A Year In Pop: Week Two

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After last week's appetiser the chart gets back to feasting (on its young) - THIRTEEN new entries to rate and contemplate, we see now why Stevem's monthly polls were so huge. Possible points of interest include the BBC's "Sound of 07" Mika with the highest new entry, and nu-ravers The Klaxons getting their first proper hit. And of course download revolutionaries KOOPA.

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I have downloaded all of these and will give them an listen and report in the comments thread. But don't take my word for it!

Comments

[koganbot]

Think that there's a gender split on JoJo, my guess being that Poptimist women might find her threatening or annoying in a way that Poptimist men wouldn't: this is because no one's ever going to think of me (for instance) as a JoJo type, and growing up JoJoish was never an option for me.

But then, I don't always know who's a boy and who's a girl here. The twelve votes for JoJo broke down for me as 7 men, 1 woman, 4 gender unknown. If all four of the unknowns are women, then there's not much of a split, but I think it's more like two to two. You'd be able to do a more accurate count here. (Pictures unfortunately are no guide; e.g., both skyecaptain and justfanoe are boys.)