Yet Another Year In Pop: 40

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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...

Comments

[koganbot]

The Deadmau5 single is here, definitely has vocals, definitely a pop song. Is that anomalous for this guy? I've seen him classified as "progressive house" and the other tracks I heard of his in a quick three-song cram were more austere. Also better. For a tuneful pop song this is drab - I was going to say "is uncommonly drab," but a lot of British dance hits since I've been paying attention to these polls have been strikingly uncatchy in their attempted catchiness, and feel annoyingly rote. (Yeah, I know the guy's Canadian, not Brit, but he's sure not crossing Top 40 in the U.S.) I miss the classic days of Italodisco, when tuneful ditties knew how to ditz around tunefully.