365 Days. 100 Songs. 1 Chart.
RECAP: TOP SINGLES #100-#51
The race to #1 continues with 30 Seconds To Mars opening up the upper half of the Top 100. "Kings and Queens" marks the start of their epic comeback, teamed up with an awesome video with all kinds and races of people coming together in bicycles that looked to me as something that indicates peace and unity. The song has a greater meaning than what the chorus explicitly tells --- It is about the destruction of the society and humans by we humans ourselves, and how we just tend to just accept and live with all the wrong decisions we made, because the "age of man is over." We were born with the fullest potential to make Earth a better place to live in, but when we experienced life and learned to worship a "lesser God," the good potential got overshadowed by our self-centered intentions. We each had our chances to create the world we first envisioned, but we didn't do what we had to do.
Next is Britney's carrier single for her Greatest Hits album. So many fans anticipated and went crazy over the release of this song. For me it's a good Brit track, but not really mind-blowing. I heard the message of the song is really obvious, SOME people said it was just about the number THREE, SOME people said it had something to with doing a certain activity that involves a party of THREE, SOME even say I was too young to know the real meaning of the song. I just dont get it.
Who wouldn't love a song about Haley's comet? Whatever the figurative meaning to that is, whether it be a shooting star or a reference to something that appears every 7 decades, only Shinedown would exactly know. But one thing's for sure: For the most part, the song is about someone asking for freedom to do the things that he wants to do. Hence the line "
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance."
The song is basically a cliche, that more than anything else, the fame, the success and the achievements, at the end of the day the more important part of a journey is the journey itself - the experiences, failures, and lessons learned along the way. It feels better to reach the top looking back on what you have gone through. A decent track, enough decency to make it to the Top 50, but ironically, another song from her which showed very little to no decency singing like a sl*t in front of a national flag finishes off way higher than this song and its coming up in the next few updates.
What smarter way to reach out to your fangirls than to actually sing a song about them? The now 19-year old American Idol alumni appears for the first time in the Top 100, with "Touch My Hand," a song about a gazillion thousand million sparkling flashlights. lol just kidding. Roy this one's for you! and Happy Birthday, David Archuleta!
This song came in to my senses first as one really annoying track by the Pussycat Dolls which featured a random drunk person told to sing "Jai Ho!" repeatedly instead of "My Way" to save his life. But its actually grower, and after a few more listens and after some whoring out by radio and music video channels, I found myself singing along especially with the chorus part.
The video is really cool too, with all the dancing Americans and Indians coming together in a train station like what, one of those you would see in an episode of Barney, this one just a bit folky, complicated and sexy maybe.
A crossover hit from 2008. This isnt about what stans feel when their faves either flop, or when their gerwls, gh000rls and queens or whatever charts at #2 but finds them behind their rival artist who is at #1. Watch the video, its pretty much a good summary of the meaning of the song.
I am more than glad to get to know this band this year, I think theyre great and deserves a ll the success they're getting now. I love how this song felt like its from some decades ago, yet sounding so mainstream and so 2009.
What a lot of people claimed to have one of the cheesiest lyrical lines of the year comes in at #42. "No Boundaries," which sings about "hurricanes" and "mountains" is actually a melodically great song if people would just give it a chance, and Kris Allen did a good job singing it. Maybe I'm just saying this because I just tend to watch a lot of American Idol, or there was just no other choice for a coronation song and I am forced to like it.
Either way, I like this song, and its one of my most played tracks of 2009 especially in the middle parts of the year.
Flo-Rida represents the Hip-hop genre for this set with "Right Round," an early 2009 hit featuring the vocals of the now-gaining-popularity Ke$ha, who I just totally ignored in this track thinking that its just one of those computer generated voices and sound effects. Anyway, this song is really catchy, though I didnt have time to actually go deeper into the lyrics for I assume I will end up with the same conclusion: Girls, bling-blings, cars, money, drugs and sex. lol honestly. Will somebody tell me what really this song is about?
my prediction about your top 2 is right 
<333 3 is great. 