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A New Decade In Pop: Week #36

Olly Murs aka 'the one who came 2nd in last year's X Factor who looked a bit like Will Young and wore a hat' is at #1.

[Poll #1615573]

Dudes the LAST EVER POPTIMISM is this Friday! You know the drill - Horse Bar, free, 7-12ish, POPMAGEDDON.
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #35

Cor, the charts have woken up after the Bank Holiday weekend! Taio is straight in at number 1, Hurts finally get a chart placing for "Wonderful Life" (sadly not a cover of this).

[Poll #1613047]

Very important reminder: THE LAST EVER POPTIMISM is on Friday 10th September! 7pm-midnight(ish), Upstairs @ The Horse Bar, Westminster Bridge Road, across the road from Lambeth North tube. FREE ENTRY, decent beer and banging pop tunes! Come along and say hi :)
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #34

Roll Deep are straight in at #1 with a song that seems to have been around for ages.

[Poll #1610475]

Results of the Rihanna Canon!
1. Umbrella (ft Jay-Z)
2. Pon De Replay
3. Don't Stop The Music
=4. SOS
=4. Disturbia
6. Rude Boy
7. Shut Up And Drive
8. Russian Roulette
9. Take A Bow
=10. Unfaithful
=10. Run This Town (w/ Jay-Z)
=10. Te Amo
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A New Decade In Pop: Weeks #33

Flo Rida is at #1, everyone else seems to be off on summer hols.

[Poll #1606289]

There's still plenty of time to vote in the Rihanna Canon - Umbrella in the lead as expected, but Don't Stop The Music is catching up Pon De Replay. I may put up another one on Friday...
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A New Decade In Pop: Weeks #31 & #32

Catching up on last week's missed poll = double bonus ticky today! Apologies if I've missed anything. Ne-Yo is at #1.

[Poll #1603549]
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #30

A blippy techno record is at #1! No, me neither, but Yolanda Be Cool and D Cup don't care. Slow week though - the highest new entry today is #20.

[Poll #1597384]

Lower reaches watch: Jedward are in at #80 with their Blink 182 cover, the Mercury nominations have nudged The xx and Mumford & Sons further up into the top 100 (Laura Marling's album has jumped 82 places up) and DERE LORD "Don't Stop Believing" has been on the chart for 91 weeks :O
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #29

BOB's Airplanes are at number 1 after JLS plummet down to #12.

[Poll #1594025]
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #28

The charts are alive with the sound of JLS! They knock Katy and Snoop off the top.

[Poll #1591694]
*I assume the Marco Calliari version from last week's poll was some mad remix or something?
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #27

Katy and Snoop are still at the top.

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Glastonbury watch: Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" re-enters at #64 and FOUR Muse albums are in the top 100 (guess they didn't play much stuff off their first one).
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #26

The mercury is rising, the football jingoism is long gone, and the GBP can get on with the important business of eating ice cream and getting sunburnt. Katy and Snoop hit the top spot.

[Poll #1585017]

Feel free to post your 2010 top 10 singles/albums lists in the comments!
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #25

Dizzee and James Corden move up a spot to number 1.

[Poll #1581341]

*Missed out from last week's poll.
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #24

It appears that a football tournament is happening.

[Poll #1578296]

If this lot strikes you as less than inspiring, remember you can go back and vote for any of the chart hits so far this year (click 'Poll#12345' then 'Fill Out Poll' to change your answers).

Poptimists top 25 of the year so far: )
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #23

Guetta zooms up to the top spot, making at least 5 Guetta-related tracks in the top 100 now.

[Poll #1575750]

Eurovision WINNERS: Quirky German Lena makes it to #30, French bum-wiggling at #81, boring Belgian guitar dude is at #85, Norwegian half-time entertainment Madcon get a re-entry of Beggin' as well as their flashmob epic from the night itself.

Eurovision LOSERS: Josh doesn't make the top 100 as 40% of you predicted, neither does Greece's 'Opa' to which the fickle UK gave douze points then promptly forgot about.

PROG WIN: Hocus Pocus by Focus is at #57 in time for [livejournal.com profile] dubdobdee's birthday!

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE REAL WINNER: It's the final of the Pop World Cup! Nigeria take on Germany for the ultimate pop prize. Listen and vote for your favourite!
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #22

We return from a relaxing Bank Holiday weekend to find four new entries in the top 10, including yet another #1 for Dizzee (who is clearly our best shot at a Eurovision win?).

[Poll #1572781]

What's that coming over the hill is it the World Cup, is it the World Cup: 'World In Motion' is at #98. IT BEGINS.
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #21

Tons of new stuff this week, including a new #1 from B.O.B.

[Poll #1568872]
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #20

Roll Deep still at number 1, Xtina limps in at #12.

[Poll #1565391]
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #19

As the UK teeters precariously on the brink of political, economic and social collapse, Roll Deep hilariously remain strong at number one with 'Good Times'.

[Poll #1562431]

*The Houses of Parliament are BY A RIVER, okay?
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #18

A bumper week for new entries sees Roll Deep go straight in at the top.

[Poll #1560099]

Other stuff: There's still time to vote in the Pop World Cup over at FT, and don't forget POPTIMISM is this Friday!
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A New Decade In Pop: Week #17

Many thanks to Moggy for holding the fort in my absence. I return to find that we have a new number 1 in the shape of Diana Vickers! Blimey.

[Poll #1556389]

Don't forget to go and a) suggest songs for [livejournal.com profile] skyecaptain about Melotrauma b) vote in the knock-out stages of the Pop World Cup!
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A New Decade In Pop: Week 16

Right, I think I've actually finished having a fight with LJ update thing. That'll learn me for trying to do things whilst talking to students.

The first time I made this poll, I took it from the upper echelons down; this time in reverse. It looks pretty gloomy this way but the other way was looking fairly ace. Snowpa Troll & Martha get let in since it's been a few years since that's last been in the charts I think.

[Poll #1552957]

ps: Kat is not ded, she is in France along with half the rest of the internet. Yr normal, competent poll-posting will recommence next week.