Best Song of 2001: Heat #1

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gents, it's time for 2001: A Poll Odyssey! Mumpop fans are wailing and gnashing their teeth at the news that two of the top three album artists of the year (David Gray and Robbie Williams) are nowhere to be found in these heats, and the third (Dido) just scraped in by the skin of her teeth (courtesy of justfanoe). Can teenpop, hiphop and chart bosh save the day? There's only one way to find out.

So let's get cracking with a high-charting heat - ten top 5 hits and three number ones. Happy ticking!

• You get a maximum of TEN TICKS over the three bits of the poll. The top five will go through to the next stage.



• If you want to change your vote (or tick too many by mistake), you can edit your votes by clicking on 'Poll #12345' then 'Fill Out Poll'.



• UK chart placings given in brackets.



• Rep for your favourites in the comments! Youtube embeds very welcome.

[Poll #1430999]

You have until next Tuesday lunchtime to vote.

Comments

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Blake Shelton's "Austin" on a hunch, and on the basis of me living in Austin

Plus I also might want to give it the benefit of the doubt because (1) he was a super nice guy when I interviewed him for Billboard last year and (2) I'm still totally pissed off about NO country songs getting anywhere near enough votes in the '00 poll. (No rock songs did, either, right? Which also stinks, though the country tended to rock more than the rock.)

[koganbot]

My "Austin" tick gives it the benefit of the doubt too, since I could not find the original streamed online, so relied on the live versions, which are OK, but... well, the song is nice, sentimental, but could get beaten if I have time to listen more by Tuesday.

[koganbot]

To listen to more of what's on the list, that is.