That very Cascada 2000s Clubland style chorus and production! Didn't like it much at the time but do now!

Is it better than Green Light - yes!

The refrain part of "Good Times" is very good, but you need a version without no flow Roll Deep to be decent - with him this is not in my top 25. They should have write some verses for Jodie and kick out Roll Deep and it's a BOP.

"If This Ain't Love" is one of the better number ones of 2010 and would also be in my top 10.

As all my bottom songs are now revealed, here are my places 26 - 34 (I don't count the two in which are carried forward from 2009):

Unlistenable

34 The X Factor Finalists 2010 – Heroes

33 Matt Cardle - When We Collide

32 Roll Deep - Green Light

31 Shout For England & Dizzee - Shout

30 Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)

29 JLS - The Club Is Alive

Not good

28 Helping Haiti - Everybody Hurts

27 Roll Deep Feat. Jodie Connor - Good Times

26 Usher & Will.I.Am - OMG

I enjoyed it for like 5 minutes at the time as like a pre-going out anthem, but it's not really something I've really bothered or even thought about since.

That's also a really swift descent down the chart for 3 weeks at number one!

I barely like anything revealed so far 😕 What a bad year for #1s after I enjoyed quite a few in the 2009 thread. Diana Vickers is probably my favourite so far. We No Speak Americano is okay as well, but listened to it when you revealed it and it’s more basic than I remember.

Don't mind that but prefer 'Green Light' as generic as that is.

Jodie Connor's only other low top 40 hit 'Bring It' is even more 00s Clubland sounding.

Edited Saturday at 19:124 days by TheSnake

'Good Times' won BJSC, how?

I agree I much prefer Good Times over Green Light, but even now it seems surprising it made 3 weeks at number one

3 hours ago, dandy* said:

I barely like anything revealed so far 😕 What a bad year for #1s after I enjoyed quite a few in the 2009 thread. Diana Vickers is probably my favourite so far. We No Speak Americano is okay as well, but listened to it when you revealed it and it’s more basic than I remember.

I am completely buoyed up by a lot of nostalgia when writing this thread, that's probably the main reason I'm so positive, having fun listening to all these songs that I've had for the most part no real reason to listen to for years and with mostly positive memories associated. Though I'm still finding ways to work in subtle digs even this far into my top 10 though which sorta shows, it was a weird year with a lot of questionable #1s.

Plenty to write about that way of course.

3 hours ago, Mack. said:

'Good Times' won BJSC, how?

That was BJSC 25, with the barest conception of a veto and while I wasn't around on the site then to take part, seems like some participants were selecting songs that were getting promoted ahead of a big UK release. Case in point, 'Stereo Love' was also in that contest. That of course was a wonderful 2010 hit that I haven't had a chance to mention as it only peaked at #4, in 'Good Times' 3rd week as it happens, and it sold more than a decent number of the #1s in this thread. Point to be made, had a song as good as 'Stereo Love' got to #1 it'd easily slot into my top 3.

I guess it’s quite telling and representative of 2010 that we’re still getting divisive #1s at this stage of the countdown.

“Written In The Stars” is my favourite of 8-6: the anthemic chorus does a lot of the heavy lifting but the rest is good too.

I do think Scouting For Girls are very over-hated on here so I’m glad you’re re-dressing that balance. I think I prefer their earlier singles though - this is pleasant but veering towards bland.

“Good Times” I never really got into at the time though I did download “Green Light” for some reason. I agree now “Good Times” is much better and I get that it has a real energy to it, but I do still think it’s quite naff and I’ll be surprised if I come back to it (until I cover 2010 in my hit reviews maybe).

I still prefer Green Light myself, but really enjoyed both of these Roll Deep songs, good clubby fluff with fun raps and a catchy and melodic chorus, sometimes it was all I needed. I can't recall without checking but feel like it lucked out on fairly low sales weeks during its time at No.1, certainly past the first week and looking at its EOY position? So maybe a run of 1-2-3-3-9 etc would have been more expected for it in a more competitive time.

I don't like Scouting For Girls at all, with only two exceptions - the album track Michaela Strachan, which was just a very funny/unexpected subject to write a song about, and this song, which I charted for a few weeks, quite low down but I was relatively pleasantly surprised by it at the time. I never thought of it as rock particularly but guess it ticks the guitar band box in a way we haven't really seen much since the 00s. The lower peaking songs from their debut album are definitely better remembered though.

28 minutes ago, Iz様 🌟 said:

That was BJSC 25, with the barest conception of a veto and while I wasn't around on the site then to take part, seems like some participants were selecting songs that were getting promoted ahead of a big UK release. Case in point, 'Stereo Love' was also in that contest. That of course was a wonderful 2010 hit that I haven't had a chance to mention as it only peaked at #4, in 'Good Times' 3rd week as it happens, and it sold more than a decent number of the #1s in this thread. Point to be made, had a song as good as 'Stereo Love' got to #1 it'd easily slot into my top 3.

Exactly this. The amount of winners in those early few years before proper veto rules were introduced that were already high in rotation on the radio/music channels and clearly on the way to smashing was frustrating when very often some really inspired songs ended up 2nd or 3rd behind this stuff.

I was a BJSC mod in those years but the concept of vetoing stuff was wildly unpopular so we could only take it so far with various measures that let plenty of songs slip through the net. Granted some of the measures we came up (like the Banlist) are laughable looking back, but efforts were certainly made to try and make the contest more inspired in those years.

I've still not got over coming 2nd to Alphabeat's The Spell with one of my favourite ever songs, Music Everywhere by Anna Abreu. Even if it's been 84 (well, 17) years! Like, imagine nowadays not vetoing the lead single from one of the forum's favourite bands in their previous era.

Edited Saturday at 22:294 days by gooddelta

This I believe was played a lot on Radio 1, made it to the A-List, after five years after a #11 hit and 'Shake A Leg' this was quite a shock this getting to #1.

Bops along nicely, good production but the song, such as it is, had made no long-term impression on my declining numbers of brain cells. I am enjoying playing it again though, and it seems quite good natured, I can understand and hear every word (hooray!) and the upbeat nature of the track is quite refreshing in the current musical chart climate. So. What did I make of it at the time? Number 39 peak, so I liked it then too, but the 5-week chart run explains why it didn't hit my long-term memory - 3 weeks while on top of the charts and then plays must have dried up as per the odd chart run!

This is another one I've actually never heard. I really am going to need to brush up on my 2010 #1's aren't I?

'Written In The Stars' I like, possibly even more than Tinie's signature hit to come - the chorus elevates it, especially when the guitar echoes Eric's vocal line later on.

For all the questionable lyrical premise, I do still enjoy 'She's So Lovely' and some of the soundalike hits Scouting For Girls had from their self-titled album, but their comeback felt too plodding while still a bit lumpen lyrically for me. It still felt like a surprise #1 as they didn't strike me as much of a fanbase act, though I'm not sure I'd think of it as any more rock than Coldplay's 'Paradise' which I'd rather hold up as a last hurrah for guitar-grounded music as a chart topping force.

"We're gonna have a real good tiiime!" - yeah I don't have the nostalgia factor for 2010 and possibly preferred the 2005 hitmaking variety of Roll Deep, but can certainly see the appeal here. I suppose 'Break Your Heart' was a similarly surprising 3-week #1 in 2009.

5. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance

2 weeks at #1 (entered 1^st November 2009, #1 on non-consecutive weeks beginning 13^th December 2009 and 3^rd January 2010): 14-10-11-08-05-03-01-03-03-01-04-07-09-12-16-20-15-20-24-24-21-27-24-25-35-40-32-41-39-47-58-44-47-52-53-55-59-58-59-63-62-69-59-60-55-70-69-83-76-85-88-88-94-97-x-x-x-x-x-100-95-82

Kept off #1: None in 2010

2009 EOY #17, 2010 EOY #30

How to deal with ‘Bad Romance’ potentially winning something else? It was just last month that the beautiful and incredible Lady Gaga track ranked at the top of Jim’s 2009 thread. I have taken part in and hosted numerous competitions across Buzzjack over the years where this song has stormed to victory in whatever we were ranking at the time. It is unquestionably one of the most beloved tracks of this time period, and it has grown on me with age. It even has some of the best case of any number one to be included in two consecutive years, as its two stints at #1 were not in any kind of overlapping week where there is debate about chart dates, they were two discrete weeks, fully in 2009 and 2010.

Could it have won two of these threads in a row if a different set of posters were choosing the ranks? Absolutely, I won’t pre-empt everyone else’s rankings but given how divisive many of the entrants on this list are and how beloved 'Bad Romance' is it might well be #1 in a few of them. Not in mine though.

Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to rank this according to my own enjoyment of the songs here, and while there is an urge to be contrarian about this, this is where I’d rank the song as fairly as I can. Early drafts of my ranking had ‘Good Times’ ahead of it but I decided the uproarious instrumentals on ‘Bad Romance’ were superior, from the moment the song starts, I think everyone can see there is something quite special here. The four songs ahead of this I love a bit more for different reasons, and as wonderful as Gaga’s turn is here, it’s not quite enough to win. Though please don't take this as any kind of disservice, it is a brilliant song, so let's get into that.

‘Bad Romance’ doesn’t really need much introduction, as the song that cemented Gaga’s position as a formidable popstar and artist, the lead from her EP/expansion album The Fame Monster, which capitalised perfectly on her breakout year throughout late 2008 and 2009, keeping the hits coming and showing that when it came to making a full package of a pop song, she had all of that expertise and more, an attention-grabbing video featuring several iconic looks and dance moves, this is the perfect pop song for all who celebrate such things. It's the ideal of such, the heavy dark instrumental, Gaga singing energetically on top of it, the atmosphere surrounding it, little wonder that it's sold so much, that it kept not just Gaga, but RedOne, the producer, in work for a long time after. Much of what he got up to in 2010 was recreating this moment with other artists to varying degrees of success, I'd say at least Nicole Scherzinger's 'Poison', which I also really loved at the time is taking some cues here, if not his work with Enrique Iglesias, Usher, Alexandra Burke and others. Which isn't to say this is a typical RedOne production, it's not, there's a lot of work being done here, mostly by Gaga, to elevate it above the production and she does that brilliantly. Lyrics.

I've been watching old films and I've just got to mid-50s Hitchcock, Rear Window is a fantastic film and Vertigo and Psycho will be up on my list soon, while the one I've seen just seems to be an innuendo in the song, I'm familiar already with the horror and bad romances common to Hitchcock films, shame Dial M For Murder doesn't fit neatly as a lyric here. Love a good lyrical reference but really the main lyrics that have stood out to me in this song in the past have been Gaga's sound effects, those glorious chants of her name are probably a lot of what cemented her identity as a popstar. Then her soaring on the chorus and the bridge, repeating 'I want your love and I want your revenge' in English and French as the music builds is just a beautiful touch before it all crashes down into the chorus.

A big seller across both years and one of the songs at the top as the year opened, I do love it, I do. It is my most played Gaga track and indeed the top 3 are the 3 main singles from The Fame Monster, with the wonderful 'Shallow' just about to overtake 'Telephone', with my playcount density decreasing over the years I'd say that means it's between this and 'Shallow' for my ultimate favourite. As I said with 'Telephone', I'm not a fan in that I've never been devoted to Gaga, just I view her as a purveyor of mostly high quality pop music, nor have I ever been so excited by one of her songs, except possibly 'Shallow', that it really hit me. 'Bad Romance' has however come very close to doing that on a number of occasions and is undoubtedly one of her best tracks.

3 hours ago, jimwatts said:

'Written In The Stars' I like, possibly even more than Tinie's signature hit to come - the chorus elevates it, especially when the guitar echoes Eric's vocal line later on.

For all the questionable lyrical premise, I do still enjoy 'She's So Lovely' and some of the soundalike hits Scouting For Girls had from their self-titled album, but their comeback felt too plodding while still a bit lumpen lyrically for me. It still felt like a surprise #1 as they didn't strike me as much of a fanbase act, though I'm not sure I'd think of it as any more rock than Coldplay's 'Paradise' which I'd rather hold up as a last hurrah for guitar-grounded music as a chart topping force.

"We're gonna have a real good tiiime!" - yeah I don't have the nostalgia factor for 2010 and possibly preferred the 2005 hitmaking variety of Roll Deep, but can certainly see the appeal here. I suppose 'Break Your Heart' was a similarly surprising 3-week #1 in 2009.

'Paradise' is certainly an acceptable one to class as a rock song, I also considered 'We Are Young', 'Counting Stars', 'Somebody That I Used To Know', 'good 4 U', 'Too Sweet' as others, even if you were to exclude solo singers for 'the last rock band' you have a few pop rock bands, and SFG aren't too different from these, though part of a slightly different musical moment. End of the British indie landfill for sure.

16 hours ago, gooddelta said:

I still prefer Green Light myself, but really enjoyed both of these Roll Deep songs, good clubby fluff with fun raps and a catchy and melodic chorus, sometimes it was all I needed. I can't recall without checking but feel like it lucked out on fairly low sales weeks during its time at No.1, certainly past the first week and looking at its EOY position? So maybe a run of 1-2-3-3-9 etc would have been more expected for it in a more competitive time.

I don't like Scouting For Girls at all, with only two exceptions - the album track Michaela Strachan, which was just a very funny/unexpected subject to write a song about, and this song, which I charted for a few weeks, quite low down but I was relatively pleasantly surprised by it at the time. I never thought of it as rock particularly but guess it ticks the guitar band box in a way we haven't really seen much since the 00s. The lower peaking songs from their debut album are definitely better remembered though.

Indeed, 'Good Times' in the second and third weeks had super low sales, 'Ridin' Solo' at #2 on the third week was one of the lowest sales for a #2 all year, it'd be nearly double that for 'Wavin' Flag' a month later. Guess it was indeed more a case of nothing very big at all getting released that May.

'Good Times' feels like quite a sellout moment from all involved but I still have a bit of a nostalgic soft spot for it. That euphoric chorus is a perfect 'recession pop' time capsule. I still vividly remember my dad asking me what the "champagne popping, high street boppin song" is (as he'd seen it performed on a TV show) and having no clue what he was on about, until it was suddenly everywhere my peers went nuts for it at school.

Not much to add on 'Bad Romance' that I didn't already say in Jim's thread but I'm glad it made your top 5 at least. My #1 prediction for you is still standing!