Honorable Mentions
Before announcing the honorable mentions, I should mention how the top 100 singles (my main focus chart) was created. Instead of spending hours and hours figuring out which song is better than the other, and which song was worthy to top my list, I simply took the list from my own personal chart. Each week, I posted my top 50 songs for the week in order of how much I liked them and other factors etc. #1 got 105 points, #2 got slightly less, all the way down to #50. The points were added each week in order to get the totals and ranking seen in this list. Because the points are cumulative, older songs benefit more from this and newer songs may appear very low on this list.
The songs listed below weren't quite good enough to make the top 100. Most songs here were either A. extremely new, B. songs that I wasn't sure that I liked, or C. guilty pleasures.
The Honorable Mentions
Position Song # of Points
101 *The Band Perry - Better Dig Two 190
102 Alanis Morissette - Guardian 169
103 *Justin Bieber - Beauty and a Beat (feat. Nicki Minaj) 157
104 *Lumineers - Ho Hey 154
105 Foster the People - Call it What You Want 137
106 One Direction - Gotta Be You 137
107 Snow Patrol - In the End 112
108 Lana Del Rey - National Anthem 101
109 *Muse - Madness 88
110 Little Big Town - Pontoon 87
111 Katy Perry - The One That Got Away 81
112 Young the Giant - Apartment 77
113 P!nk - Bridge of Light 71
114 *Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble 58
115 Miranda Lambert - Over You 50
116 Alyssa Reid - Talk Me Down 48
117 Calvin Harris - Feel So Close 41
118 *fun. - Carry On 39
119 John Mayer - Shadow Days 33
120 Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks 23
121 Gavin DeGraw - Not Over You 23
122 Nicki Minaj - Pound the Alarm 14
123 Garbage - Blood For Poppies 8
124 Linkin Park - BURN IT DOWN 8
125 Marina & the Diamonds - Power and Control 8
126 Florence + the Machine - Never Let Me Go 6
127 Muse - Survival 6
128 One Direction - More Than This 6
129 Jason Aldean - Take a Little Ride 4
130 Andy Grammer - Fine By Me 2
131 Gym Class Heroes - The Fighter (feat. Ryan Tedder) 2
132 Lita Ford - Living Like a Runway 2
There are very few songs here that shocked me when adding up the cumulative points just a few days ago. Some songs are guilty pleasures, but many are just getting started. Songs such as Better Dig Two, Ho Hey, Madness, I Knew You Were Trouble and Carry On are just getting started and will definitely be making big steps in 2013 as they are just beginning to rise now.
As for the other songs, which have finished their chart runs/are going to be finishing very soon, the positions are very deserved. Many songs (Not Over You, Pumped Up Kicks, The One That Got Away etc.) are older hits that lingered in the bottom ranks of the chart when it was beginning in March/April. Guilty pleasures in this set include Gotta Be You, Pound the Alarm (which I've already grown to hate), More Than This, Talk Me Down, Beauty and a Beat, and Fine By Me).
Songs which I believe deserved higher positions include Over You, Blood For Poppies, Guardian , Pontoon, and BURN IT DOWN.
Tomorrow, the real lists will be beginning, and numbers 100-91 will all be revealed.