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.

43. Le Kid - America

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.

42. Aqua - Playmate To Jesus

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.

70. Medina - The One

We suppose ‘bittersweet’ is the best way to describe this, and many of Medina’s, song(s). The One feels joyful and heartbroken at the same time. The vocals and production sound a bit cold, almost disconnected, yet it has all the emotional strength of a great ballad, making it one hell of an ‘Even though times are hard, I’ll stick with you’ anthem. Hearing it makes us feel sad and warm at the same time.

69. Black Eyed Peas - Just Can’t Get Enough

We’re not quite sure where the Black Eyed Peas went wrong. Their singles have always been really strong, and The E.N.D. was one of our favourite albums of 2009. The Beginning, though not as awful as some people made it out to be, really lacked good songs and melodies, with Just Can’t Get Enough being the main exception. We could have done without the dance breakdown at the end though, because this song’s really all about Fergie’s bit, that has a similar feel to The One, making it the kind of song that suits sweet romantic moments just as well as ones of bad heartbreak.

68. Bob Sinclar ft. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Fuck With You

We’re not sure how many more plays we need before we’re properly convinced this really happened. Sophie Ellis-Bextor getting all raunchy feels like some bad fanfic, or something she and Bob jokingly came up with over a drink (or ten), but definitely not like something that was supposed to actually get recorded, leave alone released. That being said, it is a cute catchy song, and a return to form for Mr Sinclar after his horrendous output of the past few years.

67. Selena Gomez & The Scene - Hit The Lights

Who áre The Scene, why do we never see them (or do we?), and what’s their part in Selena’s recent material that sounds hardly like ‘band material’? We suppose they must be doing something right though, because this year Selena delivered her strongest album thusfar, which pretty much felt like a collection of 11 singles, just screaming to be released. Our personal choice for 3rd single would have been My Dilemma, but Hit The Lights worked just fine as well, and also ended up giving us a great music video.

66. Le Kid - We Are The Drums

Le Kid are amazing. They’re our current favourite pop band (how many pop acts do write and play their own properly good pure pop music anyway?), and probably even our absolute favourite thing in pop at the moment. 2011 finally saw the release of their, flawless, debut album, and also gaves us 3 new singles of theirs, one of them being this slightly jollier sister of Destroy Everything You Touch.

65. Emeli Sandé - Heaven

There’s something amazingly ’90s about Emeli Sandé’s debut single and video, and we absolutely love it for it. It’s pretty much 2011’s You’ve Got The Love, although obviously not thát great. But it’s close. We love dance/garage music with soulful vocals.

64. Alesha Dixon ft. Jay Sean - Every Little Part Of Me

2010’s The Entertainer couldn’t quite compete with The Alesha Show for us, but it díd still have a whole lot of great songs on it. Every Little Part Of Me is one of Alesha’s most generic singles, but, as her recent Jessie J tribute has shown, the girl got enough personality to turn anything into an Alesha song, and, in this case, quite a great one at that.

63. Wynter Gordon - Till Death

After dozens of demos and leaks, 2011 finally gave us the first proper Wynter Gordon album. And, although with many leaks a feeling of ‘aww, why did this one not make it?’ was inevitable, it was well worth the wait. Second single Till Death (mainly the Denzal Park Radio Edit) is one amazing blast of a party anthem, though perhaps not quite our favourite ‘let’s dance until we die’ song of the year…

62/61. Melanie C - Rock Me/Think About It

Both of these were nice catchy uptempo rock songs, and right up till this moment we fail to make a definite choice which one of the two is the best. Think About Me has the better chorus, Rock Me has the better verses, Think About Me míght just have the stronger melody of the two, but it’s thin production let’s it down a little.. We could go on for hours. What matters most is that Melanie came back last year with the second best album of her carreer. Overall we preferred the slower songs on it, but that doesn’t stop these two uptempos from being a lot of fun.

Stay tuned for our #60-51 montage tomorrow!