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I thought Heart WERE giving it the Empire State of Mind treatment? I've only listened to it twice in the last week - once when I was in my mum's car on Saturday, and once when I was in my dad's car yesterday. Both times I heard Someone Like You, and I was only in there both times for like 5-10 minutes :drama: Of course it could be just a coincidence. Although, does airplay of particular tracks differ by location? My local one is Heart Thames Valley. Why not just judge the song on its own merits? That's a very silly attitude to take... Mind you, I don't care for Someone Like You either. Rolling in the Deep is much better. I haven't heard the rest of her album yet.

+15 Michael Jackson - Give in to Me +12 Urban Cookie Collective - The Key, The Secret +10 Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes +8 Pet Shop Boys - Go West +6 4 Non Blondes - What's Up? +5 Haddaway - What Is Love? +4 Bryan Adams - Please Forgive Me +3 Snow - Informer +2 M People - Moving On Up +1 Take That - Why Can't I Wake Up With You -2 Bitty McLean - It Keeps Rainin' (Tears From My Eyes) :puke2:

Unfortunately it IS George Michael - True Faith. So sad to see one of the best singers we've ever produced as a country reduced to THAT :drama:

I really like Audio Bullys too. Yeah, it's opportunistic, brainless, and most of all repetitive, but frankly when the bit being repeated sounds great I don't care about that :lol: Although I think Summer 2005 was almost entirely great for chart music (with a few duffs) though I was also having a great time personally then, too, so maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much :D Now 61 (which covers that period) is probably my favourite post-2001 Now album. Anyway, I expected Audio Bullys to go earlier than this, so I was quite happy to see them still here, but they probably will go after Amerie now :( Which would make two of my top 10 out in a row. And I like the MVP song, too, to be honest - I think it was one of those songs my sister made me like by playing it too much. So yeah, I'm not happy with the way this game is going right now. There are still some excellent tracks left but I can see them falling before we get to the inevitable Hung Up vs Push The Button vs Since U Been Gone final 3 - of which I only like Sugababes to be honest. I'm struggling to see anything breaking that trio... maybe Don't Cha? The list is still so un-BuzzJack to be honest :lol:

Eugh, why are you people voting for Amerie?! Bandwagoning as usual, I guess. Please someone get Jennifer Lopez out now. I think I've been voting for this since Round 1. I'm not usually so persistent but this song is too crap to not be. And I agree with DanielGaGa, Daniel Powter is dreadful. So inoffensive it actually becomes OFFENSIVE. Would vote for it if J-Lo ever went out.

One is DEFINITELY more famous than Smells Like Teen Spirit here, and I'd say by more than just a little bit personally. Definitely gets played more on radio (it's more radio-friendly, of course it will be), is frequently sung on things like The X Factor, was in the charts just a few years ago when Mary J. Blige covered it, etc. It's had way more exposure, and to a far greater audience, in the last decade or so than Smells Like Teen Spirit has. Admittedly the Unfinished Sympathy and Lose My Religion claims are far less defendable, but I still stand by the fact that Smells Like Teen Spirit is only (at most) the 2nd most well-known song on this list, if you did a Family Fortunes-style survey based on the 10 songs here from a British perspective. If you did it in America, then Smells Like Teen Spirit would probably walk it, though, that I will accept.

Depends on the country. Smells Like Teen Spirit would definitely be the most famous in America, but here? Not sure about that. I'd say Losing My Religion, One and Unfinished Sympathy at least would be more famous here. I'd say November Rain off the same album (Use Your Illusion I) is more famous/classic, personally, but I shouldn't claim to know better than this all-knowing book :D

10 Primal Scream - Loaded 09 A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? 08 The KLF - 3AM Eternal 07 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy 06 R.E.M. - Losing My Religion 05 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit 04 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge 03 U2 - One 02 Metallica - Enter Sandman -1 Guns N' Roses - Live and Let Die The top 4 are all :wub:. Everything else is significantly less good, and the bottom 3 I don't care for at all. WTF at the awful Guns N Roses cover. Out of place much.

I was going to say this is a horrible year but it's actually a pretty good list - it's just I've never had SO many different candidates for my -2 before and they all jumped out at me before the decent songs. But there's plenty of good stuff here, for sure, including one absolute classic and plenty of fun elsewhere. +15 The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette - Justified and Ancient +12 Arrested Development - People Everyday +10 Smart E's - Sesame's Treet +8 Kris Kross - Jump +6 The Prodigy - Everybody in the Place +5 Dr Alban - It's My Life +4 Shanice - I Love Your Smile +3 Mariah Carey - I'll Be There +2 Iron Maiden - Be Quick or Be Dead +1 Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson – The Best Things in Life Are Free -2 Michael Jackson - Heal the World Could have given this to Kylie, 2 Unlimited, Ce Ce Peniston, Guns N' Roses, Nick Berry or Undercover as well. Too much crap! Not voting for The Temptations (even though I love it) as it belongs in the the 1960s.

Get Right needs to go. Appalling song. How the hell did Tripping leave so early? Jeez, I stop paying attention to this game for a few rounds and suddenly you all lose your minds. That's a fantastic song, although the follow-up (Advertising Space) was even better, and probably the best Robbie single of the 00s :heart: We Belong Together didn't deserve to go this early either but that was to be expected considering Mariah is loved and hated in pretty much equal measure on this site. Like with Robbie, I also do think her other singles from this year were better though (well, It's Like That and Shake It Off were, Get Your Number was rank and Don't Forget About Us was fairly ordinary).

+15 Seal - Crazy By FAR the best in a pretty mediocre year +12 The KLF - Last Train to Transcentral +10 Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman +8 Nomad - (I Wanna Give You) Devotion +6 James - Sit Down +5 Salt-N-Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex +4 Heavy D and The Boyz - Now That We Found Love +3 Madonna - Crazy For You +2 Diana Ross - When You Tell Me That You Love Me +1 Scorpions - Wind of Change -2 Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy

How do you know that without listening to it first, and thus you know, hearing it? :lol: I find it surprising that you wouldn't have heard it. I vividly remember hearing it myself many times but never knowing who actually sung it until I was listening to many songs from this kind of era a few years ago on YouTube. I would say it's possibly more famous in America though (where it was a #1 hit), but I still think it's pretty well-known here too. Anyway, I just checked on Comparemyradio.com out of interest, and Black Velvet has had 249 plays across the stations they track in the last 30 days. In comparison to other songs from this year: Groove Is In The Heart - 231 Kylie Minogue - 63 Love Shack - 135 Dirty Cash - 140 Tom's Diner - 60 Londonbeat - 40 Nothing else has a significant amount. So based on that Alannah Myles should be one of the most well-known tracks here, as I doubt airplay drastically changes for the older songs by the month.

Black Velvet still gets LOADS of airplay - particularly on the more MoR stations (Magic, Smooth etc)... you'd probably know it if you heard it, I would think.

I'm giving it 10 points based on the songs on the EP. It's a good set of songs :) I don't actually own the EP, nor have I watched that particular ceremony, unfortunately.

+15 Madonna - Justify My Love +12 The B-52's - Love Shack +10 Various Artists - The Brits 1990 +8 Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart +6 Kim Appleby - Don't Worry +5 Alannah Myles - Black Velvet +4 DNA featuring Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner +3 Madonna - Hanky Panky +2 Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You +1 Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract -2 Technotronic - Get Up (Before The Night Is Over)

You mean like Madonna or Britney won this one? :P You people always think the worst of BuzzJack! I don't think Rihanna would win the whole thing, honestly - the songs that got to #2 for her in the 2000s are hardly huge fan favourites. I actually think the 1990s #2s will be VERY predictable, personally, but I'd go along with it, too. Anyway, I think it's by far the most logical idea in terms of pleasing everyone. If you think it would be too predictable then you could just ignore it, vote in the 90s ones and leave the people who want to vote in the 00s one to do that. I do like the idea of 80s #1s, but I'm not sure there'd be that much interest anyway. Plus isn't there a point where these kind of things should go in the retro forum? I think you could just get away with the 90s as the latter half of it isn't that retro, but the 80s is definitely very retro.

There was talk before about this, and I did suggest that we could run a 90s and 00s #2 rate together, with different people running them so one person doesn't get loaded with all the work, obviously. I think it would work fine without being too confusing (although the first page on the chart forum might look a little bombarded at some points, maybe, especially when Dannyboy is still running his game, but oh well :lol:) and would satisfy pretty much everyone.

Underworld don't have that much competition. Bluetones - Slight Return 3T - Anything Robert Miles - Children Mark Snow - X-Files Manic Street Preachers - Design For Life Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl Underworld - Born Slippy Robbie Williams - Freedom Los del Rio - Macarena 3T - Why George Michael - Spinning the Wheel Kula Shaker - Hey Dude East 17 & Gabrielle - If You Ever Warren G with Adina Howard - What's Love Got to Do With It Fugees - No Woman No Cry Toni Braxton - Un-break My Heart Some of these are totally forgotten! I've bolded the ones I would imagine will qualify for the instant final from that year :D

I would also like 00s #2s. The 00s #2s were varied and interesting, at least at the start of the decade anyway. I actually prefer 90s #3s to 90s #2, as my general opinion. Joking about what? I'm not sure what part of that was supposed to be a "joke". You didn't offend me, if that's why you feel the need to backtrack...

LOL, get a grip for god's sake. I don't expect everything to fall into my opinion, I just don't have any interest in 90s #2s anymore as I believe it would be wholly predictable and therefore pointless. I'd probably still take part and I'd love to be proved wrong, though. The only thing predictable about the 80s #1s would probably be all the Madonna songs doing very well. But I don't think she's necessarily a guaranteed winner at all. And no, it really isn't a surprise winner. BuzzJack doesn't hate male pop songs, it's just there's not enough of them around in the current music scene.

What a mediocre top 3! Oh well. If that's what you guys want, you're welcome to it :lol: The better #1s of the 90s all bombed out from 11-50 in this countdown anyway (and a few out in the yearly rounds, like U2). I like about 6 songs in the top 10 but none of them apart from Cher and The KLF would make my personal top 20 of 90s #1s, and my least favourite song in the final also got top 10. Groan. And why are people surprised that Don't Look Back in Anger did so well? I mean, come on. Look at the SONG, for god's sake, rather than getting so caught up in this male/female thing. It's basically a pop/rock song. It has a huge chorus with a very strong pop melody. And Noel sings it in its entirity, and his voice is also much more melodic than Liam's, while Liam's is more 'distinctive' I guess and thus more love/hate. The guitars are mellow, compared to Some Might Say (which WOULD have been a shocking winner). And it's ridiculously overplayed so everyone knows it. Not a surprise winner, though I didn't necessarily expect it either - although I did say yesterday I thought they had a good shot. Oh, and thanks for running it, Daniel, indeed :D 80s #1s next please. I would have supported 90s #2s before but after seeing the results of this I am also of the opinion that it would feature the mind-numbingly boring top 2 of Bittersweet Symphony vs Wonderwall, which doesn't interest me at all.

What is the point of this? Seems like such a waste of time to me. Was anybody really bothered about this? I've certainly never seen it as an issue, nor have I met anybody else who did. Seems very random and pointless to me. Anyway, I certainly don't agree with it. The charts are a historical reference and should show what people were buying within the rules at the time. As the rules meant compilation albums were allowed to chart they should be kept in. Seems perfectly logical to me. Randomly changing the chart rules of decades ago for no reason is bizarre.

And that Spice Girls video is ICONIC, by the way. Don't hate. Although I preferred the Spice Up Your Life video - which for ages I thought was the coolest video I had ever seen, until I grew up and started watching more videos and realised it really wasn't impressive at all :lol:

I just checked - it got 7. So it would have been 16th with 62 points without them. Of course that isn't taking off any other -2s though from songs directly lower than that, though. There's only 1 song left that I voted for - The KLF :( So them to win please. Though I wouldn't mind Cher, Britney, Madge (sounds so stereotypical BJ of me here, but those are all brilliant female pop songs!) or Take That. Anything else would be kinda icky in terms of supposedly being the best #1 of the 1990s. Coolio woz robbed. My fave 90s #1 (and in my top five fave #1s ever) and it only comes 14th :( I actually expected slightly better even though it's a dreaded hip hop song, as it's one of the most well-known hip hop songs of all-timeee.

It's one of my faves too - though I wouldn't give it quite as high praise as you :P I put it 1st in the 1991 round but not many other people gave it big points, sadly! -2s don't make that much difference in this game though :P At best they might have been 10 places higher, I'd guess. Can't be arsed to go back and work it out. And I think Oasis have a good chance of winning, considering it's quite poppy/anthemic for a rock song. Manics obviously don't as they're out now. Oh no! I was kinda hoping this would win. Would have been quite funny giving it got this far from like maybe 5 or 6 posters putting it high :D As for Song 2, it might be better in your opinion, but I doubt it would have done as well here, as Beetlebum is much more popular among Blur fans in my experience. Though Song 2 probably would have picked up a lot more casual points - but that wasn't enough to send Country House to the final, so I doubt Song 2 would have made it either!