Honestly, I'm surprised her second album Bring It On isn't a Buzzjack classic - it's deliciously and deliriously trashy. Body Shots is a tune and a half and perfect for that 'era' of pop music.

 

There was a thread on her 2010 material.

I think it was in the pop forum as I remember commenting on it back then but the hype died down I believe and CP never did chart here.

'Crazy Possessive' deserved to be MASSIVE! Idk why it wasn't at the time.

'Crazy Possessive' deserved to be MASSIVE! Idk why it wasn't at the time.

 

Such a tune! I knew it stood next to no chance of doing anything at the time, but I was hoping for a surprise. :(

I mean, Kaci was on Curb which has next to no presence in Europe, so it was a given it was going to do nothing here unfortunately unless it was licensed to another label to handle.

Poor Pixie Lott's career has been a bit forgotten really, considering she managed three No.1s, I honestly can't say I hear any of them anywhere anymore.

 

I have suddenly remembered about this version of Mama Do I stumbled across on a Swedish compilation album that I uploaded to YouTube myself at the time, because as far as I can see, it wasn't released anywhere else? It has a spoken word intro and different production - I wonder if it was the original demo before they made it more UK friendly in sound?

 

 

The original demo of Boys & Girls I sent to BJSC way back in 2008, a year before she was even known as an artist :lol: I found her through MySpace at the time and she only had a few hundred 'friends'.

 

 

Again, you can hear the progression to the eventual radio edit we got.

 

 

Thanks for posting gooddelta. Never heard that spoken word into for Mama Do.

 

She was pretty big in 2009/10 wasn’t she?

Surprisingly big, she had a long run of hits and a huge album, but didn't really feel like she fit the chart landscape at the time, she felt more like the sort of singer who would have been big in the late 90s/early 00s.

 

Three No.1 hits!

 

Mama Do had a lot of airplay at the time in particular, and Cry Me Out, but I've not heard them in years.

'Cry Me Out' :wub:

It is rather surprising when you consider she had a near-million selling album to accompany those and seemed pretty much everywhere in 2009/2010. It's quite funny how her career draws such similar parallels with that of Billie Piper.

 

I don't even hear her songs in gay clubs like I do with the likes of The Saturdays (or even the aforementioned Billie's 'Day & Night') etc, that's how consigned to forgotten history she is!

I always got the impression that Pixie Lott appealed to a young audience (think pre-tweens) and that audience just never followed her along to their tweens/teen years. It does feel like she was a pop star that could've had a career a decade or two ago when television was filled with kid's programs to promote on; but as it was she just had no place in pop.

I do admit 'Mama Do' especially never striked me as the type of track to go to #1. If anything it sounded like the sort that'd peak at #5 and have a fairly short run not 9 or 10 weeks like it did have.

 

'Boys & Girls' at least sounds a bit more in with the pop sound but maybe a bit dated still by a few years.

I heard Summer Girls by Lyte Funkie Ones on a CD yesterday and it reminded me of their early 2000 top 10 hit Girl On TV, which I can't imagine is widely remembered.

 

 

Catchy little track, about Jennifer Love Hewitt, who Rich from the band was dating at the time.

 

Upon reading what the band were up to now, it seems two of its three members died of cancer, Rich in 2010 then Devin in 2018 :(

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This was a top 10 in 2002, not sure I know it well or remember it.

 

^ That song actually had a quite decent chart run too (from Polyhex):

 

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So it wasn't your typical "peak at ten and spend three weeks in the top 75" type of song. I can't help to think Truth Hurts is a horrible name for a solo artist though.

^ That song actually had a quite decent chart run too (from Polyhex):

 

{3}-4-5-9-17-19-27-30-35-50-69-73->12wks

 

So it wasn't your typical "peak at ten and spend three weeks in the top 75" type of song. I can't help to think Truth Hurts is a horrible name for a solo artist though.

 

So it did, maybe one that went unnoticed by just me then.

A few I don't remember even reaching the Top 10:

 

 

 

I remember most of his Top 10 hits but not this one:

Judging by the listenthrough currently, this one needs to be here:

 

We haven’t had the lowest selling Top 10 of the decade yet - which by the way is absolutely an underrated bop:

 

I actually prefer it to their other three #8 hits in the 2000s plus Drowning, and its video is fun, but I guess its Top 100 run of 8-36-75-x shows it wasn't that big.

Sunrise was such a good track, I loved the Sunset mix on the CD single, it worked well as a ballad.

 

Another Day sounded like an attempt to recreate If You're Not The One to me.

 

Surprised that BSB song was the lowest selling top 10 of the 00s, there seem like so many more flash in the pans that I'd have expected to take the title than that, but I guess it was in a really low sales period so makes sense.

 

For somebody who became so huge a decade later, a lot of people I know say WTF when I tell them Sia had her first top 10 hit in 2000. I wouldn't say it's a particularly well remembered track.

 

 

The following week it was replaced in the top 10 by P!nk with her debut hit There You Go. At the time, there is no way in a million years I'd expect even one of this pair to have even five years of chart longevity, let alone over 20.