August 28, 20159 yr I think I'll always think of Euphoria as being as worse than it is BECAUSE of Buzzjack and how opposed I was to the ridiculous tidal wave of hype it got. It is definitely a very good track, I still rate it about 8/10 as I did during the contest, I'll just never fully get it quite like others do, it's pretty standard to me but I can't say it's a bad track at all!
August 28, 20159 yr I'm actually tense. When they say "this is a matter of life and death", this is ACTUALLY IS, as We Found Love is one of life's best songs and With Every Heartbeat is deathly dull and monotonous. PLEASE CAN LIFE WIN, I am not here for a breakdown.
August 28, 20159 yr I'm actually tense. When they say "this is a matter of life and death", this is ACTUALLY IS, as We Found Love is one of life's best songs and With Every Heartbeat is deathly dull and monotonous. PLEASE CAN LIFE WIN, I am not here for a breakdown. You sure? :D
August 28, 20159 yr Author                                       tg00YEETFzg 2 3 2011 Rihanna (feat. Calvin Harris) - We Found Love 499 ( 15 - 5 - 3 - 2 ) I actually feel really bad for Rihanna/the people who voted for her/Rob. I mean, this is the highest she's ever gotten, and just two points away from the victory, against a song that has won, not as much as Bad Romance, but it has won before. And We Found Love was leading throughout most of the final voting, helped by about 7 top 10s right off the bat to push it way out in front and it remained there and I was convinced it was winning until the last 10 votes or so put Robyn in front. I didn't actually vote for either of them and I like both of them about equally so in a way I was rooting for the new winner, even if I don't think it's anywhere near Rihanna's best. But it is so very nice that she's finally got a track most of us can unite behind and really push up to this sort of height. And I'm sure, with that run and the way love for it is going that she's going to win this thing in the future. And the margin is so small that it could have been either track this time, it was just Robyn that pushed out in front at the end. It's only a matter of time before We Found Love becomes the next Bad Romance. It came within spitting distance, but this was not to be its year. Next time.  smKf_cQCdeo 1 7 2007 Robyn - With Every Heartbeat 501 ( 33 - 125 - 7 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 7 - 1 ) And the winner. The only track to get over 500 points. And going in a very lovely looking chart run where it's only allowed to touch #1, #2 and #7. With Every Heartbeat is a wonderful dance track, I'm sure I've voted for it before this year, didn't quite this time but I don't begrudge this at all. Certainly a far better winner for me than Bad Romance so I'm very happy it's succeeded it - again, I wonder if anything will break the now '2-track' stranglehold. But certainly, after that drop to #7 last year I didn't expect With Every Heartbeat to triumph this year, so I'm happy because it keeps me on my toes if I don't know what's going to win and we don't know what's going to win. That's what keeps reveals like this interesting. So big big claps for Robyn, and Kleerup, who I've forgotten to put in here because I'm forgetful like that (call me Avicii). It's been a pleasure adding this up, and a lovely winner on top of it helps the process immensely.  Fini. And done before September's upon us this time. Thank you all for voting and making ROTD a success again, and goodnight! :D
August 28, 20159 yr YAY! In fact DOUBLE YAY, primarily as I really wasn't expecting it to do anywhere near this well this year after falling out of the top 5 last year. Delighted! (sorry Rob!)Â
August 28, 20159 yr I couldn't have done anything more :( Full 30pts to We Found Love, so no guilt on this front. Sigh. Horrendous winner of which I struggle to find a redeeming quality but clearly you all can somehow. But I didn't realise Rihanna wasn't #2 last year, so it has actually climbed, interestingly enough. We Found Love, I managed to hear live twice in the space of two days, played by both Calvin and Rihanna seperately and holds so many incredible memories and is undoubtedly one of my favourite songs of all time, so I'm glad that while I'm not always so in sync with Buzzjack (despite being a pop lover), we share a common love in this track. Â
August 28, 20159 yr With Every Heartbeat is so overrated on here, it's not even Robyn's best! Good to see We Found alive increase I guess, just wish it could have won really.
August 28, 20159 yr Oh and sorry to post again but a massive thank you to Iz for running this so incredibly smoothly for the past few months. It's a mammoth task which you carry out with, what looks like, great ease every time but I know it's probably quite a laborious track. When we do the rate, we only have to copy and paste the list of numbers but for you to have to input each set of votes manually must be so boring. So, thanks for doing it again, you're a star!
August 28, 20159 yr Author Oh and sorry to post again but a massive thank you to Iz for running this so incredibly smoothly for the past few months. It's a mammoth task which you carry out with, what looks like, great ease every time but I know it's probably quite a laborious track. When we do the rate, we only have to copy and paste the list of numbers but for you to have to input each set of votes manually must be so boring. So, thanks for doing it again, you're a star! Aww, thank you Rob. It is quite a bit of work, I must admit but the adding up I just take a playlist and work my way through while listening to music, so that's actually mildly enjoyable (or at least while I've had free summers it's been so). Nonetheless I'm very glad to have it run well and done for another year.
August 28, 20159 yr OMG Robyn snatching that ROTD weave from RiRi's seemingly secure grip *.* dragT ha etc. With Every Heartbeat is still an amazing pop track and a deserved winner, after its slight drop off last year I figured it would no longer be in contention but I'm glad to be wrong :D Thanks for hosting this Iz, this is loads of fun each year and I'm grateful for your hard work on this! Roll on next year and hopefully we can *somehow* get On Melancholy Hill past the nominations round :P
August 28, 20159 yr Happy with that, after Euphoria that would be my next option to win. Thank you very much for hosting this Iz, definitely one of my favourite countdowns on this forum & really appreciate all the effort you put it into it with the statistics & commentaries. Looking forward to ROTD '16!
August 28, 20159 yr I was gonna say I was supporting We Found Love for the win, but I see I gave With Every Heartbeat 17 points and that nothing :ph34r: I do love both, but it would've been nice to have a new winner. Great top 2 anyway, and rather glad Bad Romance dropped so much, it's aged pretty badly for me and just didn't deserve to keep dominating in this fashion. Amaze to see Arctics and MIA leap to the top 10, the latter seems random but very welcome! Great job/read as ever Iz, thanks very much!
August 28, 20159 yr Thank you for doing this again Iz. It's clear to see a lot of work goes into it but you're very quick and efficient with it as if it's no problem at all! Delighted and amazed at Katy B being the highest new entry, very well deserved and hopefully it follows the path of Robyn although I agree it'll probably fall each year. :( Very happy 'With Every Heartbeat' beat 'We Found Love' too and completely shocked at 'Bad Romance' falling to 6! :o
August 28, 20159 yr Great job Iz :heart:Â I like all of the top 3 but find them all overrated :( Back To Black and Hung Up top 5 :wub:
August 29, 20159 yr 'Euphoria' rightfully slaying in this contest! I'm really surprised it managed to climb this year and get a new peak. I really thought people would mark it down, due to how much it's spoken about here on BJ. What started as just me, Gooddelta & (occasionally) Tirren, purposefully spamming every post we could (partly as a joke, to get it noticed) I'm glad to see it's held up well in other people's affections as much as it has my own. Without a DOUBT in my top 5 songs ever I think. I've played it over 500 times in 3 years and I am STILL not tired of it. :wub: Nice winner, but I'd much rather have had 'Dancing On My Own' be the Robyn track that topped the list (or 'Handle Me', but that's not appreciated nearly as enough :snif:) and can't believe RiRi missed out by TWO points! What a timeless classic that is going on to become. For a song that sounds like it uses a generic & tired formula, it's surprisingly not and actually makes for a refreshing and epic listen nowadays. Some really surprisingly random climbs this year (notably 'I Bet You Look Good...') and everyone knows my opinions on 'Hung Up'... Thank you for this Iz. EVERY year you do a brilliant job of this! ThisIsPop would be proud! :D :P --- I think I'll always think of Euphoria as being as worse than it is BECAUSE of Buzzjack and how opposed I was to the ridiculous tidal wave of hype it got. It is definitely a very good track, I still rate it about 8/10 as I did during the contest, I'll just never fully get it quite like others do, it's pretty standard to me but I can't say it's a bad track at all!YOU'RE JUST A BITTER DANNY SAUCEDO STAN. SO HUSH YOUR MOUTH, FAT. *whispers* Obesity
August 29, 20159 yr Great to see new peaks for Hung Up, Paper Planes, and Euphoria, the latter I give Buzzjack so much credit for me liking it as much as I do. With Every Heartbeat still being capable of winning is also a delight, it's aged well so far! Cheers Iz for all the effort once again, this will be back up and running for next year before we know it.
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