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32. Sia featuring Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills 166 pts

 

Stopped by : Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza / Drake - One Dance

Top points - Nick F1 24,jimwatts 23,dandy* 19

 

This remix of a Sia song with Sean Paul added on spent four weeks at number 2 in 2016. It was originally intended for Rihanna but got rejected.

 

 

 

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31. Sash! featuring Tina Cousins - Mysterious Times 169 pts

 

Stopped by : Boyzone - No Matter What

Top points - Alex! 24,jszmiles 23,Jester 20,JackJones 20

 

From 1998,this was the fourth of the five Sash! singles to fall one place short of giving them that elusive UK no.1 single.

 

Two back-to-back bangers there *.*

 

EDIT: Make that three including the Darkness :D

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30. Queen - Killer Queen 171 pts

 

Stopped by : David Essex - Gonna Make You A Star

Top points - Achabaan 24,Suedehead 23,King Rollo 21

 

Written by Freddie Mercury about a high class call girl,this was Queen's second hit single and the first to reach the top 5.

 

oh Sash! again so close to something LOL, it's their best with no doubt, Tina sounds incredible, as always! (and she had better songs that this <3)
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29. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun 176 pts

 

Stopped by : Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

Top points - Bjork 23,Liam.k. 23,King Rollo 14,pippa 14

 

I knew this was a cover version but it's only a couple of years since I found out. The original was by Robert Hazard who only got as far recording a demo in 1979 which can be found on youtube. Cyndi's version is still her highest charting single in the UK. A re-recording of the song to promote her hits collection reached number 4 in 1994.

 

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28. Eminem featuring Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie 177 pts

 

Stopped by : Yolanda Be Cool - We No Speak Americano / Flo Rida - Club Can't Handle Me / Roll Deep - Green Light / Taio Cruz - Dynamite

Top points - coi 22,Alex! 21,Bjork 19

 

After one week at no.2,this dropped down to no.4 for 2 weeks before returning to the no.2 spot for three more weeks. It was the best selling single of 2010.

 

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27. Ariana Grande - One Last Time 184 pts

 

Stopped by : Luis Fonsi - Despacito

Top points - Alex! 25,coi 23,Nick F1 20,SevenSeize 20

 

184 points would have been enough to qualify in the first two semi-finals but more people voted this time. This song only got to number 24 in 2015 but reached number 2 two years later with all proceeds going to victims of the Manchester Arena bombing.

 

oh can't believe Cyndi Lauper didn't get enough votes, one of the best songs of the 80s. Period.

 

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26. Phats & Small - Turn Around 191 pts

 

Stopped by : Martine McCutcheon - Perfect Moment

Top points - Jester 17,Jason 17,jszmiles 15,AH Gold 15

 

This is very close to qualifying despite a highest score of just 17 points. It contains samples from 'Reach Up' by Toney Lee and 'The Glow Of Love' by Change.

 

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So these are the 25 songs going through to the final,in chronological order. The song in 25th place had a score of 201 points so,as in the second semi-final,there was quite a big gap from 25th to 26th.

 

American Pie

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Last Christmas/Everything She Wants

Everybody Wants To Run The World

Live To Tell

Better The Devil You Know

The Sign

Confide In Me

The Rhythm Of The Night

All I Want For Christmas Is You

Set You Free

Wonderwall

Tender

Better Off Alone

Kernkraft 400

Scandalous

Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

Valerie

In For The Kill

Teenage Dream

Feel So Close

Hey Brother

Starboy

Bad Guy

Don't Start Now

Better Off Alone

Kernkraft 400

 

sooooo good to see those 2 dance classics made the final!

That's actually a pretty decent list of 25! I'm really surprised Cyndi Lauper didn't make it though with such an iconic song.
One Last Time didn't qualify?! I did not see that coming at all! :(
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50. Alvin Stardust - My Coo Ca Choo 46 pts

 

Stopped by : Gary Glitter - I Love You Love Me Love

Top points - Achabaan 23,Suedehead 10,AH Gold 8

 

Born as Bernard Jewry,Alvin already had six hit singles under his belt from 1961-62 under the name Shane Fenton and the Fentones with none of them charting any higher than number 19. 'My Coo Ca Choo' from 1973 was actually sung by its writer Peter Shelley under the name Alvin Stardust but when it became a hit he decided he didn't want to be known under that name so he got Shane Fenton to lip sync the song on television. Shane (the new Alvin Stardust) did sing the vocals on his subsequent records. Peter Shelley went on to have two top 5 hits under his own name with 'Gee Baby' and 'Love Me Love My Dog'. One of Alvin Stardust's sons is Adam F whose top 20 single from 1997,'Circles',was not so long ago entered by Jade into the BJSC

Another son is head teacher at Reigate Grammar School - a school whose former pupils (under different head teachers) include David Walliams, Norman Cook, Keir Starmer and my brother. The last three were all there at the same time.

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