Last week we took a look at the most popular songs of 2013 and now it's time for me to reveal my personal favorite songs of 2013. As I mentioned earlier, I'm doing things a bit different with this decade. I don't want to reveal the final results of this billboard project until 2016 is over so that I can have the most up-to-date version of my list of most popular songs of all time. Thus I'm spacing things out instead of revealing 2010 to 2015 in consecutive weeks and then doing nothing for three months. In the meantime, I will take advantage of the opportunity to reveal my top 10 favorite songs of each year in addition to the most popular songs of the year. In terms of what's eligible for this list, it's not the songs that were most popular during this year or the songs that were released this year. It's the songs that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 during the calendar year. With some songs that's all the same year. But many songs that's either two or three different years. And I'm not limiting myself to the songs that made the top 10 like I do with my favorite "hits" of each decade lists. Any song that showed up on the Hot 100 is eligible, even if it was only there for a week. Which in this case means there were 381 songs to choose from. And a lot of them were really good. I hope you enjoy!
10- "Wake Me Up!" - Avicii 9- "Waiting for Superman" - Daughtry 8- "Hail to the King" - Avenged Sevenfold 7- "Brave" - Sara Bareilles 6- "Love Me Again" - John Newman 5- "Summertime Sadness" - Lana Del Rey & Cedric Gervais 4- "Clarity" - Zedd featuring Foxes 3- "Alive" - Krewella 2- "Levitate" - Hadouken! 1- "Animals" - Martin Garrix
It's time for another year of the Billboard charts! If you are new this week, I had a goal recently to determine what the top songs of all time were based on a formula that I came up with to keep track of the top songs on the Billboard charts each year. Here's the methodology: each year of the charts I go week by week, giving points to the songs that make the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. The #1 song gets 10 points, the #2 song gets 9 points, all the way down to the #10 song getting 1 point. I could've done the whole Hot 100 like this, but that would've been too time consuming, so I just stuck to the top 10 for now. If you are wanting to check out previous years that I've done, you can follow the links at the bottom of each list to browse through the years or you can search the blog archive on the right. It's my hope that as you scroll through this list that you take time to actually listen to the songs as you go instead of just looking at the title. This has been a great way for me to learn of new music and be reminded of songs that I may have forgotten about and I feel this can have the same effect on you, regardless of your taste in music. So without further delay, let's see what 2013 had to offer! 10- "Get Lucky" - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams 9- "Just Give Me a Reason" - P!nk featuring Nate Ruess 8- "When I was Your Man" - Bruno Mars 7- "Radioactive" - Imagine Dragons 6- "Wrecking Ball" - Miley Cyrus 5- "Can't Hold Us" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton 4- "Roar" - Katy Perry 3- "Royals" - Lorde 2- "Thrift Shop" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz 1- "Blurred Lines" - Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell
Last week we took a look at the most popular songs of 2012 and thus now it's time for me to reveal my personal favorite songs of 2012. As I mentioned earlier, I'm doing things a bit different with this decade. I don't want to reveal the final results of this billboard project until 2016 is over so that I can have the most up-to-date version of my list of most popular songs of all time. Thus I'm spacing things out instead of revealing 2010 to 2015 in consecutive weeks and then doing nothing for three months. In the meantime, I will take advantage of the opportunity to reveal my top 10 favorite songs of each year in addition to the most popular songs of the year. In terms of what's eligible for this list, it's not the songs that were most popular during this year or the songs that were released this year. It's the songs that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 during the calendar year. With some songs that's all the same year. But many songs that's either two or three different years. And I'm not limiting myself to the songs that made the top 10 like I do with my favorite "hits" of each decade lists. Any song that showed up on the Hot 100 is eligible, even if it was only there for a week. Which in this case means there were 363 songs to choose from. And a lot of them were really good. I hope you enjoy! 10- "I Will Wait" - Mumford & Sons 9- "I Cry" - Flo Rida 8- "Somebody that I Used to Know" - Gotye featuring Kimbra 7- "Hall of Fame" - The Script featuring will.i.am 6- "50 Ways to Say Goodbye" - Train 5- "Raise Your Weapon" - Deadmau5 featuring Greta Svabo Bech 4- "Don't You Worry Child" - Sweedish House Mafia featuring John Martin 3- "Anything Could Happen" - Ellie Goulding 2- "Burn it Down" - Linkin Park 1- "Sweet Nothing" - Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch
After a quick break last week, my Billboard project is back and it's now time to dive into 2012! If you are new this week, I had a goal recently to determine what the top songs of all time were based on a formula that I came up with to keep track of the top songs on the Billboard charts each year. Here's the methodology: each year of the charts I go week by week, giving points to the songs that make the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. The #1 song gets 10 points, the #2 song gets 9 points, all the way down to the #10 song getting 1 point. I could've done the whole Hot 100 like this, but that would've been too time consuming, so I just stuck to the top 10 for now. If you are wanting to check out previous years that I've done, you can follow the links at the bottom of each list to browse through the years or you can search the blog archive on the right. It's my hope that as you scroll through this list that you take time to actually listen to the songs as you go instead of just looking at the title. This has been a great way for me to learn of new music and be reminded of songs that I may have forgotten about and I feel this can have the same effect on you, regardless of your taste in music. So without further delay, let's see what 2012 had to offer! 10- "Lights" - Ellie Goulding 9- "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" - Taylor Swift 8- "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" - Kelly Clarkson 7- "Set Fire to the Rain" - Adele 6- "Some Nights" - fun. 5- "Payphone" - Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa 4- "One More Night" - Maroon 5 3- "Call Me Maybe" - Carly Rae Jepsen 2- "We Are Young" - fun. featuring Jannelle Monae 1- "Somebody that I Used to Know" - Gotye featuring Kimbra
