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Old 06-09-2014, 11:09
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I can name a few:

Cher Lloyd - "Swagger Jagger"
Flo Rida - "Good Feeling"
Pharrell Williams - "Happy"
Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams - "Blurred Lines"
Carly Rae Jepsen - "Call Me Maybe"
Psy - "Gangnam Style"
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Old 06-09-2014, 11:10
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I'm going with the will.i.am Birthday song
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Old 06-09-2014, 11:54
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I can name a few:

Cher Lloyd - "Swagger Jagger"
Flo Rida - "Good Feeling"
Pharrell Williams - "Happy"
Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams - "Blurred Lines"
Carly Rae Jepsen - "Call Me Maybe"
Psy - "Gangnam Style"
For what reason should they not have been number one?
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Old 06-09-2014, 12:08
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They're annoying and overplayed and "Good Feeling" didn't deserve it as it ripped off Avicii - "Levels"
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Old 06-09-2014, 12:23
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They're annoying and overplayed and "Good Feeling" didn't deserve it as it ripped off Avicii - "Levels"
They are probably overplayed because they are so successful commercially. Just a thought.
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Old 06-09-2014, 12:43
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There's a difference between songs which shouldn't have been number 1 and popular songs you didn't like.

If a song sold the most that week, then it deserved to be number 1.
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Old 06-09-2014, 12:47
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I can name a few:

Cher Lloyd - "Swagger Jagger"
Flo Rida - "Good Feeling"
Pharrell Williams - "Happy"
Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams - "Blurred Lines"
Carly Rae Jepsen - "Call Me Maybe"
Psy - "Gangnam Style"
In other words, just because you don't like them they didn't deserve to sell millions of copies between them?

Besides, Call Me Maybe in particular was a solid pop song and fully deserved to be hit.
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Old 06-09-2014, 12:53
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Probably showing my age here!

Joe Dolce Shaddap your Face (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs

Brian and Michael: 'Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats And Dogs' Top of the Pops (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVR-PyRC4io

Absolute shite - both of them! Joe Dolce kept Ultravox's Vienna off the number one slot! Unforgivable!
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Old 06-09-2014, 14:23
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There's a difference between songs which shouldn't have been number 1 and popular songs you didn't like.

If a song sold the most that week, then it deserved to be number 1.
Excellent reply and sums it up.
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Old 06-09-2014, 14:26
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Peter Andre - I Feel You (so bland even Peter Andre can't remember how this goes!!!)
3 Of A Kind - Babycake (it was just the worst #1 at a period of horrendous chart toppers)

There are more obvious offenders but these two really didn't deserve to be UK chart toppers.
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Old 06-09-2014, 14:44
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Joe Dolce Shaddap your Face (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs

Brian and Michael: 'Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats And Dogs' Top of the Pops (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVR-PyRC4io

Absolute shite - both of them! Joe Dolce kept Ultravox's Vienna off the number one slot! Unforgivable!
'Vienna' was a load of ridiculous, pompous old tosh and I for one am delighted that Shaddup Your Face stopped it getting to No 1.
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Old 06-09-2014, 15:00
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'Vienna' was a load of ridiculous, pompous old tosh and I for one am delighted that Shaddup Your Face stopped it getting to No 1.
On reflection Vienna was rather over the top in a lot of respects to be honest but certainly more interesting that Shaddup Your Face surely?

I still have a dislike of Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" just because it kept Free's All Right Now from the number one slot.
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Old 06-09-2014, 15:09
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On reflection Vienna was rather over the top in a lot of respects to be honest but certainly more interesting that Shaddup Your Face surely?

I still have a dislike of Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" just because it kept Free's All Right Now from the number one slot.
I'm with you on that one.
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Old 06-09-2014, 15:18
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Also, every X Factor winners song except Shayne Ward - "That's My Goal"
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Old 06-09-2014, 15:21
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It's a crime that Madonna's weak and uninspired karaoke version of American Pie hit #1 while the original version by Don McLean peaked at #2.
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Old 06-09-2014, 15:44
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It's a crime that Madonna's weak and uninspired karaoke version of American Pie hit #1 while the original version by Don McLean peaked at #2.
Same with Lily Allen's version of "Somewhere Only We Know" when Keane's version peaked at #3
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Old 06-09-2014, 18:14
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Same with Lily Allen's version of "Somewhere Only We Know" when Keane's version peaked at #3
Aww I like Lily's version. The production is rather beautiful and think she performed it well. Obviously not quite as good as the original though.

As for American Pie... I think even Madonna herself is ashamed of that. She never performs it live and it has since been omitted from both of her Greatest Hits!
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Old 06-09-2014, 18:18
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Cheryl Cole- Crazy, Stupid Love an awful song.
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Old 06-09-2014, 19:09
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Miley Cyrus - "Wrecking Ball". The fact it kept Eminem - "Berzerk" off number 1 is even more embarrassing.
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Old 06-09-2014, 19:24
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Probably showing my age here!

Joe Dolce Shaddap your Face (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs

Brian and Michael: 'Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats And Dogs' Top of the Pops (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVR-PyRC4io

Absolute shite - both of them! Joe Dolce kept Ultravox's Vienna off the number one slot! Unforgivable!
I was in junior school when that Matchstalk Men song was out, and we had to sing the song at school. Awful stuff. A few years later our music teacher made us all sing Super Trouper (ABBA song. I think he thought of himself as another Benny), while he played the piano. Cringeworthy!
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Old 06-09-2014, 19:26
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Gareth Gates' version of "Unchained Melody". It was bad enough Robson & Jerome ruining the song but it was even worse Gareth Gates ruining the song.
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Old 06-09-2014, 19:26
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Miley Cyrus - "Wrecking Ball". The fact it kept Eminem - "Berzerk" off number 1 is even more embarrassing.
Nothing beats a woman in her underwear.
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Old 06-09-2014, 19:27
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Nothing beats a woman in her underwear.
That was mostly the reason the song went to #1
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Old 06-09-2014, 19:30
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Gareth Gates' version of "Unchained Melody". It was bad enough Robson & Jerome ruining the song but it was even worse Gareth Gates ruining the song.
They didn't ruin the song, they merely helped demonstrate how they weren't as good as some of the acts that previously did versions of the song, or which there have been many.
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Old 06-09-2014, 19:31
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That was mostly the reason the song went to #1
Exactly. The chart is based on commercial success, not artistic merit.

I happen to think it's a very good song and that it really didn't require that video in the first place. It is a beautifully shot video though.
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