UK No 1s of 2010

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yeah the final number one of the year has technically yet to be confirmed but we all know what it's gonna be

Poll Results

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Tinie Tempah - Pass Out 19
Lady Gaga ft. Beyoncé - Telephone 9
Cee-Lo Green - "Forget" You 7
Taio Cruz - Dynamite 5
Owl City - Fireflies 4
Diana Vickers - Once 4
Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg - California Gurls 3
Usher ft. will.i.am - OMG 2
Cheryl Cole - Promise This 2
Flo Rida ft. David Guetta - Club Can't Handle Me 1
Shout For England ft. Dizzee Rascal & James Corden - Shout 1
David Guetta ft. Chris Willis - Gettin' Over You 1
Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee Disco 1
B.o.B. ft. Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You 1
Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit) 1
B.o.B. ft. Hayley Williams - Airplanes 1
X Factor Finalists - Heroes 0
Tinie Tempah ft. Eric Turner - Written In The Stars 0
JLS - Love You More 0
Alexandra Burke ft. Laza Morgan - Start Without You 0
Olly Murs - Please Don't Let Me Go 0
Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) 0
Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are (Amazing) 0
Roll Deep - Green Light 0
Iyaz - Replay 0
Helping Haïti - Everybody Hurts 0
Jason DeRülo - In My Head 0
Scouting For Girls - This Ain't A Love Song 0
Roll Deep ft. Jodie Connor - Good Times 0
JLS - The Club Is Alive 0
Joe McElderry - The Climb 0
Yolanda Be Cool & DCup - We No Speak Americano 0
The Wanted - All Time Low 0
Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster 0
Matt Cardle - When We Collide 0


lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:06 (fifteen years ago)

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

the rest can largely jump off a cliff.

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:07 (fifteen years ago)

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

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:15 (fifteen years ago)

nah fuck off it's "Telephone" easy

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:16 (fifteen years ago)

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

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:16 (fifteen years ago)

Prediction: only five of these actually get votes.

Mark G, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:18 (fifteen years ago)

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. .

if, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:19 (fifteen years ago)

"No Speak Americano" deserves a vote or two

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:20 (fifteen years ago)

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

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:21 (fifteen years ago)

tbh this list deserves all the "comedy" it gets

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:21 (fifteen years ago)

"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, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:22 (fifteen years ago)

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

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:23 (fifteen years ago)

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

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:24 (fifteen years ago)

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

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:25 (fifteen years ago)

"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)

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:25 (fifteen years ago)

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

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:26 (fifteen years ago)

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

in the USA?!

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:27 (fifteen years ago)

compared to dudes, yeah

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:28 (fifteen years ago)

la roux, florence, ting tings, winehouse

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:28 (fifteen years ago)

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.

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:30 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:31 (fifteen years ago)

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)

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:32 (fifteen years ago)

Matt Cardle - When We Collide

Lol foregone conclusion...

Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:36 (fifteen years ago)

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

Rooting for "Surfin' Bird" obv

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:38 (fifteen years ago)

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

best wishes, truly

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:40 (fifteen years ago)

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

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:41 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:42 (fifteen years ago)

How are Biffy Clyro fans taking that Matt Cardle record?

O Permaban (NickB), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:43 (fifteen years ago)

I thought Duffy was our biggest female export since Winehouse.

Shurely you meant Adele?

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:44 (fifteen years ago)

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

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:44 (fifteen years ago)

xxpost

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

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:45 (fifteen years ago)

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.

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:46 (fifteen years ago)

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

Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:46 (fifteen years ago)

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

*because i don't actually like the song.

irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:47 (fifteen years ago)

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

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:47 (fifteen years ago)

this matt cardle song is predictably dire

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:48 (fifteen years ago)

Matt the Adele thing was a mean-spirited misogynist joek

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:49 (fifteen years ago)

this matt cardle song is predictably dire

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

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:50 (fifteen years ago)

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

prolego, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:50 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Mark G, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:51 (fifteen years ago)

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

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:51 (fifteen years ago)

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

Mark G, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:51 (fifteen years ago)

does cher have a deal?

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:52 (fifteen years ago)

A Jedward original is a truly mind-boggling thought.

Mark G, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:52 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:53 (fifteen years ago)

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

prolego, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:53 (fifteen years ago)

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

irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:53 (fifteen years ago)

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

Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:54 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Groke, Friday, 17 December 2010 09:55 (fifteen years ago)

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

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:55 (fifteen years ago)

"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".

r|t|c, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:00 (fifteen years ago)

'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.

Gavin in Leeds, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)

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

teledyldonix, Friday, 17 December 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)

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

whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:33 (fifteen years ago)

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

whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:36 (fifteen years ago)

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

whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:41 (fifteen years ago)

lol which songs

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:42 (fifteen years ago)

the entire power 96 playlist pretty much

whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:43 (fifteen years ago)

^_^

return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:43 (fifteen years ago)

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

whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)

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.

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:52 (fifteen years ago)

lookit what i missed

Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:52 (fifteen years ago)

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

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:54 (fifteen years ago)

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

The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:54 (fifteen years ago)

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

whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:55 (fifteen years ago)

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

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:55 (fifteen years ago)

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

shit hot

Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:56 (fifteen years ago)

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 ;_;

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:57 (fifteen years ago)

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

mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 December 2010 15:11 (fifteen years ago)

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

A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 23 December 2010 16:41 (fifteen years ago)

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

No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 December 2010 17:17 (fifteen years ago)

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

No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 December 2010 17:17 (fifteen years ago)

shdh?

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:28 (fifteen years ago)

smdh, 3rd person

No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:36 (fifteen years ago)

kmft more like, smdh wouldn't have been enough

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:38 (fifteen years ago)

2010: a year bookended by turds

Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Owl City - Fireflies 4

wtf really???

i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 00:02 (fifteen years ago)

four best songs got the four most votes

The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 00:06 (fifteen years ago)

I met Tinie Tempah and he was really hot

just saying

the nutwasher (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 00:08 (fifteen years ago)

is he tinie

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

Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 00:09 (fifteen years ago)

tinie tempah is deffo hot :O

teledyldonix, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 10:07 (fifteen years ago)

imo

The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 11:46 (fifteen years ago)

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

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:49 (fifteen years ago)

What?

Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:53 (fifteen years ago)

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

20 comments

zvookster, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:30 (fifteen years ago)

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.

zvookster, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago)

tt brings the bathos

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

Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:35 (fifteen years ago)

he could have been called epic choleric

Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:36 (fifteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

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!

The Reverend, Thursday, 30 December 2010 02:18 (fifteen years ago)

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?

hann am0n tana (some dude), Thursday, 30 December 2010 02:48 (fifteen years ago)

i hope so!

The Reverend, Thursday, 30 December 2010 02:54 (fifteen years ago)

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

Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 December 2010 08:15 (fifteen years ago)

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

Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 December 2010 08:16 (fifteen years ago)

y

The Reverend, Thursday, 30 December 2010 08:27 (fifteen years ago)

Cheryl Cole - Promise This 2

most baffling result. who? and why?

lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, 30 December 2010 08:48 (fifteen years ago)

horrible video for that

way to waste alltime qt

Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 December 2010 08:52 (fifteen years ago)

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

mike t-diva, Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:28 (fifteen years ago)


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