The House That Jackin Built

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There's been no poptimist post or thread on the Jackin' Pop poll, which posted its results this week - I've put the top 30 tracks under a cut, and you can see the alBUM etc votes at http://www.idolator.com/?op=compiledresults


1. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (169 votes)
2. T.I. - What You Know (89 votes)
3. Justin Timberlake ft. T.I. - My Love (79 votes)
4. Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man (51 votes)
5. TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me (49 votes)
6. Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland - Promiscuous (45 votes)
7. Justin Timberlake - SexyBack (35 votes)
7. The Raconteurs - Steady, as She Goes (35 votes)
8. Hot Chip - Over and Over (33 votes) 1 for Solid Groove Remix
10. Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push (32 votes)
10. Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks (32 votes)
12. The Killers - When You Were Young (29 votes)
13. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade (28 votes)
14. Beyonce - Irreplaceable (26 votes)
14. Rihanna - SOS (26 votes)
16. Clipse - Wamp Wamp (What It Do) (24 votes)
17. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken (23 votes)
18. Kelis - Bossy (22 votes) 1 for Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix
19. Band of Horses - The Funeral (21 votes)
19. Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone - Ridin' (21 votes) 1 for NYPD Remix ft. Papoose & Jae Millz
19. Lily Allen - LDN (21 votes)
22. CSS - Let's Make Love (and Listen to Death From Above) (20 votes)
23. Dixie Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice (19 votes)
23. Junior Boys ft. Andi Toma - In the Morning (19 votes)
23. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (19 votes)
26. Cassie - Me & U (18 votes)
26. Clipse - Mr. Me Too (18 votes)
26. Lily Allen - Smile (18 votes)
26. Nelly Furtado - Maneater (18 votes) 2 for remix ft. Lil Wayne
30. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor (17 votes)
30. Prince - Black Sweat (17 votes)


Is this a recognisable 2006? Not if yr a Brit voter, most probably. (EDIT: I stand corrected, yrs Grandad.) I'm not sure I've ever heard TV on the Radio (who topped the JP albums list).

Comments

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

How can they be album votes if most people voted for the actual properly released single?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think they are 'album votes', as in, some people responded to the "tracks of the year" question by simply listing some of the best tracks from their favourite albums, which generally were the singles (because singles are usually better than album tracks). But in this scenario it's liking the album that determines the vote.

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Uh, right, what you said. TV on the Radio at #5 is what particularly makes me think this, and I think Maura commented on how weird it was too. They're not exactly a singles band, and I don't really remember anyone talking about how that was a particularly killer song.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I will download it and listen with singles-minded ears.

Anyway I guess it's the equivalent of that noticeable trend in the old P&J singles polls we've been looking at, of a group of critics who clearly took one look at the singles ballot and thought "Shit, what's Paul Simon been up to this year?" rather than having any engagement with 'singles' or 'the charts' as an idea.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't really mean "as an idea" - you don't have to be a mentalist chart ideologue like me to submit a singles ballot.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

BUT IT HELPS!

anyway, did you not get yr ballot in?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes I did - I think I did - but it didn't have any album votes, which is what Glenn M's thing is tracking.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.idolator.com/?op=jp_showpoll&user_id=43858

There we are.

Compiled during new dad madness so it's a miracle I had it together to submit anything: next year I'll do comments, honest.

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. A lot of those are definitely good songs but not really singles. There's stuff that's trying to be a single and that seems to be why there's a separate poll for singles, so you can highlight things that are working in that mode.

Of course, now that I've said this I realize that some of the ones I listed were probably conceived as singles (Raconteurs, Lupe, Dixie Chicks, Pipettes) so maybe I'm being unfair. But like, that Dixie Chicks song isn't even the best single from that album, it's just that picking that one best expresses why you think the Dixie Chicks are awesome.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

that seems to be why there's a separate poll for singles, so you can highlight things that are working in that mode

Instinctively, I rage against this line of thinking. But this is more to do with my annoyance at critics not taking alBUMs by e.g. Nelly or Paris or Aly & AJ as seriously as they take those by indie types than because I want to see TVOTR on a singles ballot.

The highlight-the-singles-act argument works better if you're considering an artist like Fedde Le Grand or something, who isn't likely to be making an LP any time soon. But I doubt he got many votes anyway.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

oddly enough I found that I loved a lot of indie-ish singles this year but didn't find myself as enamoured of the album as a whole (The Gossip, CSS, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Amy Winehouse to an extent) whereas a lot of big pop albums I loved as albums as well as loving their singles (Beyoncé, Paris, Justin, Cassie, Ciara) and in some cases more than their singles (Kelis, Fergie). The exception is Nelly F's album which doesn't work so well as an album BUT is a pretty awesome disparate-singles-on-one-CD item.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Staring At The Sun' by TV On The Radio (buried within Ultramix 04) is good but I didn't like what I heard of their latest album.