2007: The End? - March

We're up to 42 new entries in 2007 which is comparable to several other months and therefore one decent record won't carry as much weight as January and February.

The indie/garage rock count has grown with it, I count 15 of these records to be from the genre and true to form the collective score for these records is zero.

It's not just the indie/garage rock that's lacking in quality though, it's pretty much every genre. The rap and R&B genres also collectively get zero though there's far fewer of them, I count 5. At least 4 of them are highly unlikely to get points anyway who are P Diddy, Ciara, Joss Stone and Fergie. The remaining one is from Cushh who I've never heard of, can't find much about them on the internet and could only find a short clip of their song. It was long enough for me to conclude it's not very good though.

Just 7 from the dance music world which is also lacking in quality. There's Cascada with some more cheesy crap. Then we have Calvin Harris making his debut, not as bad as his future EDM shite but still crap. Alex Gaudino, Fedde Le Grande and Junior Jack also have hits which I never rated. Then there's Seamus Haji with nonsense about a DJ saving their life, I hate that sort of thing.

The final dance record may be a stretch of the definition for some, but it's also the best record which is "North American Scum" by LCD Soundsystem. It's up there with their best and only just scraped into the Top 40. It was a no brainer for me to pick this as the best record because it's the only one to get any points whatsoever.

That leaves the worst record which is a really tough choice because there's some truly dreadful records in there. In the end I've gone for the one that first stood out to me when looking at the list which is Sugababes and Girls Aloud doing a cover of "Walk This Way". I believe it was for charity, I don't know why anyone would have bought it otherwise. 2 girl groups covering a rock/rap crossover record, it's really as bad as that sounds.

Here's a list of the records with the best on top, worst at the bottom and the good ones in green, OK ones in amber and rubbish ones in red (and in no particular order):

Score: 2%

Here's a look at the chart:

Now looking like it's only a matter of time until we get our first zero month.