October 9, 20222 yr +25 Charlie Puth featuring Meghan Trainor - Marvin Gaye (2015) +24 Ladbaby featuring Ed Sheeran and Elton John - Sausage Rolls For Everyone (2021) +23 X Factor Finalists - Wishing On A Star (2011) +22 Michael Ball, Captain Tom Moore and The NHS Voices of Care Choir - You’ll Never Walk Alone (2020) +21 The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir - A Bridge Over You (2015) +20 Gareth Malone’s All Star Choir - Wake Me Up (2014) +19 Cheryl featuring Tinie Tempah - Crazy Stupid Love (2014) +18 Leon Jackson - When You Believe (2007) +17 Alexandra Burke featuring Laza Morgan - Start Without You (2010) +16 JLS - The Club Is Alive (2010) +15 Chris Brown - Turn Up The Music (2012) +14 The Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit) (2010) +13 Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger (2011) +12 The Proclaimers featuring Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin - I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (2007) +11 Lil Dicky featuring Chris Brown - Freaky Friday (2018) +10 One Direction - One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) (2013) +9 Sugababes vs Girls Aloud - Walk This Way (2007) +8 Drake - Toosie Slide (2020) +7 Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee Disco (2010) +6 Shout For England featuring Dizzee Rascal and James Corden - Shout (2010) +5 Sak Noel - Loca People (2011) +4 Will.I.Am featuring Cody Wise - It’s My Birthday (2014) +3 Jason Derulo - Don’t Wanna Go Home (2011) +2 Kid Rock - All Summer Long (2008) +1 Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls (2007)
October 10, 20222 yr Intolerable: +25 One Direction - One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) +24 Gareth Malone's All Star Choir - Wake Me Up +23 LadBaby - Sausage Rolls For Everyone (feat. Ed Sheeran and Elton John) +22 Kid Rock - All Summer Long +21 Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls +20 Charlie Puth - Marvin Gaye (feat. Meghan Trainor) +19 Chris Brown - Turn Up The Music +18 Alexandra Burke - Start Without You (feat. Laza Morgan) (that's quite an impressive collection of 'intolerable' rated songs considering there are quite a few others we discussed and ended up not including that I'd also put in this section, including several I'd put above 1D, oops x) Bad: +17 Cheryl - Crazy Stupid Love (feat. Tinie Tempah) +16 Leon Jackson - When You Believe +15 Jason Derulo - Don't Wanna Go Home Charity singles, largely inoffensive: +14 Michael Ball, Tom Moore and The NHS Voices Of Care Choir - You'll Never Walk Alone +13 The Lewisham And Greenwich NHS Choir - A Bridge Over You +12 The X Factor Finalists 2011 - Wishing On A Star (feat. JLS and One Direction) Decent: +11 Shout For England - Shout +10 Sugababes vs. Girls Aloud - Walk This Way +9 Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger In poor taste but it was kind of a bop at the time: +8 Lil Dicky - Freaky Friday (feat. Chris Brown) I respect the audacity too much to dislike them: +7 The Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit) +6 JLS - The Club Is Alive +5 The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (feat. Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin) Actually good songs: +4 Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee Disco +3 Drake - Toosie Slide +2 Sak Noel - Loca People +1 will.i.am - It's My Birthday (feat. Cody Wise)
October 11, 20222 yr Many thanks to everyone who voted. Stand by for some very divisive (yet close) results….. #25 - #22 revealed this evening…..
October 11, 20222 yr 25th - Loca People - Sak Noel mwq-T2CrJRU Average Score - 8.32 Highest Score - 22 (Dobbo.) Lowest Score - 1 (Jade, gooddelta, Dana, dandy*, Jason, Jester, AH Gold, coi, JulianT) #1 for 1 week from 08/10/11 Kept off #1 - Moves Like Jagger (Maroon 5 / Christina Aguilera) “I could not believing what I was living, so I called my friend Johnny” The first record to leave this final heat is one of a remarkable five one-week #1s to directly deny “Moves Like Jagger” its rightful place on top of the charts. Whereas Maroon 5 and Christina spent 16 weeks, 35 weeks and a full year in the Top 10, Top 40 and Top 75, Sak Noel’s singular foray into the charts spent 3 weeks, 7 weeks and 10 weeks in similiar positions respectively. Sound of the Summer 2011 or a regrettable aberration? Perhaps the former as nine of you gave it your lowest mark! Mr Noel (full first name Isaac) clearly inflicted some sort of curse as there hasn’t been a Spanish chart-topper since! Edited October 11, 20222 yr by chartjack2
October 11, 20222 yr 24th - Start Without You - Alexandra Burke / Laza Morgan MWKchS0GAyo Average Score - 8.77 Highest Score - 23 (Daan, Bjork) Lowest Score - 1 (Torple, Mango, chartjack2, RabbitFurCoat, Lee_J11) #1 for 2 weeks from 18/09/10 Kept off #1 - Teenage Dream (Katy Perry) “The DJ dropped the record, imma start a stampede. He dropped the record, I’ll start a stampede” Co-written by former toppermost-most-of-the-poppermost Eddy Grant and lead single from the deluxe edition of Burke’s debut album “Overcome”, this was her third #1 in her own right, also knocking fellow X Factor alumni Olly Murs’ debut hit “Please Don’t Let Me Go” off the top spot. Despite clearly taking inspiration from Boney M’s “Hooray! Hooray! It’s a Holi-Holiday”, Frank Farian appears to have missed out on those precious royalties this time. Morgan would never trouble the charts again and we should perhaps ignore the elephant in the room that Alexandra only had one other top 10 single after this…. Edited October 11, 20222 yr by chartjack2
October 11, 20222 yr Loca People is alright. I'm not really a massive fan of it and i'd say it's definitely a non-#1, but there's nothing that's particularly awful about it. The Alexandra song is terrible. Her iconic introduction of the phrase 'elephant in the room' to the UK should have yielded a #1 instead of this trash.
October 11, 20222 yr Great that Loca People made it out first from this heat, a pretty good tune especially compared to the rest of this list!
October 12, 20222 yr I demand we go back and switch Alexandra's entry back to 'Hallelujah', I supported the switch only on the insistence that it would do 'better' which I now don't think would have been the case -_- Justice for 'Loca People' indeed though, that really should not have been here, it's a banger.
October 12, 20222 yr Author Yeah for me Start Without You is much worse but we probably should have stuck with Hallelujah after all. I very much doubt either would have come close to making the final though.
October 12, 20222 yr for me there is a difference between making a bad original and making a bad cover, not the same thing, the former is much worse thats why I'd argue Start Without You should be in the list rather than Hallelujah same for all those charity covers, they shouldn't even be in the list, they are bad but just silly useless covers
October 12, 20222 yr Author Not sure about that - ruining a good song by covering it is surely worse and lazier than creating an original that isn’t very good. Not that Start Without You is particularly original; sounds like something Boney M rejected.
October 12, 20222 yr I gave Loca People 1 point but I still think it’s pretty rubbish, this was the only round where there wasn’t a single song I’d listen to
October 12, 20222 yr 23rd - Don’t Wanna Go Home - Jason Derulo 2CGF_Z3yZAo Average Score - 9.32 Highest Score - 23 (King Rollo) Lowest Score - 1 (Bjork) #1 for 2 weeks from 02/07/11 Kept off #1 - N/A “Ask me where the party’s at, baby, I’m the answer” Sampling Robin S’ “Show Me Love” (which peaked at #6 in 1993) and interpolating Harry Belafonte’s “The Banana Boat Song” (a #2 smash from 1957), this was the Floridian’s second Number One after “In My Head” the previous year, in addition to the lead single from Derulo’s sophomore album “Future History” - a fairly apt title, given the lack of originality on offer. This failed to break the Billboard Top 10 and it is fair to say that critics were less than impressed with Mr Desrouleaux sampling at will - what worked so well with Whatcha Say was perhaps wearing a bit thin less than two years later. Of course Derulo was not finished with the top spot, scoring three more #1s with Talk Dirty (sampling Balkan Beat Box), Savage Love (sampling Jawish 685) and Want to Want Me (shock, horror, an original composition). Edited October 12, 20222 yr by chartjack2
October 12, 20222 yr 22nd - All Summer Long - Kid Rock youtu.be/uwIGZLjugKA Average Score - 9.90 Highest Score - 22 (Jade, Bre) Lowest Score - 1 (Roba!, Mack., DJ Cheeky Magpie) #1 for 1 week from 09/08/08 Kept off #1 - N/A “We didn’t have no Internet, but man I never will forget the way the moonlight shined upon her hair…” Despite scoring his first chart hit with “Cowboy” nine years previously, Kid Rock had only bothered the UK singles charts twice more (and not all since 2001) before this cut from his album “Rock N Roll Jesus” provided the meat in a “Dance wiv Me” / “I Kissed a Girl” sandwich. Inspired by Night Moves by Bob Seger and heavily sampling both Sweet Home Alabama and Werewolves of London this is (to date) Robert Ritchie’s last chart hit in the UK. Contrary to the lyrics, the video was not filmed in Northern Michigan but in Nashville, Tennessee, perhaps a slight sop to Kid’s ever growing country fanbase. Edited October 12, 20222 yr by chartjack2
October 12, 20222 yr <_< 'All Summer Long' feels like such an inexplicable #1 to me, always absolutely hated it even before finding out that Kid Rock is a pretty detestable person. 'Don't Wanna Go Home' is pretty bad as well but I don't feel quite as strongly about it, I'd have given Derulo's slot here to 'Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)' instead.
October 12, 20222 yr Never liked 'Loca People' myself but it was inevitable it'd be the least fave for others. 'All Summer Long' is great which feels like a unpopular opinion on here oops. Helps that it also made #1 on my chart too :kink: I'm not so mad on Kid Rock's other stuff much although 'American Bad Ass' has the association to WWE so I'm impartial to that one too. I do have to agree he's questionable as a person though. That Jason Derulo song is shit but then so is most of his discography x deserved to be higher in this. Also didn't overly mind 'Start Without You' at the time but it wore thin fast, not that it was amazing or anything to start with.
October 13, 20222 yr Don't Wanna Go Home is excellent, my fave #1 of his (although he hs better non-#1s). All Summer Long always struck me as one of the most random #1s ever. Sticks out like a sore thumb in the list of 2008 #1s.
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