A New Decade In Pop: Week #50

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Black Eyed Peas move their dirty bits up to #1, beating 9-year-old Willow Smith into second. Not much else is happening due to the big Wobs push next week, although as far as I can tell no actual pop stars are bothering to try and get the Xmas No.1 this year.

[Poll #1657173]
Oh-dear-where's-my-career watch: last year's X Factor winner Joe McElderry gets to #68, the Manics struggle up to #44 despite wh0ring themselves out all over telly for the last fortnight, Flo Rida doesn't manage much better at #42 and poor old Alesha drops out of the top 100 completely after just a week.

Is it 2011 yet watch: Chris Rea Drives Home For Christmas at #100 :(

Don't forget to email your top 20 tracks to poptimistspoll2010@gmail.com (details here)! Thanks to everyone who's sent their lists in so far. Don't worry about the FT poll being a different email address, you can use either. THINGS ARE ALL UNDER CONTROL.

Comments

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

But the Bruce Springsteen/"Neil Young" version.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Aw, I LIKE driving home for Christmas, it does a terribly good onomatopoeia of the sound inside cars with that sort of ambient music on in the background. Which may or may not have been its plan but I find laudable in any case.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I feel I should rep a bit for A-Burke here - this is a proper mega-ballad that was on last year's album and she gives it plenty of welly. Also it doesn't sound EXACTLY like Bleeding Love or the countless other Tedder Ballads^TM you'd expect it to. And the key change on its own is definitely 'any good at all'.

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

I might have changed my mind about williow. Bah.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OH NOES sorry Kat! You put the details up during my German exile so I never saw them - anyway this is as good a way as any of sorting the Poptimists from the FT bits of the poll out :)

Some wag on Twitter wrote: "I have reported Willow Smith to the RSPCA": this reading is now ALL I CAN THINK OF when I hear the song.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It will prob work out better this way!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

We need a THIRD gmail address for those of us who refuse to be pigeonholed in this way* / sukrat followers* / other*

*delete as applicable