Never Be The Same Again

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Egg on several people's faces this morning (mine included) as teh SINGLES CHART REVOLUTION OMG turns out to mean:

- A top ten re-entry for Snow Patrol!
- "Maneater" and The Kooks at the arse end of the Top 40! (much as you'd expect in the first chart of the year anyway!)
- JoJo's (excellent) "Too Little Too Late" "would not have been eligible for the charts until next week under the previous rules" - but in the BRAVE NEW WORLD she can enjoy a Top 22 hit!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6239415.stm for the full EYE-POPPING DETAILS. Including desperate threat at the end of an all-Beatles chart.

In other Top 40 news I am glad to see that Eric Prydz has stepped in to rake in the dough from sort out the confusion surrounding the 8 million bosh versions of Another Brick In The Wall.

POPTIMISTS 2006: The Verdict

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Track of the year: Cansei De Ser Sexy - "Let's Make Love And Listen Death From Above"
Lifetime Achievement award: James Brown
Act of the year: Girls Aloud
Most awful thing: Sandi Thom
Other pop thing of 2006: YouTube
Argument of the year: The Paris Hilton Wars
Best to dance to 2006: The Knife - "We Share Our Mother's Health"
Video of the year: Fergie - "Fergalicious"
Genre of the year: R&B and Teenpop (tied)
Album of the year: The Knife - "Silent Shout"

Aside from track of the year I don't think ANY of the things I voted for won, which maybe explains why this seems an underwhelming set of results to me. Still, it was enjoyable to do and the threads were often really good, which is the point of it in the end.

NEW POLL FUN to follow very shortly.

The History Of Jop Part 26 aka You leave me broken shattered I lie

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2004 is now THREE YEARS AGO (sort of) - our possibly penultimate pazz and jop ponderations will let you relive that golden or otherwise era. You get THIRTEEN from thirty-eight picks: Alicia Keys "You Don't Know My Name" and the Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Maps" turned up last time so are omitted this.

( If you're having girl problems I feel bad for you son )

Poptimism Of Times Past - 2003 Edition

1. Crazy In Love (43 votes)
2. Milkshake (37)
3. Cry Me A River (35)
4=. Ignition (Remix) (31)
4=. Hey Ya! (31)
6. Move Your Feet (30)
7=. Hurt (27)
7=. I Luv U (27)
9=. In Da Club (24)
9=. Danger High Voltage (24)
9=. Rock Your Body (24)
9=. Pass That Dutch (24)

This scientifically confirms my empirical findings at the work Xmas party viz that "Crazy In Love" is much loved again but that people are bored of "Hey Ya". This one will run and run.