2. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 1456pts

Writers - Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson

Top scores - AaronTM 50, Alex! 49, DaTilt 49, Jason 49, musicfan97 49

Low scores - gasman449 8, King Rollo 9, JackJones 15

Average score - 33.9

Back To Black finishes just five points above 'Smooth Criminal'. Released in 2007, it only got to number 25. It reached its peak position of number 8 in 2011 following Amy Winehouse's death and was her third top 10 single.

1. Robyn - Dancing On My Own 1526pts

Writers - Robyn, Patrik Berger

Top scores - Liamski689 50, dandy* 50, chrissmith276 50

Low scores - Scone1 12, Popchartfreak 13, Bror 16

Average score - 35.5

Dancing On My Own is Buzzjack's favourite UK number 8 single, finishing 70 points ahead of 'Back To Black'. Robyn is the first solo artist to win one of these polls since Madonna won the number 1 single poll with 'Like A Prayer'. 20 voters out of 43 put the song in their top 10 while no one put it in their bottom 10. Released in 2010, the song was Robyn's fourth top 10 hit. A cover version by Calum Scott reached number 2 in 2016. It's a double celebration for Robyn this evening as she also has her first top 10 album with 'Sexistential'.

Shame Amy missed out but runner up is an excellent result. A fitting tribute in the 15th year since she left a great legacy of work.

Thanks to everyone who voted and commented on the results. Here's a recap of the top 50:

1. Robyn - Dancing On My Own

2. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black

3. Michael Jackson – Smooth Criminal

4. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Enola Gay

5. Linkin Park – In the End

6. Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends

7. The Beatles - Yesterday

8. Rufus and Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody

9. Mary J Blige - Family Affair

10. Visage - Fade To Grey

11. Pet Shop Boys – Suburbia

12. Oasis - Live Forever

13. Avril Lavigne – Sk8er Boi

14. Pet Shop Boys - Rent

15. Pink - Try

16. Eurythmics – Here Comes The Rain Again

17. Depeche Mode – Just Can't Get Enough

18. The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On

19. The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up

20. Eagles - Hotel California

21. The Smiths – This Charming Man

22. Muse – Time Is Running Out

23. Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam

24. Katrina and the Waves - Walking On Sunshine

25. Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

26. Bananarama – Cruel Summer

27. Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

28. Black - Wonderful Life

29. Blink 182 - I Miss You

30. Bananarama – Venus

31. Lady Gaga - Judas

32. The Veronicas – Untouched

33. McAlmont & Butler - Yes

34. Radiohead – Karma Police

35. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing

36. Sister Sledge - We Are Family

37. Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You

38. Arctic Monkeys – Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

39. Len - Steal My Sunshine

40. The Beloved – Sweet Harmony

41. Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - The Message

42. Kelly Clarkson – Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

43. Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town

44. Shocking Blue – Venus

45. Kygo featuring Conrad Sewell - Firestone

46. XTM & DJ Chucky presents Annia - Fly On The Wings Of Love

47. Nero - Guilt

48. Evanescence – Going Under

49. Plastic Bertrand – Ça Plane Pour Moi

50. The Stone Roses - Fools Gold / What The World Is Waiting For

Fair enough at Robyn winning, it's a very good pop song. Back To Black ended up low in my ranking but I don't mind it too much, wouldn't have had it as a winner though. Thanks for hosting Rollo, it's been fun!

I'm happy with the winner, but both are still great so I wouldn't have minded really either way!

'Dancing On My Own' has really taken on a whole life of its own since its release, when it was first out it seemed like one of those typical top 10 hits that fell away quickly in that era.

Thanks for running this Rollo, great as ever :)

See you all in ‘27 for #9 heaven!

Thank you Rollo for hosting and the great presentation of the results.

I wished Amy would have won as "Back To Black" is one of the greatest songs of all time. The Robyn song is fine, but not among my biggest favourites from the list.

Tomorrow, I'll reveal which songs scored the most points in the first round and the two semi-finals.

Thanks for all your hard work Rollo, as always I really enjoyed the whole project. Fantastic!

would of preferred Amy but fantastic top 2 either way

Thanks as ever Rollo! I hadn’t clocked that we’d had 6 group winners in a row actually, so definitely nice to have a solo artist and the first winner from the 2010s. I still wonder if there’ll ever be a winner from before I was born but I’ll look forward to it whatever.

Was really rooting for Amy to pull it out there but not surprising (and I see it wasn't even close) that Robyn took it given the song's previous successes in Record of the Decade and whatnot - I do like 'Dancing On My Own' but unfortunately I think my enjoyment of it has been permanently stunted a little by the existence of the horrible and unavoidable Calum Scott cover (not her fault but it is what it is). So again not surprised to see my name being among its lowest scores.

The rest of the top 5 all ranked very highly for me though so no further complaints! Thanks for running this once again Rollo x

On 16/03/2026 at 18:27, dandy* said:

I shall be awaiting a Robyn victory.

And if something else wins then I’ll be editing Rollo’s posts with the correct result.

Glad to see I didn’t have to edit the results after all 🤩

Thanks for hosting, this has been really fun!

Thank you for this, fascinating

Absolutely love Back To Black. A shame it missed #1 but #2 here is still very good.

'Back to Black' is such a haunting song. I've been revisiting the album in general recently after Mark Ronson's BRITs medley reminded me how strong a body of work they created together. 'Dancing On My Own' has really crept up on me over the years; Robyn has a knack for a synthy 'sad banger'. It feels like quite an influential record sonically with recent hits like 'Trustfall', 'we can't be friends (wait for your love)' and JADE's 'Plastic Box' adopting a similar sound. Agreed the less said about the Calum Scott cover the better though x

'Back to Black' was my preferred choice of the two but I only gave that six more points than 'Dancing On My Own' (+40 vs. +34) so still satisfied with that winner.

Thank you Rollo for a terrific job organising this and presenting the results as always!

These were the highest scoring songs in the first round:

1. 382 Dancing On My Own

2. 329 Back To Black

3. 301 Enola Gay

4. 287 In The End

5. 254 Rent

6. 252 Family Affair

7. 248 Padam Padam

8. 246 Smooth Criminal

9. 244 Live Forever

9. 244 Sk8er Boi

11. 243 Yes

12. 235 Smack My Bitch Up

13. 223 Ain't Nobody

14. 222 Yesterday

15. 197 Wake Me Up When September Ends

16. 187 Time Is Running Out

17. 185 Karma Police

18. 182 Sultans Of Swing

19. 175 Cruel Summer

20. 173 This Charming Man

The biggest gainers from this format are Rent (up from 14th to 5th), Padam Padam (23rd to 7th), Yes (33rd to 11th) and Karma Police (34th to 17th).

Going in the opposite direction are Smooth Criminal (3rd to 8th), Ain't Nobody (8th to 13th), Yesterday (7th to 14th) and Wake Me Up When September Ends (6th to 15th).

Great top 2, can't argue with that result.

Thanks for doing this Rollo!