DrogeMiester's Music Blog: April 2020

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Top 100 MOST POPULAR Songs of the 2010s: 40 - 21

We're almost there! Either you're dying of anticipation to see what the final results are or you are cheering in celebration that I'm finally almost finished posting these. Hopefully it's more of the former, but who knows. If you're randomly jumping in right now and you've never come across any of my music posts before, a more detailed explanation is in the first part of this. But yeah, over the course of the past decade I went through all of the Billboard charts, creating lists for each year and each decade. This here feels like the capstone to all of that. Then I'll decided later what to do with this upcoming decade. For now this is looking at just the top 10. Since I don't have access to Billboard's official chart points, I created my own tracking system. Songs that crossed two decades are put into the decade where they had the most post, which comes into play again in this section. And songs from 2013-2019 are weighted more heavily since the implementation of YouTube into Billboard's formula in 2013 caused songs to stay around for longer. With that out of the way, let's dive into part four of this list!

40- "See You Again" - Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth

39- "Havana" - Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug

38- "Thrift Shop" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz

37- "Payphone" - Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa

36- "Rolling in the Deep" - Adele

35- "Blurred Lines" - Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell

34- "E.T." - Katy Perry featuring Kanye West

33- "One Dance" - Drake featuring WizKid & Kyla

32- "Love Yourself" - Justin Bieber

31- "All of Me" - John Legend

30- "Sorry" - Justin Bieber

29- "Psycho" - Post Malone featuring Ty Dolla $ign

28- "Moves Like Jagger" - Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera

27- "Tik Tok" - Kesha

26- "Happy" - Pharrell Williams

25- "Sexy and I Know It" - LMFAO

24- "Dark Horse" - Katy Perry featuring Juicy J

23- "Royals" - Lorde

22- "SICKO MODE" - Travis Scott

21- "Señorita" - Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Top 100 MOST POPULAR Songs of the 2010s: 60 - 41

This week we're going through the most popular songs of the 2010s. Today's post sees us crossing the halfway point and begin the sprint towards the finish line. If you're jumping in halfway through, this is essentially the capstone to my major Billboard Project that I spent a good majority of last decade on. I have charts and lists for every year and decade in the archives of this blog for you to check out if you haven't already. In regards to methodology, today I will emphasize the fact that for songs caught between decades, I included the full run in the decade where they got the most post. That applies to the very first entry in this section. Yes, "Bad Romance" was released in 2009. But it got more points in 2010, which is it's here. Check out the first part for details on the other points. Yes, this only tracking the top 10. No, I don't have access to official chart points from Billboard, so I invented my own tracking system. And yes, 2013-2019 is weighted more harshly because Billboard decided in February 2013 to include YouTube views into their formula. That made a significant difference. With all of that out of the way, let's jump right into part three of five of this decades list.

60- "Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga

59- "Happier" - Marshmello & Bastille

58- "Lucid Dreams" - Juice WRLD

57- "Trap Queen" - Fetty Wap

56- "Grenade" - Bruno Mars

55- "Firework" - Katy Perry

54- "Can't Feel My Face" - The Weeknd

53- "I Like It" - Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin

52- "Fancy" - Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX

51- "Thinking Out Loud" - Ed Sheeran

50- "Starboy" - The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk

49- "Hello" - Adele

48- "California Gurls" - Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg

47- "Love the Way You Lie" - Eminem featuring Rihanna

46- "Just the Way You Are" - Bruno Mars

45- "Someone You Loved" - Lewis Capaldi

44- "Someone Like You" - Adele

43- "Truth Hurts" - Lizzo

42- "Locked Out of Heaven" - Bruno Mars

41- "Shake it Off" - Taylor Swift

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Top 100 MOST POPULAR Songs of the 2010s: 80 - 61

This week we are diving back through the 2010s decade in music, revisiting the most popular songs that either enriched our souls or were the bane of our existence. If you read through the intro in part one of this post, you know the drill. If you're randomly joining the party here in the middle, let me quickly recap. This list is the capstone of my ongoing Billboard Project that I've spent the majority of this decade on. I started with 1958 and now here we are reviewing the 2010s. As far as methodology goes, this is only a tracking of the top 10. Since I don't have access to official chart points, I created my own one-point sliding scale where the top song gets 10 points. Songs that crossed two decades are included in the decade wherein they got the post points. And 2013-2019 is weighted differently than 2010-2012 since February 2013 is when YouTube views became part of Billboard's formula. If you want to a read a slightly more detailed version of that, go read my intro in the first post. But all those technicalities aren't the fun part. Re-experiencing all these songs are! So let's dive into part two of this list!

80- "Diamonds" - Rihanna

79- "Sugar" - Maroon 5

78- "Heathens" - twenty one pilots

77- "Work" - Rihanna featuring Drake

76- "Blank Space" - Taylor Swift

75- "Counting Stars" - OneRepublic

74- "Roar" - Katy Perry

73- "Airplanes" - B.o.B featuring Haley Williams

72- "Set Fire to the Rain" - Adele

71- "Take Me to Church" - Hozier

70- "Some Nights" - fun.

69- "7 rings" - Ariana Grande

68- "OMG" - Usher featuring will.i.am

67- "Give Me Everything" - Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer

66- "Hotline Bling" - Drake

65- "Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)" - Cardi B

64- "thank u, next" - Ariana Grande

63- "What Do You Mean?" - Justin Bieber

62- "The Hills" - The Weeknd

61- "Nice for What" - Drake

Monday, April 27, 2020

Top 100 MOST POPULAR Songs of the 2010s: 100 - 81

As we move forward into this new decade, there's a lot of uncertainty in regards to what I want to do with this music blog. That said, I didn't want to pass on the opportunity of posting my list of the top 100 most popular songs of the 2010s. This is a capstone, if you will, to what I've spent a good portion of the past decade doing. I started back at the beginning of the Hot 100 in 1958 and went through each year, giving points based on performance in the top 10. Then I posted the results on this blog for each year and each decade, which was followed by me revealing the ultimate goal of posting the most popular songs of all-time, based on my personal tracking. If you're new, you can dig through the archives on the right and find all of that. However, this all felt incomplete without the 2010s being finished. I had to wait a few months for a few songs to finish their runs in the top 10, but now I'm able to final post the results. This gives us all a chance to reflect on all that the world of music brought us this past decade.

A few quick notes in regards to my methodology. Yes, this is a tracking of just the top 10. I recently came up with an expanded tracking system that I think is ultimately more accurate, but I will use that moving forward through this new decade and have not retroactively applied that to previous years as of yet. No, I don't have access to official chart points that Billboard uses, so I created my own simple system where the No. 1 song gets 10 points, with a one-point sliding scale for the rest of the top 10. In regards to songs whose runs were split between two decades, I've included their entire run into the decade where they got the most points. So you'll see some songs from 2009 in this list because they had more points in 2010. There's also a few songs released in 2019, like "Circles" by Post Malone, that aren't here because they got more points in 2020. I waited a few months to post this to specifically determine those cases. Finally, I decided to weight this decade differently. In 2013, Billboard implement YouTube into their streaming tracking. That made a significant difference in the staying power of songs on the charts, so 2010-2012 are weighted slightly different than 2013-2019 in this post. With all of that out of the way, I have this split into five sections. Here's part one!

100- "The Monster" - Eminem featuring Rihanna

99- "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum