I completely forgot about 'Loca People'. I quite liked it at the time but not so much now.

It was part of this explosion of quirky European dance music from the early 2010's from artists like INNA, Alexandra Stan and Edward Maya etc.

Edited Sunday at 19:074 days by Charlielargepotatoes

Derulo is right where he belongs - I believe "Loca People" would be a bit higher for me. Two songs from my very bottom still not revealed.

'Loca People' feels like a bit of a non event dance track for me. I like thecfemale vocal on it I guess but not crazy on the rest. Would be around the same for me. Definitely better dance still remaining.

I loved Loca People at the time, ended up just outside my top 40 of the year too. I lived with a couple of Spanish guys that year and they did love partying (and made sure to tell me this every day, and about how dry the UK party scene was compared to Spain), so it reminds me of them. It is such a strange No.1 looking back, feels like a novelty. 'What the f*ck!'

I'm another of those who'd put that Jason Derulo song lower - if anything the interpolation and sample usage is even tackier than 'Savage Love' a few years later.

'Loca People' is an appropriately wtf #1, but quite fun in its way. It wouldn't be my least favourite of the one-week #1s to hold 'Moves Like Jagger' to #2 - that would probably go to by far the best known of the 5.

41 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

I loved Loca People at the time, ended up just outside my top 40 of the year too. I lived with a couple of Spanish guys that year and they did love partying (and made sure to tell me this every day, and about how dry the UK party scene was compared to Spain), so it reminds me of them. It is such a strange No.1 looking back, feels like a novelty. 'What the f*ck!'

I love how we all have connections to different songs. One for me is Ellie Goulding’s version of Your Song. It was the first song I heard playing when I visited London for the first time. I can still remember it. It was on Good Friday in the afternoon, I was in a cafe getting some fish and chips near Waterloo station after a long flight. It was playing on the radio over the speakers.

16 hours ago, Charlielargepotatoes said:

I completely forgot about 'Loca People'. I quite liked it at the time but not so much now.

It's part of this explosion of quirky European dance music in the early 2010's from artists like INNA, Alexandra Stan and Edward Maya etc.

I absolutely loved Alexandra Stan's songs from 2011 back then, Mr Saxobeat and Get Back ASAP.

12 hours ago, gooddelta said:

I loved Loca People at the time, ended up just outside my top 40 of the year too. I lived with a couple of Spanish guys that year and they did love partying (and made sure to tell me this every day, and about how dry the UK party scene was compared to Spain), so it reminds me of them. It is such a strange No.1 looking back, feels like a novelty. 'What the f*ck!'

well I can vouch for the Spanish liking to party in clubs at that time and earlier - as not in any way an outgoing party person, I enjoyed being there and soaking up the party vibes without having to be off my head 😄sadly I feel embarrassed to do that now, being so old. Plus I get annoyed when they play all the wrong records as opposed to dance bangers I like instead, current or old. I always think I could do a better job! I still stand outside to see what they are playing (it's open front in Gran Canaria so you can see and hear) out of curiosity, but 5 minutes is enough....😇

9 minutes ago, Popchartfreak said:

well I can vouch for the Spanish liking to party in clubs at that time and earlier - as not in any way an outgoing party person, I enjoyed being there and soaking up the party vibes without having to be off my head 😄sadly I feel embarrassed to do that now, being so old. Plus I get annoyed when they play all the wrong records as opposed to dance bangers I like instead, current or old. I always think I could do a better job! I still stand outside to see what they are playing (it's open front in Gran Canaria so you can see and hear) out of curiosity, but 5 minutes is enough....😇

Oh no, you’re never too old to party🪩🪅👯🍾🎉! 🤣

Edited Sunday at 10:205 days by Jaz13music

The next entry is coming soon and it's an artist who was no stranger to scoring a #1 hit.

It's also one I'm expecting to be much, much higher for pretty much everyone else.

Edited Sunday at 10:374 days by Paddington James

23 – Changed The Way You Kissed Me - Example

2 Weeks at #1 / Weekly Sales – 115,046 / 75,252

#17 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 581,900

Up now is an artist who had two #1 singles throughout 2011, after notching up two top hits in 2010. British born singer/rapper Example (Elliot Gleave) notched up three top 20 hits and a top 5 album in 2010, but it would be 2011 where he truly hit his heights with two #1 singles and a #1 album as well. Changed The Way You Kissed Me was debuted at #1 on June 12^th and ended a three  week reign at the summit for Give Me Everything and its opening week sales of 115,046 was the 5^th highest sales week for the year to that point. I didn’t enjoy this song much at all at the time it was released and initially had it much lower then where it ended up here,  so it must’ve grown on me a bit over my many playthroughs of the playlist. Though with that said I still couldn’t put it above songs I’ve enjoyed for 10 years plus, as well as a few others I discovered along the way too. I do think this has the potential to continue to grow on me though.

Elsewhere in the chart this week Nicole Scherzinger claimed her third consecutive top three hit with Right There, Coldplay debuted at #6 with Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall, Girls Aloud alumni Nicola Roberts scored her first top 30 hit with Beat Of My Drum at #27. Man Down, a new entry from Rihanna was at $75 and was sandwiched between two former Rihanna #1’s in Only Girl (In The World) and What’s My Name and Kylie Minogue just got into the top 100 at #93 with Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)

That's a tune! Example had some bangers in his collection of hits. Would be close between this and 'Kickstarts' as my fave from him. Be higher up for me.

Now this is a really good one - and I prefer it over their other #1 in that year. This would be much higher for me.

Changed The Way You Kiss Me is my favourite to drop out so far and would be a lot closer to my top 10, there were a lot of repetitive sounds in the 'club banger' era, but this electro house-rap mix up did sound refreshingly different to that bog standard pop-dance sound that most of the chart toppers had. I have quite a bit of time for Example's first few years, though he did fall off a bit after this and he is very much of that time. My personal favourite is the underrated Watch the Sun Come Up which introduced me to him.

Loca People is a charming quirk of the time, completely dated now and I'd imagine got there purely based on the novelty factor of someone swearing, but a fun one to revisit. Can't say there's much else I care for so far, Glad You Came is OK, but it never was a favourite, Lose My Mind and Gold Forever (which does feel quite poignant after Tom's death) are much better.

'Changed The Way You Kiss Me' I'd put a bit higher I think, though 'Loca People' is maybe about where it'd end up.

Example is a name I haven't thought about much in the last decade but he had this brief period of being untouchable and that song was sort of the peak of what he's capable of, I don't know if it's held up too well, a bit too reliant on its club abilities for casual listening, but there's some fun production and singing on it, good to see it's grown on you while doing this.

'Loca People', on the surface just a bit of harmless fun though surprisingly characterless for a meme dance song beyond the obvious spoken-word selling point, would never remember how the dance breakdown goes outside of listening to it and in its time I don't recall it being an actual highlight in the club, so what's the point?

Can’t stand Example, so good to see this out so soon.

I can’t say I was ever a massive Example fan but ‘Changed…’ was decent enough.

Wasn't really a fan of 'Changed The Way You Kiss Me' because of overplay on radio maybe and also maybe the lyrics.

But now I like it, progressive dance music that builds up in the verses needs to come back (even though CTWYKM is not one of the best examples of the genre).

Edited Sunday at 18:454 days by TheSnake

How did I miss this thread? Sorry @Paddington James ❤️

2 hours ago, Spiceboy said:

How did I miss this thread? Sorry @Paddington James ❤️

All is forgiven @Spiceboy, as long as you continue to follow this thread. 🤣❤️