great to see Higher Love reach the top 3, and Killing Butterflies going top 10 (as my personal fave of your BJSC entries of 2019).

 

just given your #1 a listen, and I'm quite liking it, it's a fair bit better than Sign of My Love from BJSC, so it's definitely the deserved winner here over Harry Styles. :P

great to see Higher Love reach the top 3, and Killing Butterflies going top 10 (as my personal fave of your BJSC entries of 2019).

 

just given your #1 a listen, and I'm quite liking it, it's a fair bit better than Sign of My Love from BJSC, so it's definitely the deserved winner here over Harry Styles. :P

Cheers Dan! :D

Lover making it into the decade top 50, yasss *.*

 

Also ;o at TWO 1D albums being as low as that x

Decade: Top 50 Albums

 

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31 Cody Simpson - Paradise | 2012 | EOY Peak: 4

32 Justin Bieber - Purpose | 2015 | EOY Peak: 3

33 Harry Styles - Harry Styles | 2017 | EOY Peak: 2

34 Lily Allen - Sheezus | 2014 | EOY Peak: 3

35 FO&O - FO&O | 2017 | EOY Peak: 3

36 Sara Bareilles - Kaleidoscope Heart | 2010 | EOY Peak: xx

37 Shawn Mendes - Shawn Mendes | 2018 | EOY Peak: 9

38 Tom Odell - Wrong Crowd | 2016 | EOY Peak: 4

39 All Saints - Red Flag | 2016 | EOY Peak: 5

40 Delta Goodrem - Child of the Universe | 2012 | EOY Peak: 1

 

Delta Goodrem's Child of the Universe finished as my favourite album of 2012, though with hindsight I'd say that was a slightly generous position! It held off Justin Bieber's Believe, with the likely recency bias, so it makes sense that Believe has finished higher in the EOD countdown. Nevertheless, it's a really strong album with plenty of variety - a big step up from the previous album Delta! Also making a step up are All Saints, whose second comeback yielded some of their best material to date - Red Flag was a triumph :heart: On the topic of comebacks, Lily Allen's Sheezus is at #34 - not as good as her first two albums but still very solid with plenty to enjoy.

 

With two albums in the countdown, Tom Odell's sophomore effort Wrong Crowd drops out first, just below Shawn Mendes' highest album - his third, self-titled release. Sara Bareilles' Kaleidoscope Heart is so far the oldest album to drop out, with no existing EOY position (I compiled my first EOY in 2012!) - I prefer Little Voice but Kaleidoscope Heart is still superb. Swedish boyband FO&O's self-titled release is at #35, just two spots below ex-boybander Harry Styles' debut album - both were released the same day curiously! Justin Bieber's first album of three is at #32, just below Cody Simpson's highest, his debut full-length album Paradise.

Lover making it into the decade top 50, yasss *.*

 

Also ;o at TWO 1D albums being as low as that x

It's my top 50 out of the hundreds I've heard over 10 years, I'd say it's a strong showing ya bish x

 

Gracias *.

Shawn only #37 omg the lack of TASTE on show here

Decade: Top 50 Albums

 

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21 Justin Bieber - My Worlds | 2010 | EOY Peak: xx

22 Tom Odell - Long Way Down | 2013 | EOY Peak: 2

23 Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes | 2011 | EOY Peak: xx

24 Taylor Swift - 1989 | 2014 | EOY Peak: 6

25 Declan McKenna - What Do You Think About the Car? | 2017 | EOY Peak: 1

26 Hunter Hayes - Storyline | 2014 | EOY Peak: 5

27 Matteo Markus Bok - Cruisin' | 2019 | EOY Peak: 3

28 Troye Sivan - Bloom | 2018 | EOY Peak: 2

29 Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman | 2016 | EOY Peak: 3

30 Iggy Azalea - The New Classic / Reclassified | 2014 | EOY Peak: 7

 

It's not often that I enjoy a rap album, but Iggy Azalea's The New Classic was really groundbreaking in that sense for me. Undoubtedly still my favourite of the small number I've heard from the hip-hop genre! Quite impressively it's as high as #30 here despite only finishing 7th in my 2014 EOY - there's no doubting that the quality of 2014's albums is the strongest on offer across all ten years of the 2010s. There's another two albums from that year here, too - Hunter Hayes' sophomore album Storyline marks the highest country album, and Taylor Swift's 1989 is her second highest album, leaving only 2010's Speak Now in the race.

 

My favourite album from Ariana Grande is at #29, of course being 2016's sublime Dangerous Woman album, with Troye Sivan's second album Bloom one spot above. His debut release Blue Neighbourhood is absolutely one we'll be hearing from much later in the countdown! Declan McKenna's 2017 EOY #1 is at #25, having quite surprisingly blocked Harry Styles' self-titled debut from being my favourite album of that year. More debut albums fill the rest of the section, too. Matteo Markus Bok's pure pop release Cruisin' is at #27, Bieber's My Worlds is #21, and Girls Aloud member Nicola Roberts' solo release is at #23. Finally, Tom Odell's first album Long Way Down unluckily misses my top 20 - for a period of time, this was the longest-running album in my chart's history! I believe it's still a runner-up, to Troye's Blue Neighbourhood.

Decade: Top 50 Albums

 

 

11 Alec Benjamin - Narrated for You | 2018 | EOY Peak: 4

12 One Direction - FOUR | 2014 | EOY Peak: 4

13 Harry Styles - Fine Line | 2019 | EOY Peak: 2

14 Rita Ora - Phoenix | 2018 | EOY Peak: 3

15 Why Don't We - 8 Letters | 2018 | EOY Peak: 1

16 Kate Nash - My Best Friend Is You | 2010 | EOY Peak: xx

17 Ellie Goulding - Lights / Bright Lights | 2010 | EOY Peak: xx

18 One Direction - Take Me Home | 2012 | EOY Peak: 3

19 Alyssa Reid - The Game | 2011 | EOY Peak: xx

20 One Direction - Up All Night | 2011 | EOY Peak: xx

 

Interestingly, we don't actually end up with ANY One Direction albums in the top 10. Debut release Up All Night is at #20 - a perfect introduction to their sound and it only sealed the deal in securing me as a stan for life. Take Me Home is two spots higher, having taken the best bits of Up All Night and developed them into their own brilliant pop sound. Their fourth album, aptly titled FOUR, is the biggest loss from the top 10 though, and I thought before compiling this that it'd be a shoo-in! The last album to feature Zayn Malik drops out in twelfth, having been one of the most criminally short album campaigns ever. It needed at least a couple more singles :( Also worth mentioning is Harry Styles' latest effort, Fine Line, already as high as #13 despite being out just a few months! A very strong showing for him.

 

Alyssa Reid's debut album is at #19 - it's an album of two halves really, bops and ballads, so while it doesn't really flow like a full project, there's not a weak track and it proves Alyssa's versatility (but lol she's a one hit wonder so who gives a shit????). Ellie Goulding's debut album Lights also drops out in this section - a very strong showing and one of the albums that I can say helped me get back into chart music after not really loving a lot of it at the top of the decade! Why Don't We's 8 Letters is at #15, making it the third highest boyband album of the decade, with Kate Nash's sophomore album just one spot below, following on from Made of Bricks which would've been my EOD #1 for the 2000s. Finally, released just two weeks apart, we have Rita Ora's long-delayed Phoenix, and Alec Benjamin's debut album mixtape Narrated for You. Both have been in my album chart for longer than a year, and were unlucky with their 2018 EOY positions, having been released so late in the year! They're both actually ahead of the real top 2 (8 Letters and Bloom). Damn, 2018 was strong.

Decade: Top 50 Albums

 

 

6 Ulrik Munther - Rooftop | 2013 | EOY Peak: 1

7 Greyson Chance - Hold On 'Til the Night | 2011 | EOY Peak: xx

8 Benjamin - Fingerprints | 2016 | EOY Peak: 1

9 The Saturdays - On Your Radar | 2011 | EOY Peak: xx

10 Justin Bieber - Believe | 2012 | EOY Peak: 2

 

Of course, Justin Bieber's Believe has become the honourary EOY album #1 for 2012, just as it probably should have been at the time. I really enjoy all three of Bieber's main albums, even if they all could have been by completely different artists...! Believe is my favourite though - it's pure pop perfection and really laid the groundwork for the polished dance pop we got on Purpose. One spot above is The Saturdays' only album to feature. On Your Radar is the second of a surprisingly low TWO girl group albums in my top 50, alongside All Saints' Red Flag. It's a worthy winner though, because I'd probably only rank it behind Girls Aloud's Tangled Up as my all-time favourite girl group album. Even the less good tracks are still at least 7/10, which is a very strong hit rate.

 

Finnish popstar Benjamin released his debut album in 2016, and he served up a slice of pop brilliance. Every song had a catchy hook and memorable melody, which is something more experienced popstars can't even manage most of the time. It includes Young and Restless, which is set to make a big impact on my songs countdown, as well as Man On the Moon, Unbreakable and Body, all of which made my chart's top 10. Greyson Chance's debut album is one spot above. Quite like Bieber, both Greyson albums feel like they were made by different artists, but it's even more evident with him than with Bieber. I love the innocence of Hold On 'Til the Night, even if songs like Little London Girl have dated badly for the openly gay popstar...! Tracks like Summertrain are pure bliss, and the bonus tracks Running Away and Light Up the Dark absolutely are not worth skipping either. Finally, Ulrik Munther's second album became my favourite release of 2013, something I stand by now. It's a cohesive effort that I played to death in 2013 and still really love now, with tracks like Thousand Years, Glad I Found You and Crash Test Dummy being huge highlights, alongside all three singles (San Francisco Says Hello, Tell the World I'm Here and Requiem).

Decade: Top 50 Albums

 

 

1 Troye Sivan - Blue Neighbourhood | 2015 | EOY Peak: 1

2 Ulrik Munther - Ulrik Munther | 2011 | EOY Peak: xx

3 The Vamps - Meet The Vamps | 2014 | EOY Peak: 1

4 Greyson Chance - portraits | 2019 | EOY Peak: 1

5 Taylor Swift - Speak Now | 2010 | EOY Peak: xx

 

My favourite Taylor Swift album begins the top 5, with her underrated entirely self-penned third album Speak Now ranking as my favourite female album of the 2010s. Speak Now sees Taylor talk about haters, love, growing up, and even her feud with Kanye West, and it all makes for her most personal and relatable effort of all. It's pretty close to flawless, with particular highlights including Enchanted, Back to December, Better Than Revenge and Haunted among SO many others. Greyson Chance's second album portraits, which I not long ago announced as my 2019 EOY #1 album, features at a very impressive fourth, with his autobiographical effort marking a stark change in... just about everything after Hold On 'Til the Night eight years prior. The Vamps' debut album is one spot above, with Meet the Vamps finishing as my top boyband album of the 2010s. It's a really brilliant effort, showing off not just their ability to make really catchy guitar pop, but some really strong, emotional ballads too (see Lovestruck).

 

My top 2 kicks off with Swedish singer/songwriter Ulrik Munther's debut album. There's a particular magic on his self-titled release, with 17 year old Ulrik having a co-write on every track except Lady Gaga cover Born This Way. Boys Don't Cry discuses how men aren't supposed to show emotion - a very topical issue nine years on from its release - while opening track Sticks and Stones is the perfect anthem for combating hate. My absolute favourite is of course Heroes In Defeat (Change Your Mind), a track about not forgetting to look up to and aspire to something, even though the concept of having heroes may seem childish. Much more on that song later on...!

 

Of course, my #1 album was clear. There wasn't a moment of doubt as to whether Troye Sivan's Blue Neighbourhood would be my EOD #1 album or not, because it just HAD to be. Troye's debut album was the perfect exploration of a young man discovering himself, in so many ways. It's one of a very small number of albums I've found relatable, and every track adds something positive. The production values are strong throughout, and Troye's voice is dreamy against the often more harsh production. It's a sublime effort. An album I'll be taking with me for many years :heart:

Decade: Top 50 Albums

 

 

1 Troye Sivan - Blue Neighbourhood

2 Ulrik Munther - Ulrik Munther

3 The Vamps - Meet The Vamps

4 Greyson Chance - portraits

5 Taylor Swift - Speak Now

6 Ulrik Munther - Rooftop

7 Greyson Chance - Hold On 'Til the Night

8 Benjamin - Fingerprints

9 The Saturdays - On Your Radar

10 Justin Bieber - Believe

 

11 Alec Benjamin - Narrated for You

12 One Direction - FOUR

13 Harry Styles - Fine Line

14 Rita Ora - Phoenix

15 Why Don't We - 8 Letters

16 Kate Nash - My Best Friend Is You

17 Ellie Goulding - Lights / Bright Lights

18 One Direction - Take Me Home

19 Alyssa Reid - The Game

20 One Direction - Up All Night

 

21 Justin Bieber - My Worlds

22 Tom Odell - Long Way Down

23 Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes

24 Taylor Swift - 1989

25 Declan McKenna - What Do You Think About the Car?

26 Hunter Hayes - Storyline

27 Matteo Markus Bok - Cruisin'

28 Troye Sivan - Bloom

29 Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman

30 Iggy Azalea - The New Classic / Reclassified

 

31 Cody Simpson - Paradise

32 Justin Bieber - Purpose

33 Harry Styles - Harry Styles

34 Lily Allen - Sheezus

35 FO&O - FO&O

36 Sara Bareilles - Kaleidoscope Heart

37 Shawn Mendes - Shawn Mendes

38 Tom Odell - Wrong Crowd

39 All Saints - Red Flag

40 Delta Goodrem - Child of the Universe

 

41 Carly Rae Jepsen - Kiss

42 Taylor Swift - Lover

43 Lewis Watson - The Morning

44 Taylor Swift - reputation

45 Cody Simpson - Surfers Paradise

46 One Direction - Made In the A.M.

47 Anne-Marie - Speak Your Mind

48 Britney Spears - Glory

49 One Direction - Midnight Memories

50 Years & Years - Communion

I think Communion and What Do You Think About the Car are the only two albums I've heard from that list but both very good albums!

Speak Now deservedly Taylor's highest :wub:

Thank you both!! :D

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

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191 Troye Sivan - Lucky Strike | 2018 | EOY Peak: 31

192 Cheryl Cole - Parachute | 2010 | EOY Peak: xx

193 Cody Simpson - Pretty Brown Eyes | 2013 | EOY Peak: 22

194 Justin Bieber & BloodPop® - Friends | 2017 | EOY Peak: 19

195 P!nk - Blow Me (One Last Kiss) | 2012 | EOY Peak: 21

196 Gabrielle Aplin - The Power of Love | 2012 | EOY Peak: 26

197 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off | 2014 | EOY Peak: 20

198 One Direction - Little Things | 2013 | EOY Peak: 23

199 Grace feat. G-Eazy - You Don't Own Me | 2015 | EOY Peak: 23

200 Louisa Johnson - So Good | 2016 | EOY Peak: 15

 

Sneaking in, Louisa Johnson's first proper post-X Factor release just makes it in after a EOY peak of #15. It's a little lower than other similarly placed tracks from other years, but I'd say the quality gap between that and Best Behaviour has narrowed a lot! That one likely wouldn't be far off my top 200. Taylor Swift's Shake It Off and Justin Bieber's Friends perform just about as expected (if you consider the top 20 from every year should, mathematically, be the 200 songs in this countdown, but of course it doesn't work like that!), while P!nk's Blow Me (One Last Kiss) and Cody Simpson's Pretty Brown Eyes make small improvements as a result of being from strong years (2012 and 2013 were especially competitive).

 

Grace's You Don't Own Me featured in two EOY countdowns - #23 in 2015 and #26 in 2016, so it only makes sense that it's in the top 200 at this stage. It achieved a #1 peak in my chart in late 2015 (which counted to 2016 for EOY purposes). To all intents and purposes, Grace is a one-hit wonder in my chart, though Boyfriend Jeans did become a follow-up top 20 hit. Gabrielle Aplin's The Power of Love also makes a notable improvement, being her only entry in my top 200, while Little Things marks the first of seven One Direction tracks in my countdown.

 

Another song to make a notable improvement is Troye Sivan's Lucky Strike, benefiting from an extended chart life into 2019 after its music video release, though I decided not to include it in my 2019 EOY. It's the first of six Troye tracks in my top 200! Finally, Cheryl's Parachute marks the first 2010 track appearance at #192 - she has three more songs to come, and one as part of Girls Aloud.

 

Greyson slaying the decade albums *.* we like to see it!!

 

Also yay at Pretty Brown Eyes in the songs - one of Cody's best, need to go back to Surfers Paradise sometime soon :wub:

Thanks Calum *.*

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

181 Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin - I Like It | 2018 | EOY Peak: 20

182 Cody Simpson feat. T-Pain - So Listen | 2012 | EOY Peak: 25

183 Cher Lloyd - Want U Back | 2012 | EOY Peak: xx

184 Kylie Minogue - Timebomb | 2012 | EOY Peak: 20

185 Manel Navarro - Do It for Your Lover | 2017 | EOY Peak: 20

186 Charlie Puth feat. Selena Gomez - We Don't Talk Anymore | 2016 | EOY Peak: 19

187 Matteo Markus Bok - El Ritmo (AHI AHI AHI) | 2018 | EOY Peak: 25

188 Anton Hagman - Somebody to Love | 2017 | EOY Peak: 51

189 Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This | 2014 | EOY Peak: 25

190 Ariana Grande - no tears left to cry | 2018 | EOY Peak: 21

 

It was no surprise that Ariana Grande's first post-Manchester track was an absolute stormer, and no tears left to cry has rightfully cemented itself as one of Ariana's biggest hits. It was unlucky to miss my top 20 of 2018 but manages to secure a position in my top 200, outdoing expectations, so all is well in the end! Two more 2018 tracks feature here too - another overperformer in Matteo Markus Bok's El Ritmo, the first of two tracks from the Italian popstar in this countdown. There's also Cardi B's first of two in the form of I Like It, her biggest global hit to date. Both tracks bring a touch of Latin to my countdown, definitely one of the more prevalent genres particularly in the second half of the decade for me (well, most notably Latin-infused pop!).

 

2012 also sees three tracks feature in this section, and they all ended up next to each other. Cody Simpson's So Listen hit #1 in my chart and finished at #25 in my EOY, so has become yet another overperformer in my countdown by making it into my top 200. T-Pain having a #1 in my chart, too *_* Kylie Minogue's Timebomb has held up well in the eight years that have elapsed since too, being her first appearance of two here. Cher Lloyd's Want U Back actually made more of an impact in 2011 for me - where of course I had no EOY list - but I've listed 2012 as its year because that's when it received its single release! Undoubtedly her best song, and still surprising to see how badly it performed in the UK when it smashed hard in the US.

 

Paloma Faith's Only Love Can Hurt Like This is another overperformer, bringing a strong performance six years on (!) from release, proving just how well it's stood the test of time. Charlie Puth teamed up with Selena Gomez for the slick We Don't Talk Anymore to give them both their first #1 hits in 2016, and Manel Navarro's Eurovision flop ( :( ) Do It for Your Lover is one spot above at #185. One of the most notable tracks here comes from Anton Hagman, with his EOY #51 (!!!) from 2017 showing up...! That's a VERY impressive outcome for the track and a huge overperformance, which just goes to show how big it was for me throughout 2018 and beyond, after the EOY was compiled.

 

Giving Pretty Brown Eyes a listen now, it certainly sounds like it's from 2013, can't say it's my thing fully but I do like the beat/riff!

 

Nice to see You Don't Own Me sneak in as well, a song I didn't really see coming but glad it became such a hit, quite different from what else was in the charts at that time as well.

Only Love Can Hurt Like This :wub: really didn't like that to begin with, but it's prob my fave by Paloma now!!