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: 12-02-2012
These albums charts are making it rather clear that this time of year really isn’t the most exciting time for new releases. Nevertheless this week’s, otherwise quite samey, chart, sees one new entry in Norwegian singer Lise Karlsnes, who’s album full of Robyn lite electropop won us over as soon as we gave it a listen, so we suggest you do the same!
Our weekly Song Chart will be up soon!
#Popsessed Album Chart #Lists #Kelly Clarkson #The Saturdays #Lise Karlsnes #One Direction #Rihanna #JLS #Nicola Roberts #Melanie C #Eric Saade #Young London #Rogue Traders #Parade #Little Jackie #Cher Lloyd #Little Mix
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Popsessed Album Chart: 05-02-2012
Another not extremely thrilling week for our charts, although this time we have at least one new entry. Well, new as in a ‘november 2011 release’, but we finally had the time to properly listen to the Rogue Traders’ new album/Greatest Hits bundle The Sound Of The Drums, and it’s pretty much everything we like about them.
Meanwhile, Kelly spends her 4th week at the top, we’re still really getting into the One Direction and Parade albums (the latter really is surprisingly stellar for a flopped girl group), and the other 11 albums all are still being more or less fabulous as well.
Our Popsessed Song Chart will be up tomorrow!
#Popsessed Album Chart #Lists #Rogue Traders #The Saturdays #Little Jackie #Kelly Clarkson #JLS #One Direction #Le Kid #Nicola Roberts #Eric Saade #Young London #Cher Lloyd #Melanie C #Little Mix #Parade #Rihanna
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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’s 2011 Top 100: #50-46
Today we’ve learned if you save a draft it doesn’t mean the post gets published. So yeah, this should have gone up last friday! Anyway, here’s another bit of thoughts on 5 of our favourite singles from last year..
 | Yeah, you may have to thank Glee for that one! We first heard Marry You when it got performed on some Glee episode, long before we even knew Bruno Mars existed, and actually even before his version had been released. We’re not the biggest fan of the ‘I’m bored, let’s do something silly.. yeah, let’s marry!’ sentiment of the song, but if we ignore that part of the lyrics, and focus on the great euphoric lovesong that remains, we absolutely love it. If we’re honest, we’ve never listened much to Bruno’s version, but we don’t really consider all Glee songs proper singles, so we were glad he ended up releasing his as one, allowing us to still represent this song on our list in some way. |
 | 49. Little Jackie - Cock Block We’re really not thát immature, but on our first play of Little Jackie’s 2011 album Made4TV the line ‘sorry I can’t see straight, there is a cock blocking my vision’ definitely grabbed our attention. We do appreciate Jackie’s bluntness and her no-nonsense ‘if I want to say cock I say cock, and I won’t resort to crappy metaphores like ‘put the plug in the socket’’ approach, but this song wouldn’t have been here if, besides, admittingly, being quite funny, it didn’t have a great tune as well. |
 | 48. Keri Hilson ft. Nelly - Lose Control You could say this is a fairly average R&B midtempo, and you’d probably be right. In theory this song doesn’t do anything special or new.. Yet it was one of the few late 2010 songs we stayed obsessed with right until the very end of 2011. We just love the melody, and somehow the song feels quite emotional, even though lyrically it really isn’t. |
 | When we first heard this we thought ‘oh look, it’s Kidz 2.0’. Today we still stand by that thought. But it’s one of those rare cases where the sequel actually improves on the original. |
 | 46. Sean Paul & Alexis Jordan - Got 2 Luv U We thought this song flopped miserably, but Wikipedia just corrected us. Still, considering how incredibly catchy it is, we’re baffled how it still felt like it hardly made any impact.. we never heard it on the radio, never saw it on tv, never heard anyone mention it… in fact we could have easily entered 2012 without ever knowing this song even existed. Luckily, we pretty much followed every move Alexis made this year, and, though initially we were horrified thinking she was leaving behind her great dance pop for a generic urban sound, this somehow ended up being our favourite single of hers thusfar. |
Number 45-41 are coming up soon!
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: #50-46
And so we’ve come to our 50 favourite singles from 2011. Now we’ve entered the top 50 it’s time to slow down the countdown a little, so these songs get a few more well deserved minutes of fame… Today’s bunch sees a quite midtempo and urban tinted selection..
We’ll keep posting our write-ups on the songs a little later, so they won’t spoiler the videos!
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