I started watching a channel called BillboardGoddess, who posted clips of the entire US top 50 back in the day, around the time when 'Boom Boom Pow' first entered so the #1 clip became so stale after a while, with BEPs constantly being there with one song or the other :lol: an exciting rebrand for them at the time though! Both sonically and aesthetically the era felt futuristic, even if "you so 2000-and-late" from 'Boom Boom Pow' sounds ridiculously dated now :')

A great year but I'm heavily biased by it being possibly the best year of my life :P I was 20/21 and basically lived the entire twelve months in an early-twenties partying/drinking wonderland, meaning absolutely everything from that year reminds me of good times.

 

A few highlights from memory:

 

* Going to New York in the April and hearing 'Right Round' and 'My Life Would Suck Without You' everywhere.

 

* Seeing Dizzee Rascal live twice and hearing a new song at each gig - 'Bonkers' in the April (supporting The Prodigy) and 'Holiday' in the July (at Wireless). The set he did in 2013 supporting Muse was painfully bad in comparison as he'd ditched all but one of his pre-2008 songs for inferior newer stuff.

 

* Eurovision becoming cool again with a genuinely popular winning single and top ten hit! Lordi and Verka were fun novelties but Fairytale realy stood out at the time as something that crossed over successfully to a non-Eurovision crowd. Would never have predicted Euphoria a few years later!

 

* 'I Gotta Feeling' dominating clubs from Summer 2009 well into 2010 - at its peak you'd hear it at least twice a night and they'd even tease the opening notes in-between random songs :lol: By 2012/13 people were hating it but it seems to have made a comeback recently, possibly as the teenage clubbers of today remember it from their childhood (which makes me feel ancient!)

 

* 'Empire State of Mind' was the big song of the autumn and the one that takes me back to starting second year, a rap song that everyone of all ages seemed to enjoy (even if they all thought the song was just called "New York" which caused some confusion with the Paloma Faith song at the same time). I still think Alicia's singing "I become a wet dream tomato" in the chorus :P

 

And then Florence & The Machine's first album dominating every late 2009-early 2010 house party I went to, just as MGMT's album had the previous year!

Keri Hilson knock you down deserved number 1

My life would suck without you was also a banger of 2009

Omg. My alias confirmed x

 

(But srs I wholeheartedly agree with you!! KYD is my fave song of 2009 <3 and MLWSWY is top 3 I believe! :heart:)

Say It !! Why wasn't that #1 for multiple weeks

Say It is INCREDIBLE

 

Black Eyed Peas can get in the trash though, I can't stand either of those songs :puke:

Metro Station - Shake It is another very good and nostalgic pop song from 2009 which hasn't been mentioned on here yet.

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Jordan Sparks, Battlefield is one of my favourite songs from that year.

Black Eyed Peas smashed it! :wub: I gotta feeling! Wow

I genuinely thought this Lady Sovereign song was gonna be a huge top 5 smash. It ended up peaking at #38. Disgusting in all honesty.

 

 

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The Veronicas released and pushed an older song (released 2007) as a single and it went on to be a big hit for them! Peaking at #8 in the UK and #17 in the US! The strings really make this song anthemic. An incredible song and although it wasn't quite as strong, they released the even older '4Ever' as the follow up here in the UK!

 

 

 

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Another surprise hit (somewhat) was Lenka's gorgeous 'The Show'. The song started getting attention after it started appearing in DFS adverts! The charming, quirky, uplifting and light pop song is so ridiculously catchy! <3

 

 

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Then ofc, we had the rumoured Lady Gaga x Rihanna collaboration. It ended up being Eva Simons and (at the time) was one of the most popular songs on Buzzjack and although it was a very clear BJSC winner and sounded like a massive top 5 smash, it was released like 5 months too late iirc! It ended up peaking at #149 :lol: According to Wiki, in an interview she was excited that people were hearing her song, but she was struggling trying to get the credit for it when Gaga and Rihanna fans had believed it was a collaboration between them two. Bless her :( It really should've been released back when it leaked (April time) and it would've been a big smash for her as I personally had never experienced the online hype to anything quite like that before! :lol:

 

At least Eva did get that #1 hit a few years later :lol: