2007 was a dreadful year too. That whole Fedde Le Grand style electro trend was dreadful. Fergie, Paolo Nutini or the two Mutya songs were not my thing either and that Gym Class Heroes version of Breakfast In America was dreadful imo too.

 

I suppsoe the Kate Nash and The Fray tracks were the standout ones from that year.

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2007 was a dreadful year too. That whole Fedde Le Grand style electro trend was dreadful. Fergie, Paolo Nutini or the two Mutya songs were not my thing either and that Gym Class Heroes version of Breakfast In America was dreadful imo too.

 

I suppsoe the Kate Nash and The Fray tracks were the standout ones from that year.

 

I was 14 in 2007, so I kind of find it hard to look at objectively, all those Cascada/T2/Freddie Le Grande tracks brings back so many nice and lovely memories for me. Nearly a decade on (man that's scary to say), I can see why a lot of 2007 probably does suck but for me, nostalgia kind of ends up trumping objective views of songs.

 

There were a few big standout hits for me in '07 though - Umbrella, Foundations, The Way I Are, Call the Shots, About You Now, Rule The World, Gimme More, Give It To Me, Say It Right and probably 10 to 15 others.

It really depends what type of music genre you really like, for me I'm into Indie/ Alternative music genre with the odd dance tracks, I think Indie/ Rock really struggle to get into the charts now, its just becoming boring for me. The #1 turnover has been rather slow this year, but we have Drake to blame for that, and lack of new music.

The charts have been painful to follow for the most part, but they seem to sort of be getting a bit more fluid now. I'm hoping for next year they start to actually move more, if only by a little bit.

 

Musically overall it hasn't been brilliant, but there have been enough gems to keep me satisfied.

 

I don't really see anything ever topping 2008 as the worst year since I started following it all, but this is the closest we've been.

I was 14 in 2007, so I kind of find it hard to look at objectively, all those Cascada/T2/Freddie Le Grande tracks brings back so many nice and lovely memories for me. Nearly a decade on (man that's scary to say), I can see why a lot of 2007 probably does suck but for me, nostalgia kind of ends up trumping objective views of songs.

 

There were a few big standout hits for me in '07 though - Umbrella, Foundations, The Way I Are, Call the Shots, About You Now, Rule The World, Gimme More, Give It To Me, Say It Right and probably 10 to 15 others.

 

Of course from a dance perspective my favourites were 04 to 06 for dance (the disco house phase sparked by Lola's Theme was great). Looking back at 2002 it was brilliant for the big vocal trance anthems too, although I wasn't a dance fan at the time, I was a fan of early 00s pop, and the early 00s were the golden age for pop music, everything from Sugababes Right Round to Holly Valance's Kiss Kiss to Rachel Stevens' Sweet Dreams My LA Ex and Kelly Clarkson's Since You've Been Gone I remember fondly.

 

The dubstep and drum and bass phase in 2011 and 2012 was good too.

 

The whole progressive house pop phase (as exemplified by tracks like Beautiful People) of the early 10s I actually much prefer to the rather annoying sound effects future bass and overused tropical house of now.

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everyone has fave years for music, they tend to be age 13 to age 17 or a bit on either side, and suffer from bias (I'm no exception to it :lol: ). I've also long-been (40 years and counting) a defender of the British music charts as people grow older and have less interest in current music and moan about it.

 

That said, despite 2016 being a fab year for new music generally (I've had to increase my personal chart to 100), as everyone knows I'm VERY critical of the new streaming-dominated chart. It has wiped out all other older music fans from the charts (for no good reason other than they don't stream, or don't have time to stream), and made it a tedious unchanging repetitive dull mess. I'm not saying there arent great chart hits (there are) but they never go away even though people have long-ceased to buy them, and they are joined by samey-sounding Tropical House dancepop from a declining pool of successful chart acts.

 

Least number of genres ever, least-inclusive year ever, least-interesting year ever. At least until 2017... :P

This year has really been quite bad for music, although 2010 wasn't any better.

 

My ranking for the decade would look like this:

 

1) 2015

2) 2012

3) 2014

4) 2011

5) 2013

6) 2010

6) 2016

I haven't enjoyed much from this year, but I'm 28 and music doesn't soundtrack my life as much as it did in my late teens-early twenties, 2007-2012 being pretty heavenly throughout for me.

 

Everyone will always have a positive attachment to the songs that soundtracked the best eras of their life, no matter their musical merit. I'd be a fool to say that every number 1 single in the late noughties/early tens was awesome, but when you're out with mates/drunk in a club/happily with your partner then everything is going to sound brilliant no matter what! If you're going through tough teenage times, or in the middle of a mid-late twenties quarter life crisis, then perhaps not so much is going to stand out. It would be wrong for me to sneer at Drake or James Arthur or whoever everyone's listening to these days as it's not my generation and I'm not in the right state of youthful mind to enjoy them.

 

For those attempting to find specific 'reasons' as to why they don't personally like current chart music - it's streaming's fault, it's Drake's fault etc - people have been doing this since the dawn of the charts, pinpointing some kind of current musical or purchasing trend as stopping 'real' or 'good' music from getting the positions they deserve. Had Buzzjack existed in the 1960s you'd get some members idolising The Beatles' every move and others who'd absolutely despise them for their overplayed ubiquity, dragging down the charts becoming a succession of identikit 'beat groups' all cashing in on the same sound and making everything the same. See also glam rock in the 70s, synthpop in the 80s, Eurodance in the 90s and 'indie landfill' a decade ago, things being so much better in the days before streaming/downloads/CDs/home taping/etc spoiled all the fun. Not saying anyone's wrong as all sounds and trends get exhausted eventually, but for every 20-30 something falling out of love for the charts, there's a kid or early teenager joining the boat. There are no 'good' or 'bad' songs - good music is everything you enjoy, bad something you don't.

 

Buzzjack in twenty years...

 

Anyone else think 2036 has been the worst year for music ever?! Sick of having to constantly reload the chip inside my brain to listen to new songs, I miss the days when you just clicked on a name on a smartphone to hear things. Everything sounds the same these days in a way that wasn't the case in the glorious golden era of 2016, you've got brillant and talented legends like Shawn Mendes and Dua Lipa missing the top 40 in favour of dull, bland identikit pop music from boring manufactured teen stars. When did everything go so wrong?

A difficult one, because I feel the quality of the music has improved dramatically over the last few months. I think the overall quality this year has been better than most of the 2010s. But I'm still desperate for more variety, more songs actually making the top 40 and more new artists breaking through.

LOL at the thought of Shawn Mendes and Dua Lipa being cited as musical legends in the future :lol:

 

I imagine Mendes will in hindsight look great compared to whatever teen stars we get given in the future, now that is a truly scary thought.

2010 getting a lot of hate! Probably my fave year of the decade actually... SO many songs I adore from that year: Stereo Love, Watercolour, Take Over Control, I Need Air, One (Your Name), Pass Out, Frisky, Beautiful Stranger, Let The Sun Shine, Gold Dust, OMG, She Said, Billionaire, Hold Yuh, What's My Name, Wavin' Flag I really could go on :lol:

 

Very interested to see where music will go next year, and how quickly (if at all) the big dance acts from this year fade into relative irrelevance.

Ah yeah forgot about Gold Dust and What's My Name! I loved all the British rappers making pop songs too even if I don't return to them anymore. Plan B's album was great too, a real highlight of 2010.

No year is without their triumphs. 2010 had some great tracks in the Top 40 - Dancing On My Own is in my Top 10 songs of the whole decade - but a lot of the Top 40 was cluttered with repetitive, samey dance tunes that just wouldn't go away (or didn't seem too, in hindsight I know the charts of 2010 moved a lot faster)

 

I guess you could say the same for 2016 but for me the difference is that the repetitive, samey dance tunes in general sound a lot better. Jonas Blue, Cheat Codes, The Chainsmokers, DJ Snake, Major Lazer exct may all be slightly different flavours of the same thing but their music just sounds a lot better to my ears than the stuff we were getting in 2010.

 

The year also gave us 'The Time' by The Black Eyed Peas which is an easy contender for my least favourite song of all-time.

2010 getting a lot of hate! Probably my fave year of the decade actually... SO many songs I adore from that year: Stereo Love, Watercolour, Take Over Control, I Need Air, One (Your Name), Pass Out, Frisky, Beautiful Stranger, Let The Sun Shine, Gold Dust, OMG, She Said, Billionaire, Hold Yuh, What's My Name, Wavin' Flag I really could go on :lol:

 

Very interested to see where music will go next year, and how quickly (if at all) the big dance acts from this year fade into relative irrelevance.

 

Stereo Love, now there was a tune :wub:

Normally the leap years have good reputation in being above-average in charts and music in general (for example, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2008), that makes 2016 even more disappointing in terms of chart music, although like it's been said 2010 is still the weakest year of the decade in music so far.

 

Personally, it looks a bit like 2004, which was good for music in general but rather terrible in chart terms, especially in terms of Number 1s and Number 2s.

I'm always a defender of 2010, there was a lot of quirky pop, all that dance Dobbo mentions and British acts that I actually LIKED around back then but that didn't really get replicated anywhere near as much in future years (particularly 2011, which was very dull on the whole), and while some of the 2010 chart hits are a bit crap, there is a charm about the more crap ones and none of them hung around for long enough to become insufferable.

 

2012 through to 2014 were great, I got really bored with 2015 overall despite a few good tracks and 2016... yeah, 2016 is where I've really stopped caring, there's the odd enjoyable track but very little that keeps me interested and far more that's uninteresting, bland RnB-lite/like music which is a sort of music I really have no time for. I've really found myself searching out away from popular music more than ever this year. I know this is partly due to me getting older but it really feels so much more drab than anything that came before right now, it's a combination of age and people making a genre popular that I just don't like.

Ah yeah forgot about Gold Dust and What's My Name! I loved all the British rappers making pop songs too even if I don't return to them anymore. Plan B's album was great too, a real highlight of 2010.

 

Yeah, loved Stay Too Long too as well as all his stuff with Chase & Status from around that time!

 

The year also gave us 'The Time' by The Black Eyed Peas which is an easy contender for my least favourite song of all-time.

 

Whilst I'm not denying that's far from a great song, it did keep Willow's Whip My Hair off #1 for which I am eternally grateful.

I was probably the only person who enjoyed Whip My Hair and The Time then.

 

Although admittedly Whip got annoying after a few weeks and I don't revisit it now. It was a so laughably bad it's good kinda moment.

2010 getting a lot of hate! Probably my fave year of the decade actually... SO many songs I adore from that year: Stereo Love, Watercolour, Take Over Control, I Need Air, One (Your Name), Pass Out, Frisky, Beautiful Stranger, Let The Sun Shine, Gold Dust, OMG, She Said, Billionaire, Hold Yuh, What's My Name, Wavin' Flag I really could go on :lol:

 

Very interested to see where music will go next year, and how quickly (if at all) the big dance acts from this year fade into relative irrelevance.

 

I forgot about One (Your Name): miss this sort of euphoric progressive house.

 

everyone has fave years for music, they tend to be age 13 to age 17 or a bit on either side,

Yes 2005 and 2006 was when I was 13 and 14 so that probably explains why I like disco house so much :lol:

 

Everyone always says 2005 was terrible for dance music in the chart but the variety imo that did make the top 40 was much more than now. Everything from funky house and 80s remixes to eurotrance to progressive house, deep house, drum and bass, grime and tech house (Shot You Down).

 

mr pmt

 

I don't really see anything ever topping 2008 as the worst year since I started following it all, but this is the closest we've been.

 

2008 wasn't a great year for dance in the charts, comparitively few dance tracks made the top 40 that year (although those that did did do well).

 

2008 was excellent too for other forms of music Sex On Fire, Shock Of The Lightning and Sweet About Me are all fantastic.

 

2007 I feel is the worst year of the 00s for the top 40.

See a lot of people give 2013 high praise for chart music it seems but when I think of the big hits, I realise chart-wise it really wasn't all that great for me. I hate Blurred Lines and Get Lucky, and Wake Me Up, La La La and Let Her Go got old quite quickly. A lot of my favourites in 2013 came from outside the chart or weren't particularly big (like J-Lo's Live It Up). 2014 was probably my favourite year for chart music in recent times!

 

Oh and I am definitely not here for 2007 hate, an amazing year for music! Foundations is my second favourite song of all-time, and its parent album Made of Bricks is my #1 album of all-time, so that alone puts it high up my list. Then we get hits from Avril Lavigne, Beyonce & Shakira, Girls Aloud, Mutya Buena, Rihanna (my favourite time to be a Rihanna fan in fact) and Sugababes among others... :wub: