I'm QUITE aware of how shameful some of these are but I stand by them as they genuinely ARE my 100 all time favourites for one reason or another. It does get a little more respectable further up I guess but there are still some howlers :lol:

 

Oh to be fair, more power to you for owning up to them!

 

And in all honesty, by the time I get round to doing my own countdown, the phrase words "pot", "kettle" and "black" will all be making a big comeback.

I love most of the songs Bernie :wub:

Yay for Kelly (though SUBG is overrated, it's still a solid 9.5/10), Cher (my guilty pleasure :P) and Nerina!

68. Carrie Underwood - Jesus Take The Wheel

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 4-2-2-2-4-4-1-1-2-4

 

How's this for a quirk, in order my three favourite American Idol winners are Kelly Clarkson then Carrie Underwood then Jordin Sparks, they all have one entry in this top 100 - Kelly's has been and gone, here's Carrie's, yet Jordin's is up later and by far the highest! Every other AI winner I care not about. Carrie really should have been pushed here, I can see why she wasn't - she's a country singer, but some of her singles had obvious crossover appeal - Before He Cheats for example. This was NOT one of those however, a dramatic religious ballad wouldn't exactly be racing its way into the UK charts. But it was the easy highlight of her excellent debut album Some Hearts for me, and I was obsessed with it for quite a while back in early '06!

Carrie is my joint fave singer ever (with Gaga), so muchos brownie points for including her :kink: JTTW is in my Carrie top 5, it's my 2nd fave on SH behind Before He Cheats (which I agree could've been a hit had she been pushed!)

Speaking of utter cheese, I do hope Scooch will be making an appearance. Even better than 'Teenage Life', but I do love both.

67. Groove Armada feat Mutya Buena - Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control)

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 3-1-3-OUT-5-3-3-4-2-5-5-5

 

Onto some electro magic, Sugababes' best vocalist Mutya Buena resurfaced in 2007 and with her solo career about to launch I first stumbled across this in about March. To say I was impressed would be an understatment, it was the new instant highlight of Groove Armada's long and at times great back catalogue, the lyrics - which were so CLEARLY a dig at Amelle (it even leaked exactly 15 months after Mutya's departure from the band!) were hilariously brilliant and everything about it just worked. Then she went to #2 in the UK with Real Girl and Groove Armada had also just had a big comeback top ten hit with Get Down. All signs were pointing towards this being huge, but then something didn't click - it had the airplay but barely anybody bought it and it scaled to a tragic peak of #8. People blame the abomination of a video but there's more to a song underperforming than a weak video. What a great shame as it's far better than anything either act will come out with again, and indeed better than the Sugababes have churned out since Mutya's departure.

75. Nerina Pallot - Everybody's Gone To War

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 2-1-1-2-1-1-3-2-4-5

 

I still listen to this regularly :D really underrated imo, its a great song with a great message

 

66. Spiller feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 3-1-1-1-3-1-5

 

DAME Sophie returns for her second and final appearance, alongside 6 foot 9 DJ Cristiano Spiller - you can see the height issues he faces in the video! Originally an instrumental track, Sophie laid down vocals and a 2000 hit single was born. What most of us assumed was a #2 hit single - they'd decided to release alongside Victoria Beckham's first solo outing, Out Of Your Mind with the Truesteppers. Spillersophie were also at a disadvantage in that the song already appeared on compilation album Now 46. But the Posh vs. posh battle got underway and was the most talked about chart battle in years, Victoria dragged David round Woolies stores across the country in a desperate attempt to snatch the #1 but the best song won in the end!

65. Roll Deep - Green Light

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 5-3-1-1-1-3-1-3-4

 

Another recent song, for many it's a generic throwaway 2010 non #1, for me it's one of the best songs of last year. Following on from the almost as great Good Times, UK rap collective Roll Deep, who I've been loving since 2005's The Avenue, enlisted Supawoman Tania Foster for vocal help on Green Light. First time I heard it all I remember was that bassline. That was enough to draw me in straight away but it didn't take me long to learn every word of every rap - and the chorus is excellent too. I still hear it in clubs now and go wild for it! Stop, pop, don't drop!

Green Light :wub: I don't get the hate for it!

64. Alice Deejay - The Lonely One

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 1-3-3

 

Back to 2000 again and Alice Deejay's fourth single was quite different to the singles that preceded it. A harder and more trancy song, it still packed a punch and once again, I was absolutely in love with it. I looned and lived for for Judith, Mila and Yutin as much as LOVETT does for Beyonce, it was a deep deep love. They could have sung a Chinese Takeaway menu and I'd have had it on repeat for weeks. Sadly their star was fading and it was a flash in the pan top 20 hit in the UK - but in my eyes it was their fourth huge #1.

Song 4 Mutya was my favourite song of 2007. I wasn't even big on Groove Armada, and I'm not keen on Mutya either. The video is where I find her most attractive, she does nothing for me most of the time. But it was so catchy, the beat, and the lyrics.

Even more obtusely (for someone of my generally more left-field taste) 'Green Light' was one of my favourite tracks of last year too. Excellent structure and melody...

63. Kelly Llorenna - Tell It To My Heart

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 1-1-OUT-5-2-2-1-1-5

 

Onto another act that I was obsessed with for quite a long time, N-Trance singer Kelly Llorenna first branched out into a solo career in 1996 but it didn't quite go to plan. After her success with N-Trance and Flip & Fill in 2001/2, she decided that the time was right to go it alone again and unleashed a cover of Taylor Dayne's Tell It To My Heart. Yes it was the latest in a long line of 2002 80s pop/dance covers, but for me this was the 2nd best one (yes there is another still to come!). I remember being ELATED reading the midweeks at school on Worldpop.com (who else remembers that) and reading that she was on course for the top ten - which she did indeed achieve! She performed it memorably on Top Of The Pops in a raincoat, but sadly the performance isn't on Youtube.

62. Delta Goodrem - Out Of The Blue

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 4-1-1-1-1-4

 

Time for another appearance of my ULTIMATE idol, sorry Alice/Kelly, you were biding time for Delta's arrival. After a hugely successful era in 2003, Delta returned post cancer treatment in 2004 with the Mistaken Identity album. I wouldn't have led that album with Out Of The Blue, but it was still one of my favourites on there, a really beautiful and uplifting song - despite being a ballad. Her penultimate UK top ten hit, Almost Here with Brian went top three the following year but that does not feature in my top 100. I had to post the version of it she did at her Believe Again tour, it has a slightly different structure which somehow makes it even more gorgeous - take a listen.

61. Natasha Bedingfield - These Words

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 3-2-1-1-1-1-5

 

Juranamo said earlier that he prefers These Words to Unwritten - me too! I was not a fan of Nat Bed's debut single aptly titled Single. So when I heard These Words, it was a really pleasant surprise. Quirky string laden pop, it felt like it was an update on a sound that was big in 1998 which of course I absolutely loved on the whole. Now we have Jessie J doing similar oddball British pop, but I adimt that I still far prefer Natasha. The video was brilliantly weird too. A deserved UK #1, and second in a row from 2004!

60. The Corrs - Summer Sunshine

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 2-2-2-1-4-1-4-2-4

 

At long last, it's the first appearance of my all time favourite Irish family band The Corrs, scrap that - all time favourite group full stop. Another from 2004, which I've rather panned in other parts of the forum, but it clearly wasn't as bad as the charts suggest it was. Summer Sunshine was their comeback single after four long years in the wilderness. The summery song lived up to its name and though wasn't exactly anything new for the band, it naturally appealed to me hugely - I also saw them live during this year which was possibly the best thing ever.

59. The Corrs - Forgiven Not Forgotten

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: N/A

 

Aaaaand again. Rewind back to 1999 and The Corrs were doing what is now known as 'an Adele'. They'd hauled their 1995 debut album Forgiven Not Forgotten out of the wilderness to join current album Talk On Corners in the top two of the UK charts. The title track was also a b-side to their 1998 single So Young so it certainly got around. They clearly wanted people to hear this beauty of a song. One of their absolute best.

58. Mariah Carey feat Joe and 98 Degrees - Thank God I Found You

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 2-1-1-2-4

 

You know when you just 'get' a song but nobody else seems to? Here's an example of that for me. Not exactly widely regarded as one of Mariah's finest singles, it is certainly my favourite of hers. Released as a single in early 2000, the second from the Rainbow album, it did actually manage to get to #1 in the US, but so did everything she released back then. The R&B ballad, which featured singer Joe and boyband 98 Degrees, really appealed to me, I still find it beautiful and it reminds me massively of a Tenerife holiday I had that year - I bought it on single at the airport and was hammering it on my Discman on the plane :lol: I also love the 'Make It Last' remix but it's basically a different song with the same name - just as J.Lo was doing a couple of years later with Ja Rule.