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I noticed there was one of these back at the beginning for the noughties but now we have the decade that followed it.. we might as well do one for 2010-2019 now!

2014 for me and also was responsible for 'Rather Be' managing 64 weeks in my top 40 :kink: although I did feel I dragged that out for too long tbh.

 

I loved how there were so many #1's that year as well. Weekly turnover was good!

2011, like 2007 in the other thread it just holds so many memories for me. The. Used was good too.

2012 for me

I'm going to go with 2010, just because it holds a lot of great memories and some of the albums that year I still love today (Progress, Aphrodite, Loud and several others).

 

2014 is probably a close second, that was a quality year. And 2012 - mainly for Loreen and some good memories.

 

The second half of the decade was much worse, the tropical house sound and influence was too much, and as streaming grew things were homogenised for a long time, but it's got a hell of a lot better over the past few years as streaming audiences have widened and tastes have branched back out (also thanks to TikTok, where it seems genre or age has no bearing on hits there).

 

2016 might be my least favourite year since I've been following music. A few good hits - Rockabye (my favourite song of the year), Shout Out To My Ex, Cheap Thrills and Lush Life to name a few but mostly the charts were tediously slow and awful and I didn't make as many non chart discoveries as I usually would either. Listening back to my 2016 playlist now too, I'm struck by how dated and of its time everything sounds compared to 2014, which was two years earlier.

Edited January 8, 20241 yr by gooddelta

Between 2010 and 2014 for me, went with the former.

2000s was the last good decade for mainstream music.

 

My all-time # 1 (Anmary - Beautiful Song) was recorded in 2012, but didn't listen enough modern music to select the favourite year.

Yeah I did like a fair share of music from 2016 but a helluva lot of it is watered down and trashy produced dance music that hasn't aged well whatsoever... like NEIKED - Sexual which wasn't great then even lol.

2013 or 2014, I think the downloads era coming to a close resulted in some slightly out of the ordinary chart hits and the deep house phase was one I really enjoyed, plus lots of great up and coming artists like CHVRCHES and Haim that are still favourites to this day, plus some great uni memories.

 

Streaming taking over did really stunt the charts and I was subjected to mainly awful chart hits constantly in 2015/16 on 4Music, it sounds so of its time and almost completely killed my interest in the charts, it got a little bit better after though by the end of the decade and made a fair few more discoveries (mainly helped by me finally getting Apple Music in 2019!)

I think I’d go 2010 as well. I pretty much lost interest around 2014 which says a lot.

 

2011 would be a close second.

I voted for 2013. I think it was probably the last good year for chart music.

 

There were some good number 1 singles such as 'Love Me Again' by John Newman, 'La La La' by Naughty Boy and Sam Smith and 'Royals' by Lorde. Yes, there were some bad ones, but 2013 was still a decent year.

 

The years that followed haven't matched up to that standard.

Edited April 10Apr 10 by montyj

I recall 2014 being quite an exciting time to follow the charts due to the fast turnover of #1s and a lot of interesting dance music breaking through post-"hands in the air" era

Has to be between 2014 and 2015 for me! I think 2014 just edges it - maybe because that's the year I got fully back into music, but also because of fab albums from both Nico & Vinz and Clean Bandit, plus Fuse ODG being big and Dibby Dibby Sound as well! 2015 comes a close second with 'Reality' by Lost Frequencies and techically '7 Years' as well.

I don't know what the best is for me but 2016 is absolutely definitely the worst. Every time Record of the Decade comes around I very distinctly feel 2016 being significantly weaker than every other year.

Has to be between 2014 and 2015 for me! I think 2014 just edges it - maybe because that's the year I got fully back into music, but also because of fab albums from both Nico & Vinz and Clean Bandit, plus Fuse ODG being big and Dibby Dibby Sound as well! 2015 comes a close second with 'Reality' by Lost Frequencies and techically '7 Years' as well.

 

Didn't have you down as a 'Dibby Dibby Sound' fan, I preferred 'Make U Bounce', although in general I preferred Matrix and Futurebound to DJ Fresh.

 

My favouite year is 2011 because of the dubstep/drum and bass hits and some of the EDM hits but there was a lot of generic EDM-pop from that time that hasn't dated well.

 

The trend for big room house in 2014 was interesting, lol at Neon Jungle joining in with the big room trend back then.

 

I didn't like the deep house, future house or organ house trends much at the time but still listened to them on the radio. Early 2015 had quite a few good dance songs - 'Promesses', 'Outlines', 'Cant Stop Playing', 'They Don't Know' especially. Not so much a fan of 'Wish You Were Mine' as I thought this style of looped house was done way better in the mid 00s.

 

Elsewhere in 2015, 'Reality' is very good as is fellow Euro-guitar hit 'Sugar' by Robin Schulz around that time.

 

Didn't like the mid-late 10s tropical house trend at all apart from the 'Is This Love' remix. Didn't like future bass either.

Edited January 9, 20241 yr by TheSnake

2013 with ease! So much diversity and there wasn't any one trend dominating, and it was such an exciting year for following the charts as well.

 

I don't know what the best is for me but 2016 is absolutely definitely the worst. Every time Record of the Decade comes around I very distinctly feel 2016 being significantly weaker than every other year.

 

Also, firmly agreed. I think it was easily the worst year since I started following music/the charts closely in 2000. Hell.

The first half of the decade was clearly much stronger than the second half. I voted for 2014.

2018, because

 

Martin Garrix premiered High On Life for the first time in Tomorrowland. His best release to date.

 

Future bounce became the new big room house, thanks to Like I Do.

 

Peak EDM era in Indonesia. These artists also made into local Spotify 200: Cash Cash, R3HAB, and Mike Williams.

 

Hardwell cooked the EDM scene on collaborations with Metropole Orkest, Wildstylez, Maurice West (now Mau P) and Cascada, Loren Allred, Blasterjaxx.

 

Dangdut (regional Indonesian music, technically) finally got acknowledge by mainstream. Anyone remembers Beaverdonia's spin-off entry? That's the song.

Future bounce became the new big room house, thanks to Like I Do.

 

I think it was R3hab - Lullaby that set the wheels in motion for that subgenre although Guetta helped bring it to mainstream for sure.

2018, because

Future bounce became the new big room house, thanks to Like I Do.

 

In 2018, such was the poppiness of UK chart dance music at the time, 'Like I Do' was one of the only UK chart dance songs I liked from that year, along with Camelphat and Au/ra's 'Panic Room'.

 

Not all the late 10s poppy dance I dislike though, M-22 and Medina's 'First Time' is very poppy dance but quite a sweet song, as was Solveig/Wroldsen 'Places' from the year before.

 

'Dirty Sexy Money' was like a vastly inferior version of 'Like I Do', but it was actually released before it.

Edited January 9, 20241 yr by TheSnake