Bit like MTC Classic very rarely showing anything older than 1995 these days!

yes I agree with the last comments, I may bring it up as a suggestion to discuss to geta bit more interest from a younger crowd on here and make it officially at least over a decade as "retro"- I know when I was pushing 30 I was very nostalgic for the good ol' days of 15 years back, and when I was pushing 20 10 years ago was very nostalgic indeed. Time expands the gap as you get older (the noughties seem recent to me, except for the very early years) and I've only just started getting nostalgic for the 90's really, but that's cos I'm approaching 50 - from the wrong direction :lol:

2010 wasn't a bad year, it definitely had standouts in terms of chart hits and otherwise (I'd look at Hurts' Wonderful Life and Yeasayer's O.N.E as examples of the latter) and it may have been 'big' in the sense you described, though from a musical perspective it was rather unspectacular for me. It felt like the chart seemed to vary between about three different genres, with the odd exception.

 

from the most memorable/notable hits- there was Gaga still banging out some strong pop tunes, Tinie Tempah landing on the scene with one of the better UK pop rap tunes "Pass Out", the breakthrough of "dubstep" with Katy On A Mission, some novelty dance hits like We No Speak Americano/Barbra Streisand, a couple of other cool standouts like f*** You/Fireflies, and I guess Wavin' Flag too because World Cup memories. Generally I'd pick other years from 2010s over this though (plus 2010 was kinda the beginning of that "club banger" overload that leaked into 2011, the best of these perhaps being "Like A G6" since it actually stood out in some way, by just being a icy cold robotic mess)

 

Although Biffy Clyro did get a Christmas #1 single this year, so there's that