Smash Hits Poll Winners Party

[Becky]

Its on this Sunday. I had a look on the Smash Hits website but it doesnt have any information about the categories or anything, which is a bit of a bugger since its tradition to do some predictions. What it does have is a 2 for 1 ticket offer which makes me sad. Its really showing how crap Smash Hits is these days, or is it that not many people like pop?! Well in any case I remember the days when the Poll Winners Party used to sell out on the day the tickets went on sale.

[jode]

Oh... 1997. How I wished I was there. A superhero theme... Spice Girls, Boyzone, 911, Backstreet Boys, Peter Andre, Kavana, 5ive, Louise, Gary Barlow.

All greats.

[sinitta]

1997 was the definitive Smash Hits Poll. We've still got it on tape. The Spice Girls were going to sing live but apparantly changed their minds at the last minute and mimed to Spice Up Your Life and Too Much.

[Becky]

jode said:

Oh... 1997. How I wished I was there. A superhero theme... Spice Girls, Boyzone, 911, Backstreet Boys, Peter Andre, Kavana, 5ive, Louise, Gary Barlow.

All greats.

Yes I think that was my favourite one. 911 in fat suits and SuperKav.

[georgie]

Taken from a McFly site.

Stars Of The Year: Girls Aloud, Green Day, Gwen Stefani, McFly, Rachel
Stevens.

Best UK Band: Coldplay, Girls Aloud, Kaiser Chiefs, McFly, Sugababes

Best Album: Black Eyed Peas, Gwen Stefani, James Blunt, McFly, Sugababes.

Party Animal Of The Year: Anthony Big Brother, Charlotte Church, Danny
McFly, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton

Fave Ringtone: Akon - Lonely, Charlotte Church - Crazy Chick, Crazy Frog,
McFly - All About You, McFly - I'll Be OK

Most Snoggable Male: Billie Joe Green Day, Danny McFly, Dougie McFly Kenzie
Friday Hill, Orlando Bloom.

Top Mop: Danny McFly, David Beckham, Dougie McFly, Harry McFly, Jessica
Simpson.

Flop Mop: Britney Spears, Charlotte Church, Kelly Osbourne, Peter Andre, Tom McFly


Obviously there are probably some female catagories missing from that but otherwise McFly seem to be up for..well..everything. Hmmm.

[Becky]

All of the nominations:

STARS OF THE YEAR
Girls Aloud
Green Day
Gwen Stefani
McFly
Rachel Stevens

BEST UK BAND
Coldplay
Girls Aloud
Kaiser Chiefs
McFly
Sugababes

BEST SOLO ARTIST
Gwen Stefani
James Blunt
Kelly Clarkson
Lee Ryan
Rachel Stevens

BEST ALBUM
The Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business
Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby
James Blunt - Back To Bedlam
McFly - Wonderland
Sugababes - Taller In More Ways

BEST INTERNATIONAL BAND
The Black Eyed Peas
Destiny's Child
Green Day
The Pussycat Dolls
Westlife

BEST ROCK ACT
Good Charlotte
Green Day
Kaiser Chiefs
The Killers
My Chemical Romance

BEST DANCE ACT
Basement Jaxx
Bodyrockers
Crazy Frog
Mylo
Uniting Nations

BEST HIP-HOP ACT
The Black Eyed Peas
Eminem
50 Cent
Kanye West
Snoop Dogg

BEST VIDEO
Eminem - Ass Like That
Girls Aloud - Wake Me Up
Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
The Pussycat Dolls/Busta Rhymes - Don't Cha
Sugababes - Push The Button

PARTY ANIMAL OF THE YEAR
Anthony Hutton
Charlotte Church
Danny Jones
Lindsay Lohan
Paris Hilton

HOT NEW TALENT
Ciara
James Blunt
The Pussycat Dolls
Rihanna
Son Of Dork

FAVOURITE RINGTONE
Akon - Lonely
Charlotte Church - Crazy Chick
Crazy Frog - Axel F
McFly - All About You
McFly - I'll Be OK

HOTTEST SHOWBIZ COUPLE
Charlotte Church & Gavin Henson
Cheryl Tweedy & Ashley Cole
David & Victoria Beckham
Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey
Jordan & Peter Andre

SMASH HITS STYLE ICON
Fergie Black Eyed Peas
Gwen Stefani
Nikki Sanderson
Paris Hilton
Rachel Stevens

BEST TV SHOW
Big Brother
Eastenders
Lost
The OC
The X Factor

TV STARS OF THE YEAR
Adam Brody
Ant & Dec
Shane Ritchie
Louis Walsh/Sharon Osbourne/Simon Cowell

BEST MOVIE
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
The Dukes Of Hazzard
Herbie: Fully Loaded
Madagascar
Wedding Crashers

MOVIE STAR OF THE YEAR
Chad Michael Murray
Johnny Depp
Lindsay Lohan
Orlando Bloom
Will Smith

BEST SPORTS STAR
Andrew Flintoff
David Beckham
Frank Lampard
Gavin Henson
Wayne Rooney

MOST FANCIABLE FEMALE
Beyoncé
Cheryl Tweedy
Jessica Simpson
Lindsay Lohan
Rachel Stevens

MOST SNOGGABLE MALE
Billie Joe Armstrong
Danny Jones
Dougie Poynter
Kenzie Friday Hill
Orlando Bloom

TOP MOP
Danny Jones
David Beckham
Dougie Poynter
Harry Judd
Jessica Simpson

FLOP MOP
Britney Spears
Charlotte Church
Kelly Osbourne
Peter Andre
Tom Fletcher

WORST DRESSED STAR
Britney Spears
Gwen Stefani
Jodie Marsh
Jordan
Kelly Osbourne

Best new band for 2006
One of the nominations is Kubb but I havent found the rest yet.

[Becky]

All of the categories:

SH star/s of the year
Best UK band
Best solo artist
Best single
Best album
Best international band
Best rock act
Best dance act
Best r'n'b act
Best hip-hop act
Best video
Party animal of the year
Hot new talent
Fave ringtone
Hottest showbiz couple
Most fanciable female
Most snoggable male
Top mop
Flop mop
SH! Style icon
Best TV show
TV star of the year
Best Movie
Movie star of the year
Best sports star

This also makes me sad, although I've never actually seen any of this stuff anywhere:

HALSALL ARE A ‘SMASH HIT’ WITH KIDS IN 2005!

With 81% awareness, SMASH HITS is a truly multi-media brand synonymous with the most happenin’ chart and pop music. Having initially taken this established brand into the realms of musical toys in 2004, offering non-stop pop to kids aged 4 – 11 years, Halsall think it’s now time to get the SMASH HITS PARTY started!

Providing boys and girls with all necessary equipment to have the coolest party ever, kids can create the right party vibe on the dance floor with SMASH HITS Mini Fog Machines, rotating Twin Glitter Disco Balls that project groovy spinning coloured shapes and lights and Bubble Blowers so you can pop while you bop! For special lighting effects, look no further than the remote control Multispot which flashes coloured lights in time to the music for synchronised lights and action! A Linkable Lights set allows party-goers to customise their disco illuminations by attaching lights together to make different shapes and effects.

Halsall’s new SMASH HITS Dance Mixer combines music and movement in one funky mixing machine as movement sensors create fantastic sounds while you dance!

For those with aspirations to be the next Busted, or rock like McFly, the awesome 4 Piece Band Set will get them started! Including push-button guitar, keyboard, drum machine and microphone with an amplifying boost box in new cool purple and metallic silver colours, the set provides all the elements necessary to form the next big thing in pop! For those with budding DJ talent, the Music Mixer features a multi-effect keyboard along with an integrated turntable and sensor plate to control rhythm and tunes. And for some serious jammin’ sessions there’s a new range of Electric Guitars with built-in amplifiers - so get ready to rock!



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Note to Editor:
Smash Hits is the most famous and established pop magazine. Their impressive portfolio includes pop CDs, a hugely successful music video channel, a new radio station, the national Smash Hits Chart, the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, televised form the London Arena and the national tour of up and coming artists known as the Smash Hits tour in the weeks leading up to the party.

[Steveweiser]

I thought more of the info would be on the T4 site, seeing as it's now officially the "T4 Poll Winners Party With Smash Hits".

[Kolakube]

Oh dear - it really is going to be crap isn't it.

McFly will no doubt win just about every award for no reason. It's shocking.

Thank god Take That are back - maybe if some people see sense they could be back reigning at next years Smash Hits Awards (probably won't happen though, unfortunatley)

[Poptastic!]

jode said:

Oh... 1997. How I wished I was there. A superhero theme... Spice Girls, Boyzone, 911, Backstreet Boys, Peter Andre, Kavana, 5ive, Louise, Gary Barlow.

All greats.

I remember! That was the first one I ever watched and everyone was talking about it at lunchtine the next day. I was only in yr 4 or 5! I can't believe I've been into pop music that long. I don't think I expected to still love it when I was twice that age, though!

Jessica

[krissykins]

Cheryl Tweedy HAS to win Most Snoggable Female this year!!

Pleasee god!!!!

[Steveweiser]

If they give Rachel Best Style Icon, then Cheryl's bound to win Fanciable Female. GA might win Best Video too.

[Becky]

Best Album - McFly
Top Mop - Dougie McFly

Best Tv Show - Eastenders - surprise surprise

Best Video - Pussycat Dolls Dont cha

Most Fanciable Female - Rachel Stevens
Most Snoggable Male - Danny McFly

Best RnB - Akon

Bets Solo Artist - Lee Ryan

Hot New Talent - Son of Dork

Best UK Band - McFly

Best International Band - Green Day
Best Rock Act - Green Day

Hottest Showbiz Couple - Ashley Cole & Cheryl Tweedy

T4 One To Watch - Kubb

Single Of The Year - McFly All About You

Star Of The Year - McFly

[Osiris]

Fucking McFly! Sugababes should have win in best album and best UK band! Grrr

Congrats to Rachel btw.

[Mike]

Some random musings:

• Should Son Of Dork even be eligible for Best New Act, and if they are to be treated as such why is their marketing campaign so tireless in reminding us that one of them used to be in Busted?
  
• What happened to the sound in Girls Aloud's performance?
  
• Isn't a bit cruel to present a gold disc to an artist whose album sales are some way short of the 100,000 sent out to the shops?
  
• Will we ever see proof that any of the Pussycat Dolls who aren't Nicole can speak, much less sing?
  
• Has anyone past puberty ever voted in the Most Fanciable category, and if so why do the most sexless people always win?
  

[Jen]

Rachel sang live! And has amazing new hair!
Hottest showbiz couple award?! What total bollocks.

[krissykins]

Loved the Girls Aloud flames, routine and intro! Awesome.

Rachel sang live...impressive....loving the hairdo.

[flufff]

I love Rachel's new hair and got very excited when I realised she was doing some live singing. It wasn't quite a full live performance, but the microphone was open and she made some attempt to sing over the recorded vocals and you could tell and it sounded pretty good. Well done Rachel. Shame you never tried it before, but look you did it, and nothing awful happened. Please try it again.

The sound seems a bit crap for most of them today. It's as if everyone has their microphones on mute, and the least said about Rhianna the better.

Akon: I'm really shocked by this.
Me: You shouldn't be. The only reason you could win this is that your management insisted or you wouldn't turn up.

Oh look, Craig David. He seems really out of place, but bless him for not thinking that it's below him. His sound is a bit wonky too.

[Mike]

flufff said:

The sound seems a bit crap for most of them today. It's as if everyone has their microphones on mute, and the least said about Rhianna the better.

I feel like I have to say something about Rihanna - she and Akon are two shining examples of why R&B gets such a bad name. Their music is formulaic, soulless and totally bereft of imagination, and their live vocals are almost drowned out by DAT tapes - not that their voices are anything to write home about.

If this rubbish wasn't getting the most exposure, you can be damn sure that you'd have fewer people dismissing R&B out of hand.

[Storm]

After watching that, McFly should never, ever sing live. Still, at least they were better than Heidi Sugababe............

[Becky]

Usually at the end all the celebs are dancing and jumping around on the stage but this year they were just stood there.

[Jen]

I can't let this "award show" go on another year without having a serious rant.
The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party used to be great. Fun awards, the years top stars, a theme- it was like a school play for popstars. And it always, to me, signalled Christmas, as it was always on at the beginning of December.
Then it all went horribly wrong. It was no longer on BBC1- it got moved to channel 4. Then, they CHANGE THE AWARD from a nice little shiny plate to a white exclamation mark.
Over the years, its like the life has been sucked out of it- what we are now left with, the "T4 poll winners party in association with smash hits" is a shoddy shadow of the greatness that was. And it makes me very sad indeed.
On the plus side, the Sugababes kicked arse and Kubb were delightful too.

[Snuff]

I agree with everything you wrote. The awards now are far too up their own arse and everyone takes it far too seriously.

[Steveweiser]

Happy that Rachel sang live, and that's about it. GA's dance breakdown was good too, but everything else was complete shite. No wonder people are saying pop's dying.

[flufff]

The BIG question mark awards aren't even as big as they used to be.

[DiscothequeCowboy]

Elle s'appelle Rachel et elle ne mime pas! Maybe she should turn the backing track down a bit so you can hear her vocals properly. But still, at least she didn't sound like Tina live. Snaps for Rachel.

[056]

They changed the award because they changed the Smash Hits logo.

[vasilios]

Well I can't see the awards at all being in Greece and all, so please stop complaining. I just wated 40 minutes on another crap Q magazine.Why do I buy that? I said never again ahem. So who got a gold disc? Rachel, Rihanna, Craig? So PCD are in the UK? Hope their album gets a push.

Who remembers the 1990 ones with Betty Boo and Strippy Jason? I'd love to see the 1988 ones, Bros, Salt'n'Pepa, Jane Weidlin, mmmmm.

[hotzappa12]

Green Day, voted for by people who probably dont know anything about them apart from their American Idiot album, Basket Case and Good Riddance. And SOD for new talent purlease.

[Ann]

I love, love, loved the Fake Sugababes. At first I thought it was cute that they'd dressed up in the outfits from the video. BUT THEN! Cut to Heidi not even wearing those clothes. What? What's going on? And she's walking down stairs. Holy mother. Those girls on stage aren't the real Sugababes! They're imposters! And then they just ran off and danced with boys for the rest of it.

Next year I would like a theme and dressing up and Vernon Kay not to be involved in anyway at all. kthxbye.