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LOL, it's constant rates and ranks on Buzzjack, ain't it? :D This one was quite easy though, considering. Too many acts with little material or with a decent amount of material but no consistency with it. I mean, look at who I had to put at my #13! Much love to Holly but I shouldn't be forced to vote her the #13 ultimate female. 01 Mariah Carey 02 Björk 03 Amy Winehouse 04 Madonna 05 Cher 06 Janet Jackson 07 Corinne Bailey Rae 08 Kate Bush 09 Kelis 10 Lily Allen 11 Paloma Faith 12 Whitney Houston 13 Holly Valance 14 Beyoncé 15 Aaliyah 16 Siobhan Donaghy 17 Britney Spears 18 Christina Aguilera 19 Robyn 20 Lady Gaga 21 Marina & The Diamonds 22 Kelly Rowland 23 Katy B 24 Mel C 25 Nelly Furtado I basically hate everyone else, but... BITCHSLAP: Jennifer Lopez

+30 The Tamperer featuring Maya - Feel It :kink: Playground classic +25 All Saints - Black Coffee +22 Blondie - Heart Of Glass +20 Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer - Give Me Everything +18 Spice Girls - Viva Forever +16 U2 - The Fly +14 Helen Shapiro - You Don't Know +13 Fugees - Ready Or Not +12 Britney Spears - Baby One More Time +11 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize +10 Lily Allen - Smile +9 Usher - You Make Me Wanna +8 The Prodigy - Breathe +7 Elton John - Are You Ready For Love +6 Usher featuring Ludacris & Lil' Jon - Yeah! +5 Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World/Cabaret +4 The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman +3 Enya - Orinoco Flow +2 The Monkees - I'm A Believer +1 Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone -2 St. Winifred's School Choir - There's No-one Quite Like Grandma I love this group! Could easily have gone to 30 or even 40 without struggling.

+30 The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' +25 Beach Boys - Good Vibrations +22 Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me +20 Julie Covington - Don't Cry For Me Argentina +18 The Human League - Don't You Want Me +16 Craig David - Fill Me In +14 The Beatles - I Feel Fine +13 Culture Club - Karma Chameleon +12 Eminem - Lose Yourself +11 Spice Girls - Too Much +10 Rita Ora featuring Tinie Tempah - R.I.P. +9 Martine McCutcheon - Perfect Moment +8 Sonique - It Feels So Good +7 Wham! - Freedom +6 Jimmy Nail - Ain't No Doubt +5 The Searchers - Don't Throw Your Love Away +4 Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky +3 Steps - Heartbeat/Tragedy +2 Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) +1 Michael Jackson - One Day In Your Life -2 Jennifer Lopez - Get Right :angry: Fucking DIE! This cannot go through. Definitely the worst list so far, some absolute all-time pop standards up there to save it though.

Well, it's highly unlikely anything from before the '90s would be the fastest selling simply because most songs debuted low and then climbed back then... Is Whitney really the fastest selling though? I don't know why that surprises me, I guess I just never considered it, but I'm struggling to think of any other #3s that might have opened with such a high sale. How much did Denise & Johnny sell at Xmas '98 behind Spice Girls and Chef?

The odd one out in the top 10 is Whitney... WTF? I hardly ever hear anyone praise that song, in a similar way that the other 90s movie diva-ballad My Heart Will Go On is looked back on as a bit of an embarrassment. I bet if it had been done last year or next year it would be much lower. The winner will be Imagine probably. It did win the last time this was done with a TV poll, I think, but that was on Channel 4.

The Show brings back good memories for me. I remember watching the video premiere on Top of the Pops Saturday and I think it was the first time I had heard the song too, anyway it was instant love for me there. Then seeing them perform it at Summer XS about a week later (with those director's chairs!) was undoubtedly the highlight of that concert. Probably represents the peak of my interest in Girls Aloud, I guess. Say You'll Be There fell at the right time, I'd say. It's good, but it's not up with their best. What they excelled at was the peerless pop anthems and ballads - not the R&B-lite numbers - so it's fitting that their entries in the top 20 all represent either of those. Bit disappointed that Don't Let Go (Love) didn't make the top 20, I thought it would with its mini revival late last year helping to introduce it to a new generation. I probably should have put it at #1 on my chart to be honest but I dunno, Spice Up Your Life feels like it encapsulates everything great about girl groups to me and also has far more nostalgia with it being arguably the peak of "Spicemania" and all.

+30 David Bowie - Space Oddity +25 Charles & Eddie - Would I Lie To You? +22 Blu Cantrell featuring Sean Paul - Breathe +20 Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight) +18 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) +16 Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis - Just Dance +14 Bee Gees - Massachusetts +13 Eminem - The Real Slim Shady +12 Charlene - I've Never Been To Me +11 Culture Beat - Mr. Vain +10 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance +9 The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star +8 T. Rex - Telegram Sam +7 Geri Halliwell - It's Raining Men +6 Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme +5 t.A.T.u. - All The Things She Said +4 Olivia Newton John & The Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu +3 JLS - Beat Again +2 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor +1 D-Ream - Things Can Only Get Better -2 Bros - I Owe You Nothing An interesting group - a fairly great selection from the '00s, and also a handful of great pre '80s #1s for probably the first time in this game. But the middle decades ('80s and '90s, obviously) are really slim pickings here which pulls it down a bit. Still a strong group overall though, but maybe lacks standouts.

Overload is still god-damn PERFECT in all its understated glory.

Some TRAGIC crash-outs so far, though none overly surprising. Finally Found the most gutting and the first of my top 5 to fall, but when only a few late 90s nostalgia geeks remember/love it how well was it really going to do? I guess it's a pretty respectable placing considering. Angel of Mine, too, which should have been higher in my votes, but it would have only lifted it a few spots anyway. Not shocked to see Too Much the lowest Spice Girls song (apart from the ones that didn't even make the cut). I really like the way it almost swirls around in this entrancing state but there's not much to it apart from that. Stop should be the lowest, but I have noticed its baffling popularity in some places - why I will never understand, when it's easily the least distinctive single from their '90s hey-day, but oh well. Hopefully it isn't top 20 anyway. Most of the '00s entries are in their rightful places really. Buttons should be a bit higher perhaps, but not drastically so.

I think most people consider a girl group to be an ALL-FEMALE group (with no prominent, regular male members), which Heart never were. They were a female-fronted rock band - big difference. I believe male members were even in the majority in their most famous line-ups. Some people wouldn't include Heart because of their genre, regardless of the gender of the members. Both reasons why nobody even considered them, I'd wager.

I was referring to the #1s that spent only a week ahead of Moves Like Jagger. Reading back I can see how you thought otherwise though.

Late 2010 was awful, wasn't it? So many horrendous songs contending for the top spot. And yes, that top 2 is possibly for worst I can ever remember - maybe Frankee and Eamon in 2004 comes close if only for sheer ridiculousness but they both have more musical merit IMO. I can't think of anything worse, but feel free to refresh my memory of any. I wonder how many "non #1s" in 2011 I'll never have heard of. :o It's a shame Aloe Blacc has no chance of a promotion here as he was behind Pitbull the entire time when he moved 4-3-2-5. Give Me Everything is awesome though, no complaints. Hard to muster up much enthusiasm for 2011 when I never cared much when it was ongoing. The question is how many weeks will Moves Like Jagger get - at least 5? Looking at the sales for #1 in 2011, One Direction are probably the only near enough cert to "defend" their #1 from it.

Oh dear at Cee Lo Green being demoted. Talk about undoing all the good work in 2010 before with one fell swoop. :snif: The best #1 of the year IMO.

Unfortunately, Eric_Blob is right. Despite the affect the internet has had on music and the way it can be discovered, shared, etc, I haven't seen any evidence that radio programmers have significantly less control on the charts than it has in the past. At best social media, VEVO and the rest can help less established acts get hits much lower down the chart, but certainly not in the tens of thousands needed to make the upper reaches of the chart without decent radio support. Probably because the country is full of lazy people like me. :D

What has happened to Roll Deep? People will be so baffled when they look back at 2010 and see they had not one but two chart toppers, both with completely of-the-moment songs cashing in on the "grime artists doing electronic pop" trend. Ironically, I remember Green Light very well though, certainly better than Good Times anyway. I was on holiday at the time and the bar had their TV on a music channel for a good portion of the morning/afternoon that kept playing the video. <_< That and Club Can't Handle Me. Beautiful Monster is a typical case of a #1 more out of favour than anything else indeed. No complaints about most of the 2010 demotions so far, this thread is doing a fairly nice "tidy up" job on this year to make it look vaguely presentable, or as much as possible in these circumstances. :D