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JOSH's BEST of 2014 | 135-121 + Male/Female Artist [Page 10]
Member Since: 4/26/2007
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Mmm... Yeah is really catchy and I also like the video
Lost Stars & Blank space FTW
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Member Since: 8/29/2011
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some nice songs this set I Will Never Let You Down underrated song to be honest, it might be generic but it's so freaking happy and feel good.
great nominees for the Sing-Along category, any of them should win except maybe She Looks So Perfect.
nah Chandelier still sucks #justiceforTeamandClassic
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Member Since: 10/3/2009
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Bartender.
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Kinda disappointed to see 'You're Mine' so low. I also disagree. I feel like the original one is way better!
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Member Since: 7/31/2007
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The Madden Brothers good for Rita. Mmm Yeah is a guilty pleasure
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Member Since: 12/31/2008
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CHVRCHES The Mother We Share
Clean Bandit f/ Jess Glynne Real Love
Coldplay Magic
Fall Out Boy Miss Missing You
Fall Out Boy Rat A Tat
Fall Out Boy Save Rock And Roll
Foster The People Coming Of Age
Imagine Dragons I Bet My Life
Lily Allen Hard Out Here
Linkin Park A Light That Never Comes
Linkin Park Until Its Gone
Lorde Tennis Court
Meghan Trainor All About That Bass
Panic At The Disco Girls/Girls/Boys
Panic At The Disco Nicotine
Pentatonix La La Latch
The Killers Just Another Night
The Killers Shot At The Night
Tokio Hotel Love Who Loves You Back
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Those songs should've been in the countdown
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198. Ellie Goulding - Goodness Gracious
189. Foxes - Holding Onto Heaven
184. KONGOS - Come With Me Now
181. The Madden Brothers - We Are Done
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Holding Onto Heaven
Come With Me Now is my favorite
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Member Since: 12/24/2010
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I agree with everything you said on Midnight Memories
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Member Since: 8/27/2010
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9 | 20
Holding onto heaven <3
Kongos + the Madden brothers
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Member Since: 12/25/2008
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9/20 my faves Midnight Memories and Goodness Gracious
Chandelier
Blank Space and Find You FTW
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Member Since: 3/18/2008
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Holding Onto Heaven is just
Youre Mine LOVE this song now...
Chandelier
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Member Since: 8/1/2008
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16/20
Nice start!
HOTH is my favorite from this set, pretty underrated track tbh.
Aint it Fun and AOST FTW
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 9/26/2001
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Goodness gracious, I'm holding onto heaven. So...um...come with me now.
I'm not the best at this anymore, am I?
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Member Since: 4/18/2009
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Welcome to Josh's Best of 2014!
For the 2nd straight year, sorry for the crappy banner. Been very busy.
180-166
| 180. Little Mix - Salute (---/---) | (1 of 2)
I don't know what occurred to me that I did not let this song show up EVER in my countdown but I'm regretting it now. This song is so fierce and kinda gives me Destiny's Child teas (kinda, ok?) They still have another song in the countdown tho. | | 179. Eminem - Rap God (4 Weeks/Peak:09) | [9-9-17-27-40] | (2013: #98) | (2 of 4)
After hanging by a thread and making the top 100 last year, Rap God makes it again this year at #179. This is one of the highlights of the album and shows how he is indeed the rap god. It still made mega-waves in my countdown in the entirety of January but the only reason it's this low is because it already had its chance last year. | | 178. Sam Smith - Money On My Mind (---/Peak:37) | [37-38-40] | (1 of 5)
Sam Smith made waves this year but I never actually saw it coming because of this song. MOMM is good, it's infectious, but it doesn't really scream future hitmaker for me. But the fact that my least favorite from Sam is at #178 means a lot (Restart and Lay Me Down were only lower because they were too new and too old respectively but I like em both compared to MOMM). | | 177. LIGHTS - Up We Go (4 Weeks/Peak:20) | [34-25-22-20-20-xx] | (1 of 1
This is the first song I've heard from LIGHTS and I must say it did not disappoint. It's just so feel good. It's still charting in my c/d as of the moment but idk maybe it won't make it next year. | | 176. Jacquie Lee - Broken Ones (---/---) | (1 of 1)
One of the best debut singles from a The Voice artist ever. Broken Ones is just simply majestic. It's so beautiful and I feel so happy everytime I hear it outside of my playlist because at least I know that I'm not the only one who knows this song. I feel so bad it flopped but it was expected. | | 175. Colbie Caillat - Hold On (---/Peak:34) | [37-34-35-35-39] | (1 of 2)
Colbie is a great singer and Hold On is a great song but for some reason, I found myself struggling to like this song at first unlike most of Colbie's other singles. Still, it's a really good song and the OneRepublic vibe really shows and I like that lol. | | 174. Lea Michele - Cannonball (5 Weeks/Peak:17) | [17-18-19-21-29]|(1 of 2)
This song was one of my favorites by the start of the year but I got over it pretty fast. Still, it's worth the mention and Lea has definitely been a fighter ever since Cory's death, and it is shown in her album. There's one more song from her tho... | | 173. Lea Michele - On My Way (2 Weeks/Peak:27) | [33-27-33-36-31-30-33] | (2 of 2)
...and here it is. The song didn't get as much success in my chart like Cannonball but I still enjoy it more. I wasn't expecting her to go all sexy in this song but she did and it was better than I expected. Brave step and it really did pay off. | | 172. Shakira - Empire (1 Week/Peak:27) | [27-34-31] | (1 of 1)
Shakira's last album was good but I only found one song that stood out, this. After the disappointment that was CRTFY and my slight annoyance to her in The Voice, I didn't expect to like Shakira anymore, but this song really had me back on her track. Irdk what is it with this song that made me like it tho. | | 171. Daniel Kim - Pop Danthology 2013 (3 Weeks/Peak:06) | [6-10-15-34] | | (2013: #151) | (1 of 1)
PD2013 was good, not better than 2012 of course but definitely lightyears better than 2014. I mean this year's mashups disappointed me big time. I'm over this now but it was pretty big in my countdown at the start of the year so I had to give it a mention. | | 170. Daniel Padilla - Simpleng Tulad Mo (---/Peak:36) | [39-38-36-40] | (1 of 1)
This is a Filipino song and one of my biggest guilty pleasures of the year. So to the Filipinos out there, please don't judge me, but this song is just so cute. Not Daniel, but the song. It is more mature compared to last year's entry and actually has substance. So please don't judge me. | | 169. Krissy - We Can't Be (6 Weeks/Peak:22) | [30-29-26-23-22-23-35] | (1 of 1)
My favorite OPM (Original Pinoy (Filipino) Music) song this year. Krissy and Ericka was good but this song is better than anything the duo did, except maybe 12:51. #Hugot all the way. | | 168. Passenger - Whispers (5 Weeks/Peak:22) | [26-25-26-22-29-31] | (1 of 1)
After releasing the monster that was Let Her Go, I was actually expecting Passenger to be a one-hit-wonder, and as of the moment I think I'm right. Whispers is a very heartfelt song but it just doesn't have any quality that made LHG a hit. Hopefully he won't be a one-hit-wonder tho because his songwriting skills are superb. | | 167. Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know (---/Peak:33) | [39-34-36-33] | (1 of 1)
Lily Allen had a good year but I didn't really enjoy anything she released this year as much as this. I love her strong persona and her guts and her bitchiness and all but her voice is just so angelic that it's songs like this that actually capture her at her best. But it's her life and bitchy Lily is still awesome. | | 166. Chromeo - Jealous (I Ain't With It) (---/Peak:32) | [36-32-37] | (1 of 1)
The less-known "Jealous" song closes this set. For a brief moment in August, this song was like my jam, I played it so damn much but the reason why it failed to chart is because after that brief moment, this song went back to being nothing to me. It's still pretty cool and i enjoy it at the moment but not as much as that brief moment in time. |
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FAVORITE SING-ALONG SONG
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FAVORITE SOUNDTRACK SONG
The winners are...
| FAVORITE SING-ALONG SONG
JOHN LEGEND - ALL OF ME
"You're crazy and I'm out of my mind."
Happy was everywhere this year. Dark Horse was, too. But where I live, nothing is as overplayed as All Of Me. Everywhere you go, you can hear this song. Yes, you get annoyed by it, but once you start singing along, it all just goes away. Everytime I come jamming with my friends, this is always the #1 song we sing. I don't remember how much I've sang this song in school events, in drinking sessions, in the shower, but I definitely sang it a lot and my friends and the GP didn't help in any way in making sure that I get over this song. Oh well, only time can tell if I eventually get tired of singing this song but for now, the people around me will just have to deal with it.
Runners-Up: Thinking Out Loud and Blank Space |
| FAVORITE SOUNDTRACK SONG
ED SHEERAN - ALL OF THE STARS
From "The Fault In Our Stars"
TFIOS was really good but what made it really really good is its soundtrack. Grouplove, Charli, Birdy, Kodaline, you name it. This soundtrack is just brilliant. But one song stood out from the rest and that is All Of The Stars. This song was basically love at first listen and I don't wanna go into details right now about how adorable this song is because you'll be hearing about that when the time comes. But all I wanna say is, AOTS has definitely brought Ed in a new light for me and this is basically the song that turned me into a stan for Ed.
Runners-Up: Find You and Lost Stars |
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For the next two categories, we go into both ends of the spectrum and see my favorite upbeat tracks as well as my favorite mellow downbeat tracks. So here are the nominees for:
FAVORITE BALLAD!
The nominees are...
| 5 Seconds of Summer - Amnesia
A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera - Say Something
Ed Sheeran - All of The Stars
John Legend - All Of Me
Sam Smith - Stay With Me |
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and
FAVORITE DANCE TRACK!
The nominees are...
| Coldplay - A Sky Full Of Stars
Disclosure f/ Sam Smith - Latch
Jason Derulo f/ 2 Chainz - Talk Dirty
Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
Zedd - Find You (feat. Matthew Koma & Miriam Bryant) |
That's it for the second set! Thoughts? Guesses? Suggestions? Violent reactions? Tune in in a few hours for the results as well as two more nominations and those ranked 165-151!
PS: Replies
@Jax: It barely made it to mine
@Karlo: Lost Stars almost did but AOTS just had me
@ASF: I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows YAH and that you also see the similarities with Demons
@activebeast: More 1D to come
@joelovesmusic: Ashley's song is great not to be put here.
@GotSkill: again, thank you for the help
@holyground: Looking back, there are more songs in the almost that I like more than IWNLYD if that helps
@DejaEntendu: There'll be more from The Vamps And Shatter Me is def incredible
@lhdang: All of the Stars won!
@Superpower: Glad you enjoyed this set
@Amaloner: There's still one more from Foxes
@mathuss: I know but I just didn't enjoy it as much as the other 1D songs
@Changes: Me too!
@Razzle: Thanks!
@igor: All Of The Stars won! And TOL and BS almost did!
@jbstatic23: Thank you!
@nihility: I enjoy the remix soooo much
@Topmaster: Thank you!
@Mr. Loco: I actually haven't seen the vid yet
@potent: Thanks for commenting! Where's your countdown?
@Pedro: It would have been higher had it charted well but that's something i regret now
@davidcg20: I Bet My Life will be in next year
@Regina: RIGHT? Finally someone agrees
@Mr. Link: Thank youuu All of the Stars won!
@Red: It's still pretty good
@popstar, Disco_Blisters, JGibson, Disha, Brandon, dwuw, Already Gone, K$Ellie, Sunderland, Gabriel_Spears, ColdKeane, Ivan, toxic: Thank you for the comments!
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Member Since: 8/9/2010
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Little Mix and Daniel????
John Legend
#AllOfMe2ndWin
*BEST SING-ALONG SONG
*FAVORITE BALLAD
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Member Since: 8/29/2011
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Rap God
yes it's so 2013 but Em never fails to deliver.
All of Me
you should let it win again to be honest although any of the ballad songs should win except maybe 5SOS
I hope Talk Dirty wins in the Dance just so people who hate that song for no reason can stay pressed I kind of know Find You will win tho
1R isn't in your banner, why is that
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Member Since: 7/22/2009
Posts: 13,429
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We Can't Be is a really good OPM song!
Not judging you since STM is way better than NINAL.
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 7/23/2007
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3/10
Up We Go + Hold On + Empire <33
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Member Since: 10/13/2003
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agree with what you said for All Of Me.It was overplayed but it was still a good song nonetheless.
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Member Since: 3/14/2013
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Lea*2, Shaki
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Member Since: 5/23/2007
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9/15
Money On My Mind is my favorite song from Sam Smith!
Chromeo and good for Eminem too! Rap God is incredible
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