Shortlist for Official Charts Pop Gem #61: Collaborations

We were looking for your favourite collabos for this week's Pop Gem, but which pop team-ups made it onto our shortlist?

Pop music is all about cooperation these days – a featured artist here, a guest rap there. So this week in our search for overlooked classics, we asked for your top COLLABORATIONS. Which tunes benefitted from a helping hand by one or more popstars or big producers?

You nominated your popstar team-ups and there was a brilliant selection. As ever, it was tough whittling them down, but whittle we did to a final 10.

And with four Number 1s in the last 10 contenders, we reckon this is the shortlist with the most chart-toppers yet. But can a Number 1 single still be a Pop Gem? We reckon so…

But which one of them is a Pop Gem? Who are you backing? If you need a refresher, take a look at all 10 tracks in our video playlist.

Collaborations: the shortlist

ARTIST	TRACK	PEAK POSITION	YEAR
3OH!3 FT KATY PERRY	STARSTRUKK	3	2009
BEYONCÉ & SHAKIRA	BEAUTIFUL LIAR	1	2007
ENRIQUE & KELIS	NOT IN LOVE	5	2004
CHRISTINA AGUILERA/PINK/LIL KIM/MYA	LADY MARMALADE	1	2001
EVE FT GWEN STEFANI	LET ME BLOW YA MIND	4	2001
MELANIE C & LISA 'LEFT EYE' LOPES	NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN	1	2000
WHITNEY HOUSTON & GEORGE MICHAEL	IF I TOLD YOU THAT	9	2000
PRAS MICHEL/ODB/MYA	GHETTO SUPERSTAR	2	1998
ETERNAL & BEBE WINANS	I WANNA BE THE ONLY ONE	1	1997
ART OF NOISE FT TOM JONES	KISS	5	1988