Riser

Definitely a shame that Love Too Deep missed out on chart success! But hard to complain when the rest of your top 10 did soooo well.

 

Great countdown, I didn't expect to love (or even know) as many songs as I did! Also you did a fantastic job presenting them so it was an enjoyable thread to follow. That recap post is so pretty :wub:

I wouldn't say Glow is THAT underrated on here, really! It was #1 on the multichart and the reshuffle chart, and I haven't seen any hate for it at all. I also prefer it to Ghost and it did definitely underperform as a single. And she's still gonna get dropped :P

 

I think I know who will win but don't wanna spoil it. Either way I'm excited for it to be revealed!

I forgot all about Scream! Paolo Nutini funking the charts up long before Mark Ronson :lol: :funky:

 

I thought Cool Kids might place a little higher for you but now I see there is very tough competition with all the songs that beat it. Not surprised to see Black Widow ahead of Fancy because you were very late to chart Fancy.

Honorable mentions: A few songs that would've featured had I started this a little later! I'm ready to be done with this so they won't get full commentary, just a brief mention.

 

Alesso feat. Tove Lo "Heroes"

Nothing new is brought to the table here, but Alesso does the trick here nevertheless. I definitely like this more for Tove Lo's vocals but they do fit Alesso's track nicely so no shade!

 

Ariana Grande feat. The Weeknd "Love Me Harder"

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l219/Yoshi538/4000de16-2c43-43b3-a661-2aaeeb8b4f2c.png

I'm not a fan of this style of pop. On first listen I quickly noticed similarities to "Do What U Want", which I always found overrated. But there's a lot of beauty in this collab, and I'm pretty hooked on it now! The Weeknd's verse is lovely.

 

Magic! "Let Your Hair Down"

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l219/Yoshi538/ed393df4-bf0b-4e2c-ba7d-cf24bdbd4cc6.jpg

This is a terrific follow-up to "Rude"; of course I'm disappointed it did precisely nothing anywhere beside their homeland of Canada. The guitar solo is even better than the one on "Rude"!

 

Meghan Trainor "Lips Are Movin'"

http://0.tqn.com/y/top40/1/L/u/q/3/meghan-trainor-lips-are-movin.jpg

Currently #1 on my personal chart, it turns out "All About That Bass" is even better in the form of its non-gimmick soundalike. The video is still an attention-grabber with Meghan's cat outfit among other things. Why Meghan can easily avoid one-hit-wonder status and Magic! can't, I'll never know :(.

 

Okay that's the end of that! Roughly 60 songs have featured, some will make my EOY countdown and others won't. Plus some songs I haven't mentioned yet will do well on the countdown. It's tentatively going to be a top 60. Still not sure how it's all gonna go but it'll be a little less effort hopefully. Ranking songs is hard. Fingers crossed I'll start tomorrow but it could be anytime this weekend. Hope you'll look out for it!

can someone pls provide me with my run? I want to come face-to-face with my tamperer (feat. maya) run

 

Cheers

x-14-7-9-6-1-3-1-4-3-12-4-5-21-21-5-18-42-x(13)-42-x-38-x-33-x(5)-27-x(3)-23-28-21-33-6-11-9

 

May I see mine as well? :o

x(7)-13-19-45-39-42-x(5)-29-x(2)-10-x-48-37-x-49-x(5)-24-16-8-13-10-1-1-8-21-x(3)-26-x(5)-12-20-42

 

 

Won't bother with mine, I only appeared ten times and peaked at #37. Would've loved to be in the top 50 posters of the year but no chance! :lol:

I wonder how many listening hear All Of Me and immediately think 'I like this track, I should download it'....

I didn't think that, but now I do :o

 

(JK, already have it on a Now CD)

This is disappointing. I like Pitbull a lot but "Timber" doesn't feel like a top-ten of the year to me.

I'll do a late prediction :D

 

1 Idina Menzel- Let It Go

2 Ella Henderson- Ghost

3 Taylor Swift- Shake It Off

4 Lana Del Rey- West Coast

5 Kristen Bell- Do You Want To Build A Snowman

6 Iggy Azalea Ft Charli XCX- Fancy

7 Kristen Bell Ft Idina Menzel- For The First Time In Forever

8 Taylor Swift- Blank Space

9 Christina Perri- Human

10 Paloma Faith- Only Love Can Hurt Like This

11 Meghan Trainor- All About That Bass

12 G.R.L- Ugly Heart

13 The Band Perry- If I Die Young

14 The Veronicas- You Ruin Me

15 Lily Allen- Hard Out Here

Noooo, Let It Go plays just as Joseph's hosting shift begins :drama: Talk about unlucky #13!

'Summer' reinvested me in Calvin after not really feeling many of his previous singles prior. Extremely euphoric and his vocal contributions have a certain charm to them. His album is a bit underwhelming on the whole, but there are definite standouts on there!

I agree, it was great to hear Calvin singing again after previously saying he was done singing on his records.

 

LOVE 'Money On My Mind' and I'm thrilled for it to be so high! Few will agree obvs but I find it very underrated on here.

Skyscraper gaining two weeks at the top is very surprising!

 

Would've been nice to see a couple of songs be promoted to #1 but I can see why that didn't happen. So 24 #1s in the end, compared to 23 in 2013 and 27 in 2012 from the previous installments of the thread. I also checked 2000 since it had similar turnover of official #1, and 2000 ended up with 30 #1s in this thread. Interesting!

 

Thanks Gezza!

No surprise to see an all female top 10 :lol:

An all female top 15 actually! Oh Buzzjack. But I love the top 9, would've preferred Shake It Off to take #10 over Blank Space.

 

Had to double check the voting thread to make sure Don't really had only 37 points :drama: I provided 30% of its points total, wut.

 

A well-deserved finish for "Don't"! Probably still my favorite of the 'x' singles but I don't mind "Sing" and "Thinking Out Loud" finishing ahead of it.

I have played that guess-the-singer game with Band Aid 30 playing in the car, just as Matt described it :lol:

34. Sigma/Paloma Faith - Changing

Chart Run:

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I didn't realize this had only 10 weeks in the top 40 :cry: In that case I'm impressed 'Changing' made it to #34 for the year (thankfully 6 of those 10 weeks were in the top 8)!

 

Hi everyone! :hi:

 

An X Factor favourite. For some reason I think that had it not been performed so many times it probably wouldn't be in the top 40.

You're probably right seeing as it's just scraped in. Maybe Say Something was behind Loyal and A Sky Full Of Stars before it was performed on X Factor.

I'm so looking forward to this after we didn't get one of these countdowns last year! I've been avoiding Vidcapper's thread for months in preparation, no idea where any songs going to end up (except for a few obvious ones near the top). Also looking forward to the hosts presenting it all here, would've loved to take a slot if it wasn't for the time difference :drama:

 

With that, I'm off to bed! Have fun :D

Interesting to see Shot Me Down as your top Guetta track. I wouldn't disagree, it's very underrated, but admittedly I'm a big fan of Skylar Grey.

 

I randomly heard The Days for the first time this morning, when it was playing on the radio as my alarm clock went off :o Hard to judge a song when you're just waking up, but it was better than I expected considering the lack of hype/support. Ah well, Avicii will have a much better 2015 ^_^

Hi Riser

 

Not a fan of your #1 actually her music really grates on me and sounds the same.

 

2. Maroon 5 – Animals [1-1-2]

7. Nico & Vinz – In Your Arms [15-7]

9. Ella Henderson – Ghost [35-32-9] :wub: One of my favourite tracks of the year, such a great track.

10. Mr. Probz – Waves [26-16-10]

12. Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk

13. Lorde – Yellow Flicker Beat

14. Hozier – Take Me To Church [20-14]

15. Vance Joy – Riptide [28-5-15]

16. Calvin Harris feat. John Newman – Blame [14-6-16]

18. Iggy Azalea feat. MO – Beg For It [31-18]

23. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud

24. David Guetta feat. Sam Martin – Dangerous

26. Walk The Moon – Shut Up And Dance [14-26]

27. Gwen Stefani – Baby Don’t Lie

28. Alesso feat. Tove Lo – Heroes

31. Charli XCX – Break The Rules [36-31]

35. Fall Out Boy – Centuries [29-37-35]

36. Oliver Heldens feat. KStewart – Last All Night (Koala)

37. Imagine Dragons – I Bet My Life

38. The Script – Superheroes [38-34-22-38]

Hi! Too bad Meghan grates on you, guess you're not looking forward to her 2nd UK smash! At least you like my #2 ^_^

As you can see Ghost took a very long time to finally click with me, maybe it'll be one of my faves of 2015 if it keeps growing. I'm a bigger fan of Glow.

Thanks for commenting!

 

Didn't know you were such a big fan of 'Lips Are Movin'' :o! I quite like it and it's definitely superior to its predecessor.

 

Nice to see big climbs into the top 10 for 'Jealous' (thanks for the recommendation!), 'Ghost' and 'Waves', the latter two quite the gradual growers for you it seems. Some great stuff throughout, particularly the debuts of Mark Ronson, Lorde, Take That and Selena scraping it in. :D

Yeah I never mentioned that :o The "buy me diamond earrings and deny-ny-ny" part gets me every time, it's perfect :wub:

Ghost and Waves were indeed very, very gradual growers. I'm glad I can finally appreciate them :D

(jk die waves die :puke2:) Thanks Andy!

 

Hey Jordan :cheer:

 

1. Meghan Trainor – Lips Are Movin’ [27-1]

2. Maroon 5 – Animals [1-1-2]

4. Taylor Swift – Blank Space [7-4] This is one of the most gorgeous songs ever written and sung in my view. Out Of The Woods is just gorgeous too :wub:

6. Sam Smith – I’m Not The Only One [2-6]

8. Ariana Grande feat. The Weeknd – Love Me Harder [8-8] :wub: Nowhere near as big a hit as I thought it was gonna be :unsure:

9. Ella Henderson – Ghost [35-32-9] This is properly growing on you I see. One of the finest debut tracks ever!

10. Mr. Probz – Waves [26-16-10]

11. One Direction – Steal My Girl [17-3-11]

14. Hozier – Take Me To Church [20-14]

15. Vance Joy – Riptide [28-5-15]

19. Carrie Underwood – Something In The Water [26-19]

20. Beyonce – 7/11 Fantastic!

21. Take That – These Days

25. One Direction – Night Changes

27. Gwen Stefani – Baby Don’t Lie :wub: Not quite the Comeback I'd hoped for but I think it's great nonetheless.

28. Alesso feat. Tove Lo – Heroes

29. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off [30-7-2-10-29]

30. OneRepublic – I Lived [11-30]

33. Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne – Real Love

34. Band Aid 30 – Do They Know It’s Christmas? (2014)

36. Fall Out Boy – Centuries [29-37-36]

40. Selena Gomez – The Heart Wants What It Wants I think this is quite poor if I'm honest.

 

Brilliant chart c

Hi James!

4. I always prefer country Taylor so will probably have to disagree! It's still a good album though, just listened to it the other day ^_^

8. Same :unsure: Break Free should've peaked higher too :(

9. That's right, it really took a long time!

20. Yes, love it :D

27. Sounds pretty weak compared to her older songs, but still enjoyable because it's Gwen!

40. I think so too. It grew on me a little but Selena has soooooo many better songs.

Thanks for commenting!

Hi Rob, thought you might like a comment :D

 

01: Olly Murs Ft Demi Lovato – Up Fantastic #1, I love how it's more like a proper duet unlike Olly's other collabs

02: Taylor Swift – Blank Space

03: Mark Ronson Ft Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk

04: Meghan Trainor – Lips are movin

05: George Ezra – Listen to the man

06: Ben Haenow – Something I Need

07: Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

08: Imagine Dragons – Demons

09: Kelly Clarkson – Wrapped In Red

10: Kelly Clarkson – Underneath the Tree

13: Sheppard – Geronimo This finally clicked with me the last time I heard it! Is this the song that keeps changing the release date?

14: Echosmith – Cool Kids

15: One Direction – Night Changes

16: Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You

17: Tom Odell – Real Love

19: East 17 – Stay another Day

20: The Veronicas – You Ruin Me

21: Meghan Trainor – All about That Bass

23: Clean Bandit Ft Jess Glynne – Rather Be This is seriously never leaving your chart :lol: Even higher than Real Love!

24: Andy Williams – its The Most Wonderful Time of the year

25: Alesso – We Could Be (Heroes) ft Tove Lo

26: The Pogues – Fairytale of New York

27: GRL – Ugly Heart

28: Marina & the Diamonds – Froot

29: Band Aid 84 – Do They Know It’s Christmas

30: Clean Bandit Ft Jess Glyne – Real Love

31: James Bay – Hold Back the River

32: James-Newton Howard – The Hanging Tree

33: Ella Henderson – Glow

36: Cascada – Last Christmas

38: David Guetta Ft Sam Martin – Dangerous

39: The Script – Superheroes

40: Britney – My only wish (this year)

 

Great chart, happy new year!

Hey, happy new year :D

 

01 (01) Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk [4wks] (20-7-1-1)

02 (02) CHVRCHES – Get Away [6wks] (14-3-3-1-2-2)

04 (08) George Ezra – Listen To The Man [5wks] (37-26-19-9-4)

05 (03) Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne – Real Love [9wks] (22-15-5-1-1-1-3-3-5)

17 (12) Marina & The Diamonds – FROOT [6wks] (10-5-4-9-12-17)

18 (10) Blonde feat. Melissa Steel – I Loved You [10wks] (35-33-29-21-12-11-8-8-10-18)

20 (16) Years & Years – Desire [10wks] (32-24-17-11-15-10-9-13-16-20)

21 (31) Bring Me The Horizon – Drown [2wks] (31-21)

22 (13) Lorde – Yellow Flicker Beat [7wks] (35-35-31-22-17-13-22)

23 (23) Take That – These Days [5wks] (25-18-15-23-23)

25 (18) Walk The Moon – Shut Up And Dance [8wks] (34-26-22-14-7-10-18-25)

27 (20) Dominique – It’s Only You [9wks] (7-1-1-3-6-9-14-20-27)

28 (33) Coasts – A Rush Of Blood [3wks] (39-33-28) Been replaying this a lot :wub:

29 (**) Kodaline – Honest [1wk] (29) I just noticed this song, maybe a new album coming? That's good news

30 (25) Lykke Li – Gunshot (15wks) (35-23-11-2-1-1-1-2-4-8-8-13-18-25-30)

31 (36) Sigma feat Paloma Faith – Changing [19wks] (6-3-1-1-1-1-3-5-8-10-10-6-10-14-19-24-31-36-31)

32 (**) Gwen Stefani – Baby Don’t Lie [1wk] (32) This is a grower, not as good as her old songs though

34 (35) BANKS – Beggin For Thread [19wks] (24-12-7-2-2-2-1-1-3-3-5-8-13-17-21-25-30-35-34)

35 (29) Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud [10wks] (39-26-19-11-19-24-30-33-29-35)

38 (**) Seinabo Sey – Younger [1wk] (38)

39 (**) Peking Duk feat. Nicole Millar – High [1wk] (39)

40 (30) The Veronicas – You Ruin Me [12wks] (29-17-11-3-3-3-5-7-16-23-30-40)

 

Nice chart!

Hi Mack! Happy new year!

 

I like almost everything this week :D

 

1. One Direction- Steal My Girl 39-4-5-6-3-2-6-4-9-16-4-4-1

2. Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars- Uptown Funk 12-2-2

3. Maroon 5- Animals 29-16-22-1-3-4-4-6-9-3

4. Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne- Real Love 37-2-1-2-5-5-5-4

5. Taylor Swift- Blank Space 25-5-5-10-14-12-5

6. Olly Murs ft Demi Lovato- Up 13-8-6

8. Jason Derulo ft Snoop Dogg- Wiggle 32-17-12-16-7-7-2-9-12-13-14-22-24-33 2-3-8

9. Taylor Swift- Shake It Off 24-3-3-7-3-5-1-4-1-2-4-8-12-11-13-13 7-10-9

10. Ed Sheeran- Thinking Out Loud 12-11-12-11-11-15-21-18-12-12-13-5-1-1-2-3-7-6-10-1-1-7-10

11. Take That- These Days 9-3-3-15-13-11

13. One Direction- Night Changes 14-17-17-16-13

14. Ed Sheeran- Don't 21-21-22-23-17-6-7-5-11-17-16-17-15-22-25-21-20-17-22-28-27-36-34-40-30-14

15. David Guetta ft Sam Martin- Dangerous 30-1-10-11-15-34-33-15

16. Tom Odell- Real Love 17-9-8-7-8-16-21-16

17. Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj- Bang Bang 39-24-2-2-2-3-3-2-11-14-14-16-22-27-39-36-17

18. Sam Smith- Stay With Me 39-26-24-21-17-12-1-1-3-5-7-5-10-9-13-16-18-18-20-16-20-18-21-21-21-26-31-35-31-32-25-33-29-31-35-37-40-18

20. Ed Sheeran- Sing 35-1-1-1-3-4-6-9-11-14-23-21-22-31-27-26-26-34-30-26-22-22-26-33-36-40 9-38-20

21. George Ezra- Budapest 38-34-27-13-15-12 33-4-2-2-4-6-8-7-9-10-14-17-19-17-20-20-19-22-24-24-23-26-29-32-29-32-31-35-21

23. Oliver Heldens ft KStewart- Last All Night (Koala) 23-18-23

25. Blonde ft Melissa Steel- I Loved You 23-2-30-23-25

26. Sam Smith- I'm Not The Only One 32-19-12-4-6-6-10-7-6-12-14-13-15-15-11-19-17-18-22-27-31-26

27. George Ezra- Listen To The Man 35 40-24-19-22-27

28. Alesso ft Tove Lo- Heroes (We Could Be) 28

30. Labrinth- Jealous 7-6-11-26-32-30

31. Mr Probz- Waves 38-15-1-2-4-5-3-4-2-2-6-8-8-10-12-17-19-22-26-24-30-20-23-29-32-33-35 31

33. Pharrell Williams- Happy 10-2-1-1-5-1-3-4-4-2-3-3-5-6-6-6-8-10-9-11-15-16-19-21-15-18-16-20-26-17-14-18-20-22-26-28-21-27-32-29-33-33-31-28-30-30-36 33

34. Calvin Harris ft John Newman- Blame 1-2-4-3-3-8-7-9-9-9-18-18-24-36 34

35. Nico & Vinz- Am I Wrong? 35-4-2-2-1-8-12-13-13-13-21-29-26-34 33-32-39 35

36. MAGIC!- Rude 29-25-1-1-5-4-3-8-10-14-7-10-14-17-20-16-26-28-34 36

37. Ariana Grande ft Iggy Azalea- Problem 40-1-3-3-5-6-6-8-13-13-19-31-39 37

39. Jeremih ft YG- Don't Tell 'Em 40 18-2-6-8-4-8-15-19-28-23-10-39-39

40. Nicki Minaj- Anaconda 39-29-1-6-8-10-12-18-27-39 40

 

Brilliant ^_^

Hi James! Happy new year!

 

01 01 Paloma Faith - Leave While I'm Not Looking :arrowright: 01 [03-01-01-01] 4 weeks

04 ** Olly Murs & Demi Lovato - Up 1 week HIGHEST NEW ENTRY

06 ** Aronchupa - I'm An Albatraoz 1 week I'm not sure about this yet :unsure:

07 09 Taylor Swift - Out Of The Woods :arrowup: [38-32-38-19-09-09-07] 7 weeks

08 05 Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This :arrowdown: 3 [02-03-04-01-01-01-02-01-01-01-01-01-02-03-02-02-03-03-03-03-11-10-04-10-12-15-20-20-20-10-11-12-05-08] 34 weeks

09 02 Moya - Earthbound :arrowdown: 7 [51-20-10-07-02-01-02-04-06-02-02-01-01-03-05-02-05-08-14-03-02-09] 22 weeks

10 ** Ariana Grande & The Weekend - Love Me Harder 1 week

11 12 Fifth Harmony - Sledgehammer :arrowup: 1 [16-12-11] 3 weeks

13 ** Gwen Stefani - Spark The Fire 1 week

14 27 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off :arrowup: 13 [08-10-08-08-14-20-25-27-31-45-49-38-38-27-13] 15 weeks

16 23 Chvrches - Get Away :arrowup: 7 [10-23-16] 3 weeks

17 11 Echosmith - Cool Kids :arrowdown: 6 [39-34-16-24-11-17] 6 weeks

21 07 Taylor Swift - Blank Space :arrowdown: 14 [01-02-07-21] 4 weeks Uh oh, already overtaken by Shake It Off :o I prefer Shake It Off anyway :D

22 13 Beyoncé - 7/11 :arrowdown: 9 [40-22-13-22] 4 weeks

25 08 Gwen Stefani - Baby Don't Lie :arrowdown: 17 [12-08-04-04-06-06-08-25] 8 weeks

31 18 The Veronicas - You Ruin Me :arrowdown: 13 [02-02-04-27-18-31] 6 weeks

32 21 Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne - Real Love :arrowdown: 11 [16-17-18-15-21-32] 6 weeks

33 14 Nicki Minaj & Skylar Grey - Bed Of Lies :arrowdown: 19 [24-23-14-33] 4 weeks

34 32 The Saturdays - What Are You Waiting For? :arrowdown: 2 [01-01-01-01-04-05-04-05-08-11-12-15-15-29-30-35-40-30-37-37-32-34] 22 weeks

35 26 Michael Woods & Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms :arrowdown: 9 [03-01-01-02-04-04-01-12-28-21-21-17-26-35] 14 weeks

40 37 Rebecca Ferguson - I hope :arrowdown: 3 [01-12-03-02-05-03-03-03-04-04-05-03-07-03-07-16-06-09-09-08-03-07-09-14-17-21-23-24-45-53-48-66-65-46-65-72-xx(x14)-37-40] 38 weeks Haven't listened to this in ages but :wub:

41 ** Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin 1 week Yes! All About That Bass was good but I love this so much more <3

42 40 One Direction - Night Changes :arrowdown: 2 [33-34-40-42] 4 weeks

44 33 Hilary Duff - Chasing The Sun :arrowdown: 11 [05-02-01-06-07-07-05-07-06-12-14-21-34-27-25-42-33-44] 18 weeks

45 34 Marina And The Diamonds - Froot :arrowdown: 11 [22-12-20-28-34-45] 6 weeks

49 52 Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone :arrowup: 3 [43-21-51-71-69-65-xx(x45)-52-49] 8 weeks

52 48 Carrie Underwood - Something In The Water :arrowdown: 4 [15-22-27-46-48-52] 6 weeks

53 54 Cheryl - I Don't Care :arrowup: 1 [02-08-14-29-29-30-39-54-53] 9 weeks

57 43 Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One :arrowdown: 14 [60-50-27-13-10-05-03-09-11-17-27-25-35-32-43-57] 16 weeks

59 53 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass :arrowdown: 6 [08-06-07-11-12-18-36-43-53-59] 10 weeks

63 61 Ella Eyre - Comeback :arrowdown: 2 [04-05-03-03-19-22-21-23-31-31-44-51-61-63] 14 weeks

64 57 Fleetwood Mac - Landslide :arrowdown: 7 [56-32-15-29-xx(x19)-55-36-59-48-75-xx(x49)-48-31-57-64] 13 weeks Classic :wub: The Dixie Chicks' version is great too, not sure if you'd know that one though

65 36 Cascada - Last Christmas :arrowdown: 29 [28-30-32-41-46-70-xx(x43)-63-52-45-36-65] 11 weeks

66 63 Sia - Chandelier :arrowdown: 3 [48-43-44-46-61-69-73-70-70-64-40-39-28-33-26-35-41-50-56-63-66] 21 weeks

67 66 Jessie Ware - Say You Love Me :arrowdown: 1 [13-16-24-26-29-41-51-60-65-66-67] 11 weeks

70 75 Ella Henderson - Ghost :arrowup: 5 [02-02-02-04-02-05-04-12-12-17-19-26-30-22-23-28-33-40-45-36-41-54-64-74-75-75-70] 26 weeks

71 41 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The tree :arrowdown: 30 [49-58-34-19-73-16-25-59-50-71-xx(x43)-20-10-14-41-71] 15 weeks

73 50 Band Aid 30 - Do They Know It's Christmas? :arrowdown: 23 [08-14-13-40-50-73] 6 weeks

 

Usher "Good Kisser"

http://www.usherfix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ushgoodkisser1-300x300.jpg

Usher has struggled to land a proper hit lately but I'm so glad he hasn't resorted to another "Scream" or "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love". That said, there's still something missing with his recent efforts. I can't quite place it but it just seems like Usher's trying too hard. "Good Kisser" is enjoyable but comes across as a little bit forced and unnatural. "She Came To Give It To You" gave me the same impression. I'm really not surprised that they both failed to catch on. Of course, the Disclosure remix of "Good Kisser" came at just the right time to soften its plummet down the charts. But otherwise, Usher learned the hard way that it takes more than a brief coaching stint on The Voice to get your new music to sell. It seems Gwen Stefani is learning the same lesson now.

 

Walk The Moon "Shut Up And Dance"

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This beautiful moment in music came out of nowhere near the end of a 2.5-hour drive, by myself, back in September. I didn't even know Walk The Moon had a new song, they just introduced it on the radio and I was NOT READY. Having previously loved "Anna Sun" and "Tightrope", my thought was that "Shut Up And Dance" was a sellout-ish song title. And then they played it, and the rest is history. An 80s arena-rock floorfiller!? Sounded like an epic smash in the first ten seconds; it was very smart of them to put the chorus at the beginning. The first line is "don't you dare look back", and indeed they do not, keeping that energy going until the very last note.

The very unfortunate BJSC incident involving this song has not affected my love for it. Considering my record, it was best left in someone else's hands anyway. The end result (top five!) was surprising, fully deserved, and a sign of how much crossover appeal "Shut Up And Dance" has. Radio really needs to take notice; some airplay would work in their favor because we're talking about a power-pop masterpiece here. But at the very least, this was a spectacular anthem for the last few months of 2014.

 

Young The Giant "It's About Time"

Young The Giant "Mind Over Matter"

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My favorite rock station changed to Spanish music last year at midnight on January 1st. "It's About Time" was my last memory of that station and I've carried it with me through 2014 despite now listening to a lot less rock as a result. Young The Giant's first album was in 2011 (perhaps you've heard "My Body" or "Cough Syrup") and it sounded like they've been charging ever since, waiting to explode from the very first note of "It's About Time" (an appropriate title, lol). Just like "Shut Up And Dance" in the last paragraph, the song grabs you right away and never lets go. For a band that's already known for exhilirating music and explosive vocals, they took it up another notch this time.

After a very long time spent hammering that song I eventually checked out another one, the title track "Mind Over Matter". It's also good so I'm including it here, but I don't have much else to say really, except that it's much more subdued, trading the guitars for strings and keyboards. But nine times out of ten I'll opt for "It's About Time".

 

Thanks as always for the comments! Only a couple posts left after this :D

 

omg I forgot Jameela's reactions to that Trey Songz track :lol: Amazing.

 

LOVING Sara Bareilles here, even if I can't remember I Choose You at all :ph34r: Shakira was fabulous this year, Can't Remember To Forget You is a HUGE jam and Empire was very impressive and different for her!

I Choose You is the only song I've heard from the album, other than Brave :ph34r:

 

YASSSSSSSSSSSS :yahoo: :wub: I agree about the '2 On' video now. It really helps bring the song alive and adds her wonderful personality to it moreso.

 

And the bit in bold is a challenge if ever i saw one! I will convince you to listen to it before i'm done with you Mr. :hitler:

Please do convince me, I'd hate to become a sillybean :o

 

I really like Na Na, not happy with that shade there! I'm fond of a good old urban jam and that's what is delivered by Na Na. Trey is pretty decent actually, I've liked a lot of his singles. Bottoms Up >> Touchin, Lovin >> the rest :cheer:

 

Glad to see Tinashe here too, another big Pretend fan is great to see. I agree the drumbeat elevates the song and that's what I really noticed that I loved about the track first. 2 On is very nice too, another urban jam :P

Oh gosh, reading it back now I didn't mean to be so harsh :( I definitely liked it at the time but not as much now. Starting to prefer "Smartphones" of his singles from this era at least!

 

Oh yeah I need to get The Pretty Reckless' album sometime, those are the two singles from it I haven't heard and since Going To Hell/Follow You Down were so damn amazing those probably are also. I am a flop fan of theirs right now.

 

Nice to see those two highlights from Paramore's album too, Daydreaming is so lovely and while I've listened to Ain't It Fun a bit too much it still remains a cool song.

Wow, I'm surprised both of those have passed you by! Actually I was the opposite, with Going To Hell/Follow You Down both passing me by until just recently.

 

Didn't know it was possible to listen to Ain't It Fun too much :o