Paddington James

I think there's only three songs on this list I like, hopefully they make the top three. Anyway I'm voting for: Robbie Williams Ft Nicole Kidman

I quite like Boyfriend. I enjoyed the singles from Ashlee Simpson's first three albums. I had never heard the Mis-Teeq song until quite recently and I actually quite like it. It's close to the weakest of their singles, but that's not a negative as they had such great singles.

9 – We R Who We R - Kesha 1 Week at #1 / Weekly Sales – 90,139 #57 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 329,400 To we have We R Who We R by Kesha and I must say that this is a song that doesn’t really feel like a ‘2011’ song for me and that’s because it had the bulk of its chart success in Australia in 2010. Released in Australia on October 22nd 2010 We R Who We R spent three weeks at #1 in Australia in November and ended the year as the 25th highest selling single. Compare that to 2011 where it ended the year as the 100th best selling single in Australia and it’s easy to see why. Regardless though this is a rank of the UK #1 singles in 2011 and as this got it’s UK release in January 2011 and reached #1 in it’s second week on the chart it qualifies for the rank. I was surprised to so see this debuted at #95 in the UK before falling out for a week before reaching #1 a week later. Was this due to imports? The song We R Who We R was the lead single from Kesha’s new EP Cannibal and sold 90,139 copies to take #1 and knocked Grenade off the top in the process. I always had somewhat of a soft spot for this song and I think it’s because I have some fond memories of this. I can remember New Year’s Eve 2010 clearly and this song pumping out the speakers of party boats going down the Yarra River in Melbourne’s CBD minutes before midnight and the masses of people on the banks of the river going wild. Or how it was all over radio and tv. This was also around the time I started to lose touch with my high school friends and this was constantly played when venues when we went out. The progression from Tik Tok to this song feels very similar to the progression from Just Dance to Bad Romance for Lady Gaga, which makes sense in my mind as they followed similar trajectories, just Kesha was a year after Lady Gaga. Very successful pop/dance first album followed by an EP one year later which slightly evolved the sound. Elsewhere in the charts this week P!nk vaulted from #105 to #21 with F**kin’ Perfect, Adele debuted at #36 with Someone Like You and Rihanna’s 2006 single Unfaithful found itself back in the charts at #60.

10 – Dance With Me Tonight – Olly Murs 1 Week at #1 / Weekly Sales – 46,584 #54 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 340,241 Dance With Me Tonight became Olly Murs’s third #1 single when it reached the #1 position in December, though unlike Olly’s previous two #1 singles Dance With Me Tonight didn’t debut at #1, it got there in its third week on the chart after spending its first two weeks at #2. Dance With Me Tonight was 2011’s lowest selling #1 single, selling 46,584 copies in the week it hit #1. In it’s first week on the chart it debuted at #2 selling 74,475 copies, finishing 5,329 copies behind We Found Love. In its second week at it sold 62,417 copies finishing 36,515 behind Wishing On A Star. It’s also worth pointing out that Olly’s second album In Case You Didn’t Know was released one week after the release of Dance With Me Tonight and sold 100k plus in it’s first two weeks, so the fact this could still get to #1 in the Christmas rush is still a pretty good achievement. I’d been an Olly Murs fan since the release of Please Don’t Let Me Go back in mid 2010 and remember being utterly obsessed with Dance With Me Tonight when it was released. I remember listening to it multiple times a day on my journey to and from work, there was just something so joyful and infectious about it. It was also my favourite Olly Murs song for quite a while and whilst I still enjoy it I don’t quite get the same enjoyment out of it as I once use to. I initially had this pegged as a top 3/top 5 song in my rankings, so I’m a little surprised to see it finish here. Elsewhere on the singles chart that week American sing Lloyd scored his biggest international hit when his single Dedication To My Ex (Miss That) debuted at #3. T-Pain scored his biggest ever UK hit at #6 with 5 O’Clock which sampled Lily Allen’s 2009 single Who’d Have Known , which in turn sampled Take That’s 2007 single Shine and Amy Winehoues posthumous single Our Day Will Come debuted at #29.

About to kick off the top 10. The top 11 starting with Grenade were the stand out #1's for me in 2011. It was very close between all 11 songs.

In Your Arms (Rescue Me)

Steal My Sunshine

It's an early start of 4am for the Australia game for me tomorrow. I doubt I'll be waking up that early on a cold winter morning. Hopefully I wake up to an Aussie win.

That's absolutely horrific. I feel dirty having No Regrets that high.

#1 again this week in Australia. Tracks from the album: Aria Singles Chart The whole al in the top 50. #3 - Stupid Song #6 - The Cure #10 - Drop Dead #12 - Honeybee #30 - Expectations #31 - Maggots For Brains #35 - What’s Wrong With Me #36 - My Way #37 - Less #39 - Begged #41 - U + Me = <3

#1 in Australia this week and certified 4x Platinum.

11 – Grenade – Bruno Mars 2 Weeks at #1 / Weekly Sales – 149,834 / 109,960 #7 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 852,300 Bruno Mars scored his first of two #1’s for 2011 in January with the release of the second single Grenade from his debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans. It spent two weeks at #1 and cleared 100,000 in sales both weeks. In its first week at #1 it blocked Jessie J’s debut single Do It Like A Dude from reaching the summit, but it wasn’t even close as Jessie J fell 94,191 copies behind. In Grenades second week at #1 it held off Rolling In The Deep which was Adele’s first single from her soon to be released second album 21. The battle still wasn’t close Rolling In The Deep falling 26,985 copies short. Elsewhere in the charts over those two weeks we saw David Geutta and Rihanna reach a new peak of #6 with their collaboration Who’s That Chick (first week). Britney Spears debuted at #6 with Hold It Against Me (second week) and Avril Lavigne with What The Hell at #29 (second week). I enjoyed this song at the time and found the music video for it quite good but also a little cringe in places, but saying that it’s probably my favourite single of Bruno’s from his debut album. This song is also a reflection of the way singles were released back then with a staggered global release as it had hit #1 in Australia in December in 2010 and ended 2010 as the 32nd highest selling single in Australia. In 2011 though it was the 21st highest selling single in Australia, 7th highest selling song in the UK and 6th highest selling song in the US.

I was hoping for an announcement today, perhaps we'll get one over the next week.

I'd never really heard of Dappy or knew anything of him before doing this rank and after reading the comments here he seems like a pretty vile person. Had've I known that beforehand it might've impacted my placement for it.

What an ending to that game. It felt like it went on for a while.

No goal! Offside! Surely Portugal progress from here.

Wait is it offside?

And it’s all tied up again. Surely only seconds left.

Portugal take the lead in additional time.

Croatia score, buts it’s ruled offside.

Croatia break the 0-0 deadlock.

12 – No Regrets - Dappy 1 Week at #1 / Weekly Sales – 96,639 #64 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 311,600 Up now is Dappy, real name Costadinos Contostavlos, who was one third of British Hip-Hop trio N-Dubz. No Regrets was released as the debut solo single in September where it flew into #1 in it’s first week on the chart selling 96.639 copies. Beating out other new releases for the week Jason Derulo’s It Girl (#4), James Morrison’s I Won’t Let Go (#5) and Nicola Roberts’s Luck Day (#40). No Regrets is also one of six songs that kept Maroon 5’s Moves Like Jagger at #2 for seven consecutive weeks. No Regrets was initially intended to be included on N-Dubz debut US album but that never materialised, the N-Dubz version did however find its way onto their greatest hits album which was released later in 2011 as well. It’s a song for me that feels very of it’s time so it’s easy to see why it got to #1. I found I quote from a Digital Spy review back in 2011 that made the comment “combined with an impressive vocal showing, gospel choir and that key change that could put an X Factor winner’s single to shame”. That struck me as it was exactly what I thought when I first heard this song. This started off very low down for me but I found myself enjoying it more and more every time I listened to it and to my surprise it finished just outside my top 10.

I quite enjoy everything except Into The Blue from the 25-21 batch.

Rain On Me The Edge Of Glory

Greetings once again from myself, @awardinary and @Mangø Welcome to this month's contemporary music poll. Each month, 20 new releases are selected to go head to head, with three winners which will then go up against future monthly winners at the end of the year to determine the ultimate winner of 2026. Here are May's contenders, choose up to ***THREE*** songs only that you feel are your favourite from the selection. If you wish to post a rate of the selection of songs in the thread, please feel free to do so. You can listen to all the songs from Spotify link. MAY WINNERS: Kylie Minogue - Light Up (6 votes) Nothing But Thieves - Ecolution (4 votes) The Script - Man In The Arena (4 votes) These three tracks have made it through to the year-end poll!