80. NSYNC // It's Gonna Be Me // July 2000

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 23
Points: 610

NSYNC are by far my favourite boyband ever in terms of music with four number ones on my personal chart: It's Gonna Be Me, I Want You Back, Tearing Up My Heart and Bye-Bye-Bye all of which are pop perfection in my eyes. It's Gonna Be Me was the second single from the boys album No Strings Attached and is basically a re-hash of Bye Bye Bye but it's a bloody good one at that

79. Avril Lavigne // Complicated // September 2002

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 20
Points: 613

A song now that introduced me to one of my favourite artists of the decade, Lavigne had my heart from the get go with this brilliant little number. She however does have much better songs and this is her lowest entry on this chart so I'd get used to her as she's going to be popping up a lot more as the countdown goes on. Complicated is one of those songs that just takes me back to being ten and living without a care in the bloody world, and the video fulfills a childhood dream of just spending a day mucking about in a shopping center. Going to go now before I get too nostalgic

78. Sheryl Crow // The First Cut is The Deepest // November 2003

Peak: #2
Weeks on Chart: 22
Points: 622

Yet another artists I was raised on, my late father was a massive Sheryl Crow fan and she's one of my first musical memories with If It Makes You Happy, but it wasn't until I bought my dad her greatest hits as a Xmas present in late 2003 that I truly began to appreciate her brilliance. The First Cut is the Deepest isn't my favourite offering from her but it's her best outside of the 1990's and one of the songs here that reminds me a lot of my dad and growing up. This only reached #37 in the charts here, the UK public sometimes they're blind to a good thing :angry:

77. Sugababes // Hole In The Head // October 2003

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 19
Points: 623

Though they are my second favourite girl group of the decade this is the highest the Sugababes manage to place in this countdown. Hole In The Head was the first record they did that gave us an idea of how truly feisty the girls were underneath, though that would eventually be their downfall, and is 3 and a half minutes of pop brilliance. A reminder of just how good the girls were back in 2003 when they were at the top of their game and blowing Girls Aloud and Atomic Kitten out of the water

76. Leona Lewis // Forgive Me // November 2008

Peak: #2
Weeks on Chart: 20
Points: 624

My distaste for most ballads meant Leona never exactly set my personal charts alight, she'd had one top ten hit with Better in Time before this, but Forgive Me gave her a first genuine hit on my run down. I liked the more upbeat, urban Leona and it's sadly rather forgotten now as it's release was soon overshadowed by Run getting to number one and Forgive Me as a result fell quite quickly which is a shame because I think this is her best song ever and a mighty hard one to top, though I do think Glassheart is all kinds of amazing too :wub:, also you guessed right I'm a big fan of Collide as well!

75. Katy Perry // Hot N Cold // November 2008

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 23
Points: 632

The song that kept the previous one from number one now, and back in 2008 Katy Perry was the freshest new pop star though Gaga would soon be along to steal her crown. Perry's first album seems completely overshadowed by her second now but it had some right little belters including Hot N Cold and Thinking of You (very underrated gorgeous song :wub:). I'd liked I Kissed a Girl but it's novelty soon wore off and it became all about Hot N Cold which is one of the first records that made me realize pop music was coming back with a bang, and an amazing bang at that.

74. The Saturdays // Up // October 2008

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 22
Points: 643

After the boring If This Is Love, I like everyone else in my sixth form considered The Saturdays to be a second rate Girls Aloud who would fade out within a year. But then the amazing Up happened and I fell in love with the band, Up is an amazing pop record and the fact it's above so many Girls Aloud songs is sound enough evidence of how much I do bloody love it. I think they've since proven their worth as a band in their own right not a carbon copy of Girls Aloud and they've released so many good songs since like Higher, Ego and Work but Up will always be my favourite

73. Dream // He Loves You Not // January 2001

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 22
Points: 644

It's a shame this song isn't more well known as it really is amazing, it did well in the US I gather but here in the UK it limped to just #17 in the charts which is surprising seen as though it's exactly the kind of thing everyone seemed to be in too at the time. Oh well

72. Atomic Kitten // Be With You // December 2002

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 21
Points: 653

The highest entry, and best ever release, from Atomic Kitten now. By this point in 2002 they were by far my favourite girlband in the land, though it wasn't a hard feat as except for the Sugababes there was only Mis-Teeq, Cheeky Girls and Las Ketchup to compete with. Anyway, Be With You is my favourite song from them as it's one that just makes me feel really good and nostalgic inside, it's a cracking and underrated little pop tune and I really don't think the Kittens should get the bad press that they do. Great stuff here and continues the girl power part of my countdown as there are no males present from numbers #79 - 70

71. Rihanna // S.O.S // March 2006

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 25
Points: 657

Some old school Rihanna now and the song that made me fall in love with her; I'd liked Pon De Replay and hadn't been to keen on If It's Loving That You Want so SOS was really the first song of hers that I truly loved, though I do remember being slightly irritated that it introduced so many school friends to Tainted Love, I was like "surely you should already know that song?" I guess not. Speaking in 2013, I actually find SOS quite dated now but it's still a great song and one I'll listen too for the memories I have attached to it

I was always more a fan of the other A side "last goodbye"

70. Kelly Clarkson // Never Again // May 2007

Peak: #2
Weeks on Chart: 24
Points: 659

UNPOPULAR OPINION ALERT: My December is my favourite Kelly Clarkson album. There, I said it. You'll find this is the only song from that album to make an appearance on this list but damn I love the album so much, truly the best and most interesting that she's ever been but I can see why some people might not like it. It is quite like Breakaway, but it's an edgier Breakaway, a more punk Breakaway and Never Again is Clarkson at her near very best (I'd say it was her best if she didn't have three songs still to come!). I wish she'd carried on down the road that My December put her on but it's nothing I lose sleep over - she's still my favourite artist of all-time anyway!

I was always more a fan of the other A side "last goodbye"

 

Ah, that'll be my distaste for ballads coming through. Last Goodbye's OK but I've always found Be With You a lot better

69. Basement Jaxx // Romeo // June 2001

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 24
Points: 662

A song from my least favourite year of music in the decade, this is the third highest entry from 2001 and the other two are coming up soon, however make no mistake I do bloody adore Romeo and consider it to be the best thing Basement Jaxx ever did. Also, one of my favourite music videos appearing in the Top 100 as well

68. Bowling For Soup // Girl All The Bad Guys Want // July 2002

Peak: #2
Weeks on Chart: 20
Points: 665

Stuck at #2 for 4 weeks behind Gareth Gates (#102), S Club Juniors (#88) and Kylie Minogue (still to come) BFS show that they won the war against two of those records, mainly because I still listen to this so often so it seems as if I like it more than those two. Girl All The Bad Guys Want is kind of a pioneering song in terms of my chart as it really was the song that began my love affair with punk pop oh and because we can all sorta relate to the subject matter of this song

67. Justin Timberlake // Like I Love You // November 2002

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 23
Points: 670

JT goes solo (and gets sexy) for the first time now, I'd been a big NSYNC fan and it was always obvious that Justin stood out from the others although I still argue that JC was just as talented. So naturally I was very interested in his solo album but didn't keep me hopes too high, Abs was my favourite from Five and his solo stuff sucked, so I was pleasantly surprised by Like I Love You and the whole Justified album which was my number one album of 2003

66. S Club 8 // Fool No More // July 2003

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 21
Points: 675

Sorry but I bloody love this. I've already spoken about my rather embarrassing love for this lot but I'll say it again - pretty decent pop tunes and Fool No More is the best thing that this lot ever did in my opinion. You may question it being so here but I was all over this at the time - didn't do wonders for my street cred mind....

Fool no more is great, hoping sundown is still to come. not bad so far I agree with at least 50% of the songs you list which may mean that at 37 I need to grow up ha ha

Fool no more is great, hoping sundown is still to come. not bad so far I agree with at least 50% of the songs you list which may mean that at 37 I need to grow up ha ha

 

Sorry no Sundown I'm afraid, it just missed out (#209 or something like that I recall) as did Don't Tell Me You're Sorry and Automatic High.

 

65. Christina Aguilera // Fighter // May 2003

Peak: #1
Weeks on Chart: 23
Points: 683

Christina's most fierce and bad ass moment came in 2003 with the fantastic "Fighter" from her best album Stripped. This was really the track that made me into the Aguilera loon I was between 2003 and 2008, it's her second highest song on this countdown and better than anything Britney, Madonna and Kylie did that year