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I've listened to 3 Lions '98 a fair few times since Weds night, although interesting that Three Lions made it in without Thursday streams.

Waka Waka is such a great song, always nice to see Shakira in the top 40. And impressive that she looks to get the only 'new' football song this year, I wonder if any new England, Scotland or Wales specific football songs will ever chart again.

Very poor track, just a bad idea all round of songs to sample/cover. Wow, we really did just buy any old crap in the Club Banger era didn't we! Best Thing I Never Had deserved No.1, such a classy ballad.

Yeah, I thought she was another Lumidee for at least nine months from Pon De Replay. SOS and Unfaithful was a great one-two punch to make a statement after the fairly middling follow up singles from the debut album. Unfaithful was the first one of hers I personally loved (and bought).

The Game, it's the first song in one of these polls in ages I couldn't remember without looking it up. It did come back to me upon listening but I prefer the other eight songs.

It is definitely AI, I pressed play on the preview (for my sins). Artwork is also AI and it's on that telltale Records DK 'label' that a lot of the AI stuff is on.

More AI crap, of course. Now people don't even need to go to the effort of making their own bad song to make a political point.

Another X Factor winner's single I bought for the b-side covers from the show. It's fine, quite a pleasant version of Cannonball but not indicative of what they would go on to do and achieve, and probably a step back after When We Collide really. I see what they were trying to do with another cover of an indie track but not sure Cannonball suits being a group number at all. I don't know why they didn't give the group something more fitting.

I voted for Endless as it's up my street and reminds me a little of Colors by Rivaz.

A very erratic nation, you never know if they will send something of top three or bottom three/DNQ quality, there's often very little in between. My favourite from them is a pretty unfashionable song from the 21st century that I wouldn't expect to come in your top ten rank, so will mention it when it appears. I appreciate, admire and respect rather than personally love their winning entries.

The radio edits are the hit versions most of the time so I would prefer whatever the hit/charting main version was. Honey To The Bee is indeed the radio edit as just saw the tracklist on iTunes. Still annoying that Shania isn't looking to be the UK version though.

As I mentioned in the previous thread, I did buy this, partly for the b-sides. It was definitely one of the better X Factor winner singles and I'd rank it a few places higher (think it was about 20th for me in 2010, will see where it ends up in 2011).

Eh, Fool No More definitely isn't the second worst here. Going for the mid Usher song again.

A particularly bad single from Gareth Gates, so that. Not surprised it ended his No.1s run.

Me too, although I've always loved Catch You anyway and thought it would peak higher at the time.

Absolutely, or stuff like Finesse by Bruno Mars, as their name was a pun on New jack swing. I had the same high hopes for them based on X Factor and some of the great soul numbers they performed that they didn't deliver on at all with the watered down generic dance stuff.

Wrong order in the top three that week for me. Although I recall Moves Like Jagger starting out as something of a surprise major hit as neither Maroon 5 or Christina were exactly highly relevant at the time. Don't Go I find pretty bland and boring, I preferred both Traktor and Unorthodox from earlier in the year. Heaven was a brilliant track from Emeli Sandé too.

Zero Gravity would be comfortably up there in my top 10 Eurovision entries ever, and definitely Australia's best for me. I've loved Kate since the 00s and was excited to hear she was doing the Australian national final, although expected Sheppard to come out on top (and their entry On My Way is actually great and has a lot of Spotify streams). But you can't deny her artistry, her vocal range and delivery is amazing, the lyrics about coming out of severe postpartum depression are such a unique but important subject, and the triumph of the last part of the song is so uplifting. Also...that performance, absolutely astonishing and looked incredible on screen. 9th was an absolute insult for a song and performance this good and I can't really understand why the jury marked it so averagely compared to Nemo and JJ, for example, a few years later. Singing and performing a great song with brilliant lyrics like that while swaying in the air, what more did they want from her? Promise came alive for me when we went up to Liverpool in 2023 to watch it. I enjoyed seeing it live in the dress rehearsal, and it stuck in my head for a long time after the contest finished. The public really underrated this in the final, as is often the way with Australia.

Q3/Q4 big comebacks/album campaign launches and X Factor season tended to boost the turnover of No.1s in the latter half of the year I suppose, and often not the quality of them if they were associated with the show beyond just being a guest performance. Yeah, seven weeks for Moves Like Jagger, it was tremendously unlucky to get stuck behind all those different individual songs, often a long-running No.2 is marooned behind a bigger No.1, but that wasn't the case at all. Shame as it was my favourite song of that year and some of the stuff that beat it is pure crap.

That's great news, I might download my highligts on iTunes in case it disappears again 😂

Yeah this is crap, a little better than The Club Is Alive, but not by much and just felt like a desperate attempt to copy the in sound to get an easy hit, right down to reeling off the countries and cities like Jade mentions. I'm realising how most of their singles were really trend chasing to what was around at the time. I wonder what their stuff would sound like if they'd been active from 2013-2016? UK house music influenced maybe? Or would they have released more stuff like the singles from their debut album that at least felt a little more natural than what followed. I don't think it's a great look to have no individuality and just copy whatever is popular at the time. Having said that I did like some their songs that didn't get to No.1 like One Shot and particularly Eyes Wide Shut, although granted the latter was just copying Calvin Harris' I'm Not Alone synth, but somehow it felt warmer and more authentic than these naff songs about the club that they kept coming out with. These are the kinds of songs that made me so tired of the club banger era when it was happening in real time. I look back on it more fondly now by only listening to the good singles to come out of the era/movement, and not this kind of stuff. Love that auction factoid though @Paddington James lol. The fact that RedOne was auctioning off his services at all is brilliant, imagine if Adele had won

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Milkshake Man is fun, I saw it performed by Sheppard last year who wrote it, I'm surprised it didn't make the final in the end. I love Eclipse, although it's far from the best song Delta has done, and I do feel Wings could have been a slightly bigger challenger for her in 2015 if it had been used as Australia's first entry. Still, she performed the hell out of it as expected and came across so well, it was amazing to see her on that stage and doing so well, especially in the public vote. I agree with you about Sound of Silence completely. Brilliant performance but more of a number that I respect than particularly love myself, for reasons I'm not really sure. An incredibly impressive and deserved result though. My favourite has made your top two! The other song is strong too.

Master Jack Getting a 1968 song into a multichart has to be a new achievement unlocked. Amazing to see Delta with her biggest ever multichart hit! Top three <3

I believe it means the uploader has toggled off 'allow embedding' so that you can only watch it on YouTube. I've come across this issue before so to try and find out why I had a play around with some of the videos I've uploaded in the past, turned off 'allow embedding' on one and basically had the same thing happen where I could no longer post it on here.