How's that 2007 shaping up, then?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This week's poll is tomorrow (don't get too excited). Here's how things stand at the end of April:

Overall Top 10

1. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
2=. Amerie - Take Control
2=. Amy Winehouse - Back In Black
4. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
5=. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
5=. Ciara - Like A Boy
7=. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Catch You
7=. Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around Comes Around
7=. Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres
10=. Mark Ronson ft D Merryweather - Stop Me
10=. Timbaland ft Nelly Furtado - Give It To Me

April Top 10

1=. Amerie - Take Control (overall position 2=)
1=. Amy Winehouse - Back In Black (op 2=)
3=. Mark Ronson ft D Merryweather - Stop Me (op 10=
3=. Timbaland ft Nelly Furtado - Give It To Me (op 10=)
5. Natasha Bedingfield - I Wanna Have Your Babies (op 14)
6=. Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs (op 27=)
6=. Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow (op 27=)
8=. Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (op 30=)
8=. Groove Armada ft Stush - Get Down (op 30=)
10=. Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm (op 37=)
10=. Dan Le Sac ft Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill (op 37=)

I'm sure I'm not the only Poptimist hoping for a better May.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Over half the April top 10 is REALLY BAD! Not mediocre, not meh, but actively vile. And there were good singles which didn't make it! I am not claiming that Akon or Ne*Yo's last singles were, like, masterpieces or anything, but they're light years ahead of Mark Ronson/Manics/Arctic Monkeys, not to mention that nauseating Dan Le Sac horror.

God imagine what April would have been like if Amerie and Amy hadn't snuck in at the last minute :/

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I mean can anyone explain that? Preferring Ronson or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' or the fucking Arctic Monkeys to Akon and Ne*Yo? I am perplexed and worried.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Akon is just generally lamentable - he's basically the embodiment of every rockist argument against 'urban' music. Whereas NeYo I think is just hampered by not being something one hears about the place as much as the other three. I don't think I've actually heard any of his self-performed stuff.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Akon has a lovely voice, like a big sad goose. But I don't think his recent material has done much with it.