That is a impressive chart run for a song to only be in the top 40 for 5 weeks and with a low peak like that!

Amazed so many recognised that Snoop song, never ever heard, amazed it's so popular

It's one of those songs that's way more popular than its chart position suggests, in the UK at least

Amazed so many recognised that Snoop song, never ever heard, amazed it's so popular

I don't recognise it at all even now the answer is there!

The Snoop one wasn't an immediate for me either tbf. Thought it was Pharell track for sure but not necessarily Snoop lol.

To be fair, I thought it sounded like Pharrell too and even searched him on Apple Music... and looking just now I see that Beautiful was actually the seventh result in the search so I actually probably listened to the intro and still didn't connect it :ph34r:

Two with 11/20 correct answers coming now:

 

Number 5: P!nk - Funhouse

 

25/07/2009 Pink Funhouse 29 73-54-43-{29}-35-43-51-72->8

 

 

This slightly funky and rocky pop number was the 4th single from P!nk's very successful album of the same name. Its release so deep into the album likely explains its low peak. The song frankly discusses her separation from Carey Hart, and there's a fun video with a burning house and evil clowns.

 

4 points:

uptempo_owww!, Mangø, chrissmith276, Bjork, dandy*, Roba., LewisGT, Riser, conorw, Rush, Sarah

Edited November 23, 20231 yr by JulianT

Number 17: Kylie Minogue - Dancing

 

03/02/2018 Kylie Minogue Dancing 38 47-50R(5)-61-{38}R(5)-73->5

 

 

This was the lead single from her 14th studio album "Golden". I wasn't on Buzzjack in 2018 but I imagine the forum quite enjoyed this, and it was her last Top 40 hit for 5 years. I'm sure many expected it to be her last Top 40 ever, let alone conceiving that she might return to the Top 10 in 2023.

 

4 points:

uptempo_owww!, DalekTurret32, Danvember, Mangø, chrissmith276, Bjork, dandy*, Roba., LewisGT, jimwatts, Sarah

 

Funhouse is my favourite P!nk album and I've played that song a lot, so that was one of the easiest intros for me. And I don't think there's a Kylie single which I wouldn't get from the intro :D

Edited November 23, 20231 yr by Mangø

P!nk obviously a super easy one there :wub:

 

I did actually put down 'Stop Me From Fallin' to begin with but then realised it was clearly 'Dancing'. Phew

 

RE : 'Stop Me From Fallin' not 'Say Something' I mean lol (both weren't even top 40 hits either lmao)

funhouse is a tune! i loved stop me from falling from golden- that was one i listened to lots back then. wasnt too keen on golden so didnt recognise it

Pink and Kylie were easy

Next with 10/20 fully correct answers and 1 partially correct:

 

Number 18: Keith Urban And P!nk - One Too Many

 

03/10/2020 Keith Urban And Pink One Too Many 40 59-57R(2)-47-{40}-43-45-46-47-59->9

 

 

P!nk is back, but it's the only hit here for Australian American country singer Keith Urban. He also appeared on "That's When", a track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)". This was the most recent track in the quiz so a decent number of you recognised it even though it only scraped into the Top 40.

 

4 points:

DalekTurret32, Mangø, chrissmith276, Bjork, paulgilb, Riser, conorw, jimwatts, Rush, Sarah

 

3 points (missing P!nk):

LewisGT

Edited November 23, 20231 yr by JulianT

A few songs there which I do know (One Too Many, Break My Stride, Dancing) but which I wouldn't have remembered the intros for!

Also with 10/20 correct and 1 partially correct:

 

Number 7: Coldplay - Life In Technicolor II

 

07/02/2009 Coldplay Life In Technicolor II 28 68-{28}-43-74->4

 

 

This was a vocal version of the album track "Life In Technicolor" on "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends". It was released as a promotional CD single and first charted outside the Top 75 in December 2008, before getting a full release in February 2009. It was nominated for both Best Rock Performance and Best Video at the Grammys.

 

4 points:

DalekTurret32, Mangø, chrissmith276, Bjork, dandy*, Roba., LewisGT, Riser, jimwatts, rio309

 

2 points for correct artist:

uptempo_owww!

Edited November 24, 20231 yr by JulianT

Life in Technicolor II is a song I remember downloading when I was younger but couldn't remember how it went!

Three more coming with 10/20 correct:

 

Number 6: Steps - Scared Of The Dark

 

25/03/2017 Steps Scared Of The Dark 37 {37}-44R(6)->2

 

 

From their 5th studio album "Tears On The Dancefloor", this is their only Top 75 hit since 2001, and the best song of their mature career for me. It reached #37 thanks to going to #1 on iTunes back when that still counted for something,

 

4 points:

uptempo_owww!, Danvember, Mangø, chrissmith276, Bjork, Roba., LewisGT, jimwatts, Rush, Sarah

 

Ah, I thought that one sounded familiar! I had it down as 'recent disco-y song' but hadn't joined the dots to Steps.

Also guessed by 10/20:

 

10/02/1996 The Smashing Pumpkins 1979 16 {16}-32-55->3

 

Number 19: The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

 

10/02/1996 The Smashing Pumpkins 1979 16 {16}-32-55->3

 

 

This was the 2nd single from their 3rd studio album "Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness". It isn't their highest peaking song but it might well be their signature track, with more than 0.5 billion Spotify streams. It's about frontman Billy Corgan's transition into adolescence when he was 12 in 1979.

 

4 points:

DalekTurret32, Mangø, chrissmith276, Bjork, dandy*, King Rollo, Riser, jimwatts, Rush, ~1^∞

 

The more songs we get through, the more concerned I get that one of the songs I used to determine the wording for my theme guess was actually the red herring :lol: