I might have to jump on the bandwagon and compile one of these a bit after Rich finishes... TEMPTING.

I like the following:

 

51. Tove Styrke - White Light Moment (3-2-3-2-3-1-1-1-2-3) - probably my favourite out of the 50 so far, love it!

53. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) (1-2-2-1-1-3-4-R-2) - I bought the import of this too! :o

54. KT Tunstall - Other Side Of The World (1-2-3-5-5-R-3-R-5-R-3-4)

66. Spiller feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (3-1-1-1-3-1-5)

67. Groove Armada feat Mutya - Song 4 Mutya (3-1-3-R-5-3-3-4-2-5-5-5)

69. Cher - Believe (N/A)

71. Cardigans - Erase/Rewind (N/A) - Nina :wub:

85. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor (4-1-1-3-4-5-4-4-5)

87. Rihanna - Disturbia (1-1-4-3-R-4-3-2-5)

92. The Veronicas - 4Ever (2-1-1-R-5-R-5-2-R-4)

98. Alphabeat - Fascination (5-3-3-2-2-4-R-4)

99. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten (1-1-2-4-4-R-3-5)

 

25. The Corrs - So Young

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: N/A

 

This was the first single that I ever received, note not bought as it was bought for me. The Corrs had had an incredible year in 1998, the biggest selling album of the year with Talk On Corners and top ten singles with Dreams and What Can I Do. So Young was third up - different to the original album version, the K-Klass remix made it a little fresher and more Radio 1 friendly (yes The Corrs were even hot property on Radio 1!). An ode to being young and free, this was apparently almost left off the album, along with What Can I Do until the band fought the record company for their inclusion. Definitely one of my favourite 90s songs, Sharon's token shoehorned in violin solo was more affecting than ever and the song was just so feel good, I lived for hearing it on the radio constantly.

I liked So Young and Runaway by the Corrs, not to keen on Breathless

24. Vanessa Amorosi - Absolutely Everybody

 

 

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

 

The first of five Australian originating songs in the top 25, Vanessa Amorosi was an 18 year old with a huuuuge voice and an infectious party anthem of a debut single. With big support from music video channels in the UK, it went top ten in the UK, sadly becoming her only hit. She disappeared for quite a few years, apparently went to live on a farm, but she returned to the Australian charts in 2007 with Kiss Ya Mama and Perfect and scored her first #1 there in 2009 with the excellent This Is Who I Am (her second #1 in my chart after a 9 year absence!). She's now more of a pop/rock singer than dance/pop, but a pretty great one at that.

23. Robyn with Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat

 

 

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

 

And now for one of the greatest UK #1's of all time. I've been a follower of Robyn right since the late 90s and the pre-Britney sounds of Show Me Love and Do You Know (What It Takes). I followed her Swedish career for quite a few years after. Late 2006 and her eponymous album had just had a repackage to include a few new tracks, including a stunning electro ballad with a very unique structure. The chorus/hook doesn't really get going until about a minute before the end, prior to that it's a series of verses and bridges - but it doesn't matter, it just works. Roll on summer 2007 and hype was growing again around the singer in the UK, Konichiwa Bitches had gone top 100 as a buzz single of sorts I guess (even though the term didn't really exist then!), and Radio 1 had playlisted With Every Heartbeat. Over on CHC we were all hoping and praying that it would go to #1, Dandy* moreso than anybody famously, but I'm not sure that we actually thought it would happen!

 

Release week, a multitude of remixes and live versions were unleashed onto iTunes and the physical helped the Swede climb from #5 to #1, by the skin of her teeth - although she VERY nearly fended off Kanye West's Stronger to get a 2nd week amazingly! It was the stuff of strange dreams - a 90s production line teenage pop star disappears into the wilderness for almost ten years and returns with one of the greatest #1 singles of all time as a grown woman. I follow a lot of singers after their UK careers have long faded, but Robyn is one that I'm very glad got a second chance.

22. Take That - The Flood

 

 

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

 

One for JamesP! As one of Buzzjack's three loyal Take That loons - along with JamesP and Jester, I was of course highly anticipating their long awaited comeback single with Robbie Williams that would bring the band back full circle. The Flood definitely didn't disappoint me - taking the anthemic manband sound that the TT 2.0 had perfected so well, but adding Robbie into the mix, it was all great. So obviously tailor made for radio, the Robbie verses, dramatic Gary bridge and the harmonies on the chorus just appeal to me massively. I know most people won't 'get' why I love them so much, but imo they really are one of the UK's best ever acts. Most pop acts are lucky to have 1 or 2 'classics', Take That have about 10 - the majority of which they wrote themselves or at least future Sir's Barlow and Williams did!

Take That :cheer: I do love 'The Flood' but I can think of at least five TT songs I'd put before it!

Much love towards The Flood and With Every Heartbeat from moi :wub:

 

24. Vanessa Amorosi - Absolutely Everybody

 

 

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

 

The first of five Australian originating songs in the top 25, Vanessa Amorosi was an 18 year old with a huuuuge voice and an infectious party anthem of a debut single. With big support from music video channels in the UK, it went top ten in the UK, sadly becoming her only hit. She disappeared for quite a few years, apparently went to live on a farm, but she returned to the Australian charts in 2007 with Kiss Ya Mama and Perfect and scored her first #1 there in 2009 with the excellent This Is Who I Am (her second #1 in my chart after a 9 year absence!). She's now more of a pop/rock singer than dance/pop, but a pretty great one at that.

Oh god I remember this :wub: Love it, and This Is Who I Am (plus the whole Hazardous album). Really wish she had more success here :(

21. ATB - 9PM (Till I Come)

 

 

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

 

Late 90s German techno had a very distinct sound to it - watch 1998's Lola Rennt, the soundtrack is packed full of it and it's glorious. DJ Andre Tanneberger's 1998 single 9PM (Till I Come) was reworked for its UK release. The bendy synths were made more prominent and the backing track was tuned to perfection. I fell head over heels in love with it on the first listen and so did a lot of people. It flew off the shelves and sold over 800,000 copies, joining compatriot Lou Bega in a very international EOY top five in 1999 (which also included Italian's Eiffel 65, America's Britney and UK's Cliff). I loved it so much that I bought the album on import for about £20 a couple of weeks after this single was released and I never regretted it - Movin' Melodies to this day ranks amongst my top ten favourite albums of all time.

20. Flip & Fill feat Kelly Llorenna - True Love Never Dies

 

 

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

 

Kicking off the top 20 is UK dance duo Flip & Fill and the iconic Kelly Llorenna with True Love Never Dies. Coming off the back of Set You Free, I was eagerly anticipating Kelly's next move (I won't say N-Trance's because the bulk of their back catalogue is crap covers). And her next move was a re-release of a song that had charted and that I'd heard earlier in 2001 - except this time her profile was a lot bigger and it got a lot more support. Another respectable success, it went top ten for a few weeks in the UK and topped my chart for an eternity. I don't think it was ever credited to sample Rank 1's 2000 instrumental top ten hit Airwave, but they are basically identical. Airwave is another favourite of mine (also would have been in my top 150 but didn't make the cut), so to put that together with the true Dame Kelly was always going to be a match made in heaven for me.

19. Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers

 

 

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

 

The original Neighbours export, Kylie has over the past 25 years gone from being tomboy mechanic Charlene to one of the greatest female pop artists of all time. Almost world dominating if not for the fact that she's only managed a couple of big US hits, Kylie is also one of the most likeable megastars out there. Pre 2010, Kylie was pretty much my only 'all time favourite' that had never managed to top my chart - mainly because my biggest favourites of hers, What Do I Have To Do and the floptastic Some Kind Of Bliss were released before its time. Roll on 2010 and after the pretty crap Body Language and the patchy X, she needed to return to what she did best. And that she did. Aphrodite was a hell of a lot better, far more cohesive and unlike X, it had a killer single. More to the point, it was the lead single. All The Lovers was another Stuart Price produced modern classic, a magical slice of dreamy pop but MOR enough that it was perfect for daytime radio. The way it moves from perfect dance pop, slowing it down to a ballad middle 8 before it all comes crashing back in with an insane pulsating electro 'moment' is frankly amazing. It wasn't in my top 20 of all time a few months ago, perhaps just outside, but then I saw her perform it live. Probably the greatest live performance I've ever seen. Youtube it - pure euphoria.

Seeing ATL close Les Folies was a true highlight of my life :lol: No joke, it was truely amazing.

18. Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes

 

 

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

 

The first of two top 20 entries for the artist who is third in my all time affections only behind Delta and The Corrs, Shakira's second UK single was a bit of a change of pace to say the least. An absolutely beautiful ballad with lyrics as equally bizarre as those you can find in any average Shakira song. My instant highlight from Laundry Service on first listen, I was very pleased to see it become a single and even more pleased when it lived up to its potential and went top 3 in the UK - not so pleased that it was beaten by S Club Juniors' Automatic High! Simply a stunning song from a woman who is much more known for her quirky uptempos.

17. Caroldene - Time Is A Healer

 

 

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

 

Probably the highest WTF moment for most of you (all of you). British soul/gospel singer Caroldene Black is somebody who I discovered in 2001 after receiving a free CD in the post called 'Peoplesound 3', Peoplesound being a music website for unsigned artists who sent out CD's every now and then to people on their mailing list. It was good for a few gems and for some reason this song just completely clicked with me and quickly racked up the weeks at the top of my chart in early 2001. Soulful ballad verses with a really great uplifting, almost church like chorus which builds and builds. Everybody I've played this to over the last ten years has met the song with absolute disinterest, and I have absolutely no explanation as to why it's one of my all time favourites - it just is. British Legend.

 

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I love your number 23, that and 'Be Mine!' are my faves from Robyn. Your number 21 is also excellent (although I don't like the UK remix, I only listen to the European version that gets included in trance compilations that I own)

 

'The Flood' is an OK song, but TT have had much better ('Shine', 'Greatest Day', 'Paitence', 'Back For Good' and 'Rule The World' come to mind)

 

Have never heard your number 20 :o :o :o Let me see if it's as good as you make out to be. Ten weeks at number one :o 'Tell It To My Heart' is the only Kelly Llorenna song I've heard.

16. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

 

 

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

 

The 16th greatest pop song of all time.

 

I'm sorry, I don't buy that the material on Born This Way has made Bad Romance sound redundant and dated, to me the likes of Judas sound like cast offs from the Bad Romance sessions, and although in certain areas on the album the production is perhaps more accompilshed, I can't see Gaga bringing out another complete package like this again any time soon. Hundreds of plays by me and hundreds more on the radio and I'm STILL not bored of this. This is a truly stunning pop song.

23. Robyn with Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat

 

 

22. Take That - The Flood

 

 

21. ATB - 9PM (Till I Come)

 

16. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

 

all great songs, three great number 1s and one should have been :(

Edited June 13, 201114 yr by Chart Wizard

Bad Romance remains the best pure pop song of all time.

 

And is it me or does Caroldene LOOK and SOUND like she should be a Buzzjack piss-take (read: SHOAT) fave?!

Well you know my thoughts on With Every Heartbeat so I won't go into them all over again, suffice to say much :wub: for it's inclusion.

 

Bad Romance too, I completely agree with you that it's her best ever track and I can't imagine she'll ever release anything that I prefer. It's a true once in a career moment for me. :wub: