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09. John Newman - Love Me Again



KING.
Smashing charts in the UK, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and now the US!
Seriously though, this is a sound that I fall for every time and he manages to perfect it in this song.
It was a VERY hard song to follow up but his album is still very worthwhile checking out even with it's awful album cover.
I just hope is able to continue his success and build up another smash hit.

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08. Biffy Clyro - Biblical



The clear highlight from Opposites, Biblical ranks amongst my very favourite Biffy songs.
I was so happy it was chosen as a single but, despite Radio 1's best efforts, it missed the Top 40 (and the Top 75 too? but I'm not too sure on that).
The first two lines carry so much meaning (not personal tho ha) and set the basis for the song for it to explode in moments of epic...ness.
This is why Biffy are one of my favourite rock bands (am I still allowed to call them rock or will fans of that genre shout at me?) as they can have fun but then they also have songs which carry so much emotion with them, this being one of the biggest.

Edited January 3, 201411 yr by Rabbit Heart

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07. Jessie Ware - Imagine It Was Us



The woman who can do no wrong but can't get a Top 40 hit :(.
She just seems to create all her songs effortlessly but they're all just so so good.
It was a nice surprise to hear as it marked a change in sound from Devotion but it's still as effective and still as good.
Hoping that she makes plans to release material from album number 2 this year!

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06. Naughty Boy feat Sam Smith - La La La



So this is my favourite No. 1 of the year and what a pleasant surprise it's success was!
Naughty Boy has been one of my favourite artists of the year and he's been bubbling under the music industry for quite a bit, helping to produce some of Emeli's best music.
It was great to see him have success in his own right and without the help of Emeli and it was also a song that wasn't really chasing any trends either.
The music video is one of the best of the year as well and has attracted over 200 million views without being pushed/a hit in the US (yet anyway ^_^)

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05. Disclosure feat AlunaGeorge - White Noise



Disclosure's highest appearance (perhaps suggesting their best song but I'm not sure if I prefer Latch or not to it) is their AlunaGeorge collaboration.
One of their most distinctive tracks, I was really unsure of it on the first few listens but it's really infectious.
Settle really was one of the albuma of the year and deserves all the hype that has been thrown onto it.
It'll now be interesting to see where they go next!

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04. Bastille - Things We Lost in the Fire



My immediate LOVE on first listen to Bad Blood, I have still yet to tire of it despite many plays consistently through the year.
The claps, the strings, the rhythms, the singing... :wub:
A deserved single that managed to return them to the Top 40, although not as high as I would have liked.
Hope this becomes the next single in the US after Pompeii finishes slaying/stealing your faves wigs etc etc

Great so far, the top 10 especially!! Echoing the love for Wretch 32 and Blackout :wub:

04. Bastille - Things We Lost in the Fire

 

Hope this becomes the next single in the US after Pompeii finishes slaying/stealing your faves wigs etc etc

From what I've seen, Bad Blood is next. (But I hope so too)

Trying to work out the ~code~ in the subtitle and failing !!

 

Lovely top 10 so far. 'Imagine It Was' my highlight, should have been huge.

Great so far, the top 10 especially!! Echoing the love for Wretch 32 and Blackout :wub:

From what I've seen, Bad Blood is next. (But I hope so too)

I'll take Bad Blood, I think that could be a good choice not as good as Things We Lost in the Fire though

 

Trying to work out the ~code~ in the subtitle and failing !!

 

Lovely top 10 so far. 'Imagine It Was' my highlight, should have been huge.

Glad it wasn't too obvious then! It's about to be unveiled now...

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03. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us



Intitally, I regarded this as a throwaway track but on further listens I really began to appreciate it.
It's a very different sound compared to what is currently happening in the ~world of rap/hiphop~ and that's what makes it stand out so much and be so good.
It's a very well produced song with some of my highlights being the gospel influences, the intro and the middle 8 if that's what it's called? :lol:

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02. Katy B feat Jessie Ware and Geeneus - Aaliyah



Released as part of the Danger EP this was the best musical surprise of the year.
It's a collaboration of the two Queens of music and they didn't fail to deliver considering there was high expectations.
Their voices just work so well together, tbh they should just do a full album together.
The intro builds up and up even through Katy's first few lines to then unveil the tune.
If released as a single, this could have been VERY big (I can imagine). I guess it could do something on album release as I remember Katy on a Mission re-entering the Top 40 on iTunes at least.

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01. Bastille - Pompeii



Okay, so it's predictable and one of the biggest hits of 2013 but idc.
Rumours were building up that Bastille were in for BIG success after Flaws reached a respectable 21 position (although should have been bigger) and it was confirmed that they were right to believe this when Pompeii was unveiled.
It is a perfection in terms of crossover hits with the chanting, the imagary in the lyrics and the drums.
And just when you think the song has revealed all it's charm, you hear the Kat Krazy remix...

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01. Bastille - Pompeii

02. Katy B feat Jessie Ware - Aaliyah

03. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us

04. Bastille - Things We Lost in the Fire

05. Disclosure feat AlunaGeorge - White Noise

06. Naughty Boy feat Sam Smith - La La La

07. Jessie Ware - Imagine It Was Us

08. Biffy Clyro - Biblical

09. John Newman - Love Me Again

10. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

11. Katy B - 5AM

12. Daft Punk feat Pharrell - Get Lucky

13. Mutya Keisha Siobhan - Flatline

14. Lorde - Royals

15. Little Mix - Move

16. London Grammar - Strong

17. Eminem - Rap God

18. Laura Mvula - Green Garden

19. Disclosure feat Eliza Doolittle - You and Me

20. Kanye West - Black Skinhead

21. MS MR - Think of You

22. Bastille - Of the Night

23. Haim - The Wire

24. Biffy Clyro - Black Chandelier

25. Calvin Harris feat Ellie Goulding - I Need Your Love

26. Vampire Weekend - Diane Young

27. Klangkarussell feat Will Heard - Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine)

28. Wretch 32 feat Shakka - Blackout

29. Drake feat Majid Jordan - Hold On We're Going Home

30. Imagine Dragons – Radioactive

31. Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers

32. Disclosure feat Jessie Ware - Confess to Me

33. Haim - Falling

34. One Republic - Counting Stars

35. MS MR – Hurricane

36. Lady Gaga feat R Kelly - Do What U Want

37. Mutya Keisha Siobhan - Lay Down in Swimming Pools

38. Vance Joy - Riptide

39. Eminem feat Rihanna - The Monster

40. Justin Timberlake - Let the Groove Get In

41. Foals - My Number

42. Justin Timberlake - Mirrors

43. Gabrielle Alpin - Home

44. Rihanna feat Mikky Ekko - Stay

45. Chris Malinchak - So Good to Me

46. Tom Odell - Another Love

47. Duke Dumont feat A*M*E - Need U (100%)

48. Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble.

49. Hurts - Miracle

50. Lady Gaga - Applause

51. Rudimental feat Emeli Sandé - Free

52. AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies

53. Pink feat Nate Ruess - Just Give Me a Reason

54. The Saturdays feat Sean Paul - What About Us

55. Icona Pop feat Charli XCX - I Love It

56. Janelle Monáe feat Erykah Badu - Q.U.E.E.N.

57. Kate Nash - Fri-end?

58. Disclosure feat London Grammar - Help Me Lose My Mind

59. The 1975 - Girls

60. Olly Murs - Dear Darlin'

61. The 1975 - Chocolate

62. Janelle Monáe - Dance Apocalyptic

63. London Grammar - Nightcall

64. Avicii - Wake Me Up

65. Wretch 32 feat Jacob Banks - Doing OK

66. Gabrielle Alpin - Panic Cord

67. Two Door Cinema Club - Changing of the Seasons

68. CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share

69. Arctic Monkeys - Why Do You Only Call Me When You're High?

70. Imagine Dragons - On Top of the World

71. Naughty Boy feat Emeli Sandé and Professor Green - Lifted

72. Arcade Fire - Reflektor

73. Katy B - What Love is Made of

74. Ellie Goulding - Burn

75. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat Mary Lambert - Same Love

76. The Kite String Triangle - Given the Chance

77. Paramore - Still Into You

78. Jacob Banks - Worthy

79. Le Youth - C O O L

80. Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)

81. Foxes - Youth

82. Lily Allen - Hard Out Here

83. Avicii - You Make Me

84. Chase and Status feat Jacob Banks - Alive

85. Bastille - Laura Palmer

86. Iggy Azalea - Bounce

87. Coldplay - Atlas

88. FAUL feat Wad Ad - Changes

89. Laura Mvula - That's Alright

90. Mariah Carey & Miguel - #Beautiful

91. Sub Focus feat Alex Clare - Endorphins

92. Miguel feat Jessie Ware - Adorn

93. Chase and Status feat Louis M^tters - Lost and Not Found

94. Tinie Tempah feat 2 Chainz - Trampoline

95. Kodaline - Love Like This

96. Iggy Azalea feat T.I. - Change Your Life

97. CHVRCHES - Gun

98. Florence + the Machine - Over the Love

99. Clean Bandit - Mozart's House

100. Naughty Boy feat Bastille - No One's Here to Sleep

101. John Newman - Cheating

102. sZa - Julia

103. Eminem - Berzerk

104. Marina and the Diamonds feat Charli XCX - Just Desserts

105. Katy B - I Like You

106. Disclosure - F For You

107. Iggy Azalea - Work

108. Justin Timberlake - Take Back the Night

109. Janelle Monae feat Miquel - Primetime

110. London Grammar - Wasting My Young Years

111. Chloe Howl - Paper Heart

112. Rudimental feat MNEK & Syron - Spoons

113. The Killers - Shot at the Night

114. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat Wanz - Thrift Shop

115. Katy Perry - Roar

116. Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree

117. Rudimental feat MNEK & Sinead Harnett - Baby

118. VAULTS - Cry No More

119. Tom Odell - Can't Pretend

120. Justin Timberlake feat Jay Z - Suit and Tie

121. Clean Bandit - Dust Clears

122. Ben Pearce - What I Might Do

123. Marina and the Diamonds - Electra Heart

124. Tinie Tempah feat John Martin - Children of the Sun

125. Rizzle Kicks - Skip to the Good Bit

126. Ellie Goulding - Explosions

127. Leona Lewis - One More Sleep

128. Misha B - Here's to Everything (Ooh La La)

129. Robin Thicke feat T.I. and Pharrell - Blurred Lines

130. Kings of Leon - Supersoaker

131. Jay Z feat Justin Timberlake - Holy Grail

132. Bastille & Gabrielle Alpin - Dreams

133. Cut Copy - Meet Me in the House of Love

134. Arctic Monkeys - Arabella

135. Imagine Dragons - It's Time

136. Rizzle Kicks - Lost Generation

137. Young Summer - Fever Dream

138. Marina and the Diamonds - E.V.O.L.

139. Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops

140. Jake Bugg - Slumville Sunrise

141. The 1975 - The City

142. Martin Garrix - Animals

143. Little Nikki - Little Nikki Says

144. Kendrick Lamar - Backstreet Freestyle

145. Birdy - Wings

146. Chase and Status feat Moko - Count on Me

147. Little Mix feat Missy Elliot - How Ya Doin?

148. Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful

149. Rudimental feat Ella Eyre - Waiting All Night

150. Gabrielle Aplin - Please Don't Say You Love Me

151. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege

152. Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You

153. Naughty Boy feat Gabrielle - Hollywood

154. Example - Perfect Replacement

155. The 1975 - Sex

156. Stooshe - Slip

157. Rebecca Ferguson - I Hope

158. Olly Murs - Right Place Right Time

159. Justin Timberlake - T.K.O

160. Gems - Medusa

161. Neon Jungle - Trouble

162. The Wanted - We Own the Night

163. Jake Bugg - What Doesn't Kill You

164. Pink - Are We All We Are

165. DJ Fresh vs Diplo feat Dominque Young Unique - Earthquake

166. Eliza Doolittle - Let It Rain

167. Nina Nesbitt - Stay Out

168. Sub Focus feat Kele - Turn it Around

169. Daft Punk feat Pharrell - Lose Yourself to Dance

170. Bastille - Icarus

171. Stooshe - My Man Music

172. Lana Del Rey vs Cedric Gervais- Summertime Sadness

173. Calvin Harris & Alesso feat Hurts - Under Control

174. The Other Tribe - My Girl

175. Tom Odell - Grow Old With Me

176. Disclosure - When a Fire Starts to Burn

177. Wiley feat Chip & Ms D - Reload

178. Dan Black feat Kelis - Hearts

179. Kendrick Lamar - Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe

180. Naughty Boy feat Tanika - Get Lucky

181. Example - All the Wrong Places

182. Daft Punk feat Paul Williams - Touch

183. Rudimental feat Foxes - Right Here

184. The Wombats - Your Body is a Weapon

185. will.i.am - Bang Bang

186. Ms Dynamite & Shy FX - Cloud 9

187. Noah and the Whale - There Will Come a Time

188. Little Mix - Change Your Life

189. Ke$ha feat will.i.am - Crazy Kids

190. Professor Green feat Miles Kane - Are You Getting Enough?

191. Lady Gaga - Sexxx Dreams

192. Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know

193. Shy FX feat Liam Bailey - Soon Come

194. Don Diablo feat Alex Clare & Kelis - Give It All

195. The Saturdays - Disco Love

196. Bruno Mars - Treasure

197. David Guetta feat Taped Rai - Just One Last Time

198. Pink feat Lily Allen - True Love

199. Kanye West - Bound 2

200. Dizzee Rascal feat Robbie Williams - Goin' Crazy

Songs that should have also appeared but I sadly forgot about :(:

 

Charli XCX - Superlove

Emeli Sandé feat Rick Smith - Here It Comes

Everything Everything - Kemosabe

Frank Ocean - Lost

Klinglade - Jubel

Lorde - Tennis Court

Rita Ora - Radioactive :ph34r:

Tyler James - Worry About You

Wolf Alice - Bros

Youngblood Hawke - We Come Running

 

Those not forgotten but will appear next year:

 

Katy B - Crying for No Reason

Pharrell Williams - Happy

Sub Focus - Turn Back Time

great y/e chart :wub: Pompeii is without doubt one of my favourite chart hits this yr (just behind Get Lucky). also that MS MR track is really quite underrated <3 and Sir Newman at #9, same position as in my eoy :o

 

Excellent list for the most part, RH! Great to see Things We Lost In Fire in the top 5 along with Pompeii, it was definitely a highlight from the album and should have done a whole lot better when it was released.

'Aaliyah' really is so, so good. I always think we have 4 (nearly) perfect songs from the album, until i remember this fifth. I was obsessed with the 'Danger' EP at the time so who knows how i'll cope with the album.

 

Fab list.