Westlife released their 12th single in May 2002. After 10 #1s and a #2, #5 for this was quite the underperformance.

 

10th: Westlife - Bop Bop Baby 11/36 votes (31%)

50 Cent and Mobb Deep again!

I listened to 'Outta Control' yesterday for this rate, and I still can't remember how it goes :lol: it wasn't as meh as the Gareth Gates song though.

Gareth Gates - Say It Isn’t So

switching to Gareth now

Gareth

 

I'd probably normally going for 50 C*nt, but this is about the only one of his I actually like.

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Gareth. A very tired sounding and formulaic song considering how pop had moved on by Christmas 2003. Look at the other ballads and slower songs around it in the chart that month - Leave Right Now, Too Lost In You, Mad World, The Closest Thing To Crazy, Not Me, Not I (:ph34r:) and it just sounded like a relic from the bubblegum boyband era.

Gareth. A very tired sounding and formulaic song considering how pop had moved on by Christmas 2003. Look at the other ballads and slower songs around it in the chart that month - Leave Right Now, Too Lost In You, Mad World, The Closest Thing To Crazy, Not Me, Not I (:ph34r:) and it just sounded like a relic from the bubblegum boyband era.

 

Especially as he'd just made quite a leap forward soundwise with 'Sunshine' too!

 

50 Cent

Outta Control

It's the infamous M-O-B-B to go this time with 50 Cent.

Gareth.

50 cent is invariably the one to go for in these, for me. Fiddie rarely got me in a groove! Westlife was their best record to date, and very much not the worst track on this list, lyrics or not. I saw it as a badge of honor that the more I liked a Westlife track the less well it did commercially.. :teresa:

50 Cent

50 Cent