TIPs 125 Singles of 2007

 

In this opening post I will update daily with the countdown.

 

Here:

125 C.S.S. - Off the Hook (10wks 22-20-25-27-29-34-39-36-36-38)

124 Maximo Park - Karaoke Plays (7wks 16-10-7-7-12-21-37)

123 Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes (8wks 25*-12-12-13-18-22-32)

122 Scissor Sisters - Kiss You Off (7wks 27-19-9-7-10-17-27)

121 Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (2007 mix) (5wks 2-2-9-19-31)

120 Twang - Either Way (7wks 38-27-10-11-15-23-32)

119 Pigeon Detectives - I'm Not Sorry (6wks 33-21-14-11-11-21)

118 Enemy - Away From Here (7wks 20-14-12-13-18-32-39)

117 Sounds - Tony The Beat (Push It) (7wks 17-12-11-15-17-29-37)

116 Siouxsie Sioux - Into A Swan (6wks 8-8-8-12-17-29)

115 Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry (9wks 39-30-22-13-9-13-19-22-31)

114 Cyndi - I'll Leave My Heart (5wks 5-5-17-21-30)

113 Pipettes - ABC (7wks 31-10-12-18-20-31-36)

112 Bloc Party - Flux (8wks 37-29-18-8-5-8-12-16)

111 Duke Special - Last Night I Nearly Died (5wks 32-25-20-21-31)

110 Sophie Ellis Bextor - Today The Sun's On Us (6wks 38-24-15-13-20-31)

109 Kate Bush - Lyra (5wks 10-6-6-6-6)

108 Bjork - Earth Intruders (7wks 6-4-6-13-23-35-36)

107 Ghosts - Stay The Night (9wks 26-18-13-12-15-19-26-32-39)

106 Coral - Jacqueline (9wks 33-25-22-15-12-13-16-24-38)

105 Joan As Police Woman - The Ride (8wks 11-11-15-19-20-22-25-30)

104 Take That - I'd Wait For Life (8wks 28-18-9-3-3-10-27-38)

103 Newton Faulkner - Dream Catch Me (8wks 26-16-14-13-10-9-15-28)

102 Garbage - Tell Me Where It Hurts (9wks 29-20-13-8-8-12-17-23-34)

101 Little Man Tate - Sexy In Latin (8wks 31-17-11-7-12-17-23-35)

 

100 Cat Power - The Greatest (7wks 18-11-9-7-15-20-29)

99 Stereophonics - It Means Nothing (9wks 39-31-22-12-9-9-9-14-30)

98 Peter, Bjorn & John ft Victoria Bergsman - Young Folks (2007 Remix) (8wks 7-4-4-4-10-17-25-33)

97 Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend (10wks 25-14-12-8-7-8-13-19-24-34)

96 Muse - Invincible (4wks 40-33-35-40)

95 Siobhan Donaghy - Don't Give It Up (10wks 38-23-20-19-21-26-28-34-35-39)

94 Kaiser Chiefs - Angry Mob (5wks 37-33-28-23-26)

93 LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great (7wks 4-4-6-11-14-20-30)

92 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love (12wks 5-6-8-9-11-7-6-10-12-17-23-39)

91 Kate Walsh - Your Song (7wks 13-9-9-16-27-34-40)

90 Bens Brother - Carry On (8wks 20-15-8-9-11-14-21-38)

89 David Guetta - Love Is Gone (8wks 37-27-16-8-18-37-38-40)

88 Tiny Dancers - Hannah We Know (7wks 35-16-8-7-12-30-35)

87 Reverend & The Makers - Heavyweight Champion Of The World (9wks 37-24-15-9-9-12-17-22-39)

86 Alanis Morissette - My Humps (7wks 21-9-10-13-14-18-33)

85 Natasha Bedingfield - Soulmate (10wks 40-32-29-20-6-10-14-20-28-35)

84 Regina Spektor - Fidelity (9wks 40-25-14-11-10-14-16-23-35)

83 Babyshambles - The Delivery (9wks 36-20-14-8-15-15-17-28-37)

82 M.I.A. - Jimmy (7wks 6-5-5-9-11-30-38)

81 Groove Armada ft Mutya - Song For Mutya (6wks 7-7-7-13-19-29)

 

80 Ghosts - The World Outside (8wks 34-25-14-6-6-8-14-33)

79 Beverley Knight - No Man's Land (9wks 27-24-17-15-15-15-14-19-30)

78 Duke Special - Freewheel (7wks 37-27-17-14-18-22-28)

77 Fedde Le Grand ft Ida Corr - Let Me Think About It (9wks 37-12-5-6-11-18-16-19-25)

76 C.S.S. - Alcohol (7wks 29-20-15-14-19-26-40)

75 Crowded House - Pour Le Monde (4wks 19-4-4-9)

74 Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80's (6wks 20-6-6-9-19-40)

73 Cherry Ghost - People Help The People (10wks 16-8-11-14-23-30-31-32-36-39)

72 Klaxons - Golden Skans (9wks 32-26-17-15-14-12-13-21-38)

71 Shins - Phantom Limb (8wks 38-5-4-9-12-16-25-31)

70 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Catch You (12wks 37-33-24-20-13-7-6-8-16-24-31-38)

69 Crowded House - Don't Stop Now (9wks 10-7-5-3-2-5-13-25-36)

68 Linkin Park - What I've Done (10wks 14-7-6-7-7-7-9-20-28-35)

67 Travis - Closer (9wks 39-10-6-5-2-2-9-16-27)

66 Christina Aguilera - Candyman (10wks 38-7-4-4-6-9-12-18-24-29)

65 Kelis ft Cee-lo - Lil' Star (12wks 35-21-10-5-2-4-5-9-10-15-22-30)

64 Lily Allen - Alfie (8wks 6-5-6-8-11-20-27-35)

63 Take That - Shine (14wks 36-32-29-14-7-5-3-3-4-9-14-17-24-38)

62 Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game (5wks 23-8-2-3-7)

61 Travis - Selfish Jean (10wks 36-29-24-22-5-4-6-12-24-34)

 

60 Mark Ronson ft Amy Winehouse - Valerie (12wks 21-16-11-7-4-6-8-14-19-24-27-38)

59 Scouting For Girls - She's So Lovely (8wks 18-16-13-7-8-8-18-33)

58 Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill (6wks 4-4-5-8-11-22)

57 Delta Goodrem - In This Life (9wks 31-10-4-5-6-11-17-28-35)

56 Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running (10wks 21-8-7-10-11-20-24-32-38)

55 Bats For Lashes - Whats A Girl To Do (7wks 9-5-5-5-12-18-34)

54 Jamelia - No More (8wks 15-9-5-3-6-11-21-39)

53 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (9wks 21-13-11-10-9-12-13-17-34)

52 Paul McCartney - Dance Tonight (10wks 24-14-5-4-7-6-9-17-34-39)

51 Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good (11wks 20-13-11*-5-4-5-6-11-16-27)

50 Enemy - We'll Live In These Towns (3wks 11-7-8)

49 Duran Duran - Falling Down (12wks 3-3-6-8-5-4-1-2-4-5-11-31)

48 Maps - You Don't Know Her Name (7wks 15-11-9-8-10-17-35)

47 Guillemots - Annie Let's Not Wait (7wks 29-16-9-12-17-20-24)

46 Charlotte Hatherley - Behave (6wks 3-3-8-15-23-31)

45 Cherry Ghost - Mathematics (11wks 22-19-21-17-20-22-25-28-29-31-38)

44 Hoosiers - Worried About Ray (10wks 18-12-6-5-3-10-16-22-27-40)

43 Remi Nicole - Go Mr Sunshine (8wks 4-3-3-6-16-27-33-39)

42 Emma Pollock - Paper and Glue (6wks 15-4-2-3-8-13)

41 Rihanna ft Jay Z - Umbrella (8wks 11-1-1-4-10-18-32-36)

 

40 Norah Jones - Thinking About You (10wks 27*-7-5-4-9-10-15-20-27)

39 Maximo Park - Our Velocity (15wks 26-18-17-23-27-30-24-25-26-27-28-26-30-33-37)

38 Nerina Pallot - Learning To Breathe (8wks 18-7-4*-2-6-16-33)

37 Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours (9wks 23-7-6-3-7-9-16-28-33)

36 Arcade Fire - No Cars Go (10wks 28-19-15-6-4-7-11-18-26-37)

35 Mutya - Real Girl (11wks 8-4-4-5-5-5-5-5-11-20-34)

34 Candie Payne - One More Chance (10wks 28-16-9-9-13-15-20-29-34-36)

33 Coral - Who's Gonna Find Me (10wks 18-6-3-3-3-3-7-13-21-39)

32 Arctic Monkeys - Brainstorm (11wks 10-7-5-4-3-2-2-8-16-27-40)

31 Siouxsie Sioux - Here Comes That Day (9wks 1-3-5-9-16-23-20-24-33)

30 Alicia Keys - No One (16wks 37-17-7-7-7-8-7-11-14-7-3-2-4-9-17-34)

29 Robbie Williams - The 80's (6wks 3-1-1-5-17-28)

28 Travis - My Eyes (7wks 1-1-2-11-18-28-40)

27 KT Tunstall - Hold On (10wks 19-12-6-2-2-2-2-11-24-37)

26 Feist - 1234 (15wks 21-15-12-11-11-9-11-15-23-35-OUT*3-20-13-16-30-40)

25 Robbie Williams - She's Madonna (12wks 14-12-10-DSQ(4)-8-4-2-2-2-5-8-12-18)

24 White Stripes - Icky Thump (11wks 6-4-3-3-3-2-2-2-7-18-30)

23 Britney Spears - Gimme More (12wks 2-2-3-4-4-1-2-9-13-23-31-36)

22 Take That - Rule The World (12wks 3-1-2-3-3-5-6-8-12-16-24-34)

21 Adele - Hometown Glory (12wks 20-14-10-6-5-3-3-6-9-15-23-35)

 

20 Mika - Grace Kelly (11wks 35*-1-1-1-1-3-3-8-13-32)

19 Arcade Fire - Intervention (10wks 4-4-11-23-X(13)-3-2-2-6-12-23)

18 Girls Aloud - Call The Shots (9wks 35-21-17-5-3-3-7-9-10)

17 Sugababes - About You Now (11wks 34-17-10-5-1-2-2-3-8-19-28)

16 Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors (10wks 9-4-1-1-1-4-11-20-32-40)

15 Client - Xerox Machine (11wks 8-2-2-4-6-11-14-18-27-32-37)

14 Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent (11wks 12-6-4-3-2-2-5-10-16-21-32)

13 Manic Street Preachers ft Nina Persson - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (10wks 15-7-6-3-3-2-3-6-12-20-29)

12 Foo Fighters - Long Road To Ruin (6wks 1-1-1-5-10-11)

11 Duffy - Rockferry (5wks 20-9-1-1-1)

10 Mark Ronson - Stop Me (9wks 1-1-1-1-3-7-11-16-24)

9 Rufus Wainwright - Going To A Town (10wks 11-1-1-1-1-4-8-17-27-40)

8 Jarvis - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time (16wks 26*-16-13-8-2-2-8-10-15-24-23-24-30-34-40)

7 Amy Macdonald - Mr Rock & Roll (11wks 4-4-1-1-4-6-8-12-20-24-32)

6 Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby (12wks 30-23-12-3-1-1-1-1-11-18-26-40)

5 Alison Moyet - One More Time (11wks 22-10-1-1-1-2-5-12-19-31-40)

4 Modest Mouse - Dashboard (15wks 1-1-3-7-6-13-14-17-18-18-12-15-17-21-33)

3 Kate Nash - Foundations (12wks 1-1-1-2-2-2-3-4-8-16-21-34)

2 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right (26wks 21-7-4-3-2-2-2-2-5-11-13-17-24-25-31-33-34-31-28-35-39-28-27-27-26-34)

1 Robyn ft Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat (13wks 20-1-1-1-1-1-6-7-12-19-23-27-39)

 

I should add, I've updated no points system to my countdown. I've just reviewed all 300+ songs that reached my Personal Top40 chart countdown to compile the list of 125 songs that are included in this countdown.

 

 

My Albums of 2007

 

1 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

2 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

3 Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full

4 Go Team - Proof Of Youth

5 Britney Spears - Blackout

6 Radiohead - In Rainbows

7 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

8 Alison Moyet - The Turn

9 Bats For Lashes - Fur & Gold

10 Girls Aloud - Tangled Up

11 Amy Macdonald - This Is The Life

12 Enemy - We Live & Die In These Towns

13 Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers

14 Siouxsie Sioux - Mantaray

15 Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars

16 The Good The Bad & The Queen - The Good The Bad & The Queen

17 Duran Duran - Red Carpet Massacre

18 Feist - Reminder

19 Maps - We Can Create

20 Alicia Keys - As I Am

21 Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

22 Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures

23 New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom

24 Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks

25 Hoosiers - The Trick Of Life

26 Travis - The Boy With No Name

27 Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob

28 Editors - An End Has A Start

29 KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic

30 Crowded House - Time On Earth

31 Prince - Planet Earth

32 Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden

33 Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion

34 Norah Jones - Not Too Late

35 Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future

36 Kylie Minogue - X

 

These are all studio albums released this year which I own. I have excluded compiliation albums or albums released in 2006.

125 C.S.S. - Off the Hook (10wks 22-20-25-27-29-34-39-36-36-38)

 

 

Cansei de Ser Sexy (literally "tired of being sexy" in Portuguese; better known as CSS) is a Brazilian band from São Paulo. Their songs have an electro-rock/New Wave sound, and are sung in both English and Portuguese.

 

This song (not the last by them on my countdown) was released in February and peaked at UK#43.

 

124 Maximo Park - Karaoke Plays (7wks 16-10-7-7-12-21-37*)

 

 

This track was the 4th single taken from the Geordie indie Rock groups third album Our Earthly Pleasures. It peaked at UK#113 in November.

 

 

 

 

123 Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes (8wks 25*-12-12-13-18-22-32)

 

 

This UK garage hit by Jack Allsopp was a UK#2 hit back in January, clearly promoted as an anti-X-Factor record.

 

 

122 Scissor Sisters - Kiss You Off (7wks 27-19-9-7-10-17-27)

 

 

"Kiss You Off" was the fourth and final radio-released single from the Scissor Sisters' second studio album, Ta-Dah. Unusually for the band it featured lead vocals by Ana Matronic.

 

The single was released in the UK on 28 May 2007. It entered the UK charts at #43.

 

 

121 Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (2007 mix) (5wks 2-2-9-19-31)

 

 

This alternative mix of the late Jeff's legendary cover of the Leonard Cohen classic, which has become by most music critics as it's ultimate reading was released as a single in June to promote a Best of Jeff Buckley album. It peaked at UK#65.

 

120 Twang - Either Way (7wks 38-27-10-11-15-23-32)

 

 

The Twang are a baggy-influenced indie rock band from Birmingham, England. Taken from their debut album Love It When I Feel Like This, this was the second single & biggest hit peaking at UK#8 in June.

 

119 Pigeon Detectives - I'm Not Sorry (6wks 33-21-14-11-11-21)

 

 

The Pigeon Detectives are an English band from Rothwell, Leeds, who formed in 2002. The reissue of their debut single taken from their debut album Wait For Me reached UK#12 when released in May.

118 Enemy - Away From Here (7wks 20-14-12-13-18-32-39)

 

 

Taken from their debut album We'll Live and Die In These Towns which reached UK#1. This third single reached UK#8 in April. It is not their last song on my countdown.

117 Sounds - Tony The Beat (Push It) (7wks 17-12-11-15-17-29-37)

 

 

The Sounds are an upbeat New Wave band from Helsingborg, Sweden founded in 1999, this song sadly failed to trouble the UK Top75 despite video airplay.

116 Siouxsie Sioux - Into A Swan (6wks 8-8-8-12-17-29)

 

 

The iconic post punk lengend that is Siouxsie Sioux released her debut solo album this autumn (Mantaray). This was the lead single & reached UK#59. It is not her last single on my countdown.

 

 

 

115 Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry (9wks 39-30-22-13-9-13-19-22-31)

 

 

This mid-tempo ballad was a global #1 hit (UK#2) is one of the biggest records of the year by the Black Eyed Peas female vocalist from her debut album Dutchess.

114 Cyndi - I'll Leave My Heart (5wks 5-5-17-21-30)

 

 

On 17 March 2007 French singer Cyndi competed in the BBC's Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up contest to decide who would represent the United Kingdom at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki, Finland. She sang the song "I’ll Leave My Heart", which had been produced by renowned Grammy award winning producer Brian Rawling. Terry Wogan announced the winner to be Cyndi while, simultaneously, co-host Fearne Cotton revealed the winner to be Scooch. After several seconds of confusion from both contestants, it was revealed that Scooch were the true winners. It was later revealed by the BBC that Cyndi had received 47% of the vote to scooch's 53%.

 

Wogan felt obliged to apologise to Cyndi several times during his Radio 2 shows the following week such was the groundswell of goodwill towards Cyndi and anger towards the BBC's handling of the hugely popular show with the British public seemingly feeling the wrong artist had been selected, Cyndi was interviewed on GMTV’s Today show as the controversy raged throughout the week, an online petition was launched by eurovision fans demanding Cyndi be reinstated and sent to Finland instead of the rather kitsch Scooch who eventually came second to last in the final eurovision vote, the second worst performance by a UK representative in the programmes long history.

 

113 Pipettes - ABC (7wks 31-10-12-18-20-31-36)

 

 

Brighton's indie Girl group trio in 2007 had this song was used in FIAT adverts on European television staring Michael Schumacher. A cartoon music video to promote the song was also produced where it received radio airplay in Europe.

 

112 Bloc Party - Flux (8wks 37-29-18-8-5-8-12-16*)

 

 

"Flux" is a song by Bloc Party that was released November 12, 2007 and peaked at UK#8. It was produced by Jacknife Lee, along with several other new songs[1], during the band's week in the studio after Reading and Leeds gigs. The song uses mostly electronic instruments and has Kele's voice manipulated through auto-tune.

 

In November 2007 Australian radio station Triple J reported that the band originally wrote the song for Kylie Minogue, but it was rejected by her for her X album.

 

 

 

111 Duke Special - Last Night I Nearly Died (5wks 32-25-20-21-31)

 

 

Duke Special, real name Peter Wilson, is an alternative rock musician based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A piano-based singer-songwriter with a romantic style and a warm, distinctly-accented voice, he has a distinctive look, with his long dreadlocks, eyeliner and outfits he describes as "hobo chic". I saw him support Crowded House in December. Sadly this UK single failed to reach the UK Top75 in February.

 

110 Sophie Ellis Bextor - Today The Sun's On Us (6wks 38-24-15-13-20-31)

 

 

The third single taken from her 3rd solo album Trip the Light Fantastic, sadly only peaked at UK#64 in August. It is not her last entry on my countdown.

 

109 Kate Bush - Lyra (5wks 10-6-6-6-6*)

 

 

In November the reclusive Bush had announced she had recorded a song for the film adaptation of The Golden Compass entitled "Lyra", to be played over the end credits of the film.

108 Bjork - Earth Intruders (7wks 6-4-6-13-23-35-36)

 

 

The song was released as the first single from her sixth full-length studio album, Volta. The single was released digitally in April 2007. It is co-produced by R&B record producer Timbaland and his protégé Danja. It reached UK#78.

107 Ghosts - Stay The Night (9wks 26-18-13-12-15-19-26-32-39)

 

 

Formerly known as Polanski, this was there first full release in March & peaked at UK#25 for the UK indie pop band who have been compared with the Bluetones, The Feeling, Keane & Thirteen Senses.