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2019 Dermot Kennedy - Outnumbered Tove Lo feat ALMA - Bad As The Boys I thought seeing as someone had requested it, I would go for Dermot Kennedy. And that is probably the best song from Sunshine Kitty that was released as a single - though I love album track ‘Mateo’. If anyone fancies nominating any other Tove Lo tracks or Kylie tracks from that year, they are sure to get some votes from me.

Two of those are songs I’d vote for if they were nominated… and I am contemplating nominating one of them. I actually find lists like this really useful, as it helps me to remember songs I hadn’t included. I have scanned the charts from this year, and also my Spotify Top Songs - but often songs don’t manage to make the charts or my Spotify list.

That was from the 2020 re-issue I think - so a possibility for 2020 but not 2019. However, you’ve nominated one of the 9 songs on my short list - so now all of my other possibilities are by Tove Lo, Kylie or both apart from this which will be my first for 2019: 2019 Duncan Laurence ~ Arcade (Wasn’t sure whether this should be 2019 when it first charted, or 2021 when it peaked).

I’d also say that ‘Where Is My Husband’ is unique. Though still palatable to a broad range of music listeners.

For 2019 I really want to nominate something from Tove Lo’s ‘Sunshine Kitty’ but I don’t know which track! If you have any suggestions, please drop me a message. In the meantime @ElectroBoy for 2020 would it be possible to add ‘Edge of Midnight’ by Miley Cyrus featuring Stevie Nicks to the nomination for ‘Midnight Sky’? It’s effectively just the duet version of the track in the same way other collaborations have been added to the original versions for some nominations.

Come on The Blossoms and The Sienna Spiro! You can both do this. 💪🏼 Although I’m assuming The Taylor Swift has something up her sleeve.

BUT - when talking about THE Kylie Minogue, I’d be upset if you didn’t refer to her as THE Kylie Minogue.

I would say it has changed. I would say this past couple of years, the number 1 spot has been saturated with songs that are not particularly exciting - more so than any other year. I wasn’t keen on the era when Drake was at his height - but I would say that was more to do with my personal taste. To be honest - I quite like a lot of the biggest singles from the past 18 months, but I don’t think many of them have been particularly exciting.

+30 Kylie Minogue - Dancing 29 Kylie Minogue - Stop Me From Falling 28 Mark Ronson (feat. Miley Cyrus) - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart 27 5 Seconds Of Summer – Youngblood 26 Keala Settle - This Is Me 25 Clean Bandit (feat. Demi Lovato) - Solo 24 Clean Bandit (feat. Marina & Luis Fonsi) – Baby 23 Eleni Foureira - Fuego 22 Jess Glynne - Thursday 21 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow 20 Rita Ora - Let You Love Me 19 Little Mix & Cheat Codes - Only You 18 Shawn Mendes - In My Blood 17 Dua Lipa - IDGAF 16 Charli XCX & Troye Sivan - 1999 15 CHVRCHES - Get Out 14 Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry 13 Liam Payne & Rita Ora - For You 12 Kim Petras - Heart To Break 11 Years & Years - Sanctify 10 Jonas Blue (feat. Jack & Jack) - Rise 9 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises 8 Halsey - Without Me +7 Marshmello & Anne-Marie - FRIENDS 2017 had been a really good year with plenty of songs to choose from. The songs in 2018 that I chose were great ones, but it was difficult to fill up 30 spaces with songs that I felt passionate about. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the years went.

For me, this would he the biggest issue with it - but I also think that’s the way things are now. Number 1 singles need to appeal to the widest range of people in the streaming era, and therefore the mediocre (or rather MOR) tracks will be the ones that are most successful.

In terms of music opinions - I only really get the perspective of Buzzjack. And there are constantly pages full of hate on here - just read the comments on this page. EDIT: Maybe I’m imagining it 🤷🏻‍♂️ For me the song is a breath of fresh air. I wonder if part of it is that Buzzjack members typically react more favourably to female vocalists than male vocalists - or at least it seems that way. I get the hatred towards ‘Rein Me In’ as it was at the top of the charts for so long - but I find it tiring when there is so much repeated hatred towards one song on here - especially when it is a new track - amongst so many old tracks clogging up the charts.

Why is it that everyone hates Babydoll so much? As far as I can tell it sounds just like ‘Man I Need’ - which everyone seems to love. I’m not saying it’s one of my favourites but it is definitely growing on me.

I hope this can continue to climb. It’s a beautiful track. I don’t feel we get ballads like this in the chart any more, although maybe it’s a little out of date.

Wow! I’ve checked, and you are right. But it’s not just that track that has changed. The whole chart is different - for example Jamie Miller was above Madonna in both charts, but still changed his position by one place. I’ve only checked a few tracks, but all the ones apart from Taylor Swift that I’ve checked are in different positions, some by several places. I wonder what happened?

+30 Dua Lipa - New Rules (Initial Talk Remix)* 29 Steps - Scared of the Dark 28 Lucie Jones - Never Give Up On You 27 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You 26 Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill 25 Little Mix - Touch 24 Anne-Marie - Ciao Adios 23 AJR - Weak 22 Enrique Iglesias (feat. Sean Paul & Matt Terry) - Súbeme La Radio 21 Avicii (feat. Rita Ora) - Lonely Together 20 CNCO - Reggaetón Lento (Original / Little Mix Remix) 19 Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa - Scared to Be Lonely 18 Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee - Despacito (Original / Justin Bieber Remix) 17 P!nk - What About Us 16 Rita Ora - Anywhere 15 Camila Cabello - Crying In The Club 14 Kygo & Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me 13 Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling 12 Clean Bandit (feat. Zara Larsson) - Symphony 11 Logic (feat. Alessia Cara & Khalid) – 1-800-273-8255 10 ZAYN (feat. Sia) - Dusk Till Dawn 9 Adele – Water Under The Bridge 8 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still 7 Miley Cyrus - Malibu 6 Little Mix - Power 5 Lady Gaga - The Cure 4 Avicii (feat. Sandro Cavazzo) - Without You 3 Chainsmokers - Paris 2 Martin Jensen - Solo Dance +1 Camila Cabello (feat. Young Thug) - Havana *The Initial Talk Remix of ‘New Rules’ is just sublime! It’s enough to put the track easily at my number 1 for the year. Otherwise it would be lower down but still in the top 10.