That Creator Universe track would be at least somewhat bearable if it wasn’t for that woman with the horrid accent who gets about three lines. Who is she?

#02. Kygo and Ava Max ~ Whatever [116 points]

Most hated: CowTzy, rio309 [+12]

UK run: 39-27-28-24-20-17-{15}-20-17-19-21-20-22-68-74R(2)->15

 

 

After a run of much-loved releases on Buzzjack, Ava Max unfortunately managed to end up on a hit that left quite the opposite impression with a large majority of the user base. Also acting as Norwegian producer Kygo's first hit in over three years, although sonically he continues to remain firmly within the 2010s when he was more popular as he has seemingly been out of original musical ideas for ages. Of course you know the real reason why this is here as the song's chorus rewrote the lyrics to Shakira's breakout hit 'Wherever, Whenever' with lyrics that weren't quite as well-written or sung, which was bound to be annoying to some. I don't actually dislike this tbh so I'm pleased it didn't manage to top the chart ahead of the travesty that is last to be revealed...

So the top 3 are exactly the same as in my vote, including the order! (Plus I had #4 & #5 at 5th & 7th).

#01. Nicki Minaj ~ Big Foot [158 points]

Most hated: CoolHand501, jimwatts, Michael Bubré [+12]

UK run: {56}->1

 

 

Here we have it then, it is "congratulations" to Nicki Minaj for her second Hatechart win and first without the "help" of 6ix9ine. The track was quickly written and recorded as a diss track towards Megan Thee Stallion following her song "Hiss" which included a subtle Nicki diss. However even by standards of a diss track it was rather ugly from lyrics mocking the 2020 incident where Megan was shot in the foot and the recent passing of her mother to the bizarre ending where she just rambles for a minute completely a capella. The instant internet reaction was overwhelming negative with this topping various online lists for the worst song to have come out this year, and as it did chart here for one week presumably from nothing but curiosity streaming it also tops out as Buzzjack's least favourite 'hit' of the year. The track ran away with it too with a 42 point lead over Kygo and it had the joint-most number of haters with Creator Universe.

 

All three now join the below Hall of Hate...

 

Hall of Hate: Previous Hate Chart medalists (1st/2nd/3rd):

2024: Nicki Minaj ~ Big Foot // Kygo and Ava Max ~ Whatever // Creator Universe ~ I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

2023: LadBaby ~ Food Aid // Oliver Anthony Music ~ Rich Men North of Richmond // Central Cee ~ Let Go

2022: LadBaby ~ Sausage Rolls for Everyone (feat. Ed Sheeran and Elton John) // Central Cee ~ Doja // Chris Brown ~ Under the Influence

2021: Drake (feat. Lil Baby) - Girls Want Girls // Jesy Nelson (feat. Nicki Minaj) - Boyz // D-Block Europe & Lil Pino - Kevin McCallister

2020: 6ix9ine - Gooba // Justin Bieber - Yummy // 6ix9ine & Nicki Minaj - Trollz

2019: Anne-Marie - Perfect To Me // D-Block Europe - Home P*ssy // Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Señorita

2018: 6ix9ine (feat. Nicki Minaj & Murda Beatz) - Fefe // Kanye West & Lil Pump - I Love It // Lil Dicky (feat. Chris Brown) - Freaky Friday

2017: Chris & Kim - Little Bit Leave It // Jake Paul feat. Team 10 - It's Everyday Bro // Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes

2016: Calum Scott - Dancing On My Own // Desiigner - Panda // Zay Hilfigerrr & Zayion McCall - Juju On That Beat (TZ Anthem)

2015: Silentó - Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) // Sam Smith (feat. John Legend) - Lay Me Down // Meghan Trainor - Dear Future Husband

2014: Jason Derulo (feat. Snoop Dogg) - Wiggle // Idina Menzel - Let It Go // Elyar Fox - A Billion Girls

 

And to recap the full results for this year:

1 158 Nicki Minaj ~ Big Foot

2 116 Kygo and Ava Max ~ Whatever

3 108 Creator Universe ~ I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

4 107 Ice Spice ~ Think U The Sh*t (Fart)

5 102 Camila Cabello ~ I Luv It (feat. Playboi Carti)

6 98 Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign ~ Carnival

7 86 Kendrick Lamar ~ Not Like Us

8 82 Benson Boone ~ Beautiful Things

9 75 Central Cee ~ Band4Band (feat. Lil Baby)

10 72 Ella Henderson ~ Alibi (feat. Rudimental)

11 66 Teddy Swims ~ Lose Control

12 64 Gracie Abrams ~ That's So True

13 61 Myles Smith ~ Stargazing

14 61 David Guetta and OneRepublic ~ I Don't Wanna Wait

15 58 KSI ~ Thick Of It (feat. Trippie Redd)

16 52 NewEra ~ Birds In The Sky

17 49 The Weeknd and Playboi Carti ~ Timeless

18 47 Katy Perry ~ Woman's World

19 47 Drake ~ Family Matters

20 44 Taylor Swift ~ Down Bad

21 43 Gracie Abrams ~ Us (feat. Taylor Swift)

22 41 Badger and Natasha Bedingfield ~ These Words

23 39 Coldplay ~ FeelsLikeImFallingInLove

24 39 Gracie Abrams ~ I Love You I'm Sorry

25 37 D-Block Europe and Noizy ~ Eagle

26 35 Jorja Smith ~ Stay Another Day

27 24 Girl On Couch, Billen Ted and David Guetta ~ Man In Finance (G6 Trust Fund)

28 23 Jimin ~ Who

29 16 David Kushner ~ Skin and Bones

Much deserved for Nicki. Has the gall to call Megan a pdfile but is married to a sex offender herself. Absolutely disgusting

Am I missing something with the hate for Kygo/Ava. I don’t love it but also find it pretty harmless? :mellow:

Deserved Nicki constantly releasing the worst songs in history since 2017.

Not sure I've heard the song that won. Maybe it's even worse than #2 and #3. They definitely deserve their top 3 placings though. "Whatever" basically epitomises everything I hate about lazy producers and rent-a-vocalists taking classic songs and dragging them down the drain.

Also what even are creators? Get a real job!

Deserving winner, "Big Foot" and Nicki in general this year have been horrendous.

 

Megan stays winning and unbothered.

Am I missing something with the hate for Kygo/Ava. I don’t love it but also find it pretty harmless? :mellow:

 

I think a lot of people just hate Ava's style of interpolating everything. Nothing she does is offensive to my ears, but it does feel like she's ok with only being the person who is successful because you have nostalgia for the songs she's building off of, and I csn see why that bothers people

I'll always defend Whatever, it's a great song and the interpolation actually works really well in my view - and I say this as someone who *loves* Whenever, Wherever (and will always find it to be the superior version).

 

I've never heard Big Foot which is why I didn't vote for it, but it's a deserving winner based on literally everything I know about it.

It's all Kygo who decided that Whitney, Tina, Donna, and Paul x Michael weren't enough for him. Bringing back his Cloud 9 sound just made it even worse with fans bringing the 'Golden Era' term back. :puke2: Feel sorry to all bedroom producers out there who haven't yet had their first festival lineup appearance. :(

 

Didn't really care about Ava though, nor did I on the Alphaville sample, as she wasn't even the lead artist.

Kygo was only at the very end of the EDM Golden Era I thought the Golden Era was 2011- early 2015

Edited December 15, 2024Dec 15 by TheSnake

Only the second ever winner of this chart to miss the official top 40, making it an even more impressive achievement as plenty won't have even heard it!

Deserved winner

Oh wow the top 2 exactly matches my own top 2, we did good! I wasn't actually expecting 'Big Foot' to win let alone by so much, simply because it seemed quite a few people didn't vote for it presumably because they hadn't heard it - speaks volumes that it has still managed to be a landslide winner despite being only a blink and you'll miss it "hit", it's about as close as we're ever going to get to something that can really be called objectively the worst hit of the year, absolutely gross and almost entirely lacking in musical merit.

 

'Whatever' really grated on me for two reasons, 1) that it just sounded like the same Kygo song that he's released 500 times before that already got stale for me the second time so to still be hearing it in the charts in 2024 was just beyond tedious, and 2) I just really can't stand these dance remakes that slightly tweak the lyrics so it's almost the same but more basic, it's so uncanny (see also 'I'm Good (Blue)' and 'I Don't Wanna Wait'), would really have preferred if they just made it a straight cover.

 

As I said in my votes I don't really remember much about Creator Universe aside from that I didn't like it, I'm not planning to ever relisten to it to remind myself exactly why that was :lol: I didn't particularly like the Ice Spice song but it was too boring to really elicit a strong negative reaction either (despite her really trying with some of those lyrics). I personally really enjoyed 'I LUV IT' but obviously can see why so many people didn't, and likewise to a slightly lesser extent for 'CARNIVAL'.

 

Agreed, it's a great song, just vastly overplayed which I guess is the issue

 

Eh there were definitely a lot of people who never liked it! (if anything I see more positivity for it on here than elsewhere, and not only because of Joseph x)