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🚨 JADE is nominated in the socially-voted Best Debut Album category at the 2026 iHeartMusic Awards!! 🚨 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/2026-iheartradio-music-awards-nominations-1235495929/

Edited it now. Bumped everything up one and gave 1 point to Caught in a Moment.

The Boy Does Nothing still holds up as a great bop. I did find it a little cheesy at the time but it has an undeniable fun factor. …Punk Rocker is nothing groundbreaking as a song but I appreciate the idea behind it and can certainly relate in ways. Take A Bow is pretty basic and hasn’t aged well for me. Disturbia from that year blows it out the water.

Santana

Planet Funk

Oh I assumed it was a re-release or something haha. I’ll edit my vote.

Toxic and Hey Ya being so low is criminal! Release Me is great though I prefer her more recent material. I Turn To You is Mel C at her solo best. Again far too low.

Catatonia!

6 Beyoncé & Shakira Beautiful Liar #2s kept off #1: Brianstorm (Arctic Monkeys), Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (Manic Street Preachers) Beyoncé’s highly anticipated return as solo artist in 2006, while successful, didn’t seem to meet the expectations set by predecessor Dangerously in Love. While her 2003 debut spent its first five weeks at #1, on top of yielding the long-running classic Crazy in Love, second album B’Day underperformed in comparison. The first issue proved to be lead single, Déjà Vu. Although it topped the chart, it was widely criticised for being a lesser ‘Crazy’, reinforced more so by Jay-Z’s (at this point) obligatory feature on her lead single. The song failed to match Crazy’s longevity, while the album suffered its own tumble upon release. Debuting at #3, the album fell to 19-33-40, exiting the top 40 after only a month. On the other side of the pond, while the album gave B her second chart topper, the lead single debuted at #4 before sliding down the chart. Second single Irreplaceable, helped in part by the easily imitable "to the left, to the left" hook, proved to be the hit of the album. Despite being released in October (peaking at #4), it managed to surpass Déjà Vu in the end-of-year best-sellers list, finishing at 29 to DV’s 56. The song also gave B that elusive sophomore era US #1 hit, spending 10 weeks at the top! The UK performance of the album was also salvaged, spending an additional 17 weeks in the top 40. Despite Irreplaceable’s success during the 2006-07 winter, there seemed to be little faith in the rest of the album cutting it as singles, because as early as February, Beyoncé announced a repackaged version of B’Day, set for release the following April. Meanwhile, production team Stargate played a newly-written track to their manager, who thought it would make a perfect duet for Beyoncé and Shakira. Despite the producers thinking the idea impossible, Beyoncé liked the song upon hearing it and Shakira wasn’t difficult to convince either, having wanted to collaborate with B for a while. Once Shakira had recorded her part and added her Latin and Arabic influences on production, the scorned-lover team-up Beautiful Liar was born. The pop diva duet of 2007 landed mid-April, entering the charts a fortnight prior to CD release at #10. The song vaulted to #5 the following week before climbing to the top and remained there for three weeks, equaling Crazy in Love’s run. The song became Beyoncé’s third #1 as a solo artist and Shakira’s second chart-topper, after the previous year’s behemoth Hips Don’t Lie. The song also managed to successfully land the deluxe at #8 in the album chart upon release, pushing the album towards double-platinum. This song is such an underrated 00s gem and one I admittedly don’t play enough. Shakira’s influence on the record really makes it for me. Her voice just oozes the sex appeal and passion needed for this song. Not to discredit Beyoncé who more than delivers on her part. I think there could be an argument that considering the names involved this should be more explosive, but I think the song’s understated-ness is part of its charm. It has an effortless sexiness to it that doesn’t try too hard because it doesn’t need to: the fusion of Bey and Shakira’s sounds carry it, starting with that oh so sexy piping that grabs you at the start and then continuing on to that tease of a middle-8 instrumental. All in all, a brilliantly crafted duet that plays to both artists' strengths and totally authentic to each of them. I'm not sure how else I'd want a Bey/Shakira collab to sound to be honest. Beautiful Liar’s three-week reign at the top happened to prevent two bands from securing what would turn out to be their final #1 each, as neither band would scale these heights again. The Arctic Monkeys’ Brianstorm was the first casualty: despite being only 9 copies from the top in the Monday midweek flash, it would lose steam against Beautiful Liar’s download sales. It’s never been an AM fave of mine tbh so I’m happy Beykira beat them. The second casualty was the Manic Street Preachers with Your Love Alone Is Not Enough. The song ended up becoming a third in a string of #2s for the band, despite initially showing signs of heading to the top. The MSPs were not exactly my typical taste as a 13-year-old in 2007 but there was something very instant about this song: the bluesy rock sound combined with powerful vocals and a catchy melody. It would’ve made for a fantastic UK #1 to be honest. 2007 was certainly one of the last years in which bands of the old era were still managing to gain hits, with bands such as Iron Maiden also scoring top 3 hits as late as January that year! A trip down Buzzjack Memory Lane: Sunday chart predictions:

Oh yeah I think you're right. And there's only 5 nominees! It's going to be brutal omg. I just hope she can win something.

What are we thinking? Album of the year and Artist of the year noms are a given surely? Also best Pop act I can imagine. Surely she’ll get a performance slot also? If she does, not sure how she’ll top last year but I’m sure it’ll be epic! Can’t see it being anything other than Plastic Box or Church tbh. Interestingly, the president of her label has been announced as the chair of the 2026 BRITs Committee which can only bode well: First details announced for BRIT...First details announced for BRITs 2026Awards categories & criteria evolve for 2026

Man I Need is also at #4 in the US! She’s got a few others climbing too.

Up to 13 in the US!

Up to a peak of 22 in the US omg!

I’ve recently gotten into Dallas Major so I wouldn’t be mad at that either.

Ooh I’m intrigued to find out which one. Madeline would smash with airplay surely?

Great to see Teenage Dream over 2m and Lana’s debut getting there. BRAT and …Midwest Princess already over half a million in this climate is amazing!

7 Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson and D.O.E. The Way I Are #2s kept off #1: Foundations (Kate Nash) After first single Give It To Me successfully used Nelly & Justin’s star power to launch his Shock Value era, Timbaland switched tack and used the second single as a launch pad for one of his lesser-known proteges. Keri Hilson first made a dent on the music scene in the mid-00s, when she joined The Clutch, an American songwriting collective. Together, they wrote hits such as Omarion’s Ice Box, Ciara’s Like A Boy and the Pussycat Dolls’ Wait a Minute. Their biggest hit however would become the Britney classic, Gimme More. In 2006, Keri was introduced to Timbaland, who swiftly signed her to his Mosley Music Group. It was at this point Keri made her recording debut, appearing on tracks by P. Diddy and Lloyd Banks. Alongside this, Keri was also writing and recording tracks for Timbaland’s upcoming Shock Value. In the end, she more than left her mark on the album, featuring on four of the tracks and eventually two of the singles. The first of these singles was The Way I Are, which served as a follow-up to Give It To Me in July 2007. Produced by Timbaland and Danja, the song quickly built momentum, entering the top 20 a whole month prior to CD release, ascending 18-6-4-3 before climbing to #1 on downloads alone. The song spent two weeks at #1, beating Give It To Me’s run at the top in the process. It also prevented Kate Nash from scoring a #1 with Foundations – blocking her for two of the five weeks she spent stuck at #2! To add insult to injury, the first of those two weeks was by a sales difference of just 16 copies! The Way I Are also did wonders for Timbaland’s Shock Value which, upon release three months prior, spent two weeks at #10 before falling down. In its 16th week on the chart, in the midst of The Way I Are gaining traction, the album vaulted from 17 to 5 before reaching a peak of #2! A slow burner indeed. I’ve really grown to enjoy this song over time! The production, needless to say, is fire! Its futuristic qualities are very reminiscent of Timbaland’s work on Justin’s FutureSex/LoveSounds album, I’m thinking Sexyback and My Love specifically, but at the same time distinct enough to not feel like a cheap copy. I also love the gender role reversal in the lyrics, with Keri playing the role of the wealthy girlfriend to Timbaland’s broke boy, at one point suggesting he can strip for her in order to earn some cash! Even Timbaland's parts are really good here, and I've never really been a fan of him as a vocalist. All in all, it's a surefire banger that delivers on all accounts and I'd probably go as far to say this is my favourite ever Timbaland-led song. A trip down Buzzjack memory lane: Sales thread:

So happy to see LOL: Last One Laughing doing well in the ratings. Such a funny series. Those ratings for Celebrity Traitors are phenomenal. Can’t wait to see who’s in series 2!

Confirmed something as a placeholder!

+20 JADE - Church +19 Lady Gaga - Abracadabra +18 JADE - Plastic Box +17 Lily Allen - Madeline +16 Chappell Roan - The Subway +15 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild +14 Addison Rae - Fame Is a Gun +13 JADE - FUFN (F**k You For Now) +12 Ed Sheeran - Azizam +11 Robyn - Dopamine +10 Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else +9 Tate McRae - Sports car +8 Girls Aloud - Singapore (Definitive Version) +7 Addison Rae - Headphones On +6 BLACKPINK - JUMP +5 Sabrina Carpenter - Tears +4 Sabrina Carpenter - Busy Woman +3 Tate McRae - NOBODY'S GIRL +2 Perrie - If He Wanted to He Would +1 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia

Either but went for rate!

YES YES YES! Absolutely love this woman! I can see it being a big hit. I wonder if this is why she left Strictly? Also hopefully another TV platform for musicians to perform. 🎉🎉

Fantastic theme! I’ll start thinking.

I still find it mad that if it wasn't for her vinyls existing, she would have been tied with Taylor last week. 🤯