I actually remember not really liking 'Poker Face' when I first heard it in late 2008 but fortunately it clicked with me big time shortly thereafter and has remained fantastic ever since which makes that initial reaction seem strange in hindsight. Pop banger and of course an iconic video from Gaga.

I absolutely love Poker Face, I can remember hearing it for the first time in August/September 2008 and being absolutely hooked.

Poker Face was initially my favourite Gaga, the earworm hooks the brilliant production the lyrics etc. However I eventually grew to love another even more …

Definitely the second best Gaga number of the year and would also be in my top 5.

I will always remember the chart show here when we realised at about number 4 or 5 that this was the climber at number 1!

Probably Poker Face would be my #1, but definitely among my Top 3. Such a great song.

I’m quite glad Poker Face is Gaga’s lowest song here. It’s good but it doesn’t sound as good anymore. I used to the Just Dance was average and Poker Fave was a massive step up but over the years my opinions on those songs have flipped completely!

Love Poker Face and Gaga was untouchable for 18 months - it just reminded me of / Ma Baker, Rasputin a bit - but she was banging out the number ones for me from Just Dance onwards and this would def be top 5 for me too, possibly even my fave of the lot as it's still mesmeric! Still fresh for me.

Bonkers still slaps today it deserves to be high

Im not alone on the other hand is naff should be lower

I got a feeling is definitely the best of the 3 BEP songs of the year deserves a high placing

4 David Guetta feat. Akon - Sexy Chick

1 week in August 2009: 21-{1}-2-3-2-2-2-3-5-10-13-18-24-31-36-35-43-47-59-52-33-45-54-65-68-73->26

Kept off #1: none

#12 in EOY 2009

Around the time of David Guetta's first UK #1, Senegalese-American singer Akon, who had previously had #1s in 2005 and 2006, approached him about working together. The resulting song, 'Sexy Bitch', was also recorded in the less explicit version 'Sexy Chick' which is how the song is recorded in the UK chart database, and is also the version I've rated here (whereas I've heard the 'Sexy Bitch' version maybe twice). It was another rush-release to combat copycat versions, but jumped to #1 on its first full week on a sale of 55k. The pair would collaborate again on 2012 #6 'Play Hard', which has remained as Akon's last UK chart hit.

It's quite a coincidence that my two favourite Guetta songs have "Chick" in the title (the other being Rihanna collab 'Who's That Chick?'), as the lyrics aren't a highlight of this one - the rewrite from the "Bitch" version removed the most jarring element by removing the rhyme with "before", but it's still fairly unoriginal in its infatuation of the woman in question. However the song's here because Guetta had found the most infectious riff to set up the bridge, for which Akon's trebly vocals are the perfect fit to lift the song to another level, and then Guetta shifts the riff slightly off the beat to give it that extra bounce. It's another one that would be ideal for jumping around in a giant tent - or alongside and into a pool in the case of the video - but it's a summery boost of energy for many a setting.

I alternately despised some Akon songs and really liked others - this is in the latter category. The other is the superb Sweet Escape.

I definitely prefer "When Love Takes Over" over "Sexy Chick".

Oh afraid I cannot stand 'Sexy Chick' in the slightest, had forgotten it was still in but outside of nostalgia it's really naff. 'I Gotta Feeling' also in a way but there I can at least appreciate the anthemic moments back then of it appearing on the dancefloor. Though that said all of these are dancefloor classics in the... right frame of mind. Just I'd be gritting my teeth and pretending to like Guetta.

Poker Face and I'm Not Alone have aged really gracefully in comparison though, wouldn't have particularly noted either in the past but they are really well put together as songs and are very fun #1s to listen to casually.

I do quite love this, it's definitely naff compared to 'When Love Takes Over' and with highly misogynistic lyrics (as was par for the course back then) but still an absolute banger.

I feel like it was this song that started off the trend we'd go on to see with all of Flo Rida and Pitbull's (etc) EDM songs in the years that followed.

I'm Not Alone is so good, I think I love it even more now than I did then (and I liked it a lot then). Such warm synths and Calvin sounds really good on it, that style of dance was also a breath of fresh air for the charts and the top spot.

I've become a bit desensitised to I Gotta Feeling over the years, can't deny what a banger it is though and I loved it at the time, but I cannot go anywhere without hearing it, even 17 years on. I suppose it pretty much is THE definitive party anthem of the last 20 years.

Poker Face <3 I did like Just Dance but it peaked at something like No.7 in my chart, this was where my Gaga love really began, such a great track, although it sounds quite primitive these days in comparison to some of the productions she has had since. Despite that it's still hugely enjoyable.

Sexy Chick is catchy but I definitely never seek it out to listen to. A very corny number that hasn't aged too well lyrically.

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I do like 'Sexy Chick' but it's never been more than like a 6/10 so would be lower down for me.

Both #5 and #4 are very much late 00s records. I don’t think they’re as ageless as some other songs here, but both very much bangers. Not sure which of “Just Dance” and “Poker Face” I prefer these days but I was always more of a “Paparazzi” girl.

I absolutely detested Sexy Chick back in 2009, it just wasn’t my thing and it was everywhere.

Sexy Chick, I welcomed the title change, and enjoyed it, but not as much as When Love Takes Over, and very much not in the same league as 2011 era classics from Guetta. It would be lower down the list for me, and Akon is sometimes decent and sometimes not so much, his current collab with Simien (Sugar) is his best feature in years. Well worth a listen.

3 Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis - Just Dance

3 weeks in January 2009: 3-{1}-1-1-2-2-2-2-6-8-11-12-13-13-15-18-19-22-24-25-32-35-41-46-45-51-51-46-44-46-48-50-55-62-67-74-75R(3)-67R(13)-54-72-62R(6)-74->42

Kept off #1: James Morrison feat. Nelly Furtado - Broken Strings; Kid Cudi vs. Crookers - Day 'N' Nite

#3 in EOY 2009

The first I heard of Lady Gaga was when this crashed in at #3 at the start of 2009, to make her UK chart debut at the age of 22. She had written it reportedly in 10 minutes with producer RedOne, and completed it with Akon (him again) who provides backing vocals, and whose verse in the final version was delivered by Akon's protégé Colby O'Donis. It jumped to #1 the next week with 65k to keep it ahead of James Morrison's duet with Nelly Furtado, and stayed for 2 more weeks with an improved 77k and 74k, which was required to hold off Kid Cudi's 72k opening on the first of those 2 weeks as runner up, so becoming the only song of 2009 to keep two others to a #2 peak. Of the two songs, the first is one of James Morrison's best but still merely OK for me, and I did enjoy 'Day 'N' Nite' at the time, but it doesn't hold a candle to the song that was above it.

This made an instant impression, for the synth pop sound and for Gaga herself who exudes confidence throughout - as backed up by the video she was a naturally charismatic performer with those hand over eye moves and all. A few weeks later I heard it while in the car and really noticed the off-the-beat bassline (that Cascada's 'Evacuate The Dancefloor' later appeared to copy) that gives it an almost casual bounce, and knew it would become one of my songs of the year. I've seen numerous reasons given by bigger Gaga fans than myself in dismissing it - it was written quickly, apparently for The Pussycat Dolls, it has the "featuring" credit, an obligatory "RedOne" shoutout, and Akon's there too with his "Konvict", the lyrics cover generic ground of being in a "clurrrb" and getting drunk, the video isn't the most polished, etc. - but none of those affect my enjoyment of it for what it is, rather than too much of a statement on the artist Gaga would become. The verses have a carefree feel ("I love this record baby" plays in my head any time someone refers to a song as a "record", similarly with "where are my keys, I lost my phone"), carried by some great synth melodies, then there's the chorus - so irresistible, it got a video game series named after it. As for the other voices, Colby's verse doesn't add a great deal, although along with Akon he helps build the song up for Gaga to steal the show with some big notes late on, but not before the wonderfully quirky "half psychotic, sick, hypnotic" middle eight bit that gives a glimpse of what was to come from her.

This remained my favourite song of 2009 throughout the year, and even up to the point when I found out I'd be doing this rate, I'd have said it still was, as well as my favourite Gaga song - however a few relistens have moved a certain other song in both categories ahead. Yet there is still a certain #25 hit from 1993 that made its way into this countdown too... so which has come out on top? Both songs will appear tomorrow!

"Just Dance" would be also my #3 - such a great song!!!