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I wonder if all the solo female mentors will now feel like they have to play a big song to get past underdog Milica. Feels like in this group there's no space for even a tiny misstep.

Pleased Sade got support, that really is a lovely song.

Bladee definitely could have gone a couple of rounds at least but that song was the strangest choice of all 36.

Liking the sound of Obsessed the most on first listen!

Being completely honest, probably Duffy, which was a step behind the singles from the original Rockferry album for me. The vocal on Be Cool makes me laugh, it's very unique, and the music is solid 2002 Eurotrance.

I liked the album more than expected based on the reception commercially and views I've seen online. Aftermath is my favourite album track but Bass Persuades is definitely growing on me and I like the remix. The project is cohesive and the production is good throughout so I'll come back to it.

Great track, and another good song to get to No.1 in a year where the door felt open to anything. A lot of people bang on about Charli not reaching her full commercial potential until Brat, but she had so many classic pop singles before that. Icona Pop are always great too, and yet another No.1 from Sweden! Glad I Love It was a big hit in Germany too, but not too big, or we wouldn't have had this brilliant meme. Looking at the three left it seems you still have my No.1 of the year, my No.5, and one which would be a fair bit lower but is still decent.

Their best in a little while but they haven't put anything essential out for me for many years now.

I like the music this era. I think it's fun to see a mainstream male artist doing stuff like this.

Get her back in the studio!

Although it wasn’t on the Hits series either in 1999, or any other compilation released in the UK that year. Unpretty was on Hits 2000 though. I think Come On Home by Everything But The Girl is my favourite discovery so far on Vault 86, quite a stunning production, it sounds like a lost Christmas hit, yet it was released in summer and missed the top 40.

I was a big fan of The Heist and enjoyed Thrift Shop, Can't Hold Us and Same Love a lot, nice to see it top five, sure it would be in my top ten at least. I can see how the horn riff might get annoying for some (as I'm not much of a fan of e.g. Get Right by J.Lo or Jason Derulo's Talk Dirty) but I think there's plenty else going on here that makes the song interesting that the riff doesn't become the dominant feature, but one of many.

Deepest Blue. The Emma song is lovely for me, I actually preferred it to What Took You So Long (in the single mix, not the album version currently on Spotify).

Elbow again.

Yes I'm enjoying it this morning, lots of quality songs I don't know on here. Digging further into the Eurythmics chart history after hearing their song on here made me realise how funny their chart peaks are: They had a hit at every chart place in the top 12 apart from No.7 and never peaked in the same top 20 place twice. Yet had two songs each peak at No.23 (including The Miracle Of Love on this CD, which probably sold reasonably as it was out over Christmas), No.25 and No.26. How odd.

This is the other song I very vividly remember from the time, despite only being 4 when it was at No.1. Everywhere I went, it was playing. The cinema, the shops, at home, even on the bus, it was my earliest memory of a song being everywhere, which made sense when I later realised how long it was No.1. I do like it though too and would rank it at least similarly, the intro and verses are particularly lovely. Not an undeserving long running No.1.

Interesting list, some of these are certainly doing the rounds in forum contests. I know about six songs, including my own. I didn’t know a couple of these acts predated the 00s in their origin!

Voted! Strong final for me, lots of movement in my provisional to final votes as a fair few growers here. There are a couple that are not tipped to do amazingly that I really hope do, but largely I enjoyed many of the favourites this time so will be rooting for them.

The chorus is decent but I’m still lukewarm on Miley most of the time, the events surrounding the song and its promotion were a moment in time at least. Far better than We Can’t Stop, I agree.

Speaking of which, Vault '86 turned up today and it is an education, for me anyway. The girlband cover version of Only Love Can Break Your Heart caught me off guard. Liking the song by Wax, which I didn't know already. I've never heard the original version of No More "I Love You's", I see it's not available to stream. Candy is by far the most recognisable song on this album, almost unbelievable it wasn't deemed worthy of a place on the Extra or even the main 1986 album, or either of the Final Chapters. Last chance saloon here for such a famous number.

I spent an awful lot of pocket money in these two weeks! Some of my favourite ever dance records in the brilliant Fragma (amazing sale for my favourite No.1 single of the year) and the sublime Airwave by Rank 1, so glad this slipped into the top 10 with little fanfare on such a hectic week too, because it is a beauty. I also bought Sash!, which is underrated and one of their best singles in both the ballad and dance versions! And Black Box Recorder, incredible track and so unique, and Sister2Sister, which is fun Australian pop that went top three there. I didn’t buy them at the time but so many classic singles from Craig David, Sweet Female Attitude, Sisqo, Bloodhound Gang and Steps. It feels like everyone was firing on all cylinders in spring 2000. Lonestar’s Amazed was a chart run to behold - country songs often had some of the strangest and most protracted chart runs, and still do today I suppose.

Ooh that cover is not good, looks very AI, maybe it's a tribute to Movin' To The Sun kicking the album off. I know so few of these songs so lots to discover, nice to see Dagny make the cut. Dai Dai missing is a shame as it was No.1 for ages in Germany, probably means Now won't get it either.

I like Lily's version of that too, I enjoyed it more than the other singles from that album, which was easily her weakest for me.

They feed the lyrics into Suno and Suno spits out a new melody with the same lyrics (usually to some style like 'Irish', jazz or country etc). So most of these terrible covers, are covers only lyrically.

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