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Catching up on this so far, interesting to read the thoughts when some of the songs here are discoveries. A few of what I'd rank in my top 10 have appeared so far. I don't disagree with some of the comments about Party Rock Anthem, but it became big as I was close to finishing uni, and definitely has a nostalgia hit it wouldn't have had if released a year or two after, think it'd be a definite top 5 for me. Also enjoy The Wanted (comfortably my favourite of theirs), Wretch 32 (to a point, preferred his other couple of big hits but good) and Example (though preferred his 2011 output) - all top half and top 10 contenders for me. Most of the songs I'd rank towards the bottom have appeared, Swagger Jagger would comfortably be my #31 and a contender for bottom position in all years.

31, please

There were a couple I couldn't figure out when trying to work out what was in the top 10, they were Scouting For Girls and Diana Vickers, so understandable to me. I do question the 'rock' element of the former, I don't see how it's any more rocky than Paradise really, and would never have considered them amongst the landfill element of indie - it felt like the likes of them, The Hoosiers, The Feeling were very much apart from what was typical landfill, your Enemies, Pigeon Detectives, Automatics etc. This Ain't A Love Song is considerably better than their previous bigger hits but not to the extent that I care for it in any way. Once... meh, I get what you say about the likes of Ellie and Marina but for me it's way behind even their most mediocre. Great to see We No Speak Americano in the top 3, Roll Deep as stated before is class and think it'd sneak into the top 5 for me. Written In The Stars is about right, do like it but it's the weakest of his big 4 from that era, including Miami 2 Ibiza there too. Only Girl is decent but not a Rihanna song I've really gone back to over the last decade - I think it would be contending with Bad Romance and Bruno Mars for the final position in my top 10. I have a huge favourite of what is left, I suspect I can guess what your #1 is and it wouldn't be shared, but it'd make the top 10.

01 (01) Blossoms - Joke About Divorce (01) (05) (2 weeks) 02 (04) BALTHVS - Shakedown Street (02) (05) 03 (02) Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Nosedive (01) (06) (1 week) 04 (08) The Maine - Quiet Part Loud (04) (04) 05 (07) Angine de Poitrine - Mata Zyklek (05) (06) 06 (10) Boards of Canada - Prophecy At 1420 MHz (06) (04) 07 (03) Future Islands - Find Love (02) (09) 08 (05) Gretel - Squish (05) (07) 09 (16) Antony Szmierek - Chalk (09) (03) 10 (13) Tomora - I Drink The Light (10) (05) 11 (06) Chalk - Béal Feirste (01) (09) (2 weeks) 12 (17) Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love (12) (06) 13 (18) Genesis Owusu - Life Keeps Going (13) (04) 14 (25) Mystery Jets - Black Sage (14) (03) 15 (21) Palace - Kid (16) (04) 16 (09) Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not (03) (10) 17 (22) Future Islands - One Day (17) (03) 18 (11) Sharp Pins - Popafangout (04) (08) 19 (12) Lauren Auder - No Outline (02) (10) 20 (26) Yard Act - Redeemer (20) (03) 21 (15) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Slumber Party (01) (10) (3 weeks) 22 (28) Unwed Sailor - West Coast Prism (22) (02) 23 (14) Genesis Owusu - STAMPEDE (07) (10) 24 (30) Gretel - The Perfect Body (24) (03) 25 (31) DJ Heartstring feat. DMA's and Saidah - A Thousand Lies (31) (02) 26 (**) Mystery Jets - A Hole To See The Sky Through I (26) (01) 27 (19) Muse - Be With You (10) (10) 28 (34) Overmono - Lockup (28) (02) 29 (23) Eaves Wilder - Hurricane Girl (22) (05) 30 (49) Ed O'Brien - Teachers (49) (01) 31 (20) Temples - Vendetta (16) (07) 32 (38) Nia Archives - Boys In Blue (32) (02) 33 (**) ear - Ne Plus Ultra (33) (01) 34 (24) Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee (02) (1) 35 (27) Baby Queen - Feel Something (12) (08) 36 (32) Model/Actriz - Glassman (16) (08) 37 (43) Orseno feat. KennyHoopla - Past Love (37) (01) 38 (29) Metric - Victim of Luck (01) (16) (2 weeks) 39 (33) Pond - Two Hands (15) (07) 40 (37) Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides (09) (10)

Brazil will either reach the final or suffer a humiliating early exit. The squad doesn't inspire confidence but Ancelotti is a vibes manager that specialises in tournaments, it could work.

The Dutch feel a tad underrated, could easily have been coming off the back of two very different tournaments after a penalties QF loss to face Croatia, and a injury time SF loss in a game they did ok in, but are definitely talked about in the rung below even the likes of Portugal and Brazil who have done less than them. It'll feel strange as a Premier League watcher to see two of their back 4 outside of their natural positions.

Ha, no! It helped that 2006 was the year I've recently been (slowly) doing in my own threads here, so was reminded of it. Definitely don't remember all of my own entries to other contests!

Oooh after saying this felt like it would all be quite close to my own ranking, 2 of my likely top 3 both drop out early! At the end of 2010 I ranked Telephone as my song of the year, I don't rate it anywhere near that highly now and don't go back to it loads, but I'd still have it as my favourite Gaga song - Just Dance and Born This Way the only others of hers I ever really listen to now. Forget You is absolutely magnificent, loved it from the very first listen and never really tired of it, you're definitely right about it working just as well with the clean version and not really needing f*** You,

Of the most recent few, Dynamite is definitely the best song to have appeared so far, a simple and incredibly effective example of this type of party song. Just The Way You Are is a great song for the huge radio friendly hit that it is, though it's not something I've chosen to listen to for a long while now, think Promise This is probably the one we'd have furthest apart so far, definitely right towards the bottom for me, scraping into the top 30.

01 (09) Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Nosedive (01) (04) (1 week) 02 (02) Future Islands - Find Love (02) (07) 03 (01) Chalk - Béal Feirste (01) (07) (2 weeks) 04 (16) Blossoms - Joke About Divorce (04) (03) 05 (08) Gretel - Squish (05) (05) 06 (03) Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not (03) (08) 07 (04) Sharp Pins - Popafangout (04) (06) 08 (17) BALTHVS - Shakedown Street (08) (03) 09 (05) Lauren Auder - No Outline (02) (08) 10 (14) Angine de Poitrine - Mata Zyklek (10) (04) 11 (07) Genesis Owusu - STAMPEDE (07) (08) 12 (06) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Slumber Party (01) (08) (3 weeks) 13 (10) Muse - Be With You (10) (08) 14 (23) Tomora - I Drink The Light (14) (03) 15 (27) The Maine - Quiet Part Loud (15) (02) 16 (22) Temples - Vendetta (16) (04) 17 (11) Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee (02) (10) 18 (20) Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love (18) (04) 19 (12) Baby Queen - Feel Something (12) (06) 20 (32) Boards of Canada - Prophecy At 1420 MHz (20) (02) 21 (13) Metric - Victim of Luck (01) (14) (2 weeks) 22 (25) Eaves Wilder - Hurricane Girl (22) (03) 23 (31) Palace - Kid (23) (02) 24 (19) Model/Actriz - Glassman (16) (06) 25 (36) Genesis Owusu - Life Keeps Going (25) (02) 26 (43) Antony Szmierek - Chalk (26) (01) 27 (15) Tom Misch - Echo From The Flames (13) (07) 28 (18) Pond - Two Hands (15) (05) 29 (49) Future Islands - One Day (29) (01) 30 (21) The Orielles - Tears Are (03) (13) 31 (47) Yard Act - Redeemer (31) (01) 32 (24) Courteeners - The Luckiest Man Alive (20) (05) 33 (29) Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides (09) (08) 34 (30) DMA's - My Baby's Place (22) (06) 35 (**) Mystery Jets - Black Sage (35) (01) 36 (28) Damon Albarn feat. Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest - Flags (05) (11) 37 (26) Lykke Li - Lucky Again (07) (10) 38 (46) Gretel - The Perfect Body (38) (01) 39 (34) The Strokes - Going Shopping (27) (05) 40 (33) PVA - Okay (02) (14)

30/10/2006 Bodyrox feat. Luciana - Yeah Yeah Chart Run: 01-01-01-04-04-06-04-04-06-09-13-16-17-28-31 (15 weeks) Time for another big UK hit now, as we move to Yeah Yeah by electro house duo Bodyrox, with vocals provided from Luciana. It is also of course the D. Ramirez edit which became popular and which I also loved. For a brief period this type of song was a popular and familiar sound, I put it in the same bracket as the likes of Mason - Exceeder and Fedde Le Grande - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit, which climbed to the UK #1 in the week Yeah Yeah was #2. Whilst I liked most of this type of track to some extent, Yeah Yeah was comfortably the standout of them for me, largely down to the bolshy, shouty vocal provided by Luciana which elevated it from a good song to a great one. It was certainly something I loved being such a big hit. I definitely don't like this as much as I did back in 2006, but it's definitely nice to hear whenever I do, Luciana's vocal still definitely elevating it. 2026 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: Air Traffic - Never Even Told Me Her Name, The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Herculean, Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright - Set The Fire To The Third Bar A trio of excellent songs kept off the top here. Air Traffic were a short lived indie pop band who had a few good singles in 2006-7, Never Even Told Me Her Name the one of these I'd still listen to most and got a long 13 week stint in the top 10 as it bounced up and down within it until the end of January. The Good, The Bad & The Queen were a Damon Albarn fronted 'supergroup' made up of various successful musicians and released a self-titled album I loved for a time in 2007, Herculean was the standout of this but all of the singles from it made the top 10. Finally, the best of the three and one of the songs of 2006 I still listen to the most, Set The Fire To The Third Bar by Snow Patrol with Martha Wainwright as a guest vocalist. It's the song of Snow Patrol's I'd now call a career highlight, a phenomenal beautiful duet by both vocalists - it's the one of this trio I'd now change, especially as Yeah Yeah already had a fortnight at the top. It was a huge week for releases when Yeah Yeah entered, with it being one of were 18 new entries in the chart, and there were 15 that made the UK top 40 (though a couple were already in there from downloads only prior to their 'official' release), the main highlight (although took a while to get going for me) is Gossip - Standing In The Way of Control. A lot of mine were fairly small indie bands following up previous songs I'd liked - The Sunshine Underground, Young Knives, Peter, Bjorn & John - or ones which were just starting and would have more success, for me and in the UK, later on - The Horrors, Panic! At The Disco, Klaxons. In the latter fortnight Beyonce got her biggest hit (so far) with Irreplaceable, and CSS, a very 2006/7 indie disco band, got their first hit with Alala.

We got an apology thought so it's alright

90 - 09/10/2006 TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me Chart Run: 35-24-12-06-04-01-01-01-07-17-24-30-29-31-36-40-39-38-40 (19 weeks) In an era of held-back releases we find a first genuine slow-burning climber, presenting a run that would look fairly typical now, although the swift fall down the chart is somewhat less common and a product of still going by a release schedule which have loads of excellent songs released in the same week. TV On The Radio were a brand new discovery for me at the end of summer that year, their second album Return To Cookie Mountain and single Wolf Like Me were both released in July. I first heard of them through previous single I Was a Love which is fine, but I wasn't overly bothered by it. Wolf Like Me, however, was something much more special. I charted it as soon as I heard it and it grew on me over the next few weeks to hit the top, a phenomenal anthemic indie-rock song. They've gone on to become a band I enjoy a lot, and each of the three albums of theirs that followed produced one fairly big hit for me. TV On The Radio aren't a band I still listen to loads, but they have half a dozen or so brilliant songs that I absolutely love to hear every now and again, and Wolf Like Me is one of those - 20 years on it still sounds incredibly fresh and stands out amongst other indie-rock music of the time. 2026 Rating: 9/10 LDN was #2 in each of the three weeks it was at #1. It was a relatively quiet period for releases, Scott Matthews - Elusive climbed back to #3 for two of these weeks before a re-release of The Rifles - Peace and Quiet charted there in its final week at the top, a good song but nothing special or standout for the bands of the time. The Holloways - Generator, The Knife - Like a Pen, and Jamie T - If You Got The Money were the three standouts from these three weeks, though none of them would reach higher than #9. A mammoth 29 songs would enter the chart over the next fortnight, so plenty to discuss on the next entry,

The Roll Deep pair were absolutely class, loved them being big hits during my uni years and still sound good, though definitely have them the right way round. Start Without You is iconic, just felt quite unique and unlike what I'd expect from an XF act, but did really enjoy it, haven't heard it in a looong time now though, so might not look on it so favourably. Olly... meh, he definitely had much better later on.

Star Guitar for me, always thought it was great but seeing them live definitely made me appreciate that one more. Would agree with the general consensus of It Began in Afrika being the weakest. 01 Star Guitar 02 Setting Sun 03 Go 04 Hey Boy Hey Girl 05 Block Rockin Beats 06 Galvanize 07 Let Forever Be 08 It Began in Afrika

Can't really argue with the last three, feels like this ranking will be fairly similar to mine, all of them ok but nothing amazing - probably not top 20 worthy. Would probably rank Beautiful Monster as the best of the three but all much of a muchness,

89 - 25/09/2006 Lily Allen - LDN Chart Run: 01-01-02-02-02-11-23-28-32-34 (10 weeks) Getting to a song which spent more than a solitary week at the top again, and it's Lily Allen with her second hit, LDN. Her first two singles were the reverse for me in as in the UK as it was following up #6 hit Smile, which was always nice enough but even at the time I loved LDN a lot more - it had been hanging around for a while as one of the new wave of MySpace acts, and was great fun and well written, a good tale of noughties London. I was certainly pleased she got the UK success she did in 2006, it was great to see her at the top of the UK chart. LDN had a quite bizarre chart run for me, with five weeks in the top 2 before dropping straight out of the top 10 and lasting just five further weeks in total! There were some very busy weeks for releases coming up which contributed to big falls, and as I'd been listening to it long before its actual release it wouldn't have had the longevity it perhaps deserved. I've gone through phases with Lily Allen - I liked her first couple of albums but went off them both relatively quickly, only going back to certain songs now, but have definitely enjoyed some of her latter work too, though that's No Shame much more than last years album. LDN is still a pretty good song that I enjoy, but it does feel very 2006! Looking at Lily's chart history, I do think she has been under-charted with her best songs generally - Alfie (#12) and The Fear (#14) seem criminally low peaks, and they'd be the two of hers I'd go back to most, with Back To The Start probably rounding off a top 3. 2026 Rating: 7/10 Songs kept from #1: McAlmont & Butler - Speed, Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Both of these songs rose to the #2 spot, in their fifth and third charting week respectively, after entering lower down which was becoming a bit more common but still quite rare by this stage. McAlmont & Butler were an occasional project between Suede's Bernard Butler and singer David McAlmont, whose 90s hit Yes I was a big fan of. I enjoyed Speed for a while but not something I've returned to often. After loving Jet's debut album I had high hopes for a return, but it's widely regarded as an awful album, and whilst I wouldn't go as far as some criticism I definitely consider it to be a huge comedown in quality, which wasn't unusual for bands of this era releasing a second album. Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is is fine, but got nothing on earlier singles - I certainly don't rate either of these tracks anywhere near as high now. Two other highlights released within this fortnight were The Pipettes follow-up Judy (#4) and a hidden gem amongst the indie landfill for a band who had some minor success (3 top 40s all in the 30s), Happy As Annie by Larrikin Love (#15), a song of that era I've gone on to enjoy a lot over the years and still play regularly.

Both top 10 if I'd have got to this year first :D

Yes definitely no arguments with those two - certainly would be down in these bottom positions for me too!

Caught up with the last few, a good top 10 and excellent write-ups of them, don't think my rankings would look too dissimilar, but the Gaga ones would all be a few touches lower - just not really bothered about listening to any of her music as much as I once was, even Telephone which I'd always loved as my favourite still is, but overall still wouldn't rate it as highly. Killing In The Name probably my favourite number one of this year based on what it represented, if not my favourite song (though it wouldn't be far off, probably 3rd). Killing In The Name Bonkers I'm Not Alone Sexy Chick The Fear Run This Town I Gotta Feeling (about 10 places higher than I once would've, actually sounds good to hear now) When Love Takes Over Boom Boom Pow Bad Romance

When I got the PM asking if I wanted to do one of these, 2010 was an option but it had been taken before I saw it. A quick scan of the 2012 and 2014 number ones there was only one choice, so went with the former as there's a dozen or so great songs I want to write about. As with most of these countdowns, I won't remember a lot of what is to come so will be interesting to see if I curse you reading PMs before me wishing these were the songs I was writing about. When I properly looked at what I'd signed up to an initial reaction was "36 number ones?! FFS" so at least there's one angle where I can't be frustrated at not getting to have 2010. Being a huge football fan and traveller to watch England games, I probably hold more of a nostalgia for football songs than they deserve. As a result, Shout might not be as low but I can't imagine it'd hit the heights of my top 30, as football songs go it really is the pits.

01 (01) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Slumber Party (01) (05) (3 weeks) 02 (03) Lauren Auder - No Outline (02) (05) 03 (06) Chalk - Béal Feirste (03) (04) 04 (09) Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not (04) (05) 05 (02) Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee (02) (07) 06 (12) Future Islands - Find Love (06) (04) 07 (04) Metric - Victim of Luck (01) (11) (2 weeks) 08 (17) Sharp Pins - Popafangout (08) (03) 09 (05) The Orielles - Tears Are (03) (10) 10 (14) Genesis Owusu - STAMPEDE (10) (06) 11 (07) Lykke Li - Lucky Again (07) (07) 12 (08) Damon Albarn feat. Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest - Flags (05) (08) 13 (15) Muse - Be With You (13) (05) 14 (20) Tom Misch - Echo From The Flames (14) (04) 15 (10) PVA - Okay (02) (11) 16 (23) Baby Queen - Feel Something (16) (03) 17 (11) Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides (09) (05) 18 (13) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - I Danced With Another Love In My Dream (05) (08) 19 (27) Pond - Two Hands (19) (02) 20 (16) Jungle - Carry On (16) (04) 21 (22) MUNA - So What (21) (06) 22 (24) DMA's - My Baby's Place (22) (03) 23 (30) Courteeners - The Luckiest Man Alive (23) (02) 24 (19) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (01) (13) (4 weeks) 25 (29) Model/Actriz - Glassman (25) (03) 26 (37) Gretel - Squish (26) (02) 27 (18) Metric - Time Is a Bomb (09) (07) 28 (**) Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Nosedive (28) (01) 29 (33) The Strokes - Going Shopping (29) (02) 30 (21) Young Fathers - Don't Fight The Young (12) (08) 31 (43) Temples - Vendetta (31) (01) 32 (26) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (02) (11) 33 (28) Temples - Jet Stream Heart (14) (08) 34 (47) Angine de Poitrine - Mata Zyklek (34) (01) 35 (32) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (15) (2 weeks) 36 (25) Lava La Rue - Scratches (13) (07) 37 (31) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (08) (12) 38 (45) Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love (38) (01) 39 (34) Whitelands - I Am No God, An Effigy (22) (08) 40 (36) Nothing - Cannibal World (21) (09)

I have a playlist called BJSC Vote Potentials - once I've listened to the full playlist I transfer the ones that I thought were ok to that and then whittle it down from there - trying to have my last listen in vote order, though I always do it in reverse finishing with the best.

Bonkers is truly exceptional, would be my number one here for sure, it was so instant I loved it straight away and - I feel like some of his other big hits have really aged badly but this has stood up well - phenomenal to watch him perform it live.

88 - 18/09/2006 The Aliens - The Happy Song Chart Run: 01-03-05-05-04-06-19-24-33-37 (10 weeks) After three long running number one singles over the summer, we move to a third consecutive song to spend just a week at the top now. The Aliens came about in 2005 as a new project for three members and ex-members of cult Scottish indie act The Beta Band, who formed a new project. I definitely remember discovering them (and The Happy Song) on a corner of the internet somewhere, along with another song Only Waiting. The Happy song is well... happy and cheerful, designed to be catchy and it worked well. They'd go on to have three more hits for me over the next couple of years, each one being slightly less successful than the previous. It's still a good, fun listen, but it's not something I've gone back to loads, certainly not recently. It sound good listening to it again though, a song that certainly brings back a memory. 2026 Rating: 7/10 The other standout release of this week is the beautiful Elusive by Scott Matthews (#3), a song I've gone on to listen to a lot more than The Happy Song.