2012 Mid-Year Top 5s

[Vashetti]

Top 5 Albums

Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Cheryl Cole - A Million Lights

Top 5 Singles

Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Rebecca Ferguson - Glitter & Gold
Lana Del Rey - National Anthem
Cheryl Cole - Call My Name
Aiden Grimshaw - Is This Love

Top 5 Songs

Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Cheryl Cole - Call My Name
Leona Lewis - Come Alive (don't even like this that much but I have to squeeze Leona in here somewhere)
Cheryl Cole - Teddy Bear
Cheryl Cole - Under The Sun

Top 5 Videos

Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (did this premiere last year or this year? I don't even know)
Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans
Lana Del Rey - National Anthem
Cheryl Cole - Call My Name
Loreen - Euphoria (haha)

Top 5 Disappointments

Alexandra Burke - Heartbreak (Career) On Hold
Madonna - MDNA
Leona Lewis - NOT SINGING GLASSHEART AT THE RADIO 1 HACKNEY WEEKEND EVEN THOUGH SHE PRACTISED IT

[Euphoria]

Top 5 Albums:

01 Fiona Apple, The Idler Wheel...
02 Lana Del Rey, Born to Die
03 Madonna, MDNA
04 Santigold, Master of My Make-Believe
05 Nicki Minaj, Roman Reloaded

Top 5 Videos:
01 Fiona Apple, Every Single Night
02 Lana Del Rey, National Anthem
03 Madonna, Give Me All Your Luvin'
04 Lana Del Rey, Born To Die
05 Delilah, Inside My Love

Top 4 Disappointments:
01 MDNA Promotion
02 Birthday Cake Remix
03 "Wings"
04 The return of boy bands

[citoig]

It's halfway through the year, and I finally have five albums I love, so I guess I can do this.

Top 5 Singles:

Plan B - Ill Manors (especially The Prodigy remix)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
2ne1 - Scream
Katy Perry - Wide Awake
Scissor Sisters - Shady Love

I left out Part of Me because as much as I love it (it's my most played song), it doesn't feel like a 2012 song, even given all it's success.



Top 5 Songs:

Jack Peñate - No One Lied
Azealia Banks - Bambi
Melody Thornton - Bulletproof (Melody)
Nicki Minaj - Fire Burns
Lana Del Rey - Off To The Races

I really wanted to add Princess Die, but it didn't feel right, seeing as it's only a live performance. It gets an honorary mention, though.



Top 5 Albums:

1) Glen Hansard - Rhythm & Repose
2) Melanie Fiona - The MF Life
3) Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
4) Amanda Mair - Amanda Mair
5) Marilyn Manson - Born Villain

I feel like the first half of the year has been a little light on albums in general, to be honest. I can only think of a handful more I've properly listened to, never mind would have thought about including.



Top 5 Disappointments:

1) Magic Hour (Especially coming off the back of Shady Love)
2) MDNA (bar Gang Bang and I Don't Give A, basically)
3) Birthday Cake-gate happening
4) Drunk on Love not happening
5) Diana Vickers/Little Boots/Brandy all basically going M.I.A.

[PantoponRose]

Yay for Amanda Mair! You're not completely shit.

[Hunterpoop]

Top albums

1. Paloma Faith - Fall to Grace
2. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
3. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
4. Marina and the Diamonds - Electra Heart
5. Reserved for Ke$ha.

Edit: Zowie - Love Demolition should go somewhere in there.

Disappointments

1. Kin
2. MDNA (Although can you say it was disappointing if it lived up to your expectations?)
3. Electra Heart (hehe.)

Kin and Electra Heart are both strong and have lots of excellent tracks but didn't live up to my expectations / the previous discography of the respective artist. And MDNA is just shit (except for Girl Gone Wild).

[craiggci]

Top 5 albums
1. Bright Light X2 - Make Me Believe In Hope (I haven't heard an album this good for a very long time)
2. Marina & The Diamonds - Electra Heart
3. Sam Sparro - Return To Paradise
4. Scissor Sisters - Magic Hour
5. St Etienne - Words And Music By...

Top 5 Singles
In no particular order
Icona Pop - I Love It
Carly Rae Jepson - Call Me Maybe
Dragonette - Let It Go
Sam Sparro - I Wish I Never Met You
The Saturdays - 30 Days

Biggest disappointments
Magic Hour (It's a great album but not even close to the amazing Night Work)
MDNA
Missing Gaga due to freakish weather in Christchurch
Alexandra

The Highlight Of My Existance
The Anti-Tour

[AdzBrown]

Top 10 Songs / Singles

01 Azealia Banks - 212
02 Nicki Minaj - Starships
03 Loreen - Euphoria
04 Nicki Minaj - Pound The Alarm
05 Cheryl - Call My Name
06 Carly Rae Jepson - Call Me Maybe
07 Gotye & Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
08 David Guetta & Sia - Titanium
09 fun. & Janelle Monae - We Are Young
10 Flo Rida & Sia - Wild Ones

[Itty Bitty Piggy]

Crystalline (Current Value Remix) needs adding to my list. I have a feeling my year-end list is going to look very different.

[citoig]

Yay for Amanda Mair! You're not completely shit.

That was almost not an insult. Well done! (Now go listen to Rhythm & Repose, and repent.)

[youthless]

Top 10 Songs:

1. Jessica Ware, Running
2. First Aid Kit, The Lion's Roar
3. Grimes, Oblivion
4. Lana Del Rey, National Anthem (also, HANDS DOWN my favourite video)
5. Frank Ocean, Thinking About You
6. Scissor Sisters, Let's Have A Kiki
7. Azealia Banks, 1991
8. Beach House, Lazuli
9. Santigold, Disparate Youth
10. Yeasayer, Henrietta

Others I've enjoyed immensely:
Actress, Django Django, Fiona Apple, Florrie, Gossip, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Saint Etienne,

Biggest Disappointment:
The utterly depressing state of the charts this year.

[Keifer3194]

Top 5 Singles:
1. Euphoria - Loreen
2. Spectrum (Calvin Harris Remix) - Florence & The Machine
3. Stronger (What Doesnt Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson
4. Feel The Love - Rudimental
5. Pound The Alarm - Nicki Minaj

Top 5 Albums:
1. Ladyhawke -Anxiety
2. Marina & The Diamonds - Electra Heart
3. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
4. Miike Snow - Happy To You
5. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday:Roman Reloaded

Top 5 Videos:
1.National Anthem - Lana Del Rey
2. No Church In The Wild - Jay-Z x Kanye West
3. Fizzy Lettuce - WooWoos
4. Bad Girls - M.I.A.
5. Ill Manors - Plan B

Top 5 Disappointments:
1. Adele being cut off at the Brits after Damon Albarn went on about nothing for 10 mins
2.Alexandra Burke's career going down the pan.
3. The Wanted having a go at artists that have sold 4398540895498438954483 more records than them
4. The UK chart position of Aidan Grimshaw's 'Is This Love?'
5. The UK chart position of Maroon 5's Payphone

[IceflamePhoenix]

Well, since I don't watch TV/listen to radio I'm probably not much good with singles or music videos. I'm going to split my list into honorable mentions (that I think people should listen to because they're excellent albums) and then my personal 'top 5' to finish it off. Literally no good for the remaining categories, unfortunately.

Albums though, hit me baby.

Rockin' & Poppin' in 2012-:

Honorable mentions (in no particular order):
* Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE (R&B)
* 塞壬 (SingerSen) - Ghost Street EP (Chinese, Experimental, Electro-pop)
* Tyson - Die on the Dancefloor (Electronic, Disco, Nu-disco)
* Van She - Idea of Happiness (Electronic, Synth-pop)
* iamamiwhoami - Kin (Ambient, Electronic, Experimental, Electro-pop)
* Scissor Sisters - Magic Hour (A heady mix of deviant sexual escapades)
* Miike Snow - Happy To You (Alternative dance, Electronic, Indie, Electro-pop)
* Bear in Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool (Electronic, Psychedelic, Indie, Synth-rock, Shoegaze)
* St. Lucia - St. Lucia EP (Electronic, Indie, Nu-disco, Tropical)
* Garbage - Not Your Kind of People (Alternative rock, Electronic) < Near miss for Top 5
* Bright Light Bright Light - Make Me Believe In Hope (Dance, Electronic, Electro-pop, Pop) < Near miss for Top 5

TOP 5 (again, in no particular order):
* Saint Etienne - Words & Music by Saint Etienne
* Marina & The Diamonds - Electra Heart
* Zowie - Love Demolition
* Gossip - A Joyful Noise
* Donkeyboy - Silver Moon

[Hunterpoop]

I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT BERTINE ZETLITZ WHAT KIND OF FAILURE AM I.

[Itty Bitty Piggy]

Albums:

1. Born To Die - Lana Del Rey
2. Feed Me Diamonds - MNDR
3. Electra Heart - Marina and the Diamonds
4. 1991 + Fantasea - Azealia Banks
5. Master Of My Make-Beleive - Santigold
6. The MF Life - Melanie Fiona
7. Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
8. Visions - Grimes
9. From The Roots Up - Delilah
10. An Awesome Wave - alt-J

Amazing. And there are still quite a few albums to look forward to.

I can only break my songs down to a top 20, and it was still brutal. But I made the thread, and I think we can bend the rules a little.

Songs:

1. Wildest Moments - Jessie Ware
2. Off To The Races - Lana Del Rey
3. Spectrum - Florence + The Machine
4. Running Up That Hill [2012 Remix] - Kate Bush
5. Sex Yeah - Marina and the Diamonds
6. Liquorice - Azealia Banks
7. Bad Religion - Frank Ocean
8. Feed Me Diamonds - MNDR
9. Intro Intro - Little Nicki
10. Crystalline [Current Value Remix] - Björk
11. You're The One - Charli XCX
12. Inside My Love - Delilah
13. 1991 - Azealia Banks
14. Esta Noche - Azealia Banks
15. Circumambient - Grimes
16. Bad Girls [Switch Remix] - M.I.A, Missy Elliott, Rye Rye
19. Disparate Youth - Santigold
18. Running - Melanie Fiona
19. Settle Down - No Doubt
20. Whip It - Nicki Minaj

[KamikazeHeart]

Top 5 songs:

Lana Del Rey - National Anthem
Carrie Underwood - Blown Away
Loreen - Euphoria
Amanda Mair - Sense
Pistol Annies - Run, Daddy, Run

UPDATE

Agnes - One Last Time
Carrie Underwood - Blown Away
Lana Del Rey - National Anthem
Aiden Grimshaw - Curtain Call
Cheryl Cole - Call My Name

[hitori]

1. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
2. After School - Flashback
3. T-ara - Day By Day
4. Cheryl Cole - Call My Name
5. Aiden Grimshaw - Curtain Call

[neverleftagirl]

Top 5 Albums:

1. Cheryl Cole - A Million Lights
2. Emeli Sande - Our Version Of Events
3. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
4. Amanda Mair - Amanda Mair
5. Marina And The Diamonds - Electra Heart

Top 5 Singles:

1. The Saturdays - 30 Days
2. Cheryl Cole - Call My Name
3. Cassie - King Of Hearts
4. Emeli Sande - My Kind Of Love
5. Amelia Lily - You Bring Me Joy

Top 5 Non-Singles:

1. Cassie - King Of Hearts (Richard X Remix)
2. Gossip - Into The Wild
3. Cheryl Cole - A Million Lights
4. Florrie - To The End
5. The Saturdays - Turn Myself In

Top 5 Disappointments:

1. Lack of a new Diana Vickers album
2. Oh My! splitting up
3. SoundGirl splitting up
4. Dragonette's new material
5. The new Little Mix song

[glennyfromtheblock]

Haven't really had too many standout albums this year, barring Llama Del Rey (and, even then, I think it's the unreleased tracks that are superior to at least half of that album), Marina and, actually, Madonna (MDNA is a great album with two awful, AWFUL single choices). Fiona Apple is growing on me, but it's taken a bit. Actually, my favourite album of the year is probably Barchords by Bahamas (youtube Lost In The Light or Caught Me Thinking).

SINGLES

01 - Call Me Maybe - The Jeppo
02 - Primadonna - Marina And The Diamonds
03 - National Anthem - Lana Del Rey
04 - Every Single Night - Fiona Apple
05 - Part Of Me - Katy Perry

[clockworknovak]

Niki and the Dove are definitely on my top five albums list at this point.

[SmashHitter]

Top 5 Singles
1. "Reunion" - M83
2. "Euphoria" - Loreen
3. "Let It Go" - Dragonette
4. "Never Close Our Eyes" - Adam Lambert
5. "Pull Of The Eye" - Donkeyboy

Donkeyboy and Adam would also be in my favourite albums, along with Gossip.

[popmania]

Top 5 Albums

1- Jessie Ware "Devotion"
2-Frank Ocean "Channel Orange"
3-Saint Etienne "Words and Music"
4-Bright Light Bright Light "Make Me Believe in Hope"
5-Ren Harvieu "Through The Night"

However I think after today Pet Shop Boys may sneak in towards the end of year after repeated plays.

[Mushroom3]

Definite August Review:

Top 5 Singles of 2012

------ Elephant -------

1. Cassie - King of Hearts
2. Amelle - God Won't Save U Now
3. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
4. Christina Aguilera - Your Body
5. Ellie Goulding - Anything Could Happen

Notable exclusions:

Carly Rae Jepsen -Call Me Maybe
Justin Bieber - Boyfriend
Nelly Furtado - The Spirit Indestructible
Rudimental - Feel The Love
Katy Perry - Part of Me
Loreen - Euphoria
Leona Lewis - Trouble (feat. Childish Gambino)
The Vaccines - No Hope
Jay-Z & Kanye West - No Church In The Wild
No Doubt - Settle Down

[jinzo]

An update.

1. David Guetta (ft. Sia)- She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)
2. Nicki Minaj- Pound the Alarm
3. Cheryl- Call My Name
4. Loreen- Euphoria, 4. Usher- Euphoria (THEY BOTH COUNT)
5. Calvin Harris (ft. Florence)- Sweet Nothing

And a special prize to:

6. Khia- Fuck a Promo

[Mushroom3]

I still haven't heard that David Guetta song. I'm going to simply wait for it to be thrust upon me.

[clockworknovak]

An update.

1. David Guetta (ft. Sia)- She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)
2. Nicki Minaj- Pound the Alarm
3. Cheryl- Call My Name
4. Loreen- Euphoria, 4. Usher- Euphoria (THEY BOTH COUNT)
5. Calvin Harris (ft. Florence)- Sweet Nothing

And a special prize to:

6. Khia- Fuck a Promo

Someone's got a taste for Eurotrash.