Don't worry. I liked 2004 and 2005 too! :D Infact, come to think of it, 2011 might be the worst year I can remember. The number of "Wow, this is absolutely amazing" chart hits of 2011 so far, I could count them on my fingers. :(

Totally agreed there. One way of judging how good popular music is, for me, to look at the Now albums of those years. Although it doesn't necessarily tell you everything, it does give you the general picture. And Now 78 was absolutely atrocious - I only bought it because I collect them, to be honest. Only about a dozen songs at best I'd listen to and I like to think I'm pretty varied musically, and hardly the most undiscerning person in the world. Judging by the charts of recent months, Now 79 is probably going to be worse. I'm kind of considering not buying it but I know I'd regret it a few years down the line - I really HATE having holes in anything like that; I didn't buy Now 65 or 66 at the time for the same reason but I ended up regretting it and bought them a couple of years later after buying 67, 68, etc :lol:

 

2004 and 2005 gets a very ROUGH deal on here, but I'm glad to see there are other people who don't hate those years. Mind you, I didn't like 2005 as much by the end of it, but the first half or so was very good, and the April-July period was VERY strong. The transition from 2005 to 2006 was truly atrocious though... I think the fact that there were several re-issued hits doing well in late 2005/early 2006 says a lot about how rubbish that period was in terms of new music in the charts.

 

The problem with this year is that pretty much all the successful songs this year have either been this electro pop/dance whatever you want to call it and very friendly radio hits. If you look at the top 10 selling songs this year, all the songs imo opinion fit into the two categories I just mentioned, while looking back on 2010 at this point, we had already had two hits which while not being liked by everyone, were certainly popular and certainly didn't fit into the popular genres at that time. The two songs i'm talking about are Pass Out and Fireflies and when looking back on 2010, they clearly stand out as classics imo because firstly they were very successful saleswise and secondly they were very different to the typical songs from that time.

Tinie Tempah did fit with the popular genres at the time, though. In 2009, the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Tinchy Stryder, Chipmunk etc, were very popular, and Tinie was able to take advantage of that as a "new improved" version - which is probably why Tinchy Stryder and Chipmunk have stopped being as successful now, to be honest. Although I wonder if Tinie would be as successful if he was launched a year later?

 

And Owl City wasn't a million miles away from a slightly more indie version of the electropop of the time - probably having more in common with something like Empire of the Sun, I guess, rather than Lady Gaga. Although that's still a pretty terrible comparison but you get the idea :lol:

 

Both of them were more similar to the 2009 trends than the 2010 trends, but as they came at the start of 2010 they probably got away with it. I think Owl City was very well-timed though, I'm not surprised he's been a one-hit wonder as only a few months later he sounded very "2008/2009" to be honest.

 

Alexandra Stan could well do so in the next few weeks.

The Cheeky Girls had three top 3 hits though (and another one in the top 10). Alexandra Stan is only about to have her first top 5 hit. So Inna is a bit closer to becoming the most successful Romanian act ever (I'm not sure if the Cheeky Girls actually are but I'd be surprised if they weren't) than her - but I doubt either of them will manage to top that, anyway.

 

And yes, I know what you're thinking, HOW were the Cheeky Girls that successful?! Such a joke, to be honest. They stopped being amusing after their first single and after that were just really $h!t, making stupid themed music (Cheeky Holiday! Cheeky Christmas!) and still doing well :manson: A bit like Crazy Frog a couple of years after, actually...

I fail to see how the British public allowed Crazy Frog to make it all the way to FIVE top 20 hits. Axel F I actually quite enjoyed (mega :blush:) and maybe that and one more smaller hit then obscurity would have been acceptable. But FIVE songs by the goddamn Frog made the top 20. I wasn't following the charts at the time but I suspect I'd have been majorly annoyed at the time 'Last Christmas' got to #16. (Then again, I was 10 years old at the time so perhaps my judgement would have been poor)

 

Sorry if I'm making people feel old, but I was 8 when Crazy Frog was #1.

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I can see your point somewhat - but we have ten times the population of Australia (therefore technically more musicians/singers) so I don't think we'll ever get that bad! I think you're being a bit doom and gloom here regardless. If it's still the same next year once the music trends have hopefully shifted a bit away from the club music style then I'll be perhaps ready to agree with you.

 

Ten times? Three times isn't it :P We haven't got that bad yet anyway, Australia probably have about 5-7 local top ten hits a year nowadays, that multiplied by three would be the equivalent of 15-20 British top ten hits in the UK per year, which would be AWFUL, hopefully it never stoops to that level!

 

I agree. I loved 2006 and 2007 too. I've loved most years that I can remember tbh. This year is okay so far, but not as good as when I was younger imo.

 

It is scary how fast the public's music taste changes tbh. There's so many songs where I keep thinking "This would've sold twice as much and been all over radio if it was released 3 years ago". It's kind of crazy really! :o

 

Even late 2010, I'm sure there were weeks where like half the top 10 were slow radio-friendly pop songs, or even ballads. And travel foward 6 months and it's completely different.

 

The last few months are always more welcome to slower songs and MOR as it's when the big artists make their return and X Factor pushes their yearly 'Help For Heroes' ballad and winner's single out there. As well as anything pushed up by the show, like Faith Hill/Adele...

 

I wouldn't call Hip's Don't Lie a one off hit considering Whenever Wherever has sold a similar amount to hit and was only held off no.1 by the biggest selling song of the decade

 

Fair point, but it was definitely a bit of a shock that it was SO big considering that Radio 1 refused to playlist it, despite it being top 3 for 12 weeks! Not relevant to their audience my arse! Plus Whenever, Wherever was 4 years before and it sort of looked like her star was fading in the UK after Don't Bother limped to #9 and fell away quickly a few months earlier...

 

Oh definitely. Looking back, in terms of chart music that did well 2006 has to be my favourite year of the 00s - I prefer 2004/5 and 2009 for music overall but it didn't necessarily do spectacularly in the charts, whereas all the classics tended to be up there in 2006.

 

I agree, my favourites in 2006 were all top 3 hits and I can't often (ever) say that - Hips Don't Like, Rock Steady, Voodoo Child, From Paris To Berlin, Everytime We Touch, Smile, Patience, Crazy, Promiscuous, Maneater, Sorry, Nature's Law, Something Kinda Ooooh and the list goes on :wub: Plus it soundtracked my favourite year of uni, which probably helped massively. The only songs that I massively loved that got a UK push and didn't quite do the business were Pull Shapes and Everybody's Gone To War, really wish that they'd been a bit bigger but hey they went top 30 and top 15 respectively, they wouldn't make the top 200 now :lol:

 

I love 2004/5! It's just unfortunate that most of the classics from those years didn't do quite so well chart-wise...stuff like Nelly Furtado - Try and unheralded pop classic Jentina - French Kisses. Even the great dance anthems like Put'em High and The Weekend didn't really stick around :(

 

Is somebody blackmailing you to mention this song/artist in some thread every single day? :lol:

 

2004/5 was diabolical for dance, with all of the looped 80s house covers which Superbossanova is quite right, was continuing into 2006 - nearly all of them were atrocious. The only dance songs I truly loved over these two years were Lola's Theme (which went to #1 :wub:), You Won't Forget About Me, Is It 'Cos I'm Cool and Listen To Your Heart. I'd have liked them all to do better but they all graced the top ten with their presence at least, albeit briefly in each case :lol:

The british public has really really weird taste in the amount of diversity of music they like tbh compared to the Americans. I am so shocked that Rolling In The Deep even got #1 because it lacks the mainstream type of song and it's just not american enough :P

I personally don't see it as a problem, the charts reflects what's popular in music atm, it doesn't necessary have to consist of home grown talent all the time.

 

Music is music, it don't matter where it's from, if it's a good song sung by American artist or anywhere else in fact and ends up in the top 10 in the UK, while there are none or only a few british acts in the same chart, it's hardly a crime, It's not like the UK don't support British music because we do but it's not going to be every week that a big UK artist release's new music, America is very high up in the music industry in terms of huge well known artists, they have so many artists, which means lots of songs which if people like will end up in the charts, hence why most UK acts want to crack the US Music market.

 

We shouldn't get angry about less and less UK acts being in the top 10 in the charts and on itunes because if the Music is good it will speak for it's self, the UK official charts represents music on the whole not just UK music only.

 

Beside Adele is doing amazing in the charts with her music, not just here but in the states too, it's not like all British singers/bands are underperforming and not having chart success at all atm, until then maybe we could complain but a week with out a British artist in the top 10 is harmless IMO

I don't know if it has been done before but based on what's being said here, I think it would be interesting to do a poll on what was the best and worst years from the noughties because clearly there are a lot of different opinions and it would be interesting to see what everyone thinks

I fail to see how the British public allowed Crazy Frog to make it all the way to FIVE top 20 hits. Axel F I actually quite enjoyed (mega :blush:) and maybe that and one more smaller hit then obscurity would have been acceptable. But FIVE songs by the goddamn Frog made the top 20. I wasn't following the charts at the time but I suspect I'd have been majorly annoyed at the time 'Last Christmas' got to #16. (Then again, I was 10 years old at the time so perhaps my judgement would have been poor)

 

Sorry if I'm making people feel old, but I was 8 when Crazy Frog was #1.

He(?!) probably WOULD have faded into obscurity if he didn't start releasing these stupid themed songs, like I said. The follow-up to Axel F was Popcorn and that "only" got to #12 - I seem to recall thinking it'd fade away after that. But then it came back with a Christmas hit and we all know the public completely lose their brains at that time of year - and bang, it's in the top 5 again :manson:

 

Ten times? Three times isn't it :P We haven't got that bad yet anyway, Australia probably have about 5-7 local top ten hits a year nowadays, that multiplied by three would be the equivalent of 15-20 British top ten hits in the UK per year, which would be AWFUL, hopefully it never stoops to that level!

Oops! That's the second stupid error I've made in this thread today :lol: I think I must have been looking at the "area" figure on the Australian Wikipedia article :blush:

 

Well if it's only three times that kind of shocks me a little more to be honest. I'm not an expert on the Australian music scene though so I can't really comment too much. I think we might have a better ratio of acts than the population figures suggest though, giving our unbelievably strong musical heritage.

 

I don't know if it has been done before but based on what's being said here, I think it would be interesting to do a poll on what was the best and worst years from the noughties because clearly there are a lot of different opinions and it would be interesting to see what everyone thinks

Bizarrely, I did think of doing that recently - but I'm a bit shy about making new topics on this forum (and any forum, to be honest, I'm more of a "roll with the flow" kind of guy) so I decided against it in the end... :( But yeah, it'd be interesting. I'm not really sure what would win - I'd guess a more recent year because some people on here are quite young...

Edited May 27, 201114 yr by superbossanova

Don't worry superbossanova, I've started it for you :D

Oh, Jamelia is British too? There goes 30/09/2006 even if you do consider Snow Patrol not British for whatever reason.

I assume you've never heard her speak?

I assume you've never heard her speak?

 

No, only heard her songs which sound very much like your average American R&B singer to me.

No, only heard her songs which sound very much like your average American R&B singer to me.

I thought that would be the case, as you'd be able to tell she was from Birmingham. Her stupid brummie accent makes me want to punch her, by far the most unattractive accent on a female.

Lets just hope The Saturdays get top 10... going to be a close call.

its quite sad we buy american music over our own. apart from the odd occurence, hardly any acts other than american are in the top 10 of the billboard..(dont mention adele, she is one of those odd occurences)

That's because american music knows what's in and what's catchy and hence release it. British artists are sometimes really boring with some exceptions...

That's because american music knows what's in and what's catchy and hence release it. British artists are sometimes really boring with some exceptions...

 

 

that's a matter of opinion...i like to think we have alot more taste in our music taste than some of the trash sitting on the billboard

 

 

Well true it's an opinion, maybe it's beause i'm such a generic pop song lover :D

Maybe we should be more like France, their Radio's have to play at least 50% French music.

But isn't the radio meant to play what's popular? Forcing people to listen to British music 50% of the time on the radio isn't a good way tbh..

But isn't the radio meant to play what's popular? Forcing people to listen to British music 50% of the time on the radio isn't a good way tbh..

 

Maybe there's no formal quota here, but I dare say we still get over 50% non-Briitish music, on radio 1 certainly...

This tbh. I'm sure it's happened before. And if this actually is the first time it's happened, then the US dominance in the chart hasn't been as bad as I thought tbh! :o

 

The biggest British artists simply aren't releasing any songs at the moment. When JLS, Cheryl Cole, N-Dubz, Olly Murs, Cher Lloyd, etc. release more songs, then we'll have British artists back in the top 10.

 

For me though, British music is more than just what it says on the artist's birth certificate.

 

It is about styles of music, and while I know I'll get into trouble here for saying this, IMO urban simply isn't British. It's about pop, varieties of soft rock, dance & ballads (plus one or two other forms that I'll no doubt immediately think of, as soon as I've posted this). :)

Edited May 28, 201114 yr by vidcapper