The Year So Far

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Top 40 tracks from the January-June polls (i.e. weeks 1-25, 26 was July by a calendrical quirk, so this isn't QUITE the halfway stage)

1=. Rihanna ft Jay-Z - Umbrella
1=. CSS - Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
3. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
4=. Amerie - Take Control
4=. Amy Winehouse - Back In Black
6. McFly - Babys Coming Back/Transylvania
7. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Me And My Imagination
8. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
9. White Stripes - Icky Thump
10=. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
10=. Ciara - Like A Boy
12=. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Catch You
12=. Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around Comes Around
12=. Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres
15=. Mark Ronson ft D Merryweather - Stop Me
15=. Timbaland ft Nelly Furtado - Give It To Me
17. Unklejam - What Am I Fighting For
18. Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
19. Lady Sovereign - Love Me Or Hate Me
20=. Dizzee Rascal - Sirens
20=. My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
22. Christina Aguilera - Candyman
23. Kelly Clarkson - Never Again
24. Lily Allen - Alfie
25. Booty Luv - Shine
26. Justin Timberlake - Lovestoned
27. Natasha Bedingfield - I Wanna Have Your Babies
28. Kelly Rowland - Like This
29. Mutya Buena - Real Girl
30. Kelis ft Cee-Lo - Lil Star
31. Gossip - Listen Up
32=. Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape
32=. Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes
34. Hilary Duff - With Love
35. Hellogoodbye - Here (In Your Arms)
36=. Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
36=. Enrique Inglesias - Do You Know (Ping Pong Song)
38=. Omarion - Ice Box
38=. Fergie - Glamorous
40. Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder

There you are. Bit of a feeble line up - I think the UK charts probably more to blame for this than Poptimists' (sometimes errant) tastes. What do you think?

By the way, these positions aren't final, even relative to one another - in fact a couple are already out of date but I'm not going back and rechecking the 2007 polls (which are ALL STILL OPEN) until the end of the year!

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

WTF is 'Icky Thump' doing up there?!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Filter out the inexplicable crap and you've got yourself a pretty stellar top 20 or so there. Doesn't bear much resemblance to my own list but that's more to do with the fact that lots of mine is either yet to hit the UK charts, or will never be released here at all.

Most inexplicable absence, off the top of my head - R Kelly's 'I'm A Flirt'.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

More love for Enrique pls! And Sweet Escape.

I...

[cfbgoespop.livejournal.com]

...just want that Betty Boo icon!

I'm still struggling with the concept of Umbrella (ella-ella-ella-ey-oh) being this years defining sound!

Not for me!

Alyson

Re: I...

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

what was our last number one that lasted 9 weeks. how long was Crazy?

Those Long Lasting 00s No.1s in full

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Crazy - 9 weeks
Umbrella, (Is This The Way To) Amarillo - 7 weeks
Where Is The Love? - 6 weeks
Grace Kelly, You're Beautiful - 5 weeks

Re: Those Long Lasting 00s No.1s in full

[cfbgoespop.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid here in Oz, it was Sandi Thom....

However, in fairness, 69 singles get you into the top 100, so things don't move much!

Alyson

Re: I...

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

None more defining: on Test Match Special on the BBC the other day, the venerable West Indian commentator Tony Cozier was banging on about it (he's from Barbados, where I guess Rihanna's now the national icon), which caused a bit of bafflement among his fellow pundits as Cozier is well into his sixties. And so every time it started to drizzle (quite often this soaked English summer), Cozier would refer to people putting up their "um-ber-ella-ella-ellas".

Re: I...

[cfbgoespop.livejournal.com]

Not since Michael Holdings now legendary (in Oz) rant against the West Indies training with a rugby ball ("Richie, when they are ducking rugby balls bowled at them, they can train with rugby balls....BUT NOT BEFORE MON! NOT BEFORE! ONLY THEN!") has a West Indian cricket commentator displayed such a grasp of the pulse of the nation.

I have to like it if Top Cat is on board! That's BRILLIANT!

Alyson