80. The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather
Cute wintery jam.
79. C4 - Night Is Young
In the enthusiastic words of C4, this song is alright. C4's disinterested voice is a main charm of his music and never more overtly than here: "It's alright, it's alright. How's the vibe? Yeah, it's alright. Yeah my new outfit's alright." And the deadpan "yay" repeated throughout. Tune.
78. Daughtry - I'll Fight
I live for really generic AC pop-rock done right, and this song ticks all the boxes. Huge chorus, poppy guitar riffs and an infectious "ooh ooh" hook.
77. Mano Le Tough - A Thing From Above
Hypnotising melody that keeps reaching greater and greater heights throughout its 6 minutes.
76. Fantasia feat. Kelly Rowland & Missy Elliott - Without Me
Ice cold! Fantasia is truly the most expressive vocalist around.
75. Young Galaxy - New Summer
On some true hipster-lovers-running-through-a-meadow-on-a-summers-evening hype. Kind of magical.
74. Becky G - Play It Again
That chorus melody and those synths underneath it are the TRUTH. The verses are so lazily written around that holy chorus that they should have dropped all pretences and just put the chorus on loop for 4 minutes. It would probably by the best song of all time that way.
73. Meek Mill - Levels
Haunting piano beat and a relatable message that feeds into my superiority complex. I like to sneer at people and silently think "We don't f*ck the same hos / 'Cause there's levels to this sh*t". Empowerment anthem.
72. Trevor Jackson - Like We Grown
Here for him to replace Chris Brown's existence. Gorgeous throwback teen-r&b jam.
71. Jessie J - Harder We Fall
Cringeworthy verses (I'm assuming this is how Jessie got her co-write credit - is there anything more embarrassing than centring your verses around the refrain "have you ever"? DON'T ADDRESS ME, JESSIE) and her obnoxious personality is truly repelant and pervades all her music and can turn some adequate pop writing into cloying garbage, but none of that can quite diminish the fantastic folk-pop production or that utterly beautiful chorus melody of this song. I'd expect nothing less from a monster team like Dr. Luke, Cirkut, Ammar Malik and RoboPop.