Was never really a fan of the number ones from Pixie, but 'Cry Me Out' that was an good song from her.

All About Tonight is a good upbeat track from Pixie Lott. I like the euphoric synths in it.

But yes 'All Fired Up' by Saturdays would have been a better #1 - production is like eurotrance from 2003 like Kira - I'll Be Your Angel - excellent.

Edited Friday at 16:371 day by TheSnake

All About Tonight was an awful #1 period.

I do like 'All About Tonight', although it is very cliched lyrically. It all went pretty spectacularly wrong for her after this.

All about tonight is pretty mid , pixie definitely had better though, shame this was the week that also saw the beginning of the end for Leona really

8 hours ago, Mack. said:

Was never really a fan of the number ones from Pixie, but 'Cry Me Out' that was an good song from her.

I love Cry Me Out, I think that would be my favourite from her. I also have a soft spot for Broken Arrow.

7 hours ago, Mack. said:

All About Tonight was an awful #1 period.

It was a part of a 10 week stretch where there was a new #1 every week. Half of which have already featured here.

oh gotta catch up

I really really love 'Wherever You Are', it's a real oddity in the chart, the choir is really well done here, and it feels almost magical (as the Civ opening songs prove a good choir can be ethereally beautiful, don't know why my mind goes there but it's another prominent example of choirs in pop culture music), I think that's about as good as charity singles get.

Absolutely despise The Lazy Song, and All About Tonight, I think the former is just obnoxious from an artist who clearly didn't need to be doing such rot, and the latter is just a very weak song from an artist who had few highlights but they were not the songs she got to #1 with, it's another song about the clerb but I agree it hasn't aged well, it's because there's just nothing about it, it doesn't earn any of what Pixie is singing about, it feels like she's singing flat, and as such again, when she sings 'the club is alive' I do not feel it - oh look it's the same problem as JLS.

As for 'Party Rock Anthem', at least their other prominent 'song' didn't get to #1 here but that was by far the worst thing about LMFAO (still hate that one), when they were just singing about anthems you did feel it, 'Party Rock Anthem' was a pretty undeniable good sound of 2011, I can see why you'd hate this on overplay and I think I did also back in 2011 but it's also just quite a bit of a banger, I think the underlying instrumental brings it all together.

Haven't heard 'Swagger Jagger' probably since it got to #1 but I don't think I hate it? It's obviously not a great song objectively but I think Cher's personality sells it enough to make it acceptable-ish. Chorus is just a bizarre rendition of that melody and the verses aren't anything special, it's just mildly fun.

most of the breakdowns in these songs sound so similar don't they

On 13/06/2026 at 23:40, Chez Wombat said:

That year definitely also felt like the beginning of the end of X Factor's dominance, outside of giving us one of the few genuine long lasting stars as the winners, it felt significantly less buzzy (didn't help that the judges were completely refreshed).

In retrospect, 2011 wasn’t really the death, it just marked the end of the golden era (aka the first Cheryl years). 2012 with Christopher Maloney in the final, Rylan being saved over both Carolyn Poole week 1 and the infamous deadlock of Ella Henderson and James Arthur put the final nail in the coffin of it not being seen as a legitimate music first talent contestant in the eyes of the GBP. Then just on a slope until 2015 being the show’s last relevant season imo, once the streaming era officially took over it was done.

Back to 2011, honestly good season for talent. I would’ve gone for a complete revamp with the judges though and sacked Louis as well, replace him with the long rumoured Noel Gallagher or Ozzy Osbourne (familiarity to viewers of the show vis-à-vis Sharon) and swap UK & USA roles out for Rowland and Scherzinger (again loved Kelly but she was a one and done and viewers resonated with Nicole since she had already been a part of the show in capacity since 2007).

So yeah a lineup Ozzy-Tulisa-Gary-Nicole.

On 18/06/2026 at 12:08, Paddington James said:

26 – Cannonball – Little Mix

1 Week at #1 / Weekly Sales – 210,129

#41 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 390,596

If I remember correctly, this is the only X Factor winners single that wasn’t included on the winners debut album.

The band themselves never actually performed again after 2012.

On 19/06/2026 at 13:30, Scene said:

No big losses there.

Cannonball was definitely an awful song choice for Little Mix. If only they got Impossible before James did.

Don’t Wanna Go Home is indeed an abomination.

Funfact: "Impossible" (then only a few months old) was supposed to be Cher Lloyd’s winners single the year prior.

13 minutes ago, Highway Unicorn said:

If I remember correctly, this is the only X Factor winners single that wasn’t included on the winners debut album.

The band themselves never actually performed again after 2012.

I think you’re correct, in fact it’s not even on their greatest hits album. That says a lot about how Little Mix view it I guess.

The next song will be up soon and it's an artist who scored multiple #1's in 2011.

17 – Stay Awake - Example

1 Week at #1 / Weekly Sales – 73,402

#96 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 237,000

The second of two #1’s for Example in 2011 is up next with Stay Awake. Stay Awake was another one of the six songs that kept Moves Like Jagger from #1, this time by only 266 copies, the closest Moves Like Jagger would come to #1. Production of Stay Awake was done by Nero who themselves scored their first #1 hit just three weeks earlier with Promises. I found that enjoyed this one more than Changed The Way You Kissed Me even if I felt the music didn’t quite match the lyrical content of the song. Out of all the songs I've heard so far for the first time I think this and one more that's still to come have the biggest potential to grow on me. I enjoyed this so much more than I was expecting too.

Elsewhere in the charts this week Ed Sheeran scored his second top 5 hit with You Need Me, I Don’t Need You debuting at #4, David Geutta and Nicki Mianj’s collaboration debuted at #20, though it would need to wait until 2012 before it would reach a new peak. Also Nicole Scherzinger’s fourth single Wet from her debut album Killer Love peaked at #21 and the Nicki Minaj and Rihanna collaboration Fly was a new entry at #67.

Good #1, quite liked it at the time, and actually sounds like a #1 single.

I didn't know that Nero produced the song but it makes sense with the dubstep bit.

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4 hours ago, Paddington James said:

I think you’re correct, in fact it’s not even on their greatest hits album. That says a lot about how Little Mix view it I guess.

It was eventually added to the expanded version of DNA

Stay awake is a bit naff tbf

4 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

It was eventually added to the expanded version of DNA

Stay awake is a bit naff tbf

That's just digitally though isn't it?

I'm sure all the others winners singles appeared on the first album of the other winners. (I'm going off my Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke albums).

4 minutes ago, Paddington James said:

That's just digitally though isn't it?

I'm sure all the others winners singles appeared on the first album of the other winners. (I'm going off my Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke albums).

Well technically louisa Johnson never released an album

Matt Terry's was a christmas single so didnt appear on his

And Raksu didnt release an album. Until years after their win

Otherwise yes

Not too mad on that Example one. It's... fine but a not a lot else going for it for me.

Stay awake is one of the songs I couldn’t recall being at number one. It’s okay but not very memorable, though I do like the dubstep influence.