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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also I should point out that the list up there doesn't include any Michael Jackson tracks or ancient re-entries.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

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

[koganbot]

Jay-Z f. Rihanna & Kanye West "Run This Town": This is Rihanna's first time back from the beating, which outshouts any other consideration, and any voice that isn't Rihanna's is an interruption. Jay-Z accommodates by rolling off the beats rather than dominating them. And Kanye just sounds tacked-on at the end, plying his metaphors for boobs and other sexual parts, and who cares? So it's just Rihanna in the spotlight, her voice the same instantly recognizable burnt wood as always, burnt sorrow, same not-exactly charisma and not-exactly personality, simply an unmistakable sound that's been the voice of American music for two years. The track's not all that, but she is. Yet now there's this unavoidable wonderment: who is she? TICK.

Sugababes "Get Sexy": The 'Babes sound like they can't be bothered even to simulate joy. What went wrong? NO TICK.

Wale f. Lady GaGa "Chillin": You're all gonna dismiss this, but you're wrong. GaGa, going subdued and functional, makes this her sweetest and best vocal, a nice hypnotic little sing-song. The Steam "goodbye" hook is tasteful, for once, and lightweight Wale is charming, teaches us to pronounce his name, makes a basketball pun, "Got a buzz like a nigga Chris Mullin." TICK.



Jamie T. "Chaka Demus": Strange mixture of a happy Caribbean backing and a slightly morose who-gives-a-fuck vocal. The juxtaposition is interesting but I don't like the way it sounds. NO TICK.

Friendly Fires "Kiss Of Life": Unemphatic too-normal-to-open-my-mouth vocals, accompanied by incongruous third-world percussion that attempts interplay, but it's with a guy who won't play. NO TICK.

The Prodigy "Take Me To The Hospital": Jitters meet electroshock. BORDERLINE NONTICK.

[koganbot]

Oh, I forgot Booty Luv.

Booty Luv, "Say It": Serviceable thud-thud from the dance salt mines. BORDERLINE NONTICK.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

S'babes - still not been motivated to listen to this all the way through. Oh Heidi what great heights you have fallen from...

I was pretty disappointed with the Friendly Fires song. The chorus really gets on my nerves :(

Booty Luv on the other hand = HURRAH

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

LOL, a Britney single that I don't believe anyone really cares about at No 2. This year is quite possibly the worst year for the charts in my ENTIRE LIFETIME.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i don't like the charts contents much this year but i'm not sure they've ever been more "balanced" racially - pretty much a 50/50 split between white and non-white acts. it's really noticeable and interesting even if the music isn't (imo).

ten years ago the ratio was more 4 or 5:1. tho 20 years ago the ratio seems to be more 2:1. this is just based on looking at the top 40 from the same time of year in each case so it's not the most reliable extrapolation but probably holds.

i suppose what this could mean is that in a very crude sense, when it comes to ADD or ringtone pop (which most of this stuff can be defined as frankly) at least, the industry and consumer may be less concerned than ever about who performs it. i don't know, i'm sure it means SOMETHING ;]

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Sorry, Kat, are you multiplying the raw votes by the percentage as in you're taking the percentage of the total participants as listed at the top of the poll? Because if so that's a little odd? (It counts the people who've "not heard any" for one thing).

Or are you doing something else?

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I like that Sugababes song! It's the only one I've heard. The others don't seem to get played on 4 Music or TMF.

hm some things to download this weekend

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I actively like two songs on the list (The Fear, Just Dance) and know only a half dozen more.

No La Roux at all, I am surprised...