:wub: Need You Now - Disappointed that it didn't do nearly as well over here.

#174

JEDWARD FEAT. VANILLA ICE
“Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)”
from the album “Planet Jedward”
[February 2010]
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~ 484 points // 10 weeks // #2 peak ~

Aside from grand finalists and Diana Vickers, the only X Factor protégés that ever seem to do well are the novelty acts. Step forward Jedward (John Grimes, Edward Grimes). They auditioned and competed under the name of ‘John & Edward’ but picked up the nickname some time into the show, as well as a few more offensive nicknames such as ‘Twincest’. The identical Irish twins were, let’s face it, terrible the whole way through and extremely annoying, but they attracted publicity to the X Factor 2009 (in which they finished 6th). Okay, so it was mostly negative publicity, especially when self-confessed Jedward hater Simon Cowell kicked out genuinely good contestant Lucie Jones over the twins, but all publicity is good publicity as they say. One of the twins’ more creative performances on the show was their mash-up of Under Pressure (by Queen feat. David Bowie) and Ice Ice Baby (by Vanilla Ice), the latter of which of course sampled the former without permission causing controversy. After the show Jedward were signed with a one-single deal and they chose to release a studio version of the mash-up under the title Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby), with the real Vanilla Ice (real name Robert Van Winkel) riding along with it because he’s just that desperate, in the hopes of scoring a UK #1. They missed out, possibly because they didn’t release the digital and the physical in the same week for some reason, but they got the consolation prize of the second highest selling single of 2010 in Ireland. They did get another record deal to release an album, lead off by the enormous flop blink-182 cover All The Small Things which limped in at #80 (and didn’t even do well in Ireland) and album Planet Jedward, named after a quote said by Simon Cowell on the show, also bombed in the album chart in the UK. I hope you guys are looking forward to Wagner’s single - if Chico did one and Jedward did one, why can’t Wagner?

Edited January 8, 201114 yr by ★BlindFaithBray★

#173

MUSE
“Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)”
from the album “The Twilight Saga - Eclipse OST”
[May 2010]
11-51-75-66-87-73-58-44-42-57-69-94-x



~ 485 points // 12 weeks // #11 peak ~

For all the success and acclaim British rock band Muse (Matthew Bellamy, Christopher Wolstenholme, Dominic Howard) have, they hardly have a shining singles chart history, with just four top 10 hits to their name (2003 #8 Time Is Running Out, 2006 #4 Supermassive Black Hole, 2006 #10 Knights Of Cydonia and 2009 #9 Uprising). With being the lead single from The Twilight Saga - Eclipse, which despite being awful its popularity can’t be denied, it seemed this would make that five but despite going as high as #3 on iTunes after its Radio 1 premiere it missed out. The song was released on a Wednesday night so it only had 3 days of sales in its first week. It came so close to the top 10 but was kept out by, of all songs, Leeds! Leeds! Leeds! by Leeds United FC, to the annoyance of every single fan of real music. It showed zero longevity at the start, dropping out of the entire top 50 on its second week, but as the (horrible) movie came out and airplay increased it nearly rejoined the top 40. Despite the popularity of the Twilight Saga, Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) was in fact the first top 40 hit off a Twilight soundtrack - the first movie’s lead single Decode by Paramore made only #52 in 2008, second movie New Moon’s lead track Meet Me On The Equinox by Death Cab For Cutie annoyingly failed to boost that band’s singles chart profile by much only making #86 in 2009 and a second track off the Eclipse soundtrack, Florence + The Machine’s Heavy In Your Arms which served as a single from Florence’s Between Two Lungs (the deluxe version of the album Lungs) made just #53.

#172

SHOUT FOR ENGLAND FEAT. DIZZEE RASCAL AND JAMES CORDEN
“Shout”
stand-alone single
[June 2010]
1-1-3-15-40-62-98-x



~ 487 points // 7 weeks // #1 peak ~

As if Everybody Hurts and Heroes weren’t enough for you, here’s a third song with 2 weeks at #1 but otherwise a pretty shoddy chart run. And there’s one more common factor, as the man who put this song together was none other than Simon Cowell. Credited to a nonexistent entity named ‘Shout For England’ with the actual performers, British rapper Dizzee Rascal (real name Dylan Mills) and British actor James Corden, given just featured credits, the song’s chorus is the same as Shout by Tears For Fears while the verses are newly written lyrics rapped by the most successful UK rapper of all on the topic of England, football and the English football team. Specifically, the English World Cup squad. If you were following the FIFA World Cup in South Africa this year you’ll understand why this song had such a quick drop out of the charts. England barely made it to the knockout round where they were crushed 4-1 by Germany, who’d go on to come 3rd overall. What’s the point in buying a song essentially about faith in the England squad when they’re already out? There’s no point at all, so no one was buying it after about 4 weeks. Anyway, this was obviously the first #1 for Shout For England as that’s not even a real artist, and it was also the first #1 for James Corden as he’s not a real artist either, he’s an actor. It was, though, the fifth #1 for Mr. Rascal (as Jeremy Paxman would refer to him) in less than three years. In 2008 Dizzee officially ‘sold out’ by releasing the ultra commercial Dance Wiv Me (feat. Calvin Harris and Chrome) which spent 4 weeks at #1. In 2009 he scored 2 further #1s with Armand Van Helden collaboration Bonkers spending 2 weeks at the summit and follow-up Holiday (feat. Chrome) getting one week there. All three songs appeared on Dizzee’s fourth studio album Tongue N’ Cheek which surprisingly only made #3 on the album chart. The amount of #1s on this one album was increased to 4 earlier this year when Dirtee Disco (feat. Daniel Pearce) was released leading off a deluxe edition (Tongue N’ Cheek (Dirtee Deluxe Edition)). This song had one week at #1 but dropped very quickly. The most amazing thing about it though was that it was released just 2 weeks before Shout, giving Dizzee 2 different songs débuting at #1 within 14 days of each other! And if you thought I’d stop rambling on here, you’re wrong, as there’s one more thing to say about this song. Like Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) this song was released mid-week, but the despite the big handicap in sales days it still managed to sell over 100,000 in its four-day week to deny fellow British MC Tinie Tempah a second #1 with Frisky (feat. Labrinth), despite that song selling 87,000 copies. Frisky is of course still to come on this countdown, so we know who the real winner was here. There are also a couple more football songs to come.

Edited December 28, 201014 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

That comment was way longer than it should have been :lol:

 

I hope you guys are reading my comments, I've put more time into those than anything else.

Jedward :wub:

#171

TIM BERG
“Seek Bromance”
stand-alone single
[November 2010]
13-17-25-32-44-56-55-83-96-



~ 488 points // 9 weeks // #13 peak ~

Swedish house DJ Tim Berg (formally Tim Bergling) appears in the full list twice, but only once under this name. His other entry, Sebastien Drums collaboration My Feelings For You, credits him as Avicii. Anyway, like I’m In Love (I Wanna Do It) by Alex Gaudino, this song originated as an instrumental with a slightly different title, in this case just Bromance, but for the UK release uncredited female vocals were added. This song fairly narrowly missed out on becoming the year’s third Swedish house top 10 hit, with the two that did make it both being by the matter-of-factly named collective Swedish House Mafia. Both songs are still to come on this countdown.

Great countdown, an intresting read. My prediction is Plan B, Usher, Bob & Eminem as the top 4.

#170

EMINEM FEAT. LIL WAYNE
“No Love”
from the album “Recovery”
[July 2010]
77-98-x(13)-68-45-41-35-35-33-37-66-84-x



~ 492 points // 11 weeks // #33 peak ~

Here’s that song I mentioned in the comment for Drop The World. This song is Eminem’s lowest charting ‘proper’ single (with only a few featured appearances, a few promo singles from the album Relapse and an album track that was used in an advert charting lower) and the only one to have missed the top 20. The logic behind releasing this seemed obvious as it was the highest charting album track from Eminem’s 7th studio album Recovery making #77 in the week of the album’s release, but it’s likely he would have scored a slightly bigger hit with the 3rd Recovery single if he went for the more commercial Won’t Back Down (feat. P!nk). I should point out now that the date listed for each single is the month of the first chart it appeared in, not the month in which it was first released or ‘properly’ released. Oh, one more thing, this samples (rather sloppily if you ask me) Haddaway's What Is Love? Fun times.

Edited December 28, 201014 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

#169

JASON MRAZ
“I’m Yours”
from the album “We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.”
[December 2008]
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~ 496 points // 30 weeks // #52 peak ~

This is one of a few chart ‘ever-presents’ from 2008/early 2009 which have made the top 200 here. This song was the only major hit for US singer Jason Mraz in the UK with only Make It Mine (2009, #82) charting otherwise. I’m Yours was nice enough to begin with, peaking at #11 in early 2009, but constant exposure on various TV shows and great airplay and the fact that’s it’s just so MOR meant that it was in the top 40 for an annoyingly long amount of time in 2009. Its original top 40 run lasted an astonishing 25 weeks (although only six of these weeks above #25) and two re-entries increased this total to 29 weeks. This song is likely to be the highest selling non-top 10 hit ever in the UK (or if it isn’t it will be one day) and it’s clear to see why from its chart run. Despite charting for 30 weeks this year it only comes in at #169 overall. The title of ‘2010’s I’m Yours’ can be most accurately given to Train’s Hey, Soul Sister which will appear later in the countdown.

Edited December 28, 201014 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

I'm enjoying the comments, think that Bad Romance, OMG, perhaps Love The Way You Lie stand a good chance of high results.

#168

CHRIS BROWN
“Crawl”
from the album “Graffiti”
[December 2009]
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~ 501 points // 11 weeks // #35 peak ~

I get the feeling this song and the album Graffiti (which only made #55 in the UK) would have done a lot better if it weren’t for a certain incident involving US singer Chris Brown (formally Christopher Brown) and his Barbadian ex-girlfriend who will appear several times on this countdown herself later on. Nonetheless, Crawl is a fairly standard contemporary R&B ballad with a fairly standard chart run. Not much to comment on here.

#167

KERI HILSON
“I Like”
from the album “Zweiohrküken OST”
[May 2010]
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~ 501 points // 9 weeks // #34 peak ~

This song wasn’t really meant to be a hit for US singer Keri Hilson. It was made for the soundtrack of the German film Zweiohrküken (known in English as ‘Rabbit Without Ears 2’, while the literal translation follows zwei = two, Ohr = ear, Küken = chicks, so ‘Two-eared chicks’) and didn’t receive any major radio airplay in the UK, but it still managed to make the UK top 40. Despite its lowish peak of #34 it spent six weeks in the top 40. Unfortunately it seemed its token plays on the chart show were the only thing keeping it top 40 as it vanished with speed after dropping out.

Edited December 28, 201014 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

Need You Now was year-end #2 in the US, I think, so it was a major flop in the UK in comparison. I'm glad it didn't get popular though, it's total puke.

 

Seek Bromance is amazing! So gutted it didn't go top 10. :(

 

Similar thing for No Love. It's an absolutely incredible song. With regards to it being released as a single, despite being so un-mainstream, it actually went top 10 on US iTunes when the album was released, along with Love the Way You Lie being #1 at the same time, so from the perspective of the US, No Love was an obvious choice as the 3rd single. Disappointingly though, despite getting to #7 or something on iTunes as an album track, it didn't even get back into the top 20 months later when it was actually promoted with radio airplay, video airplay, TV performances, etc. It turned out that most people who wanted the song (i.e. Lil Wayne fans) downloaded it without the need for it to be advertised.

 

This does leave Eminem in a tricky spot though, if he's on his 3rd single, and it's already charted lower as a single that it did on album cherry-picking back in June. However, I'm glad he didn't release Won't Back Down. I love Eminem, but I think that song is dreadful, even though it would probably get more airplay thanks to Pink being on the track, but I think Won't Back Down would also suffer from "everybody has heard it already"-syndrome (see The Silence).

 

Also, I like Under Pressure and Shout, and I don't like Neutron Star Collision and I'm Yours.

 

Also, Crawl and I Like are a bit like opposites. Crawl narrowly missed top 40 for like 1 month, whilst I Like kept scraping into the top 40. I Like is much better though, such a tune, and I LOVE Keri Hilson. :wub: Heart FM started playing it towards the end of its chart run, if anybody cares.

Edited December 28, 201014 yr by Eric_Blob

Need You Now was year-end #2 in the US, I think, so it was a major flop in the UK in comparison. I'm glad it didn't get popular though, it's total puke.

 

It was, which was why I mentioned that in the comment ^_^

 

I hate it as well, I don't like country in general

#166

PAOLO NUTINI
“Pencil Full Of Lead”
from the album “Sunny Side Up”
[October 2009]
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~ 503 points // 13 weeks // #36 peak ~

Scottish singer Paolo Nutini would make a good rapper based on the lyrics of this, as it’s basically Nutini listing things he has. Okay, so he’s saying fairly mundane things he has such as ‘a nice guitar’ and ‘shoes on [his] feet’, but it’s the same message really. Pencil Full Of Lead was released as the third single from Paolo’s second studio album Sunny Side Up. First single Candy peaked at #19 and follow-up Coming Up Easy made just #62, so it was slightly surprising when this outpeaked Candy (going as high as #17) in 2009 to become his second highest peaking single after his 2006 début single Last Request, a #5 hit. Parent album Sunny Side Up amazingly managed to better the sales of his début album These Streets despite the latter album selling over a million copies. Time for a bit of shameless self-promotion. If you fancy a challenge, see if you can name all the things Paolo Nutini claims to have: just click here!

Edited December 28, 201014 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

I absolutely love 'PFOL' It was gonna be top 10 in my EOY chart, but realised it was a 2009 song :(

 

That quiz! :lol:

Edited December 28, 201014 yr by Klumzee

#165

SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE
“Naturally”
from the album “Kiss & Tell”
[April 2010]
7-10-12-20-29-52-79-89-x



~ 510 points // 8 weeks // #7 peak ~

Although Miley Cyrus wins out of the Disney divas in terms of total hits and public awareness, both the highest peaking Disney song and the highest entry on this chart come from this song, Naturally by US singer Selena Gomez’s band Selena Gomez & The Scene (Selena Gomez, Greg Garman, Joey Clement, Ethan Roberts, Dane Forrest). Despite not receiving support from Radio 1 the song spent not one but two weeks in the UK top 10. This is likely down to it actually being very good despite the nature (no pun intended) of the vocalist. Selena Gomez & The Scene released both of their first 2 albums, Kiss & Tell and A Year Without Rain, this year in the UK much like Jonas Brothers did. This song is from the former. The singles from the latter didn’t do awfully well, Round & Round making #47 and A Year Without Rain #91, but the album itself did fairly well charting at #14, just 2 places lower than the peak of Kiss & Tell.

Edited December 28, 201014 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★

Love Naturally. :) I listened to it yesterday, actually.

Once you get past the Disney stamp, Naturally is actually pretty damn good song.