Is this the decade's best song?

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RED ALERT: Beyonce's Crazy In Love has been voted the best song of the decade.

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Beyonce Knowles' song Crazy In Love has been voted the best song of the decade.

The 2003 single - which features her now husband Jay-Z - was released as the lead single from her album Dangerously in Love and went on to massive success, reaching the top spot in the UK and US charts, as well as landing Beyonce two Grammy awards.

The former Destiny's Child singer beat MGMT, whose 2008 song Time To Pretend came second, to the top spot, while The Strokes' Hard To Explain, from 2001, was third.

At number four was MIA's 2008 track Paper Planes and at number five was Outcast with Hey Ya!, in which listeners were told to head to the dance floor and "shake it like a Polaroid picture".

The Klaxons, with their 2007 song Golden Skans, Blur, with their 2003 track Out Of Time, and Arctic Monkeys' A Certain Romance all made the top 10.

NME magazine Top 100 tracks of the decade top 20:

1. Beyonce Knowles - Crazy In Love
2. MGMT - Time To Pretend
3. The Strokes - Hard To Explain
4. MIA - Paper Planes
5. OutKast - Hey Ya!
6. The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers
7. Klaxons - Golden Skans
8. Blur - Out Of Time
9. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
10. Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
11. The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
12. The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
13. The Walkmen - The Rat
14. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Bang
16. Rihanna - Umbrella
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
18. OutKast - Ms Jackson
19. Radiohead - Reckoner
20. Hot Chip - Over And Over

* Do you agree? What do you think the best songs of the decade are? Post your comments below.

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ziggy   #11   07:21 pm Nov 30 2009

Best song of the decade was 'Reuben Thorne' by the Canterbury Crusaders.

Ben   #10   08:50 am Nov 30 2009

what this is saying is that Rnb was most popular form of music this decade

jim   #9   01:22 am Nov 30 2009

terrible, terrible song. one of the worst

brent   #8   10:43 am Nov 28 2009

what a joke - beyonce who,if she had talent why does she dress up like a callgirl

Vix   #7   08:04 am Nov 28 2009

Don't recognise 99% of these so they can't be that memorable!! A true poll has to cover a wide age range and these songs are probable only popular with a small percentage of teens....Give me Kings of Leon any time....

dan   #6   03:20 pm Nov 27 2009

this explain either one of two things...

1. NME is read mostly by prepubescent girls.

or

2. The readers of NME have their taste for music up their backside.

you choose.

The decade is not over yet and their has been soooo much else that is better than the semi-talented Beyuncie.

paul c   #5   12:34 pm Nov 27 2009

if those are the best songs of the decade things can only improve from now

Karlos   #4   11:07 am Nov 27 2009

Some good tunes there but Beyonce Number 1?? And 'The Streets - Dry Your Eyes' shouldn't even be in the top 100!

Kurt   #3   11:07 am Nov 27 2009

Y only the Mainstream..... there are some classic underground releases of th edecade..i.e Machine Head The Blackening etc

J D   #2   11:03 am Nov 27 2009

Dont even know 17 of these songs. Stephen Donald for primeminister ....... Yeah Right

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