Kylie Tops Chart For Most Popular Song of the Decade
PRS for Music announces Top 5 of the Noughties
Kylie Minogue has come out on top with her award-winning song Can't Get You Out of My Head as the most popular song of the decade receiving the most number of plays and performances using PRS for Music song data.
Number |
Title |
Artist |
Writer |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Can't Get You Out of My Head |
Kylie Minogue |
Cathy Dennis, Robert Davis |
2 |
Toxic |
Britney Spears |
Cathy Dennis, Henrik Jonback, Pontus Winnberg, Christian Karlsson |
3 |
Angels |
Robbie Williams |
Robert Williams, Guy Chambers |
4 |
Superstar |
Jamelia |
Mikkel Sigvardt, Mich Hansen, Joseph Belmaati |
5 |
Just A Little |
Liberty X |
John Hammond, George Hammond, Michelle Escoffery |
The song writers, Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis, explained in a recent M magazine interview ‘It was a very natural and fluid process… and was written in about three and a half hours’. Dennis and Davis produced the song with Dennis’ vocals over a number of instruments with an electronic feel. Despite being a phenomenal success the track was turned down by S Club 7 and Sophie Ellis-Bexter before Kylie but nevertheless, has become of her classic tracks.
Also featuring within the Top 5 is Britney Spears’ dance floor classic ‘Toxic’ and Robbie Williams infamous power ballad ‘Angels’. All of these songs have been awarded an Ivor Novello for ‘Most Popular Song’ of their relevant year of release and have become classic songs within their own right.
These are all classic songs of the Noughties and ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ is one of Kylie’s all time greatest hits. The writing talent behind this top 5 includes legends such as Cathy Dennis and Guy Chambers and underpins the importance of good songwriting in producing a hit.
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PRS for Music represents the rights of over 160,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers in the UK and around the world. On behalf of its members, it works to grow and protect the value of their rights and ensure that creators are paid transparently and efficiently whenever their musical compositions and songs are streamed, downloaded, broadcast, performed and played in public. In 2020, 22.4 trillion performances of music were reported to PRS for Music, with £699m paid out in royalties to its members, making it one of the world’s leading music collective management organisations.
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