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01 Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) 02 Kelis - Trick Me 03 Goldfrapp - A&E 04 Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood 05 Eminem - Lose Yourself 06 Girls Aloud - The Show 07 The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize 08 Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood 09 Sugababes - Push The Button 10 Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers 11 Rihanna featuring Drake - What's My Name? 12 P!nk - Don't Let Me Get Me 13 Evanescence - Bring Me To Life 14 Christina Aguilera - Fighter 15 Amerie - 1 Thing 16 Beyoncé - Halo 17 Snow Patrol - Run 18 Britney Spears - Everytime 19 The Killers - Somebody Told Me 20 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right This group has way more songs I voted in the top 5 in the yearly rounds but hardly any I voted outside of that (it's the other way round in Group 1) so I'd have to say this group is stronger to me. Although that being said it was a bit of a struggle to get to 20 decent tracks which is rare for me but I managed it!

01 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out 02 Britney Spears - Stronger 03 M.I.A. - Paper Planes 04 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 05 Cee Lo Green - Forget You 06 Sugababes - Run For Cover 07 White Stripes - Seven Nation Army 08 Lady Gaga - Paparazzi 09 Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child 10 Bloc Party - Flux 11 Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone 12 Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules - Mad World 13 Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. 14 The Killers - All These Things That I've Done 15 Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People 16 Christina Aguilera - Hurt 17 Girls Aloud - Call The Shots 18 Roger Sanchez - Another Chance 19 Outkast - Hey Ya! 20 Timbaland - The Way I Are Is it just me being stupid or is Overprotected in this game supposed to be Stronger? I only noticed because I just made a list of all the songs I voted for and where in the last round to guide me with my votes and Stronger is very high up on that as I put it 3rd in 2001 but isn't on this list or the other one, even though it made the play-off places (5-10)? And just checking Overprotected only got to 34th in 2002... if so I'd need a major edit of my votes as Stronger is a top 5 song! :lol:

It feels like 5 years ago to me at the most! Damn, it's things like this that makes me realise time goes way too quickly. I still remember first hearing she had died - we were on the way home from France where we had just been on holiday and had Radio 1 on in the car and their Newsbeat came on to announce that there had been a plane crash and Aaliyah had died. I only knew Try Again at the time and nothing else from her but I was still so sad about it the whole journey home; she was basically the first act of "my era" to die too - I had only started following music a couple of years before and the only musicians who had died in that period were Dusty Springfield and the like. It was definitely the first musician's death that I had actually felt sad about/affected me in some way for that reason. And 4 Page Letter is my favourite Aaliyah song. It might not have been her most cool, trendy or unique but it's so beautifully sung! She excelled at ballads in general, I think - most of her ballads are VERY underrated as people really only talk about Try Again, Are You That Somebody?, More Than A Woman, etc, these days.

I've read before (can't remember where, I read an awful lot of random things in all sorts of random places that stick with me!) that Woolworths didn't stock the single at all for its first two weeks on the chart; the week it climbed to #2 was the first week they did which undoubtedly must have been a factor if so. However, I didn't buy my singles from Woolworths as my local one was too far away for ickle ol' me (it was ASDA or bust instead >_<) so I can't exactly confirm this based on my own experiences. I do know the record got f*** all support other than from The Box pre-release though so perhaps it was also a case of it needing to enter the charts to attract a bigger audience (compared to many other The Box-only singles which let's face it, nobody else cared about!) I do think it's a shame that it got beaten to #1 by Stomp purely because it had already "wasted" two weeks sales before going to #2. Not because I actually like it, although I do prefer it to Stomp, but because the record was so huge in general in terms of sales and cultural impact, whereas Stomp practically had no attention from outside of their fanbase (isn't it actually one of their LOWEST-SELLING hits too?). Plus Who Let The Dogs Out? was still in the top 10 the week It's The Way You Make Me Feel was released and got to #2 for crying out loud!!! :lol:

Can I just say that I love russt68. He's such an unbearable snob but it's hilarious :lol: That said, I kind of agree with him this time. Most of my favourites here have gone already and Clint Eastwood is the last of the tracks I truly love. And I've always found the trio of Can't Get You Out Of My Head/Don't Stop Movin'/Whole Again (which were basically THE big three pop hits of the year and pretty much inescapable one after the other as they were spaced out like 4 months apart each) very overrated... in fact in terms of S Club 7 songs on this list I prefer Have You Ever by miles. Voted for Whole Again. It might not have been so bad if it didn't practically change the entire sound of Atomic Kitten to a bland-as-wallpaper pop product.

I'm sorry but I actually love Chain Reaction. Too many of their singles are so cheap, tinny and pretty much nothing but a crap dance beat production-wise but Chain Reaction is just all-out triumphant fun that never lets up from the word go and is all the better for it. Very disappointing that it's probably going to be significantly underrated here; it was one of their bigger hits for a reason! :angry: It's The Way You Make Me Feel has a certain charm to it but it's still PISS WEAK by ordinary pop songs standards. Of course by Steps' standards it's actually alright. But why anyone would bother it when there were better pop songs like Stronger, Independent Women, One More Time, Black Coffee, Same Old Brand New You, etc, sharing space with it on the charts/radio playlists is BEYOND me. Although 2000 was such a brilliant year for pop music in general that I'm not sure why anyone would bother with Steps full stop in it really; I know that I didn't! I think you're taking the term a bit TOO literally there. There are plenty of songs I like that I would call guilty pleasures but I'm not particularly ashamed to admit them or worried about what people think of me if I do. To me it's more a song you know is pretty crap musically or whatever but still can't help but like it anyway. That's the definition to me, anyway :lol: I guess the above example of Chain Reaction would be one of my guilty pleasures!

They didn't release THAT many singles but they were the giants of AA-side singles at the time, hence their release list looks longer. So Tragedy was paired with Heartbeat for release, Say You'll Be Mine with Better The Devil You Know, and so on and so forth. Although in reality they had a 4-year run with few noticeable gaps in terms of release times so the list is obviously longer than a lot of similar acts. Clearly you and I have a different definition of "joyful". To me there's nothing joyous about Steps' music because it's so cold and manufactured - even by late 90s pop standards. At least S Club 7 and Spice Girls made fun cheerful pop music like, for example, Reach or Wannabe - not mechanical dance-pop which is about as joyless as any type of music I can imagine for me. I agree that Tragedy is reasonably feel good though. Obviously it would have had to be to become such a staple at dodgy parties and the like. Probably 5, 6, 7, 8 too if only for how ridiculous it was as a debut single. But most of their catalogue doesn't fit my definition of the word. (On another note, this thread has just reminded me that we never got the results of the All Saints rate :drama: Where did the person running it disappear off to?)

Surely one of the most vapid, insincere and utterly JOYLESS groups in music history but let's see anyway. I'm going to try and rate them relative to each other (i.e. how good it is by Steps' lowly standards). 04 - 5, 6, 7, 8 05 - Last Thing On My Mind 08 - One For Sorrow (I adored this at the time, massive nostalgia points) 10 - Heartbeat (same as above, cute video too that reminds me massively of Xmas time '98) 07 - Tragedy 03 - Better Best Forgotten 09 - Thank Abba For The Music (only in 1999 could this have happened... for that, 9 points!) 00 - Love's Got A Hold On My Heart (non-event of a song, thank God Ricky Martin was around to beat it to #1, and I never thought I'd be saying that) 01 - After The Love Has Gone 03 - Say You'll Be Mine (video more memorable than song = says it all) 04 - Better The Devil You Know (pointless cover, though not necessarily bad) 09 - Deeper Shade Of Blue (shockingly credible by their standards) 07 - When I Said Goodbye 02 - Summer Of Love (bit late for the Latin bandwagon :manson: Crap anyway) -1 - Stomp (joyless, formulatic "party" music, sadly there was no Ricky Martin-type song to keep this crap from #1 - should have been Baha Men[!!!]) 04 - It's The Way You Make Me Feel (god, how awful is Lisa Scott-Lee's bit on this song?) 00 - Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (jesus christ, f***ing horrible cover, Marvin must have been spinning in his grave when this was out) 03 - Here and Now (too cheesy Europop-ish :/) 04 - You'll Be Sorry 08 - Chain Reaction (now this is a cover! Crap and everything that you should hate about Steps but for once it's actually ridiculously good fun) 02 - One For Sorrow (2001/Tony Moran US Mix) (horribly camped up version iirc, I'll pass) 06 - Words Are Not Enough 03 - I Know Him So Well Not doing the member rank as I don't care enough.

01 Sugababes - Freak Like Me 02 DB Boulevard - Point Of View 03 The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl 04 Eminem - Lose Yourself 05 P!nk - Don't Let Me Get Me 06 Doves - Pounding 07 Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows 08 Beverley Knight - Shoulda Woulda Coulda 09 Coldplay - The Scientist 10 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny 11 Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground 12 Robbie Williams - Feel 13 The Coral - Dreaming Of You 14 Brandy - What About Us? 15 Coldplay - In My Place 16 Avril Lavigne - Complicated 17 Sugababes - Stronger 18 Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles 19 Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out 20 Aaliyah - More Than A Woman Significantly worse than 2001 but that was to be expected - I like all my points but it gets very weak towards the bottom.

01 Basement Jaxx - Romeo 02 The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You 03 Britney Spears - Stronger 04 Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood 05 Outkast - Ms Jackson 06 Mary J Blige - Family Affair 07 Sugababes - Run For Cover 08 Dido - Here With Me 09 Eve & Gwen Stefani - Let Me Blow Ya Mind 10 Muse - Plug In Baby 11 Nelly Furtado - Turn Off The Light 12 Destiny's Child - Survivor 13 Gorillaz - 19/2000 14 Mya - Case Of The Ex 15 iio - Rapture 16 N-Trance - Set You Free [Rob Searle 2001 Remix] 17 S Club 7 - Have You Ever 18 Roger Sanchez - Another Chance 19 Ash - Burn Baby Burn 20 Emma Bunton - What Took You So Long? Very tough year - one of my favourites for singles and a good year for all the main genres - I really like all the songs I voted for and could have easily voted for 10 or so more.

01 Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) 02 Oasis - The Importance Of Being Idle 03 Chemical Brothers - Galvanize 04 Mariah Carey - We Belong Together 05 Natalie Imbruglia - Shiver 06 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 07 KT Tunstall - The Other Side Of The World 08 Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. 09 Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God 10 Gwen Stefani - Cool 11 Ciara - Goodies 12 Missy Elliott - Lose Control 13 Sugababes - Push The Button 14 t.A.T.u. - All About Us 15 The Futureheads - Hounds Of Love 16 Amerie - 1 Thing 17 2Pac featuring Elton John - Ghetto Gospel 18 Rachel Stevens - So Good 19 The Bravery - An Honest Mistake 20 Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot Much harder than 2006 :/ And loads of my absolute favourites aren't even here since I didn't nominate anything, so heaven knows how hard it would be if they were!

01 Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down 02 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 03 Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On 04 Amy Winehouse - Rehab 05 Editors - Munich 06 Beyoncé - Irreplacable 07 Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child 08 Snow Patrol - Set The Fire To The Third Bar 09 Nerina Pallot - Everybody's Gone To War 10 Justin Timberlake - SexyBack 11 Sigur Rós - Hoppipolla 12 Lily Allen - LDN 13 The Automatic - Monster 14 Christina Aguilera - Hurt 15 Cassie - Me and You 16 Take That - Patience 17 José Gonzalez - Heartbeats 18 Nelly Furtado - Maneater 19 Lily Allen - Smile 20 Girls Aloud - Whole Lotta History

Aww, I love this list! Technically some terrible records but this was my last year of proper chart loondom so I'm even rather fond of them (i.e. DJ Otzi). And massive yay at Always Come Back To Your Love making the list - let's just crown her the winner please, Kylie hasn't got a chance against La Mumba!! :D Voted for Limp Bizkit. It's actually one of only three songs here I would actively skip if it came up on shuffle on my iTunes.

Agreed - although it's a pretty solid reflection of 2002 in that respect. Not a vintage year at all, bit of a strange year for the charts in general with a kind of transition between the pop/dance years that preceded it and the R&B/hip hop/indie rock years that succeeded it IMO. Voted for Shakira - I just flat out don't like her, although Whenever Wherever is one of her better singles. Kiss Kiss is the worst Holly Valance single though - all of the follow-ups were better - but it's still decent. So I guess Round Round FTW, but it should have been Freak Like Me really - it's the only single among that top 10 that truly had any musical impact and was easily the best too...

01 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 02 Robyn with Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat 03 The Killers - Read My Mind 04 Bloc Party - Flux 05 Kelis featuring Cee Lo - Lil Star 06 Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No 07 Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks 08 Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own 09 Kate Nash - Foundations 10 Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent 11 Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm 12 Freemasons featuring Bailey Tzuke - Uninvited 13 Girls Aloud - Call The Shots 14 Rihanna - Shut Up and Drive 15 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right 16 Kanye West - Stronger 17 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Catch You 18 Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson & DOE - The Way I Are 19 Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good 20 Mika - Happy Ending

01 Goldfrapp - A&E 02 Rihanna - Disturbia 03 M.I.A. - Paper Planes 04 Vampire Weekend - A-Punk 05 Estelle featuring Kanye West - American Boy 06 Britney Spears - Piece Of Me 07 Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris & Chrome - Dance Wiv Me 08 Robyn - Be Mine! 09 MGMT - Kids 10 Girls Aloud - The Promise 11 Ne-Yo - Closer 12 Lady Gaga - Just Dance 13 Amy MacDonald - This Is The Life 14 Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor 15 Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind 16 Rihanna - Take A Bow 17 Sam Sparro - Black and Gold 18 Britney Spears - Break The Ice 19 Coldplay - Viva La Vida 20 Sara Bareilles - Love Song

My goodness, where did all these Ellie Goulding, The Saturdays and Alexandra Burke songs spring up from... :lol: 01 Cee Lo Green - Forget You 02 Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood 03 Example - Kickstarts 04 Robyn - Dancing On My Own 05 Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers 06 Rihanna featuring Drake - What's My Name? 07 Swedish House Mafia featuring Pharrell - One (Your Name) 08 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé - Telephone 09 Kelis - Acapella 10 Tinie Tempah - Pass Out 11 Crystal Castles featuring Robert Smith - Not In Love 12 Owl City - Fireflies 13 Taio Cruz - Dynamite 14 Alexandra Burke featuring Pitbull - All Night Long 15 Take That - The Flood 16 B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams - Airplanes 17 Cheryl Cole - Promise This 18 Alexis Jordan - Happiness 19 Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up 20 Plan B - She Said

01 Lily Allen - The Fear 02 Bat For Lashes - Daniel 03 Dizzee Rascal featuring Armand Van Helden - Bonkers 04 Beyoncé - Sweet Dreams 05 Example - Watch The Sun Come Up 06 Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man 07 Lady Gaga - Paparazzi 08 Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone 09 La Roux - In For The Kill 10 Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind 11 Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People 12 The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition 13 Keri Hilson featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo - Knock You Down 14 Röyksopp featuring Robyn - The Girl and The Robot 15 Beyoncé - Halo 16 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 17 Jordin Sparks - Battlefield 18 Noisettes - Never Forget You 19 David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over 20 Girls Aloud - Untouchable

01 Tweet - Oops (Oh My) 02 Doves - Pounding 03 Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows 04 Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You 05 Elvis vs. JXL - A Little Less Conversation 06 Liberty X - Holding On For You 07 Missy Elliott - Work It 08 Doves - There Goes The Fear 09 Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles 10 Eminem - Without Me 11 Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today 12 The Coral - Dreaming Of You 13 Brandy - Full Moon 14 Alizée - Moi Lolita 15 Truth Hurts - Addictive 16 Mariah Carey - Through The Rain 17 Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful 18 Paul Oakenfold - Starry Eyed Surprise 19 Ashanti - Foolish 20 Alanis Morissette - Hands Clean

Oh, I don't expect many people/anybody to agree with me on Deep Blue Something. It's just one of those songs I find irritating as hell!! :arrr: Just realised two that I forgot - Eric Prydz's Call On Me (how could I forget this?!) and Jennifer Lopez's Get Right (probably another one most people won't agree with me, but to me it's just incredibly irritating again with that horn loop) deserve a mention. Very little pre-1996 offends me that much to be honest, probably because I didn't follow the charts at the time and didn't hear them all over the radio. With those kind of songs, it's more the principle of them getting to #1 that's annoying more than the song IMO. Because you know they won't be remembered and keep off songs that are actually genuinely popular, etc, rather than just selling off the back of charity or whatever, or might go on to be actual classics. Robson & Jerome are boring at worst, it's just annoying they kept off Wonderwall and Common People for example. As for Westlife, it was more their tactics they used to get #1 that pissed a lot of people off. Plus it was scary watching them come dangerously close to getting the all-time #1 record. Thank God it looks like they have no chance of getting any more now (plus Elvis' re-issues thankfully raised the bar much higher than it was beforehand)...

3 Of A Kind - Babycakes Basshunter - Now You're Gone Cliff Richard - The Millennium Prayer Crazy Frog - Axel F Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's Five + Queen - We Will Rock You (although I love Five in general, but this was truly woeful) Limp Bizkit - Rollin' Nick Berry - Every Loser Wins Puff Daddy & Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You Room 5 featuring Oliver Chetham - Make Luv Spacedust - Gym & Tonic St Winifred's School Choir - There's No-one Quite Like Grandma These ones stand out as particularly awful...

I stopped listening to the chart show every week in 2002, when Mark Goodier left. Although it wasn't really a case of stopping as soon as he left in some kind of outrage/disgust, it was more that I just didn't worry too much about missing it after that. Plus 2002 had been such an awful year for chart music anyway so my interest was probably hampened a bit by that (even though 2003 turned out to be one of my absolute favourite years, although of course I didn't realise that at the time) and I had already stopped writing down the charts by the end of 2001. I did briefly jump over to the Smash Hits Chart when I heard Mark Goodier was presenting it but that didn't last long. And I've only listened to the chart show twice this year (and both times not the full show, only a bit of it), but I still check the charts online every Sunday night without fail. Even if I don't know/haven't heard 4/5 of the top 5 like the situation is currently :lol: I'm very neutral these days and really don't care much who gets #1 or top 10 or whatever, plus it's not that often a song I really love gets that high in the charts anyway...

You mean the Pepsi Chart - Hit40UK didn't exist in 1999 :kink: Shocked we have as many as 10 pre-1990ers already!

I don't think there was any specific date really. I remember watching Top of the Pops and Live & Kicking with my parents/sisters as early as 1997, and also listened to random albums that my parents bought us (again, me and my sisters) like The Smurfs(!) and Spice Girls back in 1996 too, as well as some albums that my mum and dad owned themselves. But I was very young and my interest in music was pretty limited in that respect, so I guess I wasn't really a music fan as such back then. My parents bought us some random chart compilations - Fresh Hits '98 and Now 40 - in mid-1998 and I listened to those a lot (until the tape for Now 40 ended up unwinding itself to become useless anyway!) which opened up my music taste quite a bit. I guess you could call that the point where I became a proper music fan as after that I started asking my parents to buy all the Now albums for me so I also got Now 41, Now 42 etc etc. In mid-1999 (I think it might have been May, but I can't be sure) we got Sky Digital television and I started to watch a lot of the music channels not long after that too. As for the chart question, I first listened to a small bit of the chart in mid-1998 when I was randomly sitting about in my bedroom and for some reason decided to go flicking through the radio stations and managed to catch the end of the chart show. I think Dario G was a new entry that week or at least somewhere in the top 5. But it clearly didn't hook my attention that much as I pretty much forgot about it and never listened again for a few months. Around October/November 1998 I managed to catch the chart show again when I was sitting in the car waiting for my parents who had gone to do something or other and was a lot more interested this time. From early 1999 onwards I started listening every week and bought a pad to write down the charts. The two years after that was pretty much the peak of my obsession, and then from post-2001 as I grew a bit older I started to get a lot less obsessed although I still obviously retained it as an interest. So yes, the short answer rather than a load of waffle: 1995-1999.

I think some people just vote on the artist to be honest. There's no way the Elvis song deserved to go out so early either, it was a great remix! Anyway, DJ Sammy again for me! Is nobody going to join me any time soon? :( Please speak up now. I quite like Colourblind. Maybe because I remember literally ALL the constant $h!t stream of songs coming from Pop Idol rejects at the time - Colourblind was one of the better ones I think. Though obviously not as good as Sarah Whatmore's When I Lost You. Doesn't deserve to go over some of the utter crap that remains.