I was obsessed with Love Song - extremely so. If I'd had a chart back then, it'd have been number 1 for something crazy like 10 weeks tbh! Her other material is good, nothing comes close to LS though :wub:

8. Delta Goodrem - Extraordinary Day

 

 

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

 

Next up is a song that really 'gets me', it always has done and still does. Tucked away towards the back of Delta's Mistaken Identity album, for some reason this gem is regarded by a lot of fans as one of the filler tracks and 7/10 moments. I'm sorry, am I listening to a completely different song to everybody else? Written about her reaction to the day she discovered that she had cancer, it's without a doubt her most personal song ever, perhaps a lot of fans find it uncomfortable listening, which I know was a big criticism of this album. What on earth was her mood likely to be like? As for the music - it's piano and string laden heaven, the melody progression of the strings in particular is haunting.

MAN CANNOT LIVE ON DELTA ALONE RICH

Love Song is not high enough. :( I had hoped it has grown sufficiently in to a GD essential Top 5 hit! :P

Starting to doubt myself on your #1, but fingers crossed it will edge it!

I predict a top five featuring Canned Heat and Mohombi.

7. The Corrs - Runaway

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: N/A

 

I'll get disowned by Shoat who calls it bland (pot kettle black have just made their comeback!) but I prefer the 1999 Tin Tin Out Remix of this very very slightly over the more drum heavy original. Although Breathless was their only UK #1, I'm inclined to call this their signature song - although it didn't feature on the most popular version of their 'big' album. It was originally on Forgiven Not Forgotten in 1995 and a bit of a flop single, they re-released it about three times, for the final time once it had been included on the late 1998 re-release of Talk On Corners (the one with the blue cover where they all do their sexiest poses, even Jim!). My second favourite ballad of all time, it's absolutely gorgeous - it really should have been a UK #1 but the fools put it out on the same day as Baby One More Time!!! Andrea's beautiful voice, Sharon's never ending violin solo - complete with key change, the 'ya da da' ad libbing, Tin Tin Out's additional strings. Glorious.

It's actually SACRILEGE to plump for a wishy-washy Tin Tin Out remix over the GLORIOUS power balladry of the original.

6. Agnes - Release Me

 

 

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

 

And onto the greatest Scandipop song there is! Swedish Idol 2005 winner Agnes Carlsson had been ticking along rather nicely at home with a few big hits. 2008 saw her dance comeback and On & On was the debut single - it was fairly nice but nothing amazing. And then one day in December on here I got a PM from Peter30 informing me of her new single - I wasn't expecting much but I pressed play - the STRINGS - they were life enhancing enough by themselves! And then came the confident attitude of the verses, the anthemic pop chorus and that's before the amazing. instrumental middle 8 (which was criminally cut out of the UK edit - shame on you AATW!). It went almost straight to the top of my chart and then came my usual insisting that it should get a UK release and that it could be a big hit with a push blah blah blah...except this time it did, and it was! And for a few weeks in 2009 this glorious song was all over the place and everyone was loving it. I believe she actually knocked Alexander Rybak out of the top ten iirc which seemed rather surreal at the time!

Release Me :wub: I think I must have used up all my Scandigai credits for that to have been a hit, because short of SETTING UP RESIDENCE in the Harcourt Arms I doubt I'll ever be able to repeat those blissful few weeks in 2009 when you'd actually hear Scandipop on nights out and it would actually work as a floorfiller!

5. DJ Sammy & Yanou feat Do - Heaven

 

 

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

 

Summer 2002 and I don't exactly remember where I heard this, I think I Googled it after discovering that a Eurodance song had gone top ten in the US (not exactly a common happening!). Anyway, it was a pop/trance cover of Bryan Adams old 80s power ballad Heaven. 2002 was jam packed full of 80s dance covers but this one was head and shoulders above the rest, for a start it didn't sound like cheap compilation filler - Spanish DJ Sammy and German Yanou's production touches worked brilliantly and Dutch singer Do(minique Van Hulst) had a fragile voice, best showcased on the very famous 'Candlelight Mix' of the song, which I loved just as much although for completely different reasons. Anyway after doing the usual - buying it on import and waiting for the rest of the country to catch up - it went to #1 in the UK beating the forces that were Madonna and Craig David's comeback singles - I know it doesn't sound like much but they were expected to fly effortlessly to #1 and #2 so to see by far the best song of the three absolutely trounce them was incredibly satisfying.

4. DJ Jurgen presents Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone

 

 

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

 

Summer 1999. I was on my way to a family holiday in Great Yarmouth and we had Radio 1 on in the car. A boiling July afternoon and we were stuck in traffic, and then the DJ said 'and here's a new song by...'. I didn't catch the name but the song was pretty damn incredible. The following day was a Sunday and we happened to have the radio on in the very glamorous caravan that we were staying in. Mark Goodier said 'new entry at #4...' and on it came again, except this time I got the name, and it sounded even more glorious on second listen - a pulsating trance song with minimal vocals but which relied heavily on a distinctive synth melody. It sounded like the best thing ever to me at the time and 12 years on, I can confirm that I don't feel much different about it now! :lol: *insert generic gooddelta waffle about Westlife, Ronan and Geri crap all beating it to #1 by a minimal amount of copies - grrrrr*

Heaven! A classic from my youth. So glad it's #5! Good memories. Big hit here in the Netherlands.

2002 was such a fantastic year for dance music.

Edited June 13, 201114 yr by XXXO

Release Me AND Heaven? :wub: Both would make my top 40 of all time too, Release Me would be highest of the two somewhere in the top 20 though!

Release Me wouldn't make my top 30000 -_-

3. Shakira feat Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie

 

 

Top 20 personal chart run: 20-9-11-19-17-7-10-18-20-19-15-5-8-8-4-2-2-2-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-3-2-4-5-7-8-9-10-13-14-16-16-19-20

 

I feel like I'll be doing this song an injustice if I don't post it's full and utterly ridiculous run in my personal chart. Oral Fixation Vol.2 was great but it was all a little bit 'out there' and clearly didn't have any big hit singles on it. Roll on early 2006 and Hips Don't Lie leaked, I was familiar with the tune, it was an old Wyclef/Claudette Ortiz song called Dance Like This which I only knew because my sister used to play it all the time because it was in some film she loved. Except what was a pretty good R&B song had been reworked by Shakira into a latin pop classic. I went on and off it, and back on and off it again for months on end and then the video came, and then the sun came out and it suddenly all made sense. Eventually it reached the top of my chart, and despite having already been on it for five months, it managed a 10 week stint at #1! :lol: To say I was obsessed with it would be a complete understatement, I listened to it about five times every day for almost a year! So infectious, feel good and fun, and eventually a deserved #1/platinum seller in the UK as well - even in 2006 - i.e. when sales had completely died - imagine how big it would have been in today's sales climate, a million seller at least! Shakira Shakira! :wub:

Hips Don't Lie is brilliant, definitely my fave Shakira track :wub:

2. Delta Goodrem - Believe Again

 

 

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

 

BJSC has been all downhill since the first contest, back in December 2007. How on earth do you top perfection when your debut entry already is? Don't get me started on how it finished 17th out of 24, shameful! Anyway, back on topic - Delta's third album, the imaginatively titled Delta finally surfaced in late 2007 and was led by the very good but not exactly life enhancing In This Life. Anyway, stan that I am - made sure I heard the album the absolute second that it had leaked - which was just as I was about to leave home for uni one day. I synced the album to my iPod, left the house, got on the bus and pressed play. And then this happened. Had I tuned into a long lost epic film score? No, apparently this string laden piece of magic was the opening to the first song on the Delta album, what on earth? 'Have you ever stared into the rain'? Delta's vocals appeared after almost a minute and as the song progressed the drums arrived and turned it into a bit of a melancholy disco moment in the heavenly chorus, still with strings swirling around in the background. Middle 8 time and it was very OTT - chants of 'I believe the impossible is possible to overcome' and then the chorus came back in for a final hurrah before a stunning fade out of ad-libs and fading strings. If I could go back and hear any song for the first time again, it would be this. Blown away wasn't quite the right phrase. The problem of course was that the rest of the album sounded crap in comparison :lol:

November 2007!

BA was 2007? :o SRSLY? I thought '08! Amazing amazing amazing song though :wub: Anyway, we all know what number 1 is now :kink:

Good Delta, your taste is so good :wub: I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!