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    Recap:

     

    40 Walk This Way - Sugababes / Girls Aloud 13.20

    39 We Will Rock You - Five / Queen 13.93

    38 We Are The World - USA For Africa 14.07

    37 Teletubbies Say “Eh-Oh” - Teletubbies 14.63

    36 Turn Up The Music - Chris Brown 15.17

    35 Let’s Party - Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers 15.40

    34 With A Little Help From My Friends - Sam & Mark 15.90

    33 The Chicken Song - Spitting Image 15.93

    32 Against All Odds - Mariah Carey / Westlife 16.60

    31 Save Your Love - Renée & Renato 16.67

    30 The Long And Winding Road - Will Young / Gareth Gates 16.93

    29 Axel F - Crazy Frog 17.13

    28 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny - Bombalurina 17.40

    27 Wishing On A Star - X Factor Finalists 17.60

    26 It’s Chico Time - Chico 17.90

    25 The Club Is Alive - JLS 18.40

    24 F.U.R.B. (F*** You Right Back) - Frankee 18.80

    23 I’ll Be Home - Pat Boone 19.20

    22 Shaddup You Face - Joe Dolce Music Theatre 19.47

    21 My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry 20.17

    21st - My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry

     

     

    10th, 1952-1979 heat

     

    Average score: 20.17

    Highest score:

    38 Alex!

    Lowest score:

    1 chartjack2

     

    Number One for 4 weeks in November /December 1972, this held off “Crazy Horses” by The Osmonds and “Gudbuy T’Jane” by Slade. The Osmond family had its revenge immediately as Chuck was knocked off in time for Christmas by a certain song still to come in this countdown.

     

    Inevitably the song was banned by many radio stations. Mary Whitehouse wrote to the BBC about how “One teacher told us of how she found a class of small boys with their trousers undone, singing the song and giving it the indecent interpretation”. Shocking. Chuck said of his only chart topper “I LOVED that song because that little, weenie song made my wallet so far and happy”. Fair enough. I find the song itself fairly unlistenable myself but I know others find it fun.

    “Did you know I had a big-a hit-a song in-a Italy with-a dis?”

     

    22nd Joe Dolce Music Theatre - Shaddup You Face

     

     

    4th, 1980-1995 heat

     

    Average score: 19.47

    Highest score:

    40 King Rollo

    Lowest score:

    3 Smint

     

    Number One for 3 weeks in February / March 1981, this famously held off “Vienna” by Ultravox for all 3 of those weeks. Joe Dolce Music Theatre was a one man cabaret show. He used some of his Italian grandparents’ favourite phrases in the song, which he wrote about Italians living in Australia. More recently he has written some acclaimed poetry.

     

    I don’t know if this is so maligned primarily for blocking “Vienna”, but to me it’s quite a fun little piece of novelty. It’s-a not so bad.

    “At the corner drugstore

    Each Saturday we would meet”

     

    23rd - Pat Boone - I’ll Be Home

     

     

    9th, 1952-1979 heat

     

    Average score: 19.20

    Highest score:

    36 CJK

    Lowest score:

    6 dandy

     

    What’s this I see? Finally a pre 1980 song.

    Number 1 for 5 weeks in June / July 1956 and the biggest seller of the year, this held off “Lost John” / “Stewball” by Lonnie Donegan and the “All Star Hit Parade” EP by various artists (nope me neither). Pat Boone had more than 20 Top 20 hits over a 7 year period but this was the only time he hit the top.

     

    Most 1950s chart toppers competently sung and well established ballads, but this one really stands out for its extraordinary dreariness. And then there’s the spoken part where he reads out a terribly uninspiring letter to his loved one. Still there’s a worse representative from the decade to come of course.

    “You thought you could really make me moan

    I had better sex all alone”

     

    24th - Frankee - F.U.R.B. (F U Right Back)

     

     

    4th, 1996-2006 heat

     

    Average score: 18.80

    Highest score:

    38 Mack, Smint

    Lowest score:

    2 AH Gold, Dan, Alex!, detonate, Roba

     

    Number 1 for 3 weeks in May / June 2004 immediately following a 4 week stint by the Eamon original, this held off “Trick Me” by Kelis. Unsurprisingly this was the only hit for Frankee AKA Nicole Francine Aiello, not that her non-ex Eamon did that much better with his own follow ups.

     

    I ranked this in my top 5. I think the original is a horrid song to start with and it’s an unpleasant concept with unpleasant lyrics, but clearly some of you quite like it.

     

    And that’s bye bye to the noughties folks! 275 chart toppers over the decade but none of them bad enough to make our Top 20.

    “Meet me in the corner where nobody else can see”

     

    25th - The Club Is Alive - JLS

     

     

    8th - 2007-2022 heat

     

    Average score: 18.40

    Highest score:

    40 Chez Wombat, Roba

    Lowest score:

    1 coi, CJK

     

    Number One for a week in July 2010 before sliding to #7 the following week, this was the 3rd of JLS’ 6 chart toppers (including “Wishing On A Star” which this narrowly beats in the awful rankings). It came in the height of the first week peaking download era. The “Sound Of Music” sampling song was intended for Flo Rida who declined it.

     

    An imaginative and audacious idea or an auto tuned abomination? Certainly the incredibly raunchy number could hardly contrast more with the song it samples. With 2 scores at each extreme there is clearly some polarisation of opinion, but this is officially our least favourite boyband chart topper.

    “It’s erotic, exotic, hypnotic that’s for sure”

     

    26th - It’s Chico Time - Chico

     

     

    8th - 1996-2006 heat

     

    Average score: 17.90

    Highest score:

    35 Dan, DJ Cheeky Magpie, Liamski689

    Lowest score:

    1 Jade

     

    Number 1 for 2 weeks in March 2006, this blocked “Beep” by the Pussycat Dolls featuring will.I.am, denying the dolls a hat trick of chart toppers with their first 3 releases. In its 3rd week it was narrowly knocked off by Orson’s “No Tomorrow” with what remains the lowest weekly sale for a Number One in history.

     

    Yousseph “Chico” Slimani reached the X Factor quarter finals in 2005, and was one of those contestants whose charisma well exceeded his vocal ability. He followed up “It’s Chico Time” with a cover of “D.I.S.C.O.” (#24) and the delightful sounding “Curvy Cola Bottle Body” which only reached #45 despite the Osbournes appearing in the video. Then he inevitably joined Butlins.

     

    And so yet another noughties novelty hit drops out - only 1 song from the whole decade left!

    Interestingly this would also have been repeated in the sales era if it had lasted until the end of 2014! Let It Go by Idina Menzel was the 10th best selling song of the year despite a peak of #11, but streaming was included in the official EOY chart which pushed it down to #13.

    Discussed this in another thread but Idina is #9 in the Buzzjack version of the EOY chart which includes streaming for the whole year and not only from July so on that basis it was achieved - I think that version is fairer myself.

    Not surprised to see all pre-80 songs still to come. No one knows them so gave them the highest scores. :teresa:

    Haha I don’t think that’s true - the good people of Buzzjack know their stuff. What qualified from that round was genuinely next level grim. There seems to have been a really patchy period for chart toppers around the early to mid 70s - I know it was a tough time economically so not sure if that affected music. Then ABBA came along and saved pop music. :D

    I imagine Levitating and Heat Waves aren't far behind Head & Heart

    Just going on chart sales which aren’t quite the same thing but shouldn’t be way off:

     

    Head & heart 2.38m (now doing around 5k per week)

    Heat waves 2.05m (now 13k per week)

    Levitating 1.87m (now 7k per week)

     

    So Heat Waves should get there but will take quite a while.

    Completely agree PCF - I don’t really get “hasn’t aged well” either. I just like what I like.

     

    Absolutely love Save Your Tears (or Save Your Love as we’re now calling it :D ) - utterly enchanting and beautiful. Blinding Lights is brilliant but doesn’t have the same magic or endless replay-ability for me.