Yet Another Year In Pop: FINAL RECKONING
It's been a long twelve months in the charts - SIX different Lady Gaga singles, plenty of female singer-songwriters scuffling for Elbow room among the X Factor graduates, more electro-grime than we could shake a glowstick at. But what did YOU LOT think of it all?
Scores calculated by a secret 'multiplication' formula combining no. of votes (first figure in brackets) and the song's percentage score for that week (second figure in brackets). Not perfect by any means but it worked last year.
1 Lily Allen - The Fear (37 90.2) (top rated for JANUARY)
2 Veronicas - Untouched (25 69.4) (top MAY)
3 Shakira - She Wolf (24 68.6) (top SEPTEMBER)
4 Britney Spears - Circus (26 59.1)
5 Rihanna - Russian Roulette (20 74.1) (top NOVEMBER)
6 Ciara ft Justin Timberlake - Love Sex Magic (22 66.7) (top APRIL)
7 Dizzee Rascal - Holiday (18 78.3) (top AUGUST)
8 Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me (19 70.4)
=9 Britney Spears - If U Seek Amy (21 63.6)
=9 Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers (21 63.6)
=11 Gossip - Heavy Cross (21 61.8)
=11 Kelly Clarkson - I Do Not Hook Up (21 61.8) (top JUNE)
=13 Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You (19 67.9) (top FEBRUARY)
=13 VV Brown - Shark In The Water (19 67.9) (top JULY)
15 Lady Gaga - Just Dance (23 54.8)
16 Britney Spears - 3 (17 73.9 )
17 Florence & The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) (25 50)
18 Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow (18 69.2)
19 Girls Aloud - Untouchable (19 65.5)
20 Lily Allen - Not Fair (19 63.3) (top MARCH)
21 Pet Shop Boys - Love etc (20 58.8)
22 Miley Cyrus - Fly On The Wall (20 57.1)
23 Shakira - Did It Again (17 65.4)
24 Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor (21 48.8)
25 Keri Hilson ft Kanye & Ne-Yo - Knock You Down (18 54.5)
26 Beyonce - Halo (17 56.7)
27 Little Boots - Remedy (17 54.8)
28 Little Boots - New In Town (18 50)
=29 Bat For Lashes - Daniel (17 51.5)
=29 TI ft Justin Timberlake - Dead And Gone (17 51.5)
31 Lily Allen - 22 (16 53.3)
32 La Roux - Bulletproof (20 40)
33 Keri Hilson ft Timbaland - Return The Favour (15 51.7)
34 Kid Cudi vs Crookers - Day N Night (17 44.7)
35 Lily Allen - Who'd Have Known (12 63.2)
36 Freemasons ft Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer (16 47.1)
37 Veronicas - 4ever (13 56.6)
=38 Queen & The Muppets - Bohemian Rhapsody (16 45.7) (top DECEMBER)
=38 Taylor Swift - Love Story (16 45.7)
40 JLS - Beat Again (14 50)
41 Pink - Funhouse (14 46.7)
42 Lady Sovereign - So Human (13 50)
=43 Mini Viva - Left My Heart In Tokyo (15 42.9)
=43 Pet Shop Boys - It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas (15 42.9)
45 Jay-Z ft Rihanna - Run This Town (14 45.2)
46 Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee Cash (12 50)
47 Lady Gaga - Poker Face (15 39.5)
48 Deadmau5 and Kaskade - I Remember (13 44.8)
49 Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (15 38.5)
50 Ke$ha - Tik Tok (12 48)
Well done Lily for being Any Good At All! Your fabulous prize is to not get dropped by your record label in 2010.
VITAL STATS:
- The top track for October (Cheryl & will.i.am's '3 Words') only managed no.53 on the list
- New artists for 2009: Lady Gaga, VV Brown, Flo & The Machine, Little Boots, Bat For Lashes, Ke$ha, Mini Viva, JLS, Kid Cudi, La Roux
- 11 number ones, 25 top 10 hits
- 44% UK acts, 44% US acts, 12% from elsewhere
- 64% by females, 20% by males, 16% mixed - even more lady-biased than last year!
- Weeks where DON'T LIKE ANY/NOT HEARD ANY got the most votes: 2 (down from 7 last year!) Feb 2nd and Dec 7th
2008 Chart Poll
2007 Chart Poll
As for the 2010 chart polls, I decree that the weekly polls will continue, but the 'NOT HEARD ANY' box will disappear. I will try and do regular monthly round-ups of the top 100 but I'm not promising anything :) As there was only one new entry this week, I'll tack it on to Monday's poll.
Scores calculated by a secret 'multiplication' formula combining no. of votes (first figure in brackets) and the song's percentage score for that week (second figure in brackets). Not perfect by any means but it worked last year.
1 Lily Allen - The Fear (37 90.2) (top rated for JANUARY)
2 Veronicas - Untouched (25 69.4) (top MAY)
3 Shakira - She Wolf (24 68.6) (top SEPTEMBER)
4 Britney Spears - Circus (26 59.1)
5 Rihanna - Russian Roulette (20 74.1) (top NOVEMBER)
6 Ciara ft Justin Timberlake - Love Sex Magic (22 66.7) (top APRIL)
7 Dizzee Rascal - Holiday (18 78.3) (top AUGUST)
8 Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me (19 70.4)
=9 Britney Spears - If U Seek Amy (21 63.6)
=9 Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers (21 63.6)
=11 Gossip - Heavy Cross (21 61.8)
=11 Kelly Clarkson - I Do Not Hook Up (21 61.8) (top JUNE)
=13 Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You (19 67.9) (top FEBRUARY)
=13 VV Brown - Shark In The Water (19 67.9) (top JULY)
15 Lady Gaga - Just Dance (23 54.8)
16 Britney Spears - 3 (17 73.9 )
17 Florence & The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) (25 50)
18 Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow (18 69.2)
19 Girls Aloud - Untouchable (19 65.5)
20 Lily Allen - Not Fair (19 63.3) (top MARCH)
21 Pet Shop Boys - Love etc (20 58.8)
22 Miley Cyrus - Fly On The Wall (20 57.1)
23 Shakira - Did It Again (17 65.4)
24 Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor (21 48.8)
25 Keri Hilson ft Kanye & Ne-Yo - Knock You Down (18 54.5)
26 Beyonce - Halo (17 56.7)
27 Little Boots - Remedy (17 54.8)
28 Little Boots - New In Town (18 50)
=29 Bat For Lashes - Daniel (17 51.5)
=29 TI ft Justin Timberlake - Dead And Gone (17 51.5)
31 Lily Allen - 22 (16 53.3)
32 La Roux - Bulletproof (20 40)
33 Keri Hilson ft Timbaland - Return The Favour (15 51.7)
34 Kid Cudi vs Crookers - Day N Night (17 44.7)
35 Lily Allen - Who'd Have Known (12 63.2)
36 Freemasons ft Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer (16 47.1)
37 Veronicas - 4ever (13 56.6)
=38 Queen & The Muppets - Bohemian Rhapsody (16 45.7) (top DECEMBER)
=38 Taylor Swift - Love Story (16 45.7)
40 JLS - Beat Again (14 50)
41 Pink - Funhouse (14 46.7)
42 Lady Sovereign - So Human (13 50)
=43 Mini Viva - Left My Heart In Tokyo (15 42.9)
=43 Pet Shop Boys - It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas (15 42.9)
45 Jay-Z ft Rihanna - Run This Town (14 45.2)
46 Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee Cash (12 50)
47 Lady Gaga - Poker Face (15 39.5)
48 Deadmau5 and Kaskade - I Remember (13 44.8)
49 Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (15 38.5)
50 Ke$ha - Tik Tok (12 48)
Well done Lily for being Any Good At All! Your fabulous prize is to not get dropped by your record label in 2010.
VITAL STATS:
- The top track for October (Cheryl & will.i.am's '3 Words') only managed no.53 on the list
- New artists for 2009: Lady Gaga, VV Brown, Flo & The Machine, Little Boots, Bat For Lashes, Ke$ha, Mini Viva, JLS, Kid Cudi, La Roux
- 11 number ones, 25 top 10 hits
- 44% UK acts, 44% US acts, 12% from elsewhere
- 64% by females, 20% by males, 16% mixed - even more lady-biased than last year!
- Weeks where DON'T LIKE ANY/NOT HEARD ANY got the most votes: 2 (down from 7 last year!) Feb 2nd and Dec 7th
2008 Chart Poll
2007 Chart Poll
As for the 2010 chart polls, I decree that the weekly polls will continue, but the 'NOT HEARD ANY' box will disappear. I will try and do regular monthly round-ups of the top 100 but I'm not promising anything :) As there was only one new entry this week, I'll tack it on to Monday's poll.