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I Need A Doctor isn't a patch on Forgot About Dre in terms of Dre/Eminem collabs :(

Yeah, and lost out to Bob the Builder's Mambo No. 5 :drama: Definitely a chart injustice there. I don't remember if Stop Crying Your Heart Out was midweek #1, but it was up against the mega-selling Elvis vs JXL so there's a high chance it probably wasn't, you'd be pleased to know. But like I said, I really don't remember. And yeah, I remember Songbird was the Smash Hits Chart #1 - because they did their charts a day earlier on the Saturday, probably so they could claim to be ahead, even if they did often look silly with the wrong #1 like on that occassion :rofl:

Best Nelly Furtado song = Turn Off The Light by FAR. Voted for About You Now, btw.

Craig David 'Rise & Fall' was also midweek #1, but lost out to Tomcraft 'Loneliness' by the end of the week. Also, Oasis 'Let There Be Love' was overtaken by Pussycat Dolls 'Stickwitu' over the week. Oasis are pretty much the Kings of this. And Wheatus 'Teenage Dirtbag', too, eventually lost out to Atomic Kitten 'Whole Again' despite leading in the midweeks.

Blazin' Squad - We Just Be Dreamin' was also a midweek #1. Thankfully it got knocked off all the way down to #3 by Sunday :puke2:

Blur - Tender was ahead of Britney Spears - Baby One More Time in the early sales flashes, too, but ended up getting beaten quite convincingly :(

No, the topic just evolved to something more interesting, lol :P I recall/know about these ones: McFly - That Girl Supermen Lovers - Starlight Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die Supergrass - Richard III Will Young - Don't Let Me Down/You and I 911 - More Than A Woman The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) Embrace - Nature's Law

+5 Wretch 32 ft. L · 'Traktor' +4 Adele · 'Rolling In The Deep' +3 Britney Spears · 'Hold It Against Me' +2 Rihanna ft. Drake · 'What's My Name' +1 Chase and Status ft. Liam Bailey · 'Blind Faith' -1 Diddy - Dirty Money ft. Skylar Grey · 'Coming Home' -2 Ke$ha · 'We R Who We R' -3 Chris Brown · 'Yeah 3x' -4 Bruno Mars · 'Grenade' -5 Jessie J · 'Do It Like A Dude'

*shock* Wretch 32 didn't get to #1. I was expecting him to do it by a mile. Oh, and it's good to see dear Elena Goulding at a new peak! +7 Ellie Goulding - Your Song +5 Olly Murs - Thinking Of Me +3 Willow - Whip My Hair +2 Cheryl Cole - The Flood +1 Neon Trees - Animal -1 Wretch 32 feat. L - Traktor

Does it really matter? If people want to put them from favourite to least favourite, then surely Chart Wizard can just count their votes from the bottom upwards (as long as they specified which way around they were doing it, by putting "favourite" next to their top vote or whatever). To be honest, I simply would have preferred this game as a rate or some kind of favourite 5/10 thing, as like I said I really don't want to give so many points to songs I don't like. Was there a poll that picked this format or was it based on only two people (with rather bizarre reasoning, IMO, but whatever) saying in the other thread they wanted it this way? I mean, not to act like I'm just being annoying, because I do want to vote in this game, but I don't think I really can like this every week.

To be honest, I can't vote in this as I only like four songs in Group B and I'm not giving a song I don't even like as many as 11 points...

To be fair, she has a rubbish chart history in the 00s in most countries, bar a few singles. I'm only surprised from that list that It's Like That only got to #11! Deserved a lot better than that (and pretty much everywhere - UK was one of its biggest markets and it "only" got to #4 here) as it's easily her best single of the 00s. Still, it did its job in putting her name back out there I suppose after she had become pretty much irrelevant in every major market. Just a shame that We Belong Together totally overshadowed it. Slightly surprised that Loverboy only got to #50 there too. And I thought it flopped hard in the UK. And woah, Let Me Blow Ya Mind was a #1 hit in Ireland?! That's amazing. I wish it did the same here - would have been an epic #1.

About You Now... but the result of this round was always inevitable *sigh* Second best song going out. Hopefully this will be 4th. I could live with that.

I agree somewhat about the more female popstars atm thing. I do think if there was a male Lady Gaga equivalent he'd be somewhat popular here, but I still doubt he'd reach the popularity of Dame Gaga. There's a blatant glass ceiling for male acts on this site and anyone who can't see that is a little bit blind, lol. Just check the results of probably any contest on this site. By the way, it's interesting you mention the rap thing because Nicki Minaj IS actually more popular here than Kanye West or Jay-Z or whatever. Why, I do not know, as she is about maybe 10% as good as them. I've barely seen Kanye mentioned on here outside of a few people despite dropping a masterpiece at the end of 2010, while Nicki Minaj and her rather average effort got talked about a lot. Hmm. Basically, what it comes down to is that males aren't necessarily disliked here but a female act simply has more mass appeal than males on this site. So a male has to collaborate with a female to attract the mass appeal. It's a bit like genres in the UK charts really :lol: Other genres have to mix with pop to get decent placings usually, you know.

You're confusing range with quality of singing. Female voices can go much higher, so tend to sound more "impressive". I think they're one octave higher, though some males can probably go that high too. But that's on average. Of course, someone like Michael Jackson comes to mind as a male singer with a very impressive vocal range that can compete with some females.

The problem with the female bias on this forum is that it leads to $h!tty female songs getting way more love than they deserve. I can't even think of a female song that was universally hated here. The closest I can think of is maybe Whip My Hair, Start Without You or Katy On A Mission but even they had quite a lot of love as well. And there's definitely a "glass ceiling" for male songs in contests like the Record of the Year thing etc being done right now, which is also a shame. It seems like a brilliant male song can only get about as high as #4 on things like that, while average female songs do a bit better. Apart from that, though, I really don't mind the female bias. I generally prefer female voices to male, too.

:blink: I didn't realise there were so many young people in this part of the forum. Suddenly I feel old for the first time in my life at 19. Then again, maybe I shouldn't be surprised considering I posted very occasionally on Dotmusic forums in 2001 when I was 10 years old :mellow:

Oh, and I still think the Brolly will win. Y'all are way underestimating it :o It was overplayed at the time but that was three and a half years ago now. It's still a great record. I don't even hear it that much these days compared to a lot of other Rihanna songs, weirdly. Predictions: 6. Rule The World 5. The Way I Are 4. Say It Right 3. About You Now 2. With Every Heartbeat 1. Umbrella But I'd prefer: 6. About You Now 5. Rule The World 4. Umbrella 3. Say It Right 2. The Way I Are 1. With Every Heartbeat Robyn is the best left by quite a bit, but as I said last round, the top four are all great.

Thank frick Justin is out. Unbelievable such a mind-numbingly boring, whiny record managed to get so high. Next for the chop: Sugababes. Bland radio pop. Snore.

It's in my top 4. But there's 3 other amazing songs left here. Once we get rid of About You Now, What Goes Around and Rule The World then that's a superb final 4, and I'd be happy with any of them winning. But it probably won't go that way as I'm sure f***in' About You Now will sneak its way in :(

Justin Timberlake :arrr: Sod off!

I still haven't forgiven them for 'My Humps'... so needless to say I probably won't be forgiving them for 'The Time' for quite a while either :D On another note, do people really think J-Lo will be #1? The woman who, aside from a fluke #1 in 2005 (with an absolutely god damn atrocious song, might I add, and probably the most annoying horn riff ever used in any song in musical history), hasn't been relevant since about 2003? Not gonna happen. If it is a hit it will be minor at best, but R1 will surely ignore it anyway (J-Lo is already on their blacklist and it's near impossible to get off that once there, plus they seem to hate Pitbull now). Her only hope is if commercial radio takes to it. Although, I suppose there's a small chance if it does really well in the US, too. But still it's definitely not going to #1. She's basically building her career up from the bottom again at this point in time.

Pop bars (although slightly screwed up from 21-23!) http://i55.tinypic.com/2qwjxiv.png And I don't think 'Grenade' is #1 combined yet... though he's pretty close.

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Indeed, and I really don't understand why. Only reason I can think of is that pop is more "in" right now, compared to her better days when the US was urban-obsessed.