BillyH

Missing You came at a time in my life where a substantial quantity of friends I'd known for a while decided to all go their seperate ways, so the song deeply resonated with me. Always been one of my fave Saturdays tracks. Tinchy only released one brilliant song - Never Leave You - and everything else is bland filler, to the point not only do I not remember 'In My System' at all but completely forgot he was still having hits as late as this - even more so now I've found out he had a #7 single as recently as early 2012!

'Billionaire' is a song I prefer much more in its clean radio form than the original (another will follow later in 2010) - it's such a chilled summery track that for the word "f***ing* to keep being repeated in it seems a bit of a shame, and "fricking" fits it much more. It's probably still one of my fave songs of the decade so far, and as with so many in this thread so far takes me instantly back to four years ago. Swedish House Mafia absolutely owned the next two years - wasn't massively a fan of One at first but very soon warmed to it once I found a version without the Pharrell lyrics. I love all their tracks except, of all things, their biggest seller by miles Don't You Worry Child. Compared to One/Miami 2 Ibiza/Antidote/Greyhound etc, DYWC seems so generic and boring in comparison which sadly is almost certainly why it's sold so much more than all their others. Good to see some love for Beautiful Monster too! Very forgotten but it's always been an enjoyable listen for me.

Of all things, Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You. Randomly appeared in my head on the way home and fancied a listen. Very very nearly clicked the wrong song though, meaning I narrowly avoided my first official stream being by One Direction...

Three forgotten yet fab pop tracks from that summer - the problem with 'Just Be Good To Green' is that I was sick of it by the time it was released, it was getting airplay for over two months so most of my memories of it are from before it even charted. Bang Bang Bang was something of a surprise top 10 hit, certainly from the posts on Buzzjack at the time as I remember a lot thinking it was going to flop despite Ronson's name as it sounded too different to the big tracks from his first album. Reminds me of a holiday with friends in exotic Blackpool that summer, shame it's rarely been played since. And Pack Up! Loved it, never thought Eliza would be more than a one-hit wonder with this so was fairly surprised when she hit #12 with Big When I Was Little last year. Another blissful summery track, saw her live at V Festival that year and remember at least one person making the "tweet tweet = Twitter" joke, when it was still a fairly new social networking medium.

Most shocking of all is the record below it - Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone, which hit #1 in pretty much every other European country but got held at #3 by Mario Winans and, erm, Come On England. O-Zone did at least spend a long time in the top 10 for the time though so almost certainly sold way more in the long run. Remember it was 2004, a time when plummeting CD sales meant any old nonsense could chart high on a few thousand sales.

Fantastic news! Such a massive fan of both artists - Calvin Harris massively stands out in the charts with his totally original synth-heavy dancepop that no one else does, and John Newman is such a huge talent with those wonderful extremely generic mainstream pop songs. He definitely didn't get just lucky by featuring on a random dance track that everyone thought was by Cee-Lo Green anyway. Brb while I buy a soundalike cover version by mistake and listen to 'We Found Love' for the millionth time.

We No Speak Americano = Summer/Autumn 2010. I'd say just 'summer' but it really seemed to spread across a wider audience across quite a length of time, friends of mine excitedly playing it in September/October thinking it was a brand new song and replacing 'I Gotta Feeling' as the song you were guaranteed to hear at every single club night at least twice in the space of a few hours. There was even a dance to it which I still embarrassingly remember today, bopping away to it in various London clubs soundtracking pretty much every night out I had from the end of July to just before Christmas that year - reminding me of both hot late summer weather and freezing cold Autumn weather! While it definitely got overplayed I still love it today, weird yet insistently catchy and really sums up the end of my 21st year and beginning of my 22nd very nicely indeed.

Just a continued wow at Let It Go, a song from a film released in December 2013 continuing to storm it in Summer 2014. It played at a friend's 21st last weekend and the place went mental, everyone knew the words - and I've heard kids singing it loudly on trains as well, along with For The First Time In Forever. Amazing also to think that before the download era it wouldn't have even charted, the Demi Lovato version would have presumably been the one released as a single - similar to how Celine/Peabo get the credit for 'Beauty and the Beast' rather than poor Angela Lansbury. Ditto Peabo (again) and Regina Belle for 'A Whole New World' rather than Brad Kane and Lea Salonga, although Elton John for the two Lion King songs is a little fairer as he actually composed them.

Or The Pogues...

Who actually is she and why is everyone using her on all the big releases? I can't imagine this being a rush-release after the first two - 'My Love' was already floating around before Rather Be was a hit - so I'm guessing it's all part of a big marketing campaign to introduce her slowly into the limelight. Watch her collaborate with Pharrell and/or Emile Sande next :P

Pretty sure it did, certainly on the music channels it was played all the time to the point where I remember most of the song despite barely hearing it since.

For me this is definitely the most 'summer' sounding Now ever, it effortlessly soundtracks one of the hottest summers of my lifetime and it's hard to listen to the likes of Wayne Wonder, XTM, R Kelly etc without remembering the 30+ degree heat outside. Now 64 from 2006 is similar, as is last year's Now 85 just for that hot July.

Tracklist out: DISC 1 Bastille - Of The Night 5 Seconds of Summer - She Looks So Perfect Vance Joy - Riptide OneRepublic - Counting Stars One Direction - Best Song Ever Pink - Just Give Me A Reason Of Monsters & Men - Little Talks Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait Coldplay feat. Rihanna - Princess of China Fun. feat Janelle Monae - We Are Young Gotye feat Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know Marcus Collins - Seven Nation Army Alyssa Reid feat Jump Smokers - Alone Again Dappy feat. Brian May - Rockstar Kelly Clarkson - What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) Adele - Rolling In The Deep Matt Cardle - When We Collide Scouting for Girls - This Ain't a Love Song Florence & The Machine - You Got The Love Elbow - One Day Like This DISC 2 McFly - Obviously Busted - You Said No Pink - Get This Party Started Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi Nickelback - Rockstar Five feat Queen - We Will Rock You Robbie Williams - Rock DJ Sandi Thorn - I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair) Britney Spears - I Love Rock & Roll All Saints - Rock Steady Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body Bob Sinclar - Rock This Party... ...ok, yeah, I'm making it up.

God, Dirtee @$&%ing Disco...any credibility that Dizzee had left absolutely vanished with that piece of utter crap. To be fair despite being a #1 it seemed to kill his career too along with the next one coming up very soon, he went from experimental grime legend to not-too-bad grime/pop fusion act to just really bland and terrible mainstream pop. 'Bassline Junkie' did well (probably because for once it sounded kinda unusual) but otherwise he's kinda finished now I think, though now I've said that watch him do a song with Avicii and get another #1 this year :P

To be honest I think you could pretty much look at every year for the last couple of decades and say it's full of debut/previously unknown artists. We're a long way away from Whigfield becoming the first artist to enter at #1 in their first ever chart week. DJs and dance artists are dominating because that synth-heavy club sound has basically become pop, just as indie prevailed in the mid-noughties and there were loads of guitar acts around - not all of them the most credible but it was the dominant sound at the time. As with every other chart craze - rock & roll, Merseybeat, glam, punk, New Wave, New Romantic, Stock/Aitken/Waterman, rave, Britpop, manufactured group pop, indie etc, it gets oversaturated, people get bored and move onto something different. A rock revival seems incredibly overdue now, still think pop will move towards it as we get further into the middle of the 10s though.

WHEATUS FOR EUROVISION 2015

Hell yes. Stunning track which for the time it was released sounded utterly phenomenal, the remastered version he did in 2010 is worth a listen too (exactly the same just EQed for some extra punch). Probably just a bit too hard-sounding to sell higher for the time though, I do really like Better Off Alone and Til I Come but they're much more commercially friendly to late 1990s ears. Had they put a bland female vocal over the top and re-released it about 2002 I could see it going top 10.

Unless they've switched to a deep house sound they'll be really lucky to get any more major hits, the dubstep boom is long-gone now and only seems to exist on Armenian Eurovision songs. Could do well if they go back to their early D&B days though.

Tbh this is probably the only one in the thread I'd have fairly comfortably believed, Dizzee was at his absolute commercial (if definitely not critical) peak 4-5 years ago with almost everything he touched getting to #1. I'd have been more surprised to learn that he hasn't had a chart-topper since summer 2010. These are all great, makes me wonder if there's a similar thread out there from mid-2004 talking about things since 2000! Suppose the biggest there would be the introduction of Popstars/Pop Idol etc, the disappearance of pretty much every major manufactured pop group and the swear-heavy Eamonn/Frankee songs.

Imagine going back in time to January 2010 and telling your younger self the musical delights (and low-lights) of the next four years and more. What revelations would have been the hardest to believe? Here's a couple to start: * Lady Gaga has one more number 1 - Telephone - and never has another #1 ever again. * Dizzee Rascal and Robbie Williams made a song together. It only got to #5 and spent four weeks top 40. * There's a future million-seller sung completely in a foreign language by a 34 year old Korean rapper. And loads more!

Ace Of Base - All That She Wants (Pop) Aqua - Barbie Girl (Pop) Aqua - Doctor Jones (Pop) Cartoons - Witch Doctor (Pop) Cartoons - Doo Dah (Pop) Cher - Believe (this as mentioned is a really tricky one, it really does fit into both dance and pop genres and I'd be happy with it in either category) Cher - Strong Enough (much more pop) Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (the Fatboy Slim remix? Pop) D-Ream - Things Can Only Get Better (Pop) D-Ream - U R The Best Thing (Pop) Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) (Pop) Gina G - I Belong To You (Pop) Gina G - Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit (Heavily dance-influenced pop) Happy Mondays - Step On (Madchester pop) Janet Jackson - Together Again (Pop) Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Boom! Shake The Room (Rap pop) Kris Kross - Jump (Rap pop) MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This (Rap pop) Madonna - Justify My Love (Pop) Madonna - Ray Of Light (Pop) Madonna - Vogue (Absolutely awesome but dance-influenced pop) Mr President - Coco Jamboo (Europop) No Mercy - Where Do You Go (very Pop) No Mercy - Please Don't Go (Pop) Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe (Pop) Rednex - Old Pop In An Oak (Pop (in an oak)) Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy (Pop) Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy (Dance-influenced pop) Simply Red - Fairground (Dance sampling but made into pop) Soup Dragons - I'm Free (Madchester pop) T-Spoon - Sex On The Beach (Europop) The Smurfs - I've Got A Little Puppy (Kid-friendly parody pop of a happy hardcore anthem) Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby (Rap pop) Whigfield - Another Day (Pop) Whigfield - Saturday Night (This is as tricky as Believe...it's very commercially friendly dance that just fits into pop but again I'd be ok with either) Whigfield - Think Of You (Pop) White Town - Your Woman (Pop) Absolutely none of them I'd put 100% into dance, Whigfield and Cher are the only real two I'd just about accept.

Nothin' On You just fills me with so much 2010 nostalgia it's actually quite hard to listen to now - I remember April to July having an absolute ton of sunshine that year (and August rather underwhelming in comparison) so it takes me right back to hot summer days with friends that, for the most part, I sadly no longer see. Ones that I'd have convinced myself at the time would have been around forever too, but people can't help moving on. Seems ridiculous to think that Glee had so many big hits during that first series, or indeed to think how big the show briefly was before everyone seemed to just stop watching it overnight some time the following year.

To be honest this is perhaps easier than, say, doing a 'dance singles' list of the 2010s as it's become essentially impossible to seperate, say, a Rihanna/Katy Perry pop song with something a bit more underground. The biggest seller of this decade I'd definitely classify as dance is 'Wake Me Up' but I know a lot would say Get Lucky or We Found Love. I consider them as pop songs, but they're played in clubs all the time, so...

Now 44 (Xmas 1999) is the biggest selling complilation ever, gaining huge sales for being released just before the millennium and featuring hits delayed from previous Nows such as Baby One More Time, Tragedy, That Don't Impress Me Much etc which should have been on Nows 42 or 43. 2.3 million copies were sold. Recently Now 83 (Xmas 2012) sold well over a million because of false, possibly publicity-stunt stories that it was going to be the last ever one, which the more I think about it the more I think Now themselves encouraged so it would sell more copies.

God no, Watercolour killed any last remaining love I had for Pendulum after releasing one of the greatest albums ever just five years earlier. A huge fan of them in the second half of the noughties and I have nothing but love for 2008's Propane Nightmares, but Watercolour just set the template for the bland pop-and-bass we've had from so many DJs ever since. Plonking a basic, unchanging beat over a standard pop track and calling it "drum and bass" is slightly an insult IMO, although it does occasionally work if the vocal/extra production is big enough - see Sigma's Nobody To Love which in theory I should hate just as much but that sample makes it utterly epic. Watercolour just leaves me cold though. Candy I'm slightly ashamed to say I really liked, one of the first (and last) major hits to reference Facebook when that was still the cool hip thing. Seems to be a song that's utterly vanished since along with Aggro's career post-rape allegations - a shame as the trial found him not guilty.