One (Your Name) is certainly a 2010 standout. Probably because it sounds more suited to the 2011-12 era which I liked so much and of course that song probably was a huge influence on the progressive house banger trend then.

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.

 

I'd say there was a lot more R&B in the charts 2013-15 than this year... tropical house and dancehall have been the major influences this year.

Well, Wake Me Up and Get Lucky are two of my favourite ever songs so for that alone I have to hold 2013 in high regard.

2013 was a truly fantastic year I think. There was real variety, and the chart was interesting to follow in that it moved at just the right pace, enough was happening and the genuinely big hits really stood out as being so.

 

I'd give anything for a climate like that year again.

I'd say there was a lot more R&B in the charts 2013-15 than this year... tropical house and dancehall have been the major influences this year.

 

I noticed it in 2015 certainly. And to an extent that's continued over to 2016 with teen singers being influenced by the genre and of course Drake (hence I think the dancehall you describe is counting for a lot of what I think of as RnB). Tropical house dominating is a problem that feeds into the amorphous bland mess that is there when I think of 2016 chart music, I loved the genre in 2015 but it becoming so popular has diluted the talent pool for it immensely. A lot of dance, which is an area of popular music in the 2010s where I normally have a good foothold with tracks I love, has felt so tired, uninspired and one-note this year.

2013 was a truly fantastic year I think. There was real variety, and the chart was interesting to follow in that it moved at just the right pace, enough was happening and the genuinely big hits really stood out as being so.

 

I'd give anything for a climate like that year again.

 

That's a fair point, the climate was much better then. A good balance of long-runners but a quick enough turnover at the top.

I noticed it in 2015 certainly. And to an extent that's continued over to 2016 with teen singers being influenced by the genre and of course Drake (hence I think the dancehall you describe is counting for a lot of what I think of as RnB). Tropical house dominating is a problem that feeds into the amorphous bland mess that is there when I think of 2016 chart music, I loved the genre in 2015 but it becoming so popular has diluted the talent pool for it immensely. A lot of dance, which is an area of popular music in the 2010s where I normally have a good foothold with tracks I love, has felt so tired, uninspired and one-note this year.

 

I supppse tropical house is following the same pattern as dubstep, soon everyone wanted to include it in their tracks from Ellie Goulding (Figure 8) to LMFAO's Sorry For Party Rocking (a decent track ruined by trying to follow the dubstep craze at the end of the song)

How do we all feel about 2009? Because it's genuinely one of my favourite years ever for chart music. Looking through the Top 40's of the year there's literally one or two songs that I adored entering every week. It was good for the Billboard charts as well if I recall. Just an all around solid year.

All of these years are way better than what only the charts suggest.

 

I think only three songs max in my end of year top 20 will have charted at all in the UK. On that front it has got a LOT better recently with Shout Out To My Ex, The Greatest and Rockabye.

 

There have been the odd few great songs smattered elsewhere throughout the year...Alan Walker's Faded, Sia's Cheap Thrills, Jonas Blue's Perfect Strangers, Zara Larsson's Lush Life and Craig David's hits spring to mind...but otherwise most chart stuff has just been 'quite good' for me. There's very little that's horrendous but there's also been very little that stands out particularly for me.

 

2010 and much of 2011 for the (UK) charts was the 'club banger' era and it was pretty crap overall but there was way more that I loved...Take That's The Flood, Lena's Satellite, Shakira's Waka Waka, Kylie's All The Lovers, Roll Deep's Green Light, Rihanna's What's My Name, Stromae's Alors On Danse...my favourites that year were either huge hits or European smashes that flopped here.

I noticed it in 2015 certainly. And to an extent that's continued over to 2016 with teen singers being influenced by the genre and of course Drake (hence I think the dancehall you describe is counting for a lot of what I think of as RnB). Tropical house dominating is a problem that feeds into the amorphous bland mess that is there when I think of 2016 chart music, I loved the genre in 2015 but it becoming so popular has diluted the talent pool for it immensely. A lot of dance, which is an area of popular music in the 2010s where I normally have a good foothold with tracks I love, has felt so tired, uninspired and one-note this year.

 

Yeah, songs like One Dance, Work, Controlla etc are heavily dancehall-influenced R&B records. Tropical house though needs to die down now, it's almost as bad as the Guetta/Calvin Harris/will.i.am period of dance-pop where it was everywhere and made everything sound so similar. That's why I put 2013 first as, particularly the first half of the year, there was so much variety and it seemed a breath of fresh air. The signs were there at the end of 2012, so I don't think we'll see something similar next year.

 

I want a return to the dance music that was influenced by house, drum & bass and garage, but I don't think that's likely now in the Spotify era as these types of releases were really aided by being held-back for months.

One (Your Name) is certainly a 2010 standout. Probably because it sounds more suited to the 2011-12 era which I liked so much and of course that song probably was a huge influence on the progressive house banger trend then.

 

But then progressive house was being poppified too by 2011 by stuff like Chris Brown's Don't Wake Me Up and Ne Yo's Let Me Love You in 2012 and lots of other examples.

 

But yes I really miss euphoric progressive house like the early SHM hits.

 

Jamie 2009 I didnt really like, too much watered down grime pop from the likes of Chipmunk and R&B ballads in the chart like T Shirt (one of the worst songs ever imo) and Breathe Slow. The whole chart was urban pop dominated to the point of saturation and indie and dance suffered as a result.

I want a return to the dance music that was influenced by house, drum & bass and garage, but I don't think that's likely now in the Spotify era as these types of releases were really aided by being held-back for months.

 

Stuff like Galantis - Love On Me are going in the right direction, they are blending tropical house with more upbeat 00s style funky house, same with John Gibbons Would I Lie To You which has done reasonably well on itunes and spotify for a long time now.

 

Also Heldens' new song is very 00s funky house, so I am hoping the upbeat house music of the 00s can come back and speaking about the 00s hopefully some trance imfluenced tracks too.

 

 

This year was pretty bad..

 

Although I got new music from OneRepublic, Tove Lo and Ellie so all is good :D

2005/2006 is still the best year of the 00s by far! I'd kill for a number 1s list as diverse as those these days. Of the 10s, Majority of 2010/2011 (a few standouts aside, normally those in a different genre) has dated really badly, even if I do have uni memories attached to some songs! 2013 I found really great overall, if just cos the hits all still sound like modern classics and it was the last year I can remember where there was often genuinely unexpected surprises in the top 40 (like CHVRCHES & Haim, I doubt they'd get anywhere near these days). It's got gradually more watered down since (though I did love the deep house phase of 2014 <3) and has reached saturation point this year.

Stereo Love, now there was a tune :wub:

 

One of the first tropical house tunes of the modern form (Love Generation was probably the first). Of course Dario G's Sunchyme started it but that is very progressive house by todays tropical house standards

It's interesting looking at the Sales only chart these days, because the older acts are still getting their on sales, it's just streaming letting them down.

2005/2006 is still the best year of the 00s by far! I'd kill for a number 1s list as diverse as those these days. Of the 10s, Majority of 2010/2011 (a few standouts aside, normally those in a different genre) has dated really badly, even if I do have uni memories attached to some songs! 2013 I found really great overall, if just cos the hits all still sound like modern classics and it was the last year I can remember where there was often genuinely unexpected surprises in the top 40 (like CHVRCHES & Haim, I doubt they'd get anywhere near these days). It's got gradually more watered down since (though I did love the deep house phase of 2014 <3) and has reached saturation point this year.

 

I like 2005 and 2006 mostly for the dance music, the R&B had got a bit dull by then compared tp the dancier R&B in the early 00s. 2005 was great for the Gorillaz tracks too.

How do we all feel about 2009? Because it's genuinely one of my favourite years ever for chart music. Looking through the Top 40's of the year there's literally one or two songs that I adored entering every week. It was good for the Billboard charts as well if I recall. Just an all around solid year.

2009 is one of my favourites as well! Literally everything was incredible and especially the start of 2009 with the female domination of Gaga/Lily/Kelly/Taylor/Saturdays slayed *.*

It's quite hard tbh, some of the biggest songs of the year have been great but the whole tropical house thing is just getting tired and I've been getting a bit disillusioned with the chart as a whole recently with how slow it's been, although that isn't as bad now as it's been as some other's have said. So yeah, and no lmao.

2010 and much of 2011 for the (UK) charts was the 'club banger' era and it was pretty crap overall but there was way more that I loved...Take That's The Flood, Lena's Satellite, Shakira's Waka Waka, Kylie's All The Lovers, Roll Deep's Green Light, Rihanna's What's My Name, Stromae's Alors On Danse...my favourites that year were either huge hits or European smashes that flopped here.

 

It would be interesting to know if there were technically more 'dance' songs in the charts in 2010, 2011 or 2000.

 

I am guessing 2000, the 2000 top 40 between the trance, hard and funky house and garage and the fast turnover probably had the most dance tracks of any year in the top 40.