Surprise! One of my top guilty pleasures of the year. "Party Rock Anthem" was just everywhere. From the taxi, to the bus, the gym, the dance competition of some prep school, even at the hospital's lobby, everybody everyday just basically shuffled this. I love Tyler Ward's version of it btw.
Last year's #14: Vampire Weekend, "Giving Up The Gun"
Despite the mediocre performance on my daily top ten, OneRepublic finds themselves in the top twenty with a song that celebrates the beauty of traveling from one continent to another. Dominated by forceful drumbeats and whistling that tells "what's there to complain about in the good life?", this was definitely a smart choice for a single. Its a song that was basically part of my playlist all year round. Never gets old.
Last year's #13: Ke$ha, "Your Love Is My Drug"
The song that made Jessie J a household name. "Cha-ching cha-ching" was just all over tweets and facebook statuses. That ridiculously catchy chorus is totally inescapable, and not to mention the really cool and chill summer music on the background is something very refreshing with all of the trance and disco inspired music the radio is whoring out today.
Last year's #12: Bruno Mars, "Just The Way You Are"
The bad news is Helena Beat will miss out the top ten by just a couple of spots. The good news though is they have two more entries coming up. Epic band is epic.
Last year's #11: Lady GaGa, "Alejandro"
Missing out the top ten by just a spot is Katy Perry with one of her most successful singles from the Teenage Dream era. With it's amazing production, I could easily visualize Katy Perry carrying her infinity gauntlet and Thanos, Adam Warlock and Silver Surfer all coming for her. And I would watch the scenery with Jonah Bobo and Josh Hutcherson. This is her last entry for the year.
Top ten is up next! Will there be more surprises? Which songs made it? Guesses?
Last year's #10: Linkin Park, "Waiting For The End"
This would have to be my most favorite P!nk song ever. Every lyric just roars positivity and inspiration. A beautiful ballad that reminds to not be very critical of ourselves, acknowledge our flaws and turn them into strengths, because we are born this way. (Wait isnt that another song?) but anyway, unfortunately, this is her sole entry for 2011 but it luckily had to appear in the most critical part of the countdown - the top ten.
Last year's #9: Adam Lambert, "Whataya Want From Me"
This song had one of the most amazing runs in my countdown. It may not have spent a lot of days at the summit, but to appear in the early months and resurface again around July-August and go #1 is a tough feat to achieve. No surprises there anyway, for this was crowned as the best selling song of 2011, and not just that, it also is the lead single from Billboard's album of the year.
Last year's #8: Maroon 5, "Misery"
If you followed my thread in YTT, you would definitely be shocked to see this song to be charting beside Adele and Pink, and more importantly finishing off at #8. But personally judging on the overall impact it has made, this was certainly one of, if not the best rap/rnb collaboration of the year. And I've been taking about gym songs since the beginning of the chart --- this would have won the "gym song of the year" honors hands down if there was one.