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8 59 2011 Rihanna (feat. Drake) - What's My Name 346 ( 36 - 65 - 60 - 23 - 31 - 59 - 8 )

7 182 2015 Ariana Grande - One Last Time 355 ( 182 - 7 )

 

Rihanna has gone one better than the other Robyn this time around, she's gotten three tracks in the decade's top 10, and that's even after one of hers that was in last year, Disturbia, fell out! One of the ones coming in is What's My Name, which has been more often rather low in the final than towards the top, especially when it used to be 60 tracks in the final, I think that 60th place was it coming last. But things have changed and her feature with Drake comes racing up to get a top 10 placing. It's not absolutely my favourite Rihanna song but not one I really begrudge getting success either.

 

And then I expect a lot of people might have been tipping this next one to win. Just like when Dancing On My Own won last year, it might have been fitting had One Last Time gone the whole distance due to each song at the time being affected by outside factors (although a shit cover outstripping the accomplishments of the original isn't exactly comparable to being the song directly associated with a current tragedy), but it wasn't quite to be. Still, that's no small climb and increase in its fortunes either, it won the 2015 round comfortably and maybe this has set it up to be one of 2015's big hitters now it's been thrust into the public consciousness so prominently. It's certainly a lovely song and one that does deserve to be up this high, but for winning, it'll have to be another year. There's still another 2015 song and another Ariana song to come.

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Don't You Worry Child is glorious, i'm all for that gaining some well deserved adoration here <3

 

Farewell to With Every Heartbeat of course, a great run and given us some great moments (2015 never forget <3)

 

a rough prediction for the remaining songs, ROTD is always a tough one to call:

 

1 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

2 Robyn - Dancing On My Own

3 Rihanna (feat. Calvin Harris) - We Found Love

4 Ariana Grande - Into You

5 Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me

6 Rihanna (feat. Jay-Z) - Umbrella

 

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6 1 2010 Robyn - Dancing On My Own 367 ( 20 - 7 - 10 - 15 - 7 - 1 - 6 )

5 16 2011 Rihanna (feat. Calvin Harris) - We Found Love 377 ( 15 - 5 - 3 - 2 - 16 - 5 )

 

Fact you've probably already figured out, 50% of the lead artists in this top 10 are called Robyn. Only one of those 5 is in the top 4, as we deal with two more of them now.

 

Last year's winner falls down to #6, as a certain someone that everyone loves also did after he won a somewhat less important rate, elsewhere on the board. Last year was a fleeting stay at the top then, but I like that, it means more variation and it was so good to get a new winner last year that I think I've found myself liking Dancing On My Own even more over the intervening period, as good a pop song as it initially was.

 

We Found Love climbs way back into the top 10. I still say that this has a win in it one year, but each time it comes close and doesn't quite it makes you wonder what it's best opening will be. Perhaps 2020 or 2021, once Bad Romance is gone and there's less of a scrum at the top. It's come way back into my affections lately, I think, I did find it a little tiring in its era, but as Rihanna and pop music has moved beyond that sound it sounds really fresh again. Maybe its climb this year is indicative of that.

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4 11 2007 Rihanna (feat. Jay-Z) - Umbrella 382 ( 5 - 2 - 3 - 7 - 28 - 34 - 12 - 12 - 11 - 4 )

 

And the final 2007 song we'll ever see in ROTD, Umbrella falls away at #4, leaving a top 3 of Ariana, Carly and Gaga. It's just off its runner up position that it gained in 2009, but it's its first time in the top 10 for five years, so I think we can still call this going out on a high. The famous 10-week #1 that wasn't beaten for runtime until last year, it's clear that never did Umbrella any harm, it just helped it gain more adoration and launched Rihanna's career sky-high. It's the first of her big songs that we have to say goodbye to, SOS and Unfaithful did fairly well for their part but they weren't part of her imperial era. From now on, we'll see huge Rihanna songs leaving this game just as we see them come in, and we'll remember, it all started with you, Umbrella.

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3 NE 2016 Ariana Grande - Into You 383 ( 3 )

 

It's a rare beast of a pop behemoth that enters straight in the top 10 in ROTD these days. It happened with Euphoria and Run Away With Me, as well as the two biggest Adele songs from 21, but that makes it only the fifth time since 2012 that a pop song has come in straight out of the gate into the top 10 on its first year. And Into You has actually entered higher than all of those! Yet it isn't what really fits the profile of one of those. At some points, you couldn't move for the hype around Loreen or Carly Rae, but though Ariana has gone through her own increase in fandom, it hasn't been quite to the same level focused around Into You itself. So that's a little weird that it's now the biggest new entry to ROTD since Bad Romance itself.

 

But what it is, despite that, is a really solid pop song that racks up the high points from everywhere - enough for it to put down the highest score in the yearly finals and break all the records before that, it's certainly infectious, who could not love that slick sound? I think this is definitely one to watch as we go through the years.

 

So... I've mentioned them both in that commentary, it's now a duel between Run Away With Me and Bad Romance. One got 400 points, the other, 418. Which is which?

I am so glad that Elllie reached 15 this year :heart:

 

Also gutted Ariana is out at 3 I thought that would have won :(

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2 2 2009 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 400 ( 1 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 6 - 2 - 2 )

1 5 2015 Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me 418 ( 5 - 1 )

 

Oh gosh yeah. It was another close run thing for Bad Romance, but this means it's now been 3 years since it won... time to reevaluate the 'it wins all the time why bother doing this' meme perhaps? Or perhaps not, since the minute we let our guard down it'll be back on top, that song is, even though it didn't win, an unstoppable machine with regards to getting ROTD points, coming up on 8 years played and only once has it ever been out of the top 2. As I've made clear, I don't mind it, but because I like variety and unpredictability when dealing with winners, I don't really want it to win. Maybe on its last go, as a farewell. But then, there might be new challengers then. The last three years has shown that there can be songs that can beat Bad Romance, and as this year shows, the song that beats Bad Romance doesn't have to be by Robyn!

 

Indeed, it's a not Gaga or Robyn winner for the first time in seven years of this competition going, and for what it's worth, it's my favourite winner of the whole lot. There's something so joyful about the instrumental and the cries that Carly goes through on

Run Away With Me, it's all so perfectly put together, her voice sounds incredible, it is a perfect package of a pop song. And best of all, there's the fact it vindicates my predictions in 2012 that Carly Rae would become a pop darling when she only had a 'novelty' track to her name. Okay, maybe that's not best of all, but it's a little tidbit (about how I'm so psychic). I'm so happy with this, and it's time for me to retire from all pop exertions until next year. Ladies & gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to present Buzzjack's favourite track of the decade for this year:

 

Now Run Away With Me is cute and deserves top 10 but definitely does not deserve first place. Bad Romance deserved it more I'd say. I listen to RAWN quite often but yeah, doesn't deserve first.

 

Thanks Iz

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Both incredible songs, but I'm so happy Carly did it. :wub:

 

Thanks for another great year of ROTD, Iz *.*

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Top 100 with just points:

 

1 Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me 418

2 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 400

3 Ariana Grande - Into You 383

4 Rihanna (feat. Jay-Z) - Umbrella 382

5 Rihanna (feat. Calvin Harris) - We Found Love 377

6 Robyn - Dancing On My Own 367

7 Ariana Grande - One Last Time 355

8 Rihanna (feat. Drake) - What's My Name 346

9 Robyn - With Every Heartbeat 334

10 Loreen - Euphoria 316

11 CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share 309

12 Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child 292

13 Clean Bandit (feat. Jess Glynne) - Rather Be 291

14 Lana Del Rey - Video Games 287

15 Ellie Goulding - Figure 8 286

16 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream 281

17 Solange - Losing You 263

18 Muse - Uprising 257

19 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die 251

20 Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks 247

21 Ariana Grande (feat. Zedd) - Break Free 246

22 HAIM - Falling 244

23 Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No 244

24 Sugababes - About You Now 243

25 Paramore - Misery Business 243

26 Daft Punk (feat. Pharrell) - Get Lucky 242

27 Justin Timberlake - Mirrors 240

28 Coldplay - Viva La Vida 240

29 Chase & Status (feat. Plan B) - End Credits 235

30 Sia - Chandelier 234

31 Bastille - Pompeii 232

32 Katy B - Crying For No Reason 230

33 Beyoncé (feat. Jay-Z) - Drunk In Love 230

34 David Guetta (feat. Sia) - Titanium 227

35 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé - Telephone 226

36 Fifth Harmony (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) - Work from Home 226

37 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 225

38 Christine & The Queens - Tilted / Christine 224

39 Adele - Rolling In The Deep 224

40 Grimes - Flesh Without Blood 221

41 M.I.A - Paper Planes 219

42 Beyoncé - Formation 219

43 Girls Aloud - Call The Shots 217

44 Lily Allen - The Fear 210

45 Drake (feat. Rihanna) - Take Care 209

46 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love 207

47 Lady Gaga - Poker Face 206

48 Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) 205

49 Little Mix - Black Magic 204

50 Chase & Status (feat. Liam Bailey) - Blind Faith 204

51 Justin Bieber - Sorry 201

52 Florence & The Machine - Shake It Out 199

53 Years & Years - King 198

54 Alphabeat - Fascination 198

55 Britney Spears - Gimme More 197

56 Kate Nash - Foundations 195

57 La Roux - Bulletproof 191

58 Florence & The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) 186

59 Sia - Elastic Heart 181

60 Little Boots - Remedy 180

61 Lady Gaga - Paparazzi 180

62 Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music 178

63 Rihanna - Disturbia 175

64 Little Mix - Move 174

65 Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory 172

66 Beyoncé - Halo 169

67 Weeknd (feat. Daft Punk) - I Feel It Coming 168

68 Veronicas - Untouched 168

69 Paramore - Still Into You 168

70 Ella Henderson - Ghost 167

71 Zedd (feat. Foxes) - Clarity 165

72 Nicki Minaj - Super Bass 164

73 Adele - Hello 161

74 Britney Spears - Womanizer 159

75 Sam Sparro - Black And Gold 157

76 Calvin Harris & Disciples - How Deep Is Your Love 156

77 Jennifer Lopez (feat. Pitbull) - On The Floor 155

78 Lady Gaga - Alejandro 151

79 Killers - Human 150

80 Gotye (feat. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used To Know 150

81 Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone 148

82 Katy Perry (feat. Kanye West) - E.T. 146

83 Major Lazer (feat. DJ Snake & MØ) - Lean On 145

84 Rudimental - Feel The Love 144

85 Zara Larsson - Lush Life 141

86 Weeknd (feat. Daft Punk) - Starboy 139

87 Lady Gaga - Judas 137

88 Katy B - Katy On A Mission 136

89 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe 135

90 Ariana Grande (feat. Iggy Azalea) - Problem 135

91 Lorde - Team 134

92 Clean Bandit (feat. Anne-Marie & Sean Paul) - Rockabye 133

93 Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble 129

94 Katy Perry - Hot N Cold 129

95 La Roux - In For The Kill 117

96 Kungs vs Cookin On 3 Burners - This Girl 117

97 Lana Del Rey vs Cedric Gervais - Summertime Sadness 114

98 Marina & The Diamonds - Primadonna 104

99 G.R.L - Ugly Heart 70

100 Clean Bandit (feat. Louisa Johnson) - Tears 31

 

And links to my spreadsheets if anyone wants to explore those:

 

adding up spreadsheet

results spreadsheet

I am really quite shocked by Uprising's *ahem* Uprising...:kink:, I wonder what caused it, they haven't released any notable new material this year? :o Shocked as it usually just about scrapes through it's yearly round, but definitely not complaining, what a wonderful addition to the top 20. Yesss at Figure 8 and Don't You Worry Child getting similar random rises.

 

A shame With Every Heartbeat has to go out on a relative low, I will miss it :'( Kinda surprised Into You beat One Last Time, but I rlly like both and can see either being future winners. Run Away With Me is a pretty damn good pop song and it's certainly nice to get a relatively fresh winner in these.

 

Thanks for another great year of this, Iz!

Interesting and, for me, unexpected winner! Not a bad song but far from the best of the past decade...

This progressed faster than I was expecting!

 

Love the high debut for 'Formation' and climb for 'Flesh Without Blood'; I wonder if the latter could become a top 10 contender in future years?

 

That 200+ spot climb for 'End Credits' is glorious; no regrets for giving it my top points. I want to credit myself for the improvement as I didn't vote last year, but I did vote 2 years ago and it did even worse then :heehee:

 

'Figure 8' reaching as high as #15 is also a highlight for me. Both for being a song I massively love, and for the dose of catharsis it provides as a song a fraction as successful as all the vastly inferior songs she's released since.

 

I'm a bit surprised at 'Rather Be' getting a new peak now, as it feels like it was one of those songs everyone loved back in 2014, but has kind of fallen to the wayside since; it doesn't feel like as much of an enduring classic as it should. But I might be clouded by my own opinion there, as I heard it a few too many times and I'm still waiting for that to recover.

 

I've always liked 'One Last Time', but it feels really out of place this high up. I'm curious to see how it'll hold once its 2017 resurgence fades. On the other hand, I'm all for 'Into You' smashing in so high! Very well done.

 

'Run Away With Me' I certainly do like, but it's never made a strong connection with me. But it's hard to say it's undeserved, with how widely beloved it and the album are. Full congratulations to 'Bad Romance' being top 2 once again. And also 'Umbrella' making the most of its final year.

So happy to see Run Away with Me taking it, especially over Bad Romance! I like that, ish, but I've never been enthralled by it the way RAWM gets me :D

It feels very wrong to have "Into You" in the top three with "One Last Time" sitting just outside it but whatever. Also Rihanna has definitely suffered an overkill effect, "What's My Name?" really shouldn't be anywhere near as high as it is and if it weren't for that, "Umbrella" or "We Found Love" would have a better chance of winning this - I'm still holding out hope that the latter will one day! <3

 

Quite a shock for me that "Run Away with Me" has won but I am pleased for it (despite giving "Bad Romance" higher points) - I do like variety but I do not like "With Every Heartbeat". Before returning to BJ/voting in this, I probably hadn't heard it since its release and it is really good but not the best song of the decade lol.

 

THANK YOU for running this as always, a great read! <3

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Thrilled that End Credits made it so high - one of my favourite songs of all time. Also thrilled that Little Talks retained a place in the top 20 even if it couldn't stay top 10.

 

Surprised One Last Time was behind Into You as it sounds like so much more of a hit to me but oh well.

 

Thank you Iz for running this, the time and effort is hugely appreciated and it is always one of my favourite threads.

good to have a different winner but RAWM is highly overrated on this forum imo. Hope Rihanna can do it one of these days with We Found Love (or anything). yay for triple RiRi in the top 10 though, literally when will your faves ever?

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