Posted June 3, 201213 yr Best No 1 singles, 1952-2012 – full list http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jun/0...ngles-full-list The UK singles chart is 60 years old. We asked writers to pick their favourite chart-toppers from each year. Here you can see their choices at a glance.
June 3, 201213 yr To be fair, their logic isn't that bad. But it is awful, last year was probably the worst year ever for chart toppers though. Even ones I liked were either no where near the artist's best work or sounded barely any different from a lot of stuff. Swagger Jagger makes this list because it was the only chart-topper in a dreary year that was actually surprising. Surprisingly terrible, you might argue, and on the first play I completely agreed: Cher Lloyd stomping around puffing herself up with the chorus of Oh My Darling Clementine stitched in by some terrible pop Frankenstein. But that's the charts for you: for every love at first play there's a huge WTF, and in this case shock turned to grudging respect for Lloyd's chutzpah, and then outright enjoyment at quite how many hooks and tricks the producers try to grab you with. In a way it's like pop's turned a 50-year circle: high-trousered impresarios masterminding cheap but sometimes thrilling rip-offs of American stars, only now it's the Black Eyed Peas and Far East Movement they pillage, not Elvis.
June 3, 201213 yr It's a relief to see I'm not the only one who thinks Baby Cakes is a classic. :lol:
June 3, 201213 yr Author Some real shockers here- Best No 1 of 2000 Oxide & Neutrino????? REALLY? I agree there are some real shockers in there, I thought the article would make a great discussion on here, Baby Cakes is another by Three Of A Kind :blink: some British public have no taste :(
June 3, 201213 yr It's a relief to see I'm not the only one who thinks Baby Cakes is a classic. :lol: The fact that it denied "Can't Stand Me Now" #1 is enough for me to hate it. Interesting selection process but there's too much awfulness here for me to take it seriously, and it doesn't follow a common thread. "The Millennium Prayer" for being apparently revolutionary, "I Gotta Feeling" for being a cultural zeitgeist. Where's the consistency?
June 3, 201213 yr This is a very strange list, to say the least. And surely it's slightly premature to be picking the best #1 of 2012? When is the public-voted '60 years, 60 #1s' poll happening?
June 3, 201213 yr Awful list. It starts off fine with respectable (if highly predictable) choices for the first 40 or so years of the chart but descends into a joke by the time the 1990s begin. The charts became a very different beast, more controlled and less representive of trends by that point and such landmark #1s are harder to pinpoint admittedly but some of the choices just smack of being controversial and "different" for the sake of it.
June 3, 201213 yr I like Babycakes :kink: Not the best #1 of the year, that award should go to Eric Prydz's Call On Me :wub: Thinking about it, 2004 had lots of great #1 singles, such as Toxic, Lola's Theme, Dry Your Eyes, Take Me To The Clouds Above, Yeah, and the two mentioned above :wub:
June 3, 201213 yr I like Babycakes :kink: Not the best #1 of the year, that award should go to Eric Prydz's Call On Me :wub: Thinking about it, 2004 had lots of great #1 singles, such as Toxic, Lola's Theme, Dry Your Eyes, Take Me To The Clouds Above, Yeah, and the two mentioned above :wub: 2004's #1s were dreadful in comparison to the overall standard of music (1994 also suffers from this to a lesser extent) although it did have some great ones such as "Yeah!".
June 3, 201213 yr No Britney? :sniff: Really thought ...Baby One More Time or Toxic would've received majority vote.
June 3, 201213 yr You do realize that The Guardian is attempting to troll the internet by coming up with such a bonkers list, right?
June 3, 201213 yr Bear in mind that this wasn't a public vote - as said, they asked 'writers' to pick their favourites. Writers who love novelty songs, clearly, as half of these there's no way would win in a public vote. :P
June 4, 201213 yr THE NATION'S FAVOURITE NUMBER 1 The Public can Vote for the Nation's Favourite No.1 here:, http://www.itv.com/nationsfavouritenumberone/
June 4, 201213 yr I do see how they can give the title to songs such as Bound 4 Da Reload, Millennium Prayer, Swagger Jagger & Babycakes for being notable and attention grabbing songs, but I don't think any are remembered particularly fondly as classic number 1s, and they sell next to nothing nowadays (Cher Lloyd a little bit more given it was only last year), combining Auld Lang Syne & The Lord's Prayer is just bizarre and a rather pompous and self righteous act Edited June 4, 201213 yr by C.W
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