Another Year In Pop: 45

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Blimey! A bumper crop of new entries this week, with four lovely ladies barging their way into the top ten. None of them have knocked off the X Factor mess at the top yet, but give it time...

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Bizarre re-entry watch: last week a competitive singing television programme had a disco theme which explains Blondie at no.91, but why is 'Mr Brightside' by the Killers in at 60? In the battle of the 'Hero's, Enrique is now ahead of Mariah (94 and 100 respectively), but expect that to change after Mariah's triumphant pulverising of everyone else on Saturday's X Factor...

Comments

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Beyonce - aww this is lovely! Though it sounds terrifyingly like Joan Osborne's 'One Of Us'. Also well done PC Beyonce for kicking arse and wearing lovely earrings.

Britters - shameless re-tread of 'Oooh Oooh Baby' but that's fine by me, plus the video is totes great.

Leona - I RLY liked the Sweet Escape and I think this is definitely worth a tick. Also, more popstars should wear magicians' hats. However the Lex is right, if Leona is going to be a super-duper worldwide pop sensation she'll need to do a bit better than this next time.

Alesha - love the chorus and I've always liked Mambo No.5 rip-offs, but there's something that bothers me about it... (aha! Here's a good chance to plug my video blog where I go into )more detail about this song (http://katstevens.tumblr.com/post/53800100/alesha-is-wearing-a-rather-short-dress-her)! You can also add vidsarealright to yr lj flist :))

Xtina - definitely worth a tick for the 'super-BITCH' line but this sounds even thinner than Alesha's effort. Or perhaps this is meant to be 'minimal'? Hahahahahah. Great video obv, esp as she looks completely unbothered by the CSI-levels of technology she's effortlessly wielding. She should lose the mini dancing robot though.

Bellamy Brothers - my Youtube thing says I've previously viewed this but eff knows how or why. It's alright I guess? But no tick.

Script - I'm not going to bother, I think.

TI - Yikes OK I see what everyone means about the O-Zone thing. I don't want to listen to this anymore.

SFG - ack! I gave this a chance the other day because I *thought* they *might* have taken inspiration from ancient Bond themes of yore to make a slightly different sounding piece of music but NO. Agreed that they are the worst band of the year.

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Ooops, missed out Will - I accidentally posted it on my blog instead! DID I MENTION MY BLOG etc