'Heart Skips A Beat' would be in my top 10 I'd say. Catchy bop!

Heart Skips A Beat is pleasant enough but not outstanding. I just don’t think I ever really got Olly, he felt like a cut price Bruno Mars at times. I do think this is better than his other 2011 number one though, which I really don’t like.

Ahhh Polymers. I was trying to figure out who else had two number ones this year. I probably only really like a handful of his songs but this is by faaar his best for me!

Also my favourite Calvin track so that's an amazing top 2.

"Heart Skips A Bit" probably one of the 2011 #1's I listenmost too. Such a great song - easily in the top 5 for me.

Heart Skips A Beat would be easily in my top 10. Best thing he did besides Dear Darlin’

12 – No Regrets - Dappy

1 Week at #1 / Weekly Sales – 96,639

#64 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 311,600

Up now is Dappy, real name Costadinos Contostavlos,  who was one third of British Hip-Hop trio N-Dubz. No Regrets was released as the debut solo single in September where it flew into #1 in it’s first week on the chart selling 96.639 copies. Beating out other new releases for the week Jason Derulo’s It Girl (#4), James Morrison’s I Won’t Let Go (#5) and Nicola Roberts’s Luck Day (#40). No Regrets is also one of six songs that kept Maroon 5’s Moves Like Jagger at #2 for seven consecutive weeks. No Regrets was initially intended to be included on N-Dubz debut US album but that never materialised, the N-Dubz version did however find its way onto their greatest hits album which was released later in 2011 as well. It’s a song for me that feels very of it’s time so it’s easy to see why it got to #1. I found I quote from a Digital Spy review back in 2011 that made the comment “combined with an impressive vocal showing, gospel choir and that key change that could put an X Factor winner’s single to shame”. That struck me as it was exactly what I thought when I first heard this song.

This started off very low down for me but I found myself enjoying it more and more every time I listened to it and to my surprise it finished just outside my top 10.

Love that Nero managed to achieve a chart-topper! I remember being obsessed with 'Me & You' during early 2011; its instrumental was often used as a soundbed. 'Guilt' has actually emerged as my long-term favourite of theirs though and I rewarded it greatly in the recent #8 singles rate in the chart forum. 'Promises' doesn't have as striking an identity as those other two for me, but it's still another good example of its genre.

'Heart Skips A Beat' has held up as one of Olly's best songs for me! I particularly love the instrumental but the lyrics feel well-suited to him too and I can't help but stan "vibes keep going up and down like a see-saw, should've just taken her to the cinema to see Saw" from Rizzle Kicks' part they were replaced with Chiddy Bang for a U.S. push which was vastly inferior. Preston from the Ordinary Boys was one of the songwriters on 'Heart Skips a Beat' and I remember his band recently bringing out a Christmas song with Olly, so that's nice they kept up that musical connection almost 15 years later.

Some of the lyrics of 'No Regrets' feel very of their time (a Pippa Middleton reference following the Royal Wedding) or have just aged like milk ("I'm a changed man now, Chris Brown" who is still generating terrible headlines...) but overall, it's okay. I admire them throwing everything at the wall with that key change!

1 hour ago, Paddington James said:

1 Beating out other new releases for the week .... Nicola Roberts’s Luck Day (#40).

Good single with ska-revival era vibes, Olly and Rizzle Kicks both fun and loveable acts. Olly's hat is fab, I wear my identical one on holiday and I get slagged off, not "young" or "cool", outrageous! Plus I need a kid's size....😄

Not a fan of 'No Regrets'. Always found Dappy too irritating from a musical standpoint but I didn't mind him on Celebrity Big Brother at the time and think I would've preferred he won over the winner of that series.

Ugh, Crappy. Vile song from a vile individual.

Just catching up - glad Dappy is out now, would probably be in my bottom five! Not a fan of his or the track.

Three other good to really good songs since I last commented, I especially like Heart Skips A Beat, Olly and Rizzle Kicks worked really well together on this track and it's definitely up there with his best.

Louder and Promises are both good but not exceptional for me, guess I'd rank them around the same area. Me & You by Nero was amazing though, and also Gold Dust by DJ Fresh brings back good memories of the time, crazy that neither of those were top ten hits.

No Regrets is something I can take or leave, it’s nothing outstanding. I feel much the same about most of the output from the N-Dubz sphere (‘Number 1’ excepted of course)

Ahh Dappy and his No Eeeeegrets.

Awful.

'Heart Skips A Beat' isn't massively my thing but it's a decent pop song.

And finally the last of the one-week 'Moves Like Jagger' blockers appears! 'No Regrets' has aged rapidly and lacks the boppy production of the 'Number 1' featuring N-Dubz which came up in my reviews for 2009, but I just have to admire the ambition of THAT key change. Those 5 songs having a week each to hold off 'Moves Like Jagger' (which I didn't hugely rate either then and still don't much but it was clearly eclipsing them all, with only 'What Makes You Beautiful' having a comparable legacy) then dropping away was weird to follow.

I'd never really heard of Dappy or knew anything of him before doing this rank and after reading the comments here he seems like a pretty vile person. Had've I known that beforehand it might've impacted my placement for it.

If I had to choose between Olly Murs and Dappy, it would be Olly every time.

I get the impression Dappy thinks he's better than he actually is. 'No Regrets' is such a forgettable song.

There were better songs in 2011 that deserved the number 1 spot such as 'Jar Of Hearts', 'Heaven' or 'Moves Like Jagger'.

Edited Friday at 08:002 days by Charlielargepotatoes

11 – Grenade – Bruno Mars

2 Weeks at #1 / Weekly Sales – 149,834 / 109,960

#7 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 852,300

Bruno Mars scored his first of two #1’s for 2011 in January with the release of the second single Grenade from his debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans. It spent two weeks at #1 and cleared 100,000 in sales both weeks. In its first week at #1 it blocked Jessie J’s debut single Do It Like A Dude from reaching the summit, but it wasn’t even close as Jessie J fell 94,191 copies behind. In Grenades second week at #1 it held off Rolling In The Deep which was Adele’s first single from her soon to be released second album 21. The battle still wasn’t close Rolling In The Deep falling 26,985 copies short. Elsewhere in the charts over those two weeks we saw David Geutta and Rihanna reach a new peak of #6 with their collaboration Who’s That Chick (first week). Britney Spears debuted at #6 with Hold It Against Me (second week) and Avril Lavigne with What The Hell at #29 (second week).

I enjoyed this song at the time and found the music video for it quite good but also a little cringe in places, but saying that it’s probably my favourite single of Bruno’s from his debut album. This song is also a reflection of the way singles were released back then with a staggered global release as it had hit #1 in Australia in December in 2010 and ended 2010 as the 32^nd highest selling single in Australia. In 2011 though it was the 21^st highest selling single in Australia, 7^th highest selling song in the UK and 6^th highest selling song in the US.

Another great song from Bruno. I love nearly everything from his "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" era. This is clearly in my Top 10. That Dappy song is quite mid for me - definately in the last quarter.

5 hours ago, Paddington James said:

I'd never really heard of Dappy or knew anything of him before doing this rank and after reading the comments here he seems like a pretty vile person. Had've I known that beforehand it might've impacted my placement for it.

His most infamous moment probably being when N-Dubz were on Radio 1, somebody (rightly) sent in a text saying they were shit and he noted down their number to personally send them abuse. What a tool.