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In 2002 with my poppy taste, “Silent Sigh” was the first time I really took notice of Badly Drawn Boy and he wasn’t just a beardy guy with a guitar to me. 9 Badly Drawn Boy Silent Sigh From the "About A Boy" album, the sound world of this is just gorgeous and the rippling piano creates a beautiful flow 8 Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott 4 My People The Basement Jaxx remix made this do so well: not her usual style and more a straight dance track, but an excellent one 8 The Bluetones After Hours This is one of my favourite of theirs that I've heard: good storytelling, lovely warm vocals and delightful retro production 7 Shy FX And T Power Featuring Di Shake Ur Body The biggest hit for these 2 London drum and bass DJs collaborating: this has a slightly Latin feel and is a classic of its genre 7 Outkast Featuring Killer Mike The Whole World Their 3rd Top 20 hit and this was a greatest hits single: it's a very enjoyable track with a rather anthemic, bouncy chorus 6 Marc Et Claude Tremble A typical trance track from the German duo with ethereal female vocals, a nice melody and high emotions: does the job 5 Anastacia One Day In Your Life She was unlucky to have several quite long running #11 hits: this power ballad isn't special but showcases her voice well 4 Travis Flowers In The Window The 3rd single from "The Invisible Band": it's quite nice but a little comfortable, and lacks the raw emotion of earlier singles 3 Sum 41 Motivation Their 3rd hit: the first 2 were decent in different ways but this one sounds a bit immature and lacking in light and shade 2 Adam F Featuring Lil' Mo Where's My..? DJ Adam Fenton has had a few hits but this is Lil Mo's only UK hit: I find this number a little shouty and not to my taste 2002 Week 15: #1230 13/04/2002 Britney Spears I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman 2 {2}-5-9-11-18-26-34-52-60-71->10 #1231 13/04/2002 X-Ecutioners Featuring Mike Shinoda and Mr Hahn It's Goin' Down 7 {7}-22-31-37-50-56-63-70-73->9 #1232 13/04/2002 Sheryl Crow Soak Up The Sun 16 {16}-30-35-45-51-53-56-69->8 #1233 13/04/2002 Michelle Branch Everywhere 18 {18}-26-32-36-49-72->6 #1234 13/04/2002 Ladies First I Can't Wait 19 {19}-31-40-53-64-73->6 #1235 13/04/2002 Future Breeze Temple Of Dreams 21 {21}-28-36-44-60-68->6 #1236 13/04/2002 Aaron Carter Leave It Up To Me 22 {22}-34-50-66->4 #1237 13/04/2002 Stereophonics Vegas Two Times 23 {23}-51->2 #1238 13/04/2002 Aurora Dreaming 24 {24}-35-45-73->4 #1239 13/04/2002 DJ Tiesto Lethal Industry 25 {25}-43-63->3 #1240 13/04/2002 Cliff Richard Let Me Be The One 29 {29}-37-67->3 #1241 13/04/2002 Roger Goode Featuring Tasha Baxter In The Beginning 33 {33}-56->2 #1242 13/04/2002 Del Amitri Just Before You Leave 37 {37}-66->2 #1243 13/04/2002 Elton John Original Sin 39 {39}-57->2

Yeah in 2022 Ed’s tour album would have absolutely been doing 10k per week plus if it had existed instead of the 7-8k it’s doing now. You can see that the individual studio albums have dropped quite a lot in the weekly charts too. His back catalogue has waned in streams but it still does more than almost every other artist’s.

“Domino Dancing” is good but I don’t think it’s absolutely top tier PSB. “Dancing In The Moonlight” is nothing extraordinary but a well done cover. “Forgot About Dré” is easily my favourite of this trio - still sounds fresh and absolutely up with the greatest hip hop records along with a few others by both artists.

Let’s get some more votes coming in this final!

Wasn’t too fussed about anything but: 1 mgk 2 Soft Play 3 Good Neighbours Lottery Winners would have done well but I found Chad Kroeger’s parts horrid.

Week 12: 1 1 Sabrina Carpenter Short n' Sweet 180,000 550,000 2 2 Sam Fender People Watching 136,000 3 3 Ed Sheeran +-=÷x (Tour Collection) 98,000 200,000 4 5 SZA SOS 92,000 570,000 5 4 Central Cee Can't Rush Greatness 91,000 6 6 Chappell Roan The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess 89,000 390,000 7 7 The Weeknd The Highlights 84,000 1,320,000 8 8 Elton John Diamonds 81,000 1,740,000 9 10 Fleetwood Mac 50 Years: Don't Stop 74,000 1,540,000 10 9 Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard And Soft 73,000 420,000 11 11 Charli XCX Brat 71,000 360,000 12 16 Lady Gaga Mayhem 68,000 13 13 Gracie Abrams The Secret Of Us 68,000 210,000 14 12 The Weeknd Hurry Up Tomorrow 66,000 15 15 Noah Kahan Stick Season 65,000 540,000 16 14 Kendrick Lamar GNX 64,000 120,000 17 19 Tate McRae So Close To What 61,000 18 17 Arctic Monkeys AM 59,000 2,160,000 19 20 Michael Jackson The Essential 57,000 1,890,000 20 22 ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits 57,000 5,960,000 21 18 Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department 57,000 840,000 22 21 Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits 57,000 3,370,000 23 24 Oasis Time Flies... 1994-2009 53,000 2,090,000 24 23 Robbie Williams Better Man (OST) 52,000 25 25 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 51,000 2,590,000 26 27 Olivia Rodrigo Guts 49,000 540,000 27 28 Teddy Swims I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 2 48,000 28 31 PartyNextDoor & Drake $ome $exy $ongs 4 U 48,000 29 29 Linkin Park Papercuts 47,000 220,000 30 30 Olivia Rodrigo Sour 47,000 31 26 Taylor Swift Lover (Live From Paris) 47,000 50,000 32 32 Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory 44,000 5,350,000 33 33 Queen Greatest Hits 41,000 3,080,000 34 34 Teddy Swims I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 1 40,000 200,000 35 35 Benson Boone Fireworks & Rollerblades 40,000 160,000 36 27 Calvin Harris 96 Months 40,000 110,000 37 36 Fontaines D.C. Romance 39,000 160,000 38 38 Post Malone The Diamond Collection 38,000 370,000 39 40 CoCoMelon Nursery Rhymes By CoComelon 37,000 260,000 40 41 Eminem Curtain Call 2 37,000 0 68 74 Sabrina Carpenter Emails I Can't Send 28,000 180,000 80 86 Alex Warren You'll Be Alright Kid (Chapter 1) 26,000 99 - Doechii Alligator Bites Never Heal 22,000 “Alligator Bites Never Heal” replacing Lil Baby’s “Wham”.

Week 12: 1 1 Lola Young Messy 561,000 740,000 2 2 Rosé and Bruno Mars APT. 528,000 880,000 3 3 Gracie Abrams That's So True 485,000 920,000 4 4 Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars Die With A Smile 443,000 1,080,000 5 5 Chrystal The Days 349,000 510,000 6 6 Billie Eilish Birds Of A Feather 327,000 1,550,000 7 8 Chappell Roan Good Luck, Babe! 326,000 1,530,000 8 7 Gigi Perez Sailor Song 323,000 920,000 9 9 Chappell Roan Pink Pony Club 309,000 750,000 10 10 Benson Boone Beautiful Things 296,000 2,080,000 11 11 Sabrina Carpenter Espresso 291,000 2,040,000 12 12 Sabrina Carpenter Taste 285,000 1,080,000 13 13 Teddy Swims Lose Control 285,000 2,120,000 14 14 Kendrick Lamar Not Like Us 271,000 890,000 15 15 Teddy Swims The Door 248,000 920,000 16 16 Teddy Swims Bad Dreams 247,000 490,000 17 17 Shaboozey A Bar Song (Tipsy) 233,000 1,570,000 18 19 Myles Smith Nice To Meet You 232,000 340,000 19 20 Sabrina Carpenter Please Please Please 229,000 1,370,000 20 18 Hozier Too Sweet 228,000 1,700,000 21 21 Myles Smith Stargazing 224,000 1,240,000 22 22 Noah Kahan Stick Season 219,000 2,740,000 23 24 Sabrina Carpenter Bed Chem 213,000 600,000 24 25 Kendrick Lamar & Sza Luther 210,000 310,000 25 23 Gracie Abrams I Love You, I'm Sorry 209,000 690,000 26 29 Lady Gaga Abracadabra 202,000 200,000 27 26 The Weeknd and Playboi Carti Timeless 201,000 430,000 28 27 Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D. Somedays 201,000 670,000 29 28 Chappell Roan Hot To Go! 198,000 860,000 30 33 Tate McRae Sports Car 194,000 31 31 Doechii Denial Is A River 190,000 32 43 Alex Warren Ordinary 190,000 33 32 Billie Eilish Wildflower 184,000 700,000 34 34 Sam Fender People Watching 184,000 290,000 35 35 Kendrick Lamar & Sza All The Stars 181,000 2,100,000 36 30 Jimin Who 181,000 450,000 37 38 The Killers Mr Brightside 169,000 6,230,000 38 37 Bl3ss & CamrinWatsin featuring BbyClose Kisses 167,000 820,000 39 40 Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen I Had Some Help 166,000 1,080,000 40 39 Pawsa and The Adventures Of Stevie V Dirty Cash (Money Talks) 164,000 51 53 Imogen Heap Headlock 133,000 220,000 59 62 Sabrina Carpenter Juno 124,000 360,000 61 83 Sabrina Carpenter Busy Woman 122,000 71 74 Sam Fender Arm's Length 113,000 80 82 Disturbed The Sound Of Silence 106,000 1,720,000 99 - Paris Paloma Labour 98,000 450,000 “Creep” and “Labour” entering, replacing “30 For 30” and “Another Love”.

27/3: 1 6 Ordinary (1) 2 - The giver (2) 3 1 Messy (1) 4 8 Anxiety (4) 5 2 APT (2) 6 3 Pink pony club (3) 7 5 That’s so true (1) 8 4 Die with a smile (3) 9 9 Beautiful things (1) 10 12 Good luck, babe! (2) 11 14 Busy woman (11) 12 - Evil Jordan (12) 13 13 The days (5) 14 10 Sports car (8) 15 7 Abracadabra (4) 16 15 Espresso (1) 17 16 Taste (1) 18 17 Lose control (2) 19 11 Not like us (1) 20 18 Birds of a feather (3) 21 - Rather lie (21) 22 19 Bad dreams (13) 23 21 Sailor song (2) 24 20 Nice to meet you (12) 25 25 Please please please (1) 26 24 Bed chem (13) 27 22 The door (13) 28 - Emergence (28) 29 27 A bar song (2) 30 23 Revolving door (17) 31 28 Stargazing (6) 32 32 Nokia (31) 33 40 Carry you home (33) 34 35 Too sweet (11) 35 26 Denial is a river (15) 36 30 Luther (7) 37 31 All the stars (5) 38 - Toxic (38) 39 - Crush (39) 40 37 Stick season (1) 41 33 People watching (11) 42 39 Hot to go! (10) 43 46 Juno (23) 44 38 Somedays (10) 45 36 I love you, I’m sorry (7) 46 - FUFN (46) 47 42 Iris (3) 48 48 Love me not (48) 49 43 Mr Brightside (10) 50 44 Sorry I’m here for someone else (44)

“Love Story” marginally - not a big fan of either

I struggled a bit with where to rank the Sugababes as I find “Angels With Dirty Faces” a bit meh but “Stronger” is right up there with my favourite 00s pop band tracks - so atmospheric. I used to listen to all 6 SHM singles as their own mini album - I loved them all and “One (Your Name)” has good nostalgia value. “Golden Skans” is my favourite of this batch though: a beautifully crafted track and I love the distant, dreamy sound to it.

1 LP Giobbi 2 James Hype 3 Artbat Went for Calvin in the tiebreak

1 Sam Ryder 2 Joy Crookes 3 Mae Müller

Just what springs to mind immediately: Hung Up Flowers I’ll Be Missing You (OK that’s almost a full on cover) Edit missed that the original had to be a #1 - OK only the latter just about counts then.

At the bottom of the OP there’s a nice YouTube embed that plays just the 3 not on Spotify. I don’t think there’s a full YouTube playlist.

On this occasion I’m going for Westlife - it’s no more than a 5/10 and not particularly imaginative but they did it nicely. The Fyfe Dangerfield one doesn’t add much to the song.

Week 25: Best: Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper - Shallow Post Malone and Swae Lee - Sunflower Sia - Cheap Thrills (feat. Sean Paul) The Weeknd - Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) Worst: Ed Sheeran - Perfect Duet (w/ Beyoncé) / Perfect Ariana Grande - 7 rings Maroon 5 - Girls Like You (feat. Cardi B)

Week 24: Best: Adele - Set Fire To The Rain Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) P!nk - Just Give Me A Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) The Weeknd - The Hills Worst: Wiz Khalifa - See You Again (feat. Charlie Puth) Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man Flo Rida - Whistle

How the hell did they end up like this? Nickelback are out 2nd with “Someday”, which was the lead single from “The Long Road”. It reached #6 in September 2003 becoming their 3rd Top 10 hit. The follow up only reached #39 later in the year, and you’d have been forgiven for thinking they wouldn’t ever have another big hit… 9th: Nickelback - Someday 10/30 votes (33%) 10th: Westlife - What Makes A Man 21/33 votes (64%)

I went for Max Graham this time, though I do love the original “Owner Of A Lonely Heart”.

It takes more from Miss Dynamit-ee-hee to amuse Buzzjack as “It Takes More” is eliminated. It was her debut hit from the Mercury winning “A Little Deeper”, and reached #7 in June 2002. 6th: Ms Dynamite - It Takes More 16/33 votes (48%) 7th: The Manic Street Preachers - The Masses Against The Classes 9/33 votes (27%) 8th: BBMak - Back Here 20/30 votes (67%) 9th: Blue - Curtain Falls 15/32 votes (47%) 10th: Natasha Bedingfield - I Wanna Have Your Babies 15/31 votes (48%)

No use to deny this simple truth: Guetta is out in 3rd place. “Love Is Gone” was the French DJ’s 2nd big hit, peaking at #9 in August 2007. Who’d have thought he’s still be having hits mostly with rubbish nearly 2 decades later? 3rd: David Guetta & Chris Willis - Love Is Gone 16/35 votes (46%) 4th: S Club 8 - Sundown 14/30 votes (47%) 5th: 3LW - No More (Baby Ima Do Right) 11/34 votes (32%) 6th: The Pirates featuring Enya, Shola Ama & Naila Boss - You Should Really Know 9/29 votes (31%) 7th: Stephen Gately - New Beginning 10/27 votes (37%) 8th: U2 & Green Day - The Saints Are Coming 8/30 votes (27%) 9th: Chipmunk featuring Emeli Sandé - Diamond Rings 7/30 votes (23%) 10th: Son Of Dork - Ticket Outta Loserville 15/31 votes (48%)

Oof quite a drop in overall posts, but good to see 21st Century Throwback get another 2nd place!

If this were a Gezza thread it would have been mentioned that “Anything Is Possible” / “Evergreen” sold nearly 1.8 million copies and “Unchained Melody” over 1.3 million. They were the two biggest selling singles of the decade, though there totals would be beaten at the height of the download era. However here we get to focus on the good music instead, such as the wonderful dance track “Mindcircus” which Imogen Heap co-wrote. 8 Way Out West Featuring Tricia Lee Mindcircus Only Top 40 this century for the UK electronic duo: it's a gorgeous track with beautiful clear vocals from Tricia Lee Kelshall 8 Blue Fly By II Their 4th his and unlucky to miss the Top 5 in a very competitive week: it's one of their best songs with plenty of punch 7 Starsailor Poor Misguided Fool The usual piano led rock ballad but one of my favourites of theirs: the sheer bitterness of it comes through very effectively 7 Pet Shop Boys Home And Dry Their 1st hit for a while from their 8th album "Release": it's the usual synth-pop sound but it's comforting to have it back 6 Darren Hayes Insatiable His 1st and biggest solo hit: not my usual thing but this is a passionate convincingly delivered ballad that builds very nicely 5 George Michael Freeek! The lyrics about the "tits and arse world" are strong and I like the production: I just think the song itself is a little lacking 4 Alicia Keys A Woman's Worth I don't enjoy the "real woman" and "real man" lyrics on this: orherwise it's a very soulful, classy, smooth and sultry track 3 Cassius Henry Broke Only Top 40 for this UK singer who will appear on "The Voice" I rather enjoy the rap but otherwise it's a bland RnB track 2 Marilyn Manson Tainted Love His only Top 10 hit: the Soft Cell version has just the right amount of anger and this over the top cover is not that pleasant 1 Gareth Gates Unchained Melody 921st #1: "to the say, to the say" - Will's single was slightly dull but this cover is ghastly and not what the song deserved 2002 Week 14: #1220 06/04/2002 Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott 4 My People 5 {5}-6-7-8-10-14-17-22-35-42-49-53-73->13 #1221 06/04/2002 Shy FX And T Power Featuring Di Shake Ur Body 7 {7}-13-18-20-22-31-38-47-66-75-57->11 #1222 06/04/2002 Anastacia One Day In Your Life 11 {11}-15-21-25-24-32-37-46-64->9 #1223 06/04/2002 Badly Drawn Boy Silent Sigh 16 {16}-32-48-56-65-61-67->7 #1224 06/04/2002 Travis Flowers In The Window 18 {18}-30-38-43-56-59-51->7 #1225 06/04/2002 Outkast Featuring Killer Mike The Whole World 19 {19}-27-33-41-58->5 #1226 06/04/2002 Sum 41 Motivation 21 {21}-34-49-65-69-69-70->7 #1227 06/04/2002 The Bluetones After Hours 26 {26}-56->2 #1228 06/04/2002 Marc Et Claude Tremble 29 {29}-55-69->3 #1229 06/04/2002 Adam F Featuring Lil' Mo Where's My..? 37 {37}-66->2

Who’s going to break the tie? @Chez Wombat @dandy*

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