what happened Braehq? :( It was all going so well until a few months ago. However I'm still trusting that you'll set a new record in time taken to finish this countdown

Edited April 11, 201312 yr by Thermometer

We still have until the 9th of June to get it done in record time... :lol:

 

I have another countdown thing which I may be starting pretty soon anyhow. *excitement*

Edited April 11, 201312 yr by Braydeux

• SINGLES •

 

24. Skrillex feat. Sirah - "Bangarang"

1,824 points • 40 weeks • #24

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23. Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa - "Payphone"

1,834 points • 26 weeks • #1

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Moombahcore (what even? Has Wikipedia made that up) song "Bangarang" by producer Sonny John Moore (aka. Skrillex) and featuring vocals from Sirah is the only song in the top 60 here not to have peaked inside the official top 20 - big cheer for longevity! Just look at that chart run. A great electronic song and easily the best thing I've heard from Skrillex, it has sold over 200k in the UK plus over 1m in the US. Just beating it out by ten points is "Payphone", the lead single from Maroon 5's fourth album "Overexposed", a song that spent six weeks in the top 2, a lot more than can be said for previous lead single "Misery" - showing the power of how one song can turn things around. I did love this song at first but it tired quickly so it's mega annoying that it got two weeks more at #1 than the still great "Moves Like Jagger".

 

• ALBUMS •

 

24. fun. - "Some Nights"

2,399 points • 32 weeks • #4

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Charting tracks:

01 "We Are Young" (feat. Janelle Monáe)

07 "Some Nights"

 

23. Jay-Z and Kanye West - "Watch The Throne"

2,449 points • 47 weeks • #7 {2011: #3}

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Charting tracks:

10 "Niggas In Paris"

28 "Otis" (feat. Otis Redding) {2012: #76}

30 "H•A•M"

37 "No Church In The Wild" (feat. Frank Ocean)

48 "Lift Off" (feat. Beyoncé)

87 "Why I Love You" (feat. Mr Hudson)

 

The Grammy nominated second album from 'indie' band fun. is next to appear, peaking weeks into it's chart run thanks to discounts and selling off the back of million-selling single "We Are Young" and the follow-up, title track "Some Nights" (maybe also my favourite single "Carry On" but that failed to chart so..). You'll enjoy the album if you like the singles but if you don't then well..Jay-Z and Kanye West continue the pattern of the best single from an album performing the worst - poor "Why I Love You". :( This critically acclaimed collab album features the massive hit "Niggas In Paris" which just refuses to go away despite only ever being good for about five iconic lines and what I assume is the reason the album returned to the top 10 almost a year after release.

Yes for Skrillex being so high here! Can't wait for new material from him.

23. Jay-Z and Kanye West - "Watch The Throne"

2,449 points • 47 weeks • #7 {2011: #3}

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Jay-Z and Kanye West continue the pattern of the best single from an album performing the worst - poor "Why I Love You". :( This critically acclaimed collab album features the massive hit "Niggas In Paris" which just refuses to go away despite only ever being good for about five iconic lines and what I assume is the reason the album returned to the top 10 almost a year after release.

Have you forgotten about the Hackney Weekend show?! *.*

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22. One Direction - "What Makes You Beautiful"

1,896 points • 52 weeks • #14 {2011: #1}

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21. Drake feat. Rihanna - "Take Care"

1,921 points • 33 weeks • #18 {2011: #9}

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Two leftover hits from 2011 here, One Direction's absurdly long-running debut single 'What Makes You Beautiful' completely shattered the trope of boyband singles debuting high and dropping out within a few weeks, remaining in the top 100 for the entirety of 2012 aside from one solitary week where it dipped out only to come back in a big way at #32 the next week due to a performance at the Olympics. It remains popping in and out of the top 100 even now. Drake's only real big hit as the lead artist, 'Take Care' featuring Rihanna is just ahead of it and just outside the top 20. I'd forgotten how well this stuck around at the start of 2012.

 

• ALBUMS •

 

22. Nicki Minaj - "Pink Friday - Roman Reloaded"

2,454 points • 39 weeks • #1

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Charting tracks:

02 "Starships"

08 "Pound The Alarm"

20 "Va Va Voom"

63 "Stupid Hoe"

70 "Right By My Side" (feat. Chris Brown)

74 "High School" (feat. Lil Wayne) {2013: #31}

97 "I'm Legit" (feat. Ciara)

98 "Whip It"

 

21. Rebecca Ferguson - "Heaven"

2,487 points • 40 weeks • #5 {2011: #3}

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Charting tracks:

10 "Nothing's Real But Love" {2012: #32}

15 "Backtrack"

 

At #22 is Nicki Minaj who TBH I don't think will ever get a top 40 single again. I know she just had one a few weeks ago but seriously, everyone hates her now. She's clearly not gonna reach the chart especially if she keeps releasing hip hop songs. Yes I know her last top 40 hit was a hip hop song but SHUT UP. 'Pink Friday - Roman Reloaded' - an entirely new album and not, as the title suggests, a re-release of 'Pink Friday' - was a rare (unique?) #1 album for a female rapper. It later actually got a re-release itself, 'Pink Friday - Roman Reloaded - The Re-Up', which failed to even see it return to the top 40 in the Christmas rush. Another re-released album is at #21, although in this case the re-release actually returned it to the top 5 - Rebecca Ferguson's 'Heaven' which came close to re-peaking with a re-release, which also gave her a second hit single. Smash.

Edited April 27, 201312 yr by Braydeux

• SINGLES •

 

20. Labrinth feat. Tinie Tempah - "Earthquake"

1,925 points • 42 weeks • #7 {2011: #2}

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19. Jason Mraz - "I Won't Give Up"

1,996 points • 33 weeks • #11

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Another leftover hit from 2011 is Timothy McKenzie's 2nd single (well, if anyone even still cares for "Let The Sun Shine") featuring Patrick Okogwu, otherwise known as Labrinth & Tinie Tempah, taken from Labrinth's album "Electronic Earth". It reached #2 on sales of over 115k about a year before the 6th single went to #1 on slightly under 110k. A great song featuring many iconic lines and has had no problem sticking around for most of last year. Next up is poor unlucky Jason Mraz who once again stalled at #11 (although it could've been lower if he didn't have some help from The X Factor) with a track that gets too much hate - at first I agreed with others who called it boring/dull but now I find it beautiful. Not all bad for him though, I hear this was still the 46th biggest selling track of the year (and looking at the chart run it's no surprise) and who knows, we shouldn't give up on it going top 10 yet!!1

 

• ALBUMS •

 

20. Adele - "19"

2,537 points • 49 weeks • #7 {2008: #1}

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Charting tracks:

02 "Chasing Pavements"

04 "Make You Feel My Love" {2012: #76}

18 "Cold Shoulder"

19 "Hometown Glory" {2012: #71}

 

19. LMFAO - "Sorry For Party Rocking"

2,654 points • 46 weeks • #13 {2011: #8}

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Charting tracks:

01 "Party Rock Anthem" (feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock) {2012: #24}

05 "Sexy and I Know It" {2012: #9}

23 "Sorry For Party Rocking"

32 "Champagne Showers" (featuring Natalia Kills)

 

Damn it Adele, you just had to come between your album titles!! No surprise that this album, from early 2008, managed to stick around for most of 2012 given that it's, you know, Adele. "Chasing Pavements" is still my favourite thing that she's ever done and I find the rest of it pretty dull, "Make You Feel My Love" especially, so on the upside at least that didn't do as well last year compared to the X Factor boost of 2011. And I don't know who allowed duo LMFAO to have an album quite this successful even though it does contain two huge hits (along with a massive flop). They don't strike me as the sort to shift albums but they nearly had as many weeks in the top 100 as Adele so well done to the lads I guess, even if their output aside from "Party Rock Anthem" is terrible.

• SINGLES •

 

18. Train - "Drive By"

2,002 points • 30 weeks • #6

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17. Emeli Sandé - "Next To Me"

2,026 points • 35 weeks • #2

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Train proved last year that their sudden comeback after years of obscurity wasn't just for one hit - it was in fact just for two hits. Following the mega long-running 'Hey, Soul Sister' from 2010 they came back again and actually managed to outpeak 2001 single 'Drops Of Jupiter' this time, going as high as #6 with the annoyingly catchy 'Drive By'. They also got by far their biggest album ever with parent album 'California 37' (#32 on the albums countdown). It's the lowest song on here to pass 2,000 points. Ahead of it is Emeli Sandé's first indication of the boring creature she'd become after a very promising start, her third single 'Next To Me'. It's probably still her biggest hit in her own right and is finally now starting to make inevitable waves in the US (it was only a matter of time before Emeli properly broke through there). The legacy of 'Heaven' is irreversibly tarnished.

 

• ALBUMS •

 

18. Rizzle Kicks - "Stereo Typical"

2,677 points • 45 weeks • #5

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Charting tracks:

02 "Mama Do The Hump"

08 "Down With The Trumpets" {2012: #43}

08 "When I Was A Youngster" {2012: #40}

44 "Traveller's Chant"

 

17. Paloma Faith - "Fall To Grace"

2,719 points • 31 weeks • #2

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Charting tracks:

07 "Picking Up The Pieces"

16 "Never Tear Us Apart"

50 "30 Minute Love Affair"

66 "Just Be"

 

I had forgotten how well Brighton rap duo Rizzle Kicks' debut album 'Stereo Typical' did - it improved on its original #9 debut/peak and made the top 5 thanks to its biggest hit, 'Mama Do The Hump', early in 2012. After three straight top 10 hits the album's further singles didn't even go top 40 and in fact the last single 'Dreamers' missed the top 100 entirely. It remains to be seen if they will be able to have as much success with the second album. Speaking of second albums, one that did quite a lot better than the debut was Paloma Faith's 'Fall To Grace' which comes in at #17 here. Her debut 'Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?' only spent a week in the top 10, 'Fall To Grace' spent three times that at its #2 peak alone and has had 15 weeks top 10 overall. It also gave her her first top 10 single with the lead single 'Picking Up The Pieces' although the only other sizeable hit from it was not originally on the album at all; her cover of INXS' 'Never Tear Us Apart' which was made for a John Lewis advert and was later included on a deluxe edition.

• SINGLES •

 

16. Rudimental feat. John Newman - "Feel The Love"

2,050 points • 31 weeks • #1

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15. Coldplay - "Paradise"

2,055 points • 41 weeks • #1

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Two huge #1s, Rudimental's "Feel The Love" stormed to the top spot whilst BuzzJack favourite Loreen languished in 3rd position. After an initial 1-4 drop it started to have a really good top 10 run including five weeks at #7 alone, becoming a Summer anthem and staying put in the top 100 right up until the end of the year. Rudimental recently got their 2nd #1 with Ella Eyre and vocalist John Newman is soon to release his own material. Just five points ahead and edging into the top 15 is "Paradise", a song originally part of a pre-order offer for Coldplay's massive album "Mylo Xyloto", but managed to keep up the momentum and became the band's 2nd #1 on it's 10th week officially charting to be the first #1 of 2012 and still one of the best.

 

• ALBUMS •

 

16. Katy Perry - "Teenage Dream"

2,783 points • 51 weeks • #6 {2010: #1}

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Charting tracks:

01 "California Gurls" (feat. Snoop Dogg)

01 "Part Of Me"

02 "Teenage Dream"

03 "Firework" {2012: #70}

03 "E.T." (feat. Kanye West) {2012: #69}

09 "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" {2012: #95}

09 "Wide Awake"

18 "The One That Got Away"

 

15. Bruno Mars - "Doo-Wops & Hooligans"

2,878 points • 50 weeks • #1

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Charting tracks:

01 "Just The Way You Are" {2012: #67}

01 "Grenade" {2012: #65}

01 "The Lazy Song" {2012: #53}

11 "Marry You" {2012: #28}

19 "Runaway Baby" {2012: #45}

78 "Count On Me"

 

Hit-makers Katy Perry and Bruno Mars double up here with albums that originally went to #1 in 2010 and 2011 respectively and have both since gone on to sell over 1 million copies in the UK. Katy managed to have an impressive eight top 20 singles from her third (well...) studio album "Teenage Dream" and the album itself returned to the top 10 last year aided by a re-release called "Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection" which added the #1 single (which had already been floating around in demo form for ages) "Part Of Me" and fellow top 10 "Wide Awake". Bruno achieved an impressive feat himself, managing to have three #1s from his debut album including the awful post-album single "The Lazy Song". No others went top 10 with my favourite "Marry You" just missing the cut and "Runaway Baby" only being so high due to a performance on The X Factor.

Rudimental recently got his 2nd #1 with Ella Eyre

 

Rudimental are a they :P

Oops. I should have remembered that but you never know when producers have names like that - I mean, Avicii is a single person. :(

• SINGLES •

 

14. Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris - "We Found Love"

2,072 points • 47 weeks • #5 {2011: #1}

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13. Azealia Banks feat. Lazy Jay - "212"

2,097 points • 37 weeks • #12

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Rihanna's highest of 7 entries in this top 200 and Calvin Harris' highest of 4 is their million-selling collaboration 'We Found Love', a six week #1 in 2011 that spent the majority of 2012 still in the chart. At #13, just a place below its peak in the weekly chart, is Azealia Banks with her only major hit to date, the potty-mouthed '212' featuring Belgian producer Lazy Jay (also known as Basto). A brilliant song, shame it could never make the top 10 but it certainly didn't do too badly for itself, being one of the bigger female rap hits in UK chart history.

 

• ALBUMS •

 

14. David Guetta - "Nothing But The Beat"

2,911 points • 41 weeks • #2

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Charting tracks:

01 "Titanium" (feat. Sia)

03 "Where Them Girls At" (feat. Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj)

04 "Little Bad Girl" (feat. Taio Cruz and Ludacris)

04 "Sweat" (Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta)

06 "Without You" (feat. Usher) {2012: #31}

08 "She Wolf (Falling To Pieces)" (feat. Sia)

08 "Turn Me On" (feat. Nicki Minaj)

18 "I Can Only Imagine" (feat. Chris Brown and Lil Wayne)

22 "Play Hard" (feat. Ne-Yo and Akon) {2013: #6}

35 "Night Of Your Life" (feat. Jennifer Hudson)

63 "Just One Last Time" (feat. Taped Rai) {2013: #20}

90 "Lunar" (David Guetta and Afrojack)

96 "Crank It Up" (feat. Akon)

 

13. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds"

2,948 points • 44 weeks • #8 {2011: #1}

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Charting tracks:

15 "The Death Of You And Me"

20 "AKA... What A Life!" {2012: #47}

52 "Dream On"

61 "Everybody's On The Run"

95 "If I Had A Gun..."

 

You'd be forgiven for thinking David Guetta's 'Nothing But The Beat' was a greatest hits album looking at the ridiculous list of hit singles from it. In reality the hit list consists of only six proper singles from the original album, plus two promotional singles and an album track, three further singles from an updated 'Nothing But The Beat 2.0' version and a track that was primarily a Snoop Dogg single. Guetta's fifth album came very close to being the first ever UK #1 album by a French act, returning to its original 2011 debut/peak of #2 for two further weeks in 2012, but the lack of French people at #1 on the albums chart carried on... up until this Sunday. 'Nothing But The Beat' dropped out of the chart dramatically when '2.0' came out as that counted as a separate chart entity, but yet another re-release later ('Nothing But The Beat Ultimate') has seen the original album re-chart once more, it is in fact currently still in the top 30. Noel Gallagher's post-Oasis band the High Flying Birds went to #1 with their self-titled debut album in 2011 and it hung on well enough at the start of 2012 to end up as high as #13 here. Seems a bit forgotten now considering, though it did produce one fairly resilient hit in 'AKA... What A Life!' despite that not being the album's highest peaking single.

Edited May 24, 201312 yr by Bré

Azealia Banks with her only major hit to date, the potty-mouthed '212' featuring Belgian producer Lazy Jay (also known as Basto).

 

I couldn't believe that Basto and Lazy Jay were the same person when I first found out :lol: Any fans of Avicii should check out Basto's "Gregory's Theme" if you haven't done so already, such a tune.

 

Yay for Guetta's album doing so well, you gotta give him some credit for bringing dance music back to the albums market. (and obviously helping it out in the singles chart)

Wow, I didn't realise that either. I was just listening to (the amazing) Gregory's Theme a few hours ago. Sounds like completely different production to that of 212, he's obviously multi talented.

Take Care is bloody brilliant. Drake is such a hit and miss artist for me but Take Care is truly phenomenal and has such an interesting back story for how it came to be

• SINGLES •

 

12. Alex Clare - "Too Close"

2,124 points • 31 weeks • #4

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11. Flo Rida feat. Sia - "Wild Ones"

2,129 points • 28 weeks • #4

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Two #4 peaking singles here, starting with Brit Alex Clare who got his break last year when "Too Close", released in 2011, was selected to feature in an advert for Internet Explorer 9 and helped it to go onto a massive hit which crossed over to the US. He hasn't been able to follow it up on his own though it did generate some interest in album "The Lateness of the Hour", along with Alex featuring on Rudimental's "Not Giving In" and current hit "Endorphins" by Sub Focus. Could be worse for him, "Your Touch" by Blake Lewis, which featured in an advert for Internet Explorer 10 this year, did nothing in comparison, peaking at #38. The last song to miss out on a top 10 placing, Flo Rida's "Wild Ones" was released as the 2nd of many singles from the album of the same name and featured vocals from Australian Sia. All three of the first three singles from this album were big hits with it being hard to tell which was quite the biggest, but this was my favourite and ranks higher here than 'Whistle' (#30) and 'Good Feeling' (#36), along with slightly less big 'I Cry' (#48).

 

• ALBUMS •

 

12. The Black Keys - "El Camino"

3,135 points • 53 weeks • #6

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Charting tracks:

57 "Gold On The Ceiling"

80 "Lonely Boy"

 

11. Florence + The Machine - "Ceremonials"

3,379 points • 53 weeks • #8 {2011: #1}

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Charting tracks:

01 "Spectrum"

12 "Shake It Out" {2012: #35)

24 "What The Water Gave Me"

50 "No Light, No Light"

82 "Never Let Me Go"

 

Here we have two albums that managed the feat of not dipping out of the top 100 at all over the course of the year, something that six more albums in the top 10 achieved (and a couple of the others weren't available at the beginning of the year). American band The Black Keys had their most successful album to date in the UK and recently won the Grammy for Best Rock Album. They aren't my type of music so I don't have much interest but "Lonely Boy" is quite nice and that chart run is very commendable. Just missing out on the top 10 is Florence Welch and her machine with their 2nd album "Ceremonials" which boasted their first #1 single in the form of 'Spectrum' thanks to a remix from Scot Calvin Harris. Sadly for me I find it to be one of the weakest singles with "Shake It Out" being stunning and "No Light, No Light" and "Never Let Me Go" both being very underrated. The singles helped to keep the album selling though with another fantastic chart run and even the debut "Lungs" only fell out of the top 100 during the latter part of the year.

Gotta break that record *_*

 

• SINGLES •

 

10. Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera - "Moves Like Jagger"

2,137 points • 44 weeks • #11 {2011: #2}

...-11-12-12-16-23-27-30-30-31-35-29-35-38-39-40-42-43-40-45-55-54-58-57-54-65-54-49-46-47-49-58-66-65-89-86-76-80-86-88-78-81-90-x-100-x-98-...

 

It comes to this again. Thanks to being released late in the year, this only managed #25 in the 2011 rundown despite a ridiculous 16-week run in the top 10 including 7 weeks at #2 (but gloriously none at #1). But once again highlighting the importance of longevity over enormous success in a condensed period of time for this chart, it's managed to make the year end top 10 for 2012 without touching the weekly top 10 once. My opinion on this hasn't suddenly changed. It's still one of the worst excuses for a 'song' I've ever had the misfortune of hearing. But apparently rather a lot of you like this so feel free to have a listen to that video up there and remind yourself (not that you need to as MOR radio are still playing this every five fucking seconds EVEN TO THIS DAY).

 

• ALBUMS •

 

10. Ben Howard - "Every Kingdom"

3,486 points • 53 weeks • #6 {2013: #4}

...-83-68-65-57-63-34-28-22-24-20-34-49-47-42-47-31-33-38-28-21-6-10-14-22-26-22-13-17-12-14-13-17-11-15-14-20-21-26-29-36-44-40-39-44-41-46-58-54-61-70-69-64-45-...

 

Charting tracks:

37 "Only Love" {2013: #9}

58 "The Fear"

70 "The Wolves"

74 "Keep Your Head Up" {2013: #46}

 

And from the ear-destroyingly horrific to the sublime as one of the most surprising and pleasing success stories of the last couple of years, Ben Howard, makes the top 10 of the albums rundown. Like the last two albums and 5 more to come, it spent the entirety of 2012 in the top 100 although it was a rather close call at the start of the year. After initially debuting at #7 it fell quickly and nearly dropped out but it successfully revived itself and indeed is still yet to fall out now. It even reached new peaks in both 2012 (going to #6 for reasons I can't remember) and 2013 (reaching #4 following his brilliant performance of 'Only Love' at the BRIT Awards and his 2 wins there, which also turned 'Only Love' into a top 10 hit for him). All 4 of the charting singles from 'Every Kingdom' only reached their peak on a re-entry - 'The Wolves' and 'Keep Your Head Up' from re-releases, 'Only Love' from his BRIT Awards performance and 'The Fear' from a price reduction on iTunes. Sadly the other single 'Old Pine' has failed to make the top 100 even with a re-release, though he did get a second top 40 'single' in 2012 with the EP 'Burgh Island' which reached #32 (at the time his highest position to date) which also produced another top 100 hit in #89 peaking 'Oats In The Water'.

• SINGLES •

 

9. Rizzle Kicks - "Mama Do The Hump"

2,381 points • 36 weeks • #2

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Brighton duo Rizzle Kicks are at #9 with their biggest single to date and the third (that charted) taken from their debut album "Stereo Typical", "Mama Do The Hump", which was one of the biggest hits from earlier in the year and went on to sell over 550k by the end of the year. It was no doubt helped along by the humorous video featuring a cameo from James Corden and personally I think the song is pretty dreadful although not as bad as "Down With The Trumpets" (their actual good singles, "When I Was A Youngster" and "Traveller's Chant", sadly got nowhere near as much success). The pair are currently working on their second studio album, with some involvement from current chart king Pharrell Williams.

 

• ALBUMS •

 

9. Olly Murs - "In Case You Didn't Know"

3,639 points • 53 weeks • #4 {2011: #1}

...-4-7-11-11-11-11-13-17-16-19-20-14-22-23-23-22-12-7-6-7-13-25-32-41-54-35-31-29-33-31-36-32-35-39-32-32-36-57-62-67-74-59-53-52-51-52-57-45-51-59-58-48-27-...

 

Charting tracks:

01 "Heart Skips A Beat" (feat. Rizzle Kicks) {2012: #15}

01 "Dance With Me Tonight" {2012: #2}

13 "Oh My Goodness"

 

Yet another album not to drop out of the top 100 all year comes from X Factor runner-up and Rizzle Kicks collaborator Olly Murs. The follow-uo to Olly's self-titled debut album ended up being even more successful, outselling the debut and grabbing hold of the top spot which his debut just missed out on due to those cheeky rascals Take That. The album featured two #1 singles, "Heart Skips A Beat" featuring those Rizzle Kicks (although they were annoyingly removed and replaced by Chiddy Bang for the US version, which still flopped), and "Dance With Me Tonight" which climbed to the top spot after originally being held off by "We Found Love". The album was planned to be his first across the pond but that was later ditched in favour of third album "Right Place Right Time" (though featuring an altered tracklist which includes these three singles for those Americans) which got to #19 in April off the back of "Troublemaker" which has actually been a hit for him over there.

• SINGLES •

 

8. Jessie J - "Domino"

2,500 points • 37 weeks • #1

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Another one of my least favourite people in music but in this case I don't actually mind this song. BBC Sound of 2011 winner and The Voice UK coach Jessie J released this Katy Perry clone as the lead single from the 'Platinum Edition' of her debut album 'Who You Are' and grabbed a second #1 single. It was also a major hit in many other countries including the big one the USA, where it went as high as #6, though she's recently proclaimed her new single 'Wild' (feat. Big Sean and, in some countries including the UK but not the US, Dizzee Rascal) to be her 'first worldwide single'.

 

• ALBUMS •

 

8. Jessie J - "Who You Are"

3,744 points • 50 weeks • #4 {2011: #2}

...-10-8-12-10-7-6-7-8-10-13-21-24-23-5-8-4-5-8-7-12-16-19-20-7-18-18-19-19-19-28-30-23-15-7-13-19-28-38-36-42-45-42-49-54-66-59-80-90-91-x-88-...

 

Charting tracks:

01 "Price Tag" (feat. B.o.B) {2012: #39}

01 "Domino"

02 "Do It Like A Dude"

05 "LaserLight" (feat. David Guetta)

08 "Who You Are" {2012: #25}

09 "Nobody's Perfect"

16 "Who's Laughing Now" {2012: #77}

59 "Mamma Knows Best"

 

Oh, here she is again so I get to moan about how awful her other songs are. 'Domino' and also 'Price Tag' are tolerable and 'Do It Like A Dude' and 'LaserLight' are also not quite the worst thing ever so at least the UK could have picked worse songs to be her top 5 hits, but the song 'Who You Are' is one of the worst abominations to ever call itself a song (did no one REALLY think before they put it out, 'Jessie, your voice is completely unlistenable on this, you'd better re-record it'?!) and 'Nobody's Perfect' and 'Who's Laughing Now' are both extremely annoying. Not to mention all the PREACHING on her singles - apart from, of course, the deluxe edition tracks, where she dropped the pretense of making a message with her music and went full on generic. Just because she tasted some US success with 'Price Tag'. Awful, awful woman. Sadly she doesn't seem to be going anywhere any time soon with the aforementioned 'Wild' looking likely to make the top 5 this week and although her debut album was denied #1 by Adele (one of many, many albums denied by Adele) there's little chance her follow-up will fail to top the chart. Sigh.

Edited May 29, 201312 yr by Bré

Why would you care about the Albums Chart though? It's not as if it's as significant as the Singles Chart. :P