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Hello again! Welcome to edition number 13 of Kill or Save! Unlucky for some? Just the ones who can’t stand newer music. We’re going great guns in our quest to rifle through everything that has found itself the top end of the UK singles charts, and we’ve just expanded our mission! Having completed the No.1s and No.2s from the 1960s through to the 2000s, we’re both moving on to No.3s (with host @wannamaker) AND going back and covering the two decades we’ve until this point ignored: the 1950s and the 2010s. This game right here? The No.1 hits of the 2010s. Fancy reliving all the action? See below for links to all Kill or Save games to date: 60s No.1s; 70s No.1s; 80s No.1s; 90s No.1s; 00s No.1s; 10s No.1s (you are here) (IN PLAY!) 60s No.2s; 70s No.2s; 80s No.2s; 90s No.2s; 00s No. 2s 70s No.3s (IN PLAY!) Christmas Special 2023 KoS HoF The Rolling Stones — Paint It, Black Donna Summer — I Feel Love Nena — 99 Red Balloons Madonna — Vogue Gorillaz — Dare The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale Of New York Barry Ryan — Eloise Queen — Somebody To Love A-Ha — Take On Me The Cardigans — Lovefool Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor So, the 2010s. So recent, and yet so…not. The X Factor was a thing back then and now isn’t (thank fuck). Corona was still only either a beer or a eurodance group from the 90s. TikTok was just a Ke$ha song. Threads were just clothes. AI was just a big bloke in the pub who sat there every day from 10:30am. And the music…the music was…yeah…better than the charts would suggest, I’d say. Never mind. We’ve got a lot of killing to do. This’ll be a fun and wholly cathartic exercise. Yeah Yeah, Rules Schmules: Each song starts with 20 points (whether it deserves it or not). You can vote once a day. Since we all live in different parts of the world with all sorts of different timezones, please add a date at the top of your votes to avoid any confusion (e.g. 6/5/24, Mon 6 May, etc.). Each day you can give 4 points and subtract 6 points to any song on the board, you can split your points between as many songs as you want. Placeholder posts are allowed, but if you don't edit your votes within 5 minutes, then the next person can go and do their votes. Consecutive votes are not allowed. Before voting, please listen to the songs of each round and vote according to your own opinions, don't vote for songs because they're high/low on the board or because of your opinions about the artist, only the song matters. Make sure you copy and paste the most recent voter's scoreboard when you take your turn to score. For your own ease, ‘paste as plain text’ to get rid of the previous poster’s formatting. Then, delete their +/- scores, add yours, adjust the song’s points total and make your scores bold. As an example: 24 List Topper — Diego’s Nightmare +4 20 Didn’t Listen — Dump Me Later 20 The Ignored — Nobody Knows Me 19 Deckchair Shufflers — Faffing About -1 16 Drivel — Dreck 15 Bottom Of The Pile — Diego’s Favourite -5 And once again, from the heart of my bottom, thanks so much to our careful and attentive players who spot and correct any errors that arise (we're only human, after all). The game runs sweet as a nut thanks to you. See, below, the complete list of 244 UK No.1 songs from the 2010s. Lord have mercy on your earholes. And if you’ve been affected by any issues raised by this, the Samaritans are always there at the end of the phone for you. Call free on 116 123. As usual, we’ll go through 5 group stages, beginning with the No.1 hits of 2010/11, followed by a grand final consisting of the 25 songs that have qualified, where we will ultimately decide what the undisputed best chart topper of the 2010s is, and the artist(s) of said song can and will enjoy a TikTok revival and at least a few more minutes of being relevant. 2010/11: 65 songs - the last 6 songs will make the final 2012/13: 65 songs - the last 6 songs will make the final 2014/15: 61 songs - the last 6 songs will make the final 2016/17: 24 songs - the last 3 songs will make the final 2018/19: 29 songs - the last 4 songs will make the final So gang, oil up and get your extra-large, ultra-realistic, double-ended scythes at the ready, for it’s time…to Kill or Save.

Roar is nearly as bad as Firework, and Firework is nearly as bad as making a mini shish kebab out of your eardrums.

Fucking hell, we've voted quite similarly. it's a good job I was sitting down! Came to that conclusion with Boney M. It's a bop. I'd personally swap it for the ABBA song I'm not a fan of, but that'd be pissing in the wind given the support that song gets.

Imelda Staunton?

Wed 5 Jun 47 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 42 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 37 Lorde — Royals 37 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 37 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 35 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) +4 35 Coldplay — Paradise 35 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 34 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 33 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 30 Little Mix — Wings 28 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 28 Avicii — Wake Me Up 27 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child  27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 26 Jessie J — Domino 24 Rihanna — Diamonds 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 23 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 22 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love 20 Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis & Wankz — Thrift Shop 20 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 19 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 17 Rita Ora ft. Tinie Tempah — R.I.P. 17 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It 16 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful -6 13 Justin Timberlake — Mirrors 12 Wiley ft. Ms D — Heatwave 10 Katy Perry — Roar

Wed 5 Jun 53 David Bowie - Sound and Vision 42 ABBA - Money, Money, Money 30 David Dundas - Jeans On 29 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love +4 29 The Four Seasons — Silver Star 26 Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez 13 Mike Oldfield - Portsmouth 11 Boney M - Sunny 9 Status Quo - Rockin' All Over the World -6

51/49 yeah?

Times Laughed At By Audience (exc. jokes) Sunak - 4 Starmer - 0

Sunak is tetchy, rude and dishonest. Starmer is meandering and frustratingly calm. He's coming good now, but it's a slow burner.

Just waiting for Ed Davey to crash through the studio on a go kart and mow both the leaders down.

Julie Etchingham is doing a very poor job so far.

12 minutes in and Rishi Sunak has said the word 'plan' 65 times.

Agreed. Reform will get 1 if they're lucky, Green will stay on just the 1 if they're unlucky. Of all these polls so far, it averages out that the Tories will probably be at around 100-110. But it's alright, because Sunak is about to save the day for them on ITV right now.

And a new best friend in the form of a stone fruit.

2024 General Election Wet Clothing Tally Ed Davey: 2 Rishi Sunak: 1 Nigel Farage: 1 Keir Starmer: 0 Carla Denyer: 0 John Swinney: 0 Rhun ap Iorwerth: 0

Bloody thing won't embed but this is another 5s highlight of Führage's campaign day: https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1797990140482335205

What's gonna happen to all the Tory seats, Ed?

Even Tice can't help but smile

Cometh the hour, cometh the man all over Führage.

Oh dear.

S'pose he'll have to now his OH Andy Street is out of a job.

Heavens above, and I thought Sunak spat his dummy out easily! Useless grifting cunt.

Tue 4 Jun 43 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 42 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 42 John Newman — Love Me Again 35 Lorde — Royals 35 Coldplay — Paradise 35 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 35 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 34 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 33 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) +4 33 Little Mix — Wings 33 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 29 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 27 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 27 Avicii — Wake Me Up 26 Jessie J — Domino 26 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 26 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 25 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 24 Rihanna — Diamonds 22 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 22 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 21 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 20 Wiley ft. Ms D — Heatwave 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love 20 Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis & Wanz — Thrift Shop 20 Justin Timberlake — Mirrors 20 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 19 Rita Ora ft. Tinie Tempah — R.I.P. 19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me  18 Katy Perry — Roar 18 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful -5 14 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It 12 Sam Bailey — Skyscraper -1 10 Flo Rida — Good Feeling 06 One Direction — Little Things 02 Will.I.Am ft. Britney Spears — Scream & Shout

Tue 4 Jun 47 David Bowie - Sound and Vision +4 42 ABBA - Money, Money, Money 35 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love 34 The Four Seasons - Silver Star 31 Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez 30 David Dundas - Jeans On 22 Boney M - Sunny 21 Mike Oldfield - Portsmouth 14 Status Quo - Rockin' All Over the World -6

Just incase you were running low on reasons why Rishi Sunak is a cunt, here's Jon Richardson with another: (YT link won't embed cos there's an emoji in the title)