Sia - Cheap Thrills (would suggest this is becoming one. I know loads of tropical house songs came first but it moved it even more into pop)

Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk (more fun/disco coming back, like Sax and Bruno's solo stuff)

Avicii - Wake Me Up (think it set a bit of a dance/country trend at the time, can see it coming back up in the new Kygo/Selena song etc.)

Iggy Azalea - Fancy (I felt like loads of songs coming out after that seemed to want to recreate it, loads of Charli style chanty choruses)

Emeli Sande - Next To Me (felt like that kinda sound definitely kicked off that big drum sound; look at Leona's last album, Jennifer Hudson new single etc.)

 

 

Oh yes, I forgot Chase & Status, definitely played a big part in the dance crazes.

 

Can we blame Duke for tropical house too though? I Got U came a year before Cheerleader!

 

I recall at the time it was lumped with Route 94, Kiesza and SecondCity as the 'deep house' craze, which wasn't really right, looking back, it was actually quite ahead of it's time!

Can we blame Duke for tropical house too though? I Got U came a year before Cheerleader!

My thinking too.

'Firestone' was more responsible for the much lower-tempo tropical house sound, which together with 'Lean On' is what I feel resulted in The Chainsmokers et al sound.

I always consider We Found Love as the song that made "EDM drops" a thing in pop songs!

As for tropical house I'd say Kygo very much was the main influence on it, although the Omi song was far bigger than Firestone so that put it well in the mainstream. Firestone is responsible for the slower tempo dance trend though.

Not so sure about Thinking Out Loud. We've always had sappy pop ballads, but actually not that many do very well these days. I don't remember there being lots in the chart in the last couple of years.

Thinking Out Loud paved the way for Say You Won't Let Go and Wasn't Expecting That to name two.

Sia - Cheap Thrills (would suggest this is becoming one. I know loads of tropical house songs came first but it moved it even more into pop)

Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk (more fun/disco coming back, like Sax and Bruno's solo stuff)

Avicii - Wake Me Up (think it set a bit of a dance/country trend at the time, can see it coming back up in the new Kygo/Selena song etc.)

Iggy Azalea - Fancy (I felt like loads of songs coming out after that seemed to want to recreate it, loads of Charli style chanty choruses)

Emeli Sande - Next To Me (felt like that kinda sound definitely kicked off that big drum sound; look at Leona's last album, Jennifer Hudson new single etc.)

 

I'd agree with 'Wake Me Up' the most here - although most of those dance/country hits were by Avicii himself :P Was 'Timber' influenced by it or was that just a lucky coincidence?

 

I'd say Adele's 21-era hits (and Make You Feel My Love) paved the way for irritating pop-ballads far more than Thinking Out Loud.

What about James Morrison and The Script? They've made long careers out of the exact same thing before 21 was released.

 

There's always a place for unchallenging male troubadour MOR after all :lol:

MOR has been around for decades.

Artful Dodger and Craig David- Re-Rewind - Start of the UK garage trend.

Ian van Dahl - Castles In The Sky - Started the whole vocal trance boom by 2002

Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme - The whole retro sounding vocal house revival up to about mid 2006.

Bodyrox and Luciana - Yeah Yeah/Fedde le Grand -Put Your Hands Up For Detroit - These started the electro house trend.

 

 

As for tropical house I'd say Kygo very much was the main influence on it, although the Omi song was far bigger than Firestone so that put it well in the mainstream. Firestone is responsible for the slower tempo dance trend though.

 

What about as a very early influence Dario G - Sunchyme back in 1997!

 

What's also interesting is songs that stood out hugely at the time as being very different, yet that didn't really spark any trends (makes you wonder why not, seeing as people like to copy established hits.)

 

Things like Shakira's Hips Don't Lie for example, I really can't think of anything it influenced. It would have sounded more at home in the chart landscape of summer 1999.

 

As per the above too, you'd think Sunchyme would have sparked a load of immediate soundalikes but that was pretty much it for tropical house until the resurgence of late :lol:

Edited March 16, 20178 yr by gooddelta

Taio Cruz - Come On Girl in early 2008 seemed to kickstart the 'urban artists going down the dance route' craze that was massive for the next few years (e.g. David Guetta collaborating with many urban artists).

 

Lady Gaga - Just Dance in early 2009 kicked off the RedOne electropop sound.

'Vogue' is usually referred to as the song that brought house into the pop landscape in the US, although in the UK I usually trace back house in pop music back to 'Ride On Time'. I know that house started to make it in the charts closer to 1987, but it wasn't as poppy nor did it have that recognisable piano melody.

 

It's interesting that, despite being referred to as a trend-setter, you rarely see Madonna's songs pinpointed as what marked the start of a trend.

Listening to I Got U after it being brought up in here - and Jax Jones features on the track? Wtf? Since when?

Listening to I Got U after it being brought up in here - and Jax Jones features on the track? Wtf? Since when?

Since always :kink:

Oh yes, I forgot Chase & Status, definitely played a big part in the dance crazes.

I recall at the time it was lumped with Route 94, Kiesza and SecondCity as the 'deep house' craze, which wasn't really right, looking back, it was actually quite ahead of it's time!

 

Secondcity isn't deep house though imo, I would consider it just normal piano house. The other two are deep house though.

Edited March 18, 20178 yr by Вuzzjack

Since always :kink:

I always thought it was a second Duke Dumont ft A*M*E collab!

Emeli Sande - Next To Me (felt like that kinda sound definitely kicked off that big drum sound; look at Leona's last album, Jennifer Hudson new single etc.)

I trace that sound back to 'Rolling in the Deep'. Whenever I hear the big, almost marching band styled production, I always refer to it either as the 'Rolling in the Deep' sound or the OneRepublic sound, since they've done it a few times. 'Next to Me' is much quieter in comparison to others, actually.