71. Kacy Hill - Foreign Fields - Like this :D

74. Madonna - Holy Water

75. Fleur East – Sax - SAXY TIME :cheer:

76. Hurts - Some Kind Of Heaven - This band is so underrated :heart:

77. SYKES - Best Thing

78. Kanye West ft. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney - All Day - All Day is good but not the best thing he has done :(

79. Carly Rae Jepsen - I Really Like You - This just sneaked in my top 40 EOY poor hen :lol:

80. The Weeknd - The Hills - Love this song :heart:

 

:hi: Ball

 

Emotion :wub: absolutely needed to be a single, easily one of the best tracks on the album

 

All Day :music: a somewhat underrated jam

 

Some Kind Of Heaven :D tis certainly a catchy choon. Think it would've been a hit under a more popular artist D:

Sax and I Really Like You :wub: Amazing tracks. Love Yourself is gonna be high up my list too although I expect it'll hang around well enough and be a significant hit to count for next year's EOY too :lol:

 

Your review of Made in the A.M. is very fair I think. I prefer it to Midnight Memories but it's all a little bit too midtempo for me. It has plenty to enjoy though and Zayn's loss isn't even slightly felt for me :ph34r:

Double Tap *.*

Dynamite *.*

Be Real *.*

Emotion *.*

 

MUCH BALBOT TO BE HAD. That aside, mostly great songs so far aswell and hopefully some more Sheffield anthems to come!

Sax and I Really Like You :wub: :wub: :wub: Two of the best songs of the year and both are pop at its best :heart:

 

Also really like Kacy Hill, need to check out more of her tracks!

If I die, I'm a legend

 

 

25. Kwabs - Love + War

 

Father Figure / Walk / Fight For Love

 

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

 

Preach / Legend / Energy

 

 

Drake returned with this album amalgam but the music was solid and that was all that mattered. The two huge collaborations with PARTYNEXTDOOR stand high as big highlights, but away from that he shows adoration for Madonna and compares her legacy to that a lover and sings of his own legacy in other moments. It's a solid effort, though not quite the best that Drake has done. 'Take Care' was so good because it delved into the artist's deepest and darkest psyche, and while this at times tipplies into that, for the most part it is a party collection and celebration of his success. It works, but just not quite as well as it could - we're hoping he returns on the 6th to a much more sophisticated and devilish sound again.

 

The next album, from Kwabs was one I initially ignored. On first listen, it was only really 'Father Figure' that wowed me (and that remains a stunning highlight from the album, leagues ahead of everything else). But upon returning to the album I learnt more from it, the relentless ballads are part and parcel of Kwabs as an artist and so it works that he pours out his feelings into every orifice of the album. It's not as diverse as i'd like it to be, but it doesn't really have to be, because you know what you're signing into from an album from him; beautiful melodies and heartfelt lyrics.

"Holy Water" made me LOL the first time I heard it.

Hi Bal

 

I was a fan of the Drake mixtape but I prefer his more commercial albums, it had some tunes on it like Legend and Preach which you mention as highlights but it felt a little long. Hotline Bling would have been a banging addition too.

 

Love Holy Water making an appearance here, everyone seemed to hate it for being too cringe but I thought the lyrics were funny and the song was actually quite good pop, not one of the best moments on the album though.

 

SYKES <3 I knew you were a fan but not that much, reminds me a bit of CHVRCHES stuff but a bit more chilled out, it was one of my favourite entries actually, should've done better than mid-30s in the contest!

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SYKES <3 I knew you were a fan but not that much, reminds me a bit of CHVRCHES stuff but a bit more chilled out, it was one of my favourite entries actually, should've done better than mid-30s in the contest!

It was #4 in my BJSC countdown! My fourth favourite entry sent this year all together :wub: one that has stuck with me MONTHS after the contest <3

 

Full commentary here: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=5258483 :heehee:

I wanna be more than a friend to ya

 

 

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

 

A fairly mainstream lot here to reflect my taste for female divas this past year. Little Mix offer their second single from the album, a festive pop ballad, with all the helpings of a good Haribo starmix collection. Much like the single still to come from them, it was the video that made the song properly click with me, particularly Jesy's various guises *.* The biggest of them all, Adele is next and not much is needed to comment here except she offered just what I wanted from this era, more of the same! Rita Ora proved that she's not totally useless, this collaboration with Chris Brown proved that R&B is where she is best suited particularly that sultry, sexy sound that she offers up here. Pia Mia was one of the biggest debuters of the year for me, 'Do It Again' is a riot - totally fun, unignorable and slightly ratchet. She is apparently REALLY YOUNG and I still can't quite believe it as she looks around 30!? Oop. Finally another D'yermak'er entry from Jessica 6 - perhaps the most sexually charged video in this top 100 and we went DANCE in a bid to get the dance bloc on board and to some extent it worked. Can't deny this entrancing, intoxicating sound throughout 'Down Low', seedy, grimy and a whole lot of sticky fun *_*

Fantastic section :wub:

Hello is the perfect comeback for Adele and what a wonderful ballad it is :heart: So excited for her Brits performance!

Love Me Like You is one of my favourite songs of the year, perfect girl band ballad :wub:

Also love Do It Again but don't really like Body On Me anymore, find it really boring :(

Also Down Low is one of my favourite D'yermak'er entries this year!

"Do It Again" is legit glorious.

Here is what I think;

 

67. Pia Mia ft. Chris Brown & Tyga – Do It Again - I wish I charted this :o

68. Rita Ora ft. Chris Brown – Body On Me - :heart:

69. Adele – Hello - Adele :heart:

70. Little Mix – Love Me Like You - Little Mix providing a good song :heart:

 

Liked Emotion but I agree there's better songs on the album to listen to. Loving Love Yourself right now, you better be streaming it 10 times a day to get it to #1 :)

 

Love Do It Again and LMLY :cheer: BOM and Hello are quite good, but lol at Adele flopping here at #69 :heehee: #flopstan

It was #4 in my BJSC countdown! My fourth favourite entry sent this year all together :wub: one that has stuck with me MONTHS after the contest <3

 

Full commentary here: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=5258483 :heehee:

Oh wow, I didn't know you liked it that much! The vocals are one of my main highlights in the song too.

 

Glad to see Rita here, I think BOM is underrated and I agree with you, she's really quite good at R&B, hope we get a few songs of that direction on the new album despite its low peak, it still got good sales in the end I think.

 

Do It Again is just a banger I agree with you, its chorus is undeniably catchy and Chris/Tyga add their usual amount of guilty pleasure to the track, big fan of it. I always thought she looked a bit like Paris Hilton so 30ish too!

Do It Again once of the best female led tracks of the year for me, just brilliant R&B.

 

Body On Me was a solid track but not one I ever loved, Poison was a stronger single IMO.

 

Further back The Hills is excellent & my favourtie Weeknd track to date. All Day was such a bizarre song but I did end up loving it eventually.

You're like a wasted dream

 

 

61. Ciara - I Bet

62. Niykee Heaton - Cold War

63. Selena Gomez – Sober

64. Madonna – Addicted

65. ØRKA - tell me

 

First up, a BJSC I sent myself, the absolutely stunning, daring 'tell me'. Bré said that Adele's 'Hello' reminded him of this, consider it the pioneering song that kick-started the '25' domination across the world! But it is truly a deeply haunting and ghostly song with incredible build ups and damning lyrics. A must listen if I do say so myself, structurally it's one of the most interesting songs i've heard in a long time. Madonna is back with another bonus track, i'm really not sure what she was thinking with this tracklist - a lot of the highlights are demoted to the nether regions of the album and it makes no sense. 'Addicted' had me just that. The album track highlight from Selena Gomez's album is the stunning 'Sober' - open and raw both lyrically and vocally, it's testemant to how good she can be when she isn't singing about some same old love~ Bellamia's very own Niykee Heaton turns up the heat with her glorious 'Cold War' a song from artist so sexualised and frisky, but perfectly mirrored in this stripped back and reserved song. And finally Ciara makes her first appearance here, oddly with the single that kickstarted the album campaign. I didn't get into 'I Bet' as much as the other tracks still to come but it's such a solid, well-crafted piece of throwback R&B that it still deserved a very honourable mention.

Ciara was a massive surprise for how much I loved her this era, only ever liked a couple of her songs before but this album was excellent :heart: I bet was a fantastic song and both deserved to do so much better in the charts then they did :(

I still need to get round to listening to Kwabs' album but, hearing about the endless ballads puts me off considering Walk is one of my favourites and Pray for Love isn't even on there!

Another conversation with no destination

 

 

23. Halsey - BADLANDS

 

New Americana / Hurricane / Ghost

 

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

 

St Jude / Delilah / What Kind of Man

 

 

Two albums from leading ladies now. First, the latest offering at the alter for Florence. The album came with a punchy, daring lead single but it was in the more tender moments on the album that I found most fulfillment, 'St Jude' for example is one of her most rewarding songs to date. The album doesn't compare to the first two for me, mainly because they are so well regarded and treasured by me that it's hard for this to live up to them, but also because the songs just aren't as catchy as what came before. Still there is a lot to get from this album, and i'm sure if I gave it more time there'd be even more but alas it settles for a middling place here.

 

Newcomer Halsey who released the incredible 'New Americana' last year came with a fully-fledged album this year and it was well worth the wait. Garnering a cult fanbase of sorts on the internet and then exploding with the release of her album, thankfully the music delivered and she was worth the unexpected hype. Her distinct vocals are the highlight for me, lyrically she's interesting but her delivery of them is what makes her stand out. A beautiful lady with alluring songs, I get the feeling (lol) this is just the beginning for her.