in 2006 this score would be enough to place the song third and it’d take the top song of 2004 by a mile!) It’s hard to believe now, but once upon a time Rihanna could peak at #2 in the UK singles chart. She did it quite a few times actually. Rude Boy, the second single from fourth album Rated R, was the sixth of seven songs crediting Rihanna to peak at #2 and the last of five of her own singles (thus far) to peak there. To give you an idea of how long this countdown has gone on for now, this is a single from her fourth album and she’s gearing up for her sixth album to be released in a few weeks’ time. To be fair she does plough through albums at light speed, being already up to album 6 after first entering the music business in 2005, but still. Since the release of this song, she’s had 3 UK #1s (Only Girl (In The World) later in 2010, What’s My Name? (feat. Drake) and We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris) in 2011) and singles peaking at #14, #55, #3, #8, #54 (okay, that wasn’t a real single) and #15. She also had the last of her seven #2s to date as the feature on Eminem’s Love The Way You Lie, which is in the top 10 of this countdown. The song itself is a pretty good pop song with Jamaican influences, certainly far better than her previous single (also a #2) Russian Roulette. But really it’s best to completely ignore the entire Rated R era. It was a huge mess which resulted in poorer-than-expected sales and the singles at least were of a far lower quality than those from Good Girl Gone Bad and Loud (her third and fifth albums respectively). Expect some far higher quality Rihanna music in 2011’s countdown. This song came 41st in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited October 22, 201113 yr by Bré

What's in the top 10 then? I can think of:

 

Love the Way You Lie

OMG

Airplanes

Pass Out

Empire State of Mind

Telephone

Bad Romance

Billionaire

Don't Stop Believin'

Starstrukk

 

Maybe? I can't be bothered to read back through and see if these have already been done. :lol:

What's in the top 10 then? I can think of:

 

Love the Way You Lie

OMG

Airplanes

Pass Out

Empire State of Mind

Telephone

Bad Romance

Billionaire

Don't Stop Believin'

Starstrukk

 

Maybe? I can't be bothered to read back through and see if these have already been done. :lol:

 

Billionaire was #23 and Starstrukk #26 but otherwise good guesses :P

 

The top 10 in alphabetical order:

 

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

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

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

JOURNEY - “Don’t Stop Believin’“

LADY GAGA - “Bad Romance”

LADY GAGA FEAT. BEYONCÉ - “Telephone”

PLAN B - “She Said”

THE BLACK EYED PEAS - “I Gotta Feeling”

TINIE TEMPAH - “Pass Out”

USHER FEAT. WILL.I.AM - “OMG”

 

Any predictions of the order? I do intend to get this finished VERY SOON.

Ah. She Said. I was going to mention that actually.

 

But I Gotta Feeling? :blink: Goodness me. :drama:

 

Okay, I predict:

 

1. Telephone (based on the fact that this was top 100 for the ENTIRE of 2010 I think :lol:)

2. Empire State of Mind

3. OMG

4. Love the Way You Lie

5. Pass Out

6. Don't Stop Believin'

7. She Said

8. Bad Romance

9. Airplanes

10. I Gotta Feeling

 

I'm probably waaaaaay off here, but worth a guess. :lol:

There weren't any songs that were top 100 for the whole of 2010 - IGF actually came the closest, spending all but one week there. And Sex On Fire was the second closest (48/52) despite being released in 2008. Telephone had 43/52, it dropped out for a week in week 42 and dropped out again in week 45 for the rest of the year.

 

But big longevity doesn't guarantee a high finish - Sex On Fire was only #64. We shall see how the top 10 unwinds very soon anyhow. :D

Edited October 22, 201113 yr by Bré

#10

B.O.B FEAT. HAYLEY WILLIAMS
“Airplanes”
from the album “The Adventures Of Bobby Ray”
[June 2010]
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~ 2,098 points // 30 weeks // #1 peak ~

And so we enter the big top 10 and we start off with the song that introduced the world to the producer Alex Da Kid - B.o.B’s second single Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams). Even if you don’t know who Alex Da Kid is, there’s a high probability you can figure out what at least one of the other hits he produced is just by listening to Airplanes, specifically the drums, because the drums are practically identical in every Alex Da Kid production. Love The Way You Lie by Eminem feat. Rihanna, Coming Home by Diddy - Dirty Money feat. Skylar Grey, I Need A Doctor by Dr. Dre feat. Eminem and Skylar Grey. With such a list of big American stars you’d think Alex is American himself but he’s actually from London, UK. Those four hits he’s produced have doubled in peak each time, oddly enough - this, his first hit production, was a UK #1, while the three other songs I just mentioned peaked at #2, #4 and #8 respectively. He’s due a #16 hit some time soon then it seems. Anyway, although the producer is a Brit, the two artists in this song are decidedly American, as indeed are all but three of the artists featured in the top 10 of this countdown (two Brits and a Barbadian - I wonder who that is - are still to come). We’ve already come across B.o.B on his previous #1 hit and the follow-up which reached #16. Williams, on the other hand, only appears elsewhere in the full rundown at #258 with The Only Exception by the band Paramore, of which she is the lead singer. Hayley is technically the highest one-hit wonder on this list then, as she hasn’t released any other material as a solo artist, although Journey are one-2010-hit wonders. Paramore’s highest peaking single is their 2009 #14 hit Ignorance, although they did get a UK #1 album with third set Brand New Eyes, much more than can be said about B.o.B whose album The Adventures Of Bobby Ray progressed no higher than #17 despite a much better set of single peaks. Until recently B.o.B had the record for the shortest gap between first #1 hit and second #1 hit for a living artist, this reaching the apex a mere eight weeks after Nothin’ On You (feat. Bruno Mars). Alas, fellow American rapper Pitbull did the feat a week faster earlier this year when Give Me Everything (feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer) became his 2nd #1 just seven weeks after On The Floor (Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull) first took him to the summit. John Lennon demolishes both with his Imagine becoming #1 only three weeks after (Just Like) Starting Over in 1980-1981 but he failed at the requirement of ‘being alive’. This song came 21st in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited October 22, 201113 yr by Bré

So glad to see Airplanes in the top 10!! It's my favourite song of 2010. :wub:

 

Alex Da Kid is producing a song on Cheryl Cole's next album (who is British, for a change :lol:), so maybe that'll be his #16. :lol:

 

He has had other songs, released, such as Castle Walls by T.I./Christina Aguilera, and Words I Never Said by Lupe Fiasco/Skylar Grey, but they missed the top 200 completely I think. :cry:

John Lennon demolishes both with his Imagine becoming #1 only three weeks after (Just Like) Starting Over in 1980-1981 but he failed at the requirement of ‘being alive’.

 

:lol: Great to see Hayley in the top 10, I hold out hope that Paramore can at some point have a hit single of some note themselves - surely they're too big not to sooner rather than later?

 

Didn't realise "Fireflies" initially dropped quite quickly from #1 before stabilised. Its #1 status almost reminds me of "Price Tag" in that it sold really well despite almost missing #1 at least once. Obviously didn't do quite as well, "Price Tag" seems to have an uncannily similar chart run to "Just Dance" instead. I'm waffling now.

I remember the first week Fireflies was #1, nearly everybody thought Replay would get it. Although I don't think many people got worked up about it, since Replay had already been #1, and Fireflies was clearly going to get #1 the week after anyway.

#9

PLAN B
“She Said”
from the album “The Defamation Of Strickland Banks”
[April 2010]
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~ 2,200 points // 35 weeks // #3 peak ~

Many, many months ago I told you to expect a long wait before you got another chapter of the story of Plan B’s concept album The Defamation Of Strickland Banks. Well, the wait is over. Just a quick recap of the events so far - we already know that the first two parts of the story, fifth single Love Goes Down and sixth single Writing’s On The Wall (it’s confusing), are not really parts of the story at all and are just songs soul singer Strickland Banks (Plan B’s alter ego) has performed at a gig. The third part, first single Stay Too Long, sees him having a one night stand with an unnamed woman. We also know that the ninth part of the story (Prayin’, the third single), Banks gets attacked in prison. The missing link here is, of course, how he ended up in prison anyway. Well, in She Said, we learn that this woman is an obsessive fan of Strickland Banks (not arrogant subject matter at all Mr. Drew) and wants to build a proper relationship. Then when Banks reveals it was no more than a one-night stand, she accuses him of raping her and the judges believe her for whatever reason, so into jail goes Strickland Banks. The rape allegations aren’t explicitly mentioned in the lyrics but if Wikipedia says it’s right, it must be. The story of Strickland Banks doesn’t have a definite ending, as it ends on the cliffhanger of ‘new evidence’ being brought into the case. Anyway, She Said was released as the second single from The Defamation Of Strickland Banks and received much more support from radio than its predecessor Stay Too Long, one would think because it’s delivered less aggressively and doesn’t have as many (or indeed any) swear words in it. Thanks to the increased exposure it became a much bigger hit for the rapper-turned-soul-singer. It didn’t reach #1 as it was widely tipped to, instead stalling at #3, but it spend four non-consecutive weeks at #3. BuzzJack’s Dannyboy has recently announced it as being one of the ten biggest airplay hits since 2002, so its massive success isn’t that surprising. It set up the album nicely and it went on to sell over a million copies in the UK, spending 2 weeks at #1 and an age in the top 10 (even almost returning to #1 at the start of 2011 when its price was reduced). The very least you can say is it was a hell of a lot bigger than his #30-peaking debut album Who Needs Actions When You Got Words. A live version of this song mashed up with Prayin’, creatively titled She Said Prayin’, was performed at the 2011 BRIT Awards and released as a download single which charted at #72. This song came 49th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited October 23, 201113 yr by Bré

Trololololo I Gotta Feeling in the top-8. I wonder is it going to be higher than in the same chart of 2009. :lol: Unfortunately I don't know the comparative 2009 position.

Trololololo I Gotta Feeling in the top-8. I wonder is it going to be higher than in the same chart of 2009. :lol: Unfortunately I don't know the comparative 2009 position.

 

The whole of last year's chart is in the first post :P It came 7th in 2009, will it beat that? We shall find out shortly :kink:

Wow, you've moved on with this. Shame Fireflies didn't reach the top 10, I thought it would have, but it didn't have a great run after its 3 weeks at 1. :(

 

I Gotta Feeling only had a peak of #14 in 2010, didn't it? Amazing how it's managed to reach this high.

 

#8

EMINEM FEAT. RIHANNA
“Love The Way You Lie”
from the album “Recovery”
[July 2010]
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~ 2,294 points // 27 weeks // #2 peak ~

2009’s highest selling single was Poker Face by Lady Gaga. Naturally, the song peaked at #1. 2008’s highest selling single was Hallelujah by Alexandra Burke. Also a #1. 2007’s highest selling single was Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis. Also a #1. Crazy by Gnarls Barkley, (Is This The Way To) Amarillo by Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay, Do They Know It’s Christmas? by Band Aid 20… all the highest selling singles of their respective years, all #1s. You can keep going on like this almost forever. But you have to go all the way back to 1962 to find a song that outsold every other song in a calendar year without ever doing so in at least one calendar week - Mr. Acker Bilk’s easy listening classic and million-seller Stranger On The Shore. Eminem became only the second act to ever do this, with a little help from Rihanna on Love The Way You Lie, the second single from his seventh album Recovery, which sold 854,142 copies within 2010, nearly 40,000 clear of its nearest competitor, Matt Cardle’s When We Collide, all despite peaking at just #2. It was really monumentally unlucky that it never topped the chart, spending as it did four non-consecutive weeks there, each time the runner-up to a different song. This run starts to look a bit pathetic compared to 2011’s Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera of course - that track spending 7 straight weeks in the runners-up spot behind six different leaders. But that’s a different year and a different story. Love The Way You Lie spent longer in the top 10 than any other song in 2011, spending fourteen weeks up there. It went straight into the chart at #7 on the week of its parent album’s release despite having no video, very little airplay and in fact it wasn’t even confirmed as the second single at the time (although let’s face it, it was obvious anyway). As airplay increased and the video starring Megan Fox premiered, it slowly climbed up to its peak and then slowly retreated again. Its chart run has pretty much stayed consistent ever since its release and mere days ago the track sold its millionth copy in the UK, joining a very short list of songs which have shifted seven figures without reaching #1 and also making it Eminem’s highest selling single a good 11 years into his career. Despite its incredible chart run it only finishes in eighth place on this countdown due to being released so late in the year. Unfortunately this is something I can’t really stop, earlier releases are always going to have a huge advantage in these lists. I can say that based on the first 52 weeks of chart action this song had, it would have added another 825 points to its total which would put it ahead of 2010’s ultimate victor in the points chart. This song came 6th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited October 25, 201113 yr by Bré

Just nit-picking here, but I believe LTWYL first climbed to its peak before it's music video was released, and then re-climbed back to #2 afterwards.

 

At the time, most people thought Won't Back Down would be the next single, since it got leaked earlier (probably by the record label, they often do that to generate hype for future singles), and it was listed in a few advertisements (e.g. "The new album feauting songs Not Afraid and Won't Back Down). But I think a day after the album was released that changed. :lol:

 

So I Gotta Feeling has either tied or beaten 2009's position!?! :o Wow!

"Love The Way You Lie"'s chart run really is great, fantastic song and good to see Eminem get a million seller even if it's not "Stan" - I wonder if "Lose Yourself" would be over a million by now if it had been released in a healthier, download-dominated sales climate. "Umbrella" is another one that would be on a ridiculous total now were sales not so limp in Summer 2007. It really deserves to be Rihanna's top seller ahead of this (and soon "Only Girl").

^ I wondered about Lose Yourself aswell. In the US, I read that it's one of the best-selling digital songs there, even though it was released back in 2002! :o So it could've sold more than I Gotta Feeling if it was released in 2008 or 2009 I think. Although I don't think Lose Yourself would've been that big a hit if released then.

#7

THE BLACK EYED PEAS
“I Gotta Feeling”
from the album “The E.N.D.”
[June 2009]
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~ 2,314 points // 51 weeks // #14 peak ~

Well isn’t that a bit of a shocker? The Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling, the second single off their stratospherically successful fifth album The E.N.D., suffered from the same problem as Love The Way You Lie in 2009. They had the longest running top 10 hit of the year (seventeen weeks in this case, also making it the longest running top 10 hit of the 21st century thus far) but could progress no higher than seventh place on the year end points chart due to only being released about halfway through the year. But despite only spending eight further weeks in the top 40 in 2010 after its run in 2009, it astonishingly manages to finish seventh for a second year in a row due to its unbelievable sturdiness outside the top 40. The song barely left the top 100 throughout the whole year (well, to be precise it spent only one week outside the top 100 in 2010, a feat unmatched by any other song) and just kept on selling and selling to the million mark and beyond. It’s by far the band’s biggest hit ever - as with Eminem over 10 years into their career - and has quite possibly replaced their 2003 mainstream breakthrough hit Where Is The Love? as their ‘signature song’. It’s easy to see (or hear) why just by playing the song. It’s not exactly the best song ever made but it’s almost impossible to dislike that - well, unless you’ve grown so tired of it after hearing it about 645 billion times that you can barely listen to it without wanting to kill something of course. But the song continues to truck along selling a four figure sum week after week after week and the public just won’t get tired of it. This is needless to say the only song in the top 10 on this countdown that didn’t reach the top 10 in any individual weeks of the year (having a 2010 peak of #14 fuelled by iTunes gift cards being furiously spent in the first week of the year) although it did of course spend two non-consecutive weeks at the top spot in 2009. This song came 1st in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time (although has probably since been overtaken by Adele’s equally enormous 2011 smash Someone Like You, since this radio broadcast is nearly a year old now).

Edited October 25, 201113 yr by Bré

#6

LADY GAGA FEAT. BEYONCÉ
“Telephone”
from the album “The Fame”
[December 2009]
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~ 2,422 points // 43 weeks // #1 peak ~

For the very last time on this countdown I can say an act still has another entry to come. Lady Gaga has two entries in the top six, a massive achievement but not quite as massive as in 2009 when she had two in the top five and three in the top seven. Kings Of Leon also had two entries in the top three (although Gaga had the #1 by a large margin with Poker Face) in 2009, so the top 5 for 2010 is quite a bit more diverse. Telephone is, however, the highest entry for guest vocalist Beyoncé. The song was released as the sixth single overall from Gaga’s The Fame [Monster] era and the second single from her The Fame Monster EP (released only in conjunction with the original The Fame disc as a ‘deluxe edition’ in the UK, leading to their sales being combined to one chart entry). It was Lady Gaga’s fourth and, to this date, last UK #1 as despite how enormous her first era was, 2011 follow-up album Born This Way has comparatively underperformed, none of its singles progressing any higher than #3. It was also the fifth (and again, last to date) chart topper for Beyoncé. When people talk about Telephone, about nine times out of ten they’re not talking about the song. The song is pretty good and all but really it’s all about that video. One of the most hyped, most expensive, most delayed, most quotable music videos ever made. “If you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger” is a personal favourite. That video is responsible for the song’s quick vault to #1 after stalling in the 30s for several weeks. The hype of Gaga and Beyoncé appearing on THE SAME SONG OMG! lead to the song entering straight in at #30 in December 2009 on the week of The Fame Monster’s release - but apparently people didn’t care so much for the other phone-themed Gaga/Beyoncé collaboration: Beyoncé’s Video Phone, the sixth of a ridiculous eight UK single releases from her massive third album I Am… Sasha Fierce, received the remix treatment for its single release and Gaga was added on, but alas the song got no higher than #58 on the UK singles chart. Telephone has one of the longest chart runs before reaching #1 in the UK ever, finally reaching the top spot on its seventeenth top 100 week (sixteenth top 75). This song came 42nd in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Telephone apparently has THE longest top 100 run before getting to #1.

 

I'm surprised Bad Romance is higher than Telephone, since it's had a lot of it chart run chopped off in 2009. Telephone spent surprisinly little time in the top 10 considering how enourmous its overall chart run was.

 

Okay, for the top 5, I predict:

 

1. Empire State of Mind

2. Don't Stop Believin'

3. Pass Out

4. Bad Romance

5. OMG

 

Probably way off again though. :lol: