Generic fluff which I guess I slightly enjoyed at the time, (least of all for the J-Lo esque "Afreeka" shout outs) but it's not something that leaves any kind of lasting impression.

3 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Yeah this is crap, a little better than The Club Is Alive, but not by much and just felt like a desperate attempt to copy the in sound to get an easy hit, right down to reeling off the countries and cities like Jade mentions.

I'm realising how most of their singles were really trend chasing to what was around at the time. I wonder what their stuff would sound like if they'd been active from 2013-2016? UK house music influenced maybe? Or would they have released more stuff like the singles from their debut album that at least felt a little more natural than what followed.

I don't think it's a great look to have no individuality and just copy whatever is popular at the time. Having said that I did like some their songs that didn't get to No.1 like One Shot and particularly Eyes Wide Shut, although granted the latter was just copying Calvin Harris' I'm Not Alone synth, but somehow it felt warmer and more authentic than these naff songs about the club that they kept coming out with. These are the kinds of songs that made me so tired of the club banger era when it was happening in real time. I look back on it more fondly now by only listening to the good singles to come out of the era/movement, and not this kind of stuff.

Love that auction factoid though @Paddington James lol. The fact that RedOne was auctioning off his services at all is brilliant, imagine if Adele had won

Thanks @gooddelta. An Adele/RedOne collaboration would've had potential.

Imagine if it was Susan Boyle!

Though if it was going to go to any other SyCo act then I'd have loved it to have gone to Leona Lewis.

Not the most memorable of JLS singles, I can’t argue with it being so low

'She Makes Me Wanna' I prefer to JLS's earlier more traditional boyband stuff like 'Everybody In Love' and definitely prefer it to 'The Club Is Alive'.

I agree with Gooddelta though that 'Eyes Wide Shut' is a better song though with its trance influenced synth riff, which yes Calvin's I'm Not Alone made more popular again.

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An awful JLS song. No change there then.

3 hours ago, Jaz13music said:

Not the most memorable of JLS singles, I can’t argue with it being so low

How many memorable singles do they have?

Am I the only one that absolutely loves 'She Makes Me Wanna' then? It my fave JLS single oops

Another meh song from JLS though it is at least better than 'The Club Is Alive' and a couple of others from them.

21 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

How many memorable singles do they have?

Fair point!

She make me wanna (turn this song off every time I hear it ) definitely on the weaker end of the JLS discography so deserves to be low

The JLS song is not bad either, but I like most of the #1's from 2011. Beside the obvious X-Factor maltreatment, there are only a very few I can't stand, particularlythe songs from CL and MW, which would follow for me after the X-Factor Finalists.

Just an observation as I have listened to the #1's chronologically - the #1's from the first half of the year were much stronger on average than the #1's from the second half of the year.

44 minutes ago, DaTilt said:

The JLS song is not bad either, but I like most of the #1's from 2011. Beside the obvious X-Factor maltreatment, there are only a very few I can't stand, particularlythe songs from CL and MW, which would follow for me after the X-Factor Finalists.

Just an observation as I have listened to the #1's chronologically - the #1's from the first half of the year were much stronger on average than the #1's from the second half of the year.

One thing I noticed was that there was certainly or more rapid turnover of #1’s in the second half of the year compared to the first half.

42 minutes ago, Paddington James said:

One thing I noticed was that there was certainly or more rapid turnover of #1’s in the second half of the year compared to the first half.

Probably in no small part caused by all the #1s ahead of 'Moves Like Jagger' 😆

11 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

Probably in no small part caused by all the #1s ahead of 'Moves Like Jagger' 😆

7 weeks at #2 wasn’t it?

Q3/Q4 big comebacks/album campaign launches and X Factor season tended to boost the turnover of No.1s in the latter half of the year I suppose, and often not the quality of them if they were associated with the show beyond just being a guest performance.

Yeah, seven weeks for Moves Like Jagger, it was tremendously unlucky to get stuck behind all those different individual songs, often a long-running No.2 is marooned behind a bigger No.1, but that wasn't the case at all. Shame as it was my favourite song of that year and some of the stuff that beat it is pure crap.

9 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Q3/Q4 big comebacks/album campaign launches and X Factor season tended to boost the turnover of No.1s in the latter half of the year I suppose, and often not the quality of them if they were associated with the show beyond just being a guest performance.

Yeah, seven weeks for Moves Like Jagger, it was tremendously unlucky to get stuck behind all those different individual songs, often a long-running No.2 is marooned behind a bigger No.1, but that wasn't the case at all. Shame as it was my favourite song of that year and some of the stuff that beat it is pure crap.

I hadn’t thought of The X Factor having an impact like that, but I guess you’re right. The same goes for what you said about all the big albums and comebacks launching in the latter stages of the year.

I agree now, though Moves Like Jagger annoyed me at the time as it was everywhere. Saying that though I didn’t mind when over songs were everywhere.

#28 dropping soon. Will it be another boy band or something different?

28 – Don’t Go – Wretch 32 ft John Kumra

1 Week at #1 / Weekly Sales – 76,495

#73 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 282,900

After back-to-back boy band singles in the countdown we move on to an artist who is claiming their first #1. Don’t Go served as the third single from the major label debut album of British Hip-Hop/RnB singer. It was Wretch 32’s first #1 single and third consecutive top 5 hit for 2011. It debuted atop the UK Singles Chart on August 27^th selling 76,495 copies. That week the whole top 3 were new entries on the Singles Chart with Scottish singer Emeli Sande debuting at #2 with her debut solo single Heaven selling 63,659, falling just over 10,000 copies short of #1. And debuting at #3 was what would go on to become one of the biggest sellers of the year despite never reaching #1. It is Maroon 5 ft Christina Aguleria with Moves Like Jagger, which sold 55,845 copies. Josh Kumra provided vocals on the chorus and it to this day remains his only credited appearance on the official singles chart.

When I put this playlist of songs together I realised I had the wrong ‘Don’t Go’, I’d initially put the 2021 song of the same name by D-Block Europe and Wretch 32 on my playlist before I realised I’d got the wrong song. I enjoyed the correct song a fair bit on my first listen and initially had it placed a little higher, but it’s one that I grew tired of the more I’d heard it unfortunately.

Wrong order in the top three that week for me. Although I recall Moves Like Jagger starting out as something of a surprise major hit as neither Maroon 5 or Christina were exactly highly relevant at the time.

Don't Go I find pretty bland and boring, I preferred both Traktor and Unorthodox from earlier in the year. Heaven was a brilliant track from Emeli Sandé too.

3 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Wrong order in the top three that week for me. Although I recall Moves Like Jagger starting out as something of a surprise major hit as neither Maroon 5 or Christina were exactly highly relevant at the time.

Don't Go I find pretty bland and boring, I preferred both Traktor and Unorthodox from earlier in the year. Heaven was a brilliant track from Emeli Sandé too.

I absolutely loved Heaven and Emeli Sande too. Our Version Events was a brilliant album.

Heaven and Next To Me both deserved to go to #1.