January 7, 201213 yr 2004 1. Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas 2. Eamon - F**k It (I Don't Want You Back) 3. DJ Casper - Cha Cha Slide 4. Eric Prydz - Call On Me 5. Usher - Yeah 6. Michelle McManus - All This Time 7. Anastacia - Left Outside Alone 8. Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl 9. Britney Spears - Toxic 10. Frankee - f*** You Right Back 11. Mario Winans, P Diddy & Enya - I Don't Wanna Know 12. 3 of a Kind - Baby Cakes 13. Kelis - Milkshake 14. LMC vs. U2 - Take Me to the Clouds Above 15. Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath 16. D12 - My Band 17. Natasha Bedingfield - These Words 18. Eminem - Just Lose It 19. Britney Spears - Everytime 20. Busted - Thunderbirds/3am 5/20 There's a sales gulf yes but personally I think that there's one HELL of a quality gulf too, of course it's all down to personal taste but what a diabolical EOY top 20! I know singles sales and quality have little correlation but I don't think it's fair to say that there's NO correlation, perhaps if the big hits had been a bit more decent, given people a reason to buy them, they'd have been a little bit better, obviously big sellers were still possible if the public bought into them at the time like with Eamon but I just don't ever hear any of these songs around now apart from those that I've bolded, and the Anastacia one is at a push... lol. That 2004 list is way better than the 2011 list. Almost everybody agrees that 2011 has been a very, very poor year for music, it's not just me. And people are not going to remember Mr. Saxobeat, or Beautiful People, or Sweat, or On the Floor in 8 years time, trust me. A lot of people have probably already forgotten about those songs.
January 7, 201213 yr lol. That 2004 list is way better than the 2011 list. Almost everybody agrees that 2011 has been a very, very poor year for music, it's not just me. And people are not going to remember Mr. Saxobeat, or Beautiful People, or Sweat, or On the Floor in 8 years time, trust me. A lot of people have probably already forgotten about those songs. How on earth can you say that? With all due respect I think you're wrong. "Mr Saxobeat" is just a "Freed From Desire" for 2011, or a "From Paris To Berlin" songs which are remembered to this day. I recall thinking back in 97 that songs from that time wouldn't be remembered yet during my threads there are lots of people who still love those songs (and some who weren't very old at the time). Of course the proof is in the pudding (to coin a phrase) but 8 years on from 2004 i'd say some of those hits are still played a lot- esp that Natasha Bedingfield one sadly! Trust me more will be remembered than you give credit for :D
January 7, 201213 yr 2011 pissed all over 2009 and 2010 IMO. It had a dodgy start but was quite good overall.
January 7, 201213 yr How on earth can you say that? With all due respect I think you're wrong. "Mr Saxobeat" is just a "Freed From Desire" for 2011, or a "From Paris To Berlin" songs which are remembered to this day. I recall thinking back in 97 that songs from that time wouldn't be remembered yet during my threads there are lots of people who still love those songs (and some who weren't very old at the time). Of course the proof is in the pudding (to coin a phrase) but 8 years on from 2004 i'd say some of those hits are still played a lot- esp that Natasha Bedingfield one sadly! Trust me more will be remembered than you give credit for :D I don't think that though. The songs from 1997 and 2004 are remembered simply because they're better. If we look at 2010's chart. When was the last time any of us heard Airplanes or OMG? And that was only a year ago. Same with 2009, where are Boom Boom Pow and In For the Kill now?
January 7, 201213 yr I don't think that though. The songs from 1997 and 2004 are remembered simply because they're better. If we look at 2010's chart. When was the last time any of us heard Airplanes or OMG? And that was only a year ago. Same with 2009, where are Boom Boom Pow and In For the Kill now? There is a tendancy, (I think because we're told all the time by the media/ old folk :D ) that music today isn't as good as it was back then, to downplay modern music as worthless, and to a degree when we're younger we go along with that. Certain periods such as Brit pop are exempted from this as they closely aped the 60s which is still seen as the golden era for pop music for some reason, but even back in the late 90s there was a popular opinion that the music being made wasn't up to much cop yet some of them now are reverred as classics. Time proves that you just can't tell these things yet.
January 7, 201213 yr I don't think that though. The songs from 1997 and 2004 are remembered simply because they're better. If we look at 2010's chart. When was the last time any of us heard Airplanes or OMG? And that was only a year ago. Same with 2009, where are Boom Boom Pow and In For the Kill now? I heard Airplanes the other day on Kiss. :kink:
January 7, 201213 yr Author lol. That 2004 list is way better than the 2011 list. Almost everybody agrees that 2011 has been a very, very poor year for music, it's not just me. Better than 2010, at least! Ellie G's version of 'Your Song' was the only song of 2010 I really really liked, whereas there were 4-5 of that standard in 2011... Birdy-Skinny Love Christina Perri-Jar Of Hearts Noah & TW - l.i.f.e.g.o.e.s.o.n Clare Maguire-Last Dance Pixie Lott-All About Tonight
January 7, 201213 yr Better than 2010, at least! Ellie G's version of 'Your Song' was the only song of 2010 I really really liked, whereas there were 4-5 of that standard in 2011... Birdy-Skinny Love Christina Perri-Jar Of Hearts Noah & TW - l.i.f.e.g.o.e.s.o.n Clare Maguire-Last Dance Pixie Lott-All About Tonight I kinda feel bad for you. :lol: Even I had probably about 30 songs that I liked in 2011. But compared to probably HUNDREDS which I liked in, say, 2007, it's been a massive step down. I heard Airplanes the other day on Kiss. :kink: I heard OMG in a sandwich shop actually, come to think of it. :lol: Those songs won't be "remembered" though. As some people are demonstrating in this thread, songs that get "remembered" are songs which are still on the radio a lot in years to come (e.g. Heart FM, etc.). So that automatically excludes all songs with rapping and autotune any chance of being remembered. The adult radio stations will never play those songs, whilst they'll happily have Someone Like You and Moves Like Jagger on rotate for decades. Except we won't really need to remember those songs, since they'll never go away (kind of like I Gotta Feeling, the amount it's on the radio, it could've been a 2011 hit). Edited January 7, 201213 yr by Eric_Blob
January 7, 201213 yr I don't think that though. The songs from 1997 and 2004 are remembered simply because they're better. If we look at 2010's chart. When was the last time any of us heard Airplanes or OMG? And that was only a year ago. Same with 2009, where are Boom Boom Pow and In For the Kill now? Not every song is going to be remembered as a classic... Just because music isn't timeless doesn't mean it isn't great. A lot of the best music is in the moment~~
January 7, 201213 yr Not every song is going to be remembered as a classic... Just because music isn't timeless doesn't mean it isn't great. A lot of the best music is in the moment~~ I kind of see what you mean. I can see 2011 songs like Niggas in Paris, Pumped up Kicks, and many others becoming classics in some way. And most people in the UK probably don't even know those songs. But I think out of the songs that did really well in the charts, there's not much imo, not compared to the 90's and before.
January 7, 201213 yr Ellie G's version of 'Your Song' was the only song of 2010 I really really liked No Kylie?
January 7, 201213 yr lol. That 2004 list is way better than the 2011 list. Almost everybody agrees that 2011 has been a very, very poor year for music, it's not just me. And people are not going to remember Mr. Saxobeat, or Beautiful People, or Sweat, or On the Floor in 8 years time, trust me. A lot of people have probably already forgotten about those songs. For those four songs there are at least twice as many from the 2004 list that people forgot about a week after they'd left the charts, dire year for chart music, probably my least favourite ever and it deserved such dire sales.
January 7, 201213 yr For those four songs there are at least twice as many from the 2004 list that people forgot about a week after they'd left the charts, dire year for chart music, probably my least favourite ever and it deserved such dire sales. 2004 was the year I started taking notice of the charts I think, it says a lot that I'm more interested in charts now than back then. The only good songs from 04' were the dance releases for me (Call On Me, Cha Cha Slide, Shine (The Lovefreekz), Galvanise, etc) Edited January 7, 201213 yr by *xmasG*
January 7, 201213 yr 2004 was the year I started taking notice of the charts I think, it says a lot that I'm more interested in charts now than back then. The only good songs from 04' were the dance releases for me (Call On Me, Cha Cha Slide, Shine (The Lovefreekz), Galvanise, etc) Well, if you like dance music, of course you'll be more interested in the charts now. :lol:
January 7, 201213 yr 2004 was pretty poor on the singles front. It was all about the albums. For me the best memories of that year come from Scisdor Sisters, Keane, Maroon 5, Anastacia, Snow Patrol, Greenday, Franz Ferdinand and others who landed albums in the top 20 of the year. Very few of those replicated this feat in the year end singles chart which was full of forgettable tracks.
January 7, 201213 yr By the end of 2004 I'd almost completely given up on the charts, other than the occasional dance release (which back then was a genre almost dead, and relied on looping two-second samples of 80s songs to get a hit). Instead I was listening to underground trance/hard house and loads of early 90s rave which I was discovering for the first time. There were a few songs I kinda liked at the time, but nothing that stuck in the mind after the year was through. 1997 and 2011 are both incredible. I'm a huge 90s fan anyway (1999 is my fave year for music ever) and although 2011 started off a bit wobbly, didn't like most of January's releases like Grenade or DILAD, I loved the middle of the year and almost every song on Now 79 - so many memories of On The Floor/Party Rock Anthem/Sweat/Give Me Everything/Edge of Glory/Mr Saxobeat/countless more! Comparing 2009-2011 to 2004-2006, the former wins out any day. The mid-2000s have a couple of good indie songs, but the last three years have dozens of pop classics I'll remember forever. But that's my personal opinion. Oh, and 'Freed From Desire' was played at the New Year party I was at last week, to my delight :D So it's well remembered!
January 7, 201213 yr 2004 was a fantastic year for music but the top of the charts didn't reflect that in the slightest. Well, the singles at least. "Hopes and Fears" and"American Idiot" are actually the only #1 albums from that year (I'm excluding those which made it later) that I really like although you also had: Aha Shake Heartbreak Collision Course Franz Ferdinand Funeral Hot Fuss Kasabian Silent Alarm Start Something Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) You Are The Quarry All of those had some commercial success, and album sales were very high so 2004 in general is a good argument for the idea that stronger sales periods coincide with stronger music. Although obviously all of those albums had great songs on them which didn't make #1, so maybe not :lol:
January 7, 201213 yr 2004 had some classic records, mainly by acts that sold more albums than singles, but alas that was not reflected in the Year end chart as GD has posted :( (I won't hear anything against the Cha Cha Slide though :P ) tbh I think 2011 has been quite a good year for music, as I'm pretty sure has been mentioned, the whole top 10 were all genuine big hits with no charity association so are likely to be at least a little bit remembered and have cultural impact
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