March 4, 20205 yr Author #08 Jess Glynne Don't Be So Hard On Yourself (2015) - Video THeLVhU53ow Commentary Jess had been growing on me for a while, from the fairly good Clean Bandit features to Hold My Hand, which at this point wasn't used in a Jet2 advert and was incredibly fresh and fun. As soon as I heard this song I knew it was going to be a favourite. It's a brilliant song, Jess at her absolute best and a mental health theme relationg to being able to let go and getting on with life, which has always been incredibly important to me since my dark period a couple of years prior. I was ecstatic when it topped the chart, and it took me years to not hate Fight Song for kicking it off after just one week ;) Jess took a steep downhill turn after this but it is such a brilliant song. ----------------------------------------- #07 Electric Guest This Head I Hold (2012) - Video nVSiwMVaKe4 Commentary You might be surprised to see this in my Top 10 as I don't go on about it much, but you won't be surprised to hear that the only 2012 song in my Top 10 was a song I only discovered in... 2014 :P It's also the only song I've (ever?) discovered from an advert, the IKEA advert with the house that spins around and the smooth family who rotate about it flawlessly. It's the only advert I really like and this song played a big part of that, so much that I had it in my head during most of my trip to Centre Parcs which is really where I discovered the advert/song. It still brings back happy memories and is yet again an absolutely flawless song, as well as being the highest American entry!
March 5, 20205 yr catching up on the top 30; big yes for party rock anthem so high, it will be even higher in mine! dibby dibby sound (or libby libby as my autocorrect wants to call it) was rather good although not as essential of that era for me, I have to be in the right mood for it now. friend of mine is amazing too, glad it got a fair bit of appreciation here when it wasn't ever given a chart push. dynamite and waving flag I liked a fair bit back then but I'd very rarely if ever actively listen to them now. don't be so hard another great track although not my fave of hers. your clean bandit faves seem to be the ones I don't rate highly tho :(
March 5, 20205 yr Author catching up on the top 30; big yes for party rock anthem so high, it will be even higher in mine! dibby dibby sound (or libby libby as my autocorrect wants to call it) was rather good although not as essential of that era for me, I have to be in the right mood for it now. friend of mine is amazing too, glad it got a fair bit of appreciation here when it wasn't ever given a chart push. dynamite and waving flag I liked a fair bit back then but I'd very rarely if ever actively listen to them now. don't be so hard another great track although not my fave of hers. your clean bandit faves seem to be the ones I don't rate highly tho :( Glad you're a fan of most of these! I guess you're more into the Jess Glynne-y Clean Bandit songs, they're decent but pretty standard dance/pop for me whilst Stronger/Come Over/Telephone Banking spice things up which is what gets my interest. Thanks Dan!
March 5, 20205 yr Author #06 Tinie Tempah Pass Out (2010) - Video QzvGKas5RsU Commentary The highest song from 2010 (and the highest song not from the middle three years of the decade), I'm not sure what makes this stand out from all the other rap songs from that time but it really does - I think it might be partly down to lyrics such as 'They say hello, they say hola and they say bonjour' and 'I've been Southampton but I've never been to Scunthorpe'. Oh and I think I remember hearing it at Hull Fair and thinking 'oh I quite like this song'. And I did - I definitely knew all the lyrics at one point (except the swearing, I've literally never heard the non-clean edit and listening to it now and it really is something isn't it. Let's stick with the clean version). ----------------------------------------- #05 Fuse ODG Million Pound Girl (Badder Than Bad) (2014) - Video xhYhX7c2KlQ Commentary Imagine being the 5th highest song in my EOD and not even being in the Top 2 songs from 2014 :') Fuse is also the highest act from Ghana (although not the highest act of Ghanaian heritage interestingly enough). I already knew and loved Fuse from Antenna but this was really on a completely different level, really bringing the world music vibes to a mainstream pop song that I played so much that I don't even think it's fully recovered for me oops. But I appreciate how much this was a turning point in my love for music and looking back at the decade this most certainly was one of the songs that influenced it.
March 7, 20205 yr Author #04 Krishane Drunk & Incapable (ft. Melissa Steel) (2014) - Video CTE8zselPCo Commentary Melissa Steel had been on my radar for quite a while when this came out, so naturally I was very excited to hear it, and whilst it didn't do too much for me, hearing it on the music channel at Centre Parcs really cemented this as an absolute love for me. Two brilliant voices, an indo-carribean beat and an infectious tune, this song still brings back that swimming pool smell! And I don't think I've listened to Melissa Steel at all since this oops ----------------------------------------- #03 Nico & Vinz Am I Wrong (2014) - Video bg1sT4ILG0w Commentary We finally get to the highest song from 2014, and of course it's Nico & Vinz :wub: This is the absolute definition of a grower - when I first heard it (watching 4Music in our caravan) my first thought wasn't 'oh, what a good song this is' - it was actually 'why are they doing a music video in Africa when they're from Norway?!' and that annoyed me for quite a while. But as music came and went, this stayed in my head and continued to grow on me. I was eventually convinced to download the album when I had a spare iTunes voucher and the samples of the new Fuse ODG album weren't grabbing me, and this song suddenly took on a whole new level as the head of the most perfect album to ever be released (yes, I went there). I love it and you should too.
March 7, 20205 yr knew Am I Wrong would be high here, it is great though. I remember liking it when it was in BJSC then it becoming a proper hit was a pleasant surprise. also liked Million Pound Girl and Pass Out a lot, both personal chart #1s for me (an honorary #1 for Pass Out as it pre-dated me joining Buzzjack by a few months).
March 7, 20205 yr Author knew Am I Wrong would be high here, it is great though. I remember liking it when it was in BJSC then it becoming a proper hit was a pleasant surprise. also liked Million Pound Girl and Pass Out a lot, both personal chart #1s for me (an honorary #1 for Pass Out as it pre-dated me joining Buzzjack by a few months). Am I Wrong was a BJSC entry as well?! That means that three of my Top 10 are BJSC entries from before I joined Buzzjack :P Glad you're such a fan of so much of my Top 10 though :wub: Thanks Dan!
March 8, 20205 yr Oh wow, Don't Be So Hard On Yourself is easily my favorite Jess Glynne song, awesome to see it in your top 10! And yes, down with Fight Song *.
March 11, 20205 yr I'm loving that Pass Out has ended so high. Definitely one of the songs that defined my late childhood/early teen years. Am I Wrong is a decent tune too but not one I ever really find myself going back to.
March 11, 20205 yr Author Oh wow, Don't Be So Hard On Yourself is easily my favorite Jess Glynne song, awesome to see it in your top 10! And yes, down with Fight Song *. Glad you're such a fan, my favourite as well :wub: Thanks Jordan! I'm loving that Pass Out has ended so high. Definitely one of the songs that defined my late childhood/early teen years. Am I Wrong is a decent tune too but not one I ever really find myself going back to. Same for me with Pass Out, although quite the opposite for Am I Wrong, such a nostalgia-inducing tune for me now! Thanks Lewis :D
March 11, 20205 yr Author #02 Lost Frequencies Reality (ft. Janieck) (2015) - Video ilw-qmqZ5zY Commentary So whilst you've all known for ages what my #1 will be, I've probably kept fairly quiet as to how much I love this song. It is the highest dance track in the countdown and the absolute peak of tropical house, a brilliant melody from the best featured artist of his generation, a spine-tingling twangy guitar and just a beautiful feel-good tune. I discovered this way before it was released in the UK and saw it top the charts in France and Belgium, so I was getting more and more excited for it to smash in the UK. But sadly that never happened, the song peaking at #29 and dropping out too quickly :( The result being that there are so many people who don't know and love this song the way they should. Listen to it now and tell me it's a masterpiece.
March 11, 20205 yr Author #01 Lukas Graham 7 Years (2016) - Video LHCob76kigA Commentary Now this deserves a post to itself, and I could probably write a page about how good this song is. It makes me tingle now and it I cannot comprehend how a mere mortal could write a song as good as this because as humans we don't deserve it. Every node, every note, every intonation of his voice is absolutely perfect. I had the privilege of hearing this in late 2015 so I got to witness the first hand the rise of this song going from a niche that sounded a bit like Bad Day to an appearance at #33 in the UK Chart Update to it flying up into the Top 10 and it managing 5 weeks at #1. No song as good as this had reached #1 officially before this and nothing even half as good has reached #1 since. And to be honest, people should have stopped making music after this because however hard they try they will never match the absolute brilliance of this one song. Listen to it now and feel the warmth enter you, feel every muscle in your body want to scream out the every single lyric to this song because you cannot sit there and not absolutely adore it. Over and out. (yes that paragraph might be a bit much but if you don't like it you're wrong :P)
March 11, 20205 yr Author Thanks everyone for following along! Here is the full Top 100 for reference :D 1 Lukas Graham - 7 Years 2 Lost Frequencies - Reality (ft. Janieck) 3 Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong 4 Krishane ft. Melissa Steel - Drunk & Incapable 5 Fuse ODG - Million Pound Girl (Badder Than Bad) 6 Tinie Tempah - Pass Out 7 Electric Guest - This Head I Hold 8 Jess Glynne - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself 9 Walking on Cars - Speeding Cars 10 Walk Off the Earth - Hold On (The Break) 11 Morland - Skin 12 Taio Cruz - Dynamite 13 Alessia Cara - Seventeen 14 Mandinga - Zalileh 15 Jessy Matador - Allez Ola Ole 16 Clean Bandit - Come Over (ft. Stylo G) 17 K'naan - Wavin' Flag 18 Avicii ft. Vargas & Lagola - Friend of Mine 19 Amy Shark - I Said Hi 20 DJ Fresh & Jay Fay - Dibby Dibby Sound (ft. Ms Dynamite) 21 LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem (ft. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock) 22 SeeB - What Do You Love (ft. Jacob Banks) 23 Declan McKenna - The Kids Don't Wanna Come Home 24 Foals - Exits 25 Wideboys - Shopaholic (ft. Sway & McLean) 26 Riva Starr - Dance Me 27 Clean Bandit - Telephone Banking (ft. Love Ssega) 28 Fedde Le Grand - Running 29 Princess Nyah - Hooligans (ft. Ghetts & Griminal) 30 Ylvis - The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) 31 Wretch 32 ft. Example - Unorthodox (Moto Blanco Edit) 32 Kygo - Firestone (ft. Conrad Sewell) 33 Chromeo - Jealous (I Ain't With It) 34 Clean Bandit - Stronger 35 Far East Movement ft. The Cataracts & Dev - Like a G6 36 PSY - Gangnam Style 37 Fuse ODG - Antenna 38 Tujamo & Plastik Funk - Dr. Who! (ft. Sneakbo) 39 Owl City - Lucid Dream 40 Tiesto vs. Diplo ft. Busta Rhymes - C'mon (Catch 'Em By Surprise) 41 JP Cooper - September Song 42 Disclosure ft. Jessie Ware - Confess To Me 43 Rudimental - Toast To Our Differences 44 Showtek - Booyah! (ft. We Are Loud! & Sonny Wilson) 45 Fall Out Boy - Centuries 46 Philip George - Wish You Were Mine 47 Grouplove - Ways to Go 48 Nico & Vinz - Another Day 49 Tchami - Promesses (feat. Kaleem Taylor) 50 Years And Years - King 51 MOWE - Lovers Friends (ft. Daniel Nitt) 52 Sheppard - Keep Me Crazy 53 Format:B - Chunky 54 The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa (So Shifty Remix) 55 Two Door Cinema Club - Talk 56 Caro Emerald - Liquid Lunch 57 Bakermat - Teach Me 58 Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup - We No Speak Americano 59 Chiddy Bang - Opposite of Adults 60 Mahmut Orhan & Colonel Bagshot - 6 Days 61 Wretch 32 - All a Dream 62 Cavetown - Home 63 Thomas Jack - Rivers 64 Alle Farben & Janieck - Little Hollywood 65 Blonde - All Cried Out (ft. Alex Newell) 66 Bipolar Sunshine - Daydreamer (Gryffin Remix) 67 Sub Focus - Turn Back Time 68 Galantis - Smile 69 Finn Kleffman - Head Over Heels 70 Blonde - I Loved You (ft. Melissa Steel) 71 Avicii - Trouble 72 Twin Twin - Moustache 73 Disclosure ft. AlunaGeorge - White Noise 74 Galantis - Rich Boy 75 HUMAN - ROBOT 76 Suzi Island - Show Me The Way 77 We the Lion - Found Love 78 Avicii - Peace of Mind (ft. Vargas & Lagola) 79 Tune-Yards - Water Fountain 80 Wiley - Boom Blast 81 3OH!3 ft. Katy Perry - Starstrukk 82 Bad Sounds - Meat on My Bones 83 Vance Joy - We're Going Home 84 KDA - Turn the Music Louder (feat. Tinie Tempah & Jess Glynne) 85 Avicii - Waiting For Love 86 Zara Larsson - Lush Life 87 Olly Murs - Seasons 88 MOWE - Back in the Summer 89 Nico & Vinz - In Your Arms 90 Tine Tempah - Not Letting Go (feat. Jess Glynne) 91 Sergey Lazarev - You Are the Only One 92 Wiley ft. JME & Ms. D - Can You Hear Me? (Ayayaya) 93 Royce Lovett - I Wanna Love You 94 Jax Jones - House Work (ft. Mike Dunn & MNEK) 95 Wallows - These Days 96 Nico & Vinz - When the Day Comes 97 The Magician ft. Years & Years - Sunlight 98 Snow Patrol - Don't Give In 99 Walking on Cars - Don't Mind Me 100 Sia - Never Give Up
March 12, 20205 yr well it couldn't be anything else at #1 here really! as for my own chart it managed 10 weeks in my top 40 with a #27 peak which is great for that type of song, it was certainly a deserved big hit. Reality is nice enough though I never really got into it like 'Are You With Me', it also peaked at #29 in my chart but with only 2 weeks top 40. great chart ~
March 12, 20205 yr I think 'Pass Out' is my favourite in your top 10 *.* the lyrics really are so standout! Tinie's lyricism was generally on point during the whole Disc-overy era really. A very unsurprising #1 here :kink: but '7 Years' is probably my 2nd favourite of this top 10, so a good winner!
March 15, 20205 yr Electric Guest! I felt like I was the only one on this board who liked that back when it was out, great to see it feature in someone's list ^_^
March 17, 20205 yr Author well it couldn't be anything else at #1 here really! as for my own chart it managed 10 weeks in my top 40 with a #27 peak which is great for that type of song, it was certainly a deserved big hit. Reality is nice enough though I never really got into it like 'Are You With Me', it also peaked at #29 in my chart but with only 2 weeks top 40. great chart ~ I did like Are You With Me but this was by far the superior song for me - thanks for commenting throughout Dan and glad you're a fan of 7 Years!! I think 'Pass Out' is my favourite in your top 10 *.* the lyrics really are so standout! Tinie's lyricism was generally on point during the whole Disc-overy era really. A very unsurprising #1 here :kink: but '7 Years' is probably my 2nd favourite of this top 10, so a good winner! Another 7 Years fan, get in :cheer: Pass Out is such a tune, he really hasn't come close with his other stuff. Thanks Jade! Electric Guest! I felt like I was the only one on this board who liked that back when it was out, great to see it feature in someone's list ^_^ It really is a tune, it's held up so well over the second half of the decade as well which is why it's so high in my list, you have indeed found another fan :D Thanks dandy*!
May 4, 20205 yr Hey Pete, just passing by with a late round of comments :kink: 3 Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong 8 Jess Glynne - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself I think this was definitely Jess's best solo single! 9 Walking on Cars - Speeding Cars great tune. 16 Clean Bandit - Come Over (ft. Stylo G) 17 K'naan - Wavin' Flag this was a very strong football track! 30 Ylvis - The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) Lol, I remember the Children In Need performance of this. 31 Wretch 32 ft. Example - Unorthodox (Moto Blanco Edit) 32 Kygo - Firestone (ft. Conrad Sewell) 33 Chromeo - Jealous (I Ain't With It) 34 Clean Bandit - Stronger 36 PSY - Gangnam Style 41 JP Cooper - September Song Shame he hasn't had any other solo hits but I don't think I liked his other songs as much as this tbh! 50 Years And Years - King 65 Blonde - All Cried Out (ft. Alex Newell) 70 Blonde - I Loved You (ft. Melissa Steel) 86 Zara Larsson - Lush Life 87 Olly Murs - Seasons 89 Nico & Vinz - In Your Arms 97 The Magician ft. Years & Years - Sunlight 98 Snow Patrol - Don't Give In Good stuff!
August 23, 20204 yr Thanks everyone for following along! Here is the full Top 100 for reference :D 1 Lukas Graham - 7 Years) :heart: 8 Jess Glynne - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself 10 Walk Off the Earth - Hold On (The Break) 12 Taio Cruz - Dynamite 33 Chromeo - Jealous (I Ain't With It) 34 Clean Bandit - Stronger 36 PSY - Gangnam Style 39 Owl City - Lucid Dream 45 Fall Out Boy - Centuries 50 Years And Years - King :heart: 58 Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup - We No Speak Americano 62 Cavetown - Home 65 Blonde - All Cried Out (ft. Alex Newell) 76 Suzi Island - Show Me The Way 78 Avicii - Peace of Mind (ft. Vargas & Lagola) :heart: 81 3OH!3 ft. Katy Perry - Starstrukk 85 Avicii - Waiting For Love/size] Hi Pete, a selection of my faves from your list, though nice to see others in there too, Walk Off The Earth for one :)
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