poptimists | Best Song of 2001: NOMINATIONS

NEW NOMINATION RULE ALERT

This time there's going to be a 10 song per person limit on stuff that didn't chart in the UK top 40 that year. This means:
- we won't have 20+ heats per year
- we'll all still get to find out about those forgotten gems
- dudes won't feel bad using up their nomination quota on Kylie
- collusion will probably run rampant, oh well

Obviously you can nominate fewer than 10 non-charting songs but I have a feeling some of you will take full advantage of the quota :-)

YOU HAVE LOST ME TOTALLY.

Sorry! Here's some examples:

Person A nominates tracks 1-10 from Kompakt Total 3 (none of which charted in the UK), plus Bob The Builder and Afroman.

Person B nominates Westlife only.

Person C nominates the entire top 40 from May 21st 2001 because they loved it so much.

Person D nominates 'Sonne' by Rammstein only.

HOW ON EARTH DO I FIGURE OUT IF IT CHARTED IN THE UK THAT YEAR?

everyhit.co.uk is your friend here. If your song might be spelled weirdly and doesn't show up in the results, try searching by artist instead of title (or vice versa) or using 'contains the word' instead of 'first few letters'.

OK SO IT DIDN'T CHART IN THE UK BUT I STILL DUNNO WHAT YEAR IT WAS RELEASED?

Here's the general criteria for determining what year something falls under:

1. Everyhit
2. Discogs UK release date
3. Discogs US release date
4. My werk database
5. Wikipedia/other interweb source

So if Discogs says it was 2001 but Wikipedia says 2002 then we go with Discogs.

MY NOMINATION WAS RE-RELEASED IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT YEARS! HELP!

Go for the year that the song had its highest chart placing in the UK.

YOU TOTALLY MISSED ONE OF MY 2000 NOMINATIONS LAST TIME DUDE...

I recommend that you post your nominations in a new comment thread so they don't get lost in the threading (the first post of a thread always shows up). This isn't mandatory but it makes it much less likely that I'll miss them. Don't worry about repeating yourself - my spreadsheet will take care of that.

ARGH! ITS GOING TO TAKE ME AGES TO THINK OF MY NOMINATIONS!

Nominations won't close until the end of next week so you've got a while to think of some cracking tunes. I'll post reminders nearer the time.

I NOMINATED SOMETHING FOR 2000 THAT WAS ACTUALLY 2001...?

These are automatically through (so won't count for your ten nominations etc). In fact, here is a list of songs already nominated for your delectation:

Backstreet Boys - The Call
Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Christina Aguilera / Lil' Kim / Mya / Pink - Lady Marmalade
Cosmic Gate - Fire Wire
D12 - Shit On U
Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
Destiny's Child - Survivor
DJ Pied Piper - Do You Really Like It
Fragma - Everytime You Need Me
Granddaddy - The Crystal Lake
Jakatta - American Dream
Kosheen - Hide U
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Limp Bizkit - Rollin'
Lolita Storm - Suzy
Ludacris ft. Trina, Shawnna & Foxy Brown - What's Your Fantasy? (Remix)
Madonna - What It Feels Like For A Girl
Marilyn Manson - Fight Song
Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies
Mis-Teeq - Why? (Matt 'Jam' LaMont & DJ Face Remix)
MOP ft Busta Rhymes - Ante Up
Múm - I'm 9 Today
Mya - Case Of The Ex
Mystikal ft. Nivea - Danger (Been So Long)
Nelly - Ride Wit Me
OutKast - Ms Jackson
Rui Da Silva ft Cassandra - Touch Me
S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin'
Shaggy ft Rikrok - It Wasn't Me
So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds
Spoon - Anything You Want
St Etienne - Boy Is Crying
Sugababes - Run For Cover
Sugababes - Soul Sound
The Artful Dodger ft. Michelle Escoffery - Think About Me
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
Wyclef - Perfect Gentleman

Got all that? Right then!

NOMINATIONS IN THE COMMENTS PLEASE!

(Reminder: the 2000 Second Chance Saloon is running until Thursday (thanks to