Pleased to see 'Run This Town' do so well, so pleased I nominated it! It's not something I paid much attention to at the time but it's grown on me so much. The Rihanna chorus may well be my favourite moment of hers.

 

I definitely agree with this! I did really like it when it was released but it really didn't properly click with me until a couple of year after. So incredible.

It's your turn Bre!

130 [116] Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath 5.091 [138-113-91-57-148-116-130]

129 [45] The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize 5.095 [X-X-X-X-163-45-129]

128 [RE {351}] Alphabeat - Fascination 5.114 [159-X-128]

127 [186] Keane - Somewhere Only We Know 5.114 [X-171-141-95-103-186-127]

126 [76] Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor 5.114 [90-73-108-84-101-76-126]

 

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Alphabeat make a re-entry with 'Fascination', which reaches a new peak of #128 after coming 159th two years ago. Keane go back up with 'Somewhere Only We Know', up 59 to #127. The song has appeared in the top 200 six times but only hit the top 100 once, making #95 three years ago.

 

The other three songs in the section are all fallers. By far the best song in the section is also the song dropping the most - 'Galvanize' by The Chemical Brothers which drops a massive 84 places to #129. Destiny's Child drop 14 to #130 with 'Lose My Breath' and Sophie Ellis-Bextor continues her yo-yo run dropping 50 to #126 with 'Murder On The Dancefloor'.

125 - NE (330) La Roux 'Bulletproof' 5.116 (X - X - 125)

124 - 51 Beyonce 'Halo' 5.116 (134 - 51 - 124)

123 - 88 Misteeq 'Scandalous' 5.118 (172 - 70 - 61 - 161 - 79 - 88 - 123)

122 - 70 Empire of the Sun 'We Are The People' 5.163 (133 - 70 - 122)

121 - NE (249) The Bravery 'An Honest Mistake' 5.167 (X - X - X - X - X - X - 121)

 

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We kick off with a new entry and 205 place climb for La Roux with number one single 'Bulletproof'. It seems a rather bizarre large climb, there's nothing to really indicate it'd have such a popularity surge in the last year. The other new entry is similar in that was, The Bravery haven't troubled the top 200 in each of the previous 6 years but a larger indie contingent are probably responsible for it finishing towards the top 100. There are also falls for three songs which made the play-off round last year. Beyonce had a huge climb with 'Halo' last year but almost completely reverses that this year, Misteeq continue a 100% top 200 run and Empire of the Sun continue their slightly surprising success with 'We Are The People', comfortably top 150 for the third year running.

120 - 142 Gwen Stefani - ‘Hollaback Girl’ 5.167 (X - 182 - X - X - 94 - 142 - 120)

119 - 28 Eminem - ‘Lose Yourself’ 5.171 (X - 191 - 169 - X - X - 28 - 119)

118 - 85 Girls Aloud - ‘No Good Advice’ (142 - 156 - 70 - 58 - X - 85 - 118)

117 - 97 The Killers - ‘All These Things That I’ve Done (X - X - X- X - X - 97- 117)

116 - 117 Sugababes - ‘Stronger (X - X - 72 - X - 88 - 117 - 116)

 

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A bunch of older songs, all of which have spent at least one year outside, and the top 120 starts with Gwen Stefani’s Hollaback Girl, climbing 22 places. The other climber in this group is Buzzjack fave Sugababes, climbing with Stronger... up 1 place. The other 3 all reached at least the playoffs last time, with varying success.

Having been in the competition for the first time last year, All These Things That I’ve Done falls only twenty places, while another of the many Girls Aloud songs in here falls slightly more; this one having the most respectable run of all of these 5. The final song is on its final year in the game, Eminem ending on a low as he plummets from his top 30 position last year to outside the top 100 with the wonderful Lose Yourself.

 

Bulletproof and Fascination :wub:

 

Not liking that drop for Lose Yourself though :( But i guess Eminem has been out of the public eye for the past year or so.

Edited August 17, 201212 yr by HausofKubrick

'Scandalous' and 'Lose My Breath' are both amazing :wub:.

 

Although neither Mis Teeq or Destiny's Child's best imo.

Good to see Scandalous doing decently. Sometimes feels like it's a bit of a forgotten classic. DEM SIRENS!

 

Of all the minor top 20 hits that Buzzjack could still be looning up over, We Are The People is by far the most deserving one. Beautiful, uplifting dreampop at it's best. I hope very much for a second album.

115 - NE Kanye West ft. Pusha T 'Runaway' 5.244 (X - 115)

114 - 46 Eminem & Rihanna 'Love The Way You Lie' 5.244 (46 - 114)

113 - 109 The Killers 'Human' 5.250 (46 - 73 - 109 - 113)

112 - 129 Britney Spears 'Womanizer' 5.273 (51 - 87 - 129 - 112)

111 - NE Kelis ft. Andre 3000 'Millionaire' 5.318 (X - X - X - X - X - X - 111)

 

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We kick off with two rap songs from 2010 with completely different fortunes. 'Love The Way You Lie' was the biggest seller of the year and last year qualified for the final but a year on and BuzzJack's love for it has fallen somewhat. After failing to qualify from the nominations round a year ago 'Runaway' is probably the biggest year-on-year improver of the whole competition, qualifying for the 2010 final with ease this time and then finishing just outside the top 10. Its full version is over 9 minutes in length and amongst Kanye fans is widely regarded as one of his best ever.

 

It's joined by another new entry, though this one is a bit more surprising due to its age. For the last 6 years 'Millionaire' hasn't troubled the top 200 but finally does after being nominated this year, and almost made it to the play-offs. 'Womanizer' reverses its falling run with a small climb, and The Killers have a small of even smaller amount, down just four places from last year.

 

(very sorry bre, but I really wanted to crack on with this and I'm going out at 9)

What are all these bloody forgettable Kanye songs doing cluttering up the chart? The last thing he did of any worth was Run This Town.

 

Hurrah for Millionaire. I do hope she goes back to doing pop soon.

 

110 - NE Nicki Minaj 'Super Bass' 5.357 (110)

109 - RE (210) Kelis 'Milkshake' 5.364 (141 - X - X - X - X - X - 109)

108 - 192 Adele 'Hometown Glory' 5.364 (X - X - 192 - 108)

107 - NE Marina & The Diamonds 'Radioactive' 5.381 (107)

106 - 43 The Saturdays 'Up' 5.386 (173 - 112 - 43 - 106)

 

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An all female five here, kicking off with one of last years biggest stars Nicki Minaj with 'Super Bass'. It was a song I thought would make the play-off round in this but wasn't quite able to finishing only 13th. Kelis had quite the surge in popularity this year and what is probably her most well known hit 'Milkshake' enters for the first time since the competitions inaugural round, quite surprising that this is only its second top 200 appearance. Her success in the first half of last year propelled Adele's 'Hometown Glory' into the top 200 for the first time and her continued exposure pushes it up further this year. BJ fave female Marina & The Diamonds has her first of two entries and there's a sizeable fall for The Saturdays with 'Up'. I'm surprised it only made the top 100 once before.

105 - RE (221) Gwen Stefani - ‘Cool’ 5.405 (150 - 104 - 95 - 158 - X - X - 105)

104 - NE Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah - ‘Earthquake’ 5.452 (104)

103 - 63 Sugababes - ‘Push The Button’ 5.595 (14 - 23 - 28 - 41 - 46 - 63 - 103)

102 - 107 Stereophonics - ‘Dakota’ 5.619 (35 - 157 - 97 - 129 - X - 107 - 102)

101 - 133 Katy Perry - ‘Firework’ 5.707 (133 - 101)

 

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The last songs to come outside the top 100 are mostly veterans of the game, the new entry from Labrinth notwithstanding, gaining a suprising amount of popularity for a club track that’s only just beginning to lose the damning effects of overplay. The other fairly new track was the last track to miss out on the playoffs, Katy Perry’s Firework, a track I’m surprised isn’t bigger on Buzzjack; it’s one of Katy’s most well regarded tracks, but she has one track still to come.

Three big songs from 2005 are the remainder, and it’s probably a surprise that one beats another. Dakota is by far the most popular Stereophonics song on here, and with good reason, it’s fantastic. Push The Button was one of the biggest hits for the Sugababes and has held up rather well over the years, only this year first slipping outside the top 100.

A Gwen Stefani track reenters the top 200 this year, I honestly know nothing about it and didn’t even know it was in this deep before getting the results, so I’m probably not best placed to comment...

 

Love seeing Radioactive almost top 100. One of my favourite tracks from last year :wub:

Good to see 'Super Bass' up fairly high-ish, although should be Top 100 at least imo, seeing as it was the best song from last year.

What are all these bloody forgettable Kanye songs doing cluttering up the chart? The last thing he did of any worth was Run This Town.

 

Hurrah for Millionaire. I do hope she goes back to doing pop soon.

 

 

"Runaway" is hardly forgettable - the piano intro is very distinctive and I happen to love it (this coming from someone who finds him extremely arrogant and overrated), though it happens to be the best thing he's ever released!

 

Good to see "Millionaire" entering, can't believe it has been ignored for so long.

Halo :wub: Far too low along with Firework, Up and Stronger!

earthquake too good for the top 100 (:()

100 [188] Avril Lavigne - Complicated 1.447 [100-X-X-X-X-188-100]

99 [130] Christina Aguilera feat. Redman - Dirrty 1.468 [36-28-55-67-64-130-99]

98 [164] Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles 1.638 [169-X-X-X-X-164-98]

97 [89] DJ Sammy and Yanou feat. Do - Heaven 1.979 [164-X-90-X-62-86-97]

96 [166] Sugababes - Round Round 2.043 [107-128-67-36-57-166-96]

 

[iNSERT PICTURE OF GENERIC FEMALE POPSTAR]

 

It says a lot (not that much but still) that the very bottom end of the top 100, i.e. the songs that qualified for at least the playoff, is saturated by 2002 songs. Every one of the songs in this section is so old that they're barely even recent enough to be nominated. The only reason these songs even made it this far was because the game's mechanic has to allow exactly 10 songs from each year into the top 100. BuzzJack as a whole are clearly not fans of old songs.

 

That aside this is a pretty subpar selection of songs. 'Complicated' by Avril Lavigne is in the situation, for the second time (oddly the first in six years), of being the song that scrapes into the playoff then gets completely ignored and ends up at #100. Aside from its first and last appearances here it's only ever even finished top 200 one other time, last year when it was #188. Vanessa Carlton also goes out on a high as 'A Thousand Miles' for some reason climbs into the top 100 for the first time, up 66 places to #98 to hit a new peak for the second year running.

 

Two of the other three songs have previously gone all the way to the top 40 and re-enter the top 100 after a year out. Sugababes' 'Round Round' (a former #36) is the higher one, going back up 70 places to #96, while Christina Aguilera's 'Dirrty' featuring Redman (a former #28) goes back up 31 places to #99. 'Heaven' by DJ Sammy and Yanou feat. Do is the only good song in this section for me but the only one falling, going down 8 places to #97.

 

~

 

95 [RE {261}] Avril Lavigne - I'm With You 2.340 [X-92-105-71-175-X-95]

94 [181] La Roux - In For The Kill 2.500 [X-181-94]

93 [103] Kylie Minogue - In Your Eyes 2.532 [X-X-X-X-185-103-93]

92 [60] Britney Spears - Gimme More 2.638 [40-52-67-62-92]

91 [81] P!nk - U + Ur Hand 2.660 [X-164-X-142-81-91]

 

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Avril is at the foot of a second section in a row with one of her better songs 'I'm With You' re-entering the top 200 at #95 after a year out. Two songs make the top 100 for the first time. One of those is another 2002 song (six of them in the bottom 8!), Kylie Minogue's 'In Your Eyes' which seems to have been slowly building up BuzzFame over time, not making the top 200 on this game's first four editions but slowly climbing up every time since. It goes up 10 to #93 on its final year. One place below La Roux make a huge climb of 87 places to #94 with 'In For The Kill', also progressing each year but slightly quicker than Kylie.

 

Completing the section, Britney Spears' awful 'Gimme More' graciously slips to its lowest position to date, down 30 places to #92, while P!nk's rather good 'U + Ur Hand' slips 10 places to #91 a year after it made the top 100 for the first time.

 

(two sections to make up for RFC covering one of mine).

Edited August 18, 201212 yr by Bré

90 - RE (225) Kings Of Leon - ‘Use Somebody’ 2.739 (120 - 164 - X - 90)

89 - 66 Muse - ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ 2.761 (X - X - X - X - 66 - 89)

88 - 58 Lady Gaga - ‘Just Dance’ 2.783 (7 - 41 - 58 - 88)

87 - 138 Kelly Clarkson - ‘My Life Would Suck Without You’ 2.851 (28 - 138 - 87)

86 - 64 Girls Aloud - ‘The Show’ 2.870 (X - X - X - 94 - X - 64 - 86)

 

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Thankfully doing far better with Use Somebody than their other song, Kings Of Leon make the playoff for only the second time ever (assuming this and SoF are their only songs to have stood a chance), Use Somebody finding a peak slightly lower than that of Sex On Fire; clearly it has aged better.

 

Another alternative song comes from Muse's highest peaker, and one of their best regarded songs still, and their only one to make the top 200. For a second year in a row it doesn't qualify for the final, but considering it was absent for all years prior, that's a good showing.

 

Lady Gaga makes her first of several appearances with Just Dance, debuting in 2008 at a very respectable 7th place, but as a song of the moment, the only way has been down ever since, while a song of a similar age, Kelly Clarkson's... 'My Life...' bounces back into the top 100 recovering from a mammoth fall last year.

 

Finally, we have yet another Girls Aloud song, far from being the first, and far from being the last (4th lowest of the 9 in the top 200). Make of that what you will.