Ariana to win - preferably with One Last Timw :wub:

 

A strong Top 10 overall!

Fantastic to see Faded, Do I Wanna Know and Somebody That I Used To Know all hitting new peaks!

 

Really hoping Ariana Grande can finish on top this year but I have a feeling Lady Gaga's Bad Romance is gonna be around as always. Good to see Coldplay and CHVRCHES in the top ten as well, but I doubt they'll go all the way.

I could see Into You winning now.

Great debuts for "Green Light" and "Anywhere"! I never would have expected a Rita Ora song to place so high on this thing :o

 

I find the other three songs that they're grouped with completely random choices for Record of the Decade - one because I've never willingly playing it and the other two as they are completely of their time and I wouldn't choose to listen to them anymore.

 

Rooting for a Rihanna or Ariana win - preferably for "One Last Time" though.

Really hoped Green Light could squeeze into the top ten - twelve is great though.

 

It's massive chart underperformance still pains me.

 

10 NE 2017 Dua Lipa - New Rules 331 ( 10 )

 

The top 10 starts with its only new entry, New Rules by Dua Lipa. It's certainly an accomplishment to get this high as a new song, and the fact that 2017 had two others chasing Dua's tail so closely means that I expect it to be an interesting year to watch as we go forward. But for debuts, Dua wins this one, with the all-conquering New Rules, a song that seemed like, when it hit, that it was the biggest hit for a female solo artist in an absolute age. If I'm inaccurate at all with that assessment that'll be me not following the charts in 2017. I remember first hearing this properly at the large Buzzjack meetup in August last year, and if there was a song to define that (and if anyone who was there was actually reading the chart forum, I guess Liam will be x), then this was that. It's become a bit too ubiquitous for me want to lavish praise over it right now, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who will do that if this score is anything to go by. ROTD has new rules now, worship Dua.

 

9 10 2012 Loreen - Euphoria 341 ( 4 - 6 - 3 - 4 - 10 - 9 )

 

Another year goes by and another year where Euphoria fails to challenge hard for the ROTD title I did expect it to take at one point, although now I think it will be lucky to end its eventual run entirely within the top 10, these past two years have tested it. I didn't actually vote for it this year, which just shows how far removed from its time it feels now, I was one of the people loving it and willing it on to win EVERYTHING back in the day. Perhaps with this realisation, it could come back into my affections, but I do think next to a lot of this top 10 it feels dated and slightly tired. That's not to take away from its wonderful instrumental undercurrent, Loreen's great singing, and how much I love that a Eurovision song has seen consistent success in this competition for once, but ROTD seems like it's remained the one major Buzzjack thing Euphoria cannot conquer.

Hopefully New Rules won't beat Anywhere in the future as 2017's lead. It's a decent song but I have my doubts if it will age as well in say five years, especially after Dua (probably) will release a lot more potential big hit signature songs by then.

 

Just as e.g. Chasing Pavements, IKAG and Poker Face have fallen by the wayside as Adele, Katy Perry and Gaga's single signature songs respectively.

Edited August 10, 20187 yr by Jüpiter

 

8 11 2013 CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share 343 ( 131 - 53 - 8 - 11 - 8 )

 

CHVRCHES bounces back to the 8th place it got two years ago, retaining the progressively easier to obtain title of HIGHEST FORMER BJSC ENTRY (largely because it seems like BJSC is throwing up fewer future hits these days, which itself is a good thing and a testament to the good veto process there), and flying the flag for the wonderful electropop that CHVRCHES have been peddling for a few years now but unfortunately no one outside of pop fan circles like this seems to be buying into.

 

I've made no secret of the fact I think CHVRCHES are one of the best bands of the last few years and The Mother We Share, as their only chart hit (but as a small one, that probably isn't why it does so well here) is a fantastic example of why that's the case. Clear vocals that drag you in with buzzing synthy instrumentation, cute lyrics and a progression that never slows down, it's a tune of aural bliss. And clearly one that a lot of our voters like a lot, as it keeps doing far better than I expect it to given its hit status. It's not quite the smallest hit in the top 10, but from the act with the lowest overall profile, I point to this as how we know good taste and good songs when we see them. And if you disagree with that, I'm sorry for you, but listen to this sweet synthy song again and fall in love with it and everything else CHVRCHES have ever done. My personal favourite song in the top 10.

 

lemme just switch stan mode off, we got a few more to go here.

Great performance from CHVRCHES!

 

7 5 2011 Rihanna (feat. Calvin Harris) - We Found Love 359 ( 15 - 5 - 3 - 2 - 16 - 5 - 7 )

 

Like with Euphoria, it might have almost been expected that We Found Love would have snuck a victory by now. It certainly seemed to be building towards that but the biggest foray for Rihanna into a HUGE CALVIN HARRIS CLUB TRACK has yet to make it past any of the myriad ROTD winners. It's certainly one of the best of tracks of its type, this does sound great in a club and in the sort of setting it was designed for, and I expect it continues to receive regular play to this day. Outside of a couple of years of falling a bit further than it should have, it's been in the top 10 most years, many of those in the top half. It's something that I've now turned to watching it to see how well it does, but not expecting it to go through with the whole thing, because there's a certain divide that stops it from having a wide enough appeal to win.

 

Curiously, almost everyone who voted highly for this didn't vote for CHVRCHES just below it, and vice versa. That's the divide right there, stopping both tracks from reaching the top, neither can quite get the other main camp on board. Rihanna or CHVRCHES, pick a side. Unless you're one of the 11 people who didn't vote for either (11 seems like a lot but that's less than a quarter of the voters).

'The Mother We Share' is absolute synthpop perfection, deserved to be a big hit but at least it went top 40 unlike all of their other stuff. Pleased it continues to be recognised well here.

 

Coldplay still in it! Fingers crossed they can be top 5 now (probably jinxed it there x)

Coldplay still in it! Fingers crossed they can be top 5 now (probably jinxed it there x)

I'll blame you when they finish number six then

 

6 1 2015 Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me 367 ( 5 - 1 - 6 )

 

I have form with predicting where Run Away With Me will end up, so I'm not surprised it equalled my rate drop. See this, from its first year in ROTD:

Oh and this really is a most excellent pop song isn't it? So listenable, so emotion-filled, so wistful, especially that gorgeous instrumentation. I'm actually going to double down on my predictive skills and predict that this WILL be a future ROTD winner. And Carly Rae WILL ascend to internet forum cult status. I think those look accurate, right guys?

 

I bring that out because looking back at past year's commentary to give me inspiration made me realise I didn't brag about that when it actually won the thing on the very next try! Even if that 2016 prediction was probably a little tongue in cheek, I don't think I expected Run Away With Me to still be in the top 5 2 years later when it first debuted, even if it winning in the interim made me change my expectations to expecting it to be a regular towards the top. I'm glad it's still got it though, because it could so easily have been a winner that got backlash and fell away to the 30s or something, at first it would be a shock, and then people would begin to accept it in future years until it was only a trivia point that it once won. Just like how Bleeding Love ended up. But no, people are still on for Carly, even if not enough to give her a second win. And I'm glad this is still in here, I still love it. No hit, but still a hit and near universally acclaimed GOOD POP SONG. Take it away Carly, you may not have eked out a second shock win, but this still looks very respectable to remain in the future contenders list.

 

5 28 2008 Coldplay - Viva La Vida 367 (more votes) ( 15 - 51 - 15 - 32 - 28 - 79 - 17 - 18 - 28 - 5 )

 

Looking at that run, what a fantastic end to Viva La Vida and 2008. 9 years being one of the most adored songs in the country, and on here by a male band, but never a top 10, and then on the final go (and after it did so comparatively poorly in this year's yearly round!), bang, this perfect construction of a pop song, Coldplay's deserved first #1, and a radio staple ever since that's never got old despite that, makes it in.

 

The lyrics deserve a huge analysis, mainly because I love thinking about them whenever it's on, and there's few pop songs I have that with, I've seen theories that it could be a story told from the perspective of God looking over a land with no religion, all the talk of kings and revolutions makes me think of figures throughout history, from Caesar ('roll the dice') to Knut ('seas would rise when I gave the word') to Louis XIV/XVI ('revolutionaries wait for my head on a silver plate'), to the paradox of power ('now the old king is dead/long live the king'), and then the glorious chorus that is both uplifting and melancholy as the singer reflects how he won't get to heaven despite all the power he had in life. All accompanied by a stadium rock instrumental and beautiful backing vocals in the background, the title 'Love Live Life', and you get a profound sense that this is a true classic that is going to last the ages. Coldplay get a lot of shit for being a cookie cutter pop band these days, but this, this is their crowning glory, and I'm so glad that it's been seen off with a peak that it so richly deserves.

Oh and oops. HOLD ON. Coldplay is top 5, it got one more vote than Carly Rae.

 

Lemme just switch that around a second. You saw nothing.

I wish I gave Carly one more point now :kink:

 

Yassss for Anywhere and green light and I hope they both continue to slay over the upcoming years ❤️❤️

Great finish for Coldplay!

Viva La Vida finishing on a high :wub:

 

Predicting:

1. Ariana Grande - One Last Time

2. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

3. Robyn - Dancing On My Own

4. Ariana Grande - Into You

 

This is quite a good top 10 on the whole, there isn't anything I wouldn't listen to in it so well done buzzjack. Actually, scrap that, I forgot about Euphoria which I find to be completely overrated - I think I prefer pretty much every other track on her album.

 

Pleased that Robyn has clung on to top 5, I was expecting her to fall a lot more heavily this year.

Edited August 11, 20187 yr by dandy*