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A very warm welcome to this thread! Much the same as last year i'll be counting down my top 30 albums and top 100 singles of the past year. It has been a year of tremendous highs from new discoveries, (very) old favourites and everything in between. Please feel free to comment as I go along, and as always i'll happily return the favour because I love nothing more than a countdown *_*

 

Before we begin here's another gander at last year:

 

Long live lonely thoughts

 

 

1. SZA ft. Isaiah Rashad - Warm Winds

2. Sia – Chandelier

3. La Roux - Let Me Down Gently

4. Beyoncé – Drunk In Love

5. Tinashe ft. SchoolBoy Q – 2 On

6. Kitty Pryde – •.¸.•SECOND♥LIFE•.¸.•

7. La Roux - Kiss and Not Tell

8. Tinashe - Feels Like Vegas

9. Beyoncé – XO

10. Kanika Kapoor ft. Sunny Leone - Baby Doll

11. Ben Khan – Youth

12. SchoolBoy Q – Hell of a Night

13. La Roux – Sexoteque

14. Tove Lo – Not On Drugs

15. Anna Lunoe - Breathe

16. Ain't No Love - Love Me Lots (Bridge & Law Remix)

17. iamamiwhoami - vista

18. Jessie Ware -Tough Love

19. Neon Jungle – Braveheart

20. TĀLĀ - Alchemy

21. Banks – Brain

22. Trevor Something – All Night

23. Marina & the Diamonds - Froot

24. Sia - Big Girls Cry

25. Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams

26. La Roux - Uptight Downtown

27. Peking Duk ft. Nicole Millar – High

28. iamamiwhoami – fountain

29. Nicki Minaj - Pills N Potions

30. VÉRITÉ – Weekend

31. LOLO ft. Giggs - Gangsters (XY Constant Remix)

32. Beyoncé ft. Drake – Mine

33. Banks - Begging For Thread

34. Sam Smith - Leave Your Lover

35. Oscar and the Wolf – Princes

36. Ariana Grande ft. The Weeknd - Love Me Harder

37. Elliphant ft. MØ - One More

38. Neon Jungle – Welcome to the Jungle

39. One Direction - Night Changes

40. Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX – Fancy

41. Elliphant - Never Been In Love

42. Sigma – Nobody To Love

43. LIZ - XTC

44. Charli XCX - Boom Clap

45. Josef Salvat - Open Season

46. Sam Smith - Stay With Me

47. Tinashe ft. A$AP Rocky – Pretend

48. One Direction - Steal My Girl

49. Josef Salvat - Diamonds

50. Tulisa - Living Without You

51. La Roux - Tropical Chancer

52. The Vamps ft. Demi Lovato - Somebody To You

53. Michael Jackson & Justin Timberlake - Love Never Felt So Good

54. FKA twigs - Two Weeks

55. Raleigh Ritchie – Stronger Than Ever

56. Cher Lloyd - Sirens

57. Azealia Banks - Chasing Time

58. Nicki Minaj – Anaconda

59. Luke James - Dancing in the Dark

60. Tinashe - Wildfire

61. Kylie Minogue – Into The Blue

62. Oh, Be Clever - Next 2 U

63. Kelela – The High

64. G.R.L. – Ugly Heart

65. SZA - Shattered Ring

66. Ariana Grande - One Last Time

67. Lucas Nord ft. Tove Lo - Run On Love [QOTC Edit]

68. Katy B – Wicked Love

69. Banks - Goddess

70. Fatima Al Qadiri - Dragon Tattoo

71. Angel Haze – Sing About Me

72. Ariana Grande ft. Zedd - Break Free

73. AYER – Young

74. Shura - Touch

75. Austin Mahone ft. Pitbull – MMM Yeah

76. Kid Cudi ft. Raphael Saadiq - Balmain Jeans

77. Katy B – Still

78. SZA ft. Chance the Rapper - Child's Play

79. Tinashe - All Hands on Deck

80. Trust - Icabod

81. Madonna - Rebel Heart

82. Taylor Swift - Blank Space

83. Raleigh Ritchie – Bloodsport

84. The Vamps - Last Night

85. Austin Mahone - Secret

86. Indiana – Solo Dancing

87. Tove Lo - Timebomb

88. Shift K3Y – Touch

89. Mausi - My Friend Has A Swimming Pool

90. Halsey - NEW AMERICANA

91. Jason Derulo ft. Snoop Dogg - Wiggle

92. Lily Allen – Air Balloon

93. Tove Lo - Talking Body

94. Rochelle Jordan ft Timbaland + Microsoft + Lenovo - So Good

95. Wretch 32 - 6 Words

96. Kiesza – Hideaway

97. 2NE1 - 멘붕 (CL Solo)

98. Neon Jungle - Bad Man

99. Angel Haze – Dirty Gold

100. Katy Perry - This Is How We Do // This is How We Do (Grandtheft Remix)

 

 

 

 

01. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise

02. SZA - Z

03. Beyoncé - Beyoncé

04. Tinashe – Aquarius

05. Taylor Swift – 1989

06. Banks - Goddess

07. Tove Lo - Truth Serum

08. Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear

09. Katy B – Little Red

10. iamamiwhoami - blue

11. Kid Cudi - SATELLITE FLIGHT: The journey to Mother Moon

12. One Direction - FOUR

13. Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour

14. Schoolboy Q – Oxymoron

15. FKA twigs - LP1

16. Iggy Azalea - The New Classic

17. Michael Jackson - Xscape

18. Neon Jungle - Welcome To The Jungle

19. Tove Lo - Queen of the Clouds

20. The Vamps - Meet The Vamps

21. Elliphant - One More

22. Angel Haze - Dirty Gold

23. Josef Salvat - In Your Prime

24. Ben Howard - I Forgot Where We Were

25. Fatima Al Qadiri – Asiatisch

26. Austin Mahone - The Secret

27. Lily Allen – Sheezus

28. Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste

29. Jhené Aiko - Souled Out

30. Ariana Grande - My Everything

 

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Singles so far~

 

1. Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me

2. Kitty – MISS U

3. Skrillex and Diplo with Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now

4. Marina and the Diamonds - I'm A Ruin

5. Kacy Hill - Shades Of Blue

6. Madonna – Ghosttown

7. Madonna – Living For Love

8. Carly Rae Jepsen - Your Type

9. Selena Gomez ft. A$AP Rocky - Good For You

10. Years & Years – Shine

11. Justin Bieber – Sorry

12. Elliphant - Love Me Badder

13. Years & Years - King

14. Sigala – Easy Love

15. Carly Rae Jepsen - Let's Get Lost

16. Taylor Swift – Style

17. Years & Years - Eyes Shut

18. Ciara - Dance Like We're Making Love

19. Zedd ft. Selena Gomez - I Want You To Know

20. Dawn Richard ft. Aundrea Fimbres - Phoenix

21. Carly Rae Jepsen - Warm Blood

22. Madonna ft. Mike Tyson & Chance the Rapper – Iconic

23. Blonde ft. Melissa Steel - I Loved You

24. Drake ft. PARTYNEXTDOOR - Preach

25. Miguel ft. Wale - Coffee (f***ing)

26. Ciara – Give Me Love

27. Rihanna - American Oxygen

28. Troye Sivan - WILD

29. Crywolf – Home We Made Pt. II (Skrux Remix)

30. Kitty - ♥ 285 ♥

31. Janet Jackson ft. Missy Elliot - BURNITUP!

32. Mabel – Know Me Better

33. Kacy Hill - Arm's Length

34. Alesso ft. Tove Lo - Heroes (we could be)

35. V V – Shift

36. Wynter Gordon - Bleeding Out

37. Kacy Hill – Experience

38. M.I.A. - Borders

39. Until the Ribbon Breaks – Orca

40. Kitty - ♡ LAST MINUTE ♡

41. Troye Sivan - LOST BOY

42. Hurts - Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us

43. Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean?

44. Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker the Berry

45. Little Mix - Black Magic

46. Janet Jackson - Shoulda Known Better

47. Mabel - My Boy My Town

48. Troye Sivan - YOUTH

49. Alex Winston - Down Low

50. Ben Khan – 1000

51. Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta

52. Nick Jonas (w/ ft. Tinashe) – Jealous

53. Janet Jackson ft. J. Cole - No Sleeep

54. Mikky Ekko - Love You Crazy

55. CAPPA ft. Almighty Chief – Hush

56. Gjan - One More Drink

57. Madonna ft. Nicki Minaj - Bitch I'm Madonna

58. Fifth Harmony ft. Kid Ink - Worth It

59. Five Knives – Savages

60. Ed Sheeran - Photograph

61. Ciara - I Bet

62. Niykee Heaton - Cold War

63. Selena Gomez – Sober

64. Madonna – Addicted

65. ØRKA - tell me

66. Jessica 6 ft. Thodoris Triantafillou & CJ Jeff – Down Low

67. Pia Mia ft. Chris Brown & Tyga – Do It Again

68. Rita Ora ft. Chris Brown – Body On Me

69. Adele – Hello

70. Little Mix – Love Me Like You

71. Kacy Hill - Foreign Fields

72. Dej Loaf - Like A Hoe

73. GENER8ION ft. M.I.A. - The New International Sound (Part II)

74. Madonna - Holy Water

75. Fleur East – Sax

76. Hurts - Some Kind Of Heaven

77. SYKES - Best Thing

78. Kanye West ft. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney - All Day

79. Carly Rae Jepsen - I Really Like You

80. The Weeknd - The Hills

81. Madonna – Queen

82. Justin Bieber - Love Yourself

83. Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion

84. Kid Ink ft. Dej Loaf - Be Real

85. Asta ft. Allday – Dynamite

86. Olly Murs - Kiss Me

87. Sia – Alive

88. Coldplay – Adventure of a Lifetime

89. Indiana - Heart on Fire

90. Miguel – leaves

91. A$AP Rocky - L$D

92. Stereo Kicks - Love Me So

93. Sigala - Sweet Lovin'

94. KDA ft. Tinie Tempah & Katy B - Turn The Music Louder

95. Fleur East – Breakfast

96. Madonna – Graffiti Heart

97. Kanye West ft. Paul McCartney - Only One

98. Grimes - Flesh Without Blood

99. Jordin Sparks ft. 2 Chainz - Double Tap

100. Ben Haenow ft. Kelly Clarkson - Second Hand Heart

 

 

Albums so far~

 

1. Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION

2. Madonna – Rebel Heart

3. Janet Jackson – Unbreakable

4. Troye Sivan - Blue Neighbourhood

5. Kitty Pryde – Frostbite

6. Years & Years – Communion

7. Kacy Hill – BLOO

8. Adele – 25

9. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

10. Hurts – Surrender

11. Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams

12. Justin Bieber – Purpose

13. Little Mix - Get Weird

14. Ciara - Jackie

15. Marina & the Diamonds – FROOT

16. V V – Glitch

17. Wynter Gordon - Five Needle EP

18. Miguel – WildHeart

19. Autre Ne Veut - The Age of Transparency

20. Grimes - Art Angels

21. FKA Twigs - M3LL155X

22. Selena Gomez – Revival

23. Halsey - BADLANDS

24. Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

25. Kwabs - Love + War

26. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late

27. J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive

28. One Direction – Made It In The A.M.

29. Bebe Rexha - I Don’t Wanna Grow Up

30. A$AP Rocky - AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP

Slaydonna to slay pls.

Really looking forward to this Haus :heart:

Hoping for Madonna, Carly and a maybe a little of Taylor slayage here :wub:

Love is pain and pain is art, show me your graffiti heart

 

 

96. Madonna – Graffiti Heart

97. Kanye West ft. Paul McCartney - Only One

98. Grimes - Flesh Without Blood

99. Jordin Sparks ft. 2 Chainz - Double Tap

100. Ben Haenow ft. Kelly Clarkson - Second Hand Heart

 

*slight disclaimer* I compiled this list very quickly and then spent a while sorting the top 100 out, so I have more than likely missed out essential songs :( if this is the case I will just try to rectify as we go along and give them honourable mentions Lol. But hopefully we don't come to that~

 

Let's go~ I'll be presenting songs and albums interspersed so hope it isn't too difficult to keep up with :heehee: A small shoutout to V V's 'Lazarus' which just missed out (in my first cull I was left with 101 songs oops), but she has another song to come, so worry not. Last year's X Factor winner Ben Haenow is up first with his delightful first proper single. I was not a fan of him in the slightest on the show, and still his live vocals really grate on me, but in studio form his sounds are pretty likeable so no grudges held. Controversial one next oops but this offering from Jordin Sparks is a JAM and I won't hear anything against it. Grimes who I've always been a very mild fan of, offers perhaps the best song of her career to date, the hugely explosive and enjoyable 'Flesh Without Blood' - a proper joyous affair filled to the brim with exuberance and excess. Kanye West didn't make a full-bodied return with a new album as was expected but the singles he did drop kept fans ticking over and with 'Only One' he offered one of his most poignant, heartfelt tracks to date. Yeezy has a heart after all it seems!!1. And finally, Madonna makes her first appearence (of how many? ;o) with a bonus track, but easily one of the album's many highlights. It's a song about pain, love, art, beauty - sums up the album wonderfully and my own experience of adoring her as a person and artist. My heart is tatooed and graffitied all over with her lyrics, her pain, her love, her presence.

Ben Whonow LMFFAOOOOOOOOOOO (it's a nice song though, if unspectacular)

 

The first of many Madge songs I imagine *.* the less said about Kanye, the better ^_^

GRIMES :wub:

 

Grimes and Ben Haenow so far :heart:

You got me feeling for your power

 

 

91. A$AP Rocky - L$D

92. Stereo Kicks - Love Me So

93. Sigala - Sweet Lovin'

94. KDA ft. Tinie Tempah & Katy B - Turn The Music Louder

95. Fleur East – Breakfast

 

Narrowly beating the winner of last year's X Factor is the runner-up with the first of two songs to chart in the top 100 here. Fleur East's 'Breakfast' is a mix between Rita Ora and Carly Rae Jepsen (two artist who have songs still to feature here) and so it's right up my street. The album makes use of this more stripped back, chilled, R&B vibe and this is clearly the standout example of that. KDA did the impossible and got Katy B a #1 single, for that alone it deserves a huge mention; the song should hopefully set up a big year for Katy B - she dominated the previous few so high hopes once more that she'll deliver. Sigala with their very current hit bounce up next, it's a very worthy follow up to that little-known debut of theirs which might just have done a tad better than this :unsure: Ready for side-glances now, but Stereo Kicks' debut (and only ever) song is a perfect boyband ballad and i'm a sucker for it. I am also a sucker for 80% of the band in departments away from the music (o )(o ). And things take a dark turn next with one of the most intense, rich hip-hop songs of the year. A$AP Rocky's trippy, drug-fuelled 'L$D' is as close to getting a high without touching the substances you can get. It sends you to massive highs and low comedowns all in the space of a few minutes - a much needed experience, even if you hate the song it's well worth a listen and the video worth a watch!

Breakfast is fantastic :wub: Love Me So never really hit me and I'm meant to be the boyband stan lol. It's nice though ~

Predicting Carly Rae to feature for the bulk of the other end of this!

Grimes should be MUCH higher but I'll forgive if you're not rly a fan~

 

KDA is my other fave so far, Katy B on top as she deserves to be

Ben Whonow LMFFAOOOOOOOOOOO (it's a nice song though, if unspectacular)

And yet no sign of Louisa Johnson here ^_^

 

Predicting Carly Rae to feature for the bulk of the other end of this!

You'll have to keep tuning back to find out :o

 

Grimes should be MUCH higher but I'll forgive if you're not rly a fan~

 

KDA is my other fave so far, Katy B on top as she deserves to be

I am not really a big fan no. I have listened to the albums and enjoy them but I don't really return to her songs (I guess they're not *catchy* enough for me), until this of course!

 

Thanks for the comments so far guys <3

 

-x-

 

Gah so I initially thought I wouldn't even have enough albums here, but when compiling the list it turned out that there were a fair few that missed out. So brief shoutouts to (in reverse order) ~ Indiana, Lana Del Rey, Until The Ribbon Breaks, Mikky Ekko, Skrillex and Diplo, Dr. Dre and Ben Khan who miss out :nocheer:

 

Slaynow appearing

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Everyday I spend my time, drinking wine

 

 

29. Bebe Rexha - I Don’t Wanna Grow Up

 

I Can't Stop Drinking About You / I Don't Wanna Grow Up / Pray

 

30. A$AP Rocky - AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP

 

L$D / Everyday / Fine Whine

 

So with commiserations out of the way we start with a regular featurette in these countdowns, A$AP Rocky. AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP (just go with the styling) wasn't really as hugely anticipated as the title makes out - music from him always is, but this came with a more muted surfacing with it being gradually discovered and revealed in subsequent videos being released. The album continues the flash, bold sounds that make his sound so signature, but it still feels like a progression from the (incredible) 'LONG.LIVE.A$AP' musically. It has retro moments, current sounds and almost futuristic, neo-sounds all thrown in together making the entire experience of the album exhausting to listen through. It's certainly not my favourite album from him, but for its sheer relentless grit and power, I can't help but appreciate it.

 

Bebe Rexha has her name to a few solid hits, but the first proper collection i've heard from her confirms that she could be something special. The short, but sharp EP is full of wonderful sounds and soaring vocals. The EP seems to be full of regrets, the regret of aging being the central one as the title suggests but also regrets of intense love and moments of insanity. I can't wait for a full album from her, she has a wonderful way with her lyrics and her delivery of them makes her one of the more distinct females to emerge in recent times. 'I Can't Stop Drinking About You' remains an absolute GEM too, I wish i'd have paid more attention to it last year because it didn't even feature in my top 100 back then :(

Hi Haus!

 

Big fan of Double Tap myself, one of my favourites of hers.

 

Sweet Lovin' is amazing, really hope he keeps putting out tracks like that next year.

'L$D' is my fave so far, beautiful song and the video complements it perfectly! So colorful <3

I told you that I would never be forgotten

 

 

86. Olly Murs - Kiss Me

87. Sia – Alive

88. Coldplay – Adventure of a Lifetime

89. Indiana - Heart on Fire

90. Miguel – leaves

 

 

Back to the songles now~ Miguel makes his first appearance here, where off an overly sexually charged album, the most tender moment of the lot really stands out. 'leaves' is a beauty of a song and shows a different side to the hunk. Indiana's song took ages to hit me but when I did I fell in love with the complex layers of the song - is it pretentious, perhaps but it doesn't really matter because her ghostly, ethereal vocals are chilling throughout and the song as a whole is a well-accomplished piece of indie-pop. That chorus just ignites. Coldplay suffer from being a very recent addition to my chart, it'd probably be a few places higher but as i've only just "got" it, it settles for a fairly low position. Still, the album as a whole is a world away from 'Ghost Stories' and much better for it. Sia who dominated 2014, only makes it to #87 here with her big comeback single 'Alive' not totally wowing me, but it does what it says in the tin and is an invigorating listen every time. I was hoping for a new re-invention rather than a 'Chandelier'-lite effort, but I still have very high hopes for the album - but more on that next year I assume? And finally, XF's cheeky alumni, turned presenter Olly Murs releases his strongest single since 'Dear Darlin'' with an equally as cheeky video and a brilliant, retro-infused sound. It really works for him and I find him much more convincing in his slower, more subdued moments.

Hi Ball -_-

 

Olly, Sia, Coldplay -_- , Sigala, Fleur, KDA :D , Grimes, Ben/Kelly are all fab fab fab, oh yeah http://www.newnownext.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/madonna-fall.gif ICONIC *.* looking forward to seeing much more Oldonna on here B-)

Oh this happened suddenly, Hi Bal

 

I do like Alive but sometimes I just think shut up! :lol: My dad summed it up pretty well because he likes it but the first time he said 'who's this shouting girl on the radio'... It's a strong track but some of the high notes are just painful even though she sounds great on the majority of the track, I preferred the more held-back stuff like Elastic Heart/Big Girls Cry.

 

A big fan of Kiss Me, cheeky is the word I'd use to describe it too, he has this real charm to him and I like it when he shows it off in his lyrics/videos and this was the perfect example of it, loved how smooth the whole track is too, worked for him because it felt like a bit of progression.

 

AOAL is new but it'll be very high in my EOY still, it may just have the most catchy instrumental hook of all time. I'd be the first person to criticise the boringness of slow songs like Yellow and Fix You but this is a really fantastic song, was so worried it would miss the top 10 officially to begin with but it seems to be getting more attention now :D