Nominations reminder

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Blimey, I've already got 253 nominations for the best song of 2000! Plus at least two dozen that have been shunted over to another year.

You've still got until 8pm BST on Monday to nominate, which you can do by going here and leaving a comment (don't worry if you think someone might have already nominated something, I can easily get rid of duplicates in my spreadsheet).

meserach has kindly put together a Spotify playlist of the nominations so far, feel free to add stuff in there but please leave a comment on the original post as well, otherwise I might miss your nomination.

New guideline: if a song made the UK top ten in a particular year then that will definitely count as its poll year. Re-entries will default to the earliest year.

Stuff on Now 46 that no-one has nominated yet:

Mary Mary : "Shackles (Praise You)"
Gabrielle : "When a Woman"
Tom Jones and Mousse T : "Sex Bomb"
Shania Twain : "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)"
Billie Piper : "Day and Night"
Louise : "2 Faced"
Damage : "Ghetto Romance"
Steps : "When I Said Goodbye"
Stephen Gately : "New Beginning"
Backstreet Boys : "The One"
Moby : "Porcelain"
Coldplay : "Yellow"
Richard Ashcroft : "A Song for the Lovers"
Black Legend : "You See the Trouble with Me"
York : "O.T.B. (On the Beach)"
Marc Et Claude : "I Need Your Lovin' (Like the Sunshine)"
Frankie Goes to Hollywood : "The Power of Love" (Rob Searle Club Mix)
Different Gear vs. The Police: "When the World Is Running Down (You Can't Go Wrong)"
Southside Spinners : "Luvstruck"
Alice DeeJay : "Will I Ever"
Angelic : "It's My Turn"
Rank 1 : "Airwave"
Lonyo (Comme Ci Comme Ca) : "Summer of Love"
DJ Luck and MC Neat featuring JJ : "Masterblaster 2000"
Tru Faith and Dub Conspiracy : "Freak Like Me"
Jamelia : "Call Me"
Vengaboys : "Uncle John from Jamaica"
Fe-m@il : "Flee Fly Flo"
Scooch : "For Sure"
Atomic Kitten : "I Want Your Love"

Feel free to go and nominate any of the above on the original post! (Though I hereby veto Stephen Gately)

Comments

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I'm against limiting songs per artist in any way, really. I would hope that nominators would realise that nominating 12 tracks by one act just makes it so much more likely that fans' votes would be split and therefore the act has less chance of progressing.

Can I suggest batches of 40 or 50 songs, and we can tick our 10 favourites? Possibly even more ruthless than that, since that would take say six polls to get down to 60 tracks, so that might require another three polls to get to a top ten. Perhaps divide the number of noms by 5 and let the top 10 of each such batch through, then a final poll to reduce 50 to a top 10? I'd also suggest two batches a week, or each year will take 6 weeks, and even on a perfectly efficient schedule, that means we don't get the final until next May.