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Louise - Stretch (ok her age counts against her but her comeback is much better quality than I ever expected)

Cheryl - Let You

Katy Perry - Never Really Over

Vampire Weekend - This Life

Clean Bandit & Marina - Baby

Taylor Swift - Lover

 

Still at a loss (and think I will be for years!) as to how Katy never managed top 10 with that absolute banger. One of her best and far superior to most pop songs that have managed it this year. I know Vampire Weekend have never had a top 10 so I wouldn't have expected it to, however, this deserved top 40 at least. Its basically Brown Eyed Girl part 2.

 

Clean Bandit is another I don't understand how this failed but somehow I Miss You managed to do it. Aside from the fact Cruel Summer was a song that could not have screamed smash hit any louder than it does, but never was. Lover however I think was a great third single, its a nicer version of Perfect that doesn't make you want to vomit. Thought this would have been a slow burner and eventually have gotten there but I think the timing was off. Had the album dropped in November I think it would have fitted more with the christmas theme and done considerably better.

If Katy released that 10 years ago she would have been no1 handy enough I think.
God is a Dancer, Lose Control And Turn Me On all seemed to shoot up the chart in the space of one or two weeks and then completely stall in the top 20 which seemed weird. Thought all were going to go top 10 and all deserved to

In most cases underperformances are due to

Lack of playlist support on Spotify

Ie Katy Perry, God is a Dancer

 

But thats not the case of Lose control or Riton, both @1 on HH

 

As with Reputation, Taylors problem was picking the wrong singles, Me is her worst song ever and Calm Down is just ok

If she had picked Cruel Summer as lead, The Man as 2nd and Lover as 3rd around Xmas instead

She would have had a much better year

 

 

I feel like the peaks of 'Juice' and 'I Could Get Used To This' aren't anywhere near reflective of how well-known they are or the impact they had.

 

It's a real shame 'Never Really Over' couldn't quite push for top 10 in the end. :( But still did great for a Katy Perry single in 2019.

'Juice' seems to have attained the same status as Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Run Away With Me', never more than a blink-and-you'll-miss-it hit (especially in the US) but still considered a legendary song among certain Internet circles. Her having 2 other songs that actually did become big hits doesn't hurt.

Dido - Hurricanes

 

one of her best, should be as big as White Flag!

'Juice' seems to have attained the same status as Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Run Away With Me', never more than a blink-and-you'll-miss-it hit (especially in the US) but still considered a legendary song among certain Internet circles. Her having 2 other songs that actually did become big hits doesn't hurt.

 

I feel like 'Juice' is actually a widely known song outside of the gays and the internet (which is something I can't really say about RAWM sadly).

Zara Larsson - All The Time, Charli XCX - Gone and Bebe Rexha - Last Hurrah are three of the best pop songs of the year :(

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