I thought more people would have remembered Girl by Dannii. Check out the album it is very good !!

 

I nearly chose higher Love !!

You and me are the only two with a 100% record still. GAME ON.

 

Also I had no idea Kesha was an obvious answer for this :lol: I just knew Warrior did shockingly bad!

5. Name an artist who has had UK top 40 singles in at least four different decades.

 

 

15 Madonna // awardinary, *Callum, xajnipi, vibe, paulgilb, girlsaloudjunkie, Scene, Bjork, King Rollo, Jordan Lee, M4NGO, Viper*, West, Jade, StoneDragon, dj_tim_e

8 Eminem // Bré, dan-G, jimwatts, Dobbo, LewisGT, Klumzee, JosephStyles, Dan17F1, PeteFromLeeds

2 Cliff Richard // chrissmith276, n4yr, Riser

1 Cher // Jáhq, Lee_J11

1 Kylie Minogue // Josh!, RobBot

0 Michael Jackson // MrAndrewMan

 

Now this is a question that I really worried as I was adding up would turn out to be a massive landslide that I'd let slip through the net - Madonna got to 10 points before anyone else even had 1 point! Thankfully after that the answers I received became a lot more diverse. Madonna still remained fairly comfortably the top answer though, and has the joint highest scoring answer of the entire round (excluding the bonus points in Q10) - but with only 16/33 people answering her, there are still fewer people getting the top answer than not. Madge had hits aplenty in the 80s, 90s and 00s but only gets to be a valid answer for the question by virtue of scoring 2 pretty minor and short lived top 40 hits in the 10s.

 

The runner-up is Eminem who has scored a #1 hit in the 20s already, after also having #1s in the 00s and 10s and a top 2 hit in the 90s. He's the only artist on here who's had a top 40 hit in the 20s so far. Madonna and Eminem account for most of the answers I received but three other answers were still worthy of points. Cliff Richard, who had top 40 hits in not four but six decades (50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s, though he broke his streak in the 10s sadly), is worth 2 points, while there's a point each for Cher (who's also clocked up six decades, 60s through 10s, with the potential to still maybe expand that to a 7th decade in a row) and Kylie Minogue (who also has the 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s but actually had a major hit in the 10s unlike Madonna). Big oof for MrAndrewMan who has the only non-scoring answer of the round with Michael Jackson (who's charted in each decade from the 70s through the 10s).

Damn - big points missed there!!

 

Went with Cliff as he had had 6 decades!

I really thought Kylie would do much better there, given her fanbase on this site :(

Yes at having 3/5 top answers!

 

Kesha was what I thought would be top answer too for the non top 40 album question. I ended up picking Kelis off just loving the album. :lol:

 

I knew Calum would top q4 I did initially put Leona but changed my mind before sending my answers as I know that cover gets spoken of so much on this Robyn stan filled forum.

 

The highest peaking song being a #2 could’ve went either way. I thought of Sash as I knew they had the record for most #2s without a chart topper but my own FF quiz seen recency get certain top answers so I was gonna say Doja. Janet though was another good answer she often gets mentioned on this site for questions relating to non chart topping acts.

I did consider both Eminem and Kylie but Madonna edged it, glad I made the right choice :wub:

I didn't really consider anyone who had 80's through to the 10's. Eminem just came up as he was the first artist to have a number in 00's, 10's and 20's. Madonna definitely is an obvious answer here! Would someone like Cher be a correct answer too?

I expected that one to be fairly even between Madonna,Kylie and Cliff.

6. Name an artist from Europe, not including the UK, who has had a UK top 40 single this year.

 

 

15 Daði Freyr // Bré, *Callum, chrissmith276, xajnipi, girlsaloudjunkie, Jáhq, Bjork, n4yr, Lee_J11, Viper*, JosephStyles, Dan17F1, Jade, PeteFromLeeds, StoneDragon, dj_tim_e

7 Topic // King Rollo, Jordan Lee, dan-G, jimwatts, Dobbo, Riser, LewisGT, RobBot

2 Regard // paulgilb, West, MrAndrewMan

1 Martin Solveig // Scene, M4NGO

1 Niall Horan // Josh!, Klumzee

0 Halsey // vibe

0 Meduza // awardinary

 

This is a question that I thought had the potential to be a landslide, but thought it'd be an interesting one as I saw two equally possible logical trains of thought from the wording of the question - and I turned out to be pretty much bang on as the answers are split near enough 50/50 between those who thought 'Eurovision' and those who thought 'faceless DJs'. Eurovision is of course the less divided choice so the top answer by a decent margin is Daði Freyr from Iceland, whose #34 peaking 'Think About Things' may not seem to be a super obvious first thought given its pretty low peak but it is certainly memorable for being the first Eurovision song to make the top 40 for 5 years despite Eurovision not actually taking place in the end this year. Daði is the other joint highest scoring answer of the round.

 

There were several possible faceless European DJs to choose from, but the winner out of those is perhaps unsurprisingly German DJ Topic who is currently riding high in the charts with 'Breaking Me' with A7S thus far peaking at #5, he's worth 7 points. Regard, hailing from Kosovo, is worth 2 points - his big hit 'Ride It' of course first charted last year but he's got a second top 40 hit 'Secrets' rising in the chart as we speak as well, so far peaking at #18. Then we have Frenchman Martin Solveig, worth 1 point after hitting #21 earlier in the year as half of the Europa project with 'Tequila'. (Incidentally 'Secrets' and 'Tequila' are of course both collabs with RAYE). The only correct answer here that isn't either Eurovision or a DJ is Niall Horan, the token Irish member of One Direction, who got to #32 this year with 'No Judgement' and is also worth 1 point.

 

Italian act Meduza have been in the top 40 this year with Becky Hill/GOODBOYS collab 'Lose Control' though the song first charted last year so perhaps unsurprisingly that answer isn't worth any points. Even less surprisingly there's no points on offer for Halsey, primarily because unless I've missed some major geopolitical news the USA is not part of Europe.

Yay at actually ending up on the right side of a split for once!

Finally a top answer!

I have no idea who that guy is.

Yep the whole 'Eurovision song translating into an enduring hit' thing was too powerful to stray from! G'won Iceland :wub:

I didn't really consider anyone who had 80's through to the 10's. Eminem just came up as he was the first artist to have a number in 00's, 10's and 20's. Madonna definitely is an obvious answer here! Would someone like Cher be a correct answer too?

 

Cher was among the scoring answers so yes :kink:

 

Is Eminem actually the only person who's had top 40 hits in the 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s :thinking: amazing if he is considering he's had not only top 40 hits but top 2 hits in all 4 decades. (Of course there's a ton of time left in this decade for more people to join that list :lol:)

Lmao I thought Halsey was from Europe just become of her sound. I should have googled !

AH. Daði Freyr was my first thought but I didn't think enough people would both spelling out his name :cry: Probably the most obvious answer thanks to the Europe/Eurovision link.

Thought I might have made the wrong choice with Topic soon after sending in my answers! Eminem vs Madonna was a near 50/50 choice for me too. At least neither were a complete landslide!

Cher was among the scoring answers so yes :kink:

 

Is Eminem actually the only person who's had top 40 hits in the 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s :thinking: amazing if he is considering he's had not only top 40 hits but top 2 hits in all 4 decades. (Of course there's a ton of time left in this decade for more people to join that list :lol:)

 

Why do you have to call out my inability to read? :lol:

7. Name a charity single which did not reach #1 in the UK.

 

 

7 Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber - Stuck With U // Bré, awardinary, Bjork, King Rollo, dan-G, LewisGT, Klumzee, StoneDragon

5 Matt Lucas - Thank You Baked Potato // chrissmith276, girlsaloudjunkie, M4NGO, West, MrAndrewMan, PeteFromLeeds

4 Amanda Holden - Over The Rainbow // Josh!, Viper*, JosephStyles, Dan17F1, RobBot

4 The Saturdays - Just Can't Get Enough // *Callum, paulgilb, Jáhq, Scene, Jordan Lee

1 The Collective - Teardrop // n4yr, Jade

1 Spice Girls - Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) // vibe, dj_tim_e

0 Brian Wilson and Various Artists - God Only Knows // Dobbo

0 Little Mix - Word Up! // Lee_J11

0 Mariah Carey et al. ["Artists Stand Up To Cancer"] - Just Stand Up! // jimwatts

0 The RSPB - Let Nature Sing // Riser

0 Vera Lynn and Katherine Jenkins - We'll Meet Again // xajnipi

 

A pretty decent spread of answers here - easy to think of charity songs that have got to #1 but what about the more forgettable ones that didn't achieve that peak? Most of these answers are your standard charity single fare (bland covers and/or 'all-star' ensembles and/or novelty songs) but the top answer is actually just a normal song that happened to have its proceeds go to charity, that being the recent Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber collab 'Stuck With U', supporting the First Responders Children's Foundation. Being an American-centric charity perhaps the charity appeal didn't cross over too much to the UK contributing to it only managing to peak at #4 (though it did get to #1 in the States, much to the chagrin of a certain Mr. 9ine).

 

Three other answers pick up a good handful of points. There have been a whole lot of other charity singles in the last couple of months supporting the NHS and other causes relating to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and while two of them did manage to get to #1 there are many, many more that didn't, and two more of those are worth points here. 5 points for Matt Lucas' delightfully silly jingle 'Thank You Baked Potato' which unjustly got no further than #34, and 4 points for Amanda Holden's entirely unneeded take on the classic 'Over The Rainbow' which justly got no further than #53. The other three points-scoring answers are digging a few years back in the chart books. A surprisingly high 4 points are on offer for The Saturdays' take on Depeche Mode's 'Just Can't Get Enough', a Comic Relief single which peaked at #2. Then there is a point each for two Children In Need singles - the unimaginatively named The Collective, a group of primarily UK hip-hop artists (plus Ed Sheeran because of course), whose version of the wonderful 'Teardrop' by Massive Attack peaked at #24, and Spice Girls' 'Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)' which proved to be a damp squib of a chart comeback as it landed at just #11 in contrast to all of the singles in their original run making the top 2.

 

There's one more COVID-19 single among the non-scorers, that being the Katherine Jenkins-aided duet version of 'We'll Meet Again' by Vera Lynn which sadly only got as high as #72 (ahead of the original Vera solo version finally charting at #55 a few weeks later in commemoration of VE Day). Also valid answers but not picking up points are the ill-fated BBC Music ensemble version of The Beach Boys' 'God Only Knows' for Children In Need (peaked at #20), Little Mix's Sport Relief rendition of Cameo's 'Word Up!' (peaked at #6), the superstar ensemble cut 'Just Stand Up!' supporting the Stand Up To Cancer telethon (peaked at #26) and most charmingly of all The RSPB's birdsong recording 'Let Nature Sing' (which provided some nice fresh air last year charting as high as #18).