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Ah, that'll be my distaste for ballads coming through. Last Goodbye's OK but I've always found Be With You a lot better

70. Kelly Clarkson // Never Again // May 2007 Peak: #2 Weeks on Chart: 24 Points: 659 UNPOPULAR OPINION ALERT: My December is my favourite Kelly Clarkson album. There, I said it. You'll find this is the only song from that album to make an appearance on this list but damn I love the album so much, truly the best and most interesting that she's ever been but I can see why some people might not like it. It is quite like Breakaway, but it's an edgier Breakaway, a more punk Breakaway and Never Again is Clarkson at her near very best (I'd say it was her best if she didn't have three songs still to come!). I wish she'd carried on down the road that My December put her on but it's nothing I lose sleep over - she's still my favourite artist of all-time anyway! V7YgrXlO450

71. Rihanna // S.O.S // March 2006 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 25 Points: 657 Some old school Rihanna now and the song that made me fall in love with her; I'd liked Pon De Replay and hadn't been to keen on If It's Loving That You Want so SOS was really the first song of hers that I truly loved, though I do remember being slightly irritated that it introduced so many school friends to Tainted Love, I was like "surely you should already know that song?" I guess not. Speaking in 2013, I actually find SOS quite dated now but it's still a great song and one I'll listen too for the memories I have attached to it IXmF4GbA86E

72. Atomic Kitten // Be With You // December 2002 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 21 Points: 653 The highest entry, and best ever release, from Atomic Kitten now. By this point in 2002 they were by far my favourite girlband in the land, though it wasn't a hard feat as except for the Sugababes there was only Mis-Teeq, Cheeky Girls and Las Ketchup to compete with. Anyway, Be With You is my favourite song from them as it's one that just makes me feel really good and nostalgic inside, it's a cracking and underrated little pop tune and I really don't think the Kittens should get the bad press that they do. Great stuff here and continues the girl power part of my countdown as there are no males present from numbers #79 - 70 FrFQlMM_ZyM

73. Dream // He Loves You Not // January 2001 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 22 Points: 644 It's a shame this song isn't more well known as it really is amazing, it did well in the US I gather but here in the UK it limped to just #17 in the charts which is surprising seen as though it's exactly the kind of thing everyone seemed to be in too at the time. Oh well WDZxnawFph4

74. The Saturdays // Up // October 2008 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 22 Points: 643 After the boring If This Is Love, I like everyone else in my sixth form considered The Saturdays to be a second rate Girls Aloud who would fade out within a year. But then the amazing Up happened and I fell in love with the band, Up is an amazing pop record and the fact it's above so many Girls Aloud songs is sound enough evidence of how much I do bloody love it. I think they've since proven their worth as a band in their own right not a carbon copy of Girls Aloud and they've released so many good songs since like Higher, Ego and Work but Up will always be my favourite smHe6-6LdII

75. Katy Perry // Hot N Cold // November 2008 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 23 Points: 632 The song that kept the previous one from number one now, and back in 2008 Katy Perry was the freshest new pop star though Gaga would soon be along to steal her crown. Perry's first album seems completely overshadowed by her second now but it had some right little belters including Hot N Cold and Thinking of You (very underrated gorgeous song :wub:). I'd liked I Kissed a Girl but it's novelty soon wore off and it became all about Hot N Cold which is one of the first records that made me realize pop music was coming back with a bang, and an amazing bang at that. kTHNpusq654

76. Leona Lewis // Forgive Me // November 2008 Peak: #2 Weeks on Chart: 20 Points: 624 My distaste for most ballads meant Leona never exactly set my personal charts alight, she'd had one top ten hit with Better in Time before this, but Forgive Me gave her a first genuine hit on my run down. I liked the more upbeat, urban Leona and it's sadly rather forgotten now as it's release was soon overshadowed by Run getting to number one and Forgive Me as a result fell quite quickly which is a shame because I think this is her best song ever and a mighty hard one to top, though I do think Glassheart is all kinds of amazing too :wub:, also you guessed right I'm a big fan of Collide as well! GB6tSIj5Emw

77. Sugababes // Hole In The Head // October 2003 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 19 Points: 623 Though they are my second favourite girl group of the decade this is the highest the Sugababes manage to place in this countdown. Hole In The Head was the first record they did that gave us an idea of how truly feisty the girls were underneath, though that would eventually be their downfall, and is 3 and a half minutes of pop brilliance. A reminder of just how good the girls were back in 2003 when they were at the top of their game and blowing Girls Aloud and Atomic Kitten out of the water Lf0tUnUB27I

78. Sheryl Crow // The First Cut is The Deepest // November 2003 Peak: #2 Weeks on Chart: 22 Points: 622 Yet another artists I was raised on, my late father was a massive Sheryl Crow fan and she's one of my first musical memories with If It Makes You Happy, but it wasn't until I bought my dad her greatest hits as a Xmas present in late 2003 that I truly began to appreciate her brilliance. The First Cut is the Deepest isn't my favourite offering from her but it's her best outside of the 1990's and one of the songs here that reminds me a lot of my dad and growing up. This only reached #37 in the charts here, the UK public sometimes they're blind to a good thing :angry: dK9eLe8EQps

79. Avril Lavigne // Complicated // September 2002 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 20 Points: 613 A song now that introduced me to one of my favourite artists of the decade, Lavigne had my heart from the get go with this brilliant little number. She however does have much better songs and this is her lowest entry on this chart so I'd get used to her as she's going to be popping up a lot more as the countdown goes on. Complicated is one of those songs that just takes me back to being ten and living without a care in the bloody world, and the video fulfills a childhood dream of just spending a day mucking about in a shopping center. Going to go now before I get too nostalgic 5NPBIwQyPWE

80. NSYNC // It's Gonna Be Me // July 2000 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 23 Points: 610 NSYNC are by far my favourite boyband ever in terms of music with four number ones on my personal chart: It's Gonna Be Me, I Want You Back, Tearing Up My Heart and Bye-Bye-Bye all of which are pop perfection in my eyes. It's Gonna Be Me was the second single from the boys album No Strings Attached and is basically a re-hash of Bye Bye Bye but it's a bloody good one at that GQMlWwIXg3M

81-100 re-cap 81. Johnny Cash – Hurt – 2003 82. Busted – 3am – 2004 83. Girls Aloud – The Loving Kind – 2009 84. Lady Gaga – Just Dance – 2009 85. Britney Spears – Stronger – 2000 86. Mario – Let Me Love You – 2005 87. JoJo – Too Little, Too Late – 2007 88. S Club Juniors – One Step Closer – 2002 89. Ne-Yo – So Sick – 2006 90. Nickleback – How You Remind Me – 2002 91. Tinchy Strider – Number One – 2009 92. The Black Eyed Peas – Shut Up – 2003 93. A1 – Caught In The Middle – 2002 94. Sugababes – Shape – 2003 95. Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You – 2009 96. Shakira – Whenever, Wherever – 2002 97. Will Young – Leave Right Now – 2003 98. S Club 7 – Reach – 2000 99. P. Diddy feat. Christine Aguilera – Tell Me – 2006 100. Vanessa Carlton – A Thousand Miles – 2002

81. Johnny Cash // Hurt // September 2003 Peak: #2 Weeks on Chart: 20 Points: 606 This looked so out of place in between The Black Eyed Peas and Ultrabeat in my chart :wub: But I do bloody love it; my mother raised me on Mariah, my father raised me on U2 and my grandfather raised us on Johnny Cash (And ABBA strangely enough). Cash is one of the best recording artists I have ever come across, a unique man with a unique and fantastic voice and he's become something of an idol to me. His cover of Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt" stands out because of the sheer emotion and power the quite frail Cash puts into the song; here you get a sense of life long regrets and mistakes coming the fore, the last minute and half is some of the most powerful pieces of music I've ever heard and the whole thing brings a tear to my eye. Sorry to go on, but really this is 4 minutes of sheer perfection, class and emotion. I dare you not to be moved 3aF9AJm0RFc

82. Busted // 3am // August 2004 Peak: #2 Weeks on Chart: 21 Points: 604 Busted were always a hit and miss kind of band for me. Some hits were amazing: 3am, Who's David, She Wants To Be Me and Sleeping With the Light On spring to mind here but then there are others that are just plain awful like What I Go To School For, Air hostess, Crashed the Wedding and Thunderbirds. The latter was released as a double A-side with 3am which would ultimately be Busted's final single release before they split in January 2005. I wasn't too sad when they did split and I did actually see them in concert for a friends birthday and I have to admit they were rather a different kind of thing live. 3am is the second best thing they ever put their names to, the best is still quite a long way off yet 4ICxzUoPaZ4

83. Girls Aloud // The Loving Kind // January 2009 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 17 Points: 600 An insane 12 week run in the Top 10, 9 in the top 5 and 8 in the top 3 are responsible for this song being so high up. Truly one of the best Girls Aloud songs ever, this like Untouchable really does put The Promise to shame. Why is it always the bad songs that nine times out of then become the more sucessfull? Sigh, still The Loving Kind is lovely and one of the highlights of a rather lackluster year of music for me lFY4DxiHzTI

84. Lady Gaga // Just Dance // January 2009 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 24 Points: 590 It's easy to forget with how much of a self parody she's become now how exciting, fresh and unique Gaga seemed when she first burst onto the scene back in 2008. I recall the first time I heard this on a night out with friends some time before Christmas 2008, totally WAS NOT in a nightclub at the age of 16 by the way :unsure: , and (other than thinking it was Christina Aguilera) I found it to be rather fresh and exciting even if a bit generic. Still a song I find catchy and listenable now, Just Dance is a fantastic record to launch the career of one of the most prolific stars of the decade the was soon to come. That's 2009 for me; excitement, anticipation and hope filled looking forward to my future but being weary of it at the same time. I would be starting Uni in 18 months time, which went very quickly by the way, and Just Dance (and various other records of the time) remind me of that excitement regarding the future 2Abk1jAONjw

85. Britney Spears // Stronger // December 2000 Peak: #4 Weeks on Chart: 21 Points: 588 If my chart were based on sales then late 2000 would've been in my chart like 1997 was in the real charts. It would have been a time of amazing sales and multiple songs selling over 100k weekly which explains why this song appears so high despite only making #4 stuck behind S Club 7, Daft Punk and Eminem. Classic vintage Britney, Stronger was easily the most fierce thing she'd released up until this point and in my opinion it's this song rather than I'm a Slave 4 U that really marks Britney's crossing over from teen pop singer to adult pop singer. Truly brilliant and proof that when pop is good it's pretty damn good AJWtLf4-WWs

86. Mario // Let Me Love You // March 2005 Peak: #2 Weeks on Chart: 22 Points: 583 Mario, or as I first called him 'little Usher', brought out one of my favourite songs of early 2005 that would have been a number one on my chart had it not been for Rachel Stevens though you could argue he won the war as 'Negotiate with Love' doesn't feature in the Top 200. Let Me Love You is, in my opinion, one of the finest RnB tracks of the decade, it's a fairly simple song I grant you but it's a lovely one and 13 year old's Justin's jam for quite some time NARjr3fMMvY

87. JoJo // Too Little, Too Late // February 2007 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 21 Points: 580 I always find it interesting to analyze the growth of younger artists between their first and second albums. Christina went down the sexy root, Bieber appears to have tried to make himself more urbanized like Justin Timberlake did back in 06, Kylie, Britney and more recently One Direction stuck to the anicent "If it aint broke don't fix it" rule and then there's artists such as Avril Lavigne who mature their sound with their sophmore offering. JoJo fits under this category, back in 2004 and as brilliant as it was "Leave" was always a bit immature shall we say (what could we expect she was 13) but Too Little, Too Late is a far classier and mature affair and shows real direction as an artist. It's a shame the third album will most likely never see the light of day, though it is home to the gorgeous "Disaster", so we'll have to make do with this which was a favourite of mine back in Feb 07 s8LIRtPnuA8

I f***ing hate Girlfriend for so many reasons the main reason being that it's Avril's most sucessfull release by quite a margain when it is by far the worst single, maybe even the worsr song, that she has ever put her name too - actually scratch that "What the Hell" deserves that title but Girlfriend is so much worse than the likes of I'm With You, My Happy Ending, Don't Tell Me and When You're Gone it's not funny Stop me, on the other hand, is a lot better than I remember. I don't think I payed much attention to Mark Ronson at the time he seemed a bit too cool for me. I'm fifteen years old here and in Year 10 and there was still the part of me that adored artists such as 50 Cent, Akon and Chris Brown but it was soon to change

Have they even had any airplay yet?

I'd argue that One Step Closer and Sundown are classics but that of course may be down to my age and the fact I strongly associate those two with my childhood - that said Sundown is not in this Top 200

88. S Club Juniors // One Step Closer // May 2002 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 18 Points: 577 And here ladies and gentleman is where my crush/obsession with Frankie Sandford originates from. In all honesty she was the sole reason why I was such an avid follower of S Club 8, we've all had that crush at ten years old on a famous person who ultimately becomes our lives haven't we? Mine was Frankie, though in fairness S Club Juniors did actually manage to get out a few good tunes in their short time together we've already had one of them (New Direction, #154) and we still have one more to come. Thinking about it everything they released, excluding the terrible Christmas single, was actually pretty bloody good qGY1hUWC8CI

89. Ne-Yo // So Sick // March 2006 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 20 Points: 575 Here is where it all began for Ne-Yo who, in my opinion, has never managed to top his debut single. I remember this came out in Year Nine shortly after my fourteenth birthday and I was all over this song for what seemed like an eternity, maybe it's because I'd just broken up with my very first girlfriend after 3 long weeks together (teenagers :rolleyes: ) and I found the lyrics relateable. In reality, I just simply adored the song which is still good for a listen every now and then if only to bring back those innocent school days IxszlJppRQI