Another Year In Pop: The Year So Far

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Here's the top 50 of the year, worked out by a complicated formula involving the number of votes each song got and its percentage of the total vote for that week. Er, complicated in that I just timesed them together and multiplied by 100? Anyway I've kept all the figures in there (votes / percentage / score) so you can make your own minds up.


Britney Spears - Piece Of Me ( 45 95 43 )
Robyn - Be Mine ( 34 82.9 28 )
MIA - Paper Planes ( 27 77.1 21 )
*Jay Z - 99 Problems ( 24 80 19 )
Ashlee Simpson - Outta My Head ( 28 68.3 19 )
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex ( 27 65.9 18 )
Robyn - Whos That Girl ( 27 65.9 18 )
Britney Spears - Break The Ice ( 25 69.4 17 )
Rihanna - Disturbia ( 23 69.7 16 )
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor ( 24 66.7 16 )
Jordin Sparks - No Air ( 21 72.4 15 )
Girls Aloud - Cant Speak French ( 23 63.9 15 )
Kylie - The One ( 22 66.7 15 )
Estelle ft Kanye - American Boy ( 24 60 14 )
Solange - I Decided ( 21 63.6 13 )
Dizze Rascal ft Calvin Harris - Dance Wiv Me ( 20 66.7 13 )
Kelly Rowland - Work ( 22 59.5 13 )
Mariah Carey - Touch My Body ( 21 60 13 )
Santogold - LES Artistes ( 21 60 13 )
Goldfrapp - A&E ( 21 58.3 12 )
Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up ( 18 66.7 12 )
*Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer ( 20 58.8 12 )
Pink - So What ( 19 61.3 12 )
Sugababes - Denial ( 19 57.6 11 )
September - Cry For You ( 19 55.9 11 )
Kanye West - Flashing Lights ( 21 50 11 )
Kanye West - Love Lockdown ( 18 58.1 10 )
Duffy - Mercy ( 19 54.3 10 )
H20 ft Platnum - Whats It Gonna Be ( 19 54.3 10 )
Estelle - No Substitute Love ( 17 60 10 )
Miley Cyrus - See You Again ( 17 54.8 9 )
Ne-Yo - Closer ( 17 48.6 8 )
Madonna & Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes ( 18 45 8 )
Kylie Minogue - Wow ( 17 47.2 8 )
Taio Cruz - Come On Girl ( 16 50 8 )
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind ( 20 40 8 )
Lupe Fiasco - Superstar ( 18 43.9 8 )
Goldfrapp - Happiness ( 18 42.9 8 )
MGMT - Time To Pretend ( 18 42.9 8 )
Utah Saints - Something Good 08 ( 16 45.7 7 )
Kylie - In My Arms ( 16 45.7 7 )
Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name ( 17 42.5 7 )
Lil Wayne - Lollipop ( 17 42.5 7 )
Booty Luv - Some Kinda Rush ( 19 38 7 )
Alphabeat - Fascination ( 16 44.9 7 )
Little Jackie - World Should Revolve Around Me ( 15 45.5 7 )
Alphabeat - Boyfriend ( 11 57.9 6 )
Sugababes - Girls ( 14 45.2 6 )
Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down ( 13 44.8 6 )
MGMT - Kids ( 13 44.8 6 )

Stats watch:
- 42% of artists are from the US, 40% from the UK, 18% from somewhere else.
- Kanye and Kylie appear three times each.
- Around 22% of these tracks were released (in some form or other) in 2007 or earlier.


Remember you can go back and change your vote in any of these polls! If your favourite track isn't getting enough love, here's your chance to convince everyone to do just that! Alternatively if you wish to bemoan the state of UK pop then the comments box below is available for some wailing/teeth-gnashing action.

Comments

[koganbot]

Now, from this list one would get the false impression that the charts have been good this year. Still surprised that "What's It Gonna Be" and "L.E.S. Artistes" didn't do better. Delighted that Ashlee is top five.

[koganbot]

But the first four would be disqualified from my P&J/Idolator ballots.

[koganbot]

Disqualified not by P&J and Idolator, but by me, for my having had the chance to vote for them in years past. Actually, "Outta My Head" was out in America in late '07 too, but late enough that I've decided it's still eligible.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have been meaning to do a huge splurge of voting as I've got completely off the pace.

More good records than I remembered here, though it's a bit miserable how the first four are all from ages ago...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I assume you haven't taken the AYIPS tracks into account? There have been some stellar flops this year (my picks would be Addictive & T2, Lil' Mama, Cassie, Kat DeLuna, Cherish, Alicia Keys, The Count & Sinden & Kid Sister, Tinchy Stryder, DJ Q & MC Bonez).

Inexplicably missing:

Jennifer Hudson - Spotlight
Flo Rida ft. Will I Am - In The Ayer
Flo Rida ft. T-Pain - Low [wtf poptimists why the hate for Flo Rida?! 'Low' is unequestionably one of the hugest tracks of the year]
Chris Brown - With You
Delinquent ft. Kcat - My Destiny
Mary J Blige - Just Fine
Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

And what about Chris Brown's "Forever" (unless I'm missing it!) - massive track and I'd have thought it's raveyness would have pressed a few Poptimist buttons.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Gah, for some reason I thought I'd seen it up there...somehow naff crap like September and Booty Luv is more to poptimists' taste. Awful.

(I do prefer 'With You' but 'Forever' should not be overlooked either!)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It just missed out actually - it was no 53 or something.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(btw I hope I've done all the calculations right and not missed anything out - I wasn't being particularly thorough)

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

In terms of raw percentages, these songs from AYIPS have done well enough to match the lowest in the list above:

1. Annie: I Know Your Girlfriend Hates Me (81.8%)
2. Vampire Weekend: A Punk (64.7%)
3. Lil' Mama Featuring Chris Brown/T-Pain: Shawty Get Loose (60.0%)
4. Cassie: Is It You (53.6%)
5. Hot Chip: One Pure Thought (50.0%)
6. Girls Aloud: Theme to St Trinians (47.6%)
7. Jennifer Lopez: Hold It, Don't Drop It (47.1%)
8. Nas Featuring Keri Hilson: Hero (47.1%)
9. Portishead: Machine Gun (46.4%)
10. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (44.8%)

But voting nubmbers are much lower so it's not quite comparable. T2 only got 41.4%

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Bit disappointing that the top 4 songs are all from previous years - suggests a weak year but that's really not the case. Surprised Estelle isn't higher tho.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, although it's fairly obvious I should point out that the asterisked ones are old stuff that's re-entered the charts without any particular effort from their record labels.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also I was very tempted to put 'DON'T LIKE ANY's highest score in there somewhere.

[koganbot]

You should have if it scored high enough, though I don't recall it breaking 11 (or was there a week when it hit 15?), so it probably wouldn't quite make it.

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

How do I go back and change my vote on one of them. When I go to the poll it just shows me the red bars (useless) and not the ticky boxes (useful).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Click on the poll link (where it says e.g. 'Poll #39517958') then click 'Fill Out Poll'.

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

Alas. MIA belatedly gets her tick - that solidifies her 3rd spot ahead of Jay-Z, hopefully.