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41. Wiley feat. Angel & Tinchy Stryder - Lights On

 

Average Score: 4.42

Total Votes: 33

 

Highest Rating: 10 (Dobbo)

Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm, Fgiboy2511, Jason, Qween & Ultraviolence1989)

 

 

42. David Guetta feat. Ne-Yo & Akon - Play Hard

 

Average Score: 4.36

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (BedWood & Scene)

Lowest Rating: -1 (Davidson, Dobbo, gooddelta & Jade)

 

 

43. The Wanted - Walks Like Rihanna

 

Average Score: 4.28

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm & Jason)

Lowest Rating: -1 (Jester, Scene & ThePensmith)

 

 

44. Gabz - Lighters (The One)

 

Average Score: 3.17

Total Votes: 33

 

Highest Rating: 10 (Ultraviolence1989)

Lowest Rating: -1 (Chapman, gavindeejay, MACMOORE22, SevenSeize & vibe)

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36. Charlie Brown - On My Way

 

Average Score: 4.81

Total Votes: 32

 

Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm & Taylor Jago)

Lowest Rating: 0 (danG, Jade & Qween)

 

 

37. Nelly - Hey Porsche

 

Average Score: 4.74

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (Dobbo & Ultraviolence1989)

Lowest Rating: -1 (Iz~ & Riser)

 

 

38. Union J - Carry You

 

Average Score: 4.71

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 9 (BedWood, bluesunstorm, Cody Ballas, Jade & SamJudd)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Chez Wombat, danG, Iz~ & SevenSeize)

 

 

39. Dizzee Rascal feat. Robbie Williams - Goin' Crazy

 

Average Score: 4.53

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (RobinJuanPersie)

Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm, Davidson, Jason, Jimmy Jam & Qween)

 

 

40. PSY - Gentleman

 

Average Score: 4.50

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (FM11)

Lowest Rating: -1 (Taylor Jago)

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31. Sebastian Ingroso & Tommy Trash feat. John Martin - Reload

 

Average Score: 5.96

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm, danG & gavindeejay)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Jester, Qween & Ultraviolence1989)

 

 

32. Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera - Feel This Moment

 

Average Score: 5.81

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (Cody Ballas, Dobbo, SamJudd & Ultraviolence1989)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Davidson & n4yr)

 

 

33. will.i.am feat. Justin Bieber - #thatPOWER

 

Average Score: 5.11

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (Cody Ballas, Dobbo & Jason)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Chez Wombat, Iz~, n4yr & Ultraviolence1989)

 

 

34. Michael Bublé - It's A Beautiful Day

 

Average Score: 4.99

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 9 (Taylor Jago & ThePensmith)

Lowest Rating: -1 (n4yr)

 

 

35. PJ & Duncan - Let's Get Ready To Rhumble

 

Average Score: 4.91

Total Votes: 35

 

Highest Rating: 11 (RobinJuanPersie)

Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm, Davidson, Iz~, Jimmy Jam, Liam, Mackenzie, Queen & Ultraviolence1989)

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26. Breach - Jack

 

Average Score: 6.13

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (danG & RobinJuanPersie)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Jester, Jimmy Jam, Taylor Jago & Ultraviolence1989)

 

 

27. Armin Van Buuren feat. Trevor Guthrie - This Is What It Feels Like

 

Average Score: 6.06

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (BedWood & Fgiboy2511)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Qween & Ultraviolence1989)

 

 

28. Fuse ODG - Antenna

 

Average Score: 6.05

Total Votes: 33

 

Highest Rating: 10 (danG, Dobbo & mdh)

Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm, Jester & Qween)

 

 

29. Jessie J feat. Big Sean & Dizzee Rascal - Wild

 

Average Score: 5.99

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (Ultraviolence1989)

Lowest Rating: -1 (Chez Wombat)

 

 

30. Iggy Azalea - Bounce

 

Average Score: 5.97

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm, Liam, Riser & RobinJuanPersie)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Qween & Taylor Jago)

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21. Robin Thicke feat. Pharrell Williams - Blurred Lines

 

Average Score: 6.43

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (BedWood, Chapman, danG, Dobbo, SamJudd & Scene)

Lowest Rating: -1 (bluesunstorm, Jimmy Jam, Mackenzie & Ultraviolence1989)

 

 

22. Bruno Mars - Treasure

 

Average Score: 6.35

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (Cody Ballas, Jimmy Jam, MACMOORE22, SamJudd & Taylor Jago)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Fgiboy2511, Jason, RobinJuanPersie & Ultraviolence1989)

 

 

23. Pink feat. Lily Allen - True Love

 

Average Score: 6.25

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Fgiboy2511)

 

 

24. The Saturdays - Gentleman

 

Average Score: 6.17

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (bluesunstorm)

Lowest Rating: -1 (Qween)

 

 

25. Passenger - Let Her Go

 

Average Score: 6.14

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (gooddelta)

Lowest Rating: -1 (Cody Ballas)

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16. Chris Malinchak - So Good To Me

 

Average Score: 6.88

Total Votes: 34

 

Highest Rating: 11 (Jade)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Liam)

 

 

17. Selena Gomez - Come & Get It

 

Average Score: 6.78

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (Cody Ballas & Jimmy Jam)

Lowest Rating: 0 (SevenSeize)

 

 

18. Olly Murs - Dear Darlin'

 

Average Score: 6.69

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (ThePensmith)

Lowest Rating: -1 (RobinJuanPersie)

 

 

19. Jason Derulo - The Other Side

 

Average Score: 6.53

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (BedWood, Riser & SamJudd)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Jason, ThePensmith & Ultraviolence1989)

 

 

20. Tom Odell - Another Love

 

Average Score: 6.47

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (Mackenzie)

Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm, Dobbo, Fgiboy2511 & Ultraviolence1989)

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11. Chase & Status feat. Louis M^ttrs - Lost & Not Found

 

Average Score: 7.24

Total Votes: 33

 

Highest Rating: 11 (Davidson, Dobbo & mdh)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Qween)

 

 

12. Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith - La La La

 

Average Score: 7.11 [more 11's]

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (Jester, Nick F1 & Taylor Jago)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Fgiboy2511, Jimmy Jam & Ultraviolence1989)

 

 

13. Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding - I Need Your Love

 

Average Score: 7.11

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (HarryEzra)

Lowest Rating: 0 (RobinJuanPersie)

 

 

14. Demi Lovato - Heart Attack

 

Average Score: 7.04

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (Liam, SamJudd & Ultraviolence1989)

Lowest Rating: -1 (danG)

 

 

15. Taylor Swift - 22

 

Average Score: 7.01

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (BedWood, Dobbo, Jimmy Jam & Ultraviolence1989)

Lowest Rating: 1 (ThePensmith)

 

 

A few surprise eliminations in that last batch & sooo close for Lost & Not Found :cry:

 

Top 10 contains:

Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky

Disclosure feat. Eliza Doolittle - You & Me

Duke Dumont feat. A*M*E - Need U (100%)

Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX - I Love It

Imagine Dragons - Radioactive

John Newman - Love Me Again

Justin Timberlake - Mirrors

Paramore - Still Into You

Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre - Waiting All Night

The 1975 - Chocolate

 

I'll be back later this evening to reveal all. Feel free to speculate! ^_^

Phew at Still Into You reaching the top 10. It's so easily my favourite here and I was WINCING at every low score for it. Radioactive in there too :D One of those to win (or Get Lucky but the naysayers will have put paid to that I bet) and NOT one of Waiting All Night/I Love It to win.

 

Of those so far, Reload and Feel This Moment are far more enjoyable than their positions suggest, and PSY being beaten by that awful Nelly song is saddening. But otherwise mostly good.

I am horrified at the fact that La La La isn't in the top 10.

 

Thank goodness Bounce hasn't done nearly as well as I had feared, truly horrid song. Yes to Gentleman being bottom five aswell, it's one of the worst songs in existence. Only Gangnam Style and Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) are worse.

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8. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive

 

 

Average Score: 7.46

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (Chez Wombat, Cody Ballas, gavindeejay, Iz~, Jimmy Jam, Liam, MACMOORE22 & Taylor Jago)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Dobbo & Fgiboy2511)

 

 

9. Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre - Waiting All Night

 

 

Average Score: 7.42

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm, Chapman, Davidson, Dobbo, gavindeejay, Jester, Nick F1, RobinJuanPersie, Taylor Jago & Ultraviolence1989)

Lowest Rating: 2 (Chez Wombat, Fgiboy2511 & Iz~)

 

 

10. Paramore - Still Into You

 

 

Average Score: 7.33

Total Votes: 35

 

Highest Rating: 11 (Iz~ & MACMOORE22)

Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm)

 

 

Kicking things off at #10 is Paramore with 'Still Into You', one of their most successful singles in the UK, peaking at #15 & becoming by far their longest-runner. It remains their last visit to the UK top 40 however.

 

In ninth is the second UK #1 single from Rudimental. 'Waiting All Night', which also gave Ella Eyre her first chart-topper, followed in the footsteps of 'Feel The Love' the previous year by achieving the feat. Only 2 songs in the rate received more 10's & it was also one of only 2 songs not to receive any -1s or 0s.

 

Just in front is the mammoth hit 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons. Their first charting single in the UK, it never managed to crack the top 10 here but has racked up an enormous 60 weeks inside the top 75 & also holds the chart longevity record on the Billboard 100 with I believe 86 total weeks? It was also the highest ranked song in the rate not to receive an 11.

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5. John Newman - Love Me Again

 

 

Average Score: 7.76

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (Chapman)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Fgiboy2511 & Liam)

 

 

6. The 1975 - Chocolate

 

 

Average Score: 7.58

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (Jason)

Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & Ultraviolence1989)

 

 

7. Disclosure feat. Eliza Doolittle - You & Me

 

 

Average Score: 7.51

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (Scene)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Fgiboy211)

 

 

Disclosure, who of course managed to get both of their appearances on Now 84 into the top 3, can only manage 7th this time round with 'You & Me'. Containing strong garage elements, the track featured Eliza Doolittle and it remains both acts' last ventures into the UK top 10 at present.

 

Cheshire band The 1975 achieved their breakthrough with 'Chocolate', a song which despite a relatively low peak of #19 notched up 21 weeks in the UK top 75. It's by far the group's biggest hit still to this day, although they have since bettered its peak with latest release 'The Sound'. With ten 10 scores received, it was the joint-third highest in that department.

 

Cracking the top 5 is debut solo single from John Newman, which lent him a second UK #1 single in Summer 2013 following his feature on Rudimental's 'Feel The Love' the previous year. Only the top 4 tracks in the rate managed average scores of above 8 this time round.

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3. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky

 

 

Average Score: 8.24

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (Chez Wombat, danG, gavindeejay & SevenSeize)

Lowest Rating: -1 (Liam)

 

 

4. Justin Timberlake - Mirrors

 

 

Average Score: 8.07

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (vibe)

Lowest Rating: -1 (Jason)

 

 

Two UK #1s up next (as is in fact the entire top 5!) and two of the most successful comeback singles in recent years. 'Mirrors' was Justin Timberlake's first hit as lead artist since 2007's 'Lovestoned' (of course he did have one a few weeks before in 'Suit And Tie' but let's forget about that one :kink:) and it earned him a huge #1 single, only his second solo UK #1 after 'SexyBack' some 7 years prior. It also became one of the longest #1s ever (in terms of song length) at a marathon-long 8 and a half minutes.

 

An even bigger comeback single takes bronze medal in the Now 85 Rate. 'Get Lucky' really did come out of nowhere, yet it shot straight to #1 on iTunes with an insurmountable lead for numerous weeks. It became the French band's first ever UK #1 single in their first visit to the charts in nearly 8 years. The song spent a month at #1, selling over a million copies and the featured artist, Pharrell Williams would incredibly go on to have 2 even bigger hits within the space of 9 months. These 2 tracks were the only songs within the top 10 to receive -1 scores.

 

So we are left with quite a surprising top 2 in my eyes: I Love It Vs Need U (100%) - whose side are you on?

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1. Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX - I Love It

 

 

Average Score: 8.36

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (mr_pmt & Riser)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Fgiboy2511)

 

 

2. Duke Dumont feat. A*M*E - Need U (100%)

 

 

Average Score: 8.28

Total Votes: 36

 

Highest Rating: 11 (n4yr)

Lowest Rating: 0 (Jimmy Jam)

 

 

So two debut singles comprise the top 2 in this rate! 'Need U (100%)' went straight to #1 in April 2013 for DJ Duke Dumont. The throwback 90s-inspired track spent a fortnight at #1, famously holding off a campaign track in wake of Margaret Thatcher's recent death in its second week at the top.

 

Your Now 85 Rate winners are therefore Icona Pop & Charli XCX with catchy pop track 'I Love It'. It was extremely close all the way through between these 2, in fact up to the final 3 rates received they were on identical scores (albeit Get Lucky was actually in the lead at that point). It is a first victory for both acts and a superbly ground out one at that. 'I Love It' was a massive hit across Europe & the USA many months before it crossed over on these shores but needless to say it debuted at #1 in May 2013. The Swedish duo would only have one more top 40 hit afterwards but it became the platform for Charli XCX to embark on a successful solo career, including a US #1 single featuring on Iggy Azalea's Fancy the following year. As it was, 'I Love It' managed an average score of 8.36, not one of the highest but by no means a low score either. Well done!

 

Thanks to the 35 other participants in this rate. As it stands I'm only planning on hosting the remaining 5 yet to complete between the editions of 30 & 89 before I have a special finalé in mind subject to mod approval. We're going a good few years back again next time so keep a look out for the next one up later tonight!

Icona Pop #1 over Daft Punk and Duke Dumont? Urgh.
I knew I shouldn't have gone soft on that awful song. Ah, memories of 2013 and hating it. Need U and Get Lucky are so much better.
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Average Score by Poster:

BedWood 8.91

FM11 8.48

mdh 8.41

Cody Ballas 8.27

Dobbo 7.93

Taylor Jago 7.66

HarryEzra 7.66

SamJudd 7.2

Riser 6.89

Nick F1 6.84

danG 6.84

gavindeejay 6.8

RobinJuanPersie 6.77

gooddelta 6.75

Chapman 6.73

MACMOORE22 6.68

mr_pmt 6.53

Liam 6.51

Jade 6.45

Jimmy Jam 6.33

AVERAGE 6.25

SevenSeize 5.98

bluesunstorm 5.82

Jason 5.72

Davidson 5.66

Chez Wombat 5.61

n4yr 5.54

Iz~ 5.52

Jester 5.3

Dircadirca 5.23

ThePensmith 4.91

vibe 4.7

Mackenzie 4.64

Ultraviolence1989 4.22

Scene 4.2

Qween 3.82

Fgiboy2511 3.53

 

 

Most 10s Given:

Dobbo - 17

Taylor Jago - 15

bluesunstorm & Jason - 12

 

Most 0s Given:

Ultraviolence1989 - 17

Fgiboy2511 - 13

bluesunstorm - 11

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