I remember White Stripes being number 2 and even getting close to number 1 at first, seems utterly surreal these days and it was post downloads! Taking advantage of a quite woeful sales environment then, not very reflective at all as it's not even close to their other classics.

 

Some faves starting to fall out :( Little By Little is amazing, one of modern Oasis' best and Proper Education is a great remix of a classic song. One Step Closer was one of the defining songs of my childhood too (and is still a tune tbf).

150-141

 

 

6.50 141 Infernal - From Paris To Berlin

6.48 142 Fall Out Boy – This Ain’t A Scene It’s An Arms Race

6.47 143 Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)

6.46 144 Madonna - American Life

6.44 145 Sonique - Sky

6.44 146 Jason Derϋlo – Ridin’ Solo

6.43 147 T.I. feat Rihanna – Live Your Life

6.43 148 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California

6.43 149 Amelia Lily – You Bring Me Joy

6.42 150 Leona Lewis – Happy

 

Let's get into the top 150 then! Starting off is Leona Lewis with 'Happy' which was widely tipped on Buzzjack to be a #1 but ultimately missed out thanks to the UK public having taste a performance on X Factor by Black Eyed Peas. I wish I was here at the time to lol at that.

 

Another X Factor contestant just above, Amelia Lily famously was eliminated from The X Factor but then ""surprisingly"" was voted to return when the show announced it was bringing someone back. Her career got off to an okay start with this but everything afterwards was a bit of a flop.

 

Red Hot Chilli Peppers back when they were still cool enough to be supported by Radio 1 had quite a good single in 'Dani California' which went to #2. Probably one of my faves from them actually.

 

Remember when T.I. was actually a relevant rapper? Well this song got him a huge US #1 and was very big in the UK too which is 100% because of the O-Zone (Icons) sample.

 

Jason Derulo had a run of massive hits back in 2010, the biggest of which was probably 'Ridin Solo' although it peaked one place lower than previous single 'Just Dance'.

 

Sonique had one of the biggest singles of 2000 with the brilliant 'It Feels So Good'. The follow-up sadly doesn't live up to the quality of her breakthrough but it got enough people on board to get it to #2.

 

Madonna continued having hits in the 00s despite her age, though some of them were quite forgettable. Such as 'American Life' which just makes the top half of the rundown, perhaps helped by her big fanbase on the site.

 

The Darkness were involved in one big battle for the Christmas number one but lost to the brilliant 'Mad World'. It's still great to hear every Christmas anyway.

 

Fall Out Boy made a song which was far better than anything they had done previously and they were rewarded with a UK #2. Good for them I guess, song isn't bad.

 

Infernal had one of the biggest dance smashes of the mid-00s with the catchy 'From Paris To Berlin'. Whilst its production is far from the best heard in dance music, it is a fairly bangin' song.

Sky is amazing, love it just as much as It Feels So Good actually.

How is 'From Paris To Berlin' that low? What a classic.

 

'Sky' is great too.

140-131

 

 

6.56 131 Bastille – Of The Night

6.56 132 Beyonce feat. Sean Paul - Baby Boy

6.55 133 Kevin Lyttle - Turn Me On

6.54 134 Charlotte Church - Crazy Chick

6.54 135 Steps - Chain Reaction / One For Sorrow

6.53 136 Pussycat Dolls Feat Will.I.Am - Beep

6.53 137 Duke Dumont – Won’t Look Back

6.51 138 Steps - It's The Way You Make Me Feel / Too Busy Thinking 'Bout My Baby

6.50 139 Embrace - Nature's Law

6.50 140 Coldplay - In My Place

 

Coldplay for some reason managed to get a really boring song as high as #2. In honour of its boringness I will be making the rest of this paragraph of commentary as boring as possible. Coldplay are a band. 'In My Place' is a song. The song charted in the UK at #2.

 

Embrace follow Coldplay, both musically and that they're next in the rundown with the surprisingly good for an indie MoR song 'Nature's Law'. If it was released by Coldplay it would probably be more remembered too.

 

Steps appear twice in the section with two double A-sides (they really loved double A-sides). Neither are brilliant unsurprisingly.

 

Duke Dumont's 'Won't Look Back' was very much at the time mocked for its release date (being ridiculously pushed back) but got a fairly good reaction in terms of song quality. Although his two #1s were a lot lot better.

 

Pussycat Dolls 'Beep' is probably my favourite song by them, I hoped and expected it would do better in this.

 

Charlotte Church 'Crazy Chick' was quite good, I never realised that she actually released follow-ups though (3 of them went top 20). Not that I'm rushing to listen to them.

 

Kevin Lyttle 'Turn Me On' is a proper jam and one of the big urban songs of the early 00s so good to see it get some appreciation here.

 

'Baby Boy' is one of my faves from early Beyoncé too, of course helped by the presence of Sean de Paul *.*

 

Bastille top this section with Corona cover 'Of The Night'. It actually sounds better than it looks, it's still no 'Pompeii' though which is still to come.

In My Place is Coldplay's best song by miles (it's between that or Violet Hill).

 

2 of my 11's in that section! Turn Me On is one the best songs to hear in a club :dance:

'Won't Look Back' is still for me easily the best thing Duke Dumont has done, and will take a lot to beat it. :wub:

 

Charlotte Church's is great, and Kevin Lyttle is a guilty pleasure.

Beep and Crazy Chick should be much higher :(

150-141

 

 

6.42 150 Leona Lewis – Happy

 

I wanted this to win (obviously). :(

 

Take Me to Church to win.

DAN NO, In My Place is gorgeous :angry: Though their two #2s were definitely the weakest singles from both albums, should've been The Scientist or Clocks instead of this one.

 

Nature's Law is lovely too, should be much higher, though top 150 isn't too bad for a virtually forgotten song.

In My Place was really good! (Although not as good as Clocks or The Scientist).

 

I'm relieved that Won't Look Back finished in the top half, very underrated song.

Edited June 2, 20169 yr by Taylor Jago

130-121

 

 

6.69 121 S Club 7 - Two In A Million / You're My Number One

6.68 122 Madonna - Hollywood

6.68 123 Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger

6.67 124 Hozier - Take Me To Church

6.67 125 Busted - Year 3000

6.67 126 Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400

6.64 127 Britney Spears feat. Madonna - Me Against The Music

6.60 128 Chris Malinchak – So Good To Me

6.59 129 Coldplay - Speed Of Sound

6.59 130 Zedd feat. Hayley Williams – Stay The Night

 

Zedd for some reason got his #2 with 'Stay The Night' instead of the much better 'Clarity' which missed the top 20. That's always puzzled me. Though I guess that's what held-back releases can do for a song.

 

Coldplay pop their head in again though this time with the better 'Speed Of Sound' which famously lost the #1 to a frog. This is one of the good classic Coldplay tunes anyway.

 

Chris Malinchak gets a decent score although it's still so underrated in this forum. Seriously though it's such a lush song :heart: :cry:

 

You'd think a Britney and Madonna collab would be an easy #1 hit but actually it only made #2, proving name power alone can't get you a megasmash if the song is average. Madonna's own 'Hollywood' finishes a few places higher.

 

Zombie Nation had a brilliant trance smash which I'd like to think is well-remembered. I guess it did well with the dance fans at least. It would be their only hit.

 

Busted with what is probably their best song and a bit of a novelty jam in 'Year 3000' here, although sometimes I think it's annoying too so I guess it's done well for a song you'd expect to get a mixed reaction.

 

You already know what I think about the Hozier song. Let's swiftly move on.

 

Maroon 5 had a great song with 'Moves Like Jagger' which unfairly was denied #1, though it was hilarious to watch it get stuck at #2 week after week. It does well considering the hate it gets from many.

 

S Club 7 finish the section with two songs I already forgot how they sounded like.

Hozier slaying in a higher position than I imagined :heart:

Are we going to have any commentary about what songs are getting 11s and -1s at any point? Is that when we get further into the top 100? Curious what songs are getting general love and which are a mixed bag. Great posts so far :D

120-111

 

 

6.79 111 Adele – Skyfall

6.79 112 Mis-Teeq - All I Want

6.78 113 Mary J Blige feat. U2 - One

6.77 114 True Steppers & Dane Bowers feat. Victoria Beckham - Out Of Your Mind

6.76 115 Bruno Mars – Locked Out Of Heaven

6.75 116 Jamelia - Thank You

6.72 117 Electric Six - Danger High Voltage

6.71 118 Philip George - Wish You Were Mine

6.71 119 Lumidee - Never Leave You (Uh Oooh Uh Oooh)

6.70 120 Mutya Buena – Real Girl

 

Mutya Buena split from The Sugababes and 'Real Girl' was her debut, quite good for a mid-00s pop song too. Not sure what happened to her afterwards though, I never heard her follow-ups and they didn't go top 40.

 

Another one hit wonder next, Lumidee brought a bangin' urban tune to the chart back in '03 and always sounds good in a 00s throwback session.

 

Philip George got 2015 off to a bangin' start with 'Wish You Were Mine' but sadly it misses the top 100 in this rundown.

 

Electric Six... yep that was a thing that actually happened. :lol:

 

Jamelia really did have some forgettable songs amongst her decent ones, 'Thank You' falls into the forgettable category.

 

'Locked Out Of Heaven' has its fans here but I personally find it overrated, like most of Bruno Mars songs.

 

Truesteppers were famously involved in a big chart battle, and one where the best song won too, meaning this is in the rundown of #2 singles.

 

Mary J Bilge got a cover of a U2 hit as her highest charting song, which actually featured U2 themselves as well. It works very well as a duet anyway, I did like this a fair bit at the time.

 

Mis-Teeq have another song much higher but for now they have 'All I Want' which has garage beatz and Alesha Dixon rapping *_*

 

Adele finishes off with 'Skyfall' the theme to James Bond's 'Skyfall' where she famously came back faster, stronger, rollier than ever before. But only made #2.

danG, are you sure you never heard Mutya's followup with Groove Armada? Was a big hit in 2007 as well!

 

I definitely heard that, I count it as a Groove Armada song though rather than a Mutya follow-up.

110-101

 

 

6.91 101 No Doubt - Hey Baby

6.91 102 Labrinth feat. Tinie Tempah – Earthquake

6.87 103 Snoop Dogg feat. Justin Timberlake - Signs

6.85 104 Kanye West Feat Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger

6.85 105 Bodyrox feat. Luciana – Yeah Yeah

6.82 106 Ashanti - Only You

6.81 107 Benny Benassi presents The Biz - Satisfaction

6.80 108 Christina Milian - Dip It Low

6.79 109 Ida Corr vs Fedde Le Grande – Let Me Think About It

6.79 110 Kid Cudi vs. Crookers – Day ‘N’ Nite

 

Kid Cudi got a massive hit out of 'Day N Nite' after being remixed by electro-house group Crookers (and it really does improve the song too).

 

More electro house here in the form of 'Let Me Think About It', 'Yeah Yeah' and 'Satisfaction' all of which are top top tunes :wub:

 

Urban also very much represented which includes proper jams like 'Gold Digger' and 'Earthquake' which really should be higher. So close to the top 100 too :( Not just those but we also have RnB females Ashanti and Christina Milian. We don't get a lot of those these days.

 

Missing the top 100 by one place is No Doubt. No huge loss there.

Day n Nite is probably one of my favourite songs of recent years, such a simple yet catchy tune. Earthquake and Gold Digger are both good songs I suppose, however I can't say I have a clue of any of the other songs and what they are, maybe it's me being young.

Mary and Misteeq should have made the top 100!!