Welcome to Josh's Best of 2014!

For the 2nd straight year, sorry for the crappy banner. Been very busy.

With that said, not much changed from last year. You could still expect:
Top 200 Singles
Top 20 Artists
Top 20 Albums
Worst 20 Songs

Plus some awards!

Favorite Music Video Favorite Movie Favorite TV Show Favorite #Hugot Song [NEW] Favorite Throwback Song [NEW] Favorite Collaboration Favorite Male Artist Favorite Female Artist Favorite Group

Favorite New Artist Favorite Guilty Pleasure Favorite Glee Song Favorite Soundtrack Song [NEW] Favorite Sing-Along Song [NEW] Favorite Ballad Favorite Dance Track Favorite Late Bloomer Favorite Non-Single

Welcome to Josh's Best of 2014!

For the 2nd straight year, sorry for the crappy banner. Been very busy.

ALMOST:

“Weird Al” Yankovic – Word Crimes 2NE1 – Come Back Home A Great Big World – This Is The New Year Alesso f/ Tove Lo – Heroes (we could be) Alicia Keys – It’s On Again Alicia Keys – We Are Here Ariana Grande – Snow In California Austin Mahone – All I Ever Need Austin Mahone – Banga Banga B.o.B f/ Priscilla – John Doe BANKS – Beggin’ For Thread Before You Exit – Dangerous Birdy – Not About Angels Birdy – Tee Shirt Blake Shelton – Neon Light Blake Shelton f/ Shakira – Medicine Bleachers - Rollercoaster Celine Dion & Ne-Yo – Incredible Charli XCX – Break The Rules Christina Perri – Burning Gold CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share Clean Bandit f/ Jess Glynne – Real Love Cobra Starship f/ Icona Pop – Never Been In Love Cody Simpson – Surfboard Coldplay – Magic Dami Im – Super Love David Guetta f/ Skylar Grey – Shot Me Down DJ Cassidy, Jessie J, Robin Thicke – Calling All Hearts DJ Earworm – Do What You Wanna Do DJ Earworm – Living The Fantasy Ella Henderson – Glow Ella Henderson – Hard Work Fall Out Boy – Miss Missing You Fall Out Boy – Rat A Tat Fall Out Boy – Save Rock And Roll Ferras f/ Katy Perry – Legends Never Die Foster The People – Coming Of Age George Ezra – Blame It On Me GRL – Ugly Heart HAIM – If I Could Change Your Mind HAIM – My Song 5 Iggy Azalea f/ Rita Ora - Black Widow Imagine Dragons – I Bet My Life Imagine Dragons – Warriors James Newton Howard – The Hanging Tree Jason Mraz – Hello You Beautiful Thing Jason Mraz – Love Someone Jesse McCartney – Superbad Jessie J – Thunder Jessie Ware – Say You Love Me John Mayer - XO Justin Bieber – All That Matters (2013: Almost) Karmin – I Want It All Katy Tiz – The Big Bang Kiesza – Giant In My Heart Kristen Bell & Idina Menzel – For The First Time In Forever Kristen Bell, etc. – Do You Want To Build A Snowman Kylie Minogue – Into The Blue Lady Gaga – GUY Lily Allen – Hard Out Here (2013: Almost) Linkin Park – A Light That Never Comes (2013: 168) Linkin Park – Until It’s Gone

Little Mix – Little Me Little Mix – Word Up Lorde – Tennis Court (2013: Almost Lucy Hale – Kiss Me Luke Bryan – Play It Again Luke Bryan – Rollercoaster MAGIC! – Let Your Hair Down Marianas Trench – Pop 101 Mark Ronson f/ Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin' Melanie Martinez – Carousel Miranda Lambert & Carrie Underwood – Somethin’ Bad MKTO – God Only Knows Nico & Vinz – In Your Arms Nico & Vinz – When The Day Comes Oh Honey – I Love You Will Still Sound The Same Panic At The Disco – Girls/Girls/Boys Panic At The Disco – Nicotine Pentatonix – La La Latch Pentatonix – Say Something Pharrell – Come Get It Bae Pitbull f/ GRL – Wild Wild Love Rihanna – What Now (2013: 154) Rixton – Wait On Me Robin Thicke – Get Her Back Sam Smith – Lay Me Down Sam Smith – Restart Sam Tsui – 1989 Medley Sam Tsui – Summer Pop Medley 2014 Selena Gomez – Hold On Selena Gomez – The Heart Wants What It Wants Shawn Mendes – Life Of The Party Tessanne Chin – Everything Reminds Me Of You The 1975 – Medicine The Band Perry – Chainsaw The Chainsmokers – Kanye The Fray – Break Your Plans The Killers – Just Another Night The Killers – Shot At The Night The Vamps – Hurricane The Vamps - Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) The Wanted – Show Me Love (America) Tiesto f/ Matthew Koma - Wasted Tinashe f/ Schoolboy Q – 2 On Tokio Hotel – Love Who Loves You Back Tokio Hotel – Run Run Run Tove Lo – Not On Drugs Tove Lo – Stay High (Hippie Sabotage Remix) Train – Bulletproof Picasso Train – Cadillac, Cadillac Train – Wonder What You’re Doing For The Rest Of Your Life Travie McCoy – Keep On Keeping On Usher – Good Kisser Usher f/ Nicki Minaj – She Came To Give It To You Will Champlin – Eye Of The Pyramid X Ambassadors – Jungle Yellowcard – One Bedroom You+Me – Break The Cycle You+Me – Capsized You+Me – You And Me Zendaya – Replay (2013: Almost)

Also, there were songs that are pretty old and/or have already charted decently in my previous yearends but I still wanted to include them this year because of their great impact on me. But, well, too many songs in the top 200 and it hurts to let go of one more so these songs weren't able to make it to this year's chart (Some old songs will chart, though. )

Andrew Allen – Loving You Tonight Birdy – Skinny Love Ed Sheeran – Give Me Love (2013: 130) (deserved to be #1 somewhere ugh) Hunter Hayes - Wanted Imagine Dragons – Demons (2013: 31)

Naughty Boy f/ Sam Smith – La La La (2013: 70) Passenger – Let Her Go (2013: 16) A Rocket To The Moon – Ever Enough (2013: 71) The Cab – Vegas Skies

So yes, that's it. If a song is not there, it's either in the top 200, in the worst songs list, or I haven't listened to it/forgot about it. And yes, Meghan Trainor and Tinashe are here. Those are just guilty pleasures of mine and I like 200 more songs before them so I can't include them even if I wanted to. And also sorry to Zune, but Luke Bryan is just an honorable mention. I also wanted to include him in the top 200 for you, but no more space.


And with that, let's start the ball rolling with the first two special categories!

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For the first special category, I chose five songs which was not (or is yet to be) released as an official single from their respective albums. Seriously, I don't even know how to introduce the obvious so let's start with my
FAVORITE NON-SINGLE!


The nominees are...

Ariana Grande - One Last Time (from My Everything) Ed Sheeran - Tenerife Sea (from X) Maroon 5 - Unkiss Me (from V) The Script - Never Seen Anything 'Quite Like You' (from No Sound Without Silence) Taylor Swift - I Know Places (from 1989)

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For the second special category, these are five songs flopped in my personal countdown, BIG TIME. But after time has passed, I eventually learned to love these songs to death. These are songs who you will eventually see peak high in the top 200. For short, they're the countdown flops, yearend successes. Anyway, here are the nominees for:
FAVORITE LATE BLOOMER!


The nominees are...

Dan + Shay - 19 You + Me ( --- / Peak: 36) Lorde - Team ( --- / Peak: 23) MKTO - Classic (1 Week / Peak: 20) Sia - Chandelier (1 Week / Peak: 30) The Summer Set - Boomerang ( --- / Peak: --- )

Any thoughts about those which didn't make it? Any guesses on the winners? Tune in in a few hours for the results as well as two more nominations and the start of the official list!