gooddelta

Thanks Seven!

Gotta love the DNQ countries <3 Thanks so much Scotland 2 and East Rukahavian!

Very interesting sounding reveal, sure to be many surprises along the way.

Basshunter, banger!

Big Brovaz for me too, my favourite song from them, a great UK rap ballad and loved the Friends themed video.

Yeah, any time period is absolutely fine as long as it meets the other criteria!

Touch Me would be in my top five with Don't Stop Movin', Lady Marmalade, Eternal Flame (soz) and the other Hear'say song (sorely underrated). For the most part I really didn't care for 2001 No.1s though and found a lot of the agreed classics very overrated, even if I can appreciate why they are loved. Whole Again and Kylie would probably be lower end of the top ten along with Another Chance, 21 Seconds and It Wasn't Me but I find a full rank for this year very difficult to do.

I think early 2010s nostalgia IS here - but in the form of the club banger era, some of the pop and dance doing well at the moment has production hallmarks of 2009-2012 - none moreso than Golden and I think we will see more like that coming through, ‘Pop’ is definitely poppier than it has been for several years currently. I keep seeing popular videos on TikTok talking about how good we had it when the likes of Flo Rida, LMFAO and Pitbull were No.1, which is funny to me as at the time I remember thinking how annoyingly samey everything was in the charts. But looking back I do see that those songs had charm, especially now that club culture has really started to die off in the last 10 years (it doesn’t seem as much a Gen Z thing as it was in the past and a lot of clubs are closing down), so maybe that era was like the last hurrah for a lot of people of spending time with friends in groups before smartphones/social media really properly dominated our lives, as well as all the political crap that happened in the later 2010s. I was clubbing a lot in 2011 as we had a club at the end of my road and I was in a house share, so those songs do bring back some nostalgia for me too, especially stuff like Rihanna’s Loud era (remember when everyone dyed their hair that shade of red!). All that being said, I’m not sure how nostalgic people are for the Olly Murs first album sound? And it seemed like a weird path for Ed to tread with this single - on first listen it sounded like a misfire to me. That kind of soulful and even ska influenced pop was tailing off even by then - it was huge in 2007/8-post Amy Winehouse with people from Plan B to Pixie Lott, and obviously Olly had some success with it but I’d argue he could have used any sound on his debut album and done well with it such was his profile then, I don’t think it was choosing that style that made him a star. His genuinely long lasting popular hits came later (especially the No.1 singles with Rizzle Kicks and Flo Rida), but I can’t remember the last time I heard Please Don’t Let Me Go, and Ed’s new one is a lot like Olly’s first era. If he wants to tap into the emerging nostalgia cycle of that era then sure - good idea, it’s coming and somebody will capitalise and do well with it - but get Pitbull on board and give us a nostalgic club banger, not this.

I listened to this song in the car earlier for the first time in a bit (it's on the new Millennium #1s CD as the first track) and it definitely was a very fresh song and production at the time, a great video/outfit, incredibly catchy hook, and everything clicked for Kylie and made sure that the success of Light Years wasn't just a one off for nostalgia but that she meant business again after her fallow period in the 90s. All that said, it was never a huge Kylie favourite of mine despite all its plaudits (although I like it) but I did love the Fever parent album and all of the other singles from it, plus really loved the New Order mash-up, Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head. Thanks a lot for running 2001 Wardy, a very interesting countdown with some fun and informative facts and some unexpected positions in places - the beauty of a personal rank though! I look forward to seeing who takes us through the reality TV minefield that was 2002.

Definitely Swing Low. Surprised it’s even here, likewise Nine in the Afternoon but I’d forgotten that had such a steady chart run.

Paradise pretty easily.

Sticking with Hard-Fi

It wasn’t but we really do need to do an Oktoberfestivalen to celebrate that!

Lots of repeats on these two shows but we're getting to the part of the year where I love (and still regularly listen to) 80% of the top 10 each week. The 911 song was a bit forgettable though and I really didn't even recall that Daniel O'Donnell ever had a top ten hit! La Primavera is a bit forgotten compared to all of Sash!'s No.2 singles, but two weeks at No.3 was impressive and I've always loved this track a lot (it gives me Chariots of Fire vibes). Good to see Tin Tin Out and Shelley Nelson made it three weeks in the top ten, and long runners for classic ballads from Savage Garden and LeAnn Rimes, interesting that at this point the latter was only on about 200k, shows how long it was still yet to hang around for! Kiss The Rain is a really good track too, lots of MOR radio pop around at this point.

We have entered! (please all enter PFSC too - see my sig for details <3) I have been meaning to send this somewhere that fits for a while, and nowhere fits better than this theme. As an aside, I just reminded myself of the song I sent to the first edition eight years ago, and what a banger that was!

We would firstly like to thank @Jade for her beautiful dreamy pop theme in the 16th outing of PFSC, which I managed to win on my birthday <3 with Swimming Lessons by Camp Claude. Thanks to this we have the opportunity to host for the first time, and for the 17th edition of the contest, we invite you to Take 'Em To The Chorus (inspired by the classic callout by Timbaland on Justin Timberlake's Sexyback). What we are looking for here is POP with a big chorus please. Other than that the song can go off in any direction, but we insist that the chorus is a focal point of the track - melodic and with a clear change up from the verse/bridge. There may even be a key change in there but that is not compulsory! Here are the rules: Any song entered must not have reached the Top 100 in the Official UK Chart, and you cannot submit any song by any artist in the UK top 40 during the confirmations period Any song entered must not have reached the Top 20 in another song contest on BuzzJack Any artist entered must not have an Artist Forum (Club) on BuzzJack Any song considered to have an unfair advantage over other songs or that may fall under veto rules widely used on BuzzJack may be vetoed Any artist entered is entitled to one entry per contest; this will be on a first come, first served basis And for this edition only: THIS MUST BE...POP! Please do make sure your entry is as pop as possible this time - mods may veto anything that they feel isn't pop enough (or, indeed, has no chorus, as that is the point!) If you have any questions, do let me know! Once you have chosen your entry, please PM me (gooddelta) with the following information: Artist: Song Title: Link (YouTube or alternative): The deadline for confirmations is Sunday 24th August 2025 23:59 BST Confirmed: gooddelta uhsting Jonjo jimwatts AllStarBySmashMouth Roba WoW73 Awardinary Travis Julian_ Addy CowTzy Vibe Scene Cody Piastri Chez Wombat Lindsey Leww WhoOddysey Herbs Cameron Riser Dobbo Ansel Mango J00prstar Jade Doctor Blind Brer Calum (30)

Our votes are in! Tricky, a great final for such a short one and it required three listens to sort. I think I'm enjoying pretty much all of the hyped songs this month so don't mind how it turns out.

They haven't been performing three of these. Apparently Little By Little has had an unexpectedly huge reception on the tour, I didn't realise it was so well loved. Live version sounds decent though. I'm still surprised they left off Stop Crying Your Heart Out from the same album (and The Importance Of Being Idle for that matter too, it really is a 90s fest).

I also find in retrospect that this was an interesting career bridge moment for P!nk - who had finished her R&B debut era some months before but was half a year away from the rockier Missundaztood album. And this production was almost sonically between the two sounds in itself, especially with some of the big vocal runs. It's a very good, superbly executed cover which interestingly won the 2002 Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, beating It Wasn't Me and another Christina song, her duet with Ricky Martin, Nobody Wants To Be Lonely.

I love this version of Lady Marmalade, it makes the All Saints version seem like such a vanilla plod. I appreciate it has the kitchen sink thrown at it vocally but I was obsessed with it at this time - delighted to see it as high as No.2. I know it's a cover but it's a really strong one, and over half a billion streams on Spotify suggests it's still very popular, way moreso than the other covers that were everywhere in 2001. My favourite part is between Lil' Kim's rap, which I know every word of, or Christina's big vocal moment - not sure how the other three felt about her basically being given main billing and the pimp slot of the song but she really brought it vocally. I did buy this on a single that I definitely must have worn out, and have since acquired the soundtrack album as it had some other intriguing stuff on it. Also love the very 2000/2001 moment of closing a song by the artists' names being read out and them having a little final vocal bit each - beautiful nostalgia.

This was a few months into the 'club banger' era where so many songs were 'dance act x' or 'rapper x' feat 'singer x' or 'rapper x', with a song about the club, and often referencing capital cities. I was gearing up for a move to Wales for a journalism course the following month so was just tieing up some loose ends at my family home, and it was also my last ever month working in the retail job I'd had for the prior seven years, so was a memorable period. Ah yes, now I remember what I spent my free time in this specific week doing...producing this mash-up of the Flo Rida song with the 90s Grange Hill theme (with help from former Buzzjack poster Hitstastic). I was particularly pleased with how well the middle eight rap fit together. The original song is a bit throwaway, and I initially thought it was Nicole Scherzinger on the female vocal! I do still hear it on the radio from time to time though. My other favourites in the top ten were Missing You, We No Speak Americano and Pack Up. Missing You I really thought would be the first No.1 for The Saturdays - and so did they; I don't think it was the first time they were thwarted by Flo Rida though, oops. I think it's a really nice production from them. We No Speak Americano was very infectious dance, and an intriguing one to get to No.1 here. And Pack Up was a charming use of a very old sample. Not too excited by the rest of the top ten but I do still listen to Airplanes, that was a nice guest vocal from Hayley and a good rap from B.o.B. I bought his album based on the strength of the singles. I liked the clipped string intro of All Time Low by The Wanted but didn't find the rest of the song that thrilling.

Looks amazing, glad the original Singapore is on here too so will be available to stream to. Cool to see a few vault tracks and alternative versions, they must have loads of the latter lying about from where they swapped lyrics and vocalists on various songs. I don't mind the Sound Of stuff being on here, if no separate release is being planned for that - I think these albums are being treated as batches of years and the Chemistry era seems to relate to 2005-6. Every other year between 2003 and 2008 they released a studio album apart from 2006 so I guess they felt that material had to go somewhere and it makes more sense here than the post-hits era Tangled Up, which felt like a clean slate for them in so many ways. Maybe they will do a Ten vinyl release instead at some point as they seem to treat that as being the definitive hits collection despite the huge success of Sound Of. These re-releases remind me of the fantastic Pet Shop Boys Further Listening projects, which again bundled together all the b-sides and rare tracks recorded not just for an album but the whole era in question, including one-off projects happening in the corresponding years covered. I've gone back to the WWTNS re-release a lot since it came out last year.

Yeah that's a great single, two brilliant No.1s on the trot for them and Bootylicious would have made a great third as well if it had gone a place higher, this was the era Destiny's Child really became superstars. The chorus is of course anthemic but I love the verses more, 'you know I'm not gon' diss you on the internet, 'cos my mamma taught me better than that'. Michelle's dramatic middle eight is great too, good to see her have a moment. I think I'd have it lower top ten but don't begrudge seeing it do well. Intrigued by the top two, I fear the forum may implode tomorrow if a certain song ends up at No.1, I'll get the popcorn.