Hello and welcome to the results of the 2012 Record of the Decade competition, the 7th year of the competition! Myself, Eyes and Bre will bring it to you over the next 7-10 days. Firstly, I'd like to thank the 48 people who voted in the final and the 85 of you who voted at some point for helping make this a success once more!

 

I shall keep a summary of the results which have been announced in this opening post.

 

200 Katy B 'Katy on a Mission'

199 The Prodigy 'Warrior's Dance'

198 Rihanna 'Russian Roulette'

197 The Killers 'When You Were Young'

196 Estelle ft. Kanye West 'American Boy'

195 Christina Aguilera 'Hurt'

194 Kings of Leon 'Sex on Fire'

193 Coldplay 'Fix You'

192 Jamelia 'Superstar'

191 Cee-Lo Green 'Forget You'

 

190 Jordin Sparks 'Battlefield'

189 Coldplay 'The Scientist'

188 Swedish House Mafia ft. Pharell 'One (Your Name)'

187 Holly Valance 'Kiss Kiss'

186 Cheryl Cole 'Fight For This Love'

185 Example 'Change The Way You Kiss Me'

184 Goldfrapp 'A&E'

183 Timbaland and OneRepublic 'Apologize'

182 The Temper Trap 'Sweet Disposition'

181 Natalie Imbruglia 'Shiver'

 

180 Jordin Sparks ft. Chris Brown 'No Air'

179 Hot Chip 'Ready For The Floor'

178 Aaliyah 'More Than A Woman'

177 Girls Aloud 'Sexy! No No No'

176 Shakira 'She Wolf'

175 Rihanna 'Don't Stop The Music'

174 No Doubt 'Hey Baby'

173 Britney Spears 'Piece of Me'

172 Kanye West 'All of the Lights'

171 Rihanna 'Unfaithful'

 

170 Britney Spears 'Overprotected'

169 Stacie Orrico '(There's Gotta Be) More To Life'

168 Emma Bunton 'Maybe'

167 Dido 'White Flag'

166 Delta Goodrem 'Lost Without You'

165 Katy Perry ft. Kanye West 'E.T.'

164 Owl City 'Fireflies'

163 The Saturdays 'All Fired Up'

162 Jay-Z ft. Kanye West & Rihanna 'Run This Town'

161 Katy Perry 'Teenage Dream'

 

160 Calvin Harris 'Feel So Close'

159 Vampire Weekend 'A-Punk'

158 Anastacia 'Left Outside Alone'

157 Britney Spears 'Till The World Ends'

156 Florence and the Machine 'Cosmic Love'

155 Justin Timberlake 'SexyBack'

154 Amy Winehouse 'Rehab'

153 Coldplay 'Clocks'

152 The Saturdays ft. Flo-Rida 'Higher'

151 Michael Andrews ft. Gary Jules 'Mad World'

 

150 Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Zero'

149 Kelly Clarkson 'Behind These Hazel Eyes'

148 Bloc Party 'Flux'

147 Girls Aloud 'Untouchable'

146 Kelis 'Trick Me'

145 Kelly Rowland 'Stole'

144 Shakira 'Underneath Your Clothes'

143 Kylie Minogue 'Love At First Sight'

142 Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith 'Not In Love'

141 Santigold 'L.E.S. Artistes'

 

140 Elbow 'One Day Like This'

139 The Knife 'Heartbeats'

138 Kate Nash 'Foundations'

137 Nelly & Kelly Rowland 'Dillemma'

136 Royksopp 'What Else Is There?'

135 Justin Timberlake 'Cry Me A River'

134 Christina Aguilera 'Beautiful'

133 MGMT 'Time To Pretend'

132 Emeli Sande 'Heaven'

131 Adele 'Set Fire To The Rain'

 

130 Destiny's Child 'Lose My Breath'

129 Chemical Brothers 'Galvanize'

128 Alphabeat 'Fascination'

127 Keane 'Somewhere Only We Know'

126 Sophie Ellis-Bextor 'Murder On The Dancefloor'

125 La Roux 'Bulletproof'

124 Beyonce 'Halo'

123 Misteeq 'Scandalous'

122 Empire of the Sun 'We Are The People'

121 The Bravery 'An Honest Mistake'

 

120 Gwen Stefani 'Hollaback Girl'

119 Eminem 'Lose Yourself'

118 Girls Aloud 'No Good Advice'

117 The Killers 'All These Things That I've Done'

116 Sugababes 'Stronger'

115 Kanye West ft. Pusha T 'Runaway'

114 Eminem & Rihanna 'Love The Way You Lie'

113 The Killers 'Human'

112 Britney Spears 'Womanizer'

111 Kelis ft. Andre 3000 'Millionaire'

 

110 Nicki Minaj 'Super Bass'

109 Kelis 'Milkshake'

108 Adele 'Hometown Glory'

107 Marina & The Diamonds 'Radioactive'

106 The Saturdays 'Up'

105 Gwen Stefani 'Cool'

104 Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah 'Earthquake'

103 Sugababes 'Push The Button'

102 Stereophonics 'Dakota'

101 Katy Perry 'Firework'

 

100 Avril Lavigne 'Complicated'

99 Christina Aguilera ft. Redman 'Dirrty'

98 Vanessa Carlton 'A Thousand Miles'

97 DJ Sammy 'Heaven'

96 Sugababes 'Round Round'

95 Avril Lavigne 'I'm With You'

94 La Roux 'In For The Kill'

93 Kylie Minogue 'In Your Eyes'

92 Britney Spears 'Gimme More'

91 Pink 'U + Ur Hand'

 

90 Kings of Leon 'Use Somebody'

89 Muse 'Supermassive Black Hole'

88 Lady Gaga 'Just Dance'

87 Kelly Clarkson 'My Life Would Suck Without You'

86 Girls Aloud 'The Show'

85 Pink 'Who Knew'

84 Little Boots 'Remedy'

83 Tinie Tempah 'Pass Out'

82 Amerie '1 Thing'

81 Marina & The Diamonds 'Hollywood'

 

80 Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull 'On The Floor'

79 Beyonce 'Irreplaceable'

78 Nelly Furtado 'Try'

77 Lady Gaga 'The Edge of Glory'

76 Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx 'Gold Digger'

75 White Stripes '7 Nation Army'

74 Groove Armada ft. Mutya Buena 'Song For Mutya'

73 Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean 'Hips Don't Lie'

72 Lady Gaga 'Paparazzi'

71 Peter, Bjorn & John 'Young Folks'

 

70 Christina Aguilera 'Fighter'

69 Girls Aloud 'Love Machine'

68 Franz Ferdinand 'Take Me Out'

67 Robyn 'Be Mine'

66 Coldplay 'Paradise'

65 Rihanna ft. Drake 'What's My Name?'

64 Sugababes 'Hole In The Head'

63 Rihanna 'Disturbia'

62 Rihanna 'Only Girl (In The World)'

61 Leona Lewis 'Bleeding Love'

 

60 Kelis 'Acapella'

59 Black Eyed Peas 'Where Is The Love?'

58 Girls Aloud 'The Loving Kind'

57 Killers 'Somebody Told Me'

56 Sugababes 'About You Now'

Firstly, I shall start off with some statty bits. The top 200 this year contains 61 new or re-entries. The following 41 songs have all dropped out, including 6 big falls from the play-off and final rounds.

 

236 - 32 Take That 'Rule The World' 3.897

237 - 42 Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson & DOE 'The Way I Are' 3.897

204 - 59 Girls Aloud 'Something Kinda Oooh' 4.256

222 - 69 Rogue Traders 'Voodoo Child' 4.000

209 - 79 Lady Gaga 'Alejandro' 4.171

245 - 98 Pink 'Don't Let Me Get Me' 3.800

216 - 101 Kelly Clarkson 'Because of You' 4.071

232 - 113 Mariah Carey 'We Belong Together' 3.929

229 - 115 No Doubt 'It's My Life' 3.941

256 - 128 Beyonce 'Sweet Dreams' 3.744

371 - 131 Girls Aloud 'The Promise' 2.841

261 - 132 Arctic Monkeys 'When The Sun Goes Down' 3.667

223 - 137 Fergie 'Big Girls Don't Cry' 4.000

297 - 144 Coldplay 'In My Place' 3.400

285 - 145 Arctic Monkeys 'Fluorescent Adolescent' 3.538

273 - 151 Rihanna 'SOS' 3.615

263 - 152 Cascada 'Everytime We Touch' 3.641

218 - 153 Take That 'Patience' 4.026

220 - 156 Sugababes 'Too Lost In You' 4.023

257 - 158 Madonna 'Sorry' 3.718

333 - 160 Green Day 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' 3.114

304 - 161 Dizzee Rascal ft. Armand Van Helden 'Bonkers' 3.326

358 - 163 Beyonce 'Listen' 2.949

325 - 169 Example 'Kickstarts' 3.146

341 - 171 The Killers 'Read My Mind' 3.077

235 - 172 David Guetta ft. Kelly Rowland 'When Love Takes Over' 3.907

213 - 174 Bloc Party 'Banquet' 4.119

210 - 176 Natasha Bedingfield 'These Words' 4.136

308 - 177 The Saturdays 'Ego' 3.293

458 - 179 Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris & Chrome 'Dance Wiv Me' 2.114

353 - 182 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys 'Empire State of Mind' 2.977

303 - 183 Cassie 'Me And You' 3.333

350 - 185 Noisettes 'Never Forget You' 3.000

432 - 187 Dannii Minogue 'You Won't Forget About Me' 2.386

206 - 190 Rachel Stevens 'Sweet Dreams My LA Ex' 4.206

385 - 191 Kelly Rowland ft. David Guetta 'Commander' 2.732

205 - 193 Alicia Keys 'No One' 4.256

201 - 194 Pussycat Dolls ft. Busta Rhymes 'Don't Cha' 4.286

326 - 197 Missy Elliott 'Lose Control' 3.143

300 - 198 Shapeshifters 'Lola's Theme' 3.364

250 - 199 Christina Aguilera 'The Voice Within' 3.765

 

There's also the 20 songs from 2001 which have naturally fallen out.

 

200 Emma Bunton 'What Took You So Long?'

180 Alicia Keys 'Fallin'

170 Nelly Furtado 'I'm Like a Bird'

162 Gorillaz '19/2000'

155 Destiny's Child 'Bootylicious'

148 Daft Punk 'Harder Better Faster Stronger'

146 Outkast 'Ms Jackson'

143 Muse 'Plug in Baby'

140 Missy Elliott 'Get Ur Freak On'

135 Atomic Kitten 'Whole Again'

96 Britney Spears 'I'm a Slave 4 U'

95 Britney Spears 'Stronger'

94 Sugababes 'Run For Cover'

93 Riva ft. Dannii Minogue 'Who Do You Love Now?'

90 Roger Sanchez 'Another Chance'

89 Gorillaz 'Clint Eastwood'

84 S Club 7 'Don't Stop Movin'

60 Wheatus 'Teenage Dirtbag'

56 Destiny's Child 'Survivor'

53 Kylie Minogue 'Can't Get You Out of My Head'

 

The biggest fallers and climbers (outside the top 200)

 

Up 241 places 202 - 443 Jose Gonzalez 'Heartbeats'

Up 217 places 228 - 445 My Chemical Romance 'Welcome To The Black Parade'

Up 201 places 286 - 487 Paramore 'Misery Business'

Up 185 places 246 - 431 Brandy 'What About Us?'

Up 178 places 240 - 418 Freemasons & Bailey Tzuke 'Uninvited'

Up 171 places 215 - 386 Veronicas 'Untouched'

 

Down 201 places 456 - 255 Doves 'Pounding'

Down 204 places 236 - 32 Take That 'Rule The World'

Down 204 places 461 - 257 The Coral 'Dreaming Of You'

Down 210 places 415 - 205 Avril Lavigne 'When You're Gone'

Down 210 places 473 - 263 Tatu 'Not Gonna Get Us'

Down 214 places 420 - 206 Aqualung 'Strange And Beautiful'

Down 224 places 472 - 248 White Stripes 'Fell In Love With A Girl'

Down 227 places 478 - 251 Blur 'Out of Time'

Down 240 places 371 - 131 Girls Aloud 'The Promise'

Down 242 places 446 - 204 Electric Six 'Danger! High Voltage!'

Down 245 places 432 - 187 Dannii Minogue 'You Won't Forget About Me'

Down 279 places 458 - 179 Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris & Chrome 'Dance Wiv Me'

200 - NE Katy B 'Katy on a Mission' 4.317 (X - 200)

199 - NE (301) The Prodigy 'Warrior's Dance' 4.326 (X - X - 199)

198 - 82 Rihanna 'Russian Roulette' 4.326 (98 - 82 - 198)

197 - 159 The Killers 'When You Were Young' 4.333 (71 - 160 - 180 - X - 159 - 197)

196 - 147 Estelle ft. Kanye West 'American Boy' 4.341 (X - 135 - 147 - 196)

 

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Kicking off with the five that just make it, featuring a new entry from Katy B, an impressive result as she wasn't always the most popular on here, as well as the first entry for The Prodigy since 'Firestarter' made #139 in the first competition. Rihanna's first of 8 solo entries is a huge fall for 'Russian Roulette', and The Killers and Estelle keep up their decent runs within the top 200.

195 - 65 Christina Aguilera - ‘Hurt’ 4.359 (X - 200 - 186 - 66 - 65 - 195)

194 - RE (260) Kings Of Leon - ‘Sex On Fire’ 4.364 (83 - 119 - X - 194)

193 - RE (219) Coldplay - ‘Fix You’ 4.381 (X - 25 - 122 - 61 - X - X - 193)

192 - 157 Jamelia - ‘Superstar’ 4.382 (44 - 94 - 38 - 124 - 100 - 157 - 192)

191 - 92 Cee-Lo Green - ‘Forget You’ 4.390 (92 - 191)

 

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This section opens up with a hefty fall from grace for Xtina’s Hurt, having spent a couple of years up in the mid-60s, it crashes back down its previous haunts at the edge of the top 200. Re-entries from outside the top 200 come from Sex On Fire, a song I will be quite happy to never hear again, and one from Coldplay. Fix You made the top 25 in its second year on this but has fallen out of favour since, only barely making it in this time after two years outside.

 

Just ahead of it is a past Buzzjack fave in Jamelia’s Superstar that has been steadily spiralling downwards since the very beginning, if it manages to make it in on its next year, a feat looking unlikely following this pattern, it’ll exit the game with a 100% record. A 99 place fall for one of last year’s big hits completes the section as Forget You falls to a position that is probably more predictable and deserving in Buzzjack’s pantheon of favoured big hits.

190 [RE {273}] Jordin Sparks - Battlefield 4.395 [191-X-190]

189 [184] Coldplay - The Scientist 4.400 [X-X-X-104-76-184-189]

188 [NE {295}] Swedish House Mafia feat. Pharrell - One (Your Name) 4.415 [X-188]

187 [RE {332}] Holly Valance - Kiss Kiss 4.429 [X-X-X-111-104-X-187]

186 [122] Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love 4.442 [X-122-186]

 

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Two songs return to the top 200 after a year out. The lower of the two, Jordin Sparks' 'Battlefield', reaches a new peak albeit barely, coming back in at #190 after coming 191st two years back. Holly Valance is also back at #187 with 'Kiss Kiss'. There's also a very welcome new entry in the form of Swedish House Mafia's first collaborative single under that name, 'One (Your Name)', originally an instrumental but touched up with the vocal talents of N*E*R*D's Pharrell for the single release. It scraped into the top 300 on its first appearance last year but this year it comes in at #188.

 

The other two songs in this section both put in their worst top 200 performances to date. Coldplay regress a further five places to #189 with 'The Scientist' and BuzzJack already begins to tire of Cheryl Cole's solo debut as 'Fight For This Love' slips a hefty 64 places to #186.

I know Sex On Fire is hardly standard BJ fare, but the idea that it ranks below Jordin Sparks as a classic is utterly ridiculous.

Pleased to see Estelle hang on to a top 200 position. I'm slightly surprised that Cheryl Cole's "Fight For This Love" hasn't really gone down as a classic on here. I know the voting has been a bit indie based the last few years, but I still expected it to be a top 100 staple for some reason.

185 - NE Example 'Change The Way You Kiss Me' 4.452 (185)

184 - 83 Goldfrapp 'A&E' 4.455 (89 - X - 83 - 184)

183 - RE (342) Timbaland and OneRepublic 'Apologize' 4.462 (X - 103 - X - X - 183)

182 - 196 The Temper Trap 'Sweet Disposition' 4.465 (X - 196 - 182)

181 - RE (287) Natalie Imbruglia 'Shiver' 4.476 (200 - 121 - 143 - 81 - 137 - X - 181)

 

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Here we have the first of the 2011 entries with Example's number one single 'Change The Way You Kiss Me'. Goldfrapp continue a developing pattern of a good year followed by a poor one, but at least they don't fall out this time, there's a re-entry and massive climb for Timbaland and OneRepublic, The Temper Trap reach a new peak with slow burning 2009 single 'Sweet Disposition' and Natalie Imbruglia is back with 'Shiver' after falling out last year for the first time.

Nothing too amazing so far imo, glad to see 'Russian Roulette' get some recognition though!

Hurt so low?!? Why the fall, one of my top 5 favourite songs of all time :(

 

Major :wub: for Fight For This Love, Russian Roulette, Shiver, Battlefield and Russian Roulette!

Hurt so low?!? Why the fall, one of my top 5 favourite songs of all time :(

 

Major :wub: for Fight For This Love, Russian Roulette, Shiver, Battlefield and Russian Roulette!

I remember with Hurt it got three massive scores right at the end (one yours) which must have pushed it up about 20 places in the 2006 game!

180 - RE (215) Jordin Sparks ft. Chris Brown - ‘No Air’ 4.477 (163 - 89 - X - 180)

179 - 165 Hot Chip - ‘Ready For The Floor’ 4.477 (X - X - 165 - 179)

178 - 127 Aaliyah - ‘More Than A Woman’ 4.486 (X - X - X - 91 - 122 - 127 - 178)

177 - 104 Girls Aloud - ‘Sexy! No No No’ 4.487 (X - 42 - 99 - 104 - 177)

176 - 121 Shakira - ‘She Wolf’ 4.488 (X - 121 - 176)

 

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Jordin Sparks’ second entry in 10 places, and its her duet with Chris Brown - unsurprisingly, his only appearance in the top 200, returning after falling out last year, and for my (possibly disastrous) taste, it’s the best song in here. Hot Chip’s biggest hit holds fairly steady, Ready For The Floor spending a second year inside the charting region; the main thing I know about it is remembering being quite annoyed by it at the time.

 

Aaliyah gets her best... and (possibly) most known track just ahead of them, it was a #1 in 2002 following her tragic death (:() but is one of those I find it hard to believe was a #1 years later, although us moving on from 2002 means this likely marks Aaliyah’s final appearance in this game barring Drake managing anything with Enough Said. Shakira’s least best lead single from an English album, although by her standards, that’s still a good one, She Wolf falls to the bottom eighth of the results, and the biggest fall in this set of 5 comes from a Girls Aloud song that hasn’t aged well at all for me, and given the run of Sexy! No No No, several of you agree.

175 [61] Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music 4.500 [92-63-61-175]

174 [NE] No Doubt - Hey Baby 4.514 [X-X-X-X-X-X-174]

173 [RE {272}] Britney Spears - Piece Of Me 4.523 [102-85-X-173]

172 [NE] Kanye West - All Of The Lights 4.524 [172]

171 [78] Rihanna - Unfaithful 4.538 [X-102-X-X-78-171]

 

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Two new entries in this section, one finally making it in on its very last chance and one blasting straight in on its first chance (the latter being the second such song to appear in this top 200). No Doubt are best known for a song thankfully too old to put in an appearance in this game but lesser known 2002 hit 'Hey Baby' finally earns a top 200 position, specifically #174, after failing in each of the last six editions of this game. 'All Of The Lights' first appeared in 2010 off that year's Kanye West album 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' but wasn't released as a single until 2011 and thus is only now a new entry at #172. There's also an awful re-entry for cray era Britney, with 'Piece Of Me' returning to #173 after hitting a peak of #85 two years ago.

 

Meanwhile, Rihanna's best song sadly finishes outside the top 100 for the first time yet with 'Don't Stop The Music' crashing down 114 places from its #61 peak of last year to #175. The Barbadian is also in freefall with her most bearable ballad single 'Unfaithful' which plummets 93 places from #78 (also a new peak last year) to #171.

179 - 165 Hot Chip - ‘Ready For The Floor’ 4.477 (X - X - 165 - 179)

 

:(:(:(

AOTL should have been much higher imo.

 

Firstly - who is Jordin Sparks?

 

Secondly - sad to see Hot Chip so low

 

Thirdly - delighted to see Rihanna falling down the charts - her voice is grating and she really needs to hide away for a while.

I'm not that happy about the Rihanna falls. I used to think Don't Stop The Music was one of her worst but it's aged well and I'm now of the opinion that it's a highlight of Good Girl Gone Bad.

 

And then Unfaithful is my favourite song ever (and Russian Roulette up there too) so a little disappointed to see them all falling in the region of 100 places. But then.. I'm a fan.

Considering where 'Unfaithful' had been up until last year it was clearly an anomaly. I still think it's her worst ballad, probably worst song, her voice is SO grating on it compared to something like 'Take A Bow'.

 

Pleased that 'Piece of Me' has climbed back in after last years huge drop. The three singles from that album are my favourites of hers by MILES.

Yeah, I think "Unfaithful" would have had a mini burst of popularity last year after it recharted when she performed it on the X Factor, she has much better ballads.