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2010s Chart Songs You Actually Liked

Started by Lemming, August 15, 2020, 06:21:25 AM

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purlieu

#30
August 18, 2020, 04:05:28 PM
Ooh, lots of 'em.

I'm doing UK top 40 singles - not including old stuff that has reappeared for whatever reason, much as I'd love to have The Beatles and Bowie in here.

2010 (Cor, we were still - just - doing CD singles at this point.)
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Lady Gaga & Beyoncé - Telephone
Lady Gaga - Alejandro
Robyn - Dancing on My Own
Katy B - On a Mission
Manic Street Preachers - (It's Not War) Just the End of Love

2011
Katy B & Ms Dynamite - Lights On
Katy B - Broken Record
Coldplay - Every Teardrop is a Waterfall
Katy B - Easy Please Me
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - The Death of You and Me
Nicola Roberts - Beat of My Drum
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - AKA What a Life
Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day
Snow Patrol - This Isn't Everything You Are

2012 (It's interesting that at this point, there are still loads of artists I heavily associate with the early-mid '00s getting regular top 20 singles)
Gotye & Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know
Coldplay - Charlie Brown
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
Blur - Under the Westway
Muse - Madness
Girls Aloud - Something New

2013
David Bowie - Where Are We Now
Haim - Don't Save Me
Stereophonics - Indian Summer
Haim - Falling
Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop
Lady Gaga - Applause
Katy Perry - Roar
Chvrches - The Mother We Share
Haim - The Wire
Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
Lorde - Royals
Foxes - Youth

2014
Miley Cyrus - Adore You
Lorde - Team
Foxes - Let Go for Tonight
Haim - If I Could Change Your Mind
Foxes - Holding Onto Heaven
Coldplay - A Sky Full of Stars
Sia - Chandelier
Charli XCX - Boom Clap
Taylor Swift - Welcome to New York
Taylor Swift - Blank Space

2015 (Reached the point where I don't recognise 90% of the people in the chart here)
Taylor Swift - Style
Carly Rae Jepsen - I Really Like You
Foxes - Body Talk
KDA ft Tinie Tempah & Katy B - Turn the Music Louder (Rumble)

2016
Lady Gaga - Perfect Illusion
Dua Lipa - Blow Your Mind (Mwah)
Lady Gaga - Million Reasons

2017 (Whatever happened to pop groups? Little Mix seem to be about the only around by this point, it's all solo artists.)
Dua Lipa - Be the One
Katy Perry - Chained to the Rhythm
Lorde - Green Light
Katy Perry - Bon Apetite
Haim - Want You Back
Katy Perry - Swish Swish
Dua Lipa - New Rules
Charli XCX - Boys

2018
Sigrid - Strangers
The 1975 - Give Yourself a Try
The 1975 - Love it if We Made It
The 1975 - Tootimetootimetootime
Silk City ft. Dua Lipa - Electricity
Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
Charli XCX - 1999
Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho
Little Mix - Strip
Ariana Grande - Imagine

2019 (There's an artist with several charting singles whose name is Dave.)
Ariana Grande - 7 Rings
Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend I'm Bored
Ariana Grande - Needy
Sigrid - Don't Feel Like Crying
Billie Eilish - Wish You Were Gay
Billie Eilish - Bad Guy

Captain Z

#31
August 18, 2020, 04:17:12 PM
Quote from: Jerzy Bondov on August 18, 2020, 02:59:03 PM
Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

Baa baa black sheep
have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
three bags full

chveik

#32
August 18, 2020, 05:18:58 PM
Quote from: purlieu on August 18, 2020, 04:05:28 PM
Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day

I quite like that one

Captain Z

#33
August 18, 2020, 05:32:02 PM
I was knowingly snippy earlier in the thread so I'm opening myself up to fair retaliation here. I haven't seen much to convince me that pop music by and large wasn't as dreadful as I remember, although I have defintiely warmed to the second half of the decade. I tend to be drawn to things based on instrumentation rather than vocals, and clearly have a bias towards non-EDM dance music and Latin pop, as well as an obsession with things that sound like other things.

2010
Cee Lo Green - Bright Lights Bigger City

2011
Cee Lo Green - I Want You
Sak Noel - Loca People
     Novelty latin-pop child of No Speak Americano part 1
SeSa feat. Sharon Phillips - Like This Like That
     Novelty euro-pop child of No Speak Americano part 2

2012
Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven
     It does sound exactly like what you'd get by mixing The Police - Message In A Bottle, Roxanne and Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing together, but in a world of EDM and whispery piano the guitar-driven energy made it stand out for me. On the subject of Bruno Mars I also accept that Uptown Funk is a very good pop song, but the instrumental is basically just Chic - Le Freak, so of course it is.
Sam & The Womp - Bom Bom
     Novelty euro-pop child of No Speak Americano part 3

2013
Chase & Status feat. Moko - Count On Me
Disclosure feat. Eliza Doolittle - You & Me
     Two nostalgia dance records, but that's all I could find for 2013

2014
Pitbull feat. John Ryan - Fireball
     Novelty euro-pop child of No Speak Americano part 4
The Magician feat. Years & Years - Shine
     Most feel-good song of the decade?
Karen Harding - Say Something
Duke Dumont - Won't Look Back

2015
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2016
Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling
     Kids-movie-feel-good hit obviously trying to recapture the success of Pharrell's Happy. But musically this is a much more interesting track.

2017
Calvin Harris, Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean - Feels
     Another obvious Happy redux, but I don't remember this being so ubiquitous.
Camila Cabello - Havana
     Probably not popular here, I just have a thing for Latin influences. There's an incredible mashup with Santana - Smooth which is really the reason I remember this one.
Riton & Kah-Lo - Fake ID
     I haven't checked if this charted, if not it bloody should have.

2018
Calvin Harris feat. Dua Lipa - One Kiss
Rosalia - Malamente
Clean Bandit feat. Marina & The Diamonds & Luis Fonsi - Baby
Liam Payne feat. J Balvin - Familiar

2019
Camila Cabello - Liar
     Not a big hit, but catchy and nice instrumentation. Somebody also pointed out it's similarity to 2018 Eurovision runner-up 'Fuego' via another mashup.
Jax Jones feat. Years & Years - Play
Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now

Captain Z

#34
August 18, 2020, 06:01:31 PM
I'm very disappointed that none of The Chemical Brothers singles from 2019's 'No Geography' charted, to at least offer some plea that I have vaguely respectable tastes.

purlieu

#35
August 18, 2020, 06:23:20 PM
There are a couple of exceptions - The 1975, Maroon 5 and Train (?!), with a couple of bands getting the occasional charting comeback (Elbow, Panic at the Disco, Coldplay and, er, Disturbed) - but otherwise on my run through the charts earlier today I didn't notice anything else outside pop/r&b/hip-hop/mainstream EDM since about 2014. An act like the Chemical Brothers can still get chart-topping albums and sell-out tours but get nowhere near the top 100 singles chart these days. It goes beyond genre, even, into a split between contemporary and what you might call 'legacy' artists. Although there's the occasional oddity, like Jennifer Lopez and Craig David somehow reappearing in the '10s, there's a surprisingly low number of people in the recent charts who've been around for much longer than ten years. Only three of Madonna's last 15 singles have made the UK top 40.

Better Midlands

#36
August 18, 2020, 07:48:37 PM
Quote from: Captain Z on August 18, 2020, 05:32:02 PM
Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven

Bruno Mars has/had the ability to knock out bangers that sound like classics from the past without pissing me off - 24K Magic is great too.
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