15 - 11

 

 

15. Heartbeat Song [7.884]

Highest: Jonjo, Eduardo, George.keh, Cameron & kye (10); Beautiful Ghosts (09.5) + Tawdry Hepburn & West (09)

Lowest: WinterFreeze, jszmiles & Bjork (05) + Prettylittlebry & SamJudd (06)

 

 

 

14. Dark Side [7.888]

Highest: Prettylittlebry, Lukuzz, Spiceboy, gavindeejay & Adam (10); Riser & HarryEzra (09.5) + Tawdry Hepburn, ...ready for it, slowdown73 & Cameron (09)

Lowest: George.keh (02.5) + vibe & Beautiful Ghosts (05)

 

 

 

13. Sober [8.27]

Highest: Lukuzz, Jonjo, jszmiles & Eduardo (11) + Prettylittlebry, Liam, George.keh & Mullo (10)

Lowest: kye (00) + slowdown73 & gavindeejay (06)

 

 

 

12. Already Gone [8.38]

Highest: Prettylittlebry, Jonjo, ...ready for it, Liam, RobS & Adam (10); kye (09.5) + Tawdry Hepburn, jszmiles, slowdown73, Cameron, Beautiful Ghosts & HarryEzra (09)

Lowest: Spiceboy (05) + Eduardo & gavindeejay (06)

 

 

 

11. Never Again [8.42]

Highest: HarryEzra (11) + Prettylittlebry, Lukuzz, Liam, jszmiles & NickF1 (10)

Lowest: Pippa (06); Riser (06.5) ...ready for it & Spiceboy (07)

 

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At #15 we have the mega underrated & (shockingly) a CLUB BANGER in 'Heartbeat Song'. Honestly, experience this in a club on a night out and try not to lose your shit. The thing that made it pop awf even more for me was seeing the locals genuinely loving it and singing along to it! What a song :heart: We have 'Dark Side' at #14. A song which I find "okay" but there really is far superior choices on the 'Stronger' album to choose as singles, imo. But there seemed to be a rather random and sudden surge in love for this song recently, which is cool. At #13 is the first song in our countdown to receive at least one 11 (it received 4) and it's the devastatingly beautiful 'Sober'. In my top 5 songs of all time I think. Just SO much raw emotion and it really struck a chord with me the moment I heard the 'My December' album. Breathtaking. I'm not sure where it was a single, but apparently it was so it got a late addition into the rate :lol: At #12 we have the far superior version of 'Halo'. 'Already Gone' was destined to be a huge hit WW. It was really big in the US, iirc, but most other places and it didn't have much impact at all. One of her very best songs! Rumour has it that Beyonce heard AG and wanted a version of it for herself so hit Ryan up and asked him to make a similar song. He made a carbon copy, just a bit more hollow in it's production and vocal delivery. So she managed to get her version out as a single right before Kelly and Kelly was not happy </3 'Never Again' finishes at #11 in this rate. The song that kick started the 'My December' campaign. It's such an angsty song! Loved seeing this feistier side to Kelly. So much sass in this from her!

Here's the top 10:

 

(Alphabetical)

 

01. Because Of You

02. Behind These Hazel Eyes

03. Breakaway

04. Catch My Breath

05. My Life Would Suck Without You

06. Piece By Piece

07. Since U Been Gone

08. Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

09. Underneath the Tree

10. Walk Away

 

What will win? Who still has their faves in?

 

CATCH MY BREATH IN THE TOP 10!!! That's really surprised me. :o The rest I don't think are that surprising. But WHAT A LIST!!

the top 10 looks fab - i’d have preferred heartbeat song over catch my breath but they’re both great so can’t complain.

 

SO glad sober is out. great song but not in her top 10.

Been so in love with 'Dark Side' recently, although I did always quite like it - it's just hit me out of nowhere.

Both Sober and Never Again should have been top 10 but I'm obsessed with the My December era

Wtf even are these results. Literally all of her songs that I actually like are gone already (except 'Breakaway' I guess). 'Mr. Know It All' came 23rd behind some random Jason Aldean collab?!

 

You all goofed. Insert Bjork meme about fixing results.

 

(I obvz didn't take part in this but just browsing results out of interest :kink:)

All my faves are still in the top ten and I didn't even rate, good job guys!

10

 

 

CATCH MY BREATH [8.53]

 

 

Highest: Prettylittlebry, SamJudd, Tawdry Hepburn, ...ready for it, gavindeejay, Mullo & West (10); Cameron & Riser (09.5) + Lukuzz, Spiceboy, WinterFreeze & slowdown73 (09)

Lowest: RobS (05) + vibe (06)

 

Starting off the top 10 at #10 is the first of 2 songs in the top 10 to not receive a score of "11"! Catch My Breath was released as the first single from Kelly's Greatest Hits: Chapter One collection. It's a song that allows Kelly to reflect on her career and "catch [her] breath" as she takes a walk down memory lane. It's actually a beautiful song and the perfect kind of song to kick off a Greatest Hits collection. It's a modern pop song, with a Country twang to it. Beautiful.

UTT and Walk Away are the 2 odd ones in the top 10 for me

don't think they're top 10 material above much better songs like Dark Side, Already Gone, Never Again, Miss Independence or Mr Know It All

'Catch My Breath' is so magnificent. :wub: I genuinely rate that among her best. Powerful, catchy, empowering! Everything I like about Kelly in a song.

 

Deserved much more in the UK chart.

09

 

 

WALK AWAY [8.68]

 

 

Highest: Mullo (11) + Prettylittlebry, Spiceboy, NickF1, RobS, Riser & Beautiful Ghosts (10)

Lowest: ...ready for it & Bjork (06) + Tawdry Hepburn, jszmiles & Eduardo (07)

 

Next at 9, is the 4th single to be taken from Kelly's 2nd album Breakaway (the first of FIVE singles from that album to appear!) and it's the infectiously, catchy Walk Away. My favourite thing about this song is the irresistably, feel-good video. Such a brilliant idea for this song that was all too relatable. Surely we've all been guilty of doing such things when we hear our favourite songs on the radio? Plus Kelly looks FIRE in the video. Such an angsty, yet commercially appealing song. No matter what was chosen as the 4th single in the campaign, it was gonna be a banger, regardless.

I'm pleasantly surprised to see I Don't Think About You as the highest from her last album, beating Love So Soft on a tiebreak! :o

 

Edit: Catch My Breath and Walk Away are both major faves, very glad to see both top 10 :wub:

Walk Away :wub: the video is awesome and was the right song to follow Because of You imo.

 

Would have put Already Gone above Catch My Breath though!

08

 

 

BREAKAWAY [8.74]

 

 

Highest: gavindeejay & Riser (11) + vibe, Liam, jszmiles, Cameron, West & Beautiful Ghosts (10)

Lowest: WinterFreeze (06); ...ready for it, slowdown73, Bjork & Mullo (07) + HarryEzra (07.5)

 

The 2nd of 5 singles from the Breakaway album is eliminated in 8th place. The title track is a soaring, empowering, pop, rock ballad. It was used as the lead single in the US, to promote the movie 'The Princess Diaries 2'. However, it ended up being the 5th and final single from the era here in the UK. By that point the album had sold around 1 million copies in the UK alone, however it still went on to be a successful single for Kelly. Reaching #22 and spending 8 weeks in the top 75! A big achievement for a 5th single from an album that had sold so much! Such a gorgeous song.

I mean I love every song now. Catch my breath is fantastic. Walk Away is great I genuinely prefer it to Since U been gone which I think is similar vain. Breakaway at the time I wasn't rely bothered about but un recent years it's a song I always go back to when feeling down and it's such a mood up lifter for me

Bangers

07

 

 

STRONGER (WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU) [8.88]

 

 

Highest: Spiceboy, Pippa & West (11) + SamJudd, Liam, WinterFreeze, Eduardo, Cameron, kye, Rob S, gavindeejay, Bjork & Beautiful Ghosts (10)

Lowest: jszmiles (03); George.keh (04.5)

 

At #7 is the pop masterpiece, Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You). This followed Mr Know It All as the second single from the album with the same name (minus the parts in brackets - which were added for the singles release). It went on to become her biggest hit since My Life Would Suck Without You as it hit top 10 in the UK, top 3 in Canada and went to number 1 in the US! Such a banging song and (obviously) the PERFECT choice to be 2nd single. It was a huge radio hit everywhere it was released and showed that Kelly still had whatever it took to get a hit.

A shame that Breakaway couldn't finish above Stronger but other than that still good!

06

 

 

MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU [8.94]

 

 

Highest: SamJudd (11) + Jonjo, Liam, Spiceboy, jszmiles, George.keh, Cameron, Rob S, Bjork, West & Beautiful Ghosts (10)

Lowest: Lukuzz, WinterFreeze & gavindeejay (07)

 

Missing the top 5 is the song that gave Kelly her first ever (& currently only </3) UK number 1! My Life Would Suck Without You went on to become her biggest ever hit (at the time) peaking at #1 here in the UK, Canada and the US where she recorded the biggest jump to number 1 in Hot 100 history as it went from #97 to #1 the week after! It was the 2nd time she set that record as her coronation single jumped from #52 to #1 in 2002, which was the biggest at the time. It went on to become a huge global smash for her and I was responsible for playing it on repeat the day of it's radio premiere over 150 times :') LEGENDARY times! I'm STILL not bored of it and it IS one of the greatest pop songs of all time, imo. Masterpiece <3

And your top 5 is:

 

(Alphabetical)

 

01. Because Of You

02. Behind These Hazel Eyes

03. Piece By Piece

04. Since U Been Gone

05. Underneath the Tree

 

One of these songs didn't receive an "11". Will it be the winner of this rate? :o