John_Squire

Hardest year of the decade!!! (Maybe 99 will come close). 15 U2 “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” 12 N-Trance “Set You Free” 10 Mike Flowers Pops “Wonderwall” :P 08 Oasis “Wonderwall” 06 Supergrass “Alright” 05 Pulp “Common People” 04 Original “I Luv U Baby” 03 Alex Party “Don’t Give Me Your Life” 02 Perez Prado “Guaglione” 01 Annie Lennox “No More 'I Love You’s” -2 Meat Loaf “I’d Lie For You (And That’s The Truth)” Even the Boyzone songs ae quite good in 95! --------------------

:wub: I hope this come soon and is absolutely huge. Rock Steady was so underrated! If they'd released Rock Steady any time from 2008-now it would've been way bigger.

15 Stone Roses “Love Spreads” :wub: 12 Ace of Base “The Sign” 10 Kylie Minogue “Confide in Me” 08 Corona “Rhythm Of The Night” 06 All 4 One “I Swear” 05 Mariah Carey “All I Want For Christmas is You” 04 Crash Test Dummies “Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm” 03 Toni Braxton “Breathe Again” 02 Big Mountain “Baby I Love Your Way” 01 Bon Jovi “Always” -2 Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting “All For Love”

10 Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness 09 Cure - Friday I'm In Love 08 R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts 07 Arrested Development - People Everyday 06 Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name 05 House Of Pain - Jump Around 04 Prodigy - Out Of Space 03 Shamen - Ebenezer Goode 02 SL2 - On A Ragga Trip -1 Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer Very overrated You have 2 days for every round to rate. This means the deadline

Amerie :(

15 4 Non Blondes – What’s Up 12 Urban Cookie Collective - The Key The Secret 10 Haddaway – What Is Love 08 Janet Jackson – That’s The Way Love Goes 06 Pet Shop Boys “Go West” 05 M People “Moving on Up” 04 Snow – Informer 03 Bitty McLean - It Keeps Rainin’ 02 Cappella “U Got 2 Let The Music” 01 Elton John and Kiki Dee “True Love” -2 Michael Jackson – Give in to Me

I can only hope that everyone who says Denise Fergus was neglectful/needs to get on with her life never goes through something one hundreth as bad as this. If you are going to say Thompson and Venables were abused/neglected which led to their actions - and that could well be true - you cannot say that Denise Fergus leaving her son unattended for a couple of minutes counts as abuse and neglect! By that standard you might as well say that anyone who is ignored by their guardian for a couple of minutes could grow up to be a criminal/murderer due to all the neglect they suffered. Denise Fergus probably regrets leaving him every second of every day, and has that on her conscience for life. That's all she did wrong. It was Thompson and Venables who murdered him. As for getting on with her life - I would imagine it's a bit hard when the case is brought up every five minutes by the media (and don't say that every single time it is, it's brought up by Fergus, because it clearly isn't).

7/10 so far...think it's definitely a grower too. A little bit samey in parts but there are some fantastic tracks here.

If JFTB only peaked at 20 in 2003, with that chart run, it surely only sold about 20-25k, maybe less. All I Have would easily sell double its 2003 figures now, probably over 400k.

15 KLF feat. Tammy Wynette – Justified And Ancient 12 Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe – Barcelona 10 Arrested Development – People Everyday 08 Shanice – I Love Your Smile 06 Ce Ce Peniston – Finally 05 The Prodigy – Everybody in the Place 04 Michael Jackson – Heal The World 03 Undercover – Baker Street 02 Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson – The Best Things In Life Are Free 01 Nick Berry – Heartbeat -1 Kylie Minogue – Give Me Just A Little More Time

91 #2s>#1s 15 Scorpions – Wind Of Change 12 Extreme – More Than Words 10 Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman 08 Seal – Crazy 06 Salt-N-Pepa – Let’s Talk About Sex 05 Nomad – (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 04 James – Sit Down 03 Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy 02 KLF – Last Train to Trancentral 01 Diana Ross – When You Tell Me That You Love Me ^ I like all of these. -2 Heavy D and The Boyz – Now That We Found Love Had to pick one, this is the only track I don't know

12 Dr Dre ft Eminem & Skylar Grey/ I Need A Doctor 11 Snoop Dogg vs David Guetta/ Sweat 10 Cee-Lo Green ft Wiz Khalifa/ Bright Lights, Bigger City 09 Tinie Tempah ft Ellie Goulding/ Wonderman 08 Noah & The Whale/ L.I.F.E G.O.E.S O.N 07 Wiz Khalifa/ Black And Yellow 06 The Black Eyed Peas Just Can't Get Enough 05 Adele/ Someone Like You 04 Glee/ Thriller and Heads Will Roll 03 Geraldine McQueen a.k.a Peter Kay & Susan Boyle/ I Know Him So Well 02 Alexis Jordan/ Good Girl 01 Martin Solveig ft Dragonette/ Hello -1 Rihanna/ S&M -1 Pink/ F***in Prefect -1 David Guetta ft Rihanna/ Who's That Chick? -1 Cee-Lo Green/ Forget You -1 Katy Perry/ Firework

Based on what SHOULD be number 1, not what I prefer (which would be Kate Nash and the Manics) 7 LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE- Eminem Ft Rihanna - obvs 6 ROCKSTAR- Nickelback - it was massive 5 FOUNDATIONS- Kate Nash - worthy of #1 but I like the fact it's one of those massive songs that didn't quite do it. 4 YOUR LOVE ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH- Manic Street Preachers - well they're destined to pick at 2 with some of their best songs. Definitely good enough for #1 though. 3 NO U HANG UP/ IF THAT'S OK WITH YOU- Shayne Ward - should've been a comeback #1 I suppose 2 BETTER IN TIME/ FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND- Leona Lewis - again should've been #1 based on fanbase 1 AYO TECHNOLOGY- 50 Cent Featuring Justin Timberlake - hung around for ages but not really that memorable

Definitely not! 'Blue Velvet' was a re-release from the early 60s I think - was in some film and more recently a toilet roll advert. 'Black Velvet' is completely different - you might have heard it, it still gets played on radio though hardly ever.

15 Alannah Myles – Black Velvet :wub: 12 DNA feat. Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner 10 Paula Abdul with The Wild Pair – Opposites Attract 08 Deee-Lite “Groove is in the Heart” This really deserves 15 too - tough top 5! 06 The Adventures of Stevie V – Dirty Cash 05 Luciano Pavarotti – Nessun Dorma 04 Bobby Vinton – Blue Velvet 03 The B-52s – Love Shack 02 Kylie Minouge – Better the Devil You Know 01 Madonna – Hanky Panky -2 Craig McLachlan and Check 1-2 – Mona

I'd like both 80s #1s and 90s #2s. And 00s #2s. Go for a #2s rate next.

Best British Soap Eastenders Coronation Street Doctors Hollyoaks Best Actress Lindsey Coulson(Eastenders) Jessie Wallace (Eastenders) Jane Danson(CS) Katherine Kelly(CS) Best Actor Shane Ritchie (Eastenders) Chris Gascoyne (CS) Steve McFadden (Eastenders) Simon Gregson (CS) Sexiest Male Marc Elliot (Eastenders) Rob Norbury (Hollyoaks) Nicolas Woodman (Doctors) Scott Maslen (Eastenders) Sexiest Female Michelle Keegan (CS) Alison King (CS) Rita Simons (Eastenders) Jennifer Metcalfe(Hollyoaks) Villain Of The Year Charlie Brooks (Eastenders) Don Gilet (Eastenders) Kate Ford (CS) Paula Lane (CS) Best Newcomer Zoe Lucker (Eastenders) Ricky Norwood(Eastenders) Patti Clare (Coranation Street) Emmet J Scanlan(Hollyoaks) Best Exit Vicky Binns (Coranation Street) Lacey Turner(Eastenders) Barbara Windsor(Eastenders) Jamie Lomas Escaping Death (Hollyoaks) Best Comedy Performance Malcom Hebden(Coronation Street) Patti Clare (Coronation Street) Tameka Empson(Eastenders) Ricky Norwood (Eastenders) Most Spectacular Scene Coronation Street Tram Crash Eastenders Queen Vic Fire Emmerdale Train Collision Hollyoaks III Gnosh Fire Best Storyline Kev & Molly's Relationship Coronation Street) Baby Swap (Eastenders) Who Killed Archie(Eastenders) Danny Millar's Gay Relationship (Emmerdale)

Never been the same since the days of Izzie and Lorna...even the Neil Morrissey and early Eva Pope series were very good...definitely still worth a watch but not compulsive viewing anymore (like Shameless, unfortunately, although IMO recent Shameless>recent WR)

Shinedown - Second Chance Alex Cartana - Hey Papi

Whoa at Japan! Not much more than a third of the population of the US and yet enarly as much revenue!

Does that mean they're doing every week of 1976/77 or a different year each week? They'd have 43 different years to choose from so I hope they do that.

Surprised how low Beats International is! Either I was the only voter or it got a LOT of minuses.

Shayne and Westlife (to go! I thought I voted for both on the double elimination but I guess only one counted?)

15 1997 Olive "You're Not Alone" 12 1990 Beats International 'Dub Be Good To Me' 10 1993 Ace of Base 'All That She Wants' 08 1991 The KLF feat. The Children of the Revolution '3AM Eternal' 06 1999 Blondie "Maria" 05 1994 Baby D 'Let Me Be Your Fantasy' 04 1997 No Doubt "Don't Speak" 03 1996 Babylon Zoo "Spaceman" 02 1998 All Saints 'Never Ever' 01 1992 Tasmin Archer 'Sleeping Satellite' ---- -2 1991 Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody/These Are The Days Of Our Lives" Couldn't decide who to give points to out of Sinead O'Connor and the Verve so left them both out :( If there is any surprise bonus point, give it to: 1991 Enigma 'Sadeness Part 1'

I think all the reasons above (and probably many more) have contributed to her success...but I'm still really, really surprised how consistently well she's doing. If you look at other flavour of the month, young(ish) female singers who write their own material - Dido, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, say - Adele isn't necessarily more popular but she's selling far more consistently. Dido and Amy Winehouse sold 2-3m copies of an album, of course, but they were either far more spread out or (Life For Rent) with a huge opening sales week. Adele hasn't actually sold THAT much - it's just the time of year and the fact that she's basically doing it off talent/hype rather than reality TV that make it more amazing. I think another factor in her popularity is her ordinariness. She hasn't exactly had any massive news stories like Amy Winehouse or Lily Allen - she seems to me to be a relatively down-to-earth person who has a very good voice. She doesn't come across as stroppy or petulant most of the time (apart from some reports). I think people can identify with her more than some singers because of this, and can relate to her music too. Plus - she's obviously not a size 6 fake Barbie - she's a (ugh horrible cliche time) 'real woman' - a bigger girl who's pretty and talented, and presumably inspirational too? Plus, her songs have the potential to be liked by a wide variety of people, from grandmas to ten-year-olds - the voice/the music & influences/the subjects of her songs. They are often quite simple lyrically/inoffensive musically, which isn't usually a bad thing (although it could be why people find her bland).