'All Summer Long' was one of the songs that is nostalgia for me, the summer of 2008 what a summer that was. 'Don't Wanna Go Home' not of Jason's best and finest moments. 'Loca People' was garbage, 'Start Without You' was all right.

 

 

21st - Beautiful Girls - Sean Kingston

 

 

Average Score - 10.55

 

Highest Score - 25 (….ready for it)

 

Lowest Score - 1 (Dobbo, jimwatts, Dot)

 

#4 for 4 weeks from 08/09/07

 

Kept off #1 - Hey There Delilah (Plain White Ts), Ayo Technology (50 Cent / Justin Timberlake / Timbaland)

 

“It was back in ‘99, watching movies all the time…”

 

Kingston (real name Kisean Anderson) hit the top as 17 year old in only his second ever week on the charts, also reaching #1 in the US (the first act born in the 1990s to do so on both sides of the Atlantic). Another track that is not shy with the sampling, this obviously uses Ben E King’s Stand by Me (itself a #1 in 1987) very liberally. References to suicide in the lyrics understandably provoked controversy and led to inevitable rewording to make the track suitable for commercial airplay. Four further top 20 hits (including duets with Natasha Bedingfield and Justin Bieber) followed for Kingston within as many years, but a serious jet ski accident in May 2011 appears to have placed a hold on his chart career.

 

20th - Crazy Stupid Love - Cheryl / Tinie Tempah

 

 

Average Score - 10.61

 

Highest Score - 25 (Jade)

 

Lowest Score - 1 (CJK, …ready for it)

 

#1 for 1 week from 02/08/14

 

Kept off #1 - N/A

 

“I’ll end up kissing you with or without the mistle”

 

This was the fifth #1 of the decade for Tinie and the fourth solo #1 in total for Cheryl, pulling her level at the time with Geri Halliwell in terms of prolific UK female solo chart toppers (she would pull clear later in the year with “I Don’t Care”, before eventually being usurped by Jess Glynne). Taken from Cheryl’s fourth (and to date, final) album “Only Human”, “Crazy Stupid Love” was co-written by Wayne Wilkins who also wrote Cheryl’s first chart toppers “Fight for This Love” and Natasha Bedingfield’s “These Words” (a #1 in 2004).

 

However this record perhaps lacks the guile of the former and the warmth of the latter. Follow up “Only Human” peaked at #70, and since “I Don’t Care” became her final #1, Cheryl has remained a stranger to Top 10.

Edited October 13, 20222 yr by chartjack2

Results haven't been too bad so far, but both of those last two are awful and should be higher. Beautiful Girls really butchered Stand By Me and Crazy Stupid Love really got everything wrong - lyrics (rollercoaster but only going up...), instrumental, rap verse, it's quite impressive how none of it works!

 

I don't mind All Summer Long at all, it's pleasant and reminds me of watching music channels as a teenager, it was everywhere for a while!

 

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

 

I don't disagree re: the charity ensemble as their purpose isn't really quality, but a bad cover can be just as bad as a bad original. If you're covering a song, you should add something new to it yet also respect the original, songs that don't do that can be an insult to the original. It's why I hate those terrible talent show or boyband/girlband covers (thankfully not as common now) as they add absolutely nothing to it except profit for the execs because it's a popular song. Hallelujah is one of the worst of them just because it just completely misunderstood what makes the original song great and oversings it (plus you have a perfect cover right alongside it).

Omg I’ve just heard that Stand By Me melody. How did I miss that?

 

Saying that the JoJo version of BG is divine

'I Don't Care' would have been higher, change my mind

 

I guess I should have expected Sean Kingston being fairly low here since there were a few people who wanted to remove it but still gross.

19th - One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks) - One Direction

 

 

Average Score - 11.23

 

Highest Score - 25 (Bre)

 

Lowest Score - 1 (Uls2000)

 

#1 for 1 week from 02/03/13

 

Kept off #1 - N/A

 

“And if the lights are all out, I’ll follow your bus downtown”

 

1D celebrated their third independent #1 with a mash-up of a Blondie single from their 1978 “Parallel Lines” album which surprisingly had never charted in the UK and The Undertones’ debut hit (that reached #31 in November the same year). The official Comic Relief single for 2013, and the 35th #1 associated with The X Factor, as you can see the video features a cameo from last-Prime Minister-but-three (at time of writing) David Cameron. Only one more pole-sitter was to follow, Drag Me Down in 2015, but of course Zayn and Harry (twice) would reach the top as solo artists.

Edited October 13, 20222 yr by chartjack2

'Crazy Stupid Love' is so bad, the horn trend of that year has not aged well but that one sounded terrible on arrival. 'All Summer Long' is not my thing at all either :')

I could barely get through the 90 second iTunes clip of that 1D monstrosity without dying of cringe, you guys are objectively wrong not putting that in the top 10 sorry xx

 

(I do think 'Little Things' unfortunately would have probably done 'better' here but I appreciate this being basically the only case here where the song I personally would have chosen from the artist in question is actually on here :kink:)

More crap that should have gone a bit further in this especially that awful 'Beautiful Girls' :puke:

Beautiful Girls :wub: one of the best #1s of the whole decade.

 

The other 2 are pretty bad though especially Crazy Stupid Love, fabulously annoying song.

18th - Marvin Gaye - Charlie Puth / Meghan Trainor

 

 

Average Score - 11.35

 

Highest Score - 25 (Dot)

 

Lowest Score - 2 (AH Gold)

 

1 week at #1 from 20/08/15

 

Kept off #1 - How Deep Is Your Love (Calvin Harris / Disciples)

 

“It’s Karma Sutra show and tell”

 

The second (and to date, final) #1s for both Puth and Trainor (and taken from Puth’s 12 track debut album “Nine Track Mind”) this is the only chart-topper whose title references a previous inhabitant of the top spot (Gaye reached Number One with the sublime “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” in 1969). This song isn’t bashful in referencing the great man’s work, namechecking “Let’s Get It On” (#31 UK), “Sexual Healing” (#4 UK), Got to Give It Up” (#7 UK), and “Mercy Mercy Me” (DNC UK). Somehow, I very much doubt as many relationships were consummated to this record as to Gaye’s ouvre.

 

This technically may have been the first doo-wop #1 since Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers back in 1956, although I fully appreciate the word “technically” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence!

I quite liked 'Martin Gaye' personally :ph34r: I fully understand the hatred towards it though but I found it a bop.

That's a really good pop song, although I would certainly have preferred Disciples at #1 over it.

17th - The Time (Dirty Bit) - The Black Eyed Peas

 

 

Average Score - 11.45

 

Highest Score - 25 (Torple, Uls2000)

 

Lowest Score - 1 (detonate, KingRollo)

 

#1 for 1 week from 15/12/10

 

Kept off #1 - Whip My Hair (Willow Smith)

 

“All these girls, they like my swagger, they be calling’ me Mick Jagger”

 

The fifth and final #1 for the Los Angeles quartet, this was the lead single from their sixth studio album “The Beginning”. This of course samples “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” by former Righteous Brother Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes which had won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, won a Grammy, topped the the US Charts and reached the UK Top 10 on two occasions. it is perhaps safe to say this version had less of a positive impact, winning no awards, stalling at #4 on the Billboard #100 and marking The Beginning of The E.N.D. of the Peas’ imperial phase. Despite previously enjoying 12 Top 20 hits in the space of 6 years, only 2 more would follow, with will i am finding considerable success as a solo artist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I found that song a strange inclusion, didn't think it evoked that much of a negative reaction. Plus it kept off what WOULD have been one of the worst #1s ever so it deserves praise for that.

If 'Marvin Gaye' counts as a doo-wop #1 then I'd have thought 'All About That Bass' does as well! (What it definitely counts as is another abhorrent song that definitely should have been top 10 here though :P)

 

Dirtybit

Wow Bray you’ve been very gracious about these results so far considering how much you disliked everything from 24-18. I was worried you might be having a hernia by now. ;)

'Marvin Gaye' was one of those #1's where people jumped on the bandwagon with Charlie Puth getting another #1 after the classic 'See You Again' and Meghan Trainor with the awful 'All About That Bass'.

 

'The Time (Dirty Bit)' stopping chart history with Willow Smith, I much preferred 'Just Can't Get Enough' from Black Eyed Peas.

 

 

 

Wow Bray you’ve been very gracious about these results so far considering how much you disliked everything from 24-18. I was worried you might be having a hernia by now. ;)

 

Not my fault everyone submitted their votes upside down tbh x