Poptimists Songs of 2010: THE FINAL RECKONING
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(The rest of the countdown is here: #20-#11, #10-#6)
5) Big Boi - Shutterbugg
Enormously rich and meaty hip-hop that has big bursts of sunshine coming out of nearly every bar:
4) Lady Gaga - Telephone
We all know this one, right? Here's all 9-and-a-half minutes of it again anyway:
3) Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
Even if you don't like Alicia's other stuff, give this epic laserbeam ballad a go. At the very least watch the embedding-disabled video, in which Alicia brings a dead dog back to life with her superpowers whilst wearing a purple jumpsuit.
2) Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
My personal favourite of the year: on his first number one record Tinie manages to rap about his aunt, The Hills, Jean Claude Van Damme and the perils of trying to find Scunthorpe with an out-of-date A-Z.
1) Janelle Monae - Tightrope
Well done Janelle! Proving that bow-ties are even cooler than we thought they were, Janelle tops the pops and beats Tinie by just 5 points. It did pretty well over at Freaky Trigger too!
And here's the Chart Poll Top 50:
Robyn was leading for most of the latter half of the year until a young upstart flicked her plait in her face, but thanks to a slew of late votes, ultimately Gaga Trounced All.
1. Lady Gaga ft Beyonce - Telephone (top rated for FEBRUARY)
2. Willow Smith - Whip My Hair (top DECEMBER)
3. Robyn - Dancing On My Own (top JUNE)
4. Lady Gaga - Alejandro
5. Cee-lo Green - "Forget" You
6. MIA - XXXO (top JULY)
7. Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers
8. Tinie Tempah - Pass Out (top MARCH)
9. Kelis - 4th of July
10. Wiley & Chew Fu - Take That (top JANUARY)
11. Rihanna - Te Amo (top MAY)
12. Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) (top NOVEMBER)
13. Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
14. Florence & The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
15. Kelis- Acapella (top APRIL)
16. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (top SEPTEMBER)
17. Taylor Swift - Mine (top OCTOBER)
18. Big Boi - Shutterbugg
19. Katy B ft Ms Dynamite - Lights On
20. My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
21. Lena - Satellite
22. Far East Movement ft Catacs & Dev - Like A G6
23. Marina & The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot
24. Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Part II)
25. DJ Zinc ft Ms Dynamite - Wile Out
26. Katy Perry ft Snoop Dogg - California Gurls
27. Vampire Beak-Hen - Cousins
28. Glee Cast - Don't Stop Believin'
29. The XX - Islands
30. Tinie Tempah ft Labrinth - Frisky
31. Gabriella Cilmi - On A Mission
32. Kanye West - Power
33. Rihanna - Rude Boy
34. Katy B - Katy On A Mission (top AUGUST)
35. Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way
36. Diana Vickers - Once
37. Florence & Dizzee - You Got The Dirtee Love
38. Selena Gomez and the Scene- Naturally
39. Mark Ronson & The Business International - Bang Bang Bang
40. BOB ft Hayley Williams - Airplanes
41. The Ting Tings - Hands
42. Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand
43. Stromae - Alors On Danse
44. Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed
45. Black Eyed Peas - Rock That Body
46. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Bittersweet
47. Diana Vickers - The Boy Who Murdered Love
48. Nicole Scherzinger - Poison
49. Roll Deep - Green Light
50. Enrique Iglesias ft Pitbull - I Like It
2009 Chart Poll
2008 Chart Poll
2007 Chart Poll
The Readers' Poll Top 20 in full (Chart Poll placing given in brackets):
1 Janelle Monae - Tightrope (CP:N/A)
2 Tinie Tempah - Pass Out (CP:8)
3 Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart (CP:13)
4 Lady Gaga ft Beyoncé - Telephone (CP:1)
5 Big Boi - Shutterbugg (CP:18)
6 Cassie - Skydiver (CP:N/A)
7 Jason DeRulo - Ridin Solo (CP:N/A)
8 Rihanna - Only Girl In The World (CP:12)
9 My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) (CP:20)
10 Jenni Vartiainen - En Haluu Kuolla Tana Yona (CP:)
11 Far East Movement - Like A G6 (CP:22)
12 DJ Fresh - Gold Dust (CP:N/A)
13 Gabriella Cilmi - On A Mission (CP:31)
14 Robyn - Dancing On My Own (CP:3)
15 Katy B - Katy On A Mission (CP:34)
16 Waka Flocka Flame - Hard In Da Paint (CP:N/A)
17 DJ Zinc ft Ms Dynamite - Wile Out (CP:25)
18 Wiley & Chew Fu - Take That (CP:10)
19 Rihanna - Rude Boy (CP:)
20 Intocable - Estamos en Algo (CP:N/A)
STATS TIME
BAD LUCK: Sleigh Bells, Kanye West, Vampire Weekend, Kylie, Cee-lo and Cheryl Cole miss out on the Readers' poll; Kele from Bloc Party, Take That, Timbaland and Professor Green miss the cut on the Chart polls .
GENDER BIAS: Equal split for the Readers' poll (not counting 'featuring' acts); in the Chart polls we have roughly 28% male acts, 54% female acts and 18% mixed gender acts.
SMALL WORLD: Readers' poll: 20% UK, 55% USA, 25% Rest of World; Chart polls: 34% UK, 54% USA, 12% Rest of World.
Weeks where DON'T LIKE ANY got the most votes: 3, slightly up from last year. 'Don't Like Any' beat: Matt Cardle, N-Dubz, Taio Cruz, Paramore, Plan B and Scouting For Girls. Fair enough.
BLESS 'YA, KE$HA: the drunken hooligan's top placed song in the Chart Poll? Blah Blah Blah, at #70.
Thanks to everyone who voted!
(The rest of the countdown is here: #20-#11, #10-#6)
5) Big Boi - Shutterbugg
Enormously rich and meaty hip-hop that has big bursts of sunshine coming out of nearly every bar:
Click to view4) Lady Gaga - Telephone
We all know this one, right? Here's all 9-and-a-half minutes of it again anyway:
3) Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
Even if you don't like Alicia's other stuff, give this epic laserbeam ballad a go. At the very least watch the embedding-disabled video, in which Alicia brings a dead dog back to life with her superpowers whilst wearing a purple jumpsuit.
2) Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
My personal favourite of the year: on his first number one record Tinie manages to rap about his aunt, The Hills, Jean Claude Van Damme and the perils of trying to find Scunthorpe with an out-of-date A-Z.
1) Janelle Monae - Tightrope
Well done Janelle! Proving that bow-ties are even cooler than we thought they were, Janelle tops the pops and beats Tinie by just 5 points. It did pretty well over at Freaky Trigger too!
And here's the Chart Poll Top 50:
Robyn was leading for most of the latter half of the year until a young upstart flicked her plait in her face, but thanks to a slew of late votes, ultimately Gaga Trounced All.
1. Lady Gaga ft Beyonce - Telephone (top rated for FEBRUARY)
2. Willow Smith - Whip My Hair (top DECEMBER)
3. Robyn - Dancing On My Own (top JUNE)
4. Lady Gaga - Alejandro
5. Cee-lo Green - "Forget" You
6. MIA - XXXO (top JULY)
7. Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers
8. Tinie Tempah - Pass Out (top MARCH)
9. Kelis - 4th of July
10. Wiley & Chew Fu - Take That (top JANUARY)
11. Rihanna - Te Amo (top MAY)
12. Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) (top NOVEMBER)
13. Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
14. Florence & The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
15. Kelis- Acapella (top APRIL)
16. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (top SEPTEMBER)
17. Taylor Swift - Mine (top OCTOBER)
18. Big Boi - Shutterbugg
19. Katy B ft Ms Dynamite - Lights On
20. My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
21. Lena - Satellite
22. Far East Movement ft Catacs & Dev - Like A G6
23. Marina & The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot
24. Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Part II)
25. DJ Zinc ft Ms Dynamite - Wile Out
26. Katy Perry ft Snoop Dogg - California Gurls
27. Vampire Beak-Hen - Cousins
28. Glee Cast - Don't Stop Believin'
29. The XX - Islands
30. Tinie Tempah ft Labrinth - Frisky
31. Gabriella Cilmi - On A Mission
32. Kanye West - Power
33. Rihanna - Rude Boy
34. Katy B - Katy On A Mission (top AUGUST)
35. Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way
36. Diana Vickers - Once
37. Florence & Dizzee - You Got The Dirtee Love
38. Selena Gomez and the Scene- Naturally
39. Mark Ronson & The Business International - Bang Bang Bang
40. BOB ft Hayley Williams - Airplanes
41. The Ting Tings - Hands
42. Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand
43. Stromae - Alors On Danse
44. Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed
45. Black Eyed Peas - Rock That Body
46. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Bittersweet
47. Diana Vickers - The Boy Who Murdered Love
48. Nicole Scherzinger - Poison
49. Roll Deep - Green Light
50. Enrique Iglesias ft Pitbull - I Like It
2009 Chart Poll
2008 Chart Poll
2007 Chart Poll
The Readers' Poll Top 20 in full (Chart Poll placing given in brackets):
1 Janelle Monae - Tightrope (CP:N/A)
2 Tinie Tempah - Pass Out (CP:8)
3 Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart (CP:13)
4 Lady Gaga ft Beyoncé - Telephone (CP:1)
5 Big Boi - Shutterbugg (CP:18)
6 Cassie - Skydiver (CP:N/A)
7 Jason DeRulo - Ridin Solo (CP:N/A)
8 Rihanna - Only Girl In The World (CP:12)
9 My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) (CP:20)
10 Jenni Vartiainen - En Haluu Kuolla Tana Yona (CP:)
11 Far East Movement - Like A G6 (CP:22)
12 DJ Fresh - Gold Dust (CP:N/A)
13 Gabriella Cilmi - On A Mission (CP:31)
14 Robyn - Dancing On My Own (CP:3)
15 Katy B - Katy On A Mission (CP:34)
16 Waka Flocka Flame - Hard In Da Paint (CP:N/A)
17 DJ Zinc ft Ms Dynamite - Wile Out (CP:25)
18 Wiley & Chew Fu - Take That (CP:10)
19 Rihanna - Rude Boy (CP:)
20 Intocable - Estamos en Algo (CP:N/A)
STATS TIME
BAD LUCK: Sleigh Bells, Kanye West, Vampire Weekend, Kylie, Cee-lo and Cheryl Cole miss out on the Readers' poll; Kele from Bloc Party, Take That, Timbaland and Professor Green miss the cut on the Chart polls .
GENDER BIAS: Equal split for the Readers' poll (not counting 'featuring' acts); in the Chart polls we have roughly 28% male acts, 54% female acts and 18% mixed gender acts.
SMALL WORLD: Readers' poll: 20% UK, 55% USA, 25% Rest of World; Chart polls: 34% UK, 54% USA, 12% Rest of World.
Weeks where DON'T LIKE ANY got the most votes: 3, slightly up from last year. 'Don't Like Any' beat: Matt Cardle, N-Dubz, Taio Cruz, Paramore, Plan B and Scouting For Girls. Fair enough.
BLESS 'YA, KE$HA: the drunken hooligan's top placed song in the Chart Poll? Blah Blah Blah, at #70.
Thanks to everyone who voted!