Yet Another Year In Pop: 36

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Jigga deals with his North London problems well enough to beat Heidi & Co to the top spot.

[Poll #1454305]

Do feel free to go back and change your ticks on any of this year's chart polls - voting will remain open on all of them until the end of the year. Here's how they're shaping up so far...

1 Lily Allen - The Fear
2 Britney Spears - Circus
3 Veronicas - Untouched
4 Girls Aloud - Untouchable
5 Britney Spears - If U Seek Amy
6 Ciara ft Justin Timberlake - Love Sex Magic
7 Miley Cyrus - Fly On The Wall
8 Dizzee Rascal - Holiday
9 Florence & The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
10 Kelly Clarkson - I Do Not Hook Up
11 Pet Shop Boys - Love etc
12 VV Brown - Shark In The Water
13 Gossip - Heavy Cross
14 Lady Gaga - Just Dance
15 Lily Allen - Not Fair
16 Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
17 Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
18 Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor
19 Little Boots - Remedy
20 Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers
21 Beyonce - Halo
22 TI ft Justin Timberlake - Dead And Gone
23 Lily Allen - 22
24 Keri Hilson ft Timbaland - Return The Favour
25 Little Boots - New In Town
26 Bat For Lashes - Daniel
27 Pink - Funhouse
28 Keri Hilson ft Kanye & Ne-Yo - Knock You Down
29 Freemasons ft Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer
30 Taylor Swift - Love Story

Rankings calculated via the extremely complicated method of multiplying raw votes by percentage (hence the relevance of the 'Don't Like Any' boxes) - Lily and Britney have a clear lead ahead of the rest of the field.

Favourite single missing from the list? Taylor cruelly languishing while Miley rides high? It's up to you to go back and tick (or un-tick) anything you might have missed!


Reminder: You have until Friday to nominate tracks for the 2002 heats - please comment on the nomination post over here so they don't go missing. I'll post up a list of noms so far on Tuesday.

Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Worst Sugababes single ever? (OK second worst if you count the GA duet.)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Third worst if you count the Boots advert one.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Better than "Shape", "Girls", "Easy", "Denial", "Change" and "No Can Do". It's not a horrible track! Apart from the Right Said Fred bits. Take those out and it's an adequate Pussycat Dolls banger, which...if not great, exactly, is fucking better than, say, anything Girls Aloud have done in recent memory, or the shitty cheapo electro chancers clogging up the charts.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I really like "Shape" and will be nomming it for the Best of 2003 polls, but it's the exception that proves the rule when it comes to Sugababes interpolating others' songs into one of theirs (or doing cover versions for that matter). With that one exception they come a cropper EVERY TIME. I'd say "just stop it, ladies", but it seesm to work for them commercially. No.2 with a bullet, I see.

Also, despite their many qualities, one thing they aren't and never have been is 'sexy'. Sexy and Sugababes just doesn't mix IMHO.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

How dare you say that about my lovely WIFE Heidi actually yeah they always look kinda awkward when they're doing the sexy-sexy - except for 'Push The Button' which they pull off pretty well.

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

It's a horrible, horrible song – half the lines sound like they've been left in from a very early draft and never replaced as planned. And really the Sugababes are capable of many more interesting stances than aping the deeply unsexy zombie narcissism of the PCDs.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

not sexy? you clearly never saw their Pretty Polly advert that was on display in the dry cleaners/locksmiths/other bobbins place by Old St. station