Both 4Ever and U+UH are written by M. Martin and Dr. Luke and the similarities are there. I think they just polished the 4Ever a bit for more Pink-ish.

I WANT TO SEE AT LEAST 15 TAKE THAT SONGS RICH

There aren't even 15 Delta songs! Take That DO appear more than once though :D

 

On a separate note, I will edit my opening post, of course the earliest song isn't from 1996 when one song likely to be very high up is from 1995, or even 1992 if you look at its very first release!

85. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

 

 

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

 

Breaking away from Spiller and theaudience with Take Me Home which was a very nice cover of an old Cher track, Sophie teamed up with Gregg Alexander of The New Radicals for the excellent nu disco track Murder On The Dancefloor. It did very well indeed, going to #2 in the UK over xmas 2001 for what seems like an eternity, stuck behind a load of old rot no doubt. For me though, she hasn't bettered this solo, despite her decade of attempts.

Murder On The Dance Floor :wub:!

 

POOR BRAVE SOPH

84. Lily Allen - Smile

 

 

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

 

To me, Lily was a breath of fresh air in 2006. It was already shaping up to be a great year musically but she, Nelly Furtado and The Pipettes delievered my three essential summer albums - all take me right back to that glorious summer, easily the best three months of my life for various reasons which I shant delve into now. Smile was a glorious sunny pop track with ska influences and biting lyrics, I still hear it a lot on Heart surprisingly enough - although the naughty words are obviously bleeped out!

It was only #2 for two weeks (although it spent a week at #3 and two weeks at #4 between those 2 weeks).

 

It was denied by Daniel Bedingfield on both occasions. A song with two runs at #1 which on both occasions denied a song with two runs at #2 from getting to the top - that can't happen too often surely :lol:

Edited June 11, 201114 yr by Bray

83. DHT - Listen To Your Heart

 

 

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

 

Ah, now I know who I missed off when I was reeling off my list of great Belgian pop/trance acts - to be fair though, DHT (dance house trance) came along a good few years after all of those others. The duo unleashed their techno cover of Roxette's Listen To Your Heart on an unsuspecting US public in mid 2005 and somehow took it to the top ten there! Naturally, what goes to the US comes here, especially if it's European to start with! It went top ten in the UK and I was utterly obsessed with it for a good few months. It helped that there were two equally good versions - the dance version, and the ballad mix that I have posted above. After DJ Sammy's Heaven it seemed that every dance song also had a 'Candlelight mix' by default, and Edmee's raw vocals were every bit as good as Marie's on the Roxette original. Plus - to quote vidcapper - she was a hottie.

It was only #2 for two weeks (although it spent a week at #3 and two weeks at #4 between those 2 weeks).

 

It was denied by Daniel Bedingfield on both occasions. A song with two runs at #1 which on both occasions denied a song with two runs at #2 from getting to the top - that can't happen too often surely :lol:

 

Ah fair enough, in my mind it was stuck behind Robbie's crap cover of Somethin' Stupid and old man jazz from Gordon Haskell, but I guess they were there while she was at #4 :lol:

82. Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child

 

 

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

 

Australian soap Neighbours has a habit of churning out excellent popstars, and they did it again in 2006 when Silas' idol Natalie Bassingthwaite departed her role as Izzy Hoyland (imo one of the show's best characters) to join dance act Rogue Traders. Voodoo Child was another anthem from that glorious 2006 summer, and proved to me once again why Australia have always been one of my favourite musical countries. Thankfully the UK saw how special it was and it matched its #3 peak in my chart. Sadly they were to be a one hit wonder of sorts, but what a hit it was!

81. De Nada - Love You Anyway

 

 

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

 

Rewind 10 years and summer 2001 and this was one of my anthems of that particular time. I confess that I don't know much about De Nada, they were a UK production outfit and the rapper on the track singing the annoyingly catchy 'skibidibidib dibi dab dibi do' refrain was called MC Alistair. This garage pop song definitely takes me way back though and I still have very fond memories of it. I don't expect many other people to remember it, it only got to #15 in the UK and fell away quickly.

80. Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo & Kanye West - Knock You Down

 

 

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

 

Jonjo (who else?) introduced me to this wonderful song when he sent it to BJSCXV in early 2009 - it got my 8 points, only because the powerhouse duo of Royksopp/Robyn and Jody were in the same contest, neither of which are in this top 100 incidentally. Needless to say, this song continued to worm its way into my consciousness as the dynamite trio of Ms Keri, soulful Ne-Yo and my favourite EVER Kanye West rap all combined to make this something very special indeed. Who did Keri choose? Is she even interested in men? I know this song has its fair share of haters on BJ, and others who think it's 'nothingy', but it clicked with me in the biggest way possible.

79. Mariah Carey - We Belong Together

 

 

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

 

After years of breakdowns and flops, Mariah returned emancipated in 2005 with the urban jam It's Like That. That was good enough for me to invest in Mimi's comeback album and it was packed full of hits, the most obvious of all being this R&B ballad. Denied what would have been her first non-cover #1 in the UK to 2Pac by a stupidly small amount of copies, it did spend about a year at #1 in the US to make up for it. This was a stunning return to form.

78. Salem Al Fakir - Keep On Walking

 

 

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

 

The man also known as Damien Adore first piqued my interest in 2009 with the beautifully quirky and charming Astronaut. When I found that he was to be participating in Melodifestivalen 2010, I was very excited and he didn't disappointed serving up the best song of his career for the competition. Disappointingly, it followed the example of Caroline Af Ugglas' Snalla Snalla the year before and the most interesting and unique song in the competition finished in 2nd place. Goat girl Anna Bergendahl's notorious DNQ This Is My Life beat it, but it did at least beat Eric Saade's Manboy into 3rd. It became one of the top 3 most played songs of the year on Swedish radio and I really believe that this was a huge missed opportunity for Sweden. Looking at how the juries lapped up Italy this year, I'm of the opinion that this would have sailed into the top ten in the final. If you don't already know it, give it a listen! One of the best Eurovision entries that could have been...

80. Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo & Kanye West - Knock You Down

 

 

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

 

Jonjo (who else?) introduced me to this wonderful song when he sent it to BJSCXV in early 2009 - it got my 8 points, only because the powerhouse duo of Royksopp/Robyn and Jody were in the same contest, neither of which are in this top 100 incidentally. Needless to say, this song continued to worm its way into my consciousness as the dynamite trio of Ms Keri, soulful Ne-Yo and my favourite EVER Kanye West rap all combined to make this something very special indeed. Who did Keri choose? Is she even interested in men? I know this song has its fair share of haters on BJ, and others who think it's 'nothingy', but it clicked with me in the biggest way possible.

 

I agree with this. If only the rest of the song was as good as Kanye's rap though... :(

77. Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry

 

 

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

 

I have to be honest - I thought that London Bridge was an absolute abomination, and Glamorous wasn't that much better either. So when I first heard Big Girls Don't Cry, Fergie Ferg's big summer 07 ballad single, I was a little surprised to say that least. Pleasantly surprised - it instantly struck a chord with me, the middle 8 being by far my favourite part - now lets all play jacks and uno cards! I wouldn't mind Fergie breaking away from the Peas again if she was to record more songs of this ilk, but other than that her stuff was all very 3rd rate Gwen Stefani imo, especially Glamorous which literally was Gwen's Luxurious tarted up :lol:

76. Daniel Powter - Bad Day

 

 

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

 

Another unpopular choice I'm sure, especially looking at some of the comments in the 2005 #2's rate thread in Chart Chat. Canadian Daniel Powter's Bad Day was around at the same time as James Blunt's You're Beautiful and the two male balladeers seemed unseparable at the time chartwise, both top 3 for weeks on end. I will shamefully admit that I loved You're Beautiful too - and it also topped my personal chart, albeit before it became overplayed and unbearable - the week it debuted at #12 in the UK charts :lol: But Bad Day was the more enduring of the two for me, a very anthemic song even if it was custom made for US dramas and coffee outlet soundtracks across the world. I believe he was voted the biggest one hit wonder of the 00s in the US - again, what a hit it was!

And that's all for a bit as I have to go to work, but it shall resume later tonight/in the week and here are the first 25 in recapped form;

 

76. Daniel Powter - Bad Day

77. Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry

78. Salem Al Fakir - Keep On Walking

79. Mariah Carey - We Belong Together

80. Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo & Kanye West - Knock You Down

81. De Nada - Love You Anyway

82. Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child

83. DHT feat Edmee - Listen To Your Heart

84. Lily Allen - Smile

85. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

86. Alice Deejay - Will I Ever

87. Rihanna - Disturbia

88. Tanel Padar & Dave Benton - Everybody

89. Daz Sampson - Teenage Life

90. Nadine Beiler - The Secret Is Love

91. Ian van Dahl - Will I?

92. The Veronicas - 4Ever

93. Thunderbugs - Friends Forever

94. Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor

95. Jade Ewen - It's My Time

96. Delta Goodrem - Electric Storm

97. Jewel - Down So Long

98. Alphabeat - Fascination

99. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

100. Love inc - You're A Superstar

97. Jewel - Down So Long

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 1-2-4

 

Probably won't be fourth in a row for Shelli loving - this track was the first song to ever top my personal chart when I started it way back in summer 1999. A fairly respectable debut #1 if I do say so myself, it still holds a huge place in my heart. I heard it all over the radio (whatever the Heart equivalent was in my hometown at the time) but it limped in at a dismal #38 here for the Canadian star who was huge in the US but never really crossed over here. No doubt David will be pleased to see that I haven't forgotten about her - he's her only other fan that I know of on BuzzJack! Anyway, if you don't know it and have a hankering for some MOR female pop-rock, you may enjoy it. Kudos to anybody who genuinely remembers it too!

 

AMAZING. Being a female MOR singer, I of course adore Jewel; I would go with Down So Long being my favourite by her, although the radio edit (which I CANNOT find to purchase dammit) of What's Simple Is True is also BEAUTIFUL.

'Big Girls Don't Cry' is GLORIOUS. Definitely Fergie's best single, although I did like the other two that you mentioned - she's definitely the most interesting solo Pea!