June 9, 201411 yr It's Gonna Be Me is class. Max Martin at his very best, before the Kelly Clarkson and Katy Perry horror days. Edited June 9, 201411 yr by THE GRIFF
June 9, 201411 yr 230. Robbie Williams “Rock DJ” UK #1 229. Shapeshifters “Lola's Theme” UK #1 228. Kylie Minogue “Spinning Around” UK #1 227. Britney Spears “Womanizer” USA #1 (UK #3) 226. Arctic Monkeys “When The Sun Goes Down” UK #1 225. Westlife “World Of Our Own” UK #1 224. Beyoncé & Shakira “Beautiful Liar” UK #1 (USA #3) 223. Usher “U Remind Me” USA #1 (UK #3) 222. 50 Cent featuring Nate Dogg “21 Questions” USA #1 (UK #6) 221. Orson “No Tomorrow” UK #1 Some big pop stars make their first appearance on the list: Robbie, Kylie, Britney, Beyoncé, Shakira, and Usher. All of them have more entries to come except for Robbie. This is also the only time you’ll see Westlife, despite them having eleven number-one singles. I’m not familiar with most of them, but ‘World Of Our Own’ gets bonus points for being one of their originals. I am literally shocked to read that Orson is an American band. They literally did nothing there—and of course ‘No Tomorrow’ has the lowest weekly #1 sales ever in the UK—but they impressively climbed to the top of the UK charts and knocked Chico off by doing so. Also note that ’21 Questions’ is already the second song to have the number 21 in the title, after ’21 Seconds’ by So Solid Crew. Only one spot away from being #221 :kink: That's too bad! bSffIPn_aV4 some classics in that batch - Orson, Robbie, Shapeshifters, Kylie, and Britney, Beyonce, Shakira too..!
June 10, 201411 yr Author It's Gonna Be Me is class. Max Martin at his very best, before the Kelly Clarkson and Katy Perry horror days.So true. Just after finishing my post with It's Gonna Be Me, I heard it in the car and that renewed my appreciation for it. Still doesn't hold a candle to Tearin' Up My Heart though. As for 'horror days' I wouldn't say Kelly Clarkson or Katy Perry but rather Usher, Maroon 5, Taylor Swift...but that's just me! some classics in that batch - Orson, Robbie, Shapeshifters, Kylie, and Britney, Beyonce, Shakira too..!Indeed! :o It's good to see you here!
June 10, 201411 yr Author 160. Jennifer Lopez featuring LL Cool J “All I Have” USA #1 (UK #2) 159. Rihanna “Disturbia” USA #1 (UK #3) 158. Eminem “Like Toy Soldiers” UK #1 (USA #34) 157. Britney Spears “Oops! I Did It Again” UK #1 (USA #9) 156. Owl City “Fireflies” #1 in USA and UK 155. R. Kelly “Ignition” UK #1 (USA #2) 154. S Club 7 “Don’t Stop Movin’” UK #1 153. Mint Royale “Singin’ In The Rain” UK #1 152. Eamon “F**k It (I Don’t Want You Back)” UK #1 (USA #16) 151. Lily Allen “Smile” UK #1 (USA #49) Fun fact about Jennifer Lopez: she has 3 #1s in the UK and 4 in the US, and none of them are the same song! She has three more to come after ‘All I Have’ which starts off this section. Eminem and Britney Spears, who both make their second appearance, can relate to this. Eminem has 8 #1s in the UK and 5 in the US but only 2 of those in common, and Britney has 6 in the UK and 5 in the US but only one in common. Speaking of songs reaching #1 in both countries, ‘Fireflies’ by Owl City did the opposite of Taio Cruz by topping Billboard in 2009 and the UK chart in 2010. I intended to list Eamon and Frankee back-to-back but after re-listening to ‘F.U.R.B.’, it’s terrible! Instead Eamon gets to sit between Mint Royale and Lily Allen. I thought ‘Singin’ In The Rain’ would be just a cover of the original but it’s absolutely brilliant. As for ‘Smile’, I have fond memories of seeing the video on TV in the morning while getting ready for school. 0WxDrVUrSvI
June 10, 201411 yr Disturbia is one of my favourite Rihanna singles :wub: Eamon's song is a great track too :D Edited June 10, 201411 yr by jsilv
June 11, 201411 yr Author Thanks for the comments! Keep them coming :D 150. Fedde Le Grand “Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit” UK #1 149. Spiller featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor “Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)” UK #1 148. Sean Kingston “Beautiful Girls” #1 in USA and UK 147. Akon “Don‘t Matter” USA #1 (UK #3) 146. Chris Brown “Run It!” USA #1 (UK #2) 145. Kelly Clarkson “My Life Would Suck Without You” #1 in USA and UK 144. Nickelback “How You Remind Me” USA #1 (UK #4) 143. Alicia Keys “No One” USA #1 (UK #6) 142. Craig David “7 Days” UK #1 (USA #10) 141. Fergie “Big Girls Don‘t Cry” USA #1 (UK #2) 100 songs down, 150 to go, and we just now get to two of the least popular artists of our time, Chris Brown and Nickelback. They should really consider collaborating. ‘Run It!’ and ‘How You Remind Me’ were their respective debut hits and I’m sure neither of them imagined becoming such a hate figure. I’m pretty sure I was the very last person to know that anyone hated Nickelback, so I’m not going to disown this song even if everyone else does. But they are a terrible band now, for sure. ‘Groovejet’ was one of the first British songs I discovered and loved right away, even though it was eight years old by that time. Also, a bit of a coincidence, ‘No One’ was #1 when I started following the Billboard charts, and ‘My Life Would Suck Without You’ was #1 when I started following the UK charts…and somehow they both ended up in this section together! Yay. agrXgrAgQ0U
June 12, 201411 yr Some absolute TUNES mentioned - especially I'm Not Alone and Singin' In The Rain :heart: From that last batch I love Put Your Hands Up For Detroit, Groovejet (If This Ain't Love), Beautiful Girls, My Life Would Suck Without You, 7 Days, Big Girls Don't Cry & How You Remind Me. :wub:
June 12, 201411 yr Author 140. Eminem featuring Dido “Stan” UK #1 (USA #51) 139. Sugababes “Freak Like Me” UK #1 138. Enrique Iglesias “Be With You” USA #1 137. Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah” USA #1 (UK #2) 136. Michael Andrews & Gary Jules “Mad World” UK #1 135. Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” UK #1 134. U2 “Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own” UK #1 (USA #97) 133. Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx “Gold Digger” USA #1 (UK #2) 132. Eric Prydz “Call On Me” UK #1 131. Savage Garden “I Knew I Loved You” USA #1 (UK #10) It’s getting harder and harder to eliminate songs! Out of this batch, only Eminem, U2, and the Sugababes will show up again. If you hadn’t realized, Eminem is responsible for the name Stan being turned into a verb and becoming a staple of the music-forum lexicon, particularly on ATRL but sometimes here as well. It took me a while to figure that out but I wonder how he feels about that :lol: If you haven’t heard ‘Be With You’ before, it’s a refreshing bit of the OLD Enrique, not a stand-out track of his but the good hooks make up for it. The rest of these are more familiar—‘Mad World’, ‘Gold Digger’, ‘Call On Me’, and ‘Hey There Delilah’. The Plain White T’s have done well for a one-hit wonder; they’ve had a few other songs that kind of almost achieved something. In case you didn’t know that. YT9wVDxnyV0 Edited June 13, 201411 yr by Riser
June 13, 201411 yr Author 130. Vertical Horizon “Everything You Want” USA #1 (UK #42) 129. Jay Sean featuring Lil Wayne “Down” USA #1 (UK #3) 128. T.I. featuring Rihanna “Live Your Life” USA #1 (UK #2) 127. LeAnn Rimes “Can’t Fight The Moonlight” UK #1 (USA #11) 126. Daniel Bedingfield “If You're Not The One” UK #1 (USA #15) 125. Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. “My Love” USA #1 (UK #2) 124. James Blunt “You're Beautiful” #1 in USA and UK 123. Sean Paul “Temperature” USA #1 (UK #11) 122. Destiny’s Child “Bootylicious” USA #1 (UK #2) 121. All Saints “Black Coffee” UK #1 Next at #130 is ‘Everything You Want’, a midtempo pop-rock song from 1999/2000 that’s probably not well known to Buzzjack. LeAnn Rimes is the second country artist on the countdown (after Tim McGraw); but of course ‘Can’t Fight The Moonlight’ is decidedly not country, much like the song on which Tim McGraw was featured. They can do whatever genre they want, quite frankly. T.I makes his final two appearances here, on ‘Live Your Life’ with Rihanna and ‘My Love’ with Justin Timberlake. Twitter sensation James Blunt is #124, followed by ‘Temperature’, one of Sean Paul’s many songs to which linguists have yet to decipher the lyrics. Joking aside, he was brilliant back then and can still release something good on rare occasions. I love that ‘Black Coffee’ is one of All Saints’ #1s because it doesn’t sound like a big hit, just soothing and lovely with the help of William Orbit’s magic. Next to them is another girl group, Destiny’s Child with ‘Bootylicious’. They have a singles rate happening in the Beyoncé forum! I could use some help picking which song of theirs to give an 11. v0Xej6Sz5nU
June 13, 201411 yr Live Your Live is amazing! Down used to be one of my favourite songs back in the day too! Bootylicious :wub:
June 15, 201411 yr Author 120. Lonestar “Amazed” USA #1 (UK #21) 119. Christina Aguilera “What A Girl Wants” USA #1 (UK #3) 118. Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell “Drop It Like It's Hot” USA #1 (UK #10) 117. Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone “Ridin’” USA #1 (UK #2) 116. Creed “With Arms Wide Open” USA #1 (UK #13) 115. Usher featuring Alicia Keys “My Boo” USA #1 (UK #5) 114. Daniel Powter “Bad Day” USA #1 (UK #2) 113. Mario Winans featuring P. Diddy & Enya “I Don't Wanna Know” UK #1 (USA #2) 112. Cascada “Evacuate The Dancefloor” UK #1 (USA #25) 111. U2 “Beautiful Day” UK #1 (USA #21) ‘Amazed’ :wub: Not a huge fan of Lonestar but I heard this a lot back in 2000 and loved it. But its beauty has diminished over the years, it’s really just a standard late-90s ballad. Also representing 2000 are Christina Aguilera, U2, and…Creed. Creed is every bit as unpopular as Nickelback nowadays but I have two of their CDs and can’t deny ‘With Arms Wide Open’ or any of their other songs. ‘Bad Day’ is another one that I really connected to at the time. Daniel Powter is perhaps the ultimate one-hit wonder of the noughties. Also here, ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ and ‘Ridin’ are undeniable jams. ‘My Boo’ seems very forgotten now…a great collab and a reminder of when every Usher single not only was a hit, but deserved to be a hit. co6WMzDOh1o
June 16, 201411 yr Author 110. Will Young “Leave Right Now” UK #1 (USA #81) 109. Jay-Z featuring Rihanna and Kanye West “Run This Town” UK #1 (USA #2) 108. Katy Perry “I Kissed A Girl” #1 in USA and UK 107. JLS “Everybody In Love” UK #1 106. Sugababes “Round Round” UK #1 105. Girls Aloud “The Promise” UK #1 104. Britney Spears “3” USA #1 (UK #7) 103. Michelle McManus “All This Time” UK #1 102. Fergie “London Bridge” USA #1 (UK #3) 101. Nelly Furtado “Maneater” UK #1 (USA #16) I thought Kanye West wouldn’t show up again but forgot about his verse on ‘Run This Town’, lead single from The Blueprint III which was probably my favorite Jay-Z era. If anything, this song is still so underrated. Also from 2009 are Britney Spears with ‘3’, the shortest title of any #1 song, and JLS with ‘Everybody In Love’. Out of their 5 number-ones I like this and ‘Love You More’ the best. Another highlight from this section is ‘The Promise’, the song that got me into Girls Aloud albeit five or six years late. I must draw attention to ‘All This Time’ as I love it so much! I’ve never heard Michelle sing anything else but this music video is so cliché with the most flawless hand movements ever *.* Once you see them, you can't un-see them..not that you'd want to! ‘London Bridge’ is Fergie’s last solo entry, one of my faves from The Duchess but ‘Fergalicious’, ‘Clumsy’, and ‘Finally’ would place so much higher had they been #1s. And just missing out on the top 100 is Nelly Furtado with ‘Maneater’ which at the time was my fave from Loose, but not anymore. Two other tracks from Loose did make the top 100 and have a chance of doing very well! R8rtWvWD9co
June 17, 201411 yr Author 100. Eminem “The Real Slim Shady” UK #1 (USA #4) 99. Mariah Carey “We Belong Together” USA #1 (UK #2) 98. Kylie Minogue “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” UK #1 (USA #7) 97. Shaggy featuring Rayvon “Angel” #1 in USA and UK 96. Destiny’s Child “Say My Name” USA #1 (UK #3) 95. Rihanna featuring Jay-Z “Umbrella” #1 in USA and UK 94. Usher “Burn” #1 in USA and UK 93. Blu Cantrell featuring Sean Paul “Breathe” UK #1 (USA #41) 92. Mika “Grace Kelly” UK #1 (USA #57) 91. My Chemical Romance “Welcome To The Black Parade” UK #1 (USA #9) Finally into the top 100, where all of the songs are at least a 9/10 and will quickly approach 10/10 territory. It all starts with my earliest memory of Eminem, watching ‘The Real Slim Shady’ video on TV which probably wasn’t appropriate for an 8-year-old. Next is ‘We Belong Together’, a 14-week #1 in America and actually Billboard’s number-one song of the decade. I can’t disagree as it was absolutely everywhere, but I love it and can’t think of a song more deserving. The longest-running UK #1 of the decade is also here, ‘Umbrella’ by Rihanna with 10 weeks. That one was impossible to escape too. I have no clue how ‘Breathe’ managed a four-week run at the top but that more than makes up for rudely missing the top 40 in the States. The same goes for five-week #1 ‘Grace Kelly’, a song that really stands out for its originality and deserves to be a classic. But what makes me happiest is seeing that My Chemical Romance made it to #1 with a brilliant rock anthem, which used to be fairly common but only a couple of bands have done so since. kDWgsQhbaqU
June 19, 201411 yr Author 90. Usher featuring Ludacris & Lil Jon “Yeah!” #1 in USA and UK 89. Lady GaGa featuring Colby O’Donis “Just Dance” #1 in USA and UK 88. Avril Lavigne “Girlfriend” USA #1 (UK #2) 87. Kaiser Chiefs “Ruby” UK #1 86. Madonna “Hung Up” UK #1 (USA #7) 85. Kid Rock “All Summer Long” UK #1 (USA #23) 84. Evanescence feat. Paul McCoy “Bring Me To Life” UK #1 (USA #5) 83. The Ting Tings “That’s Not My Name” UK #1 (USA #39) 82. Jennifer Lopez feat. Ja Rule “Ain’t It Funny” USA #1 (UK #4) 81. Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris “Holiday” UK #1 A fairly rock-dominant section here, including Kaiser Chiefs, Evanescence, and—believe it or not—Kid Rock! I wasn’t following the charts at the time and have no idea how enough people could like ‘All Summer Long’ to make it #1, but I’m glad it happened. You might think it would do better in America, but he actually refused to put his album on iTunes there so it charted only on airplay alone, making that #23 peak very impressive. As a result there was a fake version that peaked higher than this at #19! The last of JLo’s Billboard #1s is at #82 but her two UK #1s from last decade are still to come. This is specifically the Murder Remix of ‘Ain’t It Funny’ but I think this and the original both make a perfect single. They’re two completely different songs, each with a flawless melody and fantastic production. I also don’t know how ‘That’s Not My Name’ got to #1 but it’s wonderfully quirky and 2008 had the best variety of number-ones. ANE9A5osUes
June 21, 201411 yr Author 80. Gwen Stefani “Hollaback Girl” USA #1 (UK #8) 79. Cheryl Cole “Fight For This Love” UK #1 78. Justin Timberlake “What Goes Around…Comes Around” USA #1 (UK #4) 77. Maroon 5 “Makes Me Wonder” USA #1 (UK #2) 76. Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes “Don’t Cha” UK #1 (USA #2) 75. Lily Allen “The Fear” UK #1 (USA #80) 74. Christina Aguilera “Beautiful” UK #1 (USA #2) 73. Jennifer Lopez “Get Right” UK #1 (USA #12) 72. 50 Cent “In Da Club” USA #1 (UK #3) 71. Scissor Sisters “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’” UK #1 Gwen Stefani kicks off this next post, as rumors of a new solo album slowly circulate the Internet. Although she’s an incredible talent, I have trouble believing that her third era is going to happen. I’d much prefer a comeback from the Pussycat Dolls, who are at #76 with ‘Don’t Cha’. Just ahead of them is Lily Allen with one of my favorite music videos of all time, which helps ‘The Fear’ sneak into the top 75. J-Lo appears yet again, with her saxtastic hit from 2005. She was way ahead of the trend there! 50 Cent makes his second and final appearance at #72. It’s a shame ‘In Da Club’ was outpeaked in the UK by his atrocious song ‘My Life’, featuring Adam of Maroon 5 who are at #77 with ‘Makes Me Wonder’, easily the best of their #1s in either country. What’s even more tragic is that the Scissor Sisters have never had a chart hit in their home country. ‘I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ did have minimal airplay and TV play so I was still able to appreciate it at the time. It was a massive hit everywhere else and would probably be just as big today considering how well disco-flavored pop is doing in general. 4H5I6y1Qvz0
June 22, 201411 yr The Fear is amazing, all of her albums are amazing. She's so witty, definitely one of my favourite pop stars. Get Right is also great, not my favourite J-Lo track though. That would be Love Don't Cost A Thing, Jenny From The Block or I'm Into You. All are 10/10 songs :wub: A big yes at Say My Name and Welcome to the Black Parade as well, both amazing songs. Destiny's Child have such a good discography though :heart:
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