#70 | Shayne Ward - 'No U Hang Up' (AVG. 6.7)

 

Making it to #70, is the slow jam, and, in my opinion Shayne's strongest single. Though Buzzjack clearly prefer disagrees, as 'No Promises' is the only song by SW still to come. Though largely forgotten, this song went to #2 in the UK and if it were released by a higher tier male artist, I could have seen it being a pretty long lasting hit (not that this flopped by any means).

 

 

#69 | Alexandra Burke - 'Let It Go' (AVG. 6.78)

 

Ah, she finally appears. Before Frozen, we had Burke, and her final ever song to manage the UK top 40. 'Let it Go' is Buzzjack's least popular song by X Factor 5 winner, Alexandra Burke, but at #69, she's done pretty well to only be making an appearance now. Ella Henderson and Diana Vickers are the only two other artists with multiple hits, yet to lose a song. 'Let it Go' was unjustly dealt with, as, although it's rather generic (chasing the at the time, on trend dance-pop route) it's still a jam, and deserved at least some support. Sometimes I channel Burke when I get the Victoria line.

 

 

 

#68 | One Direction - 'Live While We're Young' (AVG. 6.83)

 

Poor 1D, they've lost a fair few of their hits now, and this is one I'd certainly have put in the top 50. I catagaorise this with 'What Makes You Beautiful', and 'Best Song Ever' in style, but definitely rank it higher than the latter, both of which are still to come.

 

Let's go crazy crazy crazy!

 

 

 

#67 | Olly Murs - 'Please Don't Let Me Go' (AVG. 6.88)

 

Every time a Murs song leaves this rate, it kind of reminds me that 80% of his output really sounds the same, this has done reasonably well here, but there's still a fair few of Murs' more stand-out songs to come.

 

 

 

#66 | One Direction - 'Drag Me Down' (AVG. 6.89)

 

Another 1D song :( This one I'm admittedly a lot less keen on. 'Drag Me Down' was the start of a very successful final campaign for the world's biggest boy-band. It was also the first single that they released as a 4-piece, as Zayn leaves the band to embark on better things (and when I say "better things", I mean to make an album that opened with 1/4 the sales that 1D's slowest selling album opened on, before falling sharply down the chart :') ). Luckily, of this era, the fantastic 'Perfect' is still to come, which excels in the meldoy that 'Drag me Down' just doesn't have fore

 

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'No U Hang Up' is a huge loss imo. Such a smooth jam and definitely should have been the lane he should have been heading in a lot more. It suited him a whole lot more than the MOR style of his first album.

 

'Live While We're Young' is ridiculously under appreciated! :(

No big losses in this batch. 'Let It Go' was the final nail in the coffin of Alexandra's pop career - it should've been the Greek hit 'Tonight' as the second single. :lol: 'Live While We're Young' is just a less good WMYB and 'Drag Me Down' is far from their best. Shame Shayne is nearly out although 'No Promises' is definitely his best single so hopefully it'll rank rather high.

Love both of those 1D songs :'( Like Please don't Let me go as well. We are beginning to lose some good ones now. SLAY at Diana still having all her songs make top 65!! Happy to see 2 Rebecca songs in there as well. Would love it if Once, and Nothing's Real But Love could make top 20 :wub:

I loved 'Let It Go' at the time but there were so many other better potentials from the album ('Between The Sheets', 'Heartbreak on Hold', 'Tonight', 'Sitting On Top of the World'). The album is amazing still, such a party album.

 

2 more 1D songs out.. they probably won't do as well as I thought they would on here going on that...

Rebecca's 'I Hope' is amazing. :wub: As if it's that low down ~le sigh~.

 

'Here's To Everything' also an under-appreciated gem. :cry: Thank goodness 'Do You Think of Me' is still to come. Misha B is Queen x

 

Matt/Melanie C also disgracefully low. >.<

 

:( at Shayne doing so terribly. 'No U Hang Up' :heart:

No U Hang Up is definitely Shayne's best, tune.

LIT, PDLMG and LWWY especially are great :wub: would have liked them top 50.

#65 | Amelia Lily - 'Shut Up (And Give Me Whatever You Got)' (AVG. 6.89)

 

I was harsh on Lily's first song to leave the rate, but 'Party Over' is A LOT better than 'Shut Up', which I found to be a major disappointment after 'Joy. This had some really strong scores though, quite a few 9s and a 10 from AdamAloud!

 

 

#64 | JLS - 'Eyes Wide Shut' (feat. Tinie Tempah)' (AVG. 6.98)

 

Another JLS track here, this time with a Tinie Feature. This brought them moderate success and is one of the few JLS songs I don't mind, so I'm glad to see it a little higher.

 

 

#63 | Little Mix - 'Change Your Life' (AVG. 7)

 

Cue motivational X Factor instrumental...

 

The first (original) Little Mix single to fall! :o Buzzjack's least favourite is 'Change Your Life', which is a lovely song, that I always liked. I would have loved to have seen this make the top 10, but it fell just short. This is also the first song to receive a 7 average. That's 63 songs with a 7+ average, so we're going to see lots of favourites falling by the wayside now.

 

 

#62 | Ella Henderson - 'Glow' (AVG. 7.02)

 

So Diana Vickers is the artist to survive the longest as Ella Henderson loses her first song... The huge impact of 'Ghost' meant that 'Glow', the second single from powerhouse vocalist Ella Henderson, was the slightly overshadowed. It's still a very nice single, but I think that anything would have felt a disappointment coming after that massive debut. Ella has gone onto having a Platinum album, featured on some popular dance records and is probably the most successful contestant from the past few years of X Factor.

 

 

#61 | JLS - 'One Shot' (AVG. 7.06)

 

And another from JLS, leaving them with only 4 more songs left in the rate; 'Beat Again' and 'She Makes Me Wanna', which will come out on top?

 

Change Your Life should not be the first original song of theirs to fall :/ Where's How Ya Doin???

 

Shut Up.. a few places too high - certainly should be lower than Party Over! These JLS songs are decent ;o

Like both of those JLS songs :/

 

Agreed. Change Your Life should not be the first original LM song out. Though I think it should have been Little Me.

 

Not a fan of Glow, I loved Ghost so much, I was gutted when Glow came out, would have actually liked to have seen it finish a lot lower. SLAY DIANA! Possibly one of the most underrated X-Factor contestants with the General Public, glad to see she's getting some love here :wub:

I would also prefer Little Me Out before How Ya Doin'. By far their weakest single bar the covers, for me. How Ya Doin' has really grown on me lately.

 

'You called? I missed it' <3

Diana officially being crowned the X Factor artist with the most consistently strong discography! *.* Her impact 8 years on :wub:

Catching up on this after being made aware that it exists and OMG what. 'Trouble' that low?! That's my fave Leona song. :(

I think 'Change Your Life' deserves to be the lowest original Little Mix single on this rate. I remember when it came out - I just found it dull. They've had much better material. 'How Ya Doin'' has always been amazing to me. :heart:

 

'Shut Up' is far superior to 'Party Over' but wasn't as strong as Amelia's debut single. It's a shame her pop career quickly went into terminal decline.

 

These two JLS entries aren't half bad to be fair but their music post-XF was underwhelming to say the least. I always saw them as more of an R&B vocal-harmony group rather than chasing the latest pop trends.

I've been thinking and listening to Misha B and Amelia quite a bit today and it really is quite upsetting how quickly they went from scoring top 40 hits to being totally abandoned. What a harsh musical landscape for them when they're both insanely talented stars and capable of making really good music as the singles showed. :( Not sure if it was the effect of coming from XF that meant they weren't given the chance to release more but it's a major shame.

 

If the music stayed as strong as Do You Think of Me and YBMJ i'm sure they both could've had decentish careers, or maybe i'm just being naive.

I did not vote in this because I couldn't get past the first stage of assigning scores to all the utterly dire things the X Factor has done to the music scene over the years (mostly male and boyband-oriented but also a few basic female flopstars) but I'll pop in and say that Ambitions (Joe was really really good with his debut album, for a Scissor Sisters/Mika lover like me anyway), We R One and *gods forgive me for what I am about to do* Lipstick are far too low.

 

Basically X Factor is mostly good for CAMP. And not much else. And maybe Eyes Wide Shut out of the last lot.

Glow is absolutely fantastic, its more understated than Ghost but its just as anthemetic. It deserves to be far higher, particularly above Yours anyway.

Diana officially being crowned the X Factor artist with the most consistently strong discography! *.* Her impact 8 years on :wub:

Lets compare how many actual hits she's had... :kink:

 

'The Boy Who Murdered Love' should most definitely have been by now imo.