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Taio Cruz might not have won any MOBO awards last week but he's still sitting pretty at the top of the charts. It's not a good Monday morning for the Backstreet Boys though - their new single about vampires has only made it to no. 72 :(

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Heat #6 of 2002 will be up tomorrow! After 2002 is over I'm going to start going through them a bit quicker so we get at least halfway through the decade before 2010...

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katstevens.livejournal.com

Never underestimate the UK music industry's capacity for being behind the times.

From:

credoimprobus

We also had it presented as "the new Veronicas!" on radio over here the other month. I laughed until I wheezed on the inside, let me tell you.

From:

koganbot

Kat, I've been meaning to propose this, and now seems like a good time: in very rare circumstances in the 2000s polls you should make exceptions to the criterion that states that the year something goes top 40 in Britain is the year it's eligible for the poll. "4ever" would be a borderline case. If it falls right back out of the Top 40, I'd say we should make it 2005 (year released in Australia) or 2006 (year released in the U.S.) because that's when it had its impact on us. However, if it hangs on in the chart for a while, then in crucial ways it does belong to this year.

"Be Mine!" is another case, since its British chart success was in 2008 but its MASSIVE success and influence on ilX and Pitchfork and

poptimists, and its reestablishing her as an international figure (even if not an international superstar), came in 2005.

But neither of those matter to me as much as this one:

According to everyhit, Lil Jon's "Get Low" scraped into the bottom of the U.K. Top 40 in 2005, only getting up to 38. I don't know why it charted then. But the crucial fact is that its success two years earlier in the United States was possibly the most significant event in hip-hop this decade, for better or worse, in that it solidified the dominance of the Dirty South and it determined what a whole hunk of hip-hop/r&b radio was going to sound like in 2004 and 2005 as well as helping other developments like screw, and further developments like snap and hyphy and jerkin', to have national commercial potential. Now, I don't know what impact the track had on you guys in '03, but it had an impact on what I'm guessing some of you were listening to in '04 and are likely to nominate for that year, and it feels wrong to be assigning it to 2005 when we'll already have been evaluating its progeny in the 2004 poll.

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katstevens.livejournal.com

In all honesty Frank I doubt it's going to be an issue - I'm almost certainly going to change the rules again before we get anywhere near 2004/5 seeing as 1) I have worked out how many weeks there are left in the year and by gum we are somewhat behind here guys 2) as the UK charts became so static from 2007 onwards we could probably fit all the half-decent charting entries into one poll anyway 3) the likelihood of me having a nervous breakdown, never going back into work again and mothballing this entire endeavour is RATHER HIGH at the moment :(