UK No 1s of 2013

top three for me: storm queen, duke dumont & a*m*e (both original and skreamix), rudimental & ella eyre

the mileys probably round out the top 5

probably gonna vote storm queen even though it's two years old and i prefer the original version, just because...STORM QUEEN. AT NUMBER ONE. that's kind of amazing.

"need u (100%)" seems like the definitive hit that encapsulated the house revival to me. "waiting all night" was your low-key song that you hear in public a million times and every time it sounds amazing

"Need U" or "We Can't Stop" for me i think

worst? racist lily allen on principle or "thrift shop" are contenders but i genuinely cannot even stand to listen to "i love it". but pj & duncan is certainly the most-ashamed-of-this-fucking-country option, it passed me by at the time, what comedy nonsense triggered its return?

Jesus Christ this is actually hard for once.

xp

they performed it "just for fun" on their shitty television show and were "completely surprised" when people started downloading it iirc

just be grateful there aren't more cynical fuckers tapping into the 30-something lolstalgia market or you could end up with a chart-topping "guilty pleasure" (ugh) every other week

Between Duke Dumont, Rudimental, Storm Queen and Daft Punk for me. Throwing a vote to Get Lucky just feels lame at this point, and while nothing this year delighted me like the Storm Queen #1 I'm going to go with Waiting All Night as emblematic of that crazy summer when suddenly it seemed like the UK had worked out how to do good pop music again.

I'm assuming the worst is the Calvin Harris v Hurts track just because on paper along that's the worst track ever made.

I don't really follow the charts, but I was pretty much agog when I saw Storm Queen at number 1.

How come POJ and Duncan got to number 1? Some sort of TV tie-in I take it?

is a*m*e the same as Ame who did Rej, or someone entirely different?

oh sorry, read the thread dog latin

'Need U (100%)'

Worst is 'Thrift Shop'.

Need U

"Burn" is by far the most distressing

Is Sam Bailey actually #1 yet or are you just presenting it as an inevitability?

#1 in our hearts

based on midweeks/inevitability

started thread today b/c rev started the US ones and i don't care enough to wait

So what makes you think we care enough to vote?

Worst was the Nuremberg non-pop of "Burn Ellie Goulding."

lol at 2chainz having a number 1.

'Mirrors' is probably the least terrible so I'll vote for that.

Having already voted for "Wrecking Ball" and "Get Lucky" in the US polls, "Need U (100%)" is the natural pick here.

is a*m*e the same as Ame who did Rej, or someone entirely different?

lol this would be p funny and excellent if true

um i voted for "we can't stop"

âme ft. a*m*e is the new cassy ft. cassie fantasy

hey if Storm Queen can get to number one... I can only dream of a top ten made up of 2000s minimal house producers gone pop.

Best year for UK number ones since I don't know when. I like or love 10 of these songs.

Best since 2009 IMO.

"need u" obi

boggling @ sean paul being on a #1 in 2013

He's actually the less boggly half of that partic no 1

ya, The Saturdays making a career of being a third-rate instance of a genre that hardly exists any more is remarkable.

Was there anything in particular behind Storm Queen's popularity?

PJ & Duncan just beating out Daft Punk. Don't really care about the rest, I'm afraid.

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Royals and Thrift Shop are my favourites.

voted Royals.

Mirrors vs wrecking ball

12 good ones this year for me. "Get Lucky", by a whisker over "Need U".

Storm Queen

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Wanz - Thrift Shop 6

this is shocking

and that cloying lily allen cover getting any votes at all smh

i have to assume some of those macklemore votes were troll votes given that the same song was the only one to receive 0 votes on the us poll

either that or something that went #1 in the us but not the uk stole all the would-be macklemore fans' votes