Didn't know much about Antidote or Cornflake Girl but have enjoyed listening to them both here

37. Nickelback - How You Remind Me 220pts

 

Writers - Nickelback

Top points - Mack 24, chrissmith276 22, detonate 20

 

From 2001, this was the first of four top 10 singles for the Canadian band. It was the most played song on US radio during the 2000s.

 

36. Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding - I Need Your Love 223pts

 

Writers - Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding

Top points - Mark223 25, Jason 24, AaronTM 21

 

This was the eighth top 10 hit from Calvin's third album, '18 Months', breaking a record for the most top 10 singles from one album which had previously been held by Michael Jackson whose albums 'Bad' and 'Dangerous' both contained seven.

 

35. Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices 226pts

 

Writers - Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant

Top points - King Rollo 24, StoneDragon 22, dandy* 22

 

Lasting eight minutes on the 'Introspective' album, Left To My Own Devices was remixed and reduced to about four and a half minutes for the single release, giving the Pet Shop Boys their sixth top 5 hit.

 

34. Erasure - Love To Hate You 226pts

 

Writers - Vince Clarke, Andy Bell

Top points - Leonardo 24, Shoat 23, Jester 20, Dj Cheeky Magpie 20, Mango 20

 

So Erasure will have just one song in the final as Love To Hate You drops out. It was their seventh top 5 single and wins a tie-break over Left To My Own Devices by 17 votes to 16.

 

Awwww no, we’ve lost 2 great pop singles there

How You Remind Me robbed.

3/4 I voted for there - this isn’t going too well!

Nickelback are never robbed, they’re an atrocious band!

I'm not a Nickelback fan but 'How You Remind Me' is an exception!

 

Also lost 'I'm A Slave 4 U' and 'Antidote' on the banger side of things

Left to My Own Devices and Love to Hate You are great songs

 

really liked I Need Your Love when originally released, now I find it less good and a bit annoying

 

Nickleback are really the Westlife of rock music... or maybe Westlife are the Nickelback of pop music :o

 

My opinions on Nickelback are pretty much identical to Jade's, they deserve their reputation as an awful band overall but 'How You Remind Me' is a great song (and I like 'Rockstar' as well lol).

 

I really loved 'I Need Your Love' when it came out but it's definitely not been the most gracefully aged Calvin single, didn't even vote for it here iirc oops. Don't think I am familiar with the other two songs here (I feel bad that there were several Erasure singles in this poll and I've not known any of them, I'm sure I'd probably be a fan of at least one of them based on the songs I do know by them oops)

I must like the 'awful' band that is Nickelback. I have their Greatest Hits album and I'm happy to say I'm a fan of Nickelback.

Even if How You Remind Me isn't as shit as other Nickelback songs (it is certainly waaay better than Rockstar) it's still sung by Chad Kroeger and nothing he puts his voice to could ever be considered more than 3/10.

 

I think I've only lost three songs so far which are all older ones (Bob, S&G, PSB) which is good going.

'Left To My Own Devices' and 'Love To Hate You' are both 10/10 pop songs, absolutely love both of them. Can't believe they've gone out this early :(

33. Stereophonics - Handbags And Gladrags 230pts

 

Writer - Mike d'Abo

Top points - Achabaan 25, Jason 23, Mark223 19, xajnipi 19

 

Stereophonics have five number 4 singles. Pick A Part That's New was the only other one to score points in the first round. Handbags And Gladrags was written by the lead singer of Manfred Mann with the first recorded version being by Chris Farlowe in 1967.

 

Not my favourite song by Stereophonics but a decent enough version.

32. Little Mix - Touch 232pts

 

Writers - Hanni Ibrahim, Patrick Patrikios, A.S. Govere, Phil Plested

Top points - ready for it 20, Roba 20, vibe 19

 

From 2016, Touch was the seventh top 5 single for Little Mix, spending six non consecutive weeks at number 4.

 

31. Mariah Carey - Fantasy 240pts

 

Writers - Mariah Carey, Dave Hall, Adrian Belew, Chris Frantz, Steven Stanley, Tina Weymouth

Top points - Jade 23, AaronTM 23, vibe 23, Leonardo 23

 

Mariah Carey's fifth top 5 single. In her own country, it was only the second single by anyone to be a new entry at number 1. The four members of the Tom Tom Club are down as co-writers as the song samples "Genius Of Love" from 1981.

 

 

 

30. New Order - Regret 241pts

 

Writers - Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Hague

Top points - Ansel 25, chartjack2 24, Grandwicky 24

 

New Order fail to get two songs into the final as Regret misses out. It was their fourth and final top 5 single and also their highest charting single in the US, where it reached number 28.