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Just in case anybody hasn't had a chance to yet, the thread will stay open until Sunday morning-ish.

Nuuuu Life Anthem much?

DISGUSTING. They started off OK considering what they are but their material just keeps getting poorer and poorer. Evidently I think it will be #1 unless a song is strong enough to stop it. Personally, I'd rather it never saw the light of day. May I add that wherever it charts it'll be lucky to spend 10 weeks in the top 75. I can't see it catching on with the 'normal' public regardless of how generic it sounds,

Beth Ditto is acceptable :) Just PM me if you unsure. And I agree with Jark. TBH I feel the results reflect CURRENT tastes rather than the best female artist EVER. I fully expect Adele, JLO, Nicole Scherzinger, Katy Perry and a few others that have had massive success since last year's to feature quite high this time around to reinforce my point.

Anything that knocks DeRulo off #1 is fine with me. Let's hope he falls to #4 next week (#3 is at least likely).

BuzzJack's Ultimate Female Artist --> August 2010 01 Lady Gaga 819 02 P!nk 791 03= Rihanna 668 03= Kelly Clarkson 668 05 Beyonce 644 06 Alicia Keys 629 07 Kylie Minogue 624 08 Britney Spears 598 09= Christina Aguilera 523 09= Leona Lewis 523 11 Madonna 495 12 Katy Perry 425 13 Shakira 406 14 Nelly Furtado 363 15 Mariah Carey 353 16 Gwen Stefani 320 17 Kate Bush 314 18 Alexandra Burke 307 19 Kelly Rowland 298 20 Anastacia 293 21 Natasha Bedingfield 288 22 Lily Allen 284 23 Robyn 271 24 Avril Lavigne 267 25 Hayley Williams 253 26 Bjork 246 27= Cheryl Cole 234 27= Janet Jackson 234 29 Diana Vickers 232 30 Pixie Lott 229 31 Amy Winehouse 226 32 Alanis Morissette 223 33 Florence Welch 221 34 Miley Cyrus 218 35 Kelis 213 36 Sophie Ellis-Bextor 206 37 Whitney Houston 204 38 Taylor Swift 195 39 Fergie 194 40 Natalie Imbruglia 188 41 Shania Twain 186 42 Carrie Underwood 185 43 M.I.A 175 44 Ellie Goulding 167 45 Jordin Sparks 164 46 Beverley Knight 163 47 Duffy 162 48= Amy Lee 156 48= Ciara 156 50 Debbie Harry 148 51 Jennifer Lopez 147 52 Delta Goodrem 146 53 Little Boots 143 54 Celine Dion 141 55 Melanie C 139 56 Dido 137 57 Shirley Manson 135 58= Dannii Minogue 132 58= Bat For Lashes 132 60 Annie Lennox 130 61 Tori Amos 129 62 Ke$ha 127 63 Marina Diamond 126 64 KT Tunstall 125 65 Jennifer Hudson 121 66 VV Brown 118 67 Gabriella Cilmi 114 68 Keri Hilson 103 69 Alison Goldfrapp 101 70 Elly Jackson 100 71= Dusty Springfield 97 71= Geri Halliwell 97 71= Mary J Blige 97 74 Brandy 92 75 Paloma Faith 90 76 Ashley Tisdale 89 77 Faith Hill 87 78 Santigold 82 79 Sheryl Crow 77 80 Kate Nash 71 81 Siobhan Dongahy 68 82= Sia 67 82= Ashlee Simpson 67 84 Lights 59 85 Corinne Bailey Rae 57 86= Sharleen Spiteri 55 86= Lykke Li 55 88 Sarah McLachlan 53 89 Joni Mitchell 52 90 Alesha Dixon 51 91 Gabrielle 50 92 Beth Gibbons 48 93 Luciana 47 94 Souxsie Sioux 45 95 Charlotte Hatherley 44 96= Tina Turner 41 96= Colbie Caillat 41 98 Regina Spektor 35 99 Courtney Love 22 100 Vanessa Amorosi 14 THE TOP 20 FROM THIS LIST ARE THROUGH AUTOMATICALLY SO PLEASE DON'T NOMINATE THEM!

http://i26.tinypic.com/1118fuq.png So yes, I am back and during my summer that is more Barren than Karen McDonald's reproductive system, it's time to unleash the 2nd Annual Female Artist Smackdown. Basically for those unfamiliar with this fabulous event, it arose after I became tired of all the constant 'stanning' and whinging about 'Britney being all this', 'Gaga being better than anthrax' etc that dominates this forum. RULES 1] Post a list of your top female singers in this thread. This year, they don't have to be in any particular order as each artist you name will receive 1 vote. You may vote for up to 30 artists. The artist can be from any genre, country, language or decade as long as they have released ONE full studio album before July 2011. (So you can't vote for Cher Lloyd...). 2] Frontwomen of bands are allowed as long as they have released at least 1 full studio album. By frontwomen I mean bands that have a female as a main singer. Shirley Manson of Garbage, Amy Lee of Evanescence, Hayley Williams of Paramore and Beth Gibbons of Portishead are acceptable. 3] Please don't nominate countless girl group or pop band singers unless they conform to the rules outlined in 1] & 2]. So yes Cheryl Cole or Rachel Stevens would be qualifiable but Frankie Sandford and Sarah Harding are not. This also includes Glee Cast, whose ladies are not acceptable until they release an album of material away from the series. 4) THE TOP 20 FROM LAST YEAR'S COMPETITION, AUTOMATICALLY QUALIFY SO PLEASE DON'T VOTE FOR THEM AS IT WON'T MATTER! 5) There will be no changes to the format from last year as it worked so well. So yes, that means the Bitch Slap shall return. 6) Assuming we get as many votes as we did last year, the top 80 from the nomination process will join last year's final 20 in this year's top 100 voting round. If not then I will cap the amount of nominations that reach the final round to a lower number. Peace. Love. Joy and all that! And you have until July 10th to get your votes in.

I have to say I am one of the people who discovered this after it was used on Glee. Gorgeous voice and the song is something I can relate to. I am so pleased it is getting some recognition over here as it is stunning. :wub:

Swagger Jagger, Swagger Jagger. You should get some of your own.... 'Little Donkey' rip-off much? Not bad much.

Don't see LFN topping 4 million downloads somehow. 5th #1 though would be fantastic!

God 2003 was awful :( The only good things were the rise of Delta Goodrem, Avril and Evanescence :kink: And where are they all now? :lol: +15 Kelly Rowland - Stole +12 Girls Aloud - No Good Advice [One of their best easily] +10 Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River +08 Dido - White Flag +06 Sinead Quinn - I Can't Break Down [One of the best albums of the year bless her flop-socks] +05 Dannii Minogue - I Begin To Wonder +04 Rachel Stevens - Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex +03 Ultrabeat - Pretty Green Eyes [shame on them for raping 'Use Somebody' a while back] +02 Busted - Year 3000 +01 S Club - Say Goodbye [Naff song but for nostalgic purposes. I loved them muchly] -02 Beyonce & Sean Paul - Baby Boy [MANY awful songs this year, but I found this to be ear rape and Sean Paul overload bugged the hell out of me. He was like the 2003/2004 version of Pitbull only 1,000 times worse *shudders*] I also wanted to give points to the BEPs but bleh.

I am just gutted that we will no longer get to see the legend that is Sinitta at judge's houses :(

+15 Noisettes – Don’t Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go) +12 La Roux – In For the Kill +10 Mr Hudson feat Kanye West – Supernova +08 James Morrison & Nelly Furtardo – Broken Strings +06 Jay-Z feat Alicia Keys – Empire State of Mind +05 Michael Jackson – Man In The Mirror +04 Rihanna – Russian Roulette +03 Leona Lewis – Happy +02 Robbie Williams – Bodies +01 Taylor Swift – Love Story -02 Sugababes - Get Sexy [struggled between the other five for -02 but 'Get Sexy' was the beginning of the end for my support of the Sugababes tbh. Awful song. 2009 was actually a decent year for music imo. Just wasn't reflected in the bigger hits :lol:

I think we've established Glee is LGBT sanctuary. No more please!!! LMAO at the reaction though.

I was all ready to finally rejoice at the fact 50 Cent would never trouble our charts again. But then he was on that 'Buzzin' song [which if I didn't hate him before, reminded me why he is one of the most vile singers around] :heehee: EDIT: For some reason I thought this was the iTunes thread :/

I remember the year being awful for music though 'Changes' took the cake. WORST thing I had heard in a long time. I'd easily rank it in my top 100 most detested songs ever [if I were ever dull enough to compile such a list]. So yus it gets my vote.

I shockingly like it :o Easily the 2nd best thing put out by a Girls Aloud member (solo). 16-20ish.

+15 Shakira - Whenever Wherever +12 Coldplay - In My Place +10 Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way +08 A1 - Caught In The Middle +06 Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight +05 P!nk - Get The Party Started +04 Scooter - The Logical Song +03 No Doubt - Hey Baby +02 Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out +01 S Club 7 - You -02 Shaggy & Ali G - Me Julie

+15. Embrace – Nature’s Law +12. Shayne Ward – No Promises [Hate him. Love this song -_-] +10. Rihanna - S.O.S +08. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California +06. Infernal - From Paris To Berlin +05. Rihanna - Unfaithful +04. The Killers - When You Were Young +03. Cascada - Everytime We Touch +02. Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On +01. Booty Luv - Boogie 2nite -2 Cliff. [Just because the man has never put out a decent record in his life and his photoshopped topless calendar poses make me want to scratch my eyes out]

I would actually adapt to this new panel if that c**t Louis Walsh wasn't still on it? WHY HIM? Easily the worst out of the previous four. I still think it'll be very interesting to watch. MAYBE. Just maybe, the star will finally fade?

I like 'Smile' by Avril. It's my favourite song from the album and I can see why they'd release it next as it has more traces of her old material. Do I think it will revive the campaign? Nah. I agree with the poster who said 'Push' would be better. It's this OA/OS thing. It wasn't the right way to handle her comeback.

Just heard the new Derulo song... Think I have a new contender for the worst thing I have heard this year. The man clearly can't grasp the concept of originality.

2007 Quite a lot of my favourite songs from the past decade released that year. 2009 2006 2000 2002 2008 2010 2004 2005 2001 2003 2011 I have not been very keen on this year at all really. Some good songs but it's not over yet. I remember feeling disillusioned after the amazing 2009 and the dull first half of last year, only to have all those massive defining hits be released from the summer onwards.

Only ones from recent memory are: 1996/1997/1998: Spice Girls :blush: Everything they released over these three years basically. 2003: Delta Goodrem (Born To Try, Lost Without You, Innocent Eyes) 2005: Kelly Clarkson (Breakaway, Since U Been Gone, Behind These Hazel Eyes, Because Of You) 2010: Katy Perry (If We Ever Meet Again, California Gurls, Teenage Dream, Firework)

I remember at the time R Kelly couldn't perform the song in the UK due to legal reasons. I did hear he was on trial for child sex offences but I'm unsure what actually happened because I don't care enough. AWFUL song. In fact most of that chart is awful :lol: