#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).

 

This sog really is huge. Not only is the the most played song on radio for the last 10 years. Based on your information its probably the best performing song on the chart for the last 10 years too.

#5

USHER FEAT. WILL.I.AM
“OMG”
from the album “Raymond V Raymond”
[April 2010]
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~ 2,428 points // 34 weeks // #1 peak ~

The higher of two appearances for Usher (and the highest of three appearances as a solo artist and seven in total for featured artist will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas) is, obviously, his massive #1 hit OMG. In sending this to #1 Usher joined a fairly short list of acts to have scored a UK #1 hit in three different decades. His name first appeared on the chart listings as early as 1995 when he scored a #70 hit with I Think Of You and he scored his first UK #1 hit in 1998 with You Make Me Wanna… His peak year of success was 2004, where he scored two further UK #1 hits, each with very short titles (Yeah! (feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris) and Burn) and he also scored his biggest album to date with Confessions. 2004 was even more fruitful for Usher in his native USA, where he spent more than half the year (28 weeks) at #1 with four different songs, including 19 straight weeks at the top with 2 songs. The former record remains unbroken but the latter was broken by (funnily enough) The Black Eyed Peas who spent 26 weeks in a row undisturbed at the top with two songs in 2009. Anyway, enough of Usher’s former glories, he scored his fourth #1 and third decade with a #1 with this song, OMG. It was the first hit single from his sixth album Raymond V Raymond. Its chart success started off modest, entering at a low number 13, but by its fourth week on the chart it had reached #1. It only had the one week at the top but it spnet four other weeks at #2 and a total of 9 weeks in the top 10, one in a re-entry to the top 10 after he performed the song on Britain’s Got Talent. He performed the song AGAIN (albeit in a mashup with DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love (feat. Pitbull)) on The X Factor a good four months later prompting a re-entry to the top 40, but it dropped out of the top 100 a few weeks after this. Another artist, former Mis-Teeq member Sabrina Washington, also released a song titled OMG in 2010, but alas failed to make the top 100. This song came 17th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited October 31, 201113 yr by Bré

#4

LADY GAGA
“Bad Romance”
from the album “The Fame”
[November 2009]
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~ 2,466 points // 47 weeks // #1 peak ~

Now we can say goodbye to Gaga. Her highest song on the countdown, despite spending 9 weeks in the top 20 in 2009, is her third UK #1 single Bad Romance. The single was her fifth overall from debut album The Fame and the first off her The Fame Monster EP/deluxe edition. Being released as soon as it went to radio stations (a policy that earlier this year was instated by some record labels, but has since largely been phased out again in favour of held-back releases) it only managed to enter the chart at a lowly #14, but it slowly climbed to #1 after she appeared on The X Factor. However, it then dropped to #3 the next week (the Christmas chart battle) thanks to two Christmas heavyweights powering into the top 2 in the most exciting Christmas #1 battle for years, the legendary Joe McElderry vs. Rage Against The Machine battle (I’m sure you all know who came out victorious). The following week Bad Romance held firm at #3 with the Christmas top 2 swapping places but demand for both songs collapsed in the first week of the new year and the lack of new releases meant Bad Romance reclaimed the top spot, becoming the first #1 of the year and the decade. It spent another nine weeks in the top 20 in 2010 and held on well enough throughout the rest of the year to remain ahead of both of her 2010 singles in this rundown and indeed ahead of all but three other songs. There’s only one actual 2010 release in the top 3 - another was released in the dying weeks of 2009 but received the bulk of its promotion in 2010, while the other first came out in 1982 but remained a UK flop until the very end of 2009. Bad Romance arguably marked the end of ‘Gagamania’ in the UK at least for the time being. While Telephone was still a big hit, Alejandro was a relative underperformance, as is just about everything from her second album. She’s even broken her top 20 single streak with latest release Yoü And I stalling at #23, although it was an eleventh top 10 hit in a row for her in her native USA. This song came 5th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

I'm going to REALLY PUSH to get this thing finished today. 197 down, just 3 to go!

#3

JOURNEY
“Don’t Stop Believin’”
from the album “Escape”
[February 1982]
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~ 2,587 points // 47 weeks // #6 peak ~

By a rather large distance the most senior hit inside the top 200 (a good couple of decades older than anything else in fact) is all the way up here in the top 3. Journey (whose line-up has changed a lot over the years (they’re still active) but consisted of Steve Perry, Ross Valory, Jonathan Cain, Neal Schon and Steve Smith when this song was recorded) are an American rock band who in the UK have always been considered one-hit wonders, but bizarrely until 2009 this actually wasn’t their highest peaking song - on its initial 1982 release the song progressed no further than #62 and another of their singles, Who’s Crying Now, went as high as #46. The parent album Escape wasn’t their highest peaking album either, only reaching #32 while the follow-up Frontiers hit the dizzy heights of #6. But despite its low peak Don’t Stop Believin’ is pretty much the only Journey song to have lived on through the years and it finally scored a matching peak and longevity in the last couple of years. The song had actually been a pretty consistent digital seller in 2009 anyway but it took a performance of the song on the X Factor by Joe McElderry to finally get the track inside the top 40, sending it to #19. But it truly blew up after Joe sang it again on the final, this time going all the way to #9 - but this was no short-lived boost. Also helped by the Glee Cast cover which shortly followed, Don’t Stop Believin’ actually continued to climb after Joe’s second performance of it, spending two weeks at its peak of #6 in early 2010. As with I Gotta Feeling it racked up a lot of points throughout the year with astonishing longevity outside the top 40, but in this case it had the longevity in the top 40 to boot, spending the first sixteen weeks of the year up there, the first six of those in the top ten. The much-belated success of the classic track helped them to rack up their fourth and fifth UK top 40 albums, 24 years after Raised On Radio became their third in 1986 - first a Greatest Hits set rode the hype to #12, then there was still enough interest in them after their renewed success and airplay for their fourteenth and latest studio album Eclipse to reach #33 earlier this year. Not bad going. This song came 12th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

So it's Alicia Keys vs. Tinie Tempah for the top spot - place your bets :P

Edited November 1, 201113 yr by Bré

Tinie Tempah FTW :wub: :wub: It had amazing longevity for a song of its type (no big female chorus :o :o)

OMG's success was amazing! :o Proves will.i.am can still make a hit I guess (although The Time and Just Can't Get Enough also prove that :lol:). I've been really disappointed with Usher's singles, as I've mentioned many times before I'm sure. :lol: But OMG was good, in the sense that it still sounded very urban, especially the breakdown at the end. I don't really know myself, but apparently that's from 90's RnB music.

 

I imagine Bad Romance could've won if it had its whole chart run in one year! :o It's one of those songs where I'm never quite sure whether I associate it with 2009 or 2010. I think I associate it more with 2010, because it was around for the whole year, even if it was "smaller" than the 3 months it was around in 2009, if you know what I mean. Bad Romance was also the year-end #1 in Europe of 2010, and got in the year-end top 10 of 2010 in the US, so I suppose going by those charts, the song was more of a 2010 song than a 2009 song.

 

Don't Stop Believin''s success is amazing. I think it's just one of those songs that's timeless. It's one of those perseverance anthems. There always going to be people that need to hear that song. I also realized the song is a bit similar to Jar of Hearts this year, in that its main 3 forms of promotion have been from an X Factor performance, being playlisted by Heart FM and being covered by Glee Cast.

 

I think Empire State of Mind will win. Both songs had MASSIVE chart runs (well, obviously they did, since they're the top 2). I'm just going off the basis that Empire State of Mind was released at the end of 2009, so had the whole of 2010 to chart, and peaked lower, yet sold almost as much as Pass Out, which suggests it had a more stable chart run.

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That it wouldn't happen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But it's finally here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The moment a select few of you have waited over 10 months for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The big reveal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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#2

 

TINIE TEMPAH

“Pass Out”

from the album “Disc-Overy”

[March 2010]

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~ 2,633 points // 43 weeks // #1 peak ~

 

In lieu of actual commentary on this monster hit from 2010’s biggest new star, I present you this quote from ‘Oracle of the Year’, BuzzJack’s very own marrb, from the 17th February Radio 1 playlist, which just about sums everything up (and also because I’m lazy):

 

I will eat my hat if Tinie Tempah A-list goes Top 20.

 

Quite. I dare say marrb is starting to run out of hats now. Pass Out doesn’t quite make #1 on this countdown but you can’t deny this is one massive, perhaps genre-defining hit right here. This song came 28th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

 

#1

 

ALICIA KEYS

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

from the album “The Element Of Freedom”

[December 2009]

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~ 2,729 points // 47 weeks // #4 peak ~

 

Pat on the back Alicia. The US may have disowned you in your The Element Of Freedom era but the UK accepted you more than ever and this is your reward - the top spot of the year in this oh so prestigious countdown! Okay, so you didn’t go to #1, you didn’t even go top 3, but that matters none when the difference between a week at #1 and a week at #4 is three points. It’s all about the longevity and you’ve got the goddamn longevity. Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down, as the title suggests, is a continuation of Empire State Of Mind by Jay-Z featuring Alicia, but it’s all stripped down and piano-y and has no Jay-Z on it. It still has that massive chorus though, which means it finally became legal for said chorus to be aired on vehemently anti-rap radio stations. And the much broader appeal certainly worked in its favour, even if it didn’t quite top the #2 peak of the original version. Well, really this version of the track wasn’t a lot bigger than the original at all - both were massive hits and roughly equal - but I can almost guarantee you that a few years into the future most people will have forgotten the Jay-Z version. Hell, people have probably already forgotten about it. This song is often referred to as simply Empire State Of Mind. Poor Jay-Z has been screwed out of his biggest hit because the featured singer went and practically erased it from history. Thanks Alicia! This was the second single (and the second of three top ten hits, a first for her from one era) from her #1 album The Element Of Freedom (also a first for her and it was in fact only her second top ten album). Did I mention it never had a proper music video? It never had a proper music video. This song came 32nd in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

I have now added the top 200 to the first post of the thread if any of you want to have a look over it again. 201-818 is still there also. :D

Pass Out was such a massive song. Strangely enough, I think it's one of my least favourite Tinie Tempah songs, at least out of his singles.

 

I was so shocked when it went to #1. If I'm completely honest, I really hadn't heard very much of Tinie or the song before it went straight to #1. I was like WTF?! :blink: The song itself sounded so weird aswell. But I'm glad for his success. His album is amazing imo.

 

Empire State of Mind, it's true, I think Alicia's version has really stolen the thunder from Jay-Z's version, and I think that'll continue to be the case, since Alicia's version will continue to get airplay for years and years. I think it's a radio staple. Another weird song, but probably for the opposite reason to Pass Out. It's just SO stripped down. Especially after listening to the original with all those percussion sounds and Jay-Z firing out his rhymes. I think Jay-Z's version will be more remembered in the US though, since the original was MUCH bigger than Part II, spending 6 weeks at #1 iirc.

 

Quite a varied top 2 really. Those songs are practically polar opposites (although some people put them in the same genre :drama:). :lol:

Edited November 1, 201113 yr by Eric_Blob

Well, well done for finally finishing it! :cheer:

 

Empire State Of Mind isn't the best winner for me. Radio played it far too many times. But it is definitely a defining song of 2010 and will continue to be, so I don't begrudge it completely.

 

Pass Out is a great song. Completely at the other end of the spectrum. And a good success for UK urban music. I think I'm right in saying that it would have won had it had the full 52 weeks, so it definitely has some power.

 

 

Wow. It's finally finished! :lol: ESOM(PII) doesn't really feel like a definining song of 2010, it didn't seem to impact my life that much :lol: Pass Out or Don't Stop Believin' would've been a better winner imo.

Pass Out is a great song. Completely at the other end of the spectrum. And a good success for UK urban music. I think I'm right in saying that it would have won had it had the full 52 weeks, so it definitely has some power.

 

It scored another 448 points in the first 9 weeks of 2011, so you'd be right.

I was so shocked when it went to #1. If I'm completely honest, I really hadn't heard very much of Tinie or the song before it went straight to #1. I was like WTF?! :blink: The song itself sounded so weird aswell. But I'm glad for his success. His album is amazing imo.

 

This. I still remember the first time I heard PO was on a music channel, MTV Base I think it was, and I was thinking "OK song, probably won't hear it again" then next thing I know is I go to iTunes and it's #1 on the album charts (as an EP). I give it a few more listens, it gets #1 on iTunes singles and it gets 5 weeks at #1 on my chart because I love it that much. And right now Tinie Tempah is my 2nd favourite artist of the decade so far :wub: :wub: :wub: (behind Rihanna)

 

If someone told me I would be a fan of Tinie Tempah's music on PO's release date I would've gone "WTF"

Edited November 1, 201113 yr by danielXF

Well I knew what the #1 was 10 months ago, but well done on finally getting the countdown finished, Bray :P I don't particularly love any of the top 10 though, which is a shame - my favourite would probably be 'Love the Way You Lie' or 'Bad Romance', but the #1 is very deserved for Alicia - she really did deserve her first UK #1 single with this album, but hopefully she'll get there with her fifth EP.

Grr. Prefer "Pass Out" of the top two, like you said Bré it's a properly genre-defining song. I didn't like it at first but I grew to like first "Frisky" and then "Written In The Stars" by the time each was released to the point that I invested in Disc-Overy and "Pass Out" is easily my favourite thing on it now. His BRITs medley was unbelievably good - the indie fan in me wants to say that it was Arcade Fire who upstaged Adele that night ("Ready To Start" should have been MASSIVE), but in reality it was Tinie. At least in my head. :P

 

When it comes to "Empire State of Mind" I've always far preferred the original to Part II, despite the fact that I actually think Jay-Z's verses are one of the weakest things about it (he can do miles better) - the instrumentation is far superior IMO. It's a testament to how great the song is that a stripped down version, devoid of the best thing about the original, can become a huge hit in its own right.

Pass Out was a song I hated at first, but it slowly grew on me and now I really like it (although I prefer Written In The Stars and Wonderman), I can't believe only two of the top 5 were in the top 10 of the year sales wise :o nonetheless, however long it took, well done for doing this Bré, its certainly been very interesting