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Yeah no competition. A wet J.Lo ballad vs. one of the best songs of the year (or any year).

iTunes finally relevant once more 🎉 If anyone ever feels like making another of those 'omg 300 sales, well done!!' comments in here again then I wouldn't bother, as it may as well be 300,000 in the eyes of the British public. As long as the narrative suits what the media want people to believe... the last 15 years never happened, iTunes is king! That said I do wonder if Victoria has had a bit of a bumper sales day off the back of the media coverage because it's kind of crazy that Harry hasn't managed to overhaul her yet with his big comeback.

<3 Such a memorable chart for me. Runaway never stood a chance but I'm so glad it got as high as No.2. Britney was a juggernaut, I was gobsmacked by the sales at the time, think I expected half that. I love every song in that second top ten with the exception of Fly Away and I Want You Back, which I do still like anyway. Will comment more after the episodes though.

I always thought it was awful too personally, quite an unexpected No.1 too to say he never had any other notable success and it doesn't sound like anything else released in 2008 but it really owes a lot to its sample.

Came here to say the same! Neither is known for their vocal clarity, that's for sure. Song sounds great though, her best in ages, I love that it has a juddering sound effect at the start like Tattoo. That's like the alarm that she has a good song on the way.

Wow. It's not often a lead single by an A-list superstar leaves me surprised like this. Kudos to Harry for making another musical swerve here. It sounds like the late 00s in a good way, all the cool indie dance and electronic stuff that was around then, but it needs more listens for the melody to stick. I like the production a lot. Will be very interesting to see how this does commercially after week one. It certainly feels unlikely to be an As It Was level hit.

Also the same week as Robyn and Loreen. Not that the latter will do anything, it's just a lot to listen to in one week when we have so many barren weeks all the time. Looking forward to it all the same. The last album was so good and there's nothing to suggest this won't be anything other than brilliant too.

2008 was a big year for me too. I finished uni in May and took a break from my job for the first time since 2003 to write my dissertations (for some reason I had two). And then in the summer I passed my driving test (on the first attempt but I'd been doing lessons for a year). I started working full-time come the summer in the supermarket job I had been in part-time since 2003 - I wouldn't do anything with my degree until 2010... I don't remember it being a great year for music overall, with quite slow charts, but there was a lot of soul and Motown inspired pop around in the wake of Amy Winehouse's success. And Clubland style Eurodance had a weird mini revival with big albums from names like Scooter and Darren Styles. Anyway, I look forward to following the thread and seeing what you made of the chart toppers.

The astonishing thing right now is the amount of discourse online (Twitter and TikTok especially) about Victoria 'getting her first UK No.1' as if iTunes is gospel. I can't see that she will even go top 100 officially.

Hilarious to see Victoria at the top! Let's hope our BuzzJack anniversary campaign can be half as successful! Shows that a popular girlband or girlband member is the way to go, as Mollie already half proved the concept five years ago. Maybe Victoria can celebrate by making Let Your Head Go/This Groove available.

This list is more like it than the No.1s! 01 Better the Devil You Know 02 On a Night Like This 03 Confide in Me 04 Love at First Sight 05 I Believe in You ------------------------ 06 Got to Be Certain 07 Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi 08 The Loco-motion 09 Wouldn't Change a Thing ------------------------ 10 Kids (with Robbie Williams) 11 Give Me Just a Little More Time The top five are all amazing songs and very difficult to separate. The next four are all great 80s singles in my opinion. Never been overkeen on Kids and not a fan at all of Give Me Just a Little More Time.

Ha, yes true, and I used to check the Aussie charts regularly when I was first getting into the likes of Bardot and Delta, so checked most of the hits there at the time, but missed Angel. Beyond songs that charted top five I guess there would be way more I don't know.

It is a curious quirk that BJSC with the sheer volume of participants has 6/7 day voting windows but the other forum competitions with far fewer entries to get to know have much longer windows. I suspect it's partly a nod to Unknown Pleasures, which was the OG non BJSC competition, and had a much longer voting window as a lot of the people who enter like to listen three or four times to everything before submitting their votes. But then again, BJSC has to be more of a rapid pace to get through 10 contests a year.

It's very rare that I come across a song I've never heard of in these threads but Angel is the first. Curious that it did that well in Australia and New Zealand but wasn't pushed here. The production has Mariah vibes to it, it's like something in between Always Be My Baby and We Belong Together. But the melody isn't exciting me too much so going for the classic In Da Club.

I feel like Sam, Lily and Dave were all highly critically acclaimed, Olivia too but it has been criticised of containing some filler. I loved it though but definitely prefer Lily’s. I thought the Wolf Alice album was considered marmite or a step down by many people so was surprised to see that there. That over JADE is a bit of a poor call for me.

I really want Lily to win best album, I don’t mind Olivia winning everything else but West End Girl is SO good. The dance act nominations look a bit clunky. Calvin Harris and Clementine are not a self contained act, it was a one-off collab? Ditto Fred again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax.

Yeah not sure what was up with Shakira's promo team in 2010. Waka Waka peaked at No.21 and I guess suffered due to saturation of too many football songs with that awful Shout song, K'Naan's Wavin' Flag, Three Lions and various other novelties like Terry Venables. I think the market was just slightly crowded (in the way that it was in 1998 for Ricky Martin's The Cup Of Life) but at least it became recognised over time for the classic it is, and had a decent chart run in the end. I'm unable to find any logical reason that Loca was cancelled, I can only assume they didn't think it would do much and maybe Dizzee's label thought it could hurt his profile as he was still racking up the number ones at the time, but there's no evidence he or his label had any involvement. This thread is an interesting re-read. According to yours truly it eventually surfaced on iTunes for a few days as part of various compilation albums several months after it was released elsehwere. One of which looked like quite the treat: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Millennium-Next-Generation-Vol-9-Various/dp/B00483B9LY And then it was pulled after a few days. And Loca only ever surfaced as an album track.

Not too huge on Umbrella myself but can't deny the cultural impact it had, changing the weather here to rain for that entire summer so it could remain locked at No.1. I did eventually buy the Good Girl Gone Bad album as liked all of the other singles more weirdly. Here is my rank: 1. Take That - Shine (Rule The World would top this too had it got to No.1, I was obsessed with them at the time) 2. Robyn / Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat 3. Timbaland, Justin Timberlake & Nelly Furtado - Give It To Me 4. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love 5. Mika - Grace Kelly 6. Beyonce and Shakira - Beautiful Liar 7. Sugababes - About You Now 8. Timbaland, Keri Hilson and D.O.E. - The Way I Are 9. Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This 10. Rihanna feat. Jay Z - Umbrella 11. Kanye West - Stronger 12. Katie Melua and Eva Cassidy - What a Wonderful World 13. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby 14. Sugababes and Girls Aloud - Walk This Way (a waste of two brilliant bands' talents) 15. McFly - Baby's Coming Back/Transylvania (one of their worst with one I can barely recall) 16. Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls (appalling) 17. Leon Jackson - When You Believe (how can a studio recording sound this out of tune) 18. Proclaimers feat Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (truly awful and unfunny) The top eight I still love, wouldn't turn off 9-13, would never play the bottom five. Thanks for a very enjoyable rank @Scene with some brilliant, very informative write-ups with lots of stuff I'd forgotten happened.

Voted! That was hard - I really enjoyed 17 songs there and feel bad for the 11th place but hope it gets in. Semi 1 was also very strong, the second half especially is gem after gem.

All The Things She Said

K3 are great, it's weird that they came to prominence with Heyah Mamah in the Belgian 1999 ESC national final and it didn't even win. The same national final contained another loser that become a European hit too weirdly (Belle Perez - Hello World). Well done Belgium for throwing out two hit singles in a national final.

This reminds me of Rufus Wainwright a bit, it's very striking in Semi 1 so sure it will Q.

Wow big finish for Marina, well done Scene! Pleased to be part of a runaway top five, Grace can be proud of fifth behind four much bigger names I’m sure. Glad Fleeting did at least make the top ten, and Agnes too! My favourite discovery (Aitana) being so low is a bit eh, but I think this contest is more for the artists we already know and love so I’ll take it as a win that it’s not bottom five. Thanks for great hosting @Tafty ❤️

This will be the first Kasabian 'hit' with Sergio Pizzorno on vocals I guess? Disc 1, track 1 on Now 123 beckons I fear.

I kind of hear it. Also it was one of my favourite songs here that I didn't know already.