Poptimists Tracks Of 2008 PART FOUR

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The hairy cornflake returns with Nos. 20-11 of your favourite tracks of the year.

20. GIRLS ALOUD - "The Promise"

Perhaps a lower-than-expected showing for perennial Poptimist darlings GA - their retro-themed video is not embeddable.

17=. MARIA DANIELA Y SU SONIDO LASSER - "Duri Duri"

This year the chart's been particularly good for niche enthusiasms getting a welcome shot of publicity. Here's sometime Podcast Panellists MDYSSL with some very bouncy pop.

17=. LILY ALLEN - "The Fear"

It's not even out yet! Though, unlike Cassie, it will be.

17=. KLEERUP ft MARIT BERGMAN - "3AM"

It's not just Robyn who gets to voice moody Kleerup tracks you know.

16. BEYONCE - "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"

If you liked it then you should have embedded it.

15. ALPHABEAT - "Fascination"

Sign of the music biz times (if true): Alphabeat have apparently been dropped by their UK label because their FIFTH single off their album flopped. Remember them this way! (NB the Bimbo Jones remix picked up a fraction of the points here).

14. RIHANNA - "Disturbia"

Last year's runaway winner makes a decent showing again.

13. HOT CHIP - "Ready For The Floor"

They really are trying to look like Buggles in this video, aren't they?

12. SOLANGE - "Sandcastle Disco"

Solange Knowles outpolls her sister, even if she hasn't outsold her.

11. KANYE WEST - "Love Lockdown"

Non-embeddable warriors! Kanye might feel hard done by here to be honest since SEVEN different people voted for this. If we were doing it solely on mentions he'd be at #5.

What powerhouse kept him out of the Top 10? Check back tomorrow when ALL will be REVEALED (and then at the weekend for the monster list of everything).

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I've still never heard Taylor Swift. I probably should at some point.

[koganbot]

[koganbot]

I wouldn't bet on Taylor this year. "Should've Said No" is great great great but not so great as to have made my Poptimists list (I have it as number eighteen), and since it was a two-years-old album track I don't think the people likely to like it here noticed that it was a single this year on the country charts. "You're Not Sorry" is very good (my number thirty-five) but hasn't been getting much attention (as a single was digital-only), and "Love Story" is good but I'm guessing it's not getting three voters - or even one - on poptimists.

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Was 'Tim McGraw' this year? I would have voted for that as my #3 if I'd remembered that it came out this year!

[koganbot]

No, "Tim McGraw" was summer of 2006, though it held on until early 2007.