Erasure – She Won’t Be Home
Look, we can argue about whether this is technically a hit or not until the cows come home but it might just be THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS RECORD EVER. So, um, there.
Carly Simon – Share the End
Because nothing says "feel good" like a dose of Apocalypse Pop.
Cyndi Lauper – Change of Heart
Amazing pop stars at the top of their game in not-disappointing-in-the-slightest collaboration shocker! It can only be Cyndi Lauper and the Bangles.
Alex Newell & DJ Cassidy (with Nile Rodgers) – Kill the Lights
Echoes of an era with the best person to come out of Glee.
Hurts – Stay
The best wintry ballad of the decade.
Laura Branigan – Spanish Eddie
Who's for some Vick's and lemon gin?
Belinda Carlisle – Valentine (Remix Edit)
Oh my darling, look my way.
Claudia Brücken – Absolut[e]
Where do Brücken hearts go? The bargain bin, sadly.
Scarlet – Love Hangover
Not that Love Hangover. The other Love Hangover.
Gloria Estefan – Wepa
In which Gloria Estefan hitches a ride with Pharrell Williams, unfortunately just before he fitted new wheels on his wagon.
Diana Ross – Tenderness
Stewart on the Revenge Release: artist left your label for pastures new? Just plunder their back catalogue.
Dolly Parton – Here You Come Again
Dolly! Dolly! Dolly!
New Radicals – Mother We Just Can’t Get Enough
Pop: one of the few career choices where quitting early can actually do you a favour.
When in Rome – The Promise
In which we look at Pompous Pop and habitual doorway-leaners When in Rome.
Brandon Flowers – Lonely Town
My beautiful dark twisted fantasy of four top ten hits from a Brandon Flowers album.
Prince – D.M.S.R.
"DanceMusicSexRomance" - it's Dan's go-to Prince tune (and also his to-do list for Saturday nights).
Tasmin Archer – One More Good Night With the Boys
Never be the Next Big Thing.
Madonna – Keep it Together (Single Remix)
Do something else. Do my eyebrows.
Will Young – Like a River
Work hard, do good things and all your dreams will come true: not strictly the case when you're a pop star in this day and age.
Pet Shop Boys with Kylie Minogue – In Denial
1999: Pet Shop Boys and Kylie Minogue finally get together, create stunningly beautiful song, world shrugs. That's the brutality of pop for you.
