Popsessed Album Chart: 19-02-2012
Congratulation Saturdays, it’s been very close for weeks, but after 6 weeks at number 2 you finally got that number 1 position! (Although if we’d been running these charts last year they’d probably been there before)
Rihanna’s Talk Talk Talk hasn’t stopped working it’s way up our charts either, after we decided this week that we have officially ended up preferring it to her previous album. And then there’s the new entries, that aren’t very new at all. In fact they’re both over 3 years old, but being reminded of them again they were both on very heavy rotation over the past few days. Most likely they’ll leave the chart just as quickly next week!
Well, and there goes another three fabulous albums, that are actually all still on our iPods but there’s only this much room in a top 15..
Our weekly Song Chart should be up later tonight!
#Popsessed Album Chart #Kelly Clarkson #The Saturdays #Rihanna #One Direction #JLS #Little Mix #Parade #Little Jackie #Eric Saade #Melanie C #Lise Karlsnes #Nicola Roberts #Aqua #Lists #Frank #Ilse DeLange
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Popsessed Album Chart: 29-01-2012
Us having had quite a busy week doesn’t only reflect in a lack of updates, but also a lack of thrilling changes to our weekly charts, since we hardly had time to listen to any music over the past week. And so today sees a very similar album chart to last week, with only some tiny unremarkable movements in the middle. Let’s hope next week will be a bit more exciting.
Our Popsessed Song Chart will be up tomorrow!
#Kelly Clarkson #The Saturdays #Aqua #Cher Lloyd #One Direction #Rihanna #JLS #Le Kid #Melanie C #Eric Saade #Parade #Young London #Little Jackie #Lists #Popsessed Album Chart #Nicola Roberts #Little Mix #Imani Coppola
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Popsessed Album Chart: 22-01-2011
A calm week for our album chart, with no proper new entries, although Le Kid pops up ‘again’ (technically not cause the chart wasn’t around when we were first obsessed with their album) thanks to their new single Human Behaviour, kicking Sneaky Sound System’s From Here To Anywhere out of the list.
Meanwhile, with the first week ‘new album’ rush being over for Young London, Kelly returns to the top for her second week at number 1. And yeah, that’s about it for this week!
Our Popsessed Song Chart will be up tomorrow!
#Kelly Clarkson #The Saturdays #One Direction #Melanie C #Rihanna #Young London #Nicola Roberts #JLS #Eric Saade #Parade #Le Kid #Little Mix #Aqua #Little Jackie #Cher Lloyd #Popsessed Album Chart #Lists #Imani Coppola
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What do you think?Popsessed’s 2011 Top 100: #46-41
 | 45. Jennifer Lopez ft. Lil’ Wayne - I’m Into You We’re quite literally picking up where we left, because I’m Into You is a very similar song to #46’s Got 2 Luv U. Both are cute, breezy, euphoric, infatuated midtempos, with some great catchy choruses, and then some rapping we could take or leave. We can’t help but cheer up whenever we hear this song, and the same could be said for pretty much everything on J.Lo’s amazingly consistent comeback album Love?. |
 | 44. Little Jackie - 31 Flavors Anyone who’s been following this countdown knows what we love Little Jackie for by now: great motown inspired pop with some properly funny, wellwritten, lyrics. 31 Flavors is a shining example of this, excusing/glorifying adultery with lines like ‘When I’m with one man, I kinda feel like I’m dying, so consider my infidelity self defense.’ Not the strongest defense, but it definitely makes for a very entertaining song. |
 | With Girls Aloud and Mini Viva gone, and one great single after another, Le Kid quickly became our new favourite pop group in 2011. America was pretty much for Le Kid what Call The Shots was for Girls Aloud and I Wish for Mini Viva: a usually immensely fun and feisty pop act suddenly coming up with an amazing melancholic electronic midtempo. In all three cases mentioned the singles weren’t their most instant ones, but they are definitely songs that have made for many many rewarding listens, and have yet to get old. |
 | When you ask a random person what they think of when you mention Aqua, ‘great ballads’ probably won’t be the number 1 answer. Shame really, because, even though we too mainly turn to them when we feel like cheesy europop, some of their slow songs are definitely amongst their best material. Aquarium had Turn Back Time, the most un-Aqua single they’ve done, which never failed to make people go ‘I loved that song… It’s Aqua? No way!’, Aquarius had the stunning title track, and last year Megalomania provided us with it’s lovely lead single Playmate To Jesus. Admittedly more of a midtempo than a proper ballad, but still one of Aqua’s more serious and beautiful songs. Something about it makes us feel like christmas, and we absolutely love it for it. |
 | 41. Katy Perry ft. Kanye West - E.T. Forgive us for our foolishness, for despite us owning and loving the Teenage Dream album, we never found this song that special, and it wasn’t until this performance that it finally clicked. Luckily just in time to still correct our mistake in this top 100. We don’t know what we were on but E.T.’s yet another great Katy Perry single. We do prefer the Kanye free album version though. |
Number 40-36 are coming up soon!
Popsessed’s 2011 Top 100: #45-41
The upside to our clumsiness is that you now get two of our 2011 Top 100 updates in a row! A little midtempo selection today.. of course we have more to say on it than that, but we’ll leave the write-up till tomorrow, so for now, just enjoy the music!
Popsessed Album Chart: 15-01-2011
Another week gone, time for another update of our album chart!
It’s inevitable at this time of year, but it’s once again a quiet week for our albums. Still, we got one new album which, at this time of little new releases, we’ve obviously been playing a lot. We’ll write more on Young London’s album later this week, but their selftitled debut (which is out now) is quite an enjoyable pop album that will definitely be hanging around in our chart for a while!
Meanwhile, we keep loving Kelly, The Saturdays, Cher and Little Jackie, the One Direction album keeps growing, and Fawni’s Dirty Street Glam already leaves after just one week in the chart
Our Popsessed Song Chart will be up tomorrow!
#Eric Saade #Rihanna #Sneaky Sound System #One Direction #Kelly Clarkson #Cher Lloyd #Young London #The Saturdays #JLS #Melanie C #Parade #Little Mix #Aqua #Nicola Roberts #Little Jackie #Lists #Popsessed Album Chart
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What do you think?Popsessed’s 2011 Top 100: #60-51
This took a little longer than expected.. gotta love crashing browsers just when you’re done typing! Anyway, before we head on to our 2011 Top 50, here’s a little bit about the last 10 songs that just missed out on it…
 | 60. Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend That outfit, that hair, those dance moves… Sometimes Robyn is just a little bit tóó quirky for our liking. Musically we also prefer her melancholic songs to her more experimental ones like Fembot. Luckily for her, Call Your Girlfriend falls in the first category. For an adultery ballad, a genre that usually hardly makes us go ‘awww, poor homewrecker’, this is quite a beautiful touching song, and the production’s as good as electropop gets. |
 | Our first post about the new Lasgo single was hardly a rave review. Here With Me is Lasgo by numbers (with a whistle thrown in), and might as well have been released in 2002. Despite it not exactly winning any originality awards however it’s still quite an enjoyable ‘dancing with tears in my eyes’ piece of eurodance. |
 | 58. Zoë Badwi - Accidents Happen There’s something incredibly ’90s about Zoë’s selftitled dance debut album. And even though we just judged our number 59 for sounding like something from 2002, in this case it’s actually part of the charm. Eurodance acts like Lasgo, Milk Inc and Sylver aside, we don’t often get to hear poppy dance albums that aren’t just by a faceless DJ act. That, combined with the fact that it didn’t sound very 2011 at all, made Zoë quite a refreshing record. With so many hooks it’s almost one big chorus, Accidents Happen is our favourite song of the album by a mile. This would have fitted in quite well on The Saturdays’ last album. |
 | 57. Kat Deluna - Dancing Tonight Forget about Gaga, Kat Deluna is one of RedOne’s first and biggest muses. Though his, slightly samey, trademark sound isn’t hard to recognize, a little latin flavor makes sure Kat’s music still very much has it’s clear own sound. Her two albums are both great and we’re a bit puzzled why she hasn’t become a bigger popstar yet, but what we really don’t get is how she doesn’t have at least one worldwide summer hit a year? |
 | For the biggest part of 2011 this was the mostplayed song on our iTunes. We assume some other better songs were duped by us having multiple versions, uncounted YouTube plays, or some other unfortunate circumstances like that, because Blow is not thát special. That being said, we dó love it, and it’s probably our favourite Ke$ha single. But number 56 feels about right. |
 | Another big case of ‘how isn’t she a huge popstar yet?’. Alexis got a great voice, great tunes, and definitely looks the part of a proper star in her videos as well. Hush Hush is the closest she’s come thusfar to sounding like America’s Agnes. It may be no Release Me, but it would have been a very decent follow-up. |
 | It seems like Aqua has grown up quite a bit since their Barbie Girl days. Suddenly hearing them sing about getting fucked could have easily ended up ruining our childhood, but the fact they came back with a full new album, sounding exactly like how you’d expect Aqua to sound in 2011, kept that from happening. We’re still a bit sad this remained just a promo single, and only two proper singles got released from their new record, but that aside it was one of greatest band comebacks we’ve ever witnessed. |
 | This is by far our favourite song on Loud, which seems to be quite an unpopular opinion. We’ve always preferred fun Rihanna, who we’ve seen way too little since her Good Girl Gone Bad Days, and this song and video were the most fun we’ve had with Rihanna since… well, actually only since Who’s That Chick. Either way, we like it like it. |
 | 52. Dionne Bromfield - Foolin’ Even though we tend to love anything with even a hint of Motown to it, back in 2009 an album full of a 13 year old singing covers of soul classics wasn’t quite our cup of tea. So when it’s follow-up Good For The Soul got released, we weren’t exactly the first ones in line to get ourselves a copy. Then we heard the singles. And fuck us, they were good! As was the album. All original songs, sounding both fresh and authentic and all having great tunes and vocals. Like a poppier version of her late aunt Amy. Can you believe this girl’s still only 15? |
 | Oh, right.. the girl who had to dye her hair red so people wouldn’t notice Carmit left the Pussycat Dolls? Yeah, she released her first proper solo single this year. And what do you know? It was actually great, beating all of Nicole’s singles on this list hands down! Like many dance songs Show Me isn’t particularly clever or original, but it’s definitely one hell of a tune! |
Popsessed’s 2011 Top 100: #60-51
On to our next 10 2011 favourites, with this video once again containing quite a lot of uptempo/dance pop songs. Seems we liked those a lot last year, although not the most, because almost all of them did miss out on our top 50.
A write-up of #60-51 will be up later today.
Popsessed Song Chart 8-1-2012
There’s quite a lot of movement in our second weekly song chart!
Alesha Dixon gets the year’s first proper 2012 number 1, obviously in a period with few releases, but nontheless it’s a great and deserved victory. Then there’s a quite awesome mash-up, Cher and Little Jackie benefit a lot from their video releases this week, and From Above makes us wish we hadn’t finished our 2011 Top 100 yet. Why do we álways end up discovering great past year singles one or two weeks into the next year?
Meanwhile, Alexandra Burke didn’t quite trample the competition with her Elephant yet, but we have a feeling that might happen soon enough when the radio edit surfaces!
Of course new entries also mean that some songs had to leave..
All perfectly decent songs, that would probably have been around a bit longer than 1 week if our charts had been around last year, but by now there’s unfortunately 40 songs we’re more excited about!
#Melanie C #Kelly Clarkson #Aqua #The Wanted #The Saturdays #One Direction #JLS #Lady Gaga #Kelly Clarkson #Alesha Dixon #Katy Perry #Rihanna #Madonna #Popsessed Song Chart #Little Mix #Cher Lloyd #Eric Saade #Alexandra Burke
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Popsessed Album Chart: 08-01-2011
Time for our second ever album chart, which means our first proper chart update!
No major changes this week.. We hardly listened to Little Mix, which allowed other acts to move up a few spots, we realized we still enjoy the Aqua album quite a lot, and Parade’s debut kept growing on us. There’s two modest new entries at the bottom of our list, being two dance pop albums by the Austrian Fawni and the Swedish Eric Saade. Their entries meant the end for the chart runs of David Guetta’s Nothing But The Beat and Zoë Badwi’s Zoë.
The Popsessed Album Chart is based on a combination on which albums we play and enjoy most. A fresh Popsessed Song Chart should be up soon as well.
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