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Hmm, seems there are loads over 15/20 years, but once you get to 30 years there's only a few... interesting. Two musical legends now :D Johnny Cash (27 years) One Piece At A Time (1976) => Hurt/Personal Jesus (2003) Lou Reed - two big gaps between his only lead top 40 hits! Walk On The Wild Side (1973) => Soul Man (1987) => Satellite of Love (2004)

+15 The KLF featuring Tammy Wynette - Justified and Ancient +12 The Cardigans - Lovefool +10 Blur - Tender +8 Brandy and Monica - The Boy Is Mine +6 Seal - Crazy +5 Pulp - Common People +4 MC Sar & Real McCoy - Another Night +3 The Bluetones - Slight Return +2 Urban Cookie Collective - The Key The Secret +1 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn -2 Corona - Rhythm Of The Night

Engelbert Humperdinck (27 years): Too Beautiful To Last (1972) => Quando Quando Quando (1999) Talk about literally just qualifying here, QQQ reached #40 :D You could also technically have Nancy Sinatra (34 years between 1971 and 2005), but she was only credited as a featured act on SYD because it used her voice :kink:

It wasn't directed at anyone :P Just a general point that I don't think re-entries should really count. Andy Williams (24 years): You Lay So Easy On My Mind (1975) => Music To Watch Girls Go By (1999) Although if you completely ignore any song that charted before (regardless of whether it was a re-issue or not), than the gap extends to 27 years when he reached #23 on a new version of Can't Take My Eyes Off You with Denise Van Outen in 2002.

Why would you count re-entries? Surely that would be a long gap between top 40 appearances not top 40 singles... John Otway springs to mind, as I was actually just thinking about that just today. Reached top 10 in 2002 after he asked his fanbase to get him another hit for his birthday, and got to appear on Top of the Pops. eWOzQE9Isek Last top 40 hit before than was in 1977. I doubt he's the longest but he sure must be one of the longest to do it off his own back (i.e. without advertising, etc)...

http://imgsrv2.tennisuniverse.com/wtaworld/images/smilies/cuckoo.gif The best song went out in Round 28 :( Plus in Round 10, 29 and 25, and now the sadly departed Arctic Monkeys. Voted for Dakota. I never understood why everyone seemed to act like this was the best song they ever did as it was pretty average like the rest of their material.

How dare you! :P I suppose S Club 7 were aimed at a slightly higher age group - more like 11/12 than 8/9 or something, so were perhaps slightly easier to like for most people. To be fair, Don't Stop Movin' is a pretty respectable pop song, and stuff like Have You Ever and Never Had A Dream Come True are good pop ballads. I guess in the 00s Number Two Rate that is apparently coming next, S Club 7 might do a bit better. S Club Party was indeed crap though, even if it reminds me of trying to jump off the sofa/bed and do the S in mid-air like they did in the video :lol: Plus they definitely had more personality than Steps, although I suppose the fact kids at the time could follow them through their own TV show helped that in a way. I actually find it very odd listening to Steps now. Their music was so cold and hollow (in comparison to S Club 7's, at least). Kind of bizarre that it was aimed at kids as it really had no "fun" or charm in it. I suppose all their songs were ridiculously simple and about half of them had the same cheap dance beat but that only makes them sound even more empty nowadays. I find them borderline comical looking back, but I still have some appreciation for certain songs like One For Sorrow, Heartbeat... er, that's about it, I think. I'm not sure there was a point to this post. I guess I was trying to say that S Club 7 were indeed better but I still like Steps in a bizarre way :lol: There's been nothing quite like them since, and all the ones that have tried have all crashed and burned (see: Pop!).

Is it? Most people voting in this game seem to have a very varied taste to me... Problem with Steps and S Club 7? They're both dated as hell! I like them (I have the Greatest Hits of both) but I've never had any room for them in my votes purely because their songs sound so tacky nowadays. Pop music that does well in these games is stuff like Madonna, Natalie Imbruglia, etc. which doesn't sound so "of its time".

+15 MC Sar & Real McCoy - Another Night This not going through was an INJUSTICE - it's one of my fave songs of its type! Mustn't miss out AGAIN. +12 Arrested Development - People Everyday +10 Pulp - Mis Shapes/Sorted For Es and Wizz +8 Natalie Imbruglia - Big Mistake +6 Bruce Springsteen - Sreets Of Philadelphia +5 Eminem - My Name Is +4 Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman +3 Nomad - (I Wanna Give You) Devotion +2 Gala - Freed From Desire +1 Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart Would have been more points if it was Breathe Again - never liked this as much. -2 Los Del Rio - Macarena

Reach FTW in 2000! :dance: :cheer: Dated indeed (like most early 00s pop) but anybody who was between the ages of 6-13 at the time and doesn't get nostalgic blasts to summer 2000 from this song was clearly a STRANGE CHILD. But seriously, I think Reach and Never Had a Dream Come True will both get past halfway in 2000 but not much further. In 2001, Don't Stop Movin' will probably reach the top 10 and Have You Ever will probably pass the halfway mark but not much further also. The Steps song in 2001 is Chain Reaction, which is an atrocious cover, and deserves to do crap. And probably will. I'm going to predict the top 10 in 2000 will be: All Saints - Pure Shores Sonique - It Feels So Good Eminem featuring Dido - Stan Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) Eminem - The Real Slim Shady Melanie C - Never Be The Same Again Madonna - Music Destiny's Child - Independent Women Darude - Sandstorm Melanie C - I Turn To You :lol: Seriously, I have no idea. There's LOADS of dance music in 2000 that I have no idea how it will do. It's not like the urban music (which is almost non-existent in 2000) which you can easily predict where it will go out.

I'm interested to see who will win 2000 though. Pure Shores maybe? I think that did win some kind of poll of that year on this site before. Oops! I Did It Again definitely won't win for the reason I stated above, even though it's great IMO. I actually think there could be a shock and someone like Eminem could win, as Stan is reasonably viewed favourably by most people and there isn't much strong competition. Or maybe something like Groovejet (Spiller). 2001 and 2002 could also be interesting, but at the same time I see obvious winners in Kylie and Sugababes. If those fall then I'd be intrigued though :lol:

I agree with this. There are way more female urban songs in these years than there were in 2007-2009 because that was the general flavour of pop music at the time, and urban music is simply NOT mass-liked here. Unsurprisingly most of the female out-and-out pop songs still remain, it's just that weren't that many of them this year. Just like in 2004 Britney Spears will probably win with Toxic, and These Words will also do well, while the likes of Kelis will probably do averagely (unfortunately). I'd also say that we're getting to the point where many of the females are of a different generation. The likes of Mariah and Jennifer are reasonably liked on this site but at the same time they're nowhere near as liked as Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, etc, because they generally had their peak years before many voters on this site started following music, which probably has some impact. That affect is even more present on their older songs, like the ones we're getting to in this poll. Britney seems to cross across the two generations better, but even pre-Toxic her songs aren't as loved, going by that rank thing somebody did in the Britney forum not long ago (which is SHAMEFUL, by the way, as Stronger is the best song she's ever done and likely ever will do).

I'm sorry but Top of the Pops was MILES better than CD:UK. I can't believe people would even think the latter was better, or why they're even being compared. I used to watch both, but I didn't watch TOTP to see the chart quite frankly, although I did enjoy the top 20 countdown at the end. They often had totally different performances so I don't see why the need to compare them to each other came from. TOTP was definitely more diverse though, even in the late 90s/early 00s. I used to cringe at the amount of teenage girl screaming that went on during CD:UK whenever Westlife or some other boyband were mentioned. Eugh. I only watched CD:UK for the Saturday Chart, and even that turned otu to be useless to me once I discovered midweeks. By the way, there were no celebrity hosts on TOTP in the late 90s - by then the presenters were a rotating team of Jamie Theakston, Gail Porter, Jayne Middlemiss and probably some others I've forgotten, usually one of them on their own each week. I preferred them to Ant, Dec and Cat although I already knew and liked Jamie from Live & Kicking. But yeah, I miss Top of the Pops and to an extent Live & Kicking (:lol:). I don't miss CD:UK at all. The Chart Show was before my time but I've seen a few episodes on YouTube and it seems pretty good, too, but still it's hard to say I miss it when I never watched it when it was on. And there is definitely a place for TOTP in today's music scene. Where else can you see live performance nowadays? Ok, The X Factor, yeah. Maybe a few on some other random chat shows. The Live Lounge is also a big one, but that only has one act a week or something. But it's hugely successful so obviously there's still a demand for people to see/hear live performances, rather than just watching videos. It's a MUCH better way to connect with an artist than simply watching them parade around in the videos. Surely Adele at the BRITS is even further proof of that. Live performances ARE still relevant today, even in pop music, so TOTP could still be relevant today as well. It's all about getting the right presenters, aiming it at the right audience, etc.

Not necessarily. I was only 8 years old in 1999 yet I still love the 90s and consider myself a "90s child". I guess the fact I just caught the end of it (1998/99) meant I got totally sucked in, and now I know an awful lot of 90s music because of my desire to get to know the decade better. Plus Bray is like 13(?) and voted for 1990s - although I wonder how much of that has to do with The Prodigy being at their peak then :D But seriously, I suppose it depends on your age and your willingness to travel into the past. I'm still trying to get to know the 80s better. I have to say a lot of stuff from the 60s I struggle with though - I guess it's just the fact that the production seems like a million light years away from what we have now in so many songs. It's so hard to get in to (for me) unless you're more used to it, I guess. The 70s I'm a bit better with.

If we presume that half of the people who voted for 2000-2010 are voting for it because they're too young and don't know any other decade, then we can safely assume that the 90s is kicking ass on this poll :kink:

LOL, aren't like 8 out of the top 10 on air, on sale (or released from an album, which is basically the same thing)? Everyone except J-Lo and Wretch, I think. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not sure on LMFAO and Mann. But either way it's over half the current top 10. How can you say the UK aren't keen on the concept just because Gaga and Britney aren't exactly thriving from it, based on THAT. And Gaga has got to #1 from on air, on sale before, as somebody already said a few pages back. Chipmunk has also had a top 10 hit from the method before (Look For Me). So if either of them are flopping now it's because either 1) they're not getting enough airplay; or 2) the public simply aren't keen on the songs. One thing about OA/OS is that it will probably far more genuinely reflect the popularity of the song in terms of peak, so when a song isn't that popular it will be show, whereas before it probably would have fluked a week in the top 10 and then bombed down. Based on its run now I think the Chipmunk song would have peaked in the top 10 and dropped like a brick if it was held back, to be honest. That said, Gaga clearly isn't flopping. She'll rebound once the video is released, etc. We'll just have to see how much. I'm just really getting sick of people moaning about OA/OS to be honest just because a few of this site's fave pop tarts are slightly suffering from it. Jeez. I had my doubts about it before but apart from the charts being a little bit slower I think it's been brilliant so far.

90s by a mile. An incredibly varied decade, very strong for alternative music in the mainstream (grunge, britpop et all). R&B music was actually brilliant and ground-breaking and not full of the crap its descended to now. Pop music was fun on the whole with actual personality, rather than the cold robotic-ness of the late 00s and 10s. Even dance music was better back then - I can name far more 90s dance tunes I like than I can 00s. And most of my favourite acts started in the 1990s. So yeah, 90s for me, not even close when almost every genre was at its best for me. Runner-up would be a tie between 80s and 00s, I guess. I suppose I should like the 60s and to an extent 70s for sheer influence, but I don't know loads of stuff from there. That said, if I could take any 10 year period across the decades, I'd probably go for 1994-2003 or something. Not really a HUGE fan of the early part of the 90s, and I also liked the early 00s quite a bit - so yeah, that would be the big compromise for me.

Brandy and Monica beat Stardust :o I thought 3rd was the best it could have hoped for! Glad to see it qualify anyway, I know R&B isn't exactly loved here but it's a defining tune of the genre in the late 90s so it would have been a shame to see it not make it. Good qualifiers in general, too, though there's not much I hated there, so I would have been fine with almost any scenario. Now, 1999... worse than 1997+98 both on this list and in music in general! Some real horrors here, even though this was my first FULL year of chart-watching and indeed following music so it's still nostalgia heaven. I still love all 10 of my votes too. +15 Blur - Tender :wub: Perfection. +12 Geri Halliwell - Look At Me +10 Fatboy Slim - Right Here Right Now +8 Terrorvision - Tequila +6 Eminem - My Name Is +5 Madonna - Beautiful Stranger +4 R Kelly - If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time +3 DJ Jurgen presents Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone +2 Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love +1 Artful Dodger featuring Craig David - Re-Rewind -2 Ann Lee - 2 Times So f***ing irritating!! Had some tough competition for this -2 though. But this gets it for the fact I do not have a single FOND memory from this awful song, unlike some of the other dreck.

It was Brian Harvey :P But then Tony Mortimer left the group, and Brian Harvey was allowed back in. I think the reason for the name change was simply to allow them a "fresh start" away from all the tainted business that went on before then. Didn't go down well for them though, Each Time was their last hit :( P.S. I love Nick F1! :D Finally someone else who votes for Top of the World.

I'm inclined to agree there. The first disc was certainly near enough perfect bar about 2 songs and the second disc only goes off a bit in the middle and the very end. To be fair, it only did so well because of her fame off the back of The Boy is Mine and a relatively dead week in the charts. Even the far more anonymous (here, anyway) Monica managed to grab a solo top 10 hit off the back off that track (the incredible First Night :wub:) I don't madly love TOTW but I'd be most annoyed if it came right at the bottom. Would be very undeserved :( DBdSkG6GkOg

Oh agreed, they definitely both make me slightly nostalgic. I'm not usually a fan of boyband ballads but there's something about the Five one I really like that I can't really explain. Mind you, I always did quite like Five far more than any other boyband so maybe I just prefer their voices. I can't support you on the Boyzone one, however, I'm afraid. I listened to it just last week (not by choice) so it should be quite fresh in my memory. But I still only have a vague memory of even the chorus line, let alone the rest of the song :lol: I think this is a very good year for #2s! But maybe I'm just biased as an R&B fan, actually having a decent selection of songs from that genre to vote for for a change, when in pretty much every other year we've done it's been literally non-existent. But you're right the year shouldn't be entirely judged by this list - the Now (39, 40 and 41) and the Hits albums (New Hits, Fresh Hits, Big Hits 98 and Hits 99) all show it was a strong and varied year for the charts IMO. I think Super Furry Animals are even on Fresh Hits 98 (which is the first compilation I ever bought, by the way [/pointless fact]), if I recall correctly, with Ice Hockey Hair :D A lot of people give 1997-99 a hard time for "cheesy pop" like Steps, etc, but that's such a closed-minded view of the music scene at the time IMO. It was never dominating the charts like the horrible "club" music at the moment. But I'm just rambling incoherently now, anyway. On another note, why am I the only person to vote for Top of the World? :( It's going to come last at this rate. Even novelty $h!t like T-Spoon must have more points (wait, why am I surprised a novelty song would have more points than a good R&B tune on this site? :lol:)

Good results for 1997 :D Never expected Supergrass to get through with such tough competiton so I'm not too bothered about that. Surprised The Verve weren't top! +15 Brandy and Monica - The Boy Is Mine Stardust and Madonna will obviously top the group, but this classic needs to come 3rd at least! +12 Pras Michel featuring Ol' Dirty bast*rd & Mya - Ghetto Supastar Catchy R&B. Fell in love with this as soon as I heard it on TOTP back then :wub: +10 E-17 - Each Time I'll join gooddelta in voting for this strong comeback - so chilled with that wonderful kicked back guitar! +8 Natalie Imbruglia - Big Mistake Chanelling her inner Alanis - prefer this to Torn to be honest. +6 Madonna - Ray Of Light Tough to only give this +6. But it will get loads of huge points as already mentioned. +5 Brandy featuring Ma$e - Top Of The World More R&B to vote for! A bit bubblegum lyrically but Darkchild adds the obvious edge. +4 Spice Girls - Stop Infectious 60s-influenced pop. Used to love the video too. +3 Five - Until The Time Is Through Very competent boyband ballad. No idea why I like this so much! +2 Mousse T vs Hot & Juicy - Horny I'M HORNY ALL NIGHT LONG. Summer anthem indeed. +1 Busta Rhymes - Turn It Up / Fire It Up Last bit of urban I have to squeeze in :D Still one of Busta's best songs. 1998 :dance: Not as good as the #1s that year but still so tough. No room for Fat Les, George Michael, The Beautiful South, Sash!, Stardust, Steps and Jay-Z - although I like them all. -2 Puff Daddy feat. Jimmy Page - Come With Me Horrible rap-rock. Why did Page let this happen? :( Oh wait, of course, $$$.

Voted for Bodyrockers again. It's easily the worst song left here. NOT impressed to see Kanye in 2nd place, or Snoop Dogg in the lead either, to be honest. I guess this is the point where all the great songs start getting chucked out before we end up with the inevitable Sugababes/Kelly Clarkson/Madonna top 3. Bring it on!! -_-

Whenever I think of a 'chavvy' song, I immediately think of 3 Of A Kind - Babycakes. That song got to #1 literally right when the word 'chav' was starting to be used far more commonly in the media/across Britain (which, by the way, I had no idea people still used it, personally, but maybe that's what happens when you don't hang around with teenagers all the time any more). :lol: It DEFINES the whole word, in musical form, to me :( The girl member of the group dressed like one, too. I do kind of agree there, despite my above sentiment of just calling a song that :lol: But back in 2004/05 practically every urban song that did well you had one person groaning: "eugh, it's only doing well because the chavs are buying it!", which got a bit tiring really.

Excuse me but... :rofl: at me No idea what I was thinking when writing that. For some reason I had this as a 1999 chart in my head even though I knew most of the songs are from 2000 :wacko: And Freestyler was quite ridiculous. Especially the random guitar in the intro (which I think was cut off the UK radio edit? I don't remember it from the time so I was quite surprised to 'discover' it a few years later) which sounded just bizarre on that type of song. Sounded very cool back then though and a unique hit at least :D