TWO HOURS TIL CLOSING. ANY MORE?

Best to worst:

 

01| Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down (<3)

02| Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Oooh (GA's best - stomping)

03| Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

04| The Killers - When You Were Young

05| Madonna - Sorry

06| Justin Timberlake - My Love

07| Take That - Patience

08| Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie

09| Muse - Supermassive Black Hole

10| Muse - Starlight

 

11| Nelly Furtado - Maneater

12| Amy Winehouse - Rehab

13| Beyonce - Irreplaceable

14| Nelly Furtado - All Good Things (Come to an End)

15| Justin Timberlake - SexyBack

16| Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

17| Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous (Loose really did have some top tracks, didn't it?)

18| Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats (not as good as the original but still decent)

19| Editors - Munich

20| P!nk - Who Knew

How the qualifiers finished in the Missing Songs round:

 

18 Booty Luv 'Boogie 2Nite' 121

17 Source ft. Candi Staton 'You Got The Love '06' 126

16 Madonna 'Get Together' 127

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15 Editors 'Munich' 128

14 Justin Timberlake 'My Love' 131

13 Pussycat Dolls 'Beep' 133

12 Girls Aloud 'Whole Lotta History' 136

11 David Guetta vs. The Egg 'Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)' 157

10 Jose Gonzalez 'Heartbeats' 161

9 Fedde Le Grande 'Put Your Hands Up For Detroit' 165

8 Cassie 'Me And You' 167

7 My Chemical Romance 'Welcome To The Black Parade' 171

6 Kooks 'Naïve' 176

5 Muse 'Starlight' 179

4 Bodyrox ft. Luciana 'Yeah Yeah' 181

3 Automatic 'Monster' 190

2 Rihanna 'Unfaithful' 218

1 Lily Allen 'LDN' 228

 

50 - 34 Kelly Clarkson 'Walk Away' 67

49 - 27 Infernal 'From Paris to Berlin' 84

48 - NE Pussycat Dolls 'Beep' 87

47 - 47 My Chemical Romance 'Welcome To The Black Parade' 89

46 - NE Jose Gonzalez 'Heartbeats' 90

45 - 20 All Saints 'Rock Steady' 95

44 - NE Justin Timberlake 'My Love' 99

43 - 36 David Guetta vs. The Egg 'Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)' 99

42 - NE Editors 'Munich' 101

41 - NE Fedde Le Grande 'Put Your Hands Up For Detroit' 102

40 - 23 Corinne Bailey Rae 'Put Your Records On' 105

39 - 44 Automatic 'Monster' 105

38 - NE Girls Aloud 'Whole Lotta History' 112

37 - 17 Jamelia 'Something About You' 116

36 - 32 Nerina Pallot 'Everybody's Gone To War' 119

 

Well a slightly dull first 15 as 9 of the 15 qualified songs all fail to make it any further, Kelly Clarkson finishes last in a competition on BuzzJack!! All Saints and Jamelia take large tumbles - I'm surprised people remember either song to be honest....

 

35 - NE Lily Allen 'LDN' 123

34 - NE Muse 'Starlight' 128

33 - 11 Snow Patrol 'Chasing Cars' 129 (if only Bre had voted, this might not have qualified!)

32 - 12 Lily Allen 'Smile' 131

31 - 49 Kooks 'Naïve' 131

30 - 26 Sugababes 'Red Dress' 135

29 - 16 Justin Timberlake 'SexyBack' 136

28 - NE Bodyrox ft. Luciana 'Yeah Yeah' 142

27 - 19 Pussycat Dolls 'Buttons' 147

26 - 25 Mary J Blige & U2 'One' 147

25 - 21 Jamelia 'Beware of the Dog' 158

24 - 28 Chicane ft. Tom Jones 'Stoned In Love' 163

23 - 33 Nelly Furtado 'Promiscuous' 167

22 - NE Cassie 'Me And You' 180

21 - 18 Nelly Furtado 'All Good Things (Come To An End)' 186

20 - 24 Madonna 'Sorry' 191

19 - 30 Killers 'When You Were Young' 191

18 - 04 Take That 'Patience' 194

17 - 06 Rihanna 'SOS' 195

16 - 13 Cascada 'Everytime We Touch' 195

15 - 35 Arctic Monkeys 'When The Sun Goes Down' 206

14 - 14 Snow Patrol ft. Martha Wainwright 'Set the Fire to the Third Bar' 210

13 - 09 Gnarls Barkley 'Crazy' 212

12 - 31 Sigur Ros 'Hoppipolla' 213

11 - 05 Amy Winehouse 'Rehab' 216

 

The top 10 will contain four different songs this year then as a varied bunch fall out from Take That, Rihanna, Gnarls Barkley and Amy Winehouse. Snow Patrol fall a lot with Chasing Cars but hold strong with Set The Fire... Sigur Ros come close but not close enough and the (baffling to these ears) success of Cascada continues.

 

10 - 28 Muse 'Supermassive Black Hole' 224

09 - 15 Pink 'U & Ur Hand' 225

08 - 08 Christina Aguilera 'Hurt' 225

07 - 10 Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean 'Hips Don't Lie' 230

06 - 29 Rogue Traders 'Voodoo Child' 248

05 - NE Rihanna 'Unfaithful' 251

04 - 07 Pink 'Who Knew' 274

 

Muse and Rogue Traders make large and quite surprising leaps, Pink makes a couple of decent climbs and Rihanna's 'Unfaithful' becomes the highest placed qualified song yet, a feat I doubt will be beaten, what's most surprising to me is that it wasn't here in the first place! Which just leaves the top 3 the same as last year but in a slightly different order.

 

03 - 02 Beyonce 'Irreplacable' 299

02 - 03 Girls Aloud 'Something Kinda Oooh' 302

01 - 01 Nelly Furtado 'Maneater' 320

 

The join the following in the final:

 

Amy Winehouse 'Back to Black'

Coldplay 'Viva La Vida'

Girls Aloud 'Biology'

Kelly Clarkson 'Since U Been Gone'

Lady GaGa & Beyonce 'Telephone'

Lady GaGa 'Bad Romance'

Lady GaGa 'Just Dance'

Lady GaGa 'Poker Face'

Lily Allen 'The Fear'

Madonna 'Hung Up'

Rihanna ft. Jay-Z 'Umbrella'

Rihanna 'Disturbia'

Rihanna 'Only Girl (In The World)'

Robyn 'Dancing On My Own'

Robyn 'With Every Heartbeat'

 

Brilliant top 3, GUTTED Unfaithful missed out though :(

A second finalist for Girls Aloud! I doubt they'll get one from 2003 or 2004 (unless 'Love Machine' sneaks in), but hopefully 'Sound of the Underground' scores them a hattrick in the final. I'm also glad Rihanna and Shakira have got into the playoffs; Shakira's another one whom I hope achieves another final/playoff entry.

I wouldn't have knocked out CC unless I was feeling really kind towards The Automatic when I was voting. It would have been #35 but it would still qualify. At least it's had a big year-on-year tumble :D

 

EDIT: Actually, even if I gave The Automatic a 20 Snow Patrol would still have qualified wouldn't they. I wouldn't have given any points to 36-38.

 

Coldplay are the sole flag-fliers for the male population in the final so far! (Other than Jay-Z's tiny contribution to Umbrella which is cut out in some radio edits anyway)

Edited August 14, 201113 yr by Bré

Although if I had voted Sigur Rós would have been top 10 because they would have been my 20! :( :( :(

 

I was actually going to vote at the last minute again but I've been really busy the past few days so I forgot about it. Really annoyed about that now.

Edited August 14, 201113 yr by Bré

I wouldn't have knocked out CC unless I was feeling really kind towards The Automatic when I was voting. It would have been #35 but it would still qualify. At least it's had a big year-on-year tumble :D

 

EDIT: Actually, even if I gave The Automatic a 20 Snow Patrol would still have qualified wouldn't they. I wouldn't have given any points to 36-38.

 

Coldplay are the sole flag-fliers for the male population in the final so far! (Other than Jay-Z's tiny contribution to Umbrella which is cut out in some radio edits anyway)

 

I didn't think you would've voted to make it go out, it was just a small possibility. Taking the competition as a whole its chart run before this year was 9-6-29-102. Down in the 300s this year.

 

 

Although if I had voted Sigur Rós would have been top 10 because they would have been my 20! :( :( :(

 

I was actually going to vote at the last minute again but I've been really busy the past few days so I forgot about it. Really annoyed about that now.

 

:(

I'm a bit BLAH about the qualifying top 3 here to be honest. Barnstormingly amazing pop songs like Red Dress, Beware Of The Dog, Stoned In Love etc missing out in favour of the great at the time but fairly overrated Irreplacable or Something Kinda Oooh (which does nothing for me nowadays) seems a bit unjust.

 

CHRIST KNOWS how Unfaithful got that high up either! Awful song, AWFUL vocal!

 

Something Kinda Ooh is a terrible finalist. Generic pop at it's most disposable.

didn't vote in this, but :( at MCR, Heartbeats and Munich all bombing out, that said, it is excellent to see Sigur Ros and Muse doing so well, annoyingly the former would've probably been top 10 had I voted :cry:

YOU'RE NOT HELPING :(

 

 

I hand responsibility of Hoppípolla's failure to Chart Wizard. Bré's good name cleared ONCE AGAIN.

While we're handing out blame, I blame DaneilMFAO's failure at Rihanna looning for Unfaithful missing the top 3! :P He should've put it first like I did -_-