UK No 1s of 2010

genuine battle between two AMAZING songs for my vote - "pass out" and "telephone".

the rest can largely jump off a cliff.

a few good entries but I had to vote for Dizzee and James Corden's reinvention of "Shout" in the end.

nah fuck off it's "Telephone" easy

cos "Pass Out" is great and makes me bang my head but "Telephone" reaches me, y'know?

Prediction: only five of these actually get votes.

Agree completely on the top two, went for "Pass Out". "Once", "California Gurls", "Beautiful Monster" and "Promise This" the only other ones that I like a lot, mostly in contrast to the other songs by same acts. .

"No Speak Americano" deserves a vote or two

Prediction: only five of these actually get votes.

nah if last year's anything to go by there'll be a ton of "hilarious" comedy votes for, like, helping haiti

tbh this list deserves all the "comedy" it gets

"Bad Romance" was also a UK number one in 2010 (returning after "The Climb") but I guess that would have made this poll a bit of a foregone conclusion.

if america was gonna be obsessed w/ taio cruz all year, "pass out" should've been a massive fucking jam

I don't hate "All Time Low" even tho I know in my heart I probly shd

i guess UK males have to get, like, let in the gate by some music industry maven to crossover? like, taio cruz got on the dr. luke bandwagon, jay sean got ushered in via cash money. seems like british female artists have a much easier time just getting shit to crossover. i wanna hear "pass out" on the radio

"Bad Romance" was also a UK number one in 2010 (returning after "The Climb") but I guess that would have made this poll a bit of a foregone conclusion.

left it out deliberately as it first reached no 1 in 2009 (and had its major impact then, etc - basically it's a 2009 song)

damn i didn't realize "beautiful monster" went #1 over there

seems like british female artists have a much easier time just getting shit to crossover

in the USA?!

compared to dudes, yeah

la roux, florence, ting tings, winehouse

the UK artists who've made a US splash - jay sean, taio cruz - are the most bland, characterless ones - like you forget about them even as you watch/hear them - and crucially they don't code as "british" in any way cuz they don't code as anything. tinie tempah, dizzee etc are all much more alien to non-UK ears.

if taio and jay sean can cross over i don't see any reason eg alexandra burke can't - sure she's a cut price version of artists you already have, but so are they.

yeah I didn't know jay sean or taio were British for ages after I'd first heard them. really thought Alexandra Burke was gonna break thru but suspect the moment's gone.

la roux, florence, ting tings, winehouse

yeah these aren't urban/pop artists in the same vein though - like, they succeed by virtue of their otherness/relative oddity and a lot of it is critic-driven (which taio/jay sean aren't at all)

Matt Cardle - When We Collide

Lol foregone conclusion...

Can't help feeling that if Cardie wins it will be some kind of triumph for shitty AOIndie.

Rooting for "Surfin' Bird" obv

i saw y'all got a mcfly FEATURING TAIO CRUZ joint out there now?

best wishes, truly

ok lol didn't know it was a Buffy Clyro song, definitely a triumph for shitty AOIndie then

that McFly thing hurts my head so bad as a concept that I'm not sure I've heard it yet

Wikipedia vandalists are currently repping for something called Horse Outside by the Rubberbandits as Xmas #1. Sounds a bit like something Noodle Vague would make up.

Dirtee Disco is underrated and has kind of satisfied my craving for a 00s version of N-Trance's Stayin' Alive, but it's Pass Out easily.

Also, La Roux and Florence made a splash in the US? Really? I thought Duffy was our biggest female export since Winehouse. Oh and Leona obviously. Can see Florence making it over there with her second album, America won't be able to get enough Sloaney British girls next year.

How are Biffy Clyro fans taking that Matt Cardle record?

I thought Duffy was our biggest female export since Winehouse.

Shurely you meant Adele?

yeah "bulletproof" hit the top 10 here -- i heard it a shit ton on the radio over the summer

someone chose florence to perform "dog days are over" at the vmas and that one has been doing well on the charts ever since -- i think they did it on glee last week or the week before

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Biffy Clyro fans have enough problems bringing down mammoths and trying to discover the secret of fire to worry about cover versions.

really thought Alexandra Burke was gonna break thru but suspect the moment's gone.

idk, she's not getting dropped any time soon. and both taio/jay sean were bobing around for ages before breaking through both here and there.

No I mean Duffy, although it appears that Adele did better than I thought. Americans be loving dull white British retro soul singers.

only heard four of these but am surprisingly* voting usher.

*because i don't actually like the song.

iirc joss stone did pretty well in the US back in the day

this matt cardle song is predictably dire

Matt the Adele thing was a mean-spirited misogynist joek

this matt cardle song is predictably dire

this is what the british public chose over cher lloyd ;_;

this is such a bad year for #1s. "pass out" easily.

Ah, I dunno, I do think Biffy Clyro are somewhat underrated, but then again I've not bought any and only know a few tracks. Still, was reasonably impressed by their Reading set, so I think the phrase is "Fair play to yez"...

What does amuse me is how "The powers that be" have decided that the X-Factor winner single had to have its title changed to what seems the obvious title. Like, otherwise people would get confused and think "oh no that's not the one I want" on download sites etc.

watching the part where cher goes back home reminds me of how hilarious the JEDWARD GOES HOME thing was

i didn't realize the whole jedward album was covers -- i'm sure these are like a year old lols, but really

"Pass out" easily, yes, so I voted Vickers just to help a

does cher have a deal?

A Jedward original is a truly mind-boggling thought.

I am enjoying the fact that being Indie in 2010 UK boils down to some stubble and that stupid fucking haircut. and then being a bit confrontational to Simon Cowell.

xxp cher's now signed to sony, but will.i.am will be the "creative director"

lex isnt the x factor xmas single made to be generic and robotic no matter who does it? it would sound shite no matter who did it, even if you have a boner for cher

cher is evil obv but better than some bloke out of a cadbury's hot chocolate advert

Cher's single wd apparently have been a cover of "Impossible" by Shontelle, which I didn't like, so no great loss.

Voted "Telephone" here.

xxp cher's now signed to sony, but will.i.am will be the "creative director"

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i feel like there could be worse things -- he did exec prod the fergie record

xxp cher's now signed to sony, but will.i.am will be the "creative director"

yeah these are the rumours, dunno if it's wise to count chickens yet. think it's hilarious that will.i.am has been pushing for her to go in a harder, more hip-hop, less bubblegum direction.

lex isnt the x factor xmas single made to be generic and robotic no matter who does it? it would sound shite no matter who did it, even if you have a boner for cher

oh yeah, if cher had won her single would've been a cover of shontelle's "impossible" which is about the most underwhelming thing it's even possible for her to do

Sonny boner and Cher?

http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2008/04/04/va1237300656760/Cher-and-Sonny-Bono-5970522.jpg

at this stage in the game i am an unabashed will.i.am stan tbh

jedward have the least swag in the history of the planet

sorry to talk about jedward again

cher is evil obv

i really really hope the story about her telling louis walsh to go fuck himself is true - i would love her EVEN MORE

or alternatively the most and everyone else is doing it rong

watching the part where cher goes back home reminds me of how hilarious the JEDWARD GOES HOME thing was

did you see her clapping song/get ur freak on performance? you should. her QUIIII-EEEETTTTT!!!!! was the best moment of the entire x factor after her audition

yeah i watched it -- great obv

"Get Ur Freak On" was sooooooo fucking weird, hearing Missy filtered thru what is basically a Seaside Special light entertainment aesthetic made me feel about a thousand years old.

it was like "grandparents can deal with this now, let's all clap along"

her entire x factor campaign kind of proved that the grandparents couldn't deal with it :/

all the dancers and the music itself is still very MOR tho. I think the not dealing with it was more about the tabloid hate stories than it was her performances

Yes, and the papers are still following her and 'inventing' quotes, so a source tells me.

Yes, and the papers are still following her and 'inventing' quotes, so a source tells me.

Yes, and the papers are still following her and 'inventing' quotes, so a source tells me.

bluddy thing's broken...

Yes, and the papers are still following her and 'inventing' quotes, so a source tells me.

Sturridge went to chelsea btw

"Telephone". "Christmas Light" would have deserved to be #1 though, and is better.

don't think i've knowingly heard any of these

ready to become a high court judge

kinda amazed that (former?) grime artists got like 10% of #1s

are they as bad as that tinchy shit from the other year

yes, apart from "pass out", which is amazing

Pass Out is a genuine anthem and single-of-the-year contender. Dirtee Disco is fun enough and essentially throway. Written In The Stars is a frankly ludicrous attempt to fuse pop-grime with Muse, I cannot even remotely justify liking it and yet I do.

All of them are better than the Tinchy records for last year, the exception being the two Roll Deep tracks which are the same watery eurohouse and yet somehow even worse. There are terrific Ill Blu remixes of both however.

i got so many clothes i keep some at my aunts house

lol the precarious financial situation of yr young uk urban stars

Fuckin' ell, I've only heard Pass Out, and that was only the other day. I knew I was out of touch with the charts, but whew!

You know more of these than you think you do, promise.

rate

1 Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
2 Yolanda Be Cool & DCup - We No Speak Americano
3 JLS - The Club Is Alive
4 Lady Gaga ft. Beyoncé - Telephone
5 Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World)
6 The Wanted - All Time Low
7 Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)
8 B.o.B. ft. Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You

hate

0 Shout For England ft. Dizzee Rascal & James Corden - Shout
-1 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg - California Gurls
-2 Owl City - Fireflies
-3 Cee-Lo Green - "Forget" You
-4 Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee Disco

rest is w/eva

^^^ Feeling betrayed as a long-standing fan of Dizzee, Snoop and the Postal Service.

rate

3 JLS - The Club Is Alive
7 Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)

!

Pass Out by a distance. There are about 10 or 11 other good songs here. The rest = blergh.

^^^ Feeling betrayed as a long-standing fan of Dizzee, Snoop and the Postal Service.

You mean.... Owl City ñ Postal Service?

I flicked through ChartStats the other night to remind myself what these were, and unless I'm wrong, Owl City's the only one to manage more than two weeks at number one this year. Which just seems odd.

i love that jordan s reps for "pass out" at any given opportunity

how did owl city get that big

only heard the track i included in favourite album vs owl city

Owl City is the new Sonique

Regarding the more dominating genre, Robyn is the leading act in the electronic dance/pop genre right now, but sadly she hasn't quite crossed over to the top of the charts yet.

owl city fucking wishes he could ever be associated with something as amazing as sonique's "it feels so good"

xp

Owl City is better than Sonique, but still has a long way to go to compare with Postal Service or Flaming Lips.

Owl City is the new Sonique

a simple yet wholly enraging statement

xp: well I guess I spoke too soon

my admiration for will i am's ultra-morbid s.o.h and unfathomably brilliant intuitive radio gangsta is longstanding and common knowledge. likewise 4/4 chorus beatswitches, duh.

'dirtee disco' hate is less about it being logan sama's personal hell (actually a plus now i put it that way) and more its sheer hideous irrelevancy to anything in 2010. the wrong cheese.

kinda thinking "which would you like to come on the radio RIGHT NOW" would be a better way of phrasing these types of polls (mainly just cos the idea of clicking 'pass out' bores me). to that i would say 'only girl', which has been hammered into me by a flatmate who is one of those fixational gay dudes who graft a given song into the very core of their identity and play it thirty thousand times in a row every day.

miami was that fixational gay dude for me

Voting "Pass Out," though there are a few here I probably haven't heard.

Obviously I only meant Owl City was the new Sonique in reference to Swygarts' stat - thinking ten years ago was the last time that only one act managed more than two weeks (and indeed the recent fast turnover, low impact chart where people like Pixie Lott can get multiple number ones feels a lot more like the charts of 2000-2001 than the intervening period, even if different styles are dominating).

Having checked the stats Bob the Builder also managed three weeks in 2000, but still.

rtc when did you move in with surm.

Agree re "Dirtee Disco" - not actively awful but somehow worthy of a smackdown for its choices nonetheless.

I kinda like "Dirtee Disco" but it becomes so obvious Dizzee could barely give a shit about what he's doing when he starts yelling "Disco! Disco! Disco! Disco!" sounding all the world like he knows he's above this shit.

It just makes me want to listen to Alcazar or something instead.

pass out

& love how rowdy + delirious + celebratory the live renditions can now be compared to the pretty smooth o.g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IbsnQhGpJE

props to k8's "so many socks i keep some at my aunt's house" dn btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rw5rRYnRYs

The very idea of Snoop performing a British rapper's number one hit to a rapturous reception at Glastonbury would have seemed utterly absurd three years ago.

people did go nuts in 2004 over jay-z humouring forward riddim on stage once tbf, but yeah not exactly a glasto context.

rtc when did you move in with surm.

haha ikr. i have often wished he was more "it's in the trees it's full of stars I SEE IT ALL" like mystic surm though.

funny thing about it is the flatmate thought it was bollocks too when he first heard, so i was just super ultra mega sure it was a flop at the time. objectively speaking all the song's flaws are just as they were though, only now they're the hooks. such is life beyond an aesthetic black hole's event horizon.

this was always the funniest rhyme in "pass out" to me

20 light bulbs around my table and my dresser
CLC Kompressor, just in case that dont impress her

it's both hilariously quaint & kinda gay tbh

markers: plz vote for owl city

"i live a very very very wild lifestyle" is the quaintest line in 'pass out' i think.

still devastated it turned out he doesn't say "i wear cologne / cos i was born alone".

'Telephone' narrowly over 'Pass Out', two great songs, pretty much everything else here is mediocre-to-terrible. I heard 'The Time (Dirty Bit)' three times in the space of about 45 minutes in a pub last night... No, that wasn't good.

"pass out"! i am still holding out hope that this might eventually become a hit in america

urgh *buys plane ticket*

'pass out' tho

props to mr. tempah for making actually fresh "urban pop" rather than lame handbag based around some stupid cash-in sample

srsly i wanna move to a country where they have waka flocka flame on the jukebox and not olly murs

miami was that fixational gay dude for me

lol. i just made a playlist of the 10 songs they play on repeat in miami that i once mostly hated but now adore

lol which songs

the entire power 96 playlist pretty much

^_^

i'm seriously pretty broken i think i might even fuck with that 'like a g 6' song now

miami definitely made me love "like a g6"

although you know how i KNOW that ke$ha is the worst? because not even miami could convert me.

lookit what i missed

oh we have the uk "like a g6" remix, thanx princess nyah! not as triumphant as her "pass out" or "pon de floor" remixes but worth a check

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6D3xxdFN5Y

Pass Out - a proper number one. Also love Gaga, Cee Lo and (despite myself) Written in the Stars. Roll Deep are a disgrace.

i can kinda see how ke$ha fits into the whole aesthetic tho (trashwave) xxp

oh actually j0rdan did you actually hear nyah's "pass out"?? now you love the og you def need this in your life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ms6Fwe2lI

I'LL MAKE YA PASS OUT
YOU SEE THE HEELS AND THE LEGS BUT NO ARSE OUT

xp dorian you need to hear that too

oh shit I had not heard that "Pon De Floor" remix before

shit hot

never worked it out, but does she say she'll make you pay her uni fees? well she's just become a lot more expensive ;_;

Revive, with apols for accidentally starting a duplicate poll.

My faves:
1. David Guetta ft Chris Willis - Gettin' Over You
2. Cee-Lo Green - Fuck You/Forget You
3. Owl City - Fireflies
4. Usher ft Will.I.Am - O.M.G.
5. Taio Cruz - Dynamite
6. BoB ft Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You
7. Katy Perry ft Snoop Dogg - California Gurls
8. Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
9. The Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)
10. Flo Rida ft David Guetta - Club Can’t Handle Me
11. Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are (Amazing)
12. Lady Gaga ft Beyonce - Telephone
13. BoB ft Hayley Williams - Airplanes
14. Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster
15. Roll Deep - Good Times

It saddens me a bit how few of these I know.

i presume lex was shdh so violently at [xp] that he passed out from the g-force

still, hope he at least remembers why when he wakes up

shdh?

smdh, 3rd person

kmft more like, smdh wouldn't have been enough

2010: a year bookended by turds

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Owl City - Fireflies 4

wtf really???

four best songs got the four most votes

I met Tinie Tempah and he was really hot

just saying

is he tinie

tinchy is sposed to be like 5'3 or s/thing

tinie tempah is deffo hot :O

imo

ILM'ers went for the "Back to the 90s" option. Typical ILM.

What?

http://www.celebheights.com/s/Tinie-Tempah-47381.html

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it's funny that there are ppl super-interested in celeb height. william goldman has stuff in his books abt following like, clint eastwood or someone into a pool in order to gauge his shoeless height.

tt brings the bathos

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8980000/newsid_8984800/8984815.stm

he could have been called epic choleric

XXXX-Post: Tinie Tempah is definitely back to the 90s. A rapper in 2010=90s.

Chris says on 9/Oct/10
I doubt this guy is very tall, judging from his spelling and grammar, he sounds like he is no older than 10 years old, average height for a 10 year old is, he would be 4'8.

Tinie? No, it's tiny. Tempah? What??? Temper, what's so hard about this? Anyway concorde rhymes with scunthorpe? It just gets to me when people these days are losing inteligence, it's not even rap for crying out loud!

i saw the tiny timpani video on an mtv hits "artists to watch in 2011" block today, i guess he's the next taio cruz?

i hope so!

XXXX-Post: Tinie Tempah is definitely back to the 90s. A rapper in 2010=90s.

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 22:47 (Yesterday)

this was the post that finally broke the camel's back of rev's 'do i killfile y/n' hesitation right

i have the main synth motif (is it an arpeggio?) of 'pass out' tip tapping its way around my consciousness like an errant hamster

y

Cheryl Cole - Promise This 2

most baffling result. who? and why?

horrible video for that

way to waste alltime qt

The Almighty remix of "Promise This" is quite the silk purse, IMHO.