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155 RE (255) Sam Sparro - Black And Gold 4.805 (X - 170 - X - X - 155)

154 54 Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks 207 43 4.814 (54 - 154)

153 NE (231) Chase & Status (feat. Plan B) - End Credits 222 46 4.826 (X - X - X - 153)

152 109 Kelis - Milkshake 179 37 4.838 (141 - X - X - X - X - X - 109 - 152)

151 NE Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around... Comes Around 184 38 4.842 (X - X - X - X - X - 151)

 

I have long suspected that Sam Sparro and Sam Smith are somehow related, if not the same person. This comparison makes it apt that the minute the latter starts doing well, everyone partially remembers that guy with the same first name and initials who had a slightly similar radio hit a few years back. Black and Gold is wondrous and I have a couple of good memories with it so it's great seeing it get some recognition up in here.

 

Two new entries here also, one that has been incredibly long overdue, and the other that given what I've seen, it seems silly it was never in this game before. The sublime End Credits has actually risen less than 80 places to make it here, but with any luck it'll never fall out again, I don't think either C&S or Plan B have ever bettered it, it feels powerful and just a little bit ravey at the same time. But that might feel irreverent. I'm rambling. The other new entry is one that was only just nominated this year and is reflective of Justin Timberlake's ace year on here so far with the success of Suit & Tie and Mirrors, it seems every single past Justin single is ripe for a rise. This is the first to appear in the top 200, What Goes Around Comes Around, which is one of the ones I enjoy more when I'm in a Timberlake mood, (which isn't THAT often) and certainly his best mid-tempo prior to Mirrors.

 

Pumped Up Kicks falls exactly 100 places as memory of it loses its freshness. I assume, I can't really assign reasons for most of these movements. Similarly, Kelis' most memetically recognisable song falls around about 50 places as it becomes her least popular of her three big Tasty hits this time.

!! @ that picture, brilliant

 

and yay for PUMPED UP KICKS :wub:

 

Edited August 14, 201311 yr by SevenSeize

'End Credits' and 'What Goes Around... / ...Comes Around (Interlude)', especially the former, really are very overdue new entries. Hope both can improve their positions next year.

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150 84 Little Boots - Remedy 4.848 (45 - 50 - 84 - 150)

149 NE (339) Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body 4.892 (X - X - X - X - X - X - X - 149)

148 RE (261) Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down 4.895 (X - 116 - X - X - 132 - X - 148)

147 NE Marina & The Diamonds - Primadonna 4.898 (147)

146 NE Nicki Minaj - Starships 4.898 (146)

 

Speaking of Timberlake, he has another song just 2 places up as Rock Your Body gives out a last hurrah on its final year and appears in the top 200 for the first time. Just ahead of him, an indie rock band (:o) with multiple entries in the top 200 (:o :o) re-enter at #148. Arctic Monkey's second #1 has a mixed history in this game but this is clearly one of its good years. It's also a cracker of a tune that clearly deserves to be up this high.

 

The rest of this section is female pop. Let's get the obvious one out of the way first, Starships is Nicki's biggest song and it gets her a good position here, as Robot and the other Minaj fanz shoot her upwards as high as they are able to. While it's probably her most controversial, who could forget that music video (seriously, that is the stuff nightmares are made of) it isn't however, Nicki's highest song.

 

Remedy falls out of the top 100 for the first time, as the only song of Little Boots ever accepted by the public and Buzzjack as a whole, this is a disappointing sign, although it would always struggle from being placed in 2009. Finally, Marina has her first top 200 entry (I Am Not A Robot narrowly missed out at 204) with a new entry as Primadonna gets the same amount of points as Starships. It is not quite her last, fantastically.

When The Sun Goes Down! :heart:

 

When The Sun Goes Down! :heart:

 

THE best Arctics song :dance:

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145 190 Jordin Sparks - Battlefield 4.913 (191 - X - 190 - 145)

144 NE (413) Basement Jaxx (feat. Lisa Kekaula) - Good Luck 4.919 (X - X - X - X - X - X - X - 144)

143 86 Girls Aloud - The Show 4.919 (X - X - X - 94 - X - 64 - 86 - 143)

142 102 Stereophonics - Dakota 4.921 (35 - 157 - 97 - 129 - X - 107 - 102 - 142)

141 186 Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love 4.935 (X - 122 - 186 - 141)

 

Another latecomer to the top 200 is Basement Jaxx's Good Luck, which rises 269 places and actually, is the highest climber in the whole top 500. Big congratulations for that, I'd have never expected this song to grow such a big fanbase in the past year, although it has the alternate credentials which will probably endear it to those less mainstream among us.

 

For something completely different, I point to Jordin Spark's best song for myself, and now her best performing song here, as it climbs 45 places to a new peak. I did think it was doing surprisingly well in its round for my expectations but this pop anthem is looking good moving into its 4th year.

 

Stereophonics are not a band you might expect to do well on here, but Dakota has always been well-received by non-fans so it doing well is somewhat expected. Having said that, it is showing its age as it falls to its lowest position since 2007.

 

Cheryl Cole makes two appearances here, one as part of Girls Aloud, with The Show which has occasionally done well in the past but didn't make it into the top 100 this time, the other on her hugely successful debut single which has had mixed fortunes here so far. I might have expected it to have made the top 100 by now, but alas, no such luck. Guess Cheryl's going to have to keep fighting (for any form of love at all).

Nice little surprise having Rock Your Body sneak in finally. It's always been one of my personal favourites from him.

 

Not liking that Pumped Up Kicks drop though. Still sounds just as good as it did back then.

'Good Luck' is fab! Surprised to see it top 200

 

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140 151 Michael Andrews (feat. Gary Jules) - Mad World 4.946 (195 - X - X - X - X - 91 - 151 - 140)

139 105 Gwen Stefani - Cool 4.947 (150 - 104 - 95 - 158 - X - X - 105 - 139)

138 RE (273) Rihanna - SOS 4.947 (43 - X - X - 71 - 151 - X - 138)

137 NE Fun. (feat. Janelle Monáe) - We Are Young 4.959 (137)

136 146 Kelis - Trick Me 4.973 (174 - 180 - X - X - X - 54 - 146 - 136)

 

I've always seen Mad World as a bit of an anomaly as a hit, it's dark, depressing and full of pathos, but it is incredibly unique and remains popular on here as one of the few examples of a male ballad for which I've seen very little criticism. The Michael/Gary cover of the original Tears For Fears song was a hit in late 2003, so it sees its final year in the competition on its highest position were it not for making the top 100 two years ago.

 

Another Kelis song and the first Gwen song we come to appear here, they've normally been at these sorts of positions before so that's no surprise. Me and Gwen's solo career have never been the best of friends and I can't think right now which one Cool is if I'm honest, but Trick Me is probably my favourite Kelis song for the kookiness it has in abundance.

 

One of Rihanna's earliest hits re-enters after a year out, it may have been well overshadowed by other hits and if you asked random members of the public to name all the Rihanna songs they could think of I doubt this would feature on any of them but it's still the 7th highest Rihanna song this year, which means it's the highest not in the top 100. Fun.'s huge radio and youth-defining hit We Are Young makes a good new entry for what it is, I find the chorus a little dull for me to truly love it but as far as songs of its type go it isn't bad, plus it made Janelle Monáe relevant, no matter how small her role may be.

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135 RE (217) Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars 4.974 (9 - 6 - 29 - 102 - X - X - 135)

134 111 Kelis (feat. Andre 3000) - Millionaire 5.000 (X - X - X - X - X - X - 111 - 134)

133 RE (201) Pussycat Dolls (feat. Busta Rhymes) - Don't Cha 5.000 (144 - 99 - X - X - 132 - 194 - X - 133)

132 92 Britney Spears - Gimme More 5.000 (40 - 52 - 67 - 62 - 92 - 132)

131 NE Ellie Goulding - Lights 5.000 (X - 131)

 

Chasing Cars returns to the top 200. It was once a huge top 10 contender on this thing (really, guys?) but has spent the past two years in purgatory. Whether it's finally becoming more popular again or this is just another insidious way it plans to get more weeks on any form of chart at all is yet to be seen. It's also the last song with an average of under 5.

 

The remaining four songs in this section all got exactly 5 times the points of the number of people voting in their rounds and so have done as well as each other. Last year's #201 Don't Cha re-enters reasonably high for a song that I think has aged awfully, Millionaire is Kelis' highest song this year, I don't get it myself but plenty of people love it to pieces so there you go.

 

Gimme More is.. another Britney song I can't remember much about, and the final one of the 4 is a new entry for Ellie Goulding's Lights, that is probably looking to gain a cult following here given its her least successful single over here but was a huge hit in 2012 in the US.

Woop for 'Lights'.

Lights is very good.

You need to read up on your Britney, Iz, it's getting embarrassing.

I think I forgot the whole Blackout era ever existed. :lol:

 

The two Britney songs left in the game are the ones nearly everyone (including me) adores so this shouldn't be a problem anymore.

I think I forgot the whole Blackout era ever existed. :lol:

 

You're very lucky Iz.

It's only her BEST era though :angry:

It's quite scary how many people on the internet love Blackout in comparison to the real world!

I agree Bal, by far her best album.

All the singles from the album defined that gap between alright and average and the album tracks I heard weren't that special either. Never understood the hype for it at all.