Two BOPS from two queens *.*

omg THIS!!!

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

36 Greyson Chance - Summertrain | 2011 | EOY Peak: xx

 

The second highest Greyson song is an album track from his debut, Hold On 'Til the Night. Summertrain was the instant highlight from an album that surpassed my expectations. The production actually quite brilliantly emulates a train chugging along, and the lyrics are among the most mature on the album - considering Greyson was 13 when the album came out! Still a very strong song, and Greyson agrees - he called it the best song on the album recently, high praise when he's shunned most of it :')

 

End of Year History

 

Greyson Chance

2012 | 005 | Running Away

2012 | 036 | Sunshine & City Lights

2016 | 067 | Back On the Wall

2016 | 105 | Hit & Run

2016 | 115 | Oceans (tyDi & Jack Novak feat. Greyson Chance)

2018 | 170 | Good As Gold

2019 | 004 | shut up

2019 | 019 | yours

2019 | 040 | black on black

2019 | 043 | Boots

2019 | 083 | timekeeper

2019 | 099 | seasons nineteen

2019 | 109 | white roses

 

 

 

35 Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Work from Home | 2016 | EOY Peak: 5

 

I definitely enjoyed Fifth Harmony's debut album - all three singles hit the top 10 in my chart, including the #1 hit BO$$. However, I wasn't expecting anything more than another fun bop from album 2's lead single. Work from Home went above and beyond expectations, though. Not only is the song top notch (and by far their best), the video is iconic too. Every aspect was spot on, and it was so exciting to watch it becoming such a gigantic hit globally!

 

End of Year Chart History

 

Fifth Harmony

2013 | 194 | Miss Movin' On

2015 | 046 | BO$$

2015 | 052 | Worth It (feat. Kid Ink)

2015 | 169 | Sledgehammer

2016 | 005 | Work from Home (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

2016 | 025 | All In My Head (Flex) [feat. Fetty Wap]

2016 | 099 | That's My Girl

2016 | 226 | Write On Me

2016 | 234 | Gonna Get Better

2017 | 191 | Por Favor (Pitbull & Fifth Harmony)

2017 | 222 | Down (feat. Gucci Mane)

 

Ty Dolla $ign

2016 | 005 | Work from Home (Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

2017 | 094 | Are You Sure? (Kris Kross Amsterdam & Conor Maynard feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

2017 | 095 | Swalla (Jason Derulo feat. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign)

2017 | 165 | So Good (Zara Larsson feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

2017 | 209 | Ego (Ella Eyre feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

2019 | 166 | Nights Like This (Kehlani feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

2019 | 186 | Think About Us (Little Mix feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

 

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

34 Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | 2012 | EOY Peak: 4

 

I truly became a Taylor fan throughout 2012 when I checked out her albums - I remember giving Speak Now a listen on the beach on holiday! Therefore, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together was the first new track she put out after, and my hype was bound to be high. The new pop sound really works, and I love how the track's jam-packed with personality. I remember listening to it 100 times on day 1, and another 100 on day 2, both while I was blitzing my bedroom :lol: It's held up as a truly great track for me :heart:

 

End of Year History

 

Taylor Swift

2012 | 004 | We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

2012 | 029 | I Knew You Were Trouble.

2012 | 060 | Starlight

2012 | 063 | Red

2013 | 040 | I Knew You Were Trouble.

2013 | 124 | Everything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran)

2013 | 137 | The Last Time (feat. Gary Lightbody)

2013 | 175 | 22

2014 | 020 | Shake It Off

2014 | 124 | Wonderland

2014 | 163 | Blank Space

2014 | 206 | Wildest Dreams

2014 | 208 | How You Get the Girl

2014 | 226 | Bad Blood

2014 | 233 | All You Had to Do Was Stay

2015 | 035 | Wildest Dreams

2015 | 049 | Blank Space

2015 | 150 | Bad Blood

2015 | 165 | Style

2017 | 046 | Look What You Made Me Do

2017 | 136 | Call It What You Want

2017 | 178 | ...Ready For It?

2017 | 220 | This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

2018 | 126 | Delicate

2018 | 182 | End Game (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future)

2019 | 044 | Lover (feat. Shawn Mendes)

2019 | 046 | ME! (feat. Brendon Urie)

2019 | 052 | You Need to Calm Down

2019 | 128 | Christmas Tree Farm

 

 

 

33 Greyson Chance - shut up | 2019 | EOY Peak: 4

 

When shut up was released, it had been roughly six and a half years since his last #1 single (Sunshine & City Lights). He'd had a few hits in 2016, but other than that, his chart history had become patchy and inconsistent. shut up was a return to form - it debuted at #3, already his highest position since 2012, and went on to become his third #1 single, setting up the portraits era for greatness. It's Greyson's highest track, and extremely worthy of being my favourite Greyson song :wub:

 

End of Year Chart History

 

Greyson Chance

2012 | 005 | Running Away

2012 | 036 | Sunshine & City Lights

2016 | 067 | Back On the Wall

2016 | 105 | Hit & Run

2016 | 115 | Oceans (tyDi & Jack Novak feat. Greyson Chance)

2018 | 170 | Good As Gold

2019 | 004 | shut up

2019 | 019 | yours

2019 | 040 | black on black

2019 | 043 | Boots

2019 | 083 | timekeeper

2019 | 099 | seasons nineteen

2019 | 109 | white roses

 

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

32 Why Don't We - 8 Letters | 2018 | EOY Peak: 4

 

2018 was the year Why Don't We truly dominated my chart, and 8 Letters was the fourth consecutive #1 they achieved that year. The track brought a more emotional vibe to the table after the album of the same name's previous singles were very much uptempo. It hit #1 in its first full week in my chart and finished as their second highest song in my 2018 EOY - where they had a record four of my top 10!

 

End of Year History

 

Why Don't We

2018 | 001 | Hooked

2018 | 004 | 8 Letters

2018 | 005 | Trust Fund Baby

2018 | 009 | Talk

2018 | 061 | These Girls

2018 | 227 | Boomerang

2019 | 016 | I Still Do

2019 | 021 | What Am I

2019 | 030 | Cold In LA

2019 | 033 | Come to Brazil

2019 | 036 | Unbelievable

2019 | 041 | Big Plans

2019 | 092 | Mad At You

2019 | 095 | I Don't Belong In This Club (Why Don't We & Macklemore)

2019 | 161 | With You This Christmas

2019 | 223 | Don't Change

 

 

 

31 Joel Adams - Please Don't Go | 2016 | EOY Peak: 3

 

Recommended to me by our own Oricon in late 2015, Joel Adams's Please Don't Go became my first BJSC entry of 2016. Annoyingly, it failed to qualify - shame on you guys! The track, with some heavy payola I'm sure, somehow became a #50 hit in the UK and a top 10 hit in Sweden...! It's now certified gold over here, pretty impressive, though it's a shame his management at the time simply used the track to promote themselves. Joel's since released some great songs with new management - worth more than his one-hit wonder status for sure!

 

End of Year Chart History

 

Joel Adams

2016 | 003 | Please Don't Go

2017 | 176 | Die for You

2018 | 098 | Fake Friends

2019 | 100 | Slipping Off the Edge

2019 | 201 | Kingdom

2019 | 285 | A Big World

 

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

30 Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love | 2019 | EOY Peak: 3

 

I'd never have expected the incredible Whitney Houston to have one of my favourite tracks of 2019, but it was so amazing to hear her vocals in the chart again. Higher Love is of course a very famous song, but Whitney's version, remixed by Kygo, is my favourite for sure. Kygo's production, while typical for him, perfectly complements Whitney who remains at the core of the track. Seeing it become so big in the UK was very much welcomed, and I never expected Kygo to better Firestone but he really did with this!

 

End of Year History

 

Kygo

2015 | 015 | Firestone (feat. Conrad Sewell)

2016 | 047 | Stay (feat. Maty Noyes)

2016 | 152 | Fiction (feat. Tom Odell)

2017 | 045 | It Ain't Me (Kygo & Selena Gomez)

2017 | 118 | Stargazing (feat. Justin Jesso)

2017 | 133 | First Time (Kygo & Ellie Goulding)

2019 | 003 | Higher Love (Kygo & Whitney Houston)

2019 | 114 | Carry On (Kygo & Rita Ora)

 

Whitney Houston

2019 | 003 | Higher Love (Kygo & Whitney Houston)

 

 

 

29 froy - sideswipe | 2018 | EOY Peak: 2

 

Best known as an actor, Teen Wolf star Froy Gutierrez launched his music career with sideswipe in 2018, intended to be the lead single from an EP of the same name. I wasn't sure quite what to expect but I ended up loving the track, and it spent five non-consecutive weeks at #1 in my chart, spurred on by meeting Froy at Teen Wolf convention WereWolfCon that October! It was the first of three #1s for Froy, and though he removed it from streaming when he released Fix Me in 2019, I still have the MP3 to enjoy it whenever I want.

 

End of Year Chart History

 

froy

2018 | 002 | sideswipe

2019 | 006 | Fix Me

2019 | 024 | When It's Midnight

2019 | 034 | Crash

 

Here's what I love since my last comment.

 

One Last Time & Side To Side are obvious highlights :heart:

 

Call Me Maybe & Work From Home are my 2 other highlights. Both amongst the best pop had to offer in the 2010's and sure to be high in my countdown too.

 

I also love I Will Never Let You Down, What About Us, Work, Kiss And Make Up & We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.

 

Sorry is also the only Bieber track I enjoy but hopefully that changes next week.

My highlights from the top 50 ~ my thoughts :cheer:

 

42 Justin Bieber feat. Big Sean - As Long As You Love Me | 2012 | EOY Peak: 9

^my fave Bieber song I think :heart: I wish he'd go back to making undeniable tunes like this!

 

44 Cody Simpson feat. Flo Rida - iYiYi | 2010 | EOY Peak: xx

^ omg huasofspeh sang/artist :heart: the first artist we shared!

 

46 The Vamps & Matoma - All Night | 2016 | EOY Peak: 7

^ what a song! Came out of nowhere and just slayed

 

49 One Direction - Night Changes | 2014 | EOY Peak: 24

^ one of their best!

 

38 Nicola Roberts - Beat of My Drum | 2011 | EOY Peak: xx

^ :wub:So glad I discovered her album thanks to the Masked Singer. We are FORCED to stan that flawless pop album ~

 

30 Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love | 2019 | EOY Peak: 3

nothing but love for this. Made me realise how much I miss Whitney :'(

 

Keep them coming *_* #bigfeet

 

Thanks for the replies guys!! :wub:

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

28 One Direction - Drag Me Down | 2015 | EOY Peak: 2

 

Coming out of nowhere, Drag Me Down was a surprise release in August 2015. I remember waking up, with the intention of sleeping again, but I saw it had been released so I stayed up and played it on repeat! :lol: It holds up as one of the best 1D songs for me - their second best, in fact. It makes me miss the joys of 1D being together! :(

 

End of Year History

 

One Direction

2012 | 015 | Kiss You

2012 | 017 | Live While We're Young

2012 | 023 | Little Things

2012 | 030 | One Thing

2012 | 082 | They Don't Know About Us

2013 | 009 | Best Song Ever

2013 | 023 | Kiss You

2013 | 027 | One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)

2013 | 058 | Story of My Life

2014 | 024 | Night Changes

2014 | 032 | Steal My Girl

2014 | 063 | You & I

2014 | 096 | Midnight Memories

2014 | 128 | Fireproof

2014 | 166 | Girl Almighty

2014 | 173 | No Control

2014 | 202 | Ready to Run

2014 | 204 | Stockholm Syndrome

2014 | 219 | Where Do Broken Hearts Go

2015 | 002 | Drag Me Down

2015 | 021 | Perfect

2015 | 076 | Love You Goodbye

2015 | 146 | Infinity

2015 | 156 | A.M.

2016 | 028 | History

 

 

 

27 Tom Odell - Real Love | 2014 | EOY Peak: 11

 

I'd really enjoyed most of the John Lewis advert songs by 2014, so I was keen to see who'd be following my favourite two yet from Gabrielle Aplin and Lily Allen. When it was announced to be Tom Odell, I was even more excited. It was the first new material from him after his debut album, which I truly loved. Real Love is a gorgeous cover (perhaps helped by the fact I don't know the original? Who knows), and it's made even sweeter by the advert it accompanies with the adorably cute Monty and Mabel penguins. It still makes me emotional :heart: Its late release in 2014 meant it only reached an EOY position of #11 - safe to say it would be higher if I re-did that EOY list!

 

End of Year Chart History

 

Tom Odell

2013 | 005 | Another Love

2013 | 016 | Grow Old With Me

2013 | 081 | Hold Me

2013 | 110 | I Know

2013 | 146 | Can't Pretend

2014 | 011 | Real Love

2014 | 029 | I Know

2016 | 014 | Magnetised

2016 | 039 | Concrete

2016 | 063 | True Colours

2016 | 083 | Wrong Crowd

2016 | 088 | Here I Am

2016 | 152 | Fiction (Kygo feat. Tom Odell)

2017 | 091 | Silhouette

2018 | 035 | Half As Good As You (feat. Alice Merton)

2018 | 084 | If You Wanna Love Somebody

2019 | 209 | Summer Day

 

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

26 Harry Styles - Lights Up | 2019 | EOY Peak: 2

 

My second favourite track of 2020 ends up at a very respectable 26th place, especially considering its recency! Lights Up was a superb comeback for Harry, complete with an exceptional video packed with strong visuals and memorable moments. The perfect introduction to the groundbreaking Fine Line era. Harry still has one more song to come of course (plus one with 1D!).

 

End of Year History

 

Harry Styles

2017 | 001 | Sign of the Times

2017 | 068 | Two Ghosts

2017 | 192 | Kiwi

2017 | 242 | Ever Since New York

2019 | 002 | Lights Up

2019 | 014 | Adore You

2019 | 020 | Watermelon Sugar

2019 | 129 | Treat People With Kindness

2019 | 161 | Falling

2019 | 177 | Golden

2019 | 206 | Sunflower, Vol. 6

2019 | 258 | Fine Line

 

 

 

25 Cody Simpson feat. Becky G - Wish U Were Here | 2012 | EOY Peak: 3

 

When Wish U Were Here first came out, it was a track on Cody's Preview to Paradise EP - a four track sneak preview of his debut album, called Paradise of course, due out just months later. It was an instant highlight, making my low top 10 just off that alone, but with an eventual single push, the song peaked at #1 in my chart and became Cody's biggest hit. This track is also responsible for some of my favourite moments with Buzzjack member Haus - it basically kickstarted our entire friendship :heart:

 

End of Year Chart History

 

Cody Simpson

2012 | 003 | Wish U Were Here (feat. Becky G)

2012 | 025 | So Listen (feat. T-Pain)

2012 | 062 | Be the One

2012 | 072 | Got Me Good

2013 | 011 | La Da Dee

2013 | 022 | Pretty Brown Eyes

2013 | 024 | Wish U Were Here (feat. Becky G)

2013 | 039 | Summertime of Our Lives

2014 | 016 | Surfboard

2014 | 065 | Home to Mama (Justin Bieber & Cody Simpson)

2015 | 072 | New Problems

2015 | 090 | Thotful

2015 | 125 | Happy Lil' Hippie

2015 | 151 | Flower

 

Becky G

2012 | 003 | Wish U Were Here (Cody Simpson feat. Becky G)

2013 | 024 | Wish U Were Here (Cody Simpson feat. Becky G)

2018 | 066 | Mad Love (Sean Paul & David Guetta feat. Becky G)

2018 | 279 | Sin Pijama (Becky G & Natti Natasha)

 

25 Cody Simpson feat. Becky G - Wish U Were Here | 2012 | EOY Peak: 3

 

When Wish U Were Here first came out, it was a track on Cody's Preview to Paradise EP - a four track sneak preview of his debut album, called Paradise of course, due out just months later. It was an instant highlight, making my low top 10 just off that alone, but with an eventual single push, the song peaked at #1 in my chart and became Cody's biggest hit. This track is also responsible for some of my favourite moments with Buzzjack member Haus - it basically kickstarted our entire friendship :heart:

:heart:

 

I still remember this very fondly. If it wasn't for this song, I probably would never have become close to you so I owe it a lot. Not heard it in a while, need to revisit it, mainly for nostalgic reasons :wub:

:heart:

 

I still remember this very fondly. If it wasn't for this song, I probably would never have become close to you so I owe it a lot. Not heard it in a while, need to revisit it, mainly for nostalgic reasons :wub:

:wub: a truly special song!!

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

24 Tom Odell - Another Love | 2013 | EOY Peak: 5

 

Mathematically speaking, the #21-30 section should, on average, be filled with tracks that finished 3rd in my EOYs. Therefore, Another Love is really overperforming, by about 20 places! Tom Odell's breakout hit was the first track I heard from him, while I was waiting for Paloma Faith at the O2 for her Fall to Grace tour! I instantly really liked it and it peaked at #3 in my personal chart, becoming not only the biggest #3 hit my chart's seen, but also one of the biggest non-#1 tracks altogether. It took Tom over a year to finally achieve a #1, following two #2 hits in Grow Old With Me and I Know, with Real Love!

 

End of Year History

 

Tom Odell

2013 | 005 | Another Love

2013 | 016 | Grow Old With Me

2013 | 081 | Hold Me

2013 | 110 | I Know

2013 | 146 | Can't Pretend

2014 | 011 | Real Love

2014 | 029 | I Know

2016 | 014 | Magnetised

2016 | 039 | Concrete

2016 | 063 | True Colours

2016 | 083 | Wrong Crowd

2016 | 088 | Here I Am

2016 | 152 | Fiction (Kygo feat. Tom Odell)

2017 | 091 | Silhouette

2018 | 035 | Half As Good As You (feat. Alice Merton)

2018 | 084 | If You Wanna Love Somebody

2019 | 209 | Summer Day

 

 

 

23 Alec Benjamin - Let Me Down Slowly | 2018 | EOY Peak: 10

 

Talking of overperformers, here's one that's about 70 places higher than it was forecast to land...! Let Me Down Slowly was Alec Benjamin's breakout hit, but it came about two years after I first discovered him. It was a pretty huge moment even from first play, though - I truly loved it, and it became an instant #1 in my chart. Seeing it go top 40 almost a whole year later was completely unexpected, but an extremely proud moment. The track was a big hit in 2018, landing itself at #10 in my EOY, but it actually more than doubled its chart-run in 2019, getting back up as far as #5! I opted not to include it again in my EOY, but it's clear that #10 now seems a bit under-representative for a song that created so many amazing memories.

 

End of Year Chart History

 

Alec Benjamin

2016 | 224 | End of the Summer

2017 | 067 | I Built a Friend

2018 | 010 | Let Me Down Slowly

2018 | 073 | 1994

2018 | 077 | Outrunning Karma

2018 | 100 | If We Have Each Other

2018 | 117 | Steve

2018 | 194 | Annabelle's Homework

2018 | 205 | Water Fountain

2019 | 008 | Must Have Been the Wind

2019 | 018 | Mind Is a Prison

2019 | 022 | Jesus In LA

 

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

22 Kate Nash - Do-Wah-Doo | 2010 | EOY Peak: xx

 

Interestingly, the highest song of 2010 is only at #22 - it looks pretty underwhelming but that's more a reflection of how much 2010 really had an impact on my decade in music, and it was absolutely the least impactful year. However, Kate Nash was the shining star throughout. Her sophomore album My Best Friend Is You was one of my most-anticipated albums EVER (naturally, considering it's the follow-up to my all-time favourite album!), and Do-Wah-Doo was the lead single. I always loved it - it's so effortlessly catchy, and even though it perhaps could do with a little fleshing out, I still really truly love it. It's got the classic Kate Nash lyricisms, with a dash of humour, and the chorus is one of her very best.

 

End of Year History

 

Kate Nash

2013 | 129 | You're So Cool, I'm So Freaky

2013 | 131 | 3AM

2016 | 204 | Good Summer

2016 | 241 | My Little Alien

2017 | 182 | Call Me

2018 | 037 | Karaoke Kiss

2018 | 113 | Hate You

2018 | 241 | Life in Pink

2018 | 248 | Drink About You

2019 | 287 | Bad Lieutenant

 

 

 

21 Lily Allen - Hard Out Here | 2013 | EOY Peak: 18

 

Another pretty significant overperformer here. In fact, based on the EOY position, this would have been projected to finish between #171 and #180...!!! Hard Out Here's EOY position is highly deceiving though. I must have been very harsh on it due to its relative newness at the time - it came out quite late in 2013 after all. However, it spent 5 weeks at #1 from debut, and has cemented itself as my favourite Lily track. I love how she's calling out the use of the word "bitch" and it's a song that's still so relevant today, you only have to look at hip-hop as a genre to know this. Sheezus was an era of ups and downs, but Hard Out Here made it worthy of its crown.

 

End of Year Chart History

 

Lily Allen

2013 | 018 | Hard Out Here

2013 | 036 | Somewhere Only We Know

2013 | 053 | True Love (P!nk feat. Lily Allen)

2014 | 014 | URL Badman

2014 | 039 | Air Balloon

2014 | 054 | Our Time

2014 | 118 | Life for Me

2014 | 141 | As Long As I Got You

2014 | 176 | Sheezus

2014 | 188 | L8 CMMR

2014 | 200 | Silver Spoon

2014 | 213 | Wind Your Neck In

2018 | 093 | Trigger Bang (feat. Giggs)

2018 | 228 | Lost My Mind

 

Decade: Top 200 Songs

The Top 20

 

Alyssa Reid - Alone Again

Benjamin - Young and Restless

Conrad Sewell - Hold Me Up

Frans - If I Were Sorry

Girls Aloud - Something New

Harry Styles - Sign of the Times

Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX - Fancy

Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - Live It Up

Matteo Markus Bok - In the Middle

Nemo Schiffman - I Don't Mind

One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful

Oscar Enestad - I Love It

Reed Deming - Crash Test Dummy (Broken)

Rita Ora - Anywhere

Shawn Mendes - Stitches

The Saturdays - All Fired Up

The Saturdays - Notorious

Ulrik Munther - Heroes in Defeat (Change Your Mind)

Ulrik Munther - Tell the World I'm Here

Why Don't We - Hooked

J-Lo to win, tbh. I'll accept Alone Again, Stitches, or All Fired Up as well ^_^

J-Lo to win, tbh. I'll accept Alone Again, Stitches, or All Fired Up as well ^_^

Thanks Jord!! Stay tuned :o

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

20 Conrad Sewell - Hold Me Up | 2015 | EOY Peak: 1

 

Quite interestingly, my EOY #1 2015 only finishes at #20 here! Conrad Sewell's Hold Me Up was my song of the summer 2015, spending a record-breaking six consecutive weeks at the top (matched by Rita Ora's Anywhere since). He also became the first ever artist to lock out the top 3 with Kygo collaboration Firestone and solo track Start Again. So why is Hold Me Up not firmly in the top 10? Simply, it's not one I revisit as much these days. I still love it a lot when I play it, but it's actually not even ended up as my highest 2015 song - Benjamin's Young and Restless (EOY #3) has overtaken both this and 1D's Drag Me Down for top track honour! Nevertheless, I still love Hold Me Up, and I'm so sad it never got a proper chance to smash with some Radio 1 playlisting after promising early signs.

 

End of Year History

 

Conrad Sewell

2015 | 001 | Hold Me Up

2015 | 014 | Start Again

2015 | 015 | Firestone (Kygo feat. Conrad Sewell)

2015 | 025 | Who You Lovin

2015 | 065 | Braver Love (Arty feat. Conrad Sewell)

2015 | 177 | Wandering

2016 | 090 | Remind Me

2016 | 155 | Taste the Feeling (Avicii & Conrad Sewell)

2018 | 159 | Healing Hands

2018 | 172 | Changing

 

 

 

19 Shawn Mendes - Stitches | 2016 | EOY Peak: 2

 

An unlucky #2 in 2016's EOY, Stitches was something of a sleeper hit both in my chart and in the official chart. When I first heard it as an album track, I quite liked it, but didn't start paying it much attention until its single push later in 2015. It originally peaked at #15 before dropping out. It later re-entered, climbed to #3 and dropped back down, though it hung around in the lower regions of my chart - enough for a #22 position in 2015's EOY! Of course, it exploded in early 2016, re-entering the top 10 and climbing to a new peak of #1 - Shawn's second chart topper. It spent three weeks at the top, in weeks 20-22 of its chart run. Insane! It really set the tone for my Shawn stanning that's happened since, and following its progress to the UK #1 spot was so satisfying too.

 

End of Year Chart History

 

Shawn Mendes

2014 | 009 | Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) [The Vamps feat. Shawn Mendes]

2014 | 072 | Something Big

2014 | 179 | Life of the Party

2015 | 022 | Stitches

2015 | 239 | I Know What You Did Last Summer (Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello)

2016 | 002 | Stitches

2016 | 010 | Treat You Better

2016 | 045 | Mercy

2016 | 102 | I Know What You Did Last Summer (Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello)

2017 | 030 | There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back

2018 | 027 | In My Blood

2018 | 074 | Lost In Japan (Shawn Mendes & Zedd)

2018 | 087 | Nervous

2019 | 011 | Señorita (Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello)

2019 | 044 | Lover (Taylor Swift feat. Shawn Mendes)

2019 | 048 | If I Can't Have You

 

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

18 Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - Live It Up | 2013 | EOY Peak: 3

 

Flashback to 2013 when Mr Worldwide, RedOne and the beautiful Jennifer Lopez came back for a threepeat. On the Floor and Dance Again were both huge tunes, but Live It Up actually became my favourite of them all (and my fave J-Lo song overall). It's just so much fun, and defined summer 2013 for sure. Pitbull's rap is iconic, as is "make love, don't fight, let's fook tonight x". It remains J-Lo's only #1 in my chart, holding the spot for three weeks and ending up at #3 in my EOY, behind double Ulrik Munther (both songs are still to come so clearly its position was representative!).

 

End of Year History

 

Jennifer Lopez

2013 | 003 | Live It Up (feat. Pitbull)

2014 | 070 | Booty (feat. Pitbull or Iggy Azalea)

2014 | 111 | We Are One (Ole Ola) [Pitbull feat. Jennifer Lopez & Cláudia Leitte]

2014 | 192 | First Love

2014 | 235 | Physical (Enrique Iglesias feat. Jennifer Lopez)

2014 | 249 | I Luh Ya Papi (feat. French Montana)

2015 | 091 | Back It Up (Prince Royce feat. Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull)

2016 | 112 | Ain't Your Mama

2017 | 227 | Sexy Body (Pitbull & Jennifer Lopez)

2018 | 028 | Dinero (feat. DJ Khaled & Cardi B)

 

Pitbull

2013 | 003 | Live It Up (Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull)

2013 | 104 | Exotic (Priyanka Chopra feat. Pitbull)

2013 | 123 | Timber (feat. Ke$ha)

2013 | 184 | Feel This Moment (feat. Christina Aguilera)

2014 | 066 | Dark Horse (Katy Perry feat. Juicy J & Pitbull)

2014 | 070 | Booty (Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull or Iggy Azalea)

2014 | 084 | Mmm Yeah (Austin Mahone feat. Pitbull)

2014 | 092 | Wild Wild Love (feat. G.R.L.)

2014 | 095 | Lipstick (Sophia Del Carmen feat. Pitbull)

2014 | 111 | We Are One (Ole Ola) [Pitbull feat. Jennifer Lopez & Cláudia Leitte]

2015 | 091 | Back It Up (Prince Royce feat. Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull)

2015 | 200 | Time of Our Lives (Pitbull & Ne-Yo)

2017 | 191 | Por Favor (Pitbull & Fifth Harmony)

2017 | 227 | Sexy Body (Pitbull & Jennifer Lopez)

2018 | 278 | Move to Miami (Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull)

2019 | 275 | Ocean to Ocean (feat. Rhea)

 

 

 

17 Matteo Markus Bok - In the Middle | 2018 | EOY Peak: 3

 

One of my favourite discoveries in recent years, Italian popstar Matteo Markus Bok had been building some steam in my chart by the time In the Middle came out. Just One Lie was his breakthrough hit, reaching #3 at the very end of 2017 and into January 2018, while El Ritmo gave him a #1 hit in September that same year. Less than two months later, enter In the Middle. It was Matteo's second #1 (he's now had five, the joint most from a single studio album with The Vamps' Meet the Vamps), sticking around for four weeks at the top, and cemented itself as the third biggest hit of 2018 - though it's actually the second highest in my EOY!

 

End of Year Chart History

 

Matteo Markus Bok

2018 | 003 | In the Middle

2018 | 025 | El Ritmo (AHI AHI AHI)

2018 | 045 | This Christmas

2018 | 053 | Just One Lie

2019 | 026 | Besos Besos

2019 | 028 | Mrs Lonely

2019 | 039 | Shallow

2019 | 065 | Sayonara Arigatò

 

Decade: Top 200 Songs

 

 

16 Nemo Schiffman - I Don't Mind | 2017 | EOY Peak: 2

 

It was our very own Rob S who linked me to this song at the very end of 2016, and instantly, I LOVED it. French popstar turned actor Nemo Schiffman is a two-hit wonder in my chart, and I Don't Mind was a chart-topping track, finishing 2nd in my 2017 EOY (behind Sign of the Times, so it had tough competition!). The production of the track building as the first verse, bridge and chorus continue is second-to-none - I wish I could recreate the adrenaline rush that brought on first play!

 

End of Year History

 

Nemo Schiffman

2017 | 002 | I Don't Mind

2018 | 094 | Will

 

 

 

15 The Saturdays - All Fired Up | 2011 | EOY Peak: xx

 

2011 saw The Saturdays at their peak. On Your Radar was an incredible album, helped very much by it containing their best two tracks. More on Notorious later, but All Fired Up was such a grower. I actually really disliked on first play, but it quickly won me round and I ADORE the production. It's packed full of hooks too, and it's easily their best single artwork. This was one of the first songs I really followed in the chart too - I basically owe my Buzzjack journey to this song! :lol:

 

End of Year Chart History

 

The Saturdays

2012 | 048 | 30 Days

2013 | 006 | What About Us (feat. Sean Paul)

2013 | 042 | Disco Love

2013 | 093 | Gentleman

2013 | 107 | Not Giving Up

2014 | 017 | What Are You Waiting For?

2014 | 026 | Not Giving Up