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

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that your imagination is faulty, but then I am applying the same "logic" to MGMT.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i think yr logic is sounder with KoL than MGMT, i think we're looking at three pretty high votes (or equivilent over more voters) for top ten and i can see MGMT getting like one 12 or 10 and several 5/4/3s, whereas i guess ben is the only KoL voter as they haven't turned up yet...

...but then we are rather unpredictable this year, aren't we?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Haha no I meant that I'm going "I can't be the only person who voted for Time To Pretend!"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

NB: too much of this "I voted for X" talk will make it easy to reconstruct the Top 10 ahead of time. This isn't meant in any way to call out Andrew specifically (it's my fault for revealing 51-67 after all) but let's be cautious and not spoil the surprises! :)

Not that this should be taken as any kind of confirmation of Kings Of Leon or MGMT's appearances, of course!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Sorry boss!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

but 40 people voted and only 10-15 of them comment (at best) (or at least during the UK working day).

[koganbot]

I've got a pretty good idea of what seven of the top ten will be, which means three will be total surprises, or two of them will be total surprises and one will be MGMT.

I think it's now safe to say that Paula DeAnda will not make the top ten.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Certainly there seem to me to be more surprises than last year - but then hardly anyone had heard of "See You Again" before it went Top 10...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I've got 7 tracks which must surely be dead certs for the top 10 tomorrow, another two probably-maybes, and two which one could have assumed would make it but which I don't think will. Which leaves one space for a nasty, MGMT-shaped surprise.

[koganbot]

I'd say several million people had heard "See You Again."

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Yes, obv the top 10 is going to be all MJ Hibbett...