'So Good To Me' is one of the best included for me too - in fact it grew to become my favourite song of 2013 :wub:

Yes the theme is more obvious in the results than it was in the guessing stage!

25 – Sigur Rós – Hoppípolla (2005)

UK Chart Peak: 24

Entered at Peak: No - 14/25

 

Another smaller hit but one which is incredibly recognisable, Sigur Rós with what was already their first top 40 song Hoppípolla, before it was used to promote the BBC’s nature series Planet Earth causing it to reach a host of new fans as it began a slow climb back up the chart to reach the top 40 for three more weeks and a new peak. Pete correct in knowing it’s from the TV.

 

Correct Answers [25/28] – AaronTM, Ansel, Awardinary, BillyH, Bjork, Bre, Chrissmith276, CianS, Cremey, DalekTurret32, Dandy*, Danvember, Dobbo, Jade, Jimwatts, jlj, KingRollo, Mack, M4NGO, Paulgilb, Riser, Rush, SevenSeize, StoneDragon, TS0301

 

Blank [2] – N4yr, Vibe

Incorrect [1] – PeteFromLeeds (This reminds me of watching telly in the early 00s so presumably something to do with that?)

Incorrect ‘Odd One Out’ guesses: Dandy*, Mack

 

Eep I promise to educate myself more on The Cure very soon :ph34r:

 

'Hoppípolla' :heart: that popping up in the Eurovision movie recently was a nice surprise *.*

Me for some reason thinking the Magician/Years & Years song didn't chart made me get the theme and peak questions wrong as well as half the odd ones out! :rolleyes:

 

I even mentioned what I thought the theme would be if there was a #7 peaking song in my PM! Should have just gone with it.

26 – Little Mix – Salute (2014)

UK Chart Peak: 06

Entered at Peak: No - 13/26

 

An unusual but recognisable intro of Little Mix’s Salute, with its air raid siren having the air of the theme tune to an old sitcom set during the War. Unsurprisingly got by a high amount with some guesses for most correctly guessed, but not quite up there with the top ones.

 

Correct Answers [23/28] – AaronTM, Ansel, Awardinary, Bre, Chrissmith276, Cremey, DalekTurret32, Dandy*, Danvember, Dobbo, Jade, Jimwatts, jlj, Mack, M4NGO, N4yr, PeteFromLeeds, Riser, Rush, SevenSeize, StoneDragon, TS0301, Vibe

 

Blank [4] – Bjork, CianS, King Rollo, Paulgilb

Incorrect [1] – BillyH (Just random background ambience recorded in 1940),

 

Incorrect ‘Odd One Out’ guesses: Cremey, PeteFromLeeds, Riser

Incorrect ‘Most Correct Answers’ guesses: Bre, PeteFromLeeds, Vibe

 

My 2nd favourite Little Mix song after 'Move' (so typically both coming from the era which had arguably the least commercial success for them lol).

27 – Arcade Fire – Everything Now (2017)

UK Chart Peak: 50

Entered at Peak: No - 13/27

 

Arcade Fire are one of my favourite bands of all time, and it’s great to see them being so popular on BuzzJack these days, with this song ‘Everything Now’ recently voted as one of the sites top 40 of the last decade and the band still to come in Gezza’s latest countdown. Quite remarkable for a band such as them to have 4 weeks in the top 75 in 2017. Well recognised with an unsurprising reference to Abba as a wrong guess as it was well likened to them. Like with London Grammar, plenty correctly identifying it as an odd one out.

 

Correct Answers [20/28] – Ansel, Awardinary, Bjork, Chrissmith276, CianS, Cremey, DalekTurret32, Dandy*, Danvember, Jimwatts, jlj, KingRollo, M4NGO, Paulgilb, PeteFromLeeds, Riser, Rush, SevenSeize, StoneDragon, TS0301

 

Blank [4] – Bre, Mack, N4yr, Vibe

Incorrect [4] – AaronTM (Erasure – A Little Respect), BillyH (Julio Iglesias), Dobbo (Abba), Jade (Erasure)

 

Correct ‘Odd One Out’ guesses: AaronTM, Ansel, Bjork, DalekTurret32, Dobbo, Jimwatts, jlj, Rush, SevenSeize, StoneDragon, TS0301

Edited November 30, 20204 yr by RabbitFurCoat

And that was the last one that I definitely knew but couldn't quite get, dammit. I was thinking it was a much older song, but I still don't really have a good excuse for not getting that. (In fact I feel like it might have even been previously included in another NMTBJ where I did get it? although maybe I'm imagining that)

 

Will I get half marks for thinking along the right lines for the theme? :kink:

Bonus Questions

1) 25 of the 27 songs are linked/connected in some way - what is that connection? (3 pts)

2) Which are the two songs that are not part of that connection? (2)

 

1 2013 Justin Timberlake - Mirrors

2 2013 Chris Malinchak - So Good To Me

3 2004 Deep Dish - Flashdance

4 1984 Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark

5 1989 The Cure - Lullaby

6 2014 Little Mix - Salute

7 2014 The Magician - Sunlight (feat. Years & Years)

8 1998 K-Ci and Jojo - All My Life

9 2006 Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats

10 2007 Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80s

11 2009 Girls Aloud - Untouchable

12 2012 Sub Focus - Tidal Wave (feat. Alpines)

13 1994 The Prodigy - Voodoo People

14 2017 Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa - Scared To Be Lonely

15 1983 The Pretenders - 2000 Miles

16 2008 Glasvegas - Geraldine

17 2015 Echosmith - Cool Kids

18 2012 Redlight - Get Out of My Head

19 2004 Kasabian - Club Foot

20 2016 Christine & The Queens - Tilted

21 2015 Taylor Swift - Style

22 2018 The 1975 - Give Yourself a Try

23 2014 Dj Snake & Lil Jon - Turn Down For What

24 2006 Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

25 2011 Rihanna - Talk That Talk (feat. Jay-Z)

50 2017 Arcade Fire - Everything Now

80 2020 London Grammar - Baby It's You

 

Organising the 27 songs by their chart peak, the link becomes apparent, a song that peaked in each in the UK in each of the positions 1-25, with Arcade Fire and London Grammar being the odd ones out. As this was being held in the Chart Forum rather than the Lounge, I wanted there to be some form of connection to the charts, went through the 40 or so songs I’d come up with as potentials to use and figured I could probably use a song that peaked in each position. 4 people correctly identified this, well done to jimwatts, jlj, Rush and StoneDragon!

 

What I hadn’t considered is that there could be answers which were less specific but also correct, it would seem incredibly harsh to not give points to anyone who gives a genuine connection with the correct two songs missing from it. Ansel, Awardinary, Bjork, DalekTurret32, SevenSeize and TS0301 are all correct in saying all songs reached the top 40 apart from Everything Now and Baby It’s You.

 

Chrissmith276 managed to identify a perfect 27 songs and had realised there may be a 1-25 link but couldn’t identify a number 7. This made me panic but both Polyhex and the BuzzJack http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=170493" target="_blank">Chart Thread at the time confirmed that ‘Sunlight’ was indeed a number 7 hit!

 

There were some good and interesting efforts amongst the wrong answers:

Aaron TM - The song titles link to the body, its parts of its actions – can make this for a lot tbf

BillyH - they all have at least two of the same letters or numbers next to each other somewhere in the artist/song name – this worked with what he had

Bre – all charted in the top 100

Chrissmith276 – all charted in the top 50

Cremey - Something to do with them sampling//interpolating songs or being covers

Jade – Released in the 21st Century

King Rollo - Don't have a song number in the title – this is technically correct but I think far too tenuous to give points to! :lol:

Mack – all entered the UK top 40 – unfortunately didn’t identify the two correct ones which didn’t so doesn't get this

M4NGO – all released after 1990 – the 1.5 points that M4NGO didn’t get (thinking it was the wrong non-charting Glasvegas song and not knowing Lullaby) really scuppered this bonus! :drama:

Paulgilb - Names of Newspapers/Magazines

PeteFromLeeds - All lead singles from albums

Riser - Snubbed from a Now CD Tracklists

Vibe – 3rd Singles

 

N/A – CianS, Dandy*, Danvember, Dobbo, N4yr

Edited November 30, 20204 yr by RabbitFurCoat

Glad I wasn't the only one to put Erasure :lol: oops!

 

'Salute' is definitely one of Little Mix's greatest singles :heart: I'm glad it breathed some life back into that era.

I also have to give a special thanks to Danvember for producing the top 2010 songs of the 2010s thread – it helped make up for gaps in my recent music knowledge (I can safely say I’ve never heard 2 of these songs) and enable a bit more modern selection, and without an easy substantial list of tracks which peaked at 12, 14, 17, 18 & 23 would have taken a frustratingly long time to have fulfilled the idea and I’d happily give a bonus point on account of making my life easier! :D

Both '3rd singles' (Style, Salute etc.) and 'Now! That's What I Call Music' related guesses came into my head as well but too many of them didn't fit!

5) How many of the 27 songs entered the UK chart at their peak position? (1)

 

I'd been counting this during the results but was pointed out it was wrong, so the correct answer to this is 12!

 

Guesses:

 

4 – Mack

7 – Jade, N4yr

9 – AaronTM, CianS, Danvember, SevenSeize

10 – Dobbo, King Rollo, Paulgilb

11 – Chrissmith276, Dandy*, jlj, Rush

12 – Jimwatts, PeteFromLeeds, StoneDragon

13 – Bjork, M4NGO, TS0301

14 – Bre, Rush, Vibe

15 – BillyH, DalekTurret32

16 – Ansel, Cremey

17 - Awardinary

 

One little slip up means missing out on 6 bonus points

Well at least one shot in the dark guess came good!

Results - think this is correct

 

Position | Points | Participant | Song Points | Bonus Points

 

01 33 StoneDragon 27 6

02 32 Awardinary 27 5

02 32 Jimwatts 26 6

02 32 TS0301 26 6

05 31 DalekTurret32 25 6

05 31 jlj 26 5

07 28 Chrissmith276 27 1

07 28 SevenSeize 23 5

09 26 Dandy* 25 1

10 25 Bjork 19 6

 

10 25 Danvember 25

10 25 Rush 20 5

13 24.5 M4NGO 24.5

14 23 Cremey 22 1

15 22 Ansel 17 5

15 22 CianS 21 1

17 21 Dobbo 20 1

17 21 Paulgilb 20 1

19 19 Jade 19

20 18.5 Riser 18.5

 

21 18 AaronTM 17 1

22 16 N4yr 16

23 15 Bre 15

24 14.5 Mack 14.5

25 14 PeteFromLeeds 12 2

26 10 BillyH 9 1

27 8.5 King Rollo 8.5

28 6 Vibe 6

 

I think that's the worst I've ever done on a NMTBJ oops :snif: oh well! Congrats StoneDragon and thanks for this RFC ^_^

Thanks RabbitFurCoat for hosting - great quiz and love the theme, and most of the songs too!

 

Delighted with joint 2nd! There was a similar theme in the singles cover quiz in the last series, but even so I didn't twig it might be that until I'd got about 24 of the answers. Then I managed to work out the #7 and #18 peaking hits after a quick check of lists on Buzzjack for songs from the mid-2010s, unforunately without such a list for #25s I was stumped on that one!

 

Congratulations StoneDragon on the win!

Not being bottom 5 is always about the most I can aim for in these so not bad :lol: thanks for hosting RFC ~