Posted September 30, 20231 yr The Time has come to consider who should be crowned Buzzjack's Favourite Male solo act following on from the female thread earlier this year. So what’s the criteria? As this is the UK Charts section there are some proviso’s around who can be nominated 1) The act in question must have had at least one Top 40 single in the UK on which they are individually credited 2) That credit may have been a feature 3) Groups are not eligible unless the members are credited with their own names on a top 40 single. 4) To avoid confusion on credits I will treat polyhex.com as the bible 5) By top 40 single I refer to the main UK singles chart not the sales chart or any other alternative chart. How do I Vote? Simples. Just PM me with your votes before 23.00 on Saturday 4th November 2023 with your top 30 list of your men of pop. Scoring: The act you place at No 1 on your list will receive 30 points, No 2 will get 29 points and so on until your 30th man gets 1 point. We then tally up your marks to give us the ultimate list! But I don’t like/ know 30 male solo singers? Firstly what are you doing on Buzzjack? But if you really can’t then that’s fine just submit what you can BUT your No 1 will only get the number of points for the number of acts you enter- for example if your list has 23 male acts then your No 1 gets 23 points etc. Feel free to use the thread to discuss/ stan for your fave’s but PLEASE DO NOT REVEAL YOUR SCORES FOR ANY ACT. Please double check (if in doubt) that the acts you vote for are actually solo acts. I would ask that where we have an act who was in a group and did some solo work you consider them in the context of their SOLO work only and vote accordingly. You will have a chance to consider the groups in the next rate so you'll still have an opportunity to point them in that rate! Any set of votes I consider to be non serious ones will be excluded from the rate- sorry @chartjack- rating is a serious thing :D Finally on the subject on non-binary acts- it is the simplest option to base rates like these on biological sex. This isn't a judgement on use of pronouns. AND ABOVE ALL HAVE FUN........AND BE NICE! :D :D Voters: DarrenJames Spiceboy Cow P Rough Edges Vibe JosephStyles Y'all Starlight RabbitFurCoat Mango Leonardo xajnipi Mack Jade Ansel Padamic Tension Josh! Detonate Jord Ready For It Gezza AH Gold Lukuzz Bjork Roba Gooddelta Jason Nick F1 King Rollo Marcinjaro Smint Riser Voyager Lewis GT Garyfeld !!! Jimwatts Pete From Leeds Chez Wombat Dandy* WhoOdyssey JulanT
September 30, 20231 yr Author Please use this as a template for voting! 30 points- YOUR FAV 29- 28- 27- 26- 25- 24- 23- 22- 21- 20- 19- 18- 17- 16- 15- 14- 13- 12- 11- 10- 9- 8- 7- 6- 5- 4- 3- 2- 1 point- YOUR 30TH FAVE
September 30, 20231 yr Author 2020's top 100 results for reference No 1- Michael Jackson- 562 points No 2- Justin Timberlake- 361 points No 3- George Michael- 343 points No 4- Elton John- 339 points No 5- David Bowie- 287 points No 6- Freddie Mercury- 266 points No 7- Enrique Iglesias- 256 points No 8- Calvin Harris- 249 points No 9- Bruno Mars- 246 points No 10- Usher- 219 points No 11- The Weeknd- 215 points No 12- Prince- 203 points No 13- Robbie Williams- 203 points No 14- Kanye West- 193 points No 15- Eminem- 182 points No 16- Will Young- 180 points No 17- Stevie Wonder- 178 points No 18- Olly Murs- 174 points No 19- Ed Sheeran- 153 Points No 20- Jason Derulo- 153 points No 21- Rod Stewart 151 points No 22- Harry Styles 145 points No 23- Shawn Mendes 134 points No 24- Drake 132 points No 25- Justin Bieber 127 points No 26- Bruce Springsteen 124 points No 27- Phil Collins 122 points No 28- Sam Smith 119 points No 29- Elvis Presley 118 points No 30- David Guetta 116 points No 31- Troye Sivan 115 points No 32- Nick Jonas 112 points No 33- Frank Ocean 103 points No 34- Niall Horan 101 points No 35- George Ezra 96 points No 36- Brandon Flowers 94 points No 37- Morrissey 92 points No 38- Sean Paul 84 points No 39- Adam Lambert 83 points No 40- Post Malone 80 points No 41- Mark Ronson 79 points No 42- Lenny Kravitz 71 points No 43- Brendon Urie 69 points No 44- Craig David 68 points No 45- Bryan Adams 68 points No 46- Sting 68 points No 47- John Lennon 67 points No 48- James Blake 67 points No 49- Gary Barlow 66 points No 50- James Morrison 63 Points No 51- Ne-Yo- 62 points No 52- Kendrick Lamar- 61 points No 53- Rick Astley- 61 points No 54- Paul McCartney- 58 points No 55- Ben Howard- 58 points No 56- Johnny Cash- 57 points No 57- Kid Cudi- 56 points No 58- Rupaul- 55 points No 59- Zayn Malik- 55 points No 60- Shayne Ward- 54 points No 61- Damien Rice- 54 points No 62- Timbaland- 52 points No 63- John Legend- 51 points No 64- Marilyn Manson- 51 points No 65- Mika- 48 points No 66- Pitbull- 48 points No 67- Bob Marley- 47 points No 68- Marc Almond- 47 points No 69- Flo Rida- 46 points No 70- Ricky Martin- 44 points No 71- Meat Loaf- 43 points No 72- Hozier- 39 points No 73- Moby- 39 points No 74- David Gray- 37 points No 75- Nelly- 37 points No 76- Stormzy- 36 points No 77- Thom Yorke- 36 points No 78- Adam Levine- 35 points No 79- Jay Z- 34 points No 80- Jon Bon Jovi- 34 points No 81- Jason Donovan- 33 points No 82- Tom Odell- 33 points No 83- Peter Gabriel- 32 points No 84- Jackie Wilson- 32 points No 85- Lionel Richie- 32 points No 86- Paolo Nutini- 31 points No 87- Miguel- 31 points No 88- Mick Hucknell- 30 points No 89- Cliff Richard- 29 points No 90- Roy Orbison- 29 points No 91- Howard Jones- 29 points No 92- Childish Gambino- 29 points No 93- Thomas Dolby- 29 points No 94- Chris Brown- 28 points No 95- Chuck Berry- 28 points No 96- Matt Terry- 28 points No 97- Jean-Michel Jarre- 28 points No 98- Matt Cardle- 27 points No 99- Adam Ant- 27 points No 100- Leonard Cohen- 27 Points
September 30, 20231 yr So, are producers-only counted here unlike the previous Female Solo Singer? Edited September 30, 20231 yr by Cow P
September 30, 20231 yr Author Yes if they are indivdually credited. I changed the title to "act" instead of "singer"- to make it broader, they were for the female thread although "singer" I think made folk tend forget about producers and more urban acts so I tried to rectify that here.
September 30, 20231 yr Ooh exciting! :cheer: I know who my #1 would be but better get thinking about the rest.
September 30, 20231 yr I will make sure I vote in this! I just wanted to clarify if we would treat 'The Streets' as a band or a solo-act? I've always considered it to just be Mike Skinner (he won the BRIT award for 'British Male Solo Artist') but Wikipedia counts them as a band due to him having 'touring members' that join him for live performances.
September 30, 20231 yr I will make sure I vote in this! I just wanted to clarify if we would treat 'The Streets' as a band or a solo-act? I've always considered it to just be Mike Skinner (he won the BRIT award for 'British Male Solo Artist') but Wikipedia counts them as a band due to him having 'touring members' that join him for live performances. I was about to reply to this post to remind people of the very little known and obscure fact that Tame Impala is actually just one guy, but then I remembered Tame Impala have (has) never made the top 40 so they're (he's) not eligible for this regardless ddd Cool at us having another one of these for me to vaguely consider voting in and then inevitably not get around to it due to being too much effort :whistle: (maybe this will finally be the time though xx)
September 30, 20231 yr Author I will make sure I vote in this! I just wanted to clarify if we would treat 'The Streets' as a band or a solo-act? I've always considered it to just be Mike Skinner (he won the BRIT award for 'British Male Solo Artist') but Wikipedia counts them as a band due to him having 'touring members' that join him for live performances. I'd say solo as he's the only permanent member
September 30, 20231 yr Putting something together... My list is going to include a lot of people with one minor top 40 hit! :lol:
September 30, 20231 yr Author 5ebJH0VG_hs Some ideas- though of course not all who are shown may be eligible so please check
September 30, 20231 yr I might be tempted to vote in this so I can give Porter my 30 pts (+ based on those previous results it looks like y'all could use my help....) though a lot of my male faves have no top 40 hits or charting singles at all so this may be a bit of a challenge lmao
September 30, 20231 yr What about Panic! at the Disco? A group from 2004-2015, but a solo act (with some of their biggest hits) from then until this year!
September 30, 20231 yr Submitted my votes - definitely grateful to the TikTok algorithm for allowing a few of my recent faves a token hit x
September 30, 20231 yr Author What about Panic! at the Disco? A group from 2004-2015, but a solo act (with some of their biggest hits) from then until this year! Well I would say it depends what you are rating- if you're rating their output since 2016 then fine- otherwise save your votes for the group rate- of course you could like both but I would rate accordingly
September 30, 20231 yr Brendon Urie does also have a solo hit under his own name to make it a bit less ambiguous remember!
September 30, 20231 yr I think the only solo Female DJ credited that wasn't a singer too that I could find were Hannah Wants with "Rhymes", now after the list revealed, Hannah Laing notched a hit, as well as Eliza Rose and Peggy Gou but they were also vocalists too. Also for nonbinary acts, I think sorting them into their "biological sex" is wrong and hurtful, I'm sorry but respecting a persons view of themselves is more important than trying to neatly divide every1 into a neat little binary for a fun pop music game, some nonbinary people do also identify themselves with their assigned sex at birth, but that's not universal
September 30, 20231 yr Well I would say it depends what you are rating- if you're rating their output since 2016 then fine- otherwise save your votes for the group rate- of course you could like both but I would rate accordingly That makes sense! I suppose it also applies to Years & Years, I can’t think of any other act like that though.
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