Josh's EOY 2014

100 songs

30 albums

BEGIN!

Albums
30. Paloma Faith - A Perfect Contradiction
29. The Saturdays - Finest Selection: The Greatest Hits
28. Neon Jungle - Welcome To The Jungle
27. Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear
26. MAGIC! - Don't Kill The Magic
25. Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow
24. Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour
23. Katy B - Little Red
22. David Guetta - Listen
21. Olly Murs - Never Been Better
20. Katy Perry - Prism
19. Lorde - Pure Heroine
18. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
17. Cheryl - Only Human
16. Tinashe - Aquarius
15. Royal Blood - Royal Blood
14. Alt-j - This Is All Yours
13. One Direction - FOUR
12. Ariana Grande - My Everything
11. London Grammar - If You Wait
10. Catfish and the Bottlemen - The Balcony
09. Jessie Ware - Tough Love
08. Jessie J - Sweet Talker
07. Calvin Harris - Motion
06. Lily Allen - Sheezus
05. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
04. FKA twigs - LP1
03. Ed Sheeran - x
02. Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ
01. Taylor Swift - 1989

Singles
100. Sleepless - Cazzette
099. Like I Can - Sam Smith
098. Dead Air - CHVRCHES
097. Oblivion - Bastille
096. GUY - Lady Gaga
095. Ultraviolence - Lana Del Rey
094. Let Go For Tonight - Foxes
093. Steal My Girl - One Direction
092. Don't Tell 'Em - Jeremih (feat. YG)
091. Stay The Night - Zedd (feat. Hayley Williams)
090. Empire - Shakira
089. Partition - Beyoncé
088. Louder - Neon Jungle
087. Don't Stop - 5 Seconds of Summer
086. Last Night - The Vamps
085. The Heat - Jungle
084. Love Too Deep - Ferreck Dawn & Redondo
083. Show Me - Kid Ink (feat. Chris Brown)
082. Lovers On The Sun - David Guetta (feat. Sam Martin)
081. White Walls - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. SchoolBoy Q & Hollis)
080. Drunk and Incapable - Krishane (feat. Melissa Steel)
079. Our Time - Lily Allen
078. Stay With Me - Sam Smith
077. Video Girl - FKA twigs
076. Am I Wrong - Nico & Vinz
075. 7/11 - Beyoncé
074. Heart on Fire - Indiana
073. Tough Love - Jessie Ware
072. Love Me Harder - Ariana Grande (feat. The Weeknd)
071. Tsunami (Jump) - DVBBS & Borgeous (feat. Tinie Tempah)
070. Pills N Potions - Nicki Minaj
069. Glory and Gore - Lorde
068. Wrapped Up - Olly Murs (feat. Travie McCoy)
067. I Don't Care - Cheryl
066. Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde
065. 2 On - Tinashe (feat. SchoolBoy Q)
064. Changing - Sigma (feat. Paloma Faith)
063. Not Giving Up - The Saturdays
062. Goodness Gracious - Ellie Goulding
061. Shower - Becky G
060. Chandelier - Sia
059. Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood
058. Sail - AWOLNATION
057. Break Free - Ariana Grande (feat. Zedd)
056. Feelin' Myself - Will.i.am (feat. Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa & French Montana)
055. Blame - Calvin Harris (feat. John Newman)
054. Turn Down For What - DJ Snake (feat. Lil Jon)
053. XO - Beyoncé
052. Let It Go - Idina Menzel
051. Here For You - Gorgon City (feat. Laura Welsh)
050. Real Love - Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne
049. This Is How We Do - Katy Perry
048. Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
047. Don't - Ed Sheeran
046. Holding Onto Heaven - Foxes
045. Blame It On Me - George Ezra
044. Ugly Heart - G.R.L.
043. Only - Nicki Minaj (feat. Chris Brown, Lil Wayne & Drake)
042. You & I - One Direction
041. 23 - Mike Will Made-It (feat. Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa & Juicy J)
040. High - Peking Duk (feat. Nicole Millar)
039. Can't Remember To Forget You - Shakira (feat. Rihanna)
038. Summer - Calvin Harris
037. Every Other Freckle - alt-j
036. My Head Is A Jungle (MK remix) - Wankelmut
035. Fancy - Iggy Azalea (feat. Charli XCX)
034. Cocoon - Catfish and the Bottlemen
033. I Wanna Feel - Secondcity
032. Kisses For Breakfast - Melissa Steel (feat. Popcaan)
031. Crying For No Reason - Katy B
030. I'm Not The Only One - Sam Smith
029. ***Flawless / Flawless (remix) - Beyoncé (feat. Nicki Minaj)
028. Demons - Imagine Dragons
027. Two Weeks - FKA twigs
026. Outside - Calvin Harris (feat. Ellie Goulding)
025. Boom Clap - Charli XCX
024. Pretend - Tinashe (feat. A$AP ROCKY)
023. Blank Space - Taylor Swift
022. Comeback - Ella Eyre
021. If I Go - Ella Eyre
020. Control - Matrix & Futurebound
019. Rude - MAGIC!
018. Drunk In Love - Beyoncé (feat. Jay Z)
017. Gecko (Overdrive) - Oliver Heldens X Becky Hill
016. Say You Love Me - Jessie Ware
015. Giant In My Heart - Kiesza
014. Tennis Court - Lorde
013. Birthday - Katy Perry
012. Prayer In C - Lillywood & Robin Schulz
011. Bang Bang - Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj
010. Changes - Faul & Wad Ad vs. Pnau
009. Jubel - Klingande
008. If I Could Change Your Mind - Haim
007. I Will Never Let You Down - Rita Ora
006. Anaconda - Nicki Minaj
005. Hideaway - Kiesza
004. Black Widow - Iggy Azalea (feat. Rita Ora)
003. Timber - Pitbull (feat. Kesha)
002. Dark Horse - Katy Perry (feat. Juicy J)
001. Team - Lorde

Edited January 6, 201510 yr by Josh.

I have faith that there will be some big tunes in your top 100.***

Edited November 28, 201410 yr by Joe.

This will be starting shortly but first, let's see some albums which just missed out:

 

Albums

31. Bad Blood - Bastille

32. New Eyes - Clean Bandit

33. Jungle - Jungle

34. I Forget Where We Were - Ben Howard

35. Carry on the Grudge - Jamie T

 

All excellent albums, but just not good enough. I'm sure Bastille would have been a EOY top three album a couple of years back if I had one..

Edited November 28, 201410 yr by jsanta

30. Paloma Faith - A Perfect Contradiction

http://i.imgur.com/GkSyODk.jpg

 

Chart run: (3-1-1-1-5-6-9) 7 weeks

 

Hit singles:

02 Only Love Can Hurt Like This (38-37-36-10-2-13-30) 7 weeks

18 Trouble With My Baby (33-22-24-18-48) 5 weeks

50 Ready For The Good Life (50) 1 week

 

Paloma's third studio album spent three weeks at the top of my personal chart but vanished shortly after. It is a fantastic album but I'd rank this below Fall To Grace. I don't go back to this album much these days because I do find the tracks to be quite samey but she has a stunning voice and I'm excited what she brings in the future. I like to imagine the re-release doesn't exist because Ready For The Good Life really was boring.

 

Anyway here are my highlights:

• Taste My Own Tears

• The Bigger You Love (The Harder You Fall)

• Love Only Leaves You Lonely

• It's The Not Knowing

Edited November 28, 201410 yr by jsanta

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looking forward to this, your chart is one of my faves on the site so I expect top quality tunes here

29. The Saturdays - Finest Selection: The Greatest Hits

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Chart run: (1-4-6-6-8) 5 weeks

 

Hit singles:

03 Not Giving Up (6-4-3-3-35-37-42) 7 weeks

16 What Are You Waiting For? (40-26-16-25-40-28-49-25) 8 weeks

 

Here's one for you Joe! This is album is a greatest hits album full of excellent pop stompers (and not so excellent dance-pop floppers - *cough*WAYWF*cough*). The Saturdays are probably the girl band I will associate with growing up although Girls Aloud were definitely my fave childhood band. The album had a quite short run for a #1 album in my chart but I think that's down to there being a lot of new entries around at the time. In the weekly chart it entered at #1 the same week as Magic! and FKA twigs entered which are both still to come so I guess they have the moral victory here. The reason this is low is because it is a greatest hits so it pretty much cheated :heehee:

 

Here are my highlights:

• Ego

• Issues

• Up

• If This Is Love

• Missing You (sorry hurricane if you're reading this :heehee: )

Edited November 28, 201410 yr by jsanta

I have that there will be song big tunes in your top 100.

I have it that two of the artworks in your signature are in my top 100 :o

 

Thanks Dan, hope you enjoy it. I definitely think there are some songs in the top 10 I know you like.

28. Neon Jungle - Welcome To The Jungle

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Chart run: (3-7-4-5) 4 weeks

 

Hit singles:

05 Welcome to the Jungle / (7-5-5-13-32-33-37) 7 weeks

04 Louder / (14-17-10-5-4-18) 6 weeks

34 Can't Stop The Love / (41-34-39) 3 weeks

 

Here are another girlband but this time a bit more urban, this was a nice little album full of electropop stompers. Braveheart is probably my least favourite of their singles which goes against what most of Buzzjack thinks.. I think I prefer their ballads actually, personally Louder is their best single, the chorus is so huge and I really do love it. Shame they never promoted this album very well and it fell down the charts quickly because I feel that they had a lot of potential..

 

Here are my highlights:

• Welcome to the Jungle

• Louder

• Can't Stop The Love

• So Alive

• Bad Man

YAAAY this will be fantastic :D Loving the albums in the top 3 so far, The Saturdays were excluded from my EOY album chart on the basis of it being a greatest hits :kink:

27. Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear

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Chart run: (2-6-6-7-8-10) 6 weeks

 

Hit singles:

13 Chandelier / (41-xx-38-18-13-17) 5 weeks

39 Burn The Pages / (39) 1 week

 

This is an album that took me completely by surprise, it took me months to get round to listening to it because I really thought it wouldn't be my thing but I loved it. Free The Animal is my favourite album track because I love the choppy element to it, I think Sia works best on songs with a huge chorus and interesting production and this is exactly that so it was perfect for me. I really do regret not charting Chandelier higher though, it was originally on course for a #2 peak but really got bored of it at the end of the week meaning it peaked at #13 :o

 

Here are my highlights:

• Free The Animal

• Chandelier

• Eye of the Needle

• Big Girls Cry

• Burn the Pages

26. MAGIC! - Don't Kill The Magic

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Chart run: (2-3-5-5-7-9-10) 7 weeks

 

Hit singles:

02 Rude / (13-11-13-11-15-11-8-9-6-2-6-12-28-47) 14 weeks

20 Don't Kill The Magic / (29-20-33) 3 weeks

35 Let Your Hair Down / (35) 1 week

 

This is another album that surprised quite a bit, I thought I'd give it a listen after loving Rude and it was a surprisingly great album. There isn't much commercial reggae music out there but this really deserved to be successful. I don't suppose many of you have heard the album but I do recommend it because I think it's quite widely appealing. Rude is definitely the best track for me and we'll be seeing that in the top 100 songs countdown later on.

 

Here are my highlights:

• Rude

• Let Your Hair Down

• Don't Kill The Magic

• No Way No

• One Woman One Man

25. Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow

http://i.imgur.com/FVnuivj.jpg

 

Chart run: (4-7-7-4-4-9-10) 7 weeks

 

Hit singles:

15 Feel / (41-xx-31-15-23-22) 5 weeks

20 Come To / (25-20-31-xx-44) 4 weeks

19 Home By Now / (28-19-43) 3 weeks

 

This album was unlucky because it would definitely have had a longer chart run (and higher peak) if I had an album chart earlier in the year but nonetheless it continued it's run into July despite being released in February. Luna is definitely my album highlight because it's absolutely gorgeous, I could listen to it for hours. Same goes for the album itself, I'd describe it as THE perfect relaxation album, it automatically allows to me wind down and relaxes me. Yeah, I love this album, shame it can't be higher but this year has been very strong for albums..

 

Here are my highlights:

• Feel

• Luna

• Come To

• Home By Now

• Carry Me

Great start to the chart (when getting rid of torture with their lead single why you gotta be so rude, trying to make me deaf)

A perfect contradiction is amazing, the album highlight obviously being OLCHLT for me. That's a nice chart run but doesn't compare to like probably at least +30 weeks in my top 10. I love The Sats greatest hits collection, Sia's is amazing (especially chandelier) and Welcome to the jungle is pretty good (especially louder and can't stop the love)

 

Great start Jsanta :wub: (and btw I love the new name)

YAY for 'I Forget Where We Were' and 'Welcome to the Jungle' so far.

 

And '1000 Forms of Fear' of course but that is criminally low :o 'Fire Meets Gasoline' and 'Elastic Heart' are my highlights away from the ones you chose :wub:

YAY for 'I Forget Where We Were' and 'Welcome to the Jungle' so far.

 

And '1000 Forms of Fear' of course but that is criminally low :o 'Fire Meets Gasoline' and 'Elastic Heart' are my highlights away from the ones you chose :wub:

hiya Bal, really gutted I couldn't fit Ben Howard in actually because his album is very good but ah well, at least he got some sort of honourable mention. Getting into Conrad now, good choice of next single.

 

And yes, it does look quite low but the quality of albums this year is very good so, FMG and Elastic Heart would be 6th and 7th on mine I reckon so you are clearly demonstrating your good taste there !

 

Thanks x

Great start to the chart (when getting rid of torture with their lead single why you gotta be so rude, trying to make me deaf)

A perfect contradiction is amazing, the album highlight obviously being OLCHLT for me. That's a nice chart run but doesn't compare to like probably at least +30 weeks in my top 10. I love The Sats greatest hits collection, Sia's is amazing (especially chandelier) and Welcome to the jungle is pretty good (especially louder and can't stop the love)

 

Great start Jsanta :wub: (and btw I love the new name)

Ah, glad you're enjoying it so far but Rude is excellent, still not tired of it :funky:

 

APC is very good and I do like OLCHLT but it tired on me quite quickly, we all know you're the queen of long chart runs anway (illustrated by Let It Go :P )

 

Glad you're enjoying the other albums (and the new username, Neil thought of it :funky: )

 

Thanks x

Hi Josh! :D

 

I really loved Paloma during the 'Fall to Grace' era ('Picking Up the Pieces' remains one of my favourite songs like, ever), but it all went a bit tits up with this era. :lol: Was not a fan of 'Can't Rely on You' at all and all of the other material isn't that great either. :( Same with 'Welcome to the Jungle' really, they had a killer single (aka 'Louder'), but everything else on the album was just meh. Can't say I ever go back to that now, singles aside.

 

YAY for Sia though, her album really surprised me. :o Didn't expect to like it so much. 'Chandelier's gotten a bit tiring now, but I'm still in LOVE with 'Eye of the Needle' :wub: Glad to see that and 'Burn the Pages' in your highlights.

 

Looking forward to the rest of the countdown :cheer:

24. Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour

http://i.imgur.com/hfjON9Z.png

 

Chart run: (6-..) 1 week (so far)

 

Hit singles:

03 I'm Not The Only One / (35-8-3-10-34-33-44-43-xx[4]-45) 9 weeks

36 Stay With Me / (43-xx[1]-36-xx[3]-44) 3 weeks

02 Like I Can / (16-8-2-6-14-...) 5 weeks (so far)

 

Another album that took ages for me to listen too, after the abysmal lead single Money On My Mind it would need a miracle for me to ever forgive him for that monstrosity and the next single was just as bad. Well, that's what I thought originally but now I LOVE Stay With Me, an excellent ballad and the choir in it is really quite something. He then came along with I'm Not The Only One and I was sold, another fantastic ballad and definitely his best single so far. Four singles in and here comes Like I Can, a breath of fresh air and an upbeat track from him. I've finally got round to listening to the album and it certainly hasn't disappointed, all of the ballads on their are stunning such as Leave Your Lover and the upbeats are just as good like Restart. A really fantastic album and he is deserving of all the success he is receiving at the moment..

 

Here are my highlights:

• I'm Not The Only One

• Like I Can

• Stay With Me

• I've Told You Now

• Life Support

23. Katy B - Little Red

http://i.imgur.com/Gb2U6aX.png

 

Chart run: (6-8-9-9-9) 5 weeks

 

Hit singles:

04 Crying For No Reason / (4-10) 2 weeks

13 Still / (21-17-13-24-47) 5 weeks

16 Aaliyah / (16-18-23-35-43) 5 weeks

 

Another victim of me not starting my album chart earlier in the year, this would have certainly been a personal chart #1 album in February. I don't think it quite captures the magic of her debut but it's still excellent and an album very worthy of its official #1 title. I wish she'd kept What Love Is Made Of on the album though because that really is a great song. Crying For No Reason and 5 AM are two of the best songs in her career though too.

 

Here are my highlights:

• Crying For No Reason

• Everything

• Next Thing

• Aaliyah

• 5 AM

22. David Guetta - Listen

http://i.imgur.com/vO32lsJ.png

 

Chart run: (2-...) 1 week (so far)

 

Hit singles:

44 Bad / (44) 1 week

01 Lovers On The Sun / (7-4-6-8-3-1-6-49) 8 weeks

15 Dangerous (15-22-..) 2 weeks (so far)

20 What I Did For Love (20-..) 1 week (so far)

 

A more recent album here, David Guetta's brand new album Listen. It's packed with the same formula as his last couple of albums but why change the golden formula, eh? This album brings in lots of big stars and lots of littler stars which step up to the plate just as well. There are many album highlights including Hey Mama which is hopefully a future single with Nicki's excellent verses and quite an unusual drop. Bang My Head is another Sia collab but actually better than their previous two for me ( :o ), I love the chorus and her enunciation really elevates the song for me. As a fan of Magic! I was always going to enjoy a collab between them and David, it's a very happy medium between both artists and they fuse really well so there's another album highlight for me. Here are a few more:

 

Here are my highlights:

• Hey Mama [feat. Nicki Minaj)

• Bang My Head (feat. Sia)

• Dangerous (feat. Sam Martin)

• Sun Goes Down (feat. Magic!)

• No Money No Love (feat. Elliphant)

Edited November 29, 201410 yr by jsanta

FINEST SELECTION #29 :o I vote to ban you from the sats forum :snif: Great countdown so far. Especially love So Long, See You Tomorrow.