poll Song and Record of the Year: 2005

[Achilles.]

As expected, Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” triumphed in the Record of the Year category in our 2004 poll—though OutKast’s classic “Hey Ya!” booked a respectable runner-up position. The Grammy winner—Coldplay’s “Clocks”—finished third. With this win, Beyoncé becomes the first artist to have won both Record and Song in this poll series; she previously won Song of the Year for her contributions to “Say My Name” by Destiny’s Child. We have a repeat winner in the 2004 Song of the Year category as well, as Avril Lavigne wins a second consecutive poll with “I’m With You.”

 

In 2005, the Grammys decided that they had had enough of the pop girls and nominated a bunch of other people instead. Still, there are some classic hits here, I guess, if they’re your sort of thing. Genuinely not sure what results to expect here, though I don’t really expect us to match the Grammys. Ray Charles and Norah Jones won Record of the Year for “Here We Go Again” and John Mayer won Song of the Year for “Daughters.”

 

 

 

Spoiler

1999:

Record: Celine Dion - “My Heart Will Go On”

Song: Celine Dion - “My Heart Will Go On”

 

2000:

Record: Cher - “Believe”

Song: Santana - “Smooth”
 

2001:

Record: Madonna - “Music”

Song: Destiny’s Child - “Say My Name”
 

2002:

Record: OutKast - “Ms. Jackson”

Song: Alicia Keys - “Fallin’”

 

2003:

Record: Vanessa Carlton - “A Thousand Miles”

Song: Avril Lavigne - “Complicated”

 

2004:

Record: Beyoncé - “Crazy in Love (feat. Jay Z)”

Song: Avril Lavigne - “I’m With You”

 

Edited December 5, 2023 by Achilles.

[naval23]

Damn the quality of 2005 was way less than 2004 if I'm being honest

[GoodGuyGoneGhetto]

ROTY: “Yeah!”.

 

SOTY: “Jesus Walks”. 

Edited December 5, 2023 by GoodGuyGoneGhetto

[SlowGinFizzzz]

The Green Day and Alicia Keys tracks are absolute 11/10 classics, but those other options... 

[tost1]

None of those is really all that

[reymiu]

Yeah and IIAGY

 

Both classics

[waylon4ever]

Live Like you were dying was a huge country song selling over 2 million copies alone. It was a 7 week #1 on the country charts and reached #29 on the billboard chart. The single helped the album sell 766,000 copies in it’s first week debuting at #1 on the all 200 chart. The album is now 4x platinum. 

Edited December 5, 2023 by waylon4ever

[JoeAg]

none of those record of the year ones are very good... but I guess Yeah

 

Alicia for If I Ain't Got You for song for sure 

 

 

(and yes, I know American Idiot is there... sorry but it's extremely overrated and has aged poorly. Green Day has many way better politically-minded songs)

[Cheers]

Pon De Replay for both

 

[Zaynsus]

No hesitation : Yeah! and If I Ain't Got You.

 

I'm surprised Alicia didn't win that one.

[Tylerbv]

Weak year overall.

 

American Idiot

If I Ain’t Got You (although The Reason is a 12/10  )

[Achilles.]

Given the underwhelming nature of this slate of nominees, I thought I’d take a look at some things nominated in other categories that could have been here instead. 

Kylie - Slow

Evanescence - My Immortal

Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved

Britney Spears - Toxic

Ryan Adams - Wonderwall

Prince - Call My Name

Jay Z - 99 Problems

The Chicks - Top of the World (Live) — Record only
 

So there were definitely some opportunities to get proper classics in there. And Toxic, too.

 

[Just a Gay on ATRL]

Record: American Idiot

Song: If I Ain't Got You

[Just a Gay on ATRL]

I'm not sure which of your threads I missed/jhaven't missed so fat but for kiis my choices per year so far.

 

1999 - ROTY; My Heart Will Go On / SOTY; My Heart Will Go On 

2000 - ROTY; Believe / SOTY; I Want It That Way

2001 - ROTY; Say My Name / SOTY; I Hope You Dance

2002 - ROTY; Fallin' / SOTY; Drops of Jupiter

2003 - ROTY; A Thousand Miles / SOTY; A Thousand Miles

2004 - ROTY; Crazy In Love / SOTY; Lose Yourself

2005 - ROTY; American Idiot / SOTY; If I Ain't Got You

[Space Cowboy]

This lineup was WEAK

[Azulito]

Usher and Alicia deserved 

+ Ciara should've won BNA

[rmmas]

Daughters is so deserving. The Grammys picked the right one this time 

[jdanton2]

Record  Usher

Song Alicia

[Alldeezy]

isnt this more 2004?

 

Green Day

The Reason 

 

2005 was the best year in music but this list is awful

[Achilles.]

2 minutes ago, Alldeezy said:

isnt this more 2004?

Yeah. The 2005 ceremony covers the October 2003 through September 2004 eligibility period, and so forth. 

[Fitzswiftie]

6 hours ago, Achilles. said:

Given the underwhelming nature of this slate of nominees, I thought I’d take a look at some things nominated in other categories that could have been here instead. 

Kylie - Slow

Evanescence - My Immortal

Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved

Britney Spears - Toxic

Ryan Adams - Wonderwall

Prince - Call My Name

Jay Z - 99 Problems

The Chicks - Top of the World (Live) — Record only
 

So there were definitely some opportunities to get proper classics in there. And Toxic, too.

 

That’s even all of them 

 

Destiny’s Child - Lose My Breath

Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

The Killers - Somebody Told Me

Kanye West - Through the Wire (in record only)

Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregeon

Modest Mouse - Float On

Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell - Drop It Like It’s Hot

 

And Brandy’s "Afrodisiac" album 

[Chemist]

awful options

 

[superben]

American Idiot

 

If I Ain't Got You

[Achilles.]

Glad not to be the only Live Like You Were Dying voter. Whew, the memories. 

[khalyan]

American Idiot

The Reason