Oops at losing my favourite song and another song in my top 5 of all time already :( Great to see battlefield going top 100 and because of you also returning :heart: (and vacating the 101 spot for another song in my top 10 of all time :lol: )

Excellent section on the whole, big yay for Veronicas and GRL especially :wub:

 

90 255 2007 Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own 153 ( 128 - X - X - 232 - 310 - 283 - 255 - 90 )

89 82 2009 Beyoncé - Halo 157 ( 134 - 51 - 124 - 66 - 82 - 89 )

88 67 2011 Adele - Set Fire To The Rain 159 ( 131 - 109 - 67 - 88 )

87 55 2009 Lady Gaga - Poker Face 159 ( 2 - 34 - 40 - 22 - 55 - 87 )

86 130 2012 Little Mix - DNA 160 ( 234 - 130 - 86 )

85 138 2008 Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music 160 ( 92 - 63 - 61 - 175 - 187 - 138 - 85 )

84 59 2006 Girls Aloud - Something Kinda OOOOH 161 ( 129 - 39 - 14 - 44 - 59 - 204 - 159 - 59 - 84 )

83 50 2006 Nelly Furtado - Maneater 161 ( 8 - 14 - 27 - 48 - 47 - 39 - 29 - 50 - 83 )

82 87 2008 Alphabeat - Fascination 162 ( X - 159 - 351 - 128 - 90 - 87 - 82 )

81 92 2008 Sam Sparro - Black And Gold 162 ( X - 170 - 222 - 255 - 155 - 92 - 81 )

 

Aside from Rehab coming last, this was a good year for Amy Winehouse tracks, mainly because the 2007 round had about as many of them as 2009 had Gaga tracks, and that's most seen in Tears Dry On Their Own which vastly improves on its positions the past few years to get into the top 100 for the first time. Given that, it's done very well. Only 2 top 10 scores, but it's still two points ahead of the bottom 10.

 

The first of MY top 10s to be lost, which of course are the most important ones, is one of two Beyoncé tracks in this final, and surprisingly, it's finished up as the lower one. I suppose Halo's saccharine nature may not be for everyone but I find it really quite glorious and the one Bey song I'll really count among my huge faves. Only scratchy and FleetSeb also gave it top 10 scores, the latter saving it from a much worse fate in the bottom 10.

 

Set Fire To The Rain hasn't always been the most well-regarded of the Adele trio here, overplay really got to it at certain points and even now it's barely recovered. But as Someone Like You dropped, Set Fire To The Rain has risen, and has overtaken that one for the first time, even though it does drop 21 places.

 

Another Gaga song out already? :o Oh no. It's been in the final every year but with the expanded places we've allowed Poker Face to drop to its lowest position yet. This actually got only one solitary 10th place from Liam, although a few 11th-13th places helped it too. Maybe the sheen is finally rubbing off.

 

DNA makes it to the top 100 for the first time. In 2012 it's always had huge competition but it's been rising every year as Little Mix become more and more established as a girlband.

 

Back into the top 100 for the first time in four years, Don't Stop The Music draws with DNA. Another unfortunate song to peak at #61 (although that may or may not have been at a time when the final was 50 songs long), it only had one top 10, a 2nd placer from Rush.

 

Something Kinda OOOOH (I have been informed that the extra o's are necessary, the capitals may not be) peaked at #14 several years ago, and has had an up and down run ever since. It's been yet another bumper year for Girls Aloud, and this is only the first of many. It's the second 30 to fall, that of Jay's. Sorry Jay, I'm keeping the delicious Girls Aloud shade to a minimum here for OOOOH.

 

Maneater adds to an impressive 9-year run in the top 100, albeit its lowest position yet and the first time outside the top 50. It's often been the winner of 2006 but didn't quite reach it this year and got a bit overlooked in the final.

 

Fascination and Black And Gold, both from 2008, reach new peaks this year. Black And Gold only barely got through to the final so an 81st place finish is pretty good for it as it climbs 11 places. Fascination took a long while to get going, it was the last track to have no top 10s before it got two towards the end, one from Chez, and a first place from Riser.

Great to see new peaks for Fascination, Black And Gold, and Tears Dry On Their Own! And Untouched as well, the Veronicas' comeback seems to have done wonders for that here.

Great to see G.R.L. get an entry in the top 100, and Untouched's massive rise *.*

 

That last 10 is all greatness also, esp. Poker Face, DNA, Don't Stop The Music, Something Kinda Ooooh, Maneater & Black and Gold!

 

80 19 2008 Saturdays - Up 165 ( 173 - 112 - 43 - 106 - 53 - 19 - 80 )

79 73 2013 Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble 165 ( 73 - 79 )

78 108 2012 Girls Aloud - Something New 167 ( 130 - 108 - 78 )

77 137 2011 Saturdays - All Fired Up 167 ( 163 - 98 - 137 - 77 )

76 234 2009 David Guetta (feat. Kelly Rowland) - When Love Takes Over 168 ( 72 - 172 - 235 - 80 - 234 - 76 )

75 38 2008 Katy Perry - Hot N Cold 169 ( 88 - 42 - 18 - 41 - 43 - 38 - 75 )

74 80 2009 La Roux - Bulletproof 175 ( X - 330 - 125 - 211 - 80 - 74 )

73 161 2008 Britney Spears - Piece Of Me 181 ( 102 - 85 - 272 - 173 - 163 - 161 - 73 )

72 123 2006 Justin Timberlake (feat. Timbaland) - SexyBack 183 ( 116 - 63 - X - 150 - 303 - 155 - 49 - 123 - 72 )

71 84 2010 Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) 185 ( 154 - 161 - 77 - 84 - 71 )

 

How the mighty have fallen. From 19th and looking set for the future, all the way back down to 80th. It can't even be blamed really on Saturdays fans not voting as much this year because Up is one that tends to get more love from outside their fanbase weirdly enough. The final 20 votes all gave it nothing though so this sort of thing has to be expected when so many people ignore you.

 

I Knew You Were Trouble doesn't actually rise, given Taylor's new status as 'Queen of the World', but instead slips 6 places with only two top 10 scores. Plenty of time to get higher though.

 

Two girlband songs have made the top 90 for the first time up next, and both of them I find intensely overrated. Ah, fine. For Something New it was clearly only a matter of time, it's always been rather beloved on Buzzjack and manages to rise 30 places this year. With 3 top 3 scores from, well, guess who (Jay, Joseph and AdamA in case you somehow hadn't been following who the Girls Aloud loons are), it hasn't done as well as I'd feared, but it's new ground for GA's farewell single, so well done I guess.

 

All Fired Up meanwhile rises 60 places, and despite not doing so well last year, is this year's favourite Saturdays song, god knows why. With one more vote than Something New, it edges ahead with only a few sparse top 10s as far as concentrated love goes.

 

When Love Takes Over seems to fall to the mid-230s every other year, and climb up to the mid-70s when it's not doing that. That's an... interesting run to say the least. One second place from JackJones is its main high scorer.

 

Hot N Cold always seems to underperform in the final, because it normally does very well in 2008, enough to make you believe it'd be top 20 more than just once. 3 top 10s, all of them 9th placers didn't help it get very far and it's not even Katy Perry's highest song any more. Though that was to be expected given her first era is now ancient history or something.

 

Bulletproof builds on last year's work to be in the final for the first time ever and to actually make good on the opportunity by rising 6. It's the only one of these 10 I managed to fit in my votes, because it's a glorious, energetic pop song that is perhaps one of 2009's best ever. It had big supporters in noted La Roux fan Haus, Dobbo and a second place from Riser.

 

Piece Of Me is a Britney song. Nick F1 gave it a 30, so that's quite notable. It's also not been up this high before. May it never be so again. #destroytheblackout #briz

 

SexyBack gives us a rare all-male pop sighting in the top 100, Justin's huge song from 2006 that is just too catchy to be able to ignore. Peaking in the top 50 when Justin did his comeback thing in 2013, it didn't do nearly as well the following year but has rebounded well from that and is back in our good books again, with a top score from Cremey aiding it along.

 

Only Girl in the world also manages to climb 6 places from its peak. Which actually seems rather low for a song of its stature, a well-regarded Rihanna song. It is really good, maybe it's been overshadowed by all the other Rihanna songs getting this far.

 

I wish hot n cold and I knew you were trouble were higher :( Also love only girl and piece of me :heart:

 

70 47 2012 Rudimental - Feel The Love 185 ( 37 - 47 - 70 )

69 166 2012 Rihanna - Diamonds 187 ( 238 - 166 - 69 )

68 65 2013 Icona Pop (feat. Charli XCX) - I Love It 188 ( 65 - 68 )

67 NE 2014 Beyoncé (feat. Jay-Z) - Drunk In Love 192 ( 67 )

66 69 2005 Sugababes - Push The Button 200 ( 14 - 23 - 28 - 41 - 46 - 63 - 103 - 68 - 69 - 66 )

65 78 2005 Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes 201 ( X - X - 100 - 18 - 38 - 102 - 149 - 31 - 78 - 65 )

64 102 2011 Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory 202 ( 77 - 88 - 102 - 64 )

63 56 2007 Kate Nash - Foundations 204 ( 159 - X - X - 125 - 138 - 81 - 56 - 63 )

62 112 2009 Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You 204 ( 28 - 138 - 87 - 168 - 112 - 62 )

61 176 2009 La Roux - In For The Kill 205 ( X - 181 - 94 - 294 - 176 - 61 )

 

Rudimental's debut single, their magnum opus, the song that introduced Sir John Newman to the world, ahead of all Saturdays songs I might add, the song that beat Loreen to #1, no-one-ever-remembers-what-was-#2-that-week... falls to its lowest position yet. I'd say an all-top 100 run is actually pretty impressive for a song of its sort, it's good but not what I'd expect us to be behind in huge numbers.

 

At the coveted position of #69, there's a song that really doesn't fit the number... for once it seems. Diamonds has been doing some impressive climbs every year as it becomes more and more accepted in the Rihanna canon, and as her last solo #1 to date, there may be a certain impatience riding along with it. Somehow I didn't get to include this in my votes which shows how good this final is because I really love it and it's one of my favourite Rihanna singles. So in that case at least I'm really happy to see it top 100.

 

I Love It refuses to die. Well, it drops 3 places so that's at a bit less than last year. 13 people loved this enough to place it in their top 30, whatever makes you guys happy. At LEAST it's a bit of much needed Scandinavian-ness in the charts and it gave Charli XCX a platform on which to build a career. Actually that second one is debatable as a good thing too.

 

One new entry, and now Beyoncé's highest song, her duet with her husband on her newest album, Drunk In Love. I'm not actually sure how that happened given Beyoncé is supposed to be very popular around here and her back catalog is pretty strong even if the one most likely to do well, Crazy In Love, has been out of the game for a couple of years.

 

Push The Button has had a very long and distinguished history, starting off with a #14 position as a song less than a year old all the way back in 2006. Since then it's not dropped out of the top 103 and has indeed won the 2005 title several times. That's pretty impressive. The Sugas had a good year, with several songs getting to the final for the first time, but this is one of only two in the final. Its highest score comes from, unsurprisingly, Mike Sugafan who put it 2nd.

 

One of my top 5 down now, and indeed Liam's favourite, Behind These Hazel Eyes. It didn't have such a good start as Push The Button but once it got nominated into the 2005 rounds it started to really do well, with one top 20 position. Which, seeing as it seems to get overshadowed by a certain other Kelly C song, is really good for it. It bows out at #65, with just over 200 points. I'm happy with that.

 

Always pointed out as the best-regarded song from Born This Way, partly because, like Just Dance, it was a song package that was not dressed up at all behind a flashy video and could just let the song speak for itself, The Edge Of Glory gains a new peak. I'm glad. Throughout this whole thing, it's the only Gaga song I've chucked a few points to, in the 2011 final, which is because the 2011 final was weak. I don't hate Gaga, I enjoy some of her songs, but not to the extent that clearly some of you do (including Haus who, as a noted Gaga fan, chose to give this one his 30 above all others :D ), which often leaves me wondering if I'm missing something. The Edge Of Glory is really great though, one of the few times I can definitely see why she gets so much acclaim.

 

Foundations slips a few places from its peak, not a huge amount to say about that. It's the first song to have two top scores though, from Pavel and Joseph. I know for the latter it's his favourite song of all time, and it is indeed a very good song.

 

My Life Would Suck Without You I've been having a little renaissance with during this competition, so in that case I'm pleased to see it climbing again. It's definitely her best post-Breakaway song for me and that's reflected with it being her second-highest song, ahead of two of the Breakaway trinity. Actually, the only two in this section I gave points to were the Kelly C songs. I must be a loon.

 

In For The Kill comes in several places ahead of Bulletproof. But both of them in the final, that's a new thing. Clearly the long-awaited comeback last year did wonders.. heh. Poor Elly Jackson. I doubt she'll ever reach these heights again. It's not AS good as Bulletproof as far as I'm concerned but still pretty good.

none of my major faves (in the final) having dropped out yet *.*

 

60 76 2005 Gorillaz - DARE 206 ( 130 - 114 - X - 195 - 169 - 105 - 43 - 65 - 76 - 60 )

59 84 2010 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream 207 ( 154 - 161 - 77 - 84 - 59 )

58 165 2007 Groove Armada (feat. Mutya Buena) - Song 4 Mutya 209 ( 120 - X - 199 - 214 - 74 - 67 - 165 - 58 )

57 135 2010 Hurts - Wonderful Life 210 ( X - 42 - 174 - 135 - 57 )

56 NE 2014 Ella Henderson - Ghost 211 ( 56 )

55 57 2013 Justin Timberlake - Mirrors 218 ( 57 - 55 )

54 33 2008 Rihanna - Disturbia 218 ( 44 - 13 - 35 - 63 - 85 - 33 - 54 )

53 131 2013 CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share 221 ( 131 - 53 )

52 NE 2014 Sia - Chandelier 221 ( 52 )

51 24 2011 Adele - Rolling In The Deep 226 ( 8 - 18 - 24 - 51 )

 

I've made no secret of being a huge mega Gorillaz fan in my years of running the competition and it's going to feel very different no longer having Dare and Feel Good Inc to cheer on while I'm adding these things up. DARE, their only #1 and one of the best indie #1s of that year has, despite the higher chart position, always been a bit in the shadow of the song that preceded it from Demon Days, but it's managed to get 4 consecutive years in the top 100 in the final years of its run, perhaps partly due to my ever-high scores for it. :kink: It was my third and Chez Wombat's second

 

Katy Perry again takes an uncharacteristically early bowout as Teenage Dream reaches a high new peak, but it's still not quite high enough. I guess part of that is that she's never had a huge crossover hit that everyone can really be united in, most people seem to have a different fave of hers depending on who you ask. Teenage Dream is normally quite high in most people's affections though and with a third year top 100 it could yet become that. It was Jason's 30, and had three other top 10s, so it can get high scores. Maybe next year.

 

Groove Armada's song about Mutya, with Mutya singing on it, rebounds over 100 places back up to get to 58th. It's a wonderful song, it got Jahq's 30, but only two other 10th placers for top 10s. I gave it a good amount of points myself because it's so very... rhythmic.

 

Wonderful Life was a bit of a surprise package in its first (second available, but it wasn't nominated in year one IIRC) year in the contest, getting all the way to 42nd. It's fallen since then but remained a bit of a low-charting curiosity in the 2010 final, I love it when not all the autoqualifiers are huge mega hits. This time it's back in the top 100 once again, and it actually did get a few concentrated votes in top 10s, six people providing over half of its points.

 

Ella may have won 2014's round, but in the final it's fallen short as four 2014 songs remain ahead of it as the battle for HIGHEST NEW ENTRY rages on. Recently become notorious for having to rely on Sigma to get another hit (slight tangent: Sigma seem to be following the same DnB career path as Rudimental and DJ Fresh a couple of years behind them, outstanding debut/breakthrough single but diminishing returns upon diminishing returns (feat. desperate flops) ever since :( ), Ghost was very hugely supported by Buzzjack when it premiered but only got three top 10s, with its highest score being from Ryan, who gave it third.

 

Justin Timberlake's highest song is again his 8-minute long one, and the longest song in the final yet again (the shortest one is, on my playlist, that's missing only a few, I Love It - I should really delete that off my iTunes). Mirrors climbs a couple of places from last year, so it's basically in the same position as last year. A top 3 from darkstar, a top 4 from Dobbo, and a few other high scores helped contribute to it doing this again.

 

Disturbia has spent a lot of time around this sort of position, #54 is very middling for a song that's spent all its lifetime in the top 100. One top 5 for this, a few other top 10s, it's perfectly middling in terms of the Rihanna songs we have here, i.e. 4th out of 7 in the final.

 

CHVRCHES is really one of the songs that I was shocked, yet very pleased to see get this far. It managed to somehow get straight through in 2013's round, through a load of high scorers from less... pop-oriented posters. The Mother We Share is, despite its low top 40 status, a perfect indie-pop song, one that's only grown on me throughout the years as I become more and more of a CHVRCHES fan. I can only hope this opens the floodgates for a few more (Gun and Tether please), although none of the others hit the charts in quite the same way. This had 3 top 5s, a 29 from Dircadirca and 27s from Bré and Chez. I could only give it 14, this final was too good overall.

 

Sia is one of the 4 that beat Ghost, and that shouldn't be surprising given it was 'predicted' to come first after winning the Buzzjack Multichart of 2014, I thought it would be a lot lower perhaps due to overplay, I only saw the odd person giving it points so to see it up here is a rather pleasant surprise. It got a lot of lower scores, that may be why. Only two top 10s, a 10th and a 9th (Haus and Alpha) though. It will probably become a classic and challenger in time once the overplay fades I'd imagine.

 

Speaking of challengers, a former top 10 reaches its lowest position yet. This year hasn't been good to Adele, not helped by her continuing absence from the charts. Rolling In The Deep has weathered the storm the best and it still misses the top 50. It was Noahspike's 30, and got a few other top 10s to help it along, but still, that's a far cry from when we had two Adele songs finishing top 10 the year after they hit. Will they ever recover?

Smashing for CHVRCHES :heart: Need to remember to get Gun nominated next year or something.

Edited August 25, 20159 yr by Dircadirca

 

50 52 2008 Leona Lewis - Run 229 ( 16 - 10 - 31 - 25 - 24 - 52 - 50 )

49 62 2012 Gotye (feat. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used To Know 231 ( 19 - 62 - 49 )

48 106 2012 Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks 235 ( 54 - 106 - 48 )

47 14 2011 Nicki Minaj - Super Bass 242 ( 110 - 103 - 14 - 47 )

46 71 2012 Disclosure (feat. Sam Smith) - Latch 244 ( 102 - 71 - 46 )

45 43 2011 Lana Del Rey - Video Games 246 ( 52 - 42 - 43 - 45 )

44 45 2010 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé - Telephone 248 ( 26 - 23 - 38 - 45 - 44 )

43 103 2005 Amerie - 1 Thing 251 ( X - 200 - 107 - X - 110 - 77 - 82 - 76 - 103 - 43 )

42 39 2009 Lily Allen - The Fear 251 ( 29 - 10 - 48 - 48 - 39 - 42 )

41 51 2009 Florence & The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) 252 ( X - X - 17 - 74 - 51 - 41 )

 

The first time Leona Lewis' Run has been in the contest without the albatross of the original around its neck for me to poke fun at in the comments, and I'm still going to do it anyway - because it could never beat it and yet always finished higher. It's still higher than Snow Patrol's position of 'n/a'. Lots of top 10 scores for this one, and 30 points from Ryan. Ryan's first placer only made it to 50th place :D Woohoo! I beat him. We get competitive.

 

Gotye's alternative hit was a bit unusual but in 2012's chart landscape, did make a certain sort of sense with Fun. and the song above it also doing well, random indie songs smashing were in vogue (and they're excellent for subtly racking up play counts if your experience is the same as mine, it's still in my top last.fm songs). It did very well in its first year but hasn't quite recaptured that in the subsequent two attempts. #49 is very respectable for it.

 

Little Talks is similarly excellent, it's the highest Icelandic representation, and... barring Robyn, the highest overall Scandinavian representation on our chart. It didn't make the top 100 last year but smashed its way back into the final this time, getting a new peak along with it. I could listen to it for days, it is such a wondrous song. It got a 30 from Froot, a 29 from FleetSeb and 28s from Suedehead and Jaco8472, so there was quite a bit of high ranking. I myself can't believe I only gave it 10 points.

 

Super Bass has fallen a bit from a top 20 place last year but still manages to be Nicki Minaj's highest song by some margin, and probably quite rightly too, it still feels fresh considering it's a 2011 song (probably as I've barely heard it since). It had 3 tops 3s from Jack, Fgiboy and scratchy, which helped it along.

 

Latch continues impressively climbing. It took a long time to get off the ground in this final, it was right down at the bottom before a load of high voters came towards the end, leaving it finishing with 8 top 10s in the end. That's really good for Sam Smith. Maybe it's been helped by apparently FINALLY taking off in America last year. Maybe.

 

Video Games remains rather steady at #45. Just a few ahead of Gotye and Of Monsters And Men, it's quite hard to believe that these songs, back in 2011, were all entered to our very own BJSC as unknown songs within months of each other. Video Games was the only one of the three to win, Gotye and OMAM had to settle for midtable results that look anomalous now considering the songs that now beat them are for the most part still unknown. The song that beat Little Talks to win however, with the song '1000 Ships', was by the very same person who this week is looking set to become the UK's official #1, four years later. That's Rachel Platten that is, if it were Felix Jaehn, then he also has BJSC history but his original song, 'Shine' was entered last year and only came 23rd. Anyway, off from that tangent, Video Games, got Dircadirca's 30 points, but also relied on a number of top 10s towards the end of the voting to charge up the ranks.

 

Telephone has often been the 2010 round winner, but then doesn't do so well when it comes to the final. It is the same this year as Robyn's 2010 song finishes ahead of Telephone yet again. It's a pretty steady run, and I suppose this actually is Beyoncé's highest appearance rather than Drunk In Love but I definitely think of this more as a Gaga song than I do Bey. It took the top score of AaronTM.

 

A goodbye to a 2005 song, and in a very nice turn of events, it's by some way the highest 1 Thing has ever gotten, up 60 places from the narrow miss from the final last year. It got the top score from Alpha and a third place from randomfurlong.

 

The Fear is normally second to Bad Romance in 2009, so I normally expect it to be about this position in the final, if maybe slightly higher, although it's only rarely higher than this, but it IS the fourth-highest 2009 song, so not too bad on that front.

 

And the third-highest song for 2009 is Florence's Rabbit Heart, getting ten places higher than its low last year. I've no idea what we were doing for the first couple of years with that but it definitely made a big impact in its first proper year for this, and has been in the top 100 ever since.

 

Fantastic to see '1 Thing' go out on such a high! And not too bad for Flo either. :D

 

40 20 2006 P!nk - Who Knew 252 ( 22 - 111 - 22 - 24 - 29 - 85 - 86 - 20 - 40 )

39 68 2006 Shakira (feat. Wyclef Jean) - Hips Don't Lie 254 ( 29 - 152 - 113 - 92 - 67 - 73 - 87 - 68 - 39 )

38 40 2013 Little Mix - Move 256 ( 40 - 38 )

37 48 2009 Florence & The Machine - Dog Days Are Over 257 ( X - X - X - 129 - 48 - 37 )

36 32 2012 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe 258 ( 47 - 32 - 36 )

 

As we head into the top 40 I'm dropping it to 5. Because hopefully I'll have more to comment on per post.

 

Down twenty places from its peak last year, P!nk's highest song, Who Knew, a big player in 2006, hasn't had its best year. It's certainly better than a few it has had but overall it's one of the less good ones. As to why it's P!nk's most well-regarded song here, I'm not sure. Maybe it's because it's a very hard P!nk song to dislike, plenty of her back catalog has haters, some... more notable than others. But Who Knew is just a really pleasant song.

 

Hips Don't Lie has finally lived up to my rather lofty expectations for it, and gets to its second highest position ever. Part of this may be because I ranked it 6th, it is one of the best pop songs of the decade and was a monster hit in 2006. In addition to that it got 3 other top 5 scores and a few top 10s. Providing a rare Colombian / Haitian duo on top of the UK chart, and that Haitian part allows Wyclef Jean to be a male in the top 40 of Buzzjack? Surely not. He's only the first of many though, there are more than you'd think this year. *.*

 

Move has won 2013 both times, and yet in the final hasn't been the highest 2013 song either time. It does just about as well as last year, moving up 2 places. Unusually for a song this high up though, it only got two scores in people's top 10s. So it may be a big favourite in the 2013 field but can't compete... yet with all the other songs in older years.

 

The only way continues to be up for Dog Days Are Over, which has done some fantastic saves in this competition, I thought it was going out in the playoffs, before it mustered together a huge number of votes and finished rather highly, and the same happened for the final (probably due to most people voting at similar points in the week, this happens). Its most notable scores were 3 top 5s from Noahspike, Suedehead and noted Flo fan Froot.

 

Call Me Maybe has done 3 straight years in the top 50. Someone's responsible for this. Cool pop song though, I'll let it stand. Plus with Carly gaining ever more fans by the day here, we may be in for the long haul with it.

 

Yeah, I didn't manage to do as much today. Sorry. I'll try and do a lot more tomorrow.

 

*hint* I get more motivation the more comments I get *hint*

Call me maybe, move and who knew are all amazing :wub:

 

35 72 2005 Killers - Somebody Told Me 259 ( 30 - 14 - 26 - 19 - 22 - 23 - 57 - 112 - 72 - 35 )

34 27 2007 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right 259 ( 2 - 8 - 39 - 13 - 9 - 30 - 27 - 34 )

33 17 2012 David Guetta (feat. Sia) - Titanium 262 ( 7 - 17 - 33 )

32 64 2012 Swedish House Mafia - Don’t You Worry Child 266 ( 26 - 64 - 32 )

31 23 2010 Rihanna (feat. Drake) - What's My Name 268 ( 36 - 65 - 60 - 23 - 31 )

 

Despite having a very very good start in this, and generally being a strong contender in the final for most of the years in Record Of The Decade, for the last three years things have not been looking so good for Somebody Told Me, despite its Hot Fuss counterpart Mr Brightside remaining stable throughout. But now, with that one out of the way, as the only Killers track in the final, and, unless we SEVERELY up our appreciation for Human in the coming years, probably the last, Somebody Told Me rises up again to finish on a far better note than the last few years have suggested. It is a lovely tune and one I'll be sorry to see gone.

 

Say It Right has had an even better start in this and, as well as getting a silver medal on its debut, has never fallen outside the top 40. It does seem to be Nelly Furtado's most well-regarded track on here, narrowly ahead of Maneater, but not as notable a presence in the final rounds as 2007 is a very competitive year by our standards. It got a top score from Vulker and a second place from Nick F1 (yes, even above one of the Britney tracks!) to help secure this top 40 place again.

 

Titanium seems to be on a downward loop. Like Say It Right it also debuted top 10, back in its first appearance in 2013's version. Back then, it seemed like it was adored by literally everyone - if you weren't called JosephStyles and were bitter about it beating Alyssa Reid to #1 that is. Yet as the years have gone by, while it is still regarded as a gem in Guetta's otherwise shaky discography, it hasn't quite gotten the transcendent shine I expected it to. I did put it in my top 10 still, and it was Dan's favourite so maybe this will just be a blip and it'll be back in the top 20 next year.

 

4 points above it, a very good result for another 2012 dance track, one that's held up a legacy that's looking quite strong these days, the farewell act from Swedish House Mafia, but also a track that helped launch a huge wave of dance music in the US and strengthened it here, into perhaps dance music's most successful period ever. This one got Ethan's 30, along with lots of top 10s including a second place for JackJones and a third for RFC. It's the one track (along with Gangnam Style) that I remember best as influencing my uni fresher year and I'll always love it and its wonderful breakdown for that.

 

Finally, another Rihanna track. What's My Name has really done quite well for itself the past couple of years, rebounding into top half of the final territory and being a major player in our 2010 rankings. Third from Dobbo and fifth from gooddelta are its main scores but it did enough to almost be top 30 again. That's far better than when it was last in the final.

Titanium falling at a comical rate :lol: x

 

Hips Don't Lie climbing is great to see, and 1 Thing achieving a new peak! Oh and SOMETHING NEW smashing it *.*

 

30 10 2005 Kelly Clarkson - Since You Been Gone 269 ( 18 - 26 - 19 - 3 - 11 - 12 - 47 - 32 - 10 - 30 )

29 153 2005 Chemical Brothers - Galvanize 271 ( X - X - X - X - 163 - 45 - 129 - 182 - 153 - 29 )

28 NE 2014 Taylor Swift - Blank Space 275 ( - 28 )

27 26 2012 Azealia Banks - 212 278 ( 50 - 26 - 27 )

26 66 2013 Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? 284 ( 66 - 26 )

 

Since You Been Gone, Kelly Clarkson's highest single this year, and in pretty much all years is notable as the only song from 2005 to have been in the ROTD final every single year. Which therefore makes it the first to head out on 10 years of what looks like pretty much all success with the exception of that one year when it was down as low as #47. With that in mind it's sort of a shame that this is far from its highest position, dropping 20 places from a return to the top 10 last year and going out as early as 30th. But still, to get this high up means it's loved, just not as loved as some of those ahead of it.

 

Also bowing out, but this time on a massive rise and huge new peak, it's the Chemical Brothers' smasher of Galvanize. That's also made its previous high of #45 look a lot less anomalous, when it's capable of getting into the top 30 of the decade. Victory for quality dance. Everything about the riff contributes a sound feeling that something epic is about to go down when you hear it and I'll be sorry to lose this surprise package next time.

 

The highest track to have gone through the first round, mainly because debuting at the end of 2014, it didn't do enough on the Multichart to get into its top 35, or into its top anything, despite obviously being a massive oversight on that front, I was very close to putting it into 2015 but eventually decided it was more of a 2014 song, so this is probably the newest track in the top 100. Taylor did this a couple of years ago with I Knew You Were Trouble too. As new as it is, it's already attracted 5 top 5 scores, so a worthy addition to the Buzzjack canon. It is the best off 1989 after all. *starts flame war*

 

212 is holding onto the position it achieved last year with the same ability to look even higher when I'm adding this up. It helps that it's one of the easiest songs to spot when I'm scrolling to add a new score. So keep voting Azealia guys, it's easy on my results gathering times. It's done so well probably because it's unusually addictive, I can listen to it over and over again, and there's not many songs, let alone rap songs that I can do that with. It is one moment of greatness from a girl who's ever since been clinging onto her fifteen minutes with worse and worse attitudes (and tracks too I guess).

 

Up 40 places is a great left-field track getting in on the top 30 action, Arctic Monkey's Do I Wanna Know climbing higher than any 2013 tracks managed last year (it's still not the highest one though). That's setting it up good for many years to come.

YES for Galvanize so high! Still yet to see my top 2 which is brilliant :D

 

25 8 2007 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love 285 ( 21 - 1 - 4 - 108 - 61 - 21 - 8 - 25 )

24 125 2006 My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade 289 ( X - X - X - X - 445 - 228 - 300 - 125 - 24 )

23 NE 2014 Clean Bandit (feat. Jess Glynne) - Rather Be 292 ( 23 )

22 30 2007 Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No 294 ( X - 42 - 99 - 104 - 177 - 73 - 30 - 22 )

21 77 2012 Solange - Losing You 305 ( 188 - 77 - 21 )

 

The first of the former winners (of which of course there are remarkably few left in the competition) we lose in as Bleeding Love falls back down to 25th place after coming in 8th last time. It's definitely the floppiest of the former winners, the others have in the past all remained top 10 for the majority of their runs while Leona is all over the place. It got a 30 from Luna to help it up. A bit.

 

The other four songs in this section are all gaining new peaks, and the next song is definitely the result I have been the most thrilled about. Climbing up 101 places, to dizzy heights that I would have imagined it would never see, given only a couple of years ago it was struggling to autoqualify, is the monster of a track that is Welcome To The Black Parade. A shining jewel in My Chemical Romance's crown, it's a song that is in my top 10 of all time, it got my second-highest possible score, as well as getting two 30s from Dobbo and Chez, and 3 more top 5s, it definitely built a large amount of its points on the concentrated love some of us have built up for it over the years. A whirlwind epic and one I'm delighted Buzzjack has taken into its heart for its penultimate year. As 2006 is actually a rather low-key year, it's the first of the 10 to be gone completely, meaning that as a whole ranking, Welcome To The Black Parade is even our favourite 2006 song. *.*s all round.

 

Rather Be is the track I was expecting to put up a challenge for the highest new entry, if not a top 10 place, and in fact, it's ended up as neither, with only one 30 (brokenrecords). Maybe that's overplay because there are few people (and they're contrarians) who dislike this. Clean Bandit to challenge next year then guys. Unless you all get completely sick of Jess Glynne and that ends up as backlash. Eh, that could also be a possibility.

 

I don't think I can comment on Sexy! No No No without upsetting fans of it, it is again my least favourite track in the ROTD final, and I had to sit through adding scores to it for all of three rounds because of the roundabout way it got to the final. It was very tempting to not input its scores, but I have, clearly as it is up 8 places again and ends up as the third-highest Girls Aloud track. Save us.

 

And finally, one more shock result, from Solange, completely outstripping anything her big sister has done in her whole career in our estimations with the wondrous Losing You, up from #77 to a huge #21 and with over 300 points! That is actually about as fantastic as MCR's shock result in terms of how unexpected it is, but there's not really anyone on the forum who I know has said bad words against Losing You and it's a lovely track. That's a good one to make a cult classic guys. Now let's keep it up there.

Sensational for Black Parade! I agree with that paragraph whole-heartedly :lol: Just shows that if certain songs can make the fine margins of semi/final cut-offs they'll retain the high scores every round.