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Best Song of 2001: Heat #1

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:09:40 GMT

Ladies and gents, it's time for 2001: A Poll Odyssey! Mumpop fans are wailing and gnashing their teeth at the news that two of the top three album artists of the year (David Gray and Robbie Williams) are nowhere to be found in these heats, and the third (Dido) just scraped in by the skin of her teeth (courtesy of justfanoe). Can teenpop, hiphop and chart bosh save the day? There's only one way to find out.

So let's get cracking with a high-charting heat - ten top 5 hits and three number ones. Happy ticking!

You get a maximum of TEN TICKS over the three bits of the poll. The top five will go through to the next stage.

If you want to change your vote (or tick too many by mistake), you can edit your votes by clicking on 'Poll #12345' then 'Fill Out Poll'.

UK chart placings given in brackets.

Rep for your favourites in the comments! Youtube embeds very welcome.

View Poll: Best Song of 2001: Heat #1

You have until next Tuesday lunchtime to vote.

2001 supplemental

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:36:38 GMT

Now that the nominations for 2001 ~~with their new, evil restrictions~~ are closed, let's talk REGRETS. What non-charting tracks do you wish you'd had extra nom slots for? Here's your chance to rep for those you had to give up (because I know for me, 90% of the point with some of them was that public declaration of devotion, rather than any belief they'd have even remote a chance of garnering votes).

Youtubes or uploads in comments encouraged!

Dawg I'm ownin' dot coms

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:31:11 GMT

OK dudes nominations for 2001 have CLOSED. Voting starts tomorrow - we have 340 cracking tunes to pick from! In the meantime you might want to have a listen to meserach's Spotify playlist (more stuff to be added on there as we go along).

Let's have a sneak preview at what's in store!

i'm camouflaged, i'm a chameleon / i can turn a one into a billion

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:36:55 GMT

Miss Milian's back with her boyfriend.

i can be anything that you're seeing
black or white like the stripes on a zebra
i can be a gazelle, chase me baby
i can be a lion, crazy baby
i can be up, up, i can be down
bigger than a city, smaller than a town
i can be a ghetto bitch, yup you love me
i can be suburban, dinner's in the oven

So the Second Chance 2000 Winner is...

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:31:17 GMT

Alizee!

Wonderful. Thanks to everyone who voted. Remember you still have until tomorrow lunchtime to nominate tracks of 2001.

2009 recommendations please!

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:59:55 GMT

Dear poptimists,
I am going to stay with my folks for a few days, where I will be largely cut off from the outside world i.e. the internet, which is an excellent opportunity to catch up on albums from 2009 that I have not yet caught up with. So far I have heard a few things that people have been shouting quite loudly about e.g. Electrik Red, Blaqkout, Rick Ross for some reason, and Silversun Pickups. Hmm... apparently I have only been listening to Lex and Moggy's advice so far this year. Any suggestions welcome.... and if I was to try and listen to something by this Michael Jackson fellow we've been hearing a lot about, I assume Off the Wall is the place to start? Thank you in advance,
yours with an enquiring mind
byebyepride

this one's for my sexy thugs and ladies who've been waiting ages

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:01:33 GMT

Stush! Back! Vocalling Hard House Banton's UK funky anthem 'Sirens'! One to file alongside Ms Dynamite's 'Bad Gyal', Lady Chann's 'Your Eye Too Fast', Shystie's 'Pull It' (Ill Blu Funky Mix) and the Mz Bratt track that Kat posted.

"They don't wanna have a pretty dark-skinned gyal pon the TV / Reach top 10 and they still can't see we" ~~~

Yet Another Year In Pop: 28

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:07:26 GMT

Cascada remain at the top, Mi-Jack still dominating most of the top 40.

View Poll: Yet Another Year In Pop: 28

Reminder: I have decided that you have until THURSDAY LUNCHTIME to nominate songs for 2001 - this means I can put up the first heat on Friday. Please comment on the original post so your nomination doesn't get lost!

mondays are rub, have some catchy desi

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:00:57 GMT

possibly i should start just doing a 'things i've heard on bobby friction' dump post at the end of the week or something (actually i did think we ought to maybe have a "werld music" thread at some point but i kind of find the idea of "world music" as opposed to anything else* offensive so idk idk) but having got up at 4r5e o'clock and walked four miles and being generally a bit miserable, this song just well pepped me up and is generally very, very ace in a sort of mildly black eyed peas fashion

also awesome in a different black eyed peas type fashion is this, which i've basically been listening to on repeat since friday afternoon-

that goddamn beat is so addictive.

on a different note, i'm really sorry about the continuing absence of soulja boy hold'em aka ORGAFUN; i never got my internet connected in the house i was in before and am now, err, "no fixed abode" for at least a little while so i guess it's gunna have to be binned and maybe restarted in autumn or something, if i ever manage to actually live somewhere longer than ten minutes. sorry dudes! :(

*except space music obvs.

You're in first gear, I'm in fifth

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:00:40 GMT

Are we all aware of Mz Bratt yet? Well she's got a proper single now:

Tick vg.

Best Song of 2001: Nominations so far

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:16:58 GMT

Blimey we're already up to 289 songs!

112 - Peaches And Cream
3LW - No More (Baby I'm A Do Right)
5ive - Closer To Me
A*Teens - Sugar Rush
Aaliyah ft Timbaland - We Need A Resolution
Aaron Carter - That's How I Beat Shaq
Adam F & LL Cool J - Greatest of All Time
Adam F & Redman - Smash Sumthin
Aesop Rock - Daylight
Aesop Rock - No Regrets
Afroman - Because I Got High
Air - Electronic Performers
Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque
Alcazar - Transmetropolis
Alicia Keys - Fallin'
Amira - My Desire
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Ash - Burn Baby Burn
Atomic Kitten - Whole Again
Backbone - 5 Deuce-4 Tre
Backstreet Boys - The Call
Badly Drawn Boy - Pissing In The Wind
Barthezz - On The Move
Basement Jaxx - Broken Dreams
Basement Jaxx - Jus 1 Kiss
Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At?
Belle And Sebastian - I'm Waking Up To Us
Bent - Swollen
Beta Band - Broke
Bjork - Hidden Place
Bjork - Undo
Black Eyed Peas ft Macy Gray - Request Line
Blake Shelton - Austin
Blink 182 - The Rock Show
Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)
Blue - All Rise
Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It?
BON - Boys
Bran Van 3000 ft. Curtis Mayfield - Astounded
Brandy feat. Ray J - Another Day In Paradise
Britney Spears - I'm A Slave 4 U
Brooks & Dunn - Ain't Nothing 'Bout You
Brooks & Dunn - Only In America
Bubba Sparxxx - Dark Days, Bright Nights
Bubba Sparxxx - Ugly
Busta Rhymes - Break Ya neck
Call and Response - The Fool
Chante Moore - Straight Up
Chemical Brothers - It Began In Afrika
Chocolate Puma - I Wanna Be U
Christina Aguilera / Lil' Kim / Mya / Pink - Lady Marmalade
City High - What Would You Do
Cosmic Gate - Fire Wire
Crazy Town - Butterfly
D12 - Purple Pills
D12 - Shit On U
Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade 2001
Daddy DJ - Daddy DJ
Daft Punk - Digital Love
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
Daft Punk - Something About Us
Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
Data 80 - Love Was Made For Two
Dave Clarke - The Compass
David Byrne - Like Humans Do
Depeche Mode - Freelove
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
Destiny's Child - Survivor
DJ Pied Piper & The Master Of Ceremonies - Do You Really Like It
DJ Teebee - Silent Depths
DJ Zinc - Casino Royale
DMX - Who We Be
Dntel - (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan
Dr Dre & Snoop Dogg - The Next Episode
Dream - He Loves U Not
Dream - This Is Me
Dreem Team vs Artful Dodger - It Ain't Enough
Drive-By Truckers - Zip City
Dusted - Always Remember To Respect And Honour Your Mother
Eels - Souljacker (Part One)
Ellen Allien - Stadtkind
Eve - Who's That Girl
Eve featuring Gwen Stefani - Let Me Blow Ya Mind
Fatboy Slim - A Song For Shelter
Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice
Fatboy Slim - Ya Mama
Fatboy Slim ft. Macy Gray - Demons
Feeder - Buck Rogers
Feeder - Just A Day
Fennesz - Before I Leave
Fragma - Everytime You Need Me
Freelance Hellraiser - Stroke Of Genie-us
Funk D'Void - Diabla
Gabrielle - Out Of Reach
Garbage - Androgyny
Gary Allan - Alright Guy
Genius Cru - Boom Selection
Gerling - Dust Me Selecta
Gore Gore Girls - Hunt You Down
Gorillaz - 19/2000
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Gorillaz - Rock The House
Granddaddy - The Crystal Lake
Groove Armada - Superstylin'
Guided by Voices - Chasing Heather Crazy
Guided by Voices - Glad Girls
Hear'Say - Pure And Simple
I Monster - Daydream In Blue
Ian Brown - FEAR
Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky
Ian Van Dahl - Will I?
IIO - Rapture
India.Arie - Video
J Rawls - Great Live Caper
Jakatta - American Dream
James - Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)
Janet Jackson - All For You
Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover
Janet Jackson - Son of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song)
Jay-Z - Girls Girls Girls
Jay-Z - Izzo (Hova)
Jay-Z - Takeover
Jean-Jacques Smoothie - 2 People
Jennifer Lopez - I'm Real
Jennifer Lopez - Love Don't Cost A Thing
Jennifer Lopez - Play
Jimmy Eat World - Salt Sweat Sugar (Bleed American)
Joe ft. Mystikal - Stutter
Jurgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie
Kai Tracid - Too Many Times
Kelis - Popular Thug
Kelis - Young Fresh 'n' New
Kenny Chesney - Don't Happen Twice
Koffee Brown - Weekend Thing
Kosheen - (Slip & Slide) Suicide
Kosheen - Harder
Kosheen - Hide U
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Kylie Minogue - Fever
Ladies First - Kiss The Sunshine (Sunship Remix)
Ladytron - The Way That I Found You
Leslie Carter - Like Wow!
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz - Put Your Hood Up
Lil Romeo - My Baby
Limp Bizkit - Rollin'
Linkin Park - In The End
Lisa Left Eye Lopes - The Block Party
Lolita Storm - Suzy
Ludacris ft. Trina, Shawnna & Foxy Brown - What's Your Fantasy? (Remix)
M & S presents The Girl Next Door - Salsoul Nugget
Madonna - What It Feels Like For A Girl
Manic Street Preachers - So Why So Sad
Manu Chao - La Primavera
Mariah Carey ft Mystikal - Never Too Far/Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)
Marilyn Manson - Fight Song
Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies
Mark Ryder - Joy
Martine McCutcheon - On The Radio
Marumari - Rocket Summer
Mary J Blige - Family Affair
Michael Jackson - Cry
Mint Royale - Show Me
Miss Kittin & the Hacker - Stock Exchange
Missy Elliott - Get UR Freak On
Missy Elliott - Lick Shots
Missy Elliott ft Ludacris - One Minute Man
Mis-Teeq - All I Want (Sunship Remix)
Mis-teeq - One Night Stand
Mis-Teeq - Why? (Matt 'Jam' LaMont & DJ Face Remix)
Modjo - Chillin'
Moldy Peaches - Who's Got The Crack
Montgomery Gentry - Cold One Comin' On
Montgomery Gentry - She Couldn't Change Me
MOP - Cold As Ice
MOP ft Busta Rhymes - Ante Up
Mos Def/Nate Dogg/Pharoahe Monch - Oh No
Múm - I'm 9 Today
Muse - Bliss
Muse - Citizen Erased
Muse - Hyper Music
Muse - Plug In Baby
Musique vs U2 - New Years Dub
Mya - Case Of The Ex
Mystikal ft. Nivea - Danger (Been So Long)
N Sync - Pop
Natalie Imbruglia - That Day
Neil Finn - Wherever You Are
Nelly - Ride Wit Me
Nelly & St Lunatics - Batter Up
Nelly Furtado - I'm Like A Bird
Nelly Furtado - Turn Off The Light
NERD - Lapdance
New Order - Crystal
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - God Is In The House
Old 97s - Question
Orbital - Doctor ?
Orbital - Funny Break (One Is Enough)
O-Town - Liquid Dreams
OutKast - Ms Jackson
OutKast - So Fresh So Clean
Oxide & Neutrino - Devil's Nightmare
Oxide & Neutrino - Up Middle Finger
Par-T-One vs. INXS - I'm So Crazy
Petey Pablo - Raise Up
Pharoahe Monch - Got You
Phil Vassar - Six-Pack Summer
Pink - Dear Diary
Planet Funk - Chase The Sun
Pulp - Sunrise / The Trees
Pulp - The Night That Minnie Tymperley Died
QB Finest featuring Nas & Bravehearts - Oochie Wally
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
REM - Imitation Of Life
Res - They-Say Vision
Roger Sanchez - Another Chance
Roni Size/Reprazent Featuring MC Dynamite - Dirty Beats - Dirty Beats
Roots Manuva - Dreamy Days
Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope)
Rui Da Silva ft Cassandra - Touch Me
S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin'
Safri Duo - Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)
Schiller - Das Glockenspiel
Shaggy ft Rikrok - It Wasn't Me
Snoop Dogg - Snoop Dogg
So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds
So Solid Crew - They Don't Know
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor
Spiritualized - Stop Your Crying
Spooks - Things I've Seen
Spoon - Anything You Want
Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car
St Etienne - Boy Is Crying
Steps - I Know Him So Well
Stereolab - Nothing To Do With Me
Stereolab - Suggestion Diabolique
Sticky ft Ms Dynamite - Booo
Storm - Storm 2001
Strokes - New York City Cops
Sugababes - Run For Cover
Sugababes - Soul Sound
Sum 41 - In Too Deep
Sunshine Anderson - Heard It All Before
Super Furry Animals - (Drawing) Rings Around the World
Super Furry Animals - Juxtaposed With U
Superchunk - Art Class (Song For Yayoi Kusama)
Supermen Lovers - Starlight
System of a Down - Chop Suey!
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Biomusicology
Telepopmusik - Breathe
Tenacious D - Tribute
Texas - Inner Smile
The Artful Dodger ft. Michelle Escoffery - Think About Me
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
The Dismemberment Plan - Following Through
The Dismemberment Plan - The Face Of the Earth
The Human League - All I Ever Wanted
The Knife - Kino
The Ones - Flawless
The Orb - Once More
The Shins - New Slang
The Streets - Has It Come To This?
The Strokes - Hard To Explain
The Strokes - Last Nite
The Strokes - The Modern Age
Thomas Ribeiro - Rideonastar
Tim McGraw - Grown Men Don't Cry
Toby Keith - I Wanna Talk About Me
Toby Keith - You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This
Trace Adkins - I'm Tryin
Train - Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)
Trick Daddy - Take It To Da House
Trisco - Musak
Turin Brakes - Mind Over Money
U2 - Elevation
Usher - Pop Ya Collar
Usher - U Remind Me
Weezer - Hash Pipe
Weezer - Island In The Sun
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
Wideboys ft Dennis G - Sambuca
Wu Tang Clan - In The Hood
Wu Tang Clan - Rules
Wu Tang Clan - Uzi (Pinky Ring)
Wyclef - Perfect Gentleman
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Our Time

If your nomination isn't on there then it's probably been shoved over to 2002: there are only about half a dozen tracks this applies to and in most cases I've tried to make the nominator aware of them so it doesn't use up their ten votes. Though now is a good time to point out any idiotic mistakes I've made!

There's still time to nominate (please comment on the original post, not this one) - I'll post a reminder in the middle of next week.

can't actually remember if I've posted about this before

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:58:29 GMT

Saw this on Chart TV or some similar satellite music channel t'other day, am really really happy it's breaking into the mainstream; Bobby Friction's been hammering it for the last few months but it definitely deserves to be a proper actual major hit (along with about a bajillion other things but still) and altho I prefer the desi mix the original is also really lovely, in a Ne-Yo sort of way;

If that doesn't scream 'MASSIVE SUMMER ANTHEM' then I don't know what does. In all fairness, I hate summer so the latter statement may be truer.

Best Song of 2000: Second Chance FINAL!

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:06:02 GMT

(EDIT: Had problems with this poll when it first went up, had to delete and start over. Sorry for confusion, please vote again if you already had!)

Okay, so it was pretty close in the second chance poll there dudes! It was tied at the top between Alizee and The Bloodhound Gang, and there ended up being a three-way tie for fourth and fifth between "Bound 4 Da Reload", "Hip Hop" and "Simon Says". Poised between them in third was Darude's "Sandstorm".

Hence, all six of them end up in this little final! But: which is BEST? You have one and only one vote!

View Poll: Best Song of 2000: Second Chance FINAL!

I'll give you until.... oooh, how about Tuesday lunchtime? Happy voting!

Best Song of 2001: NOMINATIONS

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:36:44 GMT

NEW NOMINATION RULE ALERT

This time there's going to be a 10 song per person limit on stuff that didn't chart in the UK top 40 that year. This means:
- we won't have 20+ heats per year
- we'll all still get to find out about those forgotten gems
- dudes won't feel bad using up their nomination quota on Kylie
- collusion will probably run rampant, oh well

Obviously you can nominate fewer than 10 non-charting songs but I have a feeling some of you will take full advantage of the quota :-)

YOU HAVE LOST ME TOTALLY.

Sorry! Here's some examples:

Person A nominates tracks 1-10 from Kompakt Total 3 (none of which charted in the UK), plus Bob The Builder and Afroman.

Person B nominates Westlife only.

Person C nominates the entire top 40 from May 21st 2001 because they loved it so much.

Person D nominates 'Sonne' by Rammstein only.

HOW ON EARTH DO I FIGURE OUT IF IT CHARTED IN THE UK THAT YEAR?

everyhit.co.uk is your friend here. If your song might be spelled weirdly and doesn't show up in the results, try searching by artist instead of title (or vice versa) or using 'contains the word' instead of 'first few letters'.

OK SO IT DIDN'T CHART IN THE UK BUT I STILL DUNNO WHAT YEAR IT WAS RELEASED?

Here's the general criteria for determining what year something falls under:

1. Everyhit
2. Discogs UK release date
3. Discogs US release date
4. My werk database
5. Wikipedia/other interweb source

So if Discogs says it was 2001 but Wikipedia says 2002 then we go with Discogs.

MY NOMINATION WAS RE-RELEASED IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT YEARS! HELP!

Go for the year that the song had its highest chart placing in the UK.

YOU TOTALLY MISSED ONE OF MY 2000 NOMINATIONS LAST TIME DUDE...

I recommend that you post your nominations in a new comment thread so they don't get lost in the threading (the first post of a thread always shows up). This isn't mandatory but it makes it much less likely that I'll miss them. Don't worry about repeating yourself - my spreadsheet will take care of that.

ARGH! ITS GOING TO TAKE ME AGES TO THINK OF MY NOMINATIONS!

Nominations won't close until the end of next week so you've got a while to think of some cracking tunes. I'll post reminders nearer the time.

I NOMINATED SOMETHING FOR 2000 THAT WAS ACTUALLY 2001...?

These are automatically through (so won't count for your ten nominations etc). In fact, here is a list of songs already nominated for your delectation:

Backstreet Boys - The Call
Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Christina Aguilera / Lil' Kim / Mya / Pink - Lady Marmalade
Cosmic Gate - Fire Wire
D12 - Shit On U
Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
Destiny's Child - Survivor
DJ Pied Piper - Do You Really Like It
Fragma - Everytime You Need Me
Granddaddy - The Crystal Lake
Jakatta - American Dream
Kosheen - Hide U
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Limp Bizkit - Rollin'
Lolita Storm - Suzy
Ludacris ft. Trina, Shawnna & Foxy Brown - What's Your Fantasy? (Remix)
Madonna - What It Feels Like For A Girl
Marilyn Manson - Fight Song
Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies
Mis-Teeq - Why? (Matt 'Jam' LaMont & DJ Face Remix)
MOP ft Busta Rhymes - Ante Up
Múm - I'm 9 Today
Mya - Case Of The Ex
Mystikal ft. Nivea - Danger (Been So Long)
Nelly - Ride Wit Me
OutKast - Ms Jackson
Rui Da Silva ft Cassandra - Touch Me
S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin'
Shaggy ft Rikrok - It Wasn't Me
So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds
Spoon - Anything You Want
St Etienne - Boy Is Crying
Sugababes - Run For Cover
Sugababes - Soul Sound
The Artful Dodger ft. Michelle Escoffery - Think About Me
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
Wyclef - Perfect Gentleman

Got all that? Right then!

NOMINATIONS IN THE COMMENTS PLEASE!

(Reminder: the 2000 Second Chance Saloon is running until Thursday (thanks to meserach!) so there's still some poll action to tide you over.)

Yet Another Year In Pop: 27

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:53:38 GMT

Cascada fend off MJ to the top spot this week, but our Jacko has the rest of the top 40 pretty much covered.

View Poll: Yet Another Year In Pop: 27

No lower reaches watch today as OCC is still stuck on last week and Yahoo is kinda unreliable for anything past the top ten. Basically there's a lot of Michael Jackson down there too.

youtube killed the iplayer star

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:55:00 GMT

View Poll: goo goo

Best Song of 2000 - Second Chance Saloon

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:41:15 GMT

Okay, so while the wonderful katstevens is getting us to nominate our candidates for 2001 this week, I figured some of you might have itchy ticking fingers.

So, I've gathered together forty-four tracks that didn't quite qualify for the 2000 final. If you feel one of your favourites got a bad draw in the heats, here's your chance to extract some measure of justice. It's a second chance.

(Kat's hinted that she might let the winner of this poll sneak through into the finals proper. No promises though.)

The selection procedure to qualify for this second chance:

* Tracks that already qualified were ignored, obv.
* Then all tracks that got 15 votes or more in their heat qualified...
* Then any tracks which were in the top ten of their heat qualified, so there are a minimum five tracks taken from each heat.

This resulted in the forty-four tracks below. Sorry if this methodology still excluded your favourite track(s); perhaps somebody will make a Third Chance poll? ;)

Rules gubbins:

* You get TEN TICKS IN TOTAL over the three bits of the poll. The top five will go through to a deciding round, over the weekend.

* You have until Thursday lunchtime-ish to make your selections. I'll take the status of the poll when I get round to checking it that lunchtime as final, even if voting changes after that deadline.

* Tick fewer than ten if you like.

* If you change your mind, you can edit your votes by clicking on 'Poll #12345' then 'Fill Out Poll'.

* UK chart placing is in brackets.

* Rep in comments etc.

And the poll itself:

View Poll: Best Song of 2000: Second Chance Poll

Best Song of 2000: Finalists

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:30:04 GMT

Behold! The finalists for 2000 are under the cut:

Destiny's Child - Say My Name (47)
Destiny's Child - Jumpin' Jumpin' (42)
Aaliyah - Try Again (41)
Britney - Oops! I Did It Again (41)
Kelis - Caught Out There (40)
OutKast - Bombs Over Baghdad (38)
Eminem - The Real Slim Shady (38)
Sugababes - Overload (37)
Ol’ Dirty Bastard ft Kelis - Got Your Money (36)
Destiny's Child - Independent Woman Part 1 (35)
Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around (35)
Daft Punk - One More Time (34)
Dr Dre ft Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E. (34)
Nelly - (Hot Shit) Country Grammar (34)
Dr Dre ft Eminem - Forgot About Dre (33)
Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit (33)
Eminem - Stan (32)
All Saints - Pure Shores (31)
Britney Spears - Stronger (30)
All Saints - Black Coffee (29)
Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (29)
Jay-Z ft. UGK - Big Pimpin' (28)
N Sync - Bye Bye Bye (28)
Mary Mary - Shackles (Praise You) (27)
Sisqó - Thong Song (27)
Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers (27)
Daphne & Celeste - U.G.L.Y (26)
Moloko - The Time Is Now (26)
Mystikal - Shake Ya Ass (25)
Daphne & Celeste - Ooh Stick You (24)
Ladytron - Playgirl (24)
Mint Royale - Don't Falter (24)
Pink - There You Go (24)
Jay-Z - I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me) (23)
Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby (23)
DMX - Party Up (22)
Kelis - Good Stuff (20)
Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 (20)
Sonique - It Feels So Good (18)
Toni Braxton - He Wasn't Man Enough (15)

Numbers in brackets are the raw votes received in their heat (not percentage based in any way).

Nominations for 2001 will begin next week. Have a good weekend everyone!

The Month In Pop: June

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:16:41 GMT

View Poll: The Month In Pop: June

As ever, the definition of 'new' is down to you - if you heard it first in June and it's awesome then that's fine. Links/embeds in the comments encouraged!

Reminder! You have until 2pm BST to vote in Heat #8 of 2000

Best Song of 2000: Heat #8

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:55:20 GMT

Still D.R.E., Spinning Around and The Real Slim Shady led the pack in Heat #7, while Stronger and Stan fought off a last minute surge by The Bad Touch to join them in the 2000 final.

Last heat today! And there are some proper bangers below the cut...

You get a maximum of TEN TICKS over the three bits of the poll. The top five will go through to the next stage.

If you want to change your vote (or tick too many by mistake), you can edit your votes by clicking on 'Poll #12345' then 'Fill Out Poll'.

UK chart placings given in brackets.

Rep for your favourites in the comments!

View Poll: Best Song of 2000: Heat #8

You have until Friday lunchtime to vote, at which point I'll post a full list of the qualifiers for the 2000 final. HOWEVER we're not going to be voting on that straight away (to try and avoid tick-fatigue on the same songs). Instead, next week we're going to start nominations for 2001. There will be a slight change in nomination procedure (more details to follow) but there'll still be plenty of time to get your thinking caps on.

me on swellsy at FT

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:03:17 GMT

our age is over pt 2 :(

Yet Another Year In Pop: 26

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:17:58 GMT

Halfway through the year! Apparently Jacko has 43 singles in the top 200 this week, but it's not enough to keep La Roux off the top spot.

View Poll: Yet Another Year In Pop: 26

Reminder: you have until 2pm tomorrow (that should be enough time for the mud-encrusted hippies to catch up on their internets) to vote in the penultimate heat of 2000 - the Bloodhound Gang are only 4 votes away from a run-off with 'Stan'...

Ah-ahh-AHH-ooo-waaa

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:20:47 GMT

View Poll: HAVE WE LOST THEIR TUSKS?

extravaganza, you should run and tell a friend

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:36:19 GMT

Once again, am just transfixed by Ciara's dancing here. The "betcha can't do it like me, me, me!" section, with the ponytail swinging like a lasso, is spectacular. LOVING the outfits too. One of Danja's best beats, too - love the way it switches to doubletime and the way he fucks with it towards the end.

That said, Missy needs to stfu with the elephantine bellowing. I wish they'd kept the explicit version, too, or at least replaced "bitch" with another syllable just to keep the rhythm. Still: minor gripes which I probably wouldn't have if I hadn't heard the Missy-free explicit demo, the first really worthy single off this tortuous Fantasy Ride campaign, and def one of the best videos this year. Now. Trillion-dollar action video for 'High Price', please.

Best Song of 2000: Heat #7

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:02:03 GMT

Destiny's Child get their third qualifier, joined by All Saints, Mary Mary and Mystikal and Ladytron (thanks to a last-minute tick to beat Darude).

Today we have about equal measures of bosh, pop, indie and rap! You have until next Tuesday to vote. Get ticking!

You get a maximum of TEN TICKS over the three bits of the poll. The top five will go through to the next stage.

If you want to change your vote (or tick too many by mistake), you can edit your votes by clicking on 'Poll #12345' then 'Fill Out Poll'.

UK chart placings given in brackets.

Rep for your favourites in the comments!

View Poll: Best Song of 2000: Heat #7