21. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor 8.09

 

 

 

 

UK peak: #2

Heat Position: #2 (2001)

 

Highest score: 10 (Rob S, Scene, Shoat, Nina West, Dannyboy, gavindeejay, Chemistry, JosephStyles)

Lowest score: 5 (Jason)

 

 

Just missing out on the top 20 is Sophie Ellis-Bextor's biggest hit, 'Murder On The Dancefloor'. The song was released in December 2001 and peaked at #2 for two non-consecutive weeks - five weeks apart. Both times the track was held off the top spot by Daniel Bedingfield's 'Gotta Get Thru This'. 'Murder...' became Sophie's second straight #2 hit and has gone down in history as one of the most remembered hits from 2001. It is one of the first songs I think of if someone mentions "early 00's pop". The video is also one of the first I remember watching on MTV Hits and The Box. :wub:

Buzzjack's Top 20 Noughties Singles


All Saints - Pure Shores

Britney Spears - Everytime

Britney Spears - Toxic

Eminem feat. Dido - Stan

Evanescence - Bring Me To Life

Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends

Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head

Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Lady Gaga - Poker Face

Lily Allen - The Fear

Madonna - Hung Up

Pink - Just Like A Pill

Pink - Who Knew

Rihanna - Umbrella

Robyn - With Every Heartbeat

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

Spiller feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet

Sugababes - About You Now

Sugababes - Push The Button


What single will come out on top? Predict away. :kink:

Anastacia getting two 0s feels so uncomfortable.

Never understood why Buzzjack love all these boring ballads from 'adult contemporary' female singers like Adele, Dido, LeAnn Rimes, Anastacia, etc. None of them is top 20 though. Thank God.

 

Snow Patrol to win please! Well, it's not happening of course, but I'm really pleased to see Chasing Cars top 20 here. :wub:

Never understood why Buzzjack love all these boring ballads from 'adult contemporary' female singers like Adele, Dido, LeAnn Rimes, Anastacia, etc. None of them is top 20 though. Thank God.

 

Snow Patrol to win please! Well, it's not happening of course, but I'm really pleased to see Chasing Cars top 20 here. :wub:

 

It’s probably because we don’t find them boring. The entire shortlist for this was full of properly epic songs.

I'm really surprised Somewhere Only We Know did so well, I didn't think we had a big fanbase of it on here! I'm really glad, makes up for Coldplay finishing low down to have a soundalike finishing higher :kink:

 

20 Lady Gaga - Poker Face 8.11

 

 

 

 

UK peak: #1

Heat Position: #2 (2009)

 

Highest score: 11 (...readyforit, HausOfGhilbi)

Lowest score: -1 (KingRollo)

 

 

Starting Top 20 is Lady Gaga with one of her biggest hit, 'Poker Face'. It was released on September 26, 2008, as the album's second single but officially made the chart impact in 2009. The song attained worldwide success, topping the charts in 20 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many European countries. "Poker Face" is the best-selling single of 2009 worldwide, with over 9.5 million in sales that year. It also was nominated for both Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 52nd Grammy Awards, and won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.

 

In this countdown it managed to receive 2 x 11's and 10 x 10's, however, it is also one of the only two songs in entire Top 20 to receive a -1, so "thanks" KingRollo for that :kink:

 

19 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars 8.13

 

 

 

 

UK peak: #6

Heat Position: #4 (2006)

 

Highest score: 11 (Jason, KingRollo)

Lowest score: 5 (NickF1, Jay, HausOfGhilbi, JosephStyles)

 

 

"Chasing Cars" is a song by Scottish-Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol. It was released as the second single from their fourth studio album, Eyes Open (2006). It was recorded in 2005 and released on 24 July 2006 in the United Kingdom."Chasing Cars" became notable as one of the songs that revealed the impact of legal downloads on single sales in the UK, selling consistently for years after its release. As of 2019, the song has spent 111 weeks in the official UK top 75, 166 in the top 100 and had sold over one million copies in the UK by October 2013. It has also sold 3,900,000 copies in the US by January 2015, making it one of the top best-selling rock songs in the digital era. It was also revealed as the most-played song of the 21st century on UK radio.

 

It managed to score an amazing average of 8.13 in our countdown and also there was no score lower than 5!!!

I was shocked to see Poker Face only finish at #20 - especially behind the likes of Green Day, Snow Patrol and Eminem. :o Chasing Cars did very well to finish at #19 of the entire decade! Surely it must be the first non top 5 single to sell over 1 million copies in the UK?

I was shocked to see Poker Face only finish at #20 - especially behind the likes of Green Day, Snow Patrol and Eminem. :o

Adelita didn't vote. :lol:

 

Snow Patrol did very well really to finish top 20 especially because lots of people on here only like songs from female singers.

Adelita didn't vote. :lol:

 

Snow Patrol did very well really to finish top 20 especially because lots of people on here only like songs from female singers.

 

Well....most of the members who likes female singers didn't give -1 and 0's to indie bands, while can't be said the same for the ones who likes indie and gave -1 and 0's (especially you Jason, you were very generous with your 0's :kink:) to most popular songs by female!!!

 

18. Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends 8.14

 

 

 

 

UK peak: #8

Heat Position: #8 (2005)

 

Highest score: 11 (Chez Wombat)

Lowest score: 1 (RabbitFurCoat)

 

 

At 18 is the fourth single to be lifted from Green Day's huge 2004 album American Idiot, 'Wake Me Up When September Ends'. The song is notably the only track on the album that doesn't directly follow the album's story arc and was written about lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong's father who died of cancer 23 years before the single's release. The title derives from what Billie said to his mother after his dad's funeral. The song was a commercial success, peaking at #8 in the UK in June 2005 and spent 11 weeks in the top 40. It thus became the band's third top 10 hit from American Idiot and fourth overall. In the US it became the band's second top 10 hit ever, peaking at #6, and is their final top 10 hit to date in the States. The vast majority of voters here gave the song a rating of 8 or above and only RabbitFurCoat gave it a rating below 5! In addition to an 11 from Chez Wombat, the song received eight 10's. An amazing result for Green Day amongst a lot of pop classics.

 

 

Poker Face has always been a bit overrated, Gaga has better.

 

17. Spiller feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) 8.14

 

 

 

 

UK peak: #1

Heat Position: #5 (2000)

 

Highest score: 11 (dan-G)

Lowest score: 3.5 (Jonjo)

 

 

Here we see the last of Sophie Ellis-Bextor - on the track that kick-started her pop career, Spiller's 'Groovejet'. The song was released in August 2000 and entered a fierce battle against former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, who was releasing her first single away from the group. Spiller came out on top - giving both him and Sophie their first and last number one each. The song was the first song ever to be played on an iPod (on a prototype in 2001) and also holds the title of the biggest-selling vinyl single of the 21st Century! Who knew?! :kink: 'Groovejet' received one 11, eight 10's and one 9.5 score - as did Green Day's '...September Ends' but edges ahead in this countdown due to more 9's.

 

16 Madonna - Hung Up 8.14

 

 

 

 

UK peak: #1

Heat Position: #1 (2005)

 

Highest score: 11 (Rush, HausOfGhilbi)

Lowest score: 0 (Jason)

 

 

And now IMO this is the shock of the countdown. At #16 is Madonna final song and her biggest hit of 2000's "Hung Up". "Hung Up" is a song by Madonna from her tenth studio album Confessions on a Dance Floor. Initially used in a number of television advertisements and serials, the song was released as the album's lead single on October 17, 2005. Written and produced by Madonna in collaboration with Stuart Price, "Hung Up" prominently features a sample from the instrumental introduction to ABBA's single "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)". "Hung Up" received critical praise from reviewers, who considered it among Madonna's best dance tracks and believed that the track would restore her popularity, which had diminished following the release of her 2003 album American Life. "Hung Up" became a global commercial success, peaking atop the charts of 41 countries and earning a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

 

I am sad that this missed Top 10 because it truly deserved a Top 10 spot. Once more Jason being very generous and awarded this zero!!!

15 Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight 8.16

 

 

 

 

UK peak: #2

Heat Position: #10 (2002)

 

Highest score: 11 (Nina West)

Lowest score: 1 (King Rollo)

 

 

And now IMO another shock of the countdown :kink:. At #15 we find Kylie's 'Love At First Sight'. "Love at First Sight" is a song by Kylie Minogue from her eighth studio album Fever (2001).It is unrelated to the song "Love at First Sight" from Minogue's debut studio album Kylie (1988). "Love at First Sight" is a dance-pop and nu-disco song which, lyrically, describes the singer falling and believing in love at first sight. It was released as the third, and second in North America, single from Fever on 10 June 2002.

 

This turned out to be such a success considering it barely qualified in Round 3 Heat of 2002 (#10) so congrats to Kylie (she still has her biggest hit in the game).

 

Kylie ahead of Madonna :D and she still has another song left.

Shocking to see a song that only just made it into the final rate finish at #15. :o Numbers 13 and 14 incoming. :kink:

 

14. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head 8.19

 

 

 

 

UK peak: #1

Heat Position: #1 (2001)

 

Highest score: 11 (Dannyboy, Jay)

Lowest score: 0 (Nick F1)

 

 

Finishing one position ahead of her other Fever single, Kylie's classic hit from 2001 lands at #14. '...Head' is Kylie's highest single in this countdown which in my opinion is rather fitting. It is after all quintessential Kylie. The song was released as the lead single to Minogue's album Fever in September 2001 and entered the chart at #1. It became Minogue's sixth #1 in the UK and her second single ever to reach the top 10 in the USA, peaking at #7. The song has gone down in history as one of the biggest-selling singles ever - it was last recorded as the 75th biggest-selling single of all time in the UK and 28th biggest-selling single of the millennium! The music video has also gone down in history as one of pop's most iconic visuals.