The forty best tracks to be a UK Top 40 hit for the first time last year, as judged by me.
SONGS WHICH ARE AMONG MY FAVOURITES ALL DECADE BUT CAME OUT IN 2007
MIA – “Paper Planes”
Britney Spears – “Piece Of Me”
SONGS WHICH ARE AMONG MY FAVOURITES ALL DECADE AND ACTUALLY CAME OUT LAST YEAR HURRAH
Wiley – “Wearing My Rolex”
Goldfrapp – “A&E”
SONGS IN WHICH HUMAN INTERACTION CONFUSES ROBOTS AND MAKES THEM SAD
Kanye West – “Love Lockdown”
Ultrabeat ft Darren Styles – “Discolights”
SONGS ABOUT FANCYING PEOPLE IN DISCOS
Chris Brown – “Forever”
Hot Chip – “Ready For The Floor”
Usher – “Love In This Club”
SONGS BY NE-YO
Ne-Yo – “Closer”
Ne-Yo – “Miss Independent”
Ne-Yo – “Mad”
SONGS WHICH MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BEEN BY NE-YO
John Legend – “Green Light”
SONGS I TRIED NOT TO LIKE BUT WHOSE CHORUSES GRABBED ME BY THE BOLLOCKS
Katy Perry – “Hot N Cold”
Alphabeat – “Fascination”
SONGS IN WHICH THE SINGER LIKES THIS PART
Britney Spears – “Break The Ice”
SONGS IN WHICH THE SINGER HATES THIS PART
Pussycat Dolls – “I Hate This Part”
SONGS FLICKERING WANLY IN THE DYING EMBERS OF THE 00S POP REVOLUTION
Girls Aloud – “The Loving Kind”
Kylie Minogue – “The One”
SONGS CONCERNING THEMSELVES WITH THE PLEASURES AND PERILS OF DATING KANYE WEST
Kanye West – “Flashing Lights”
Estelle ft Kanye West – “American Boy”
SONGS ABOUT THE LOSS OF VITAL FUNCTIONS
Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown – “No Air”
Hercules and Love Affair – “Blind”
SONGS THAT WERE QUITE GOOD BY STARS WHO CAN AND HAVE DONE BETTER
Britney Spears – “Womanizer”
Mariah Carey – “Touch My Body”
Rihanna – “Disturbia”
SONGS THAT MADE ME WISH MORE BASSLINE RECORDS HAD CHARTED THIS YEAR
H20 ft Platnum – “What’s It Gonna Be”
Platnum – “Love Shy”
OBLIGATORY INDIE SONGS
Santogold – “LES Artistes”
Vampire Weekend – “Oxford Comma”
OBLIGATORY ROCK SONGS
Fall Out Boy – “I Don’t Care”
Ashlee Simpson – “Outta My Head (Ay Yay Ya)”
SONGS I REMEMBER LIKING AT THE TIME BUT COULD NOT IN ALL HONESTY TELL YOU HOW THEY WENT
Taio Cruz – “Come On Girl”
T-Pain ft Teddy Verseti – “Church”
Flo Rida – “Low”
SONGS I REMEMBER NOT LIKING AT THE TIME BUT WHICH CHARMED ME IN THE END
September – “Cry For You”
Eric Prydz – “Pjanoo”
SONG WHICH I LIKED MAINLY BECAUSE IT MADE ME THINK OF HOW AWESOME THE FIRST THREE ISSUES OF FINAL CRISIS WERE
Gnarls Barkley – “Run”
SONG WHICH I WAS SURPRISED TO LIKE
Keane – “Spiralling”
SONG WHICH I CANNOT REMOTELY JUSTIFY ENJOYING BUT WHICH SEDUCES ME WITH ITS PREPOSTEROUSNESS
The Killers – “Human”