i think 'ignominiously' is a word i've ONLY EVER seen on buzzjack. are we sure tirren didn't just make it up?

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110 NE Justin Timberlake feat. T.I. - My Love 5.447 (X - X - X - X - X - X - 110)

109 131 Adele - Set Fire To The Rain 5.465 (131 - 109)

108 RE (237) Timbaland (feat. Keri Hilson & DOE) - The Way I Are 5.474 (88 - 93 - 124 - 42 - X - 108)

107 NE 2012 Calvin Harris (feat. Florence Welch) - Sweet Nothing 5.571 (107)

106 19 2005 Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) 5.579 (X - X - X - X - X - 72 - 19 - 106)

 

My Love is a song I didn't even know existed before this competition started and so its huge rise still remains quite unprecedented, until you remember the huge Timberlake love-in this year has been in the lower levels at least. Definitely a big mover, I was shocked that it stormed the 2006 playoff with ease but it's shown that to be deserved with its performance since.

 

What I view as Adele's best song is at #109, seeing a slight increase from last year but not quite good enough when the other two behemoths from 21 are holding up well somewhere in the final 60. And The Way I Are, one of 2007's deserved big hitters and again, Timbaland (maybe even Keri's, but certainly whoever DOE is) best work re-enters after losing itself from the top 200 last year after an incredibly successful 2011 run.

 

Sweet Nothing does incredibly well but there are two more songs from 2012 yet outside the top 100, showing that year's power on here, and indie fave Arcade Fire can't quite match the phenomenal top 20 placing it acheived last year and just misses out on the andra chansen round this time.

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105 24 Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla 5.579 (X - X - X - X - 118 - 24 - 105)

104 NE Lana Del Rey - Born To Die 5.612 (104)

103 110 Nicki Minaj - Super Bass 5.651 (110 - 103)

102 NE Disclosure (feat. Sam Smith) - Latch 5.694 (102)

101 RE (223) Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry 5.711 (140 - 128 - 156 - 137 - X - 101)

 

Following on from indie faves seeing a huge drop this year, and one I'm much sadder about, Hoppípolla finds itself having a similar drop to Rebellion (Lies). A stunningly beautiful creation, it can't repeat the big success it had last year and had to make do with just missing out on 2006's top 10.

 

Nicki Minaj's best performing song for the second year in a row, Super Bass only rises a fraction, at this rate it'll squeeze in the top 100 next year. Two entries from new kids on the block Lana Del Rey and Disclosure put in strong showings as they just miss out on going any higher (and both are fantastic songs that defined my 2012 in different ways (and no, the start of my 2012 was not a big depressing mess Lana h8ers, it was its beauty I was drawn to)). Latch is perfect though, it needs to do even better next time.

 

Finally, the song the closest to going any further was Fergie's most critically acclaimed (by BJ at least) solo single Big Girls Don't Cry. I've loved it since it came out and so it was a bit disappointing to not see it go any further, but at least it makes up for last year's drop out by gaining a new peak (imagine if in 4 years that's still it though :()

 

So we should be entering uncharted territory next, as I haven't revealed the playoff failures to anyone yet (as in, you could have worked out this last 100 if you really looked at my results hard enough). Possible EXCITEMENT.

I love Arcade Fire and all but 'Rebellion (Lies)' is highly overrated on here, it's not one of their better songs for me, so don't mind seeing the big drop for that. 'Hoppípolla' on the other hand is far too low.

 

Hope 'Latch' can climb into the top 100 next year at least, but #102 is a pretty great position for it really.

i think 'ignominiously' is a word i've ONLY EVER seen on buzzjack. are we sure tirren didn't just make it up?

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ignominious :angry:

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100 81 Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood 1.905 (55 - 81 - 100)

99 RE (371) Girls Aloud - The Promise 1.909 (63 - 93 - 131 - X - 99)

98 163 Saturdays - All Fired Up 2.119 (163 - 98)

97 154 Amy Winehouse - Rehab 2.136 (49 - 15 - 20 - 21 - 111 - 154 - 97)

96 RE (210) Natasha Bedingfield - These Words 2.250 (122 - 123 - 144 - 65 - X - 176 - X - 96)

 

The wooden spoon of the playoffs goes to Hollywood as it continues its ever downward spiral from a high of #55 on its first year. The first major hit from indie-pop queen Marina, with all its cynicism about American fame and superstardom, it set the stage for what was to come with two near perfect albums, an induction into hipster royalty (quickly followed by her fanbase losing hipsters and gaining pop fans) a level of mid-stardom and an ego far far above that. Anyway, great song.

 

The Promise's re-entry into acceptance is actually the highest climb, even higher than Good Luck's actually (I'd previously praised that, but The Promise beats that climb by 3 places, rising a staggering 272). I've no idea what exactly happened last year but Girls Aloud are back in the game here.

 

The Saturdays climb into the top 100 just barely as they stall behind one of Amy Winehouse's songs with a great history in this game, also appearing back in the top 100 but this time after a few years happily sitting outside of it (poor desperate Sats, I think All Fired Up will be lucky to still be here next year, as once their Greatest Hits comes out... well, who knows what could happen :kink:)

 

Oh, and These Words re-enters at its second-highest position. It's passed me by mostly so I don't have much to say about it.

Ugh at Girls Aloud's best song being beaten by one of The Saturdays' worst :( "These Words" is Natasha Bedingfield's worst single from Unwritten as well, I've no idea why it was the most successful. I'm shocked that "Rehab" plummeted after Amy's death whilst "Back To Black" did the complete opposite though! :o

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95 153 Coldplay - Clocks 2.333 (X - 51 - 94 - 112 - 75 - 99 - 153 - 95)

94 80 Jennifer Lopez (feat. Pitbull) - On The Floor 2.405 (80 - 94)

93 127 Keane - Somewhere Only We Know 2.429 (X - 171 - 141 - 95 - 103 - 186 - 127 - 93)

92 RE (308) Saturdays - Ego 2.636 (177 - X - 92)

91 108 Adele - Hometown Glory 2.643 (X - X - 192 - 108 - 91)

 

Still on schedule, if I blitz this tomorrow...

 

There is another Saturdays song in the bottom 10, obviously this gives even greater credence to their flop potential and I mock them verily. Ego is one of their best songs and to be absolutely fair it has almost halved its peak and had a monster climb this year and it still has plenty of years left on the clock to do even better.

 

Unfortunately time is running out for the two indie-rock bastions in this section. The last clock has chimed for Clocks as after several years of hanging around these sort of positions it settles on a happy median for its final outing, while Somewhere Only We Know gains 2 places on its peak, only its second time in the top 100. Both are fine examples of their era and genre.

 

On The Floor, J-Lo's comeback hit, slips 14 places. It's one of the few J-Lo songs I have any time for and the lacklustre followups the J-Lo/Pitbull duo has brought out haven't come anywhere near it. It's the highest Lopez song and the only one in the top 200.

 

And the highest song from Adele pre-huge fame is again Hometown Glory. It, like everything else from 19, has been overshadowed by the bigger hits since 2011 but despite this continues to creep up the rankings (presumably more Adele fanz being created) until it rests at just the edge of the top 90.

Somewhere Only We Know :wub:

 

The singles from Hopes & Fears were so damn good, with "Somewhere Only We Know" being their ultimate best! :wub: I've not actually heard anything from Keane's second or fourth album but "Spiralling" was really good and then Strangeland was just very weak throughout.

Everybody's Changing is my favourite, but they're all fantastic from Hopes And Fears anyway (and Somewhere Only We Know is close behind that). Under The Iron Sea wasn't really that good for them looking back, shame about such a lacklustre followup to a great debut.

 

I'll have to disagree about Strangeland though, Perfect Symmetry and Night Train felt a bit so-so lead singles aside but Strangeland really felt like a full strong album from them again for the first time since they debuted.

I'll have to disagree about Strangeland though, Perfect Symmetry and Night Train felt a bit so-so lead singles aside but Strangeland really felt like a full strong album from them again for the first time since they debuted.

I don't dislike Strangeland, it feels like too obvious an attempt to recreate Hopes & Fears, and there's no single stand-out track on the former either.

Haven't really listened to Strangeland but the Alesso remix of Silenced by the Night and the Afrojack remix of Sovereign Light Café :wub:

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90 128 Alphabeat - Fascination 2.643 (159 - X - 128 - 90)

89 90 Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody 2.795 (120 - 164 - X - 90 - 89)

88 77 Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory 2.833 (77 - 88)

87 73 Shakira (feat. Wyclef Jean) - Hips Don't Lie 2.841 (29 - 152 - 113 - 92 - 67 - 73 - 87)

86 85 P!nk - Who Knew 2.857 (22 - 111 - 22 - 24 - 29 - 85 - 86)

 

The highest song from Born This Way, yet below every non-Lovegame single from The Fame (Monster), The Edge Of Glory slips 11 places but holds its own in the bottom quarter. I think this is a pretty accurate assessment, it was the only song from Gaga's second studio album that pretty much everything went right for and owing to just being a strong pop song not attached to a bizarre 15 minute video it's mostly the most well remembered of that lot.

 

Who Knew has had a remarkably successful history in this game, but it either gets mid-level in the final or mid-level in the playoffs and is just in the latter this year. It's the most successful P!nk song, a title which does surprise me a little but does she really have any songs with as wide an appeal?

 

Conversely, I'd expect Hips Don't Lie to do a little more annually, but it hasn't reached the final since its first time around and looks set to spend the rest of its day around this level, strange for one of the most successful songs of the mid-00s, sung by a popular female singer no less.

 

Finally, two songs from 2008, Fascination for Scandi power, which has risen into the top 100 for the first time this year, and Kings Of Leon's best song which manages to perform the semi-amazing feat of only rising 1 place.

I definitely appreciate "Use Somebody"/Only By The Night a whole lot more now than I did in 2008 when I actively detested everything that they released. "Who Knew" is nice, but nowhere near my favourite of P!nk's songs - "Just Like A Pill" and "Don't Let Me Get Me" take that crown (with "Lady Marmalade" up there too, I imagine that performed moderately well on here). Poor Shakira, but "Whenever, Wherever" had a great run so I can't be too down about that.

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85 63 Rihanna - Disturbia 2.909 (44 - 13 - 35 - 63 - 85)

84 NE Florence & The Machine - Spectrum 2.929 (84)

83 171 Rihanna - Unfaithful 2.952 (X - 102 - X - X - 78 - 171 - 83)

82 38 Florence & The Machine - Shake It Out 3.000 (38 - 82)

81 138 Kate Nash - Foundations 3.023 (159 - X - X - 125 - 138 - 81)

 

Double Rihanna whammy here as we get to the best track ever. Oh wait, that's just my opinion. Unfaithful does however come within 5 places of its best result ever after that awful crash last year so things aren't looking too bad for a haunting Rihanna ballad that I can listen to at any time of the day, or night. Not even overshadowed that much by the greatest musical creation, is her third best song Disturbia (I have a Rihanna codex that I update all of the time) which is one of her most enduring and interesting club songs (shush Eric Blob, the vocals play around the track so much and so gloriously it should be on its way to become a classic and it's definitely the most commanding Rihanna song when it comes to dancing, We Found Love could never). It celebrates 5 years in the top 100 but falls to its lowest position yet.

 

Before I get blindsided by my RiRi looning and post the whole section without commenting on any of the other songs, it should be obvious that Rihanna is not the only artist with 2 entries here. Florence & The Machine takes up two of the other ones with her notable singles from Ceremonials. Shake It Out suffers a crushing fall from last year's top 40 but remains kinda stable considering, it really was recent hype with that one as Spectrum gaining her her first #1 has completely left SIO in the dust. Except here where it is still two places higher. What would you know? Spectrum is actually the only track from 2012's top 10 that did not make it to the final, for those saying the final is recent-dominated, you're right, 15% of the songs are from last year. Both of these are fantastic, just Flo M has had a bit of her stock dropping this year.

 

The final entry is Kate Nash's Foundations. It gets in the top 100 for the first time. She can take comfort that she's just beaten two Rihanna songs but the one that beat her in real life is a long way off yet.

Those five songs in the latest section are shit the bed incredible.

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80 RE (235) David Guetta (feat. Kelly Rowland) - When Love Takes Over 3.024 (72 - 172 - X - 80)

79 50 Nelly Furtado - All Good Things (Come To An End) 3.048 (X - 27 - 73 - 166 - 168 - 50 - 79)

78 79 Beyoncé - Irreplaceable 3.068 (105 - 176 - 55 - 31 - 44 - 79 - 78)

77 161 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream 3.091 (154 - 161 - 77)

76 82 Amerie - 1 Thing 3.143 (X - 200 - 107 - X - 110 - 77 - 82 - 76)

 

Plenty of people were rooting for it to get in the final but in the end Amerie falls quite short and can only improve on its peak by one placing. It still has two more years and given it has come 4th in its year for the past two at least it might well make it eventually. It isn't quite my favourite 2005 song but I can appreciate (I swear to god though, if the cover of it in BJSC right now wins... so sorry leww but yeah) it sometimes.

 

David Guetta's first big single from One Love, a collab with Kelly Rowland originally had a downward sloping in this game but it's had a bounce back now, it's gone up and down in my affections before but I quite like it, good to see it almost getting back to its peak.

 

The others are all from regular pop princesses past and present. Nelly has fallen 29 places from last year's position. Given that in the early part of the 2006 round it looked like it was joining Maneater in the final easily this finish is a little disappointing but hey. Irreplaceable has gone up and down for Beyoncé but is mostly recognised as the keeper from the B'day era, Deja Vu never does nearly as well, having to go through the bottom level where all the random indie songs are most of the time.

 

Finally, it's official, the best single from the Teenage Dream era for Katy is the title track itself as it leaps into the top 100 ahead of Firework and E.T. It's my favourite aside from the perennially underrated The One That Got Away so I'm pleased with this outcome. But save the serious Katy looning for later by voting for Hot N Cold in the final.

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75 51 Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone 3.205 (181 - 48 - 51 - 75)

74 17 Florence & The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) 3.214 (X - X - 17 - 74)

73 177 Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No 3.214 (X - 42 - 99 - 104 - 177 - 73)

72 18 Johnny Cash - Hurt 3.250 (X - X - X - X - X - 38 - 18 - 72)

71 62 Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) 3.250 (37 - 62 - 71)

 

Two of last year's top 20 plummet here, the final Florence & The Machine song coming not long after her other two in the top 100, it is probably Florence's best song, but after its wonder year last time it couldn't really hold up the glory. Hurt also suffers a bad fall on its final year, a great cover by a great man and it's a shame it wasn't in more years than these 3.

 

Rihanna and Calvin have a big contender in the final this year, and in warm-up for that they have their great club songs Only Girl from 2010 and I'm Not Alone from 2009. They're continuing to drop from peaks in the final which indicates slow forgetfulness. Eventually.

 

And then there is Sexy! No No No which is one Girls Aloud song I just don't get and can probably be best described as a frantic mess. One of the weakest songs I've come across in this top 100 yet.

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70 107 Marina & The Diamonds - Radioactive 144 44 3.273 (107 - 70)

69 152 Saturdays (feat. Flo Rida) - Higher 139 42 3.310 (X - 152 - 69)

68 103 Sugababes - Push The Button 139 42 3.310 (14 - 23 - 28 - 41 - 46 - 63 - 103 - 68)

67 74 Groove Armada (feat. Mutya Buena) - Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control 142 42 3.381 (120 - X - 199 - X - 74 - 67)

66 124 Beyoncé - Halo 143 42 3.405 (134 - 51 - 124 - 66)

 

Radioactive makes big waves for a small hit as it becomes Marina's most successful song, I wouldn't say it's been a standout among her fantastic discography but putting the Marina-loving to one side for a minute it probably has the widest appeal just ahead of Hollywood as a semi-dance-pop song, its 37 place climb is very healthy for future success.

 

Push The Button returns to the top 100 after a short dip oustide, still its 3rd straight year outside the final. The 2005 #1 is not the only appearance for Mutya as she gets her own song just ahead of her and her 2.0 crew (implying she ever ruled the Sugababes is a risky prospect but it flows) with her Groove Armada collab which always looks like she's just stroking her own ego. Fab song though.

 

Finally, my two favourites in this section, the song that my good friend Lee Wallace has played over 10,000 times muscles in at the appropriate position of #69 (it's where the Sats are at their hottest :kink:) in the form of Higher. Anthem of 2010 y'all.

 

The other one has been a constant in my favourite tracks ever since it was released. Halo continues its yo-yo run in and out of the top 100, the beautiful ballad from Beyoncé looking to continue its run - 104 - 91 to complete the mathematical pattern. Bré will tell you the technical name for it, all I know is its a chart sequence. Halo is perfect though. *.*