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Here is an idea: Whenever a Cowell related act releases - back the opposition!

Honestly, this has been one decade that has seen little diversity and we've had two genres too dominant - the guilty parties being urban and Mr Simon Cowell with his karaoke acts. Rock has broke into emo (eww), kiddie (McFly, Metro Station) and a strength to strength Indie scene (Keane, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Kaiser Cheifs). Dance has gone through a stage with generic covers of 80 songs, with some rare gems like "Release Me", "Vinegar" and "When Love Takes Over" which despite a Euro-pop edge, are very decent pop songs with a great melody and catchy choruses. Pop - Long gone are the multitude of boybands we had in the 1990s though stalwarts like Westlife, Backstreet Boys have still been around with the latter re-inventing themselves with the times. This also has led to the revivals of Take That and Boyzone. Girlbands have been the rage with the success of Girls Aloud who have had some very good songs, The Saturdays new pretenders to the throne who have become pop with an edge and one of the best girlbands this country has at the moment. Sugababes despite an inter-changable line-up have given us a more soulful vibe and have produced many catchy songs. There has been some less-succesful ones such as Smoke2Seven (gappy-teeth, bad voiced band) and the underrated The 411 who were a more sassier Sugababes. One of the pop highlights of the 00s has been the 80s revival this year with Little Boots, La Roux and Lady Gaga - who have all saved 2009. Less succesful ones such as Frankmusik and Tommy Sparks have even had the odd good song. Electro - One of the best things of the 00s - Scissor Sisters, Mika, Ladyhawke, the ones mentioned in the 80s revival sentence. Indie - As mentioned by mushy, a lot of it has become guitar-based pop with acts such as The Feeling, The Script, Snow Patrol, Maroon 5 and a few less succesful ones like The Yeah Yous. All have had memorable songs and big hits and have been universally liked. Urban - Perhaps the satan in the field of music. A lot of it has been chav rap like Blazin' Squad, Fugative, Tinchy Stryder and Dizze Rascal - An automatic hit field with the likes of Kayne West and Jay-z featuring of a song which is likely to give any singer a top 10 which I feel is unfair, and what makes me mad is a certain Mr West has been rewarded for bad bevahviour. Banality such as Black Eyed Peas, especially with 2009 with their two idoitic songs "I've got a feeling" and "Boom Boom Pow", plus these one-trick acts like Iyaz and Khia. We've had the smutty with sexual lyrics which was still a common factor in the 90s (Patra anyone?) plus dressing like sluts such as Rihanna and her ilk, but for all these bad urban acts there has been good ones especially with the more soulful singers, particulary with females like Beyonce, Alicia Keys and home-grown like Amy Winehouse, Shena, V.V.Brown and Duffy. One wish I would like for the 2010s is the urban domination to end, and more variety. Songwriters have been a well praised choice, especially female ones like Amy Winehouse, Duffy, Jem, the criminially ignored Adele, Amy McDonald and some male ones such as Jason Mraz (with the uber-annoying "I'm yours), James Blunt (he did have some great songs), James Morrison, Gary Go and Newton Faulkner to name but a few. The grim reaper of this decade has been reality TV. Yes there has been a few class acts such as Girls Aloud, Will Young, Darius Danesh, Susan Boyle, Leona Lewis and Shayne Ward plus the criminally ignored Sinead Quinn who should have had more hits than the dull and bland Lemar but many many bad ones such as JLS, Alexandra Burke, G4, Andy Abraham and dodgy one-time winners such as Leon Jackson, Joe McEldrey and Steve Brookstein. At first it was not much of a hassle and OK they had a #1, but sometimes it wouldnt be total saturation and bought charts, but since 2005/6 it has been a cancer to the UK music industry with Simon Cowell literally buying the media and charts with his tenth rates acts and forcing this upon the public. Rage Against The Machine being Christmas #1 is saving the soul of the UK and a great end of the 00s. I think we are seeing a back-clash, but will it last - time will tell. I have hated these High School Musical/Glee Club/Disney Kids shows being popular too. What happened to the days when Disney just made cartoons of old tales? The charts biggest mistake was relaxing the download rule for older songs. Thanks to crappy shows like FIX-Factor plugging them and adverts promoting them. This has ruined it for genuine artists to have a big hits and ruins the fact songs can have 100+ weeks in the charts like "Sex on fire" and "use somebody". Radio has become zombies to the Cowell franchise and huge labels, or like Radio One presented by a team of muppets. Music channels with competition from Youtube, I-tunes, napster et al seem to have suffered due to the Cowell franchise and elimating public choice. People need to have a choice and not be slaves to cheapo acts and annoying bad songs like "Sex on fire". Where is the variety people? Overall the 00s has been the decade with little modern-day classics but the decade in which music sold it soul to the devil.

We don't want no more fake wanabees and High School Musical clones in the 2010s.

I suppose if it does become a hit, Iyaz with "Replay" comes from the British Virgin Islands!

Isn't the start of the song "Chinese like a melody"?

Hungary: "Man in the moon" by Csilla Poland: Basia who had a few minor hits in the late 80s and 90s. http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=4979

Gilbratar: Breed 77 had a top 40 hit with "The River".

Her Dad was a Tamil Tiger, so I take it she is a Sri Lankan. Hinda Hicks was Tunisian born and moved to the UK at around 4/5.

Sri Lanka: MIA with songs like "Paper plans" and "galang"

Hong Kong: Leslie Loh with "Boom Bang Bang" in 2003: rJFO3TgAKuw

Seychelles: Boniface with "Cheeky" in 2002/3.

South Africa: Clout with "Substitute" in the 70s and Jody Lei with "Showdown" in 2003.

DJ Quicksilver was from Turkey and had top 20 hits in 1997. Sharleen Spiteri from Texas is half Maltese - would that count?

Tatjana from Croatia with "Santa Maria" in the mid 1990s. Rozalla from Zimbawe with "Everybody's Free" in 1991. Kevin Little from St Vincent with "Turn Me On" in 2003.

I couldn't agree more. Seriously this man is a bigger crook that Vladmir Putin. I mean I thought I lived in a democracy! I will take Dutch nationality if the climb is #1.

69. Shontelle – Stuck to each other Bland and dull R and B rubbish with rent-a-rapper Akon. Goes nowhere and just completly banal. 68. Miley Cyrus – Hoedown Throwdown The first of the Cyrus family entries in this chart. Rubbish country-flavoured pop song aimed towards kids. Gosh when I was a kid we had the likes of Spice Girls, not this annoying Disney brat. Next. 67. McLean – Broken Awful! Crappy going nowhere coma-inducing R and B ballad. 66. Jonas Brothers – Paranoid What’s with these Disney kids raiding the charts? The Jonas Brothers are another waste of space annoying Disney kids act with a pile of crap song. Go away! 65. Pitbull – I know you want me Demeaning rap crap singing about sex and women by a bald headed bloke who if he wasn’t famous, would be causing fights at the local pub. 64. Chipmunk Ft Emeli Sande - Diamond Rings 2009 has been the year of local rappers invading the UK chart. Chipmunk is one of the offenders who we will see often in this chart inflicting mindless songs aimed towards chavs and impressionable teens. This one just takes the p*** about someone bragging about their wealth. 63. Kid British – Our House is Dadless Oh my God, you call this music! Considering this group have been nominated for awards, the jurors must be deaf and stupid! Avoid. 62. Krassimir Amarov – Illusion Bulgaria had a very long-winded selection process for Eurovision 2009 that lasted many months. This was the end product. Three minutes of screeching, shouting and wailing. Seven points was too many for this song. Us9DmtdDDgk 61. Sean Paul – So Fine Remember Sean Paul of songs such as “Get Busy”, “Baby Boy” and “Breathe” – well if you know them, this is the same vein. Boring dancehall rap rubbish. 60. T.I. – Remember Me? Er. Yes. This is just crap. Enough of this rubbish tainting the charts.

I couldn't agree more. It seems that anything "daring" or by a newcomer who isnt friends with the tart Fearne or that t*** Reggie is chanceless. If you notice the chart is mainly full of established artists and Kayne West seems to have an auto top 10 record. Downloads have created a monster.....the newbies are struggling.

A lot of acts seem to be ditching physicals for download only lately. One example is contenders to that horrible X-Factor song such as Whitney Houston, 30h3 and Pixie Lott a few weeks back. Surely with a physical, people who don't want X-Factor could pledge and help the sales very well. Download only - people can be a bit funny with paying for a song, and it doesnt have the feel a physical has where it can be collected and there is artwork on the front and sometimes a B-side. I also think download only hidners acts in the singles charts and can spoil good runs. Personally I think physicals need to be bought back even if they are 99p one track ones. Downloading isn't all that.

#1......just because.

HA on Taio Cruz! Is it me or, is that song a note for note copy of his last song "Break your Hym...sorry Heart"?

NO!!! Not that Dominos crap!

This awful song has been a hit in the US, and played a lot on music channels. Sadly I think this will be #1 :( YNI43Q6MNt0

"In for the kill". My personal record of the year for 2009 is "SHow me what I'm looking for" by Carolina Liar.

Top 3 - just because.

Why is Whitney and 30h3! releasing download-only? Isn't this a cop-out against the fix factor winner?