"Boom Boom Pow" - Black Eyed Peas
"Rather Be" - Clean Bandit
"We Belong Together" - Mariah Carey
"Boom Clap" - Charli XCX
"Black Widow (feat. Rita Ora)" - Iggy Azalea
"All of Me" - John Legend
"Sing" - Ed Sheeran
What about you: what songs are you surprised actually became hits? Like you couldn't have in a million years predicted the song would actually do as well as top 10 in US/UK/-ternationally or even top charts…
"Boom Boom Pow" - Black Eyed Peas
"Rather Be" - Clean Bandit "We Belong Together" - Mariah Carey
"Boom Pow" - Charli XCX
"Black Widow (feat. Rita Ora)" - Iggy Azalea
"All of Me" - John Legend
"Sing" - Ed Sheeran
What about you: what songs are you surprised actually became hits? Like you couldn't have in a million years predicted the song would actually do as well as top 10 in US/UK/-ternationally or even top charts…
Hold It Against Me. It's not a bad song at all, I just didn't expect radio to play it because it sounded so different compared to what was being played at the time
All About that Bass and Happy. They don't sound like hits, but once they started to gain traction it was obvious they were going to be hits though. Bang Bang and Anaconda were also surprises for me.
Fancy by Iggy Azalea. I mean, Work flopped and it was a GREAT song. So I expected Fancy to flop too, but then it was said she had a radio deal for Fancy, so yeah.
Anaconda by Nicki Minaj
Happy by Pharrell
Shower by Becky G - way tooooooo generic to crack the Top 40