Peak Weeks on charts
See You Again by Miley Cyrus 2 11
Shake It by Metro Station 2 12
Viva La Vida by Coldplay 2 12
Teenage Love Affair by Alicia Keys 2 11
Teardrops On My Guitar by Taylor Swift 2 11
Hero/ Heroine by Boys Like Girls 2 12
When I Grow Up by Pussycat Dolls 2 8
Misery Business by Paramore 2 8
I'm Yours by Jason Mraz 3 12
Stop and Stare by One Republic 3 12
Better In Time by Leona Lewis 3 11
Happy Birthday by The Click Five 3 11
Beat It ft John Mayer by Fall Out Boy 3 11
No Air ft Chris Brown by Jordin Sparks 3 11
Handlebars by Flobots 3 10
Potential Breakup Song by Aly & AJ 4 14
Damaged by Danity Kane 4 12
Crushcrushcrush by Paramore 4 10
Hate That I Love You ft Ne-Yo by Rihanna4 10
Superstar ft Matthew Santos by Lupe Fiasco4 11
Love In This Club ft Young Jeezy by Usher4 11
Love Song by Sara Bareilles 4 9
Bubbly by Colbie Caillat 4 9
Kiss Kiss ft T-Pain by Chris Brown 4 9
How I Could Just Kil A Man by Charlotte Sometimes5 9
Inconsolable by Backstreet Boys 5 8
Bye Bye by Mariah Carey 5 6
All Around Me by Flyleaf 5 7

This week for the 987FM top 100 countdown preview, we take a look at songs that looked as if they were going to reach the summit, but somehow it flatters and drops out of the charts.

This year, a grand total of 28 songs reached the top 5 of the 987FM charts, but didn’t get the number one spot. Surprisingly, some of these songs can actually last longer on the charts as compared to some of the number one songs. One great example, would be Aly & AJ’s Potential Breakup Song, which is the longest lasting non-number one song ever on the history of the charts, by staying for a whopping 14 weeks, despite peaking only at 4. Only 3 other songs this year had stayed for 14 weeks, and there were all number one hits- Low, With You and No One.

There were some very popular and hotly requested songs, but yet there were unable to reach the top of Singapore. They would include the infectious hit single by Metro Station- Shake it, Coldplay Grammy nominated record of the year- Viva La Vida and Boys Like Girls Hero/Heroine All of which, could only peak at number 2, and stayed on the charts for 12 weeks. Teardrops on My Guitar by Taylor Swift also did not reach the coveted number one spot, reaching number 2.

Not all Disney songs could top the charts either; one of them was Miley Cyrus’ debut hit- See You Again, peaking at number 2 and spending 11 weeks. One Republic could not follow up the success of its previous single Apologize as Stop and Stare could only reach number 3. Same for Leona Lewis’ Better in Time, as she too failed to live up to the expectations of her previous number one hit Bleeding Love.

There were also songs that everyone knew and heard of, but too failed to top the charts. This includes Sara Bareilles, who took the airways by storm with Love Song and MySpace music prodigy- Colbie Cailat’s Bubbly, both could not even reach top 3, peaking only at 4 and staying for a mere 9 weeks.

Rihanna would have wished for another number one hit from her Good Girl Gone Bad album, but Hate That I Love You could only reach number 4. And most recently, everyone would have thought that Flobots could paddle their way up to the peak, even without Handlebars, but somehow they lost pace and was out of the race for number one, peaking at number 3.

Paramore got to be the biggest loser of 2008, on the Singapore charts, as the highly anticipated Misery Business and Cruscrushcrush could only peak at 2 and 4 respectively. If that wasn’t bad enough, Misery Business could only spend 8 weeks on the charts, which was the same for Pussycat Doll’s When I Grow Up, which also spent the same amount of time on the charts and peaked at the same number.

Next week, we take a look at how Singapore songs fared on the charts in the year 2008, songs that rocked other countries’ chart, but failed to shine in Singapore and also songs that bubbled but failed to debut on the charts. Till then..

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