Another Year In Pop: 26

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We're halfway through the year, and Ne-Yo and Jordin/Chris have Coldplay trapped at no.2 in a cunning pincer movement! Elsewhere Mariah finally hauls her dead grandmothers into the top 40, and enough people downloaded '99 Problems' in 2 hours to get it to number 95...

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(apologies for the deleted entry - forgot to put the last two options in!)

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Ironik - chipmunk Rozalla segues into piss-weak Enya rap. Whoever said this was bit 'Viva Forever' was nearly OTM but VF craps on this from an grebt heigh.

Glasvegas - Doves meets the Killers with lame vocals. Yuck.

Mariah - I can't say this has stuck with me since the initial WTF first hearing, but it's still a good effort from Mariah and the music is pleasant. Borderline tick.

MGMT - The video has a small dog in it. Are these lot anything to do with the Mighty Boosh? Same haircut and 'look we're in a jungle lets sing a surreal 80s funk pastiche song about marmosets' vibe. I like the 6/8 repeat thing but it doesn't really go anywhere does it? Still, I think I might tick it as I want to listen to it again. Maybe.

Freemasons - uninspiring when I listened to it the other week, can't be faffed with it today.

Courteneers - the title alone is annoying me. Skip.

Black Kids - the verse sounds like Level 42 or something! Or Was Not Was. Chorus is exactly the same as the last single (ie annoying). No tick.