Dua shouldn't have been on this list as it deserved to be a number one.

2. Everything But The Girl - Missing

 

Average score - 8.057

 

Writers - Tracey Thorn, Ben Watt

Top scores : 11 - DarrenJ77, AH Gold, 10 - Jester, marcinjaro, dandy*, CJK, Bjork, jimwatts, Tawdry Hepburn, Shaky1981, West, jszmiles, Mack, JackJones, Campbell, Bré

Low scores : 1 - Adelita, 1.5 - Jason, 4 - Dante77, Achabaan

 

The original version of Missing only reached number 69 when it was released as a single in 1994. It was this remix by Todd Terry that took the song into the top 3 in 1995, giving the duo their second number 3 hit. The single got to number 2 in the US and spent 55 weeks on the Billboard chart which at that time was a record.

 

 

 

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1. The Killers - Somebody Told Me

 

Average score - 8.094

 

Writers - Brandon Flowers, Mark Stoermer, Dave Keuning, Ronnie Vannucci Jr.

Top scores : 10 - Grandwicky, DarrenJ77, chrissmith276, chartjack2, Jade, Nick F1, CJK, Bjork, jimwatts, Mango, Dante77, detonate, West, AH Gold, Achabaan, JackJones, coi, Bré

Low scores : 1 - jszmiles, Adelita, 2.5 - King Rollo

 

And so this is your winner. It was very close with Somebody Told Me scoring a total of 429 points, Missing 427 and Physical 423. Like the runner-up, Somebody Told Me wasn't a big success first time around, only reaching number 28 in 2004. After The Killers' next two singles reached the top 20, it was re-released and became a top 3 hit in 2005.

 

Oh what a brilliant winner :o I never would've called that before this started! I do like 'Missing' but not enough to give it a 10, like The Killers, so chuffed with that.

 

Thanks so much for running this Rollo, top effort :clap:

Ah Somebody Told Me is great, not my absolute personal favourite from the list but happy enough that it won.

 

Interestingly, looking at the week it hit #3, it almost certainly would have placed higher and not qualified for this competition if it wasn't for the infamous Elvis re-issue campaign.

Since its release, When You Were Young has been my favourite Killers song! 37th isn't too bad, though I think they'd fare even better in an Ultimate #3s rate (if there is one next year haha). They'd definitely do better in an Ultimate #10s :lol:

Well I wasn't wrong :D maybe wouldn't have predicted it would win the thing though, but it is such a compelling tune, and with eighteen 10s it seems many agree! Missing is such a well-deserved runner-up, that made a huge impression on me in my early years of following the charts, an excellent end to the countdown.

 

Thank you Rollo for running this over the last 3 months. Looking forward to next year's #4s already.

Wow, what a fantastic winner! I certainly wouldn't have predicted that either, but Somebody Told Me is such a great track and I'm very happy to see it win here :wub:

 

Thanks for running this again Rollo!

Interestingly, looking at the week it hit #3, it almost certainly would have placed higher and not qualified for this competition if it wasn't for the infamous Elvis re-issue campaign.

Although given it only sold about 12k in its peak week you could also say that in almost every other week in history it would have peaked lower! :lol:

Missing and Somebody Told Me were both 9.5s from me and I only gave 2 10s so that means I absolutely adore them both. Missing is right up there with my favourite songs of the 90s but also really chuffed for Somebody Told Me and hadn’t realised there were so many other big fans of that song around.

 

Thanks very much for this King Rollo - it was really fun and a brilliant shortlist of songs.

Edited April 2, 20214 yr by JulianT

My top vote was for Missing but a worthy winner

Thanks for doing this King Rollo. Looking forward to doing this again on the number 4 votes

Thanks for taking part and commenting on the results everyone.

 

Somebody Told Me certainly made a great start with each of the first four voters giving it 10. Later on, Physical took the lead but a run of scores of 4,6,2,7,7,6,7,7 towards the end meant it was overtaken by the Killers.

 

The gap between the first two was 2 points before the last two overnight voters. Bré gave both songs a score of 10 while Adelita gave them both 1 point so in the end they made no difference.

awful, overrated winner.

That's a great top 2, really enjoy both songs. Somebody Told Me is still excellent, I certainly haven't ever begun to tire of it like with a certain other track

Great winner, but interesting nobody gave it 11 points!

Great winner, a classic bit of 00s indie and still sounds great to this day (much less overplayed than Mr Brightside too which is a bonus) and Missing is wonderful as well. Physical was one of the best songs from last year, but I am glad it didn't win, 3rd ahead of some of these all time classics already feels a bit inflated.

 

Thanks for hosting, Rollo, look forward to the number 4s rate next year B-)

 

 

 

Tomorrow, I'll reveal which songs scored the most points in the first round and the semi-finals.

'Physical' being so high up this list is maybe a little premature but I'd be surprised if its appeal to BuzzJack ever lets up to be fair, feels like a song that people will always look back on highly - and it is a great song, one of the best hit singles of 2020, so I'm not complaining. Love both of the top 2 & Keane at #4 as well so it an all well deserved top 5!

 

And to repeat my earlier observation again, this still seems like a crazy low average for a BuzzJack rate winner - I feel like nearly every other rate on BuzzJack at least recently had had a winner with an average of over 9 and certainly more than just two songs cracking an average of 8? I suppose to be fair most rates are just for a single artist so typically attract voters who are specifically a fan of that artist whereas this bunch was far more varied.

 

Thanks as always for running this Rollo - I feel like the further down the chart peaks we go the more there will be songs that I'm not particularly familiar with :lol: but nonetheless looking forward to a potential #4s version of this ~

And here's a recap of the top 50:

 

1. The Killers - Somebody Told Me

2. Everything But The Girl - Missing

3. Dua Lipa - Physical

4. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know

5. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

6. Toto - Africa

7. Roxette - It Must Have Been Love

8. Faithless - Insomnia

9. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

10. David Bowie - Life On Mars?

11. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

12. The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl

13. The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize

14. New Order - Blue Monday 1988

15. Tears For Fears - Mad World

16. Outkast - Hey Ya!

17. Anastacia - Left Outside Alone

18. Madonna - Material Girl

19. Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds

20. Giorgio Moroder with Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams

21. Heart - Alone

22. Michael Jackson - Beat It

23. Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

24. Darude - Sandstorm

25. Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart

26. TLC - No Scrubs

27. The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love

28. Bryan Adams featuring Melanie C - When You're Gone

29. Robert Miles featuring Maria Nayler - One And One

30. Green Day - American Idiot

31. Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It

32. Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance

33. Madonna - Like A Virgin

34. Loreen - Euphoria

35. Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

36. Radiohead - Paranoid Android

37. Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted

38. Kylie Minogue - In Your Eyes

39. Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan - Silence

40. The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face

41. Oasis - Whatever

42. Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity

43. Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky

44. George Ezra - Budapest

45. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

46. Riva featuring Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now?

47. Enigma - Return To Innocence

48. Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much

49. Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine - Doctor Pressure

50. Rihanna - S&M

A fantastic Top 2 in the perfect order and yet someone gave the Top 2 the lowest score still Somebody Told Me and Missing were Top 2, terrific stuff. Thanks for hosting King Rollo.

Wow :o :o :o would NEVER have predicted 'Somebody Told Me' for the win, hands down one of my favourite songs EVER *.* I remember being obsessed with it when it was first released, and it was such a pleasant surprise that it made the top three when re-released the following year. Such a worthy winner :wub:

 

('Missing's also pretty good but doesn't deserve anywhere near as much praise as STM).

Edited April 2, 20214 yr by Mangø

Love 'Somebody Told Me' a classic :wub:

Nice Top 2 and obviously glad my 10 pointer is #1!

 

Thanks for the run down Rollo!

 

Thinking ahead to #4s I still love this song!!