A Year In Pop: 1

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A what in who? This is the first of a series of polls replacing the mighty stevem78's monthly Top 40 polls.

The Top 40 polls were an grebt idea because they put the focus on NEW pop, unlike the canons, P&Js, Now polls etc. But they were by all accounts a hassle to do and response was never great, partly because there were SO MANY songs to deal with.

By doing them weekly (hear the method in the madness) we have a much smaller number of songs to pick, so there's more chance of individual songs getting discussion time, and also more chance of people who haven't heard the new goodies hearing them via YSIs or YouTube or what have you. (To save my time and sanity I will leave it up to commenters to hunt these down).

Of course I will be keeping track of the scores on these!

[Poll #904685]

What about teh AMAZING NEW CHART REVOLUTION then? My arbitrary rule is that re-releases will be included but only if they weren't in Steve's polls, which I think rules out all of this week's.

Comments

Re: Radio 2 playlist (for reference, not recommending this!)

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

So regular radio 2 listeners would have heard 2 of these. I bet the Norah Jones single is better than the Amy Winehouse one (and I'm not a Winehouse hata). On the other hand -- Razorlight! Keane! James Morrison! ARRGGHH. Also: so that's what's happened to Jessica Simpson.

Re: Radio 2 playlist (for reference, not recommending this!)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I have heard Teri Wagon play in the last week on R2: Winehouse, Keane, The View, Guillemots, DJ Shadow.

Coo - new ELO record? Must listen out for this.

Re: Radio 2 playlist (for reference, not recommending this!)

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Yes, ELO, wacky

Re: Radio 2 playlist (for reference, not recommending this!)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The version of the Winelodge that R2 play is the 'no rap' version btw