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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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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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.
#Popsessed Album Chart #Lists #Kelly Clarkson #The Saturdays #Cher Lloyd #Little Jackie #Aqua #Nicola Roberts #Parade #Little Mix #One Direction #Melanie C #Sneaky Sound System #Fawni #JLS #Rihanna #Eric Saade #David Guetta #Zoë Badwi
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What do you think?Popsessed’s 2011 Top 100: #70-61
You get the drill by now: it’s time for another write-up of 10 of our favourite 2011 singles!
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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! |
Popsessed’s 2011 Top 100: #70-61
On to our next 10 songs from 2011 that we enjoyed quite a bit. Probably the least hitpacked selection thusfar, but that doesn’t mean these songs didn’t deserve to be huge!
As you might be used to now, a write-up explaining our choices will be up tomorrow!
Earlier today we posted our first Popsessed Album Chart, and now it’s time for our Song Chart. We realize ‘singles chart’ has a nicer ring to it, but we didn’t want to limit ourselves to singles only. So our weekly list will be a mix of new hits, album tracks, rarities, remixes, and the occasional old song we’ve just (re)discovered. Just like the album chart this isn’t strictly about which song is ‘the best’, it’s just the selection of songs we’re playing and enjoying the most at the moment!
Just like with the album chart this week sees only new entries, which is kinda obvious since this is the first ever chart we do. In the future we’ll do little write-ups on new songs that enter the chart, but with 40 songs that seems a bit much, so we’ll just run through the entire thing quickly:
- Not entirely unexpected there’s plenty of songs from albums that are in our album chart, with The Saturdays and Little Mix pretty much ruling both lists this week.
- Glad You Came and Get Back (ASAP) are very much the odd ones out, having been released months ago already, but both songs just clicked with us recently. And they clicked big time!
- Alexandria Everett and Allison Harvard are two contestants from America’s Next Top Model who ended up recording their own singles. Those were more publicity stunts than anything else, but nevertheless both ended up being quite amazing.
- And then there’s one other X Factor recording we fell in love with, a very decent boyband song, something that’s an early draft of Madonna’s new single, Sophie Ellis-Bextor acting raunchy, and plenty of other very enjoyable songs..
We plan on making a Spotify playlist or something like that of our weekly Song Chart, although obviously some songs would be missing.. Do you know a good alternative, or do you think Spotify is definitely the way to go?
#Little Mix #Melanie C #Eric Saade #Cher Lloyd #The Saturdays #Popsessed Song Chart #Lady Gaga #Kelly Clarkson #Katy Perry #Pixie Lott #One Direction #Rihanna #Madonna #Pink #Nicola Roberts #Sophie Ellis-Bextor #The Wanted #Sophie Habibis #Helena Paparizou #ANTM
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Popsessed Album Chart: 01-01-2011
As from this week on, one of our New Year’s resolutions is to start keeping up a weekly chart of our favourite and most played albums and songs. This won’t be a straight copy of our Last.fm stats, cause we have our weeks of ignoring an album while still remaining quite fond of it, and neither is it all about quality, because otherwise it would end up being an ‘alltime favourites’ list. It’s just a list of what we like to listen to most at the moment.
This week (obviously) sees 15 ‘all new’ entries, topped by a large portion of 2011’s winter releases, followed by some older ones like Cinderella’s Eyes and From Here To Anywhere that are still absolutely brilliant, but just not quite as exciting and fresh anymore. Little Jackie’s August released Made4TV however did jump back up a few spots after we became obsessed with it again during our 2011 Top 100 preparations. And though it was hard to choose between the top 3, our currently biggest Popsession would be the collection of Little Mix’ X Factor performances.
A fresh albums chart should be up next sunday, expect our songs chart to be ready within a day or so!
#Little Mix #The Saturdays #Kelly Clarkson #Cher Lloyd #Little Jackie #One Direction #Rihanna #Sneaky Sound System #Nicola Roberts #Parade #JLS #Aqua #Melanie C #Zoë Badwi #David Guetta #Popsessed Album Chart #Lists #Albums
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What do you think?Popsessed’s 2011 Top 100: #100-91
Yesterday night we kicked off our 2011 Top 100 Countdown with our first video montage, today we give you a little write-up on our first 10 favourite songs from last year..
 | Kicking off our list in style with a weak song! |
 | With Girls Aloud and Mini Viva gone and Annie not being very active either, Florrie’s presence in 2011 was very much appreciated. Her Experiments EP slightly missed the fun of the aforementioned acts, and Begging Me probably lived up the least to it’s EP’s title by being very much Xenomania by numbers, but nonetheless it did a very pleasant job of providing us with our yearly Xenomania fix. |
 | 98. Kelly Clarkson - Mr. Know It All We like Kelly, her new album is probably her most consistent one yet, but Mr. Know It All wins the title of ‘least exciting Kelly Clarkson lead single’ for us. Frankly, if it weren’t for Kelly it wouldn’t have made the list. Still, we did end up playing it a lot, it grew quite a bit on us, and we do like it. It’s just no Stronger (which you won’t be seeing on this list because we consider it a 2012 single!). |
 | 97. Nicole Scherzinger ft. 50 Cent - Right There After whatever mess the last few years were supposed to be, this year Nicole finally properly kicked off her solo carreer (oh, and killed it again) with a surprisingly decent collection of songs. This was one of them. And yeah, that’s pretty much all we have to say about it. |
 | 96. September - Me & My Microphone We were OBSESSED with this song in early 2011. It actually was pretty much the only song from September’s Love CPR album we played. Back in April we made ourselves a top 20 of favourite singles thusfar and it was on it.. so what happened? |
 | Greatest Hits albums aside, Progress was the first Take That album we purchased. No regrets there (well, besides not waiting for the rerelease). Are we right in thinking at the time this was their least cheesy, sweet single to date? Either way, for a Take That song it sounded surprisingly cool. One of our favourite songs on the album, although there’s another uptempo that might just beat it… |
 | 94. Little Jackie - Take Back The World 2011 saw the triumphant return of an act that pretty much defined our summer of 2008. And we were thrilled to see she hadn’t changed a bit. With sassy lyrics and catchy motown tunes Made4TV provided us with a whole lot of new favourite songs. Take Back The World isn’t even the best of them, but quite a treat nonetheless. |
 | 93. Nicole Scherzinger - Don’t Hold Your Breath And there she is again, (Doll)dominating the bottom of our list. Don’t Hold Your Breath was a surprisingly poppy song for an American artist, but suffered slightly from a ‘we heard the remix first, and after that the original couldn’t quite live up to it’ syndrome. |
 | 92. Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer - Give You Everything Probably number 1 on our list of songs we liked way more than we should. We don’t really like Pitbull, or any of the zillion artists involved, the song is generic as hell.. but damn, it’s catchy! This is quite the opposite of Kelly’s entry: if it had been recorded by any other artist, it might have very well ended up a good thirty spots higher. |
 | This wasn’t an exceptional year for ballads, and there’s not a whole lot of them on this list (we count about 8 of them), but who would have thought one of the year’s finest would be coming from a Disney girl? We’d be known to like a Miley, Hilary or Selena song or two, but Demi never quite clicked, and the other’s songs never were much more than ‘good fun’. So getting the raw emotional vulnerable mess that Demi is on Skyscraper was a very pleasant surprise. Still, she wasn’t our favourite Disney lady of 2011.. |
Stay tuned for our #90-81 montage later today!
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