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There it is. This marathon is over. The best UK No.1 hit of the 2010s is…King by Years & Years! Staggering, then, that you lot collectively decided to do things differently, opting instead to crown Somebody That I Used To Know, the artsy classic by Gotye, as the UK’s best chart topper from last decade. Featuring those wonky guitar samples, the dulcet tones of Kimbra and a melody from a nursery rhyme, how could one possibly arrive at a different conclusion? It has aged better than most, to be fair. And now it has won such a prestigious accolade as Kill or Save winner on Deathlist dot net, maybe Gotye and Kimbra can enjoy a well-deserved career relaunch. Here they are to play us out. Be sure to sing along with the fucking wall. Wonderful. If you’re that way inclined, I’d also suggest looking up the rest of Gotye’s internationally sucessful album Making Mirrors if you hadn’t already. Not all of it is brilliant, but all of it is interesting. Anyway, here’s how the grand final panned out for our top-25: Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know OneRepublic — Counting Stars Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne — Rather Be Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky Years & Years — King Cee Lo Green — Forget You David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium Lil Nas X — Old Town Road Ella Henderson — Ghost John Newman — Love Me Again Pitbull ft. Kesha — Timber Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls Clean Bandit ft. Zara Larson — Symphony Lady Gaga & Beyonce — Telephone Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars — Uptown Funk Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa — One Kiss Lorde — Royals Owl City — Fireflies Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug — Havana Lewis Capaldi — Someone You Loved Pharell Williams — Happy Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper — Shallow And, as ever, here are the shittest 25 of the game: X Factor Finalists 2011 — Wishing On A Star Military Wives With Gareth Malone — Wherever You Are Helping Haiti — Everybody Hurts Cher Lloyd — Swagger Jagger X Factor Finalists 2010 — Heroes Joe McElderry — The Climb Robin Thicke ft. T.I. & Pharrell — Blurred Lines Gary Barlow ft. Commonwealth Band — Sing Psy — Gangnam Style The Script ft. Will.I.Am — Hall Of Fame Sam & The Womp — Bom Bom One Direction — One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) Band Aid 30 — Do They Know It’s Christmas? Gareth Malone’s All Star Choir — Wake Me Up Sam Smith — Writing’s On The Wall Ed Sheeran — Sing The Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir — A Bridge Over You Charlie Puth ft. Meghan Trainor — Marvin Gaye Artists For Grenfell — Bridge Over Troubled Water Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber — Despacito Ed Sheeran — Shape Of You LadBaby — I Love Sausage Rolls Tones And I — Dance Monkey LadBaby — We Built This City Lil Dicky ft. Chris Brown — Freaky Friday Proud of you all for getting rid of LadCunty as swiftly as you did. Well done guys. Now, prepare for a bit of whiplash: for the next game, we’re rewinding all the way back to, well, the start of the UK charts: the 1950s. Even if this might be outside your musical tastes/knowledge, I do hope you’ll all be brave enough to join in with the fun there. It might be an education. It’ll definitely be a good laugh.

Ah, gotcha Cunting Stars is on 1 btw, not 7. And Gotye's on 55, not 54 (as if that matters at this stage)

Sun 18 Aug 71 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 66 Queen - A Kind of Magic 66 The Damned - Eloise 48 Heart - Alone  35 Michael Jackson - Bad 33 Cameo - Word Up! +4 27 The Housemartins — Happy Hour -6 06 Mental as Anything - Live It Up

Matter with you ya twat?

Sun 18 Aug 51 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know +4 07 OneRepublic — Counting Stars -6 Can not believe that utter shit is coming second.

Sat 17 Aug 49 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know +4 25 Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times 16 OneRepublic — Cunting Stars -6

Sat 17 Aug 73 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 61 Queen - A Kind of Magic 61 The Damned - Eloise 47 Heart - Alone  40 Michael Jackson - Bad 37 The Housemartins — Happy Hour -6 32 Cameo - Word Up! +4 22 Alison Moyet - Is This Love? 13 Mental as Anything - Live It Up  

Well, if someone provokes him and that happens, someone please let me know in this thread What’s up @diego?

Fri 16 Aug 75 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 64 The Damned - Eloise  62 Queen - A Kind of Magic 47 Cameo - Word Up! +4 42 Michael Jackson - Bad 37 Heart - Alone 33 The Housemartins — Happy Hour -6 25 Alison Moyet - Is This Love? 13 Mental as Anything - Live It Up 06 Bananarama - Love In The First Degree

Cheers. I'm not reading any other threads until the 'problem' has been dealt with but I could never leave KoS behind! Even if King not winning wound me right up Sure; here's the whole lot:

Fri 16 Aug 43 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know +4 31 Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times 27 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 09 Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne — Rather Be -6

Even they get things right sometimes. I mean what the fuck is the ice cream cunt doing killing off the same Years & Years song he was adding points to beforehand? Now look what we've got left in the top fucking five: Gotye - Alright but lord alfuckingmighty it was overplayed. OneRepublic - Boring boring boring. Dull dull dull dull dull. Boring. Dull. Jess Glynne - Hotel kids club shite. Harry Styles - I have no opinion of this. None. That, in itself, is extraordinary. Daft Cunt & Pharrell - Music for people who wear a sombrero and a hawaiian shirt on a plane and clap when it lands. Can't wait for the 50s game. At least we'll all be a bit lost.

You've all fucked it up.

Thu 15 Aug 71 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 60 Queen - A Kind of Magic 60 The Damned - Eloise 50 Michael Jackson - Bad 42 Cameo - Word Up! +4 34 Heart - Alone 31 Alison Moyet - Is This Love? 31 The Housemartins — Happy Hour -6 20 Mental as Anything - Live It Up 12 Bananarama - Love In The First Degree 08 Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way 07 Jackie Wilson - I Get the Sweetest Feeling 06 The Proclaimers — Letter From America

Thu 15 Aug 34 Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne — Rather Be 33 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 28 Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times 26 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 10 Years & Years — King +4 09 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky -6

Wed 14 Aug 67 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 59 Queen - A Kind of Magic 57 The Damned - Eloise 51 Michael Jackson - Bad 38 Cameo - Word Up! 38 Alison Moyet - Is This Love? 33 Heart - Alone 23 Mental as Anything - Live It Up +4 23 The Housemartins — Happy Hour -6 21 Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately 13 The Proclaimers — Letter From America 13 Jackie Wilson - I Get the Sweetest Feeling  12 Bananarama - Love In The First Degree  12 Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way

Wed 14 Aug 39 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 39 Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne — Rather Be 31 Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times 27 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 20 Years & Years — King +4 12 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky -6

Tue 13 Aug 64 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 62 Queen - A Kind of Magic 54 The Damned - Eloise 43 Michael Jackson - Bad 41 Cameo - Word Up! 41 Heart - Alone 38 Alison Moyet - Is This Love? 28 Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately  24 Mental as Anything - Live It Up +4 17 Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way 16 Jackie Wilson - I Get the Sweetest Feeling  14 Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel  14 The Housemartins — Happy Hour -6 13 Bananarama - Love In The First Degree  13 The Proclaimers - Letter From America 08 Curiosity Killed The Cat - Down to Earth Undoing the last cunt.

Tue 13 Aug 56 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 38 Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times 35 Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne — Rather Be -4 32 Years & Years — King +4 29 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 06 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky -2 06 Cee Lo Green — Forget You

Mon 12 Aug 48 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 39 Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne — Rather Be 35 Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times 33 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 33 Years & Years — King +4 14 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky -6 14 Cee Lo Green — Forget You 06 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium

Mon 12 Aug 60 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 54 Queen - A Kind of Magic 50 The Damned - Eloise  43 Michael Jackson - Bad 40 Cameo - Word Up! 34 Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately 34 Heart - Alone  34 Alison Moyet - Is This Love? 32 Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way +4 26 Mental as Anything - Live It Up 20 Curiosity Killed The Cat - Down to Earth  19 Bananarama - Love In The First Degree  18 The Proclaimers - Letter From America 16 Jackie Wilson - I Get the Sweetest Feeling  14 Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel  10 Robbie Nevil - C’est la Vie 08 The Housemartins — Happy Hour -6 Used lilham's scoreboard and incorporated Bib's scores.

That’s it. I’m done. I’m KoS only until Crem’s banned. Good job the Olympics ended today innit.

Officially, Team GB has been 'the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team' since the 90s. But Team GB is snappier and works better as a marketing exercise.

Shit yeah I forgot about Beth Shriever! Didn’t watch the Artistic Swimming cos it bores me to tears. That and the Equestrian stuff. Changed the GB Gold to Home Nation gold because it’s not all about GB…my bad, just proud of them atm.

The one common measure of the success of a nation's Fucking Olympic team is how proud you are of them. And boy am I proud of Team GB. They just happen to have a bloody good haul of medals, some of which I wish were golds, but that's how it goes. Favourite Home Nation Gold: Alex Yee Favourite Sport: Kayak Cross Most Impressive Performance: Both Nafi Thiam and KJT in the Heptathlon Special Mention: Andy McDonald, GB's 51-year-old skateboarder Biggest Fuckup: Either everyone falling over in the gymnastics, or the decision to make Leon Taylor a diving commentator I absolutely loved these Olympics. I'm so glad I was in a position to be at home for the most part and get properly immersed in it; I'll have to make sure that's the case in 2028. Onwards to the Fucking* Paralympics, starting the 28th! *Or alternative gratuitous word