Thursday 31 December 2020

Top of the Pops: New Year 2020

Top of the Pops is back once again for New Year. You can watch it on the iPlayer if you missed it, here's what happened: 


Sigala ft James Arthur - Lasting Lover

We kick off the same way we kicked off Christmas with some EDM crap. James Arthur has a guitar with him, is he really playing it? Given how often he has his hands off it I guess not.

Sam Smith - Diamonds

A special performance from Abbey Road studios. I guess you could call this genre of music electro-dreary crap. Won't be long until I forget this song exists like pretty much every other Sam Smith song.

Becky Hill - Space

We get told she's collaborated with lots of super producers but now here she is in her own right. It's been produced by Camelphat, are they saying that Camelphat aren't super producers then? Sounds like all the other EDM crap she's done with these so called super producers. Oh and this didn't make the Top 40.

The biggest stories of 2020: Lewis Capaldi vs Stormzy battle for number one, Celeste releases songs that don't make the Top 40, Billie Eilish does a James Bond Song, Eminem scores a number one, as does Weeknd, J Hus has number one album, Dua Lipa releases an album, Blinding Lights by Weeknd.

Becky Hill interview.


Yungblud - Cotton Candy

A singer who apparently has his own talk show. Another non Top 40 hit. Looked like this would be a rock number to begin with, but it's turned out to be a but namby pamby. I was also expecting a rapper when the said his name, but how silly of me to think they'd have rap music after the Top 40 has been dominated by the genre this year. 

Clean Bandit ft Mabel & 24kGolden - Tick Tock

This was from Christmas day. Still the same now as it was then.

Now something about music in the lockdown.

Wes Nelson ft Hardy Caprio - See Nobody

Only one of them is there and I'm not sure which one it is. Ok spook too soon, the other one has arrived. At least we have some rap music that made the Top 40 on, yes it's a bit crap but at least it reflects the charts.

Arlo Parks - Hurt

Now we're back to a song that never made the Top 40 by a singer who's never made the Top 40. This is dreary, clearly there hasn't been enough Ed Sheeran and his clones in the Top 40 this year.

Nathan Dawe ft KSI & Ella Henderson - Lighter

Back to the EDM shite they play after a dreary ballad. We have 2 vocalists and they've been described as a super trio. Will people be talking about these 3 the same we people talk about Cream in 50 years time?

Now more big stories: Ariana Grande had a song, as did Taylor Swift, as did BTS. Shirley Bassey had an album. as did Rolling Stones, as did Michael Kiwanuka. Good year for Kylie Minogue and Annie Nightingale. Huge year for Little Mix, Jesy left the group. 2021 predictions.

Michael Kiwanuka - Light

Back to the dreary ballad, one that never made the Top 40. This really is getting tedious.

Yungblud interview.

Alfie Templeman - Forever Isn't Long Enough

Another one that never made the Top 40 by someone who's never made the Top 40. This one isn't bad actually.

Ladybaby - Don't Stop Me Eating

The Christmas number one, yet another sausage roll themed cover of an old record which is obviously crap but that's the point and it's for a good cause.

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