Popsessed’s 2011 Top 100: #30-26
About time to explain our next five 2011 Top 100 choices..
 | There’s an odd pattern here with the last 3 videos all starting with a Max Martin song. And although we’d love to pretend we have something new to say for this one, we really don’t. Just like What The Hell and Light Up The World, Loser Like Me is just a fun, catchy, uplifting piece of pop, that screams ‘underdogs, yay!’. Nothing new, but perfectly entertaining at the same time. |
 | 19. Britney Spears - I Wanna Go Let’s start by saying the video for this was a hot mess. We’re not sure what it was going for, but it made us like the song less, which isn’t really what music videos are supposed to do, is it? But that aside, and ignoring this and the fact that the whistling still reminds us of Bob Sinclar anno 2006, this song really is good fun. Our instant favourite for 3rd single from Femme Fatale, which was our mostplayed album of 2011. The song does a great job of capturing what we liked about early days pure pop Britney. |
 | When the Saturdays came up with Notorious we found it quite refreshing to see a girl group go dance. A few months later, Booty Luv returned on the scene to remind us they did it first. They did it several times in 2007, one time in 2009, and in 2011 they once again came up with a dance smash that sounded perfectly current, yet 100% Booty Luv. We have no idea what happened since. Why they were suddenly called ‘Cherise & Nadia’. If this even ended up being released. Last thing we read they were shooting a new video in late 2011 though, so we hope they’ll do it all again this year! |
 | 17. CocknBullKid - Asthma Attack We’re not sure what we were expecting when we first saw CocknBullKid’s name, but it wasn’t until months after that we decided to check her out. About 10 minutes later we had her album preordered. Asthma Attack sounded fresh, catchy, fun, and unlike anything we’d heard before. And it had strings. We LOVE strings in pop. But the whole production’s lush actually. Such a great feelgood song. The whole album’s very much worth checking out, don’t let the name put you off! |
 | 16. One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful We’re really not that big on boy bands. Some of them (‘N Sync, Backstreet Boys, Westlife) eventually won us over with some good (mostly uptempo) singles, but a new boy band is never something that makes us sit up and pay attention. And with us not even having watched season 7 of X Factor UK, to be honest the only reason we listened to this song in the first place was because we just relaunched our blog and we felt we had to keep up with all new pop releases out there. (Actually, as long as we have the time for it, we still feel that way.) We weren’t expecting much, leave alone for this to end up being ‘end of the year list material’. But they proved us wrong. Despite not being a Max Martin song, this is the first boyband single to come close to the Backstreet Boys’ great Max Martin powerpop since their own heyday in the early ’00s, and probably the strongest boyband debut single we’ve heard. The album was an equally nice surprise. Stay tuned for the last 15 songs to be revealed soon! |
Popsessed Song Chart 12-02-2012
Poor poor Katy. While she was patiently waiting for Madonna to step aside so her The One That Got Away 2.0 could climb to number one, XELLE stormed in at the last minute and took the top spot instead, with a song that, to make matters even worse, sounds like it was a little bit inspired by her very own Firework.
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In other news: Invincible got us back into XELLE’s previous single Hologram as well, Like A Prayer is a better song than Give Me All Your Luvin’ (‘you read it here first!’), one of our initially least favourite Talk Talk Talk songs finally clicked, and if you throw two Gaga songs together you essentially get.. a Gaga song. Which is still quite good.
Once again some really enjoyable songs leave, which of course doesn’t mean we don’t love them, or hey wouldn’t have been here in the first place!
A new Song Chart will be up next week, meanwhile you also can keep up with (the biggest part of) our chart on Spotify!
#Popsessed Single Chart #Lists #The Saturdays #Kelly Clarkson #XELLE #Madonna #JLS #One Direction #Little Mix #Young London #Rihanna #Katy Perry #Nicola Roberts #Alesha Dixon #Melanie C #Rogue Traders #Eric Saade #Lady Gaga #Alexandra Stan #Glee
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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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Well well, top 20. Considering we even loved the number 100 on this list there’s some pretty great songs ahead now. Or at least ones that we loved to bits in 2011. So on we go, enjoy!
A write-up on the #20-16 will be up soon!
Popsessed Song Chart 12-02-2012
It’s about time for some new material to be released because a lot of the songs in our song chart right now mainly thank their positions to a lack of fresh competition. Which is not to say these aren’t 40 songs we love, but just a little more action wouldn’t hurt!
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The power of Madonna is keeping Katy from shooting right to the top of the list, but number 2 isn’t exactly bad for a single we didn’t even know was being released a week ago.
The R.I.O. song entering at number 7 is quite a random one, cause it’s well over a year old. But it’s our list, we just discovered it, and we love it (generic dance tune ahoy!), so it’s earned it’s spot. As for Taio, he thanks his spot to our iTunes randomly playing him a lot this week, although the song is catchy enough. It’s no Dynamite though.
3 great songs, but they’re a bit past their prime for us. We’re as shocked as anyone how quickly Elephant’s leaving the room already, but, unlike any other Alexandra song, we just have no desire to go back to it at the moment.
A new Song Chart will be up next week, meanwhile you also can keep up with (the biggest part of) our chart on Spotify!
#Popsessed Song Chart #Lists #Taio Cruz #Katy Perry #R.I.O. #Madonna #One Direction #The Saturdays #Nicola Roberts #Little Mix #Rihanna #Alexandra Burke #Glee #Kelly Clarkson #JLS #Eric Saade #Alyssa Reid #Young London #Le Kid #Rogue Traders
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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 Song Chart 06-02-2012
Congrats, Madge, it seems like your Superbowl performance at least landed you one number one already! Not the biggest surprise considering how much we loved the song, video, and performance, but definitely a worthy successor to top the list after Kelly’s Stronger. Kelly’s still going strong hanging around in the top 3 though, while Alexandra Stan somehow worked her way back up there too (we somehow just keep being obsessed with that song, don’t ask why!).
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This week’s batch of newcomers is being led by two dutch ladies, X Factor winner Rochelle and country chick Ilse. Both acts most of you probably won’t be very familiar with, but definitely worth checking out.
We already discovered Alyssa Reid last summer, and even though, as big fans of the original, we probably should hate what she did to Heart’s Alone, we just can’t resist that chorus, even when it’s being covered.
As for the other three new entries: they are just the usual bunch of ‘album tracks/singles that suddenly clicked, months after we first heard them’.
A new Song Chart will be up next week, meanwhile you also can keep up with (the biggest part of) our chart on Spotify!
#Popsessed Song Chart #Lists #Kelly Clarkson #Madonna #The Saturdays #One Direction #JLS #Parade #Rihanna #Nicola Roberts #Little Mix #Alyssa Reid #Ilse DeLange #Alexandra Burke #Le Kid #Rogue Traders #Sophie Habibis #Cher Lloyd #Glee #Alexandra Stan
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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 Song Chart 29-1-2012
Another week with a double #1 for Kelly Clarkson! Of course it helped a little that it wasn’t the most exciting week for new songs, but either way it’s a welldeserved victory, cause we’re still not getting tired of Stronger. Unlike the majority of the list that’s falling down massively this week, allowing the more consistent tunes to climb to or stay on top.
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Hardly anything properly new in the list this week, the new entries existing of album tracks that started growing on us (Rogue Traders, Eric Saade..), a 2010 single we discovered ridiculously late (Ola) and Kylie doing a new (stunning) new rendition of a 20 year old single.
Like every week the songs leaving are hardly ones we dislike, but the remaining 40 are just a little bit better or more recent!
A new Song Chart will be up next week, meanwhile you also can keep up with (the biggest part of) our chart on Spotify!
#Popsessed Song Chart #Lists #Kelly Clarkson #Cher Lloyd #Rogue Traders #The Saturdays #Madonna #Rihanna #One Direction #JLS #Young London #Alexandra Burke #Kylie Minogue #Pixie Lott #Little Mix #Alesha Dixon #Glee #Alexandra Stan #Eric Saade #Ola
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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!
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