Last year's #6: Panic! at the Disco, "The Ballad of Mona Lisa"
The band who had the biggest hit of 2011 registers their highest entry for this year's
chart at #6. As one of the standouts from their album, "Houdini" was an obvious choice
for the next single. Despite its underwhelming performance, it still left a mark on a lot of
ATRLers, thanks to its fantastic music video.
Last year's #5: Foster the People, "Call It What You Want"
The general complaint about this song is that it got too overplayed and eventually too
overrated. But there's no denying that at one point, especially during the first few listens
to the song, all of us got hooked to this. The song is just designed and structured to
become a huge pop hit.
Last year's #4: Maroon 5 f/ Christina Aguilera, "Moves Like Jagger"
Who would've thought that this song will become one of the most successful songs of
the year chart-wise? I love how this song got all of the female pop artists' stans
mad when it just reigned the Billboard Hot 100 effortlessly for 9 consecutive weeks.
I honestly find this song kind of weak compared to Payphone, but it grew on me
tremendously as time flew by. And of course, seeing them live made me appreciate
their songs more.