Imma reveal the top 2 TODAY!

 

LADY GAGA & ARIANA GRANDE vs THE WEEKND

 

Place your bets, ladies and gents!

I'll have a tenner on The Weeknd please.

If my Top 20 hits poll is anything to go by The Weeknd easily has this, it won't even be close.

thought Head & Heart would be above Mariah

 

rooting for The Weekend!!! Blinding Lights is definitely the better song

The correct top 2! Blinding Lights to win tho' please.

I love both but Blinding Lights >> Rain On Me easily. It would be amazing if Abel can win both this and the non-top 10 vote.

02 | 476 points

 

Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande

Rain On Me

 

 

2nd single from Chromatica

Released: 22nd May 2020

Label: Interscope Records

 

During Gaga's previous era, a hit on the scale of Rain On Me would have been unthinkable. Joanne was quite muted by Gaga's standards - it didn't produce a top 10 hit, and lead single Perfect Illusion came and went in a flash. Million Reasons is probably better remembered these days but even that only had one week top 40. It's crazy just how huge A Star Is Born was for her - Shallow of course became Gaga's biggest hit yet, and the huge response to the film undoubtedly reignited some interest in Gaga's own albums too. Rain On Me, with extra star power from Ariana Grande, debuted at #1 and spent a further month at #2, proving it was no fluke hit based on name power. Rain On Me has easily cemented itself as a Gaga favourite for so many, myself included, and it's rewarded with a comfortable runner-up spot here.

 

Chart Statistics

 

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Sales: 800k+

Certification: Platinum

 

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Biography

 

Lady Gaga

Some may dismiss pop as inauthentic. But for Lady Gaga—one of popular culture’s greatest, most extravagant creations—the inauthenticity is the point. No artist has more defiantly embodied that provocation this century than the one born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (in New York in 1986). Never wedded to the same image—one minute wearing a dress made of raw meat at the MTV VMAs, the next a coat of Kermit the Frog puppets on German TV—Gaga personifies pop’s surface obsessions while simultaneously upending them. In a sense, her creative identity had crystallized by age 21, having been a child pianist, aspiring actor, and burlesque performer. Each of these facets powered her career’s most distinct parts: the celebrity fascination of her first two albums, 2008’s The Fame and 2009’s The Fame Monster; the subversive layering of 2011’s Born This Way and 2013’s ARTPOP; the sincere reverence of 2014’s Cheek to Cheek, her jazz standards album with Tony Bennett; and the rootsier songwriting of 2016’s Joanne. If 2009’s “Paparazzi” reveled in the flashes, then “Born This Way” celebrated inner light: In translating her diffuse identity into world-conquering art, Gaga has become a beacon to anyone else who’s felt like an outsider. Her loyal following—a.k.a. Little Monsters—has affirmed a deep connection to her message of self-love and self-expression, despite pop’s fickleness and her chameleonic exterior. She played out a simpler version of her path to fame in the 2018 remake of A Star Is Born: But while her character’s ascent was abetted by her lover, Gaga’s was all her own. - Apple Music

 

Ariana Grande

Armed with a mesmerizing, nimble soprano—and a vocal register often likened to Mariah Carey’s and Christina Aguilera’s—Ariana Grande began her career as a child star on Broadway and Nickelodeon before transforming into a pop and R&B powerhouse. Instantly recognizable thanks to her signature ponytail, cat ears, babydoll dresses, and breezy self-confidence, her slyly sexual personal brand has, like that of the Spice Girls before her, become an iconic image of young female power. But Grande is more than a symbol: Over the course of several albums and scores of hit singles—beginning with 2013’s “The Way” (featuring Mac Miler) through The Weeknd-assisted “Love Me Harder” and “Break Free” (featuring Zedd)—she has consistently outshined her male collaborators and deftly parlayed her stardom into activism. An LGBTQ advocate and outspoken feminist (“I’m tired of living in a world where women are mostly referred to as a man’s past, present, or future PROPERTY,” she tweeted in 2016), she uses her platform to confront issues like misogyny, sexism, homophobia, and bullying, spreading a message of love over all. Nowhere was this more clear than in May 2017: After terrorists attacked her concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 and injuring hundreds, Grande continued her tour. "Perspective changes your life,” she told Beats 1’s Ebro Darden. "You want to stay in the moment and try not to give into fear, because obviously the whole point of finishing the tour was being there for my fans. You want to set the same example and keep going.” And that she did: Her Max Martin-produced smash “No Tears Left to Cry,” an escapist dance-floor triumph released a year after the attack, sends a message of hope and healing, with a dose of hear-me-roar attitude. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Lady Gaga

2009 01 Just Dance (feat. Colby O'Donis) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2009 01 Poker Face -2- MILLION SELLER

2009 04 Paparazzi -3-

2009 83 Beautiful, Dirty, Rich -AT-

2009 19 LoveGame -4-

2009 12 Chillin' (Wale feat. Lady Gaga)

2009 01 Bad Romance -5- MILLION SELLER

2009 01 Telephone (feat. Beyoncé) -6- MILLIONAIRE

2009 07 Alejandro -7-

2009 68 Monster -AT-

2009 84 So Happy I Could Die -AT-

2009 89 Dance In The Dark -AT-

2009 88 Speechless -AT-

2011 03 Born This Way -1-

2011 08 Judas -2-

2011 06 The Edge of Glory -3-

2011 13 Hair -PS-

2011 23 Yoü And I -4-

2011 16 Marry The Night -5-

2011 87 White Christmas -AT-

2013 05 Applause -1-

2013 09 Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly) -2-

2013 76 Venus -PS-

2016 12 Perfect Illusion -1-

2016 39 Million Reasons -2-

2016 66 A-Yo -IG-

2017 19 The Cure -NAS-

2018 01 Shallow (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) -OST- MILLIONAIRE

2018 27 I'll Never Love Again (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) -OST-

2018 25 Always Remember Us This Way -OST-

2020 05 Stupid Love -1-

2020 01 Rain On Me (Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande) -2-

2020 17 Sour Candy (Lady Gaga & BLACKPINK) -IG-

2020 29 Alice -AT-

 

6 x #1 | 10 x Top 5 | 14 x Top 10 | 21 x Top 20 | 26 x Top 40 | 34 x Top 100

 

Ariana Grande

2013 41 The Way (feat. Mac Miller) -1-

2013 49 Almost Is Never Enough (Ariana Grande & Nathan Sykes) -OST-

2013 92 Last Christmas -NAS-

2014 01 Problem (feat. Iggy Azalea) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2014 16 Break Free (feat. Zedd) -2-

2014 01 Bang Bang (Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj) MILLIONAIRE

2014 48 Love Me Harder (Ariana Grande & The Weeknd) -3-

2014 11 Santa Tell Me -NAS-

2014 86 Get On Your Knees (Nicki Minaj feat. Ariana Grande)

2015 02 One Last Time -4- MILLIONAIRE

2015 10 Focus -NAS-

2016 17 Dangerous Woman -1-

2016 65 Be Alright -IG-

2016 14 Into You -2- MILLIONAIRE

2016 04 Side To Side (feat. Nicki Minaj) -3- MILLIONAIRE

2017 52 Beauty And The Beast (Ariana Grande & John Legend) -OST-

2017 25 Heatstroke (Calvin Harris feat. Young Thug, Pharrell Williams & Ariana Grande)

2017 60 Somewhere Over The Rainbow -NAS-

2018 02 no tears left to cry -1- MILLIONAIRE

2018 20 Bed (Nicki Minaj feat. Ariana Grande)

2018 64 Dance To This (Troye Sivan feat. Ariana Grande)

2018 57 the light is coming (feat. Nicki Minaj) -PS-

2018 04 God is a woman -2-

2018 08 breathin -3-

2018 22 sweetener -AT-

2018 01 thank u, next -1- MILLIONAIRE

2018 08 imagine -PS-

2019 01 7 rings -2- MILLIONAIRE

2019 01 break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored -3-

2019 08 needy -AT-

2019 23 MONOPOLY (Ariana Grande & Victoria Monét) -NAS-

2019 04 boyfriend (Ariana Grande & Social House) -NAS-

2019 02 Don't Call Me Angel (Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey) -OST-

2019 51 Bad To You (Ariana Grande, Normani & Nicki Minaj) -OST-

2020 04 Stuck With U (Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber) -NAS-

2020 01 Rain On Me (Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande)

2020 01 positions -1-

2020 03 34+35 -2-

2020 16 motive (Ariana Grande & Doja Cat) -AT-

2020 19 pov -AT-

2020 67 Oh Santa! (Mariah Carey feat. Ariana Grande & Jennifer Hudson)

 

7 x #1 | 15 x Top 5 | 19 x Top 10 | 26 x Top 20 | 29 x Top 40 | 41 x Top 100

 

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01 | 549 points

 

The Weeknd

Blinding Lights

 

 

2nd single from After Hours

Released: 30th November 2019

Label: The Weeknd XO

 

Of course, there could only be one winner, and Blinding Lights quickly established itself as the runaway champion early on in voting. It's crazy to think that The Weeknd didn't have any UK #1 hits this time last year, with so many huge smashes under his belt it'd be a fair assumption that he'd have had a few by then. It was Blinding Lights that finally gave him that honour, and it did it in style too - across three stints, Blinding Lights spent 8 weeks at the top and became the biggest hit of the year, dipping out of the top 40 only occasionally since its release. Let's talk numbers - 28 out of 72 voters gave Blinding Lights their 10 points. Rain On Me received 18, followed by All I Want for Christmas Is You with 9, Roses with 6, and nothing else had more than 3. That's a runaway success for The Weeknd and whether you love or hate Blinding Lights, it's difficult to argue with this winner!

 

Chart Statistics

 

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Sales: 2,300k+

Certification: 3x Platinum

 

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Biography

 

Nobody makes feeling bad sound as good as The Weeknd. Even the singer’s sunniest tracks (“Can’t Feel My Face,” “Starboy”) feel anchored by darkness—the sense that pleasure is pain and beauty decays and you can’t have the night without the morning after. The brainchild of Toronto singer Abel Tesfaye, the project took off in 2011 with a string of mixtapes (later collected as 2012’s Trilogy) that forged cavernous, falsetto-driven R&B with narratives drenched in drugs, sex, and other regrettable decisions—a sound both sensuous and detached, featherlight and dead heavy. One of the earliest musicians to find his footing on the internet, Tesfaye originally offered his music through YouTube and free downloads, a move that felt radical then but is common now. Ethiopian by heritage (his parents immigrated to Canada in the late ’80s, just before he was born), Tesfaye—out from behind the mask of making art online—has since come to represent the changing face of Toronto, rooting himself not just in an international musical community but in a specific diasporic experience. Like the work of collaborator Lana Del Rey or early booster (and fellow Toronto native) Drake, Tesfaye’s music has become a symbol of hedonism pushed to bleak excess, with a series of albums—including 2015’s Grammy-winning Beauty Behind the Madness, 2016’s multiplatinum Starboy, and 2020’s dense and atmospheric After Hours—whose narrators can’t seem to say no even if they hate themselves for it later. And though his music has gotten a little brighter over time, the prevailing mood remains heavy, even unsettling—the ride you want more of even when you’ve had too much. Speaking to Apple Music about the persona behind his songs, Tesfaye said, “I’m a chill person. That guy is who I am, but it is who I am to myself and in my writing. Sometimes you take him and then you create more, and then it becomes this beast. You add more to him, and then it’s uncontrollable—its own character. It’s like Scarface, the villain: It’s horrible, but you can’t stop looking at it.” - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2012 37 Crew Love (Drake feat. The Weeknd)

2014 48 Love Me Harder (Ariana Grande & The Weeknd)

2015 04 Earned It -OST/2- MILLIONAIRE

2015 64 Where You Belong -OST-

2015 03 The Hills -4- MILLIONAIRE

2015 03 Can't Feel My Face -3- MILLIONAIRE

2015 65 Often -1/6-

2015 72 Real Life -AT-

2015 74 Tell Your Friends -AT-

2015 78 Prisoner (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT-

2015 90 Acquainted -AT-

2015 91 Losers (feat. Labrinth) -AT-

2015 92 Dark Times (feat. Ed Sheeran) -AT-

2015 48 In The Night -5-

2016 84 FML (Kanye West feat. The Weeknd)

2016 35 6 Inch (Beyoncé feat. The Weeknd)

2016 02 Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2016 51 False Alarm -IG-

2016 09 I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk) -2- MILLIONAIRE

2016 17 Party Monster -3-

2016 26 Rockin' -4-

2016 30 Sidewalks (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -AT-

2016 39 Reminder -AT-

2016 43 Six Feet Under -AT-

2016 47 Secrets -AT-

2016 53 A Lonely Night -AT-

2016 55 True Colours -AT-

2016 68 Love To Lay -AT-

2016 73 Stargirl Interlude (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT-

2016 74 Die For You -AT-

2016 76 All I Know (feat. Future) -AT-

2016 78 Attention -AT-

2016 79 Ordinary Life -AT-

2016 81 Nothing Without You -AT-

2017 83 Comin Out Strong (Future feat. The Weeknd)

2017 38 Lust For Life (Lana Del Rey feat. The Weeknd)

2017 51 A Lie (French Montana feat. The Weeknd & Max B)

2017 78 Curve (Gucci Mane feat. The Weeknd)

2018 11 Pray For Me (The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar) -OST-

2018 07 Call Out My Name -1-

2018 17 Try Me -AT-

2018 18 Wasted Times -AT-

2019 09 Lost In The Fire (Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd)

2019 91 Price On My Head (NAV feat. The Weeknd)

2019 45 Power Is Power (SZA, The Weeknd & Travis Scott) -OST-

2019 10 Heartless -1-

2019 01 Blinding Lights -2- MILLIONAIRE

2020 20 After Hours -IG-

2020 17 In Your Eyes -3-

2020 23 Smile (Juice WRLD & The Weeknd)

2020 33 Over Now (Calvin Harris & The Weeknd)

2021 34 Save Your Tears -4-

 

1 x #1 | 5 x Top 5 | 9 x Top 10 | 15 x Top 20 | 24 x Top 40 | 52 x Top 100

 

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The Weeknd

 

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#1 of the Year 2020: Full Results

 

01 549 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

02 476 Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande - Rain On Me

03 376 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You

04 366 Joel Corry featuring MNEK - Head & Heart

05 321 SAINt JHN - Roses

06 285 Wham! - Last Christmas

07 251 Ariana Grande - positions

08 234 Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion - WAP

09 228 Billie Eilish - No Time to Die

 

10 209 24kGoldn featuring iann dior - Mood

11 167 DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch - ROCKSTAR

12 161 Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go

13 90 Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)

14 80 Stormzy featuring Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy - Own It

15 70 Internet Money and Gunna featuring Don Toliver and NAV - Lemonade

16 63 Live Lounge Allstars - Times Like These

17 50 Eminem featuring Juice WRLD - Godzilla

18 44 Drake - Toosie Slide

19 38 LadBaby - Don't Stop Me Eatin'

20 12 Michael Ball, Captain Tom Moore and The NHS Voices of Care Choir - You'll Never Walk Alone

 

Thanks to all who participated! See you in a year's time x

A deserving winner.

correct winner!

crazy to think BL his first #1 and also that his label was pushing Heartless over BL at first!

I do prefer Rain On Me but I can't complain at it being 2nd very convincingly - Blinding Lights is still a great song despite its overexposure too.

I think the label pushing Heartless first was quite a clever move actually, moreso in terms of the US where it got him another #1 single, it would've been very overshadowed by BL if that got the push first (moreso than it ended up being anyway).

Wow, that’s quite some gap between the top 2 and the rest. Blinding Lights still hits me like it did the first time I heard it, rare that a song doesn’t suffer from overplay for me. Thanks for hosting Joseph!

Deserving winner, was easily the biggest song of 2020 even if it came out the year prior.

 

Not my personal fave, think I only ranked it 10th but that's mainly down to overplay. I actually prefer Heartless these days but at the time Blinding Lights was definitely the better song.

Well done to Blinding Lights winning out! It's really the song that defined 2020 for me. I still love it!

Theres no denying Blinding Lights was THE song of 2020. Fully deserved :D

Yeah that winner was never really in question! It's hard to think of any other recent song which comes close to the universal appeal of 'Blinding Lights'.

 

Ty for running this Joseph x

Thanks for running this Joseph! A deserving winner and good to see Mariah in the Too 3 - another of the year’s big moments.

Yeah that winner was never really in question! It's hard to think of any other recent song which comes close to the universal appeal of 'Blinding Lights'.

Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow :yahoo:

The correct Top 2! BL was the male song of 2020 and ROM the female song. ^_^

You'd think everyone would be sick of Blinding Lights now considering it's been inescapable for over a year, which makes its win even more impressive! The rightful winner as already stated. Thanks Joseph for hosting!