Yet Another Year In Pop: 46

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Black Eyed Peas beat Leona to #1 - news which has rocked the OCC to its very core i.e. they haven't updated their site yet this morning so we'll have to make do with slightly unreliable Yahoo Music instead (apols for duplications/omissions etc).

[Poll #1486190]

Reminder! You have roughly 24 hours to vote in Heat #6 of 2003, where Missy, Lumidee, Benassi and Blur are all battling it out for the last two qualification spots. Don't forget to put your new favourite in the text box!

The 2009 Poptimists Poll

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Before Jeff has a heart attack, no, I'm not starting it now!

Next month we'll be running our usual Poptimists tracks-of-the-year poll - with the Top 40 countdown livening up your first week back to work in January.

The only thing is, it seems to me we've gone a bit off the boil in terms of talking about new stuff, because we've been having so much fun looking back over the decade!

I'm considering doing a nomination-and-ballot process for this year's poll, so this is really only a marker entry to say "get thinking about this stuff". It's been a pretty grand year and there's no really obvious winner so it should be very close.