I'm a bit disappointed to see Shakira outside the top twenty on her final year, and that (relatively) large fall for Rihanna! :( Beyoncé to WIN please!

Good for Shakira holding up! Shame she couldn't make it another year top 20 as Theo said though.

 

Hey Ya is bloody abysmal, never ever got what was so mind blowingly amazing about it in the slightest. Bleh.

Wherever Whenever :wub: Classic.

Wonderful to see 'Set The Fire To The Third Bar' finally getting the recognition it's long deserved - I suppose the Cheryl duet might have helped but no one can deny the glory of Martha's voice on the original. I'm not a particular Snow Patrol fan, but I do hope 'Called Out in the Dark' is having the same sort of renaissance in a few years...

20 - 30 Tatu 'All The Things She Said' 276 points (89 - 93 - 54 - 60 - 23 - 30 - 20)

19 - 72 Arcade Fire 'Rebellion (Lies)' 277 points (X - X - X - X - X - 72 - 19)

 

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For the first time in Record of the Decade Russian duo Tatu make the top 20 with their biggest hit 'All The Things She Said'. To me their chart run is quite surprising, it's been in the top 100 every year which shows its consistency but has only made the final three times, in the last three years. It's clearly something which has held up very well with age but I do find it surprising that #20 is its peak position. It has one more chance next year, could it continue its recent better run and get even higher into the top 20?

 

It's joined here by another song that peaks this year despite being eligible for every year. Record of the Decade has certainly taken three different guises over the 7 years of its existence. It started out being promoted all over the site which meant it was popular with BuzzJack's early legions of Darius, Robbie Williams and Will Young fans, attracting rather more 'safe' MOR results. It didn't last too long though as pop soon broke through but the last couple of years indie has been able to do much better here and a lot of the top 20 are popular with the indie crowd even if little of it can be described as 'indie'.

 

One song definitely can though and that's Arcade Fire's 'Rebellion (Lies)'. It is a song which, if you get it, you love it, and if you don't, you don't care for it. Of the 60 songs in the final only ONE ('The Loving Kind') receievd votes from less people than 'Rebellion (Lies)' yet it manages to score more points than 40 of those songs, 'All The Things She Said' got points off 9 more voters. Of its 14 votes 5 people ranked it top (no other song got more than 3 top votes) and 12 of them were in the top 10. There's certainly an upper limit to how high songs like this can currently reach, and the bottom of the top 20 is probably about it. Weirdly, like Sigur Ros, it's at the same position as its UK chart peak, #19 almost 7 years ago exactly!

Think I must be the only person besides indiephobes that thinks 'Rebellion (Lies)' is really, really overrated. One of my least favourite Arcade Fire songs.

BRILLIANT to see "Rebellion (Lies)" in the Top 20 - by far their best song, I remember seeing the video in August 2005 on MTV2 and was hooked from there on in, bought "Funeral" a few weeks later! Happy days. :D

18 - 38 Johnny Cash - 'Hurt' 278pts (X - X - X - X - X - 38 - 18)

17 - NE Florence & The Machine - 'Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)' 284pts (X - X - 17)

 

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Two more songs reaching new peaks within the top 20, the first is a well-regarded cover of Nine Inch Nails' song Hurt, and probably one of the most original and beautiful interpretations of a song - written shortly before Cash's death - so much so that it almost becomes a distinct entity, climbs 20 places into the top 20. With one week in the top 40 almost 9 years ago, it's stood the test of time, and in the last couple years it's gained pace and popularity on here in a way that's both astonishing and lovely to see. Like t.A.T.u, it has one more chance next year to better its peak position, and if this is any indication of the direction Buzzjack is moving, I wouldn't be surprised if it does that. It's by far the highest song that could be called country, but it only just clings to that genre and this isn't indicative of any shift towards it.

 

The other song is a new entry to the game. Clearly a stark omission from 2009's final list, it smashed its way through the playoff rounds and the final, finishing in second in terms of 2009, and Florence's highest of her 3 new entries to the top 200 this year after Shake It Out and Cosmic Love further down. Rabbit Heart is one of the highlights of Lungs, and was Flo Mac's first proper hit as she embarked on the whirlwind path that her career has become. I don't pay as much attention to it as I should do, it's quite a song to introduce the public to. I wonder how it got ignored here for as long as it did; that that has been fixed now is perfect.

Both "Hurt" and "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" are modern day classics, so pleased that BuzzJack has ranked them highly as they really deserve it.

 

Brilliant start to the Top 20.

'Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)' is genuinely my favourite song of the century thus far, so I'm absolutely ecstatic to see it up so high. Deserved so much more than a #12 peak and it always seemed to be overshadowed in her discography so I'm glad to see that wrong righted here.

VERY happy for both t.A.T.u and Arcade Fire - two of the standout songs of the entire decade.

16 - 22 Arctic Monkeys 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor' 285 points (58 - 172 - 07 - 26 - 19 - 22 - 16)

15 - NE Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris 'We Found Love' 290 points (15)

 

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Another ever-present now and something that's always performed better than you'd imagine on here. Even before ROTD managed to get all Indie 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor' was making the finals on a regular basis, peaking at #7 four years ago, this year being its 5th consecutive final, climbing to its second best position. The band have never made anything that's been as widely popular in the mainstream and they certainly don't look like they ever will now either.

 

Rihanna's highest entry this year is 'We Found Love', with a little help from Calvin Harris who's writing and production abilities made this the most popular of all her club stompers selling over a million copies in the UK in no time at all. This takes over 'Umbrella' as being her most popular song here, and with that falling out of the top 10 its the first year she hasn't been in there since 2007.

I'm glad that "We Found Love" isn't top ten (or even #1) as I'd feared it would be. It's a good song, but nowhere near Rihanna's best, for me.

Great to see Tatu up high, SUCH a good song. Really grew on me over time, so I guess it had a similar effect on others?

 

'We Found Love' overtaking 'Umbrella' is disappointing but inevitable I guess. :(

Really shocked at how low 'We Found Love' is, was fully expecting it to be #1 this year to be honest... and 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor' is pretty poor compared to most of the Arctics' other singles, if only the infinitely better 'When The Sun Goes Down' was their 'classic' :(

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14 - 14 Sugababes 'Freak Like Me' 294 points (33 - 91 - 47 - 151 - 32 - 14 - 14)

13 - NE M83 'Midnight City' 300 points (13)

 

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Along with a few other older songs it's perhaps surprising 'Freak Like Me' has never been more successful. Having never made the top 30 in the first 5 years it has now spent its final two both at number 14, finishing its last contest as a rare non-mover, equalling last years peak. Sugababes have had more songs in Record of the Decade final than anyone else, but they've only ever made the top 10 twice, both with 'About You Now', and both at #9.

 

'Freak Like Me' is joined by the first song to break the 300 point mark, M83's 'Midnight City' reaching exactly that. A massive hit on BuzzJack last year, in the Indie/Alt song of the year competition it was voted for by 30 of 33 participants and beat Lana Del Rey's 'Video Games' by over 300 points. It also comfortably auto-qualified for the 2011 final due to its position on the BuzzJack End of Year Multichart. There was a bit of debate over whether it should be included or left until next year after its appearance on TV a trailer at the beginning of the year saw it enter the bottom end of the UK top for a few weeks, however I felt that due to how much of a 2011 hit it was on here, it should go to that year. It ends here as 2011s third highest song, behind only Adele's two monster hits.

Amazing to see ''Midnight City'' THAT high, such a brilliant song!

'Midnight City' is an even bigger case of overrated than 'Rebellion (Lies)'. Really do not get it at all.

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'Midnight City' is not overrated!

What a brilliant start to the top 20! I really do love all of the tracks announced so far and it's good to see a fairly wide spread of genres being represented.