# Best #1 Single of the Year: 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2017, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761 "2017-12-18T11:32:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/21 "2017-12-18T23:03:26Z")
I went for Cardi B’s tune, because it’s quite a spiky thing to have been such a big hit. The UK charts also had a DJ Khaled track at No 1, one with Rihanna (who’s on a really good run of collabs) [Wild Thoughts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyaI4-5849w) We also had the Ed Sheeran infestation. He seems like a nice lad, but his music is just awful. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/22 "2017-12-19T09:24:16Z")
For most of the year, I was pretty sure I’d be voting for “Starboy”. Firstly, because it’s about damn time Daft Punk had a #1, and even though I usually loathe these “bitches and bling” type songs where the singer just brags about how rich he is and how much sex he’s having, the Weeknd just sounds _cool_ singing it. I wound up voting for “Perfect”, though, because I love Ed Sheeran’s love songs and the arrangement is good enough that I could imagine that song coming out in 1966 and topping the charts back then. Other pop hits from this year that I might’ve voted for if they’d made #1, in no particular order: - The Weeknd w/ Daft Punk - “I Feel It Coming” - Kesha - “Praying” - Portugal. The Man - “Feel It Still” - Miley Cyrus - “Malibu” - Rihanna - “Love on the Brain” - Machine Gun Kelly w/ Camila Cabello - “Bad Things” - Halsey - “Bad At Love” ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/23 "2017-12-19T13:22:04Z")
I might have voted for Calvin Harris’s “Feels” if it had made the list. It’s crap but I loved it. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/24 "2017-12-19T13:59:00Z")
> [@magnusblitz](#): > > Still surprised at how many of these I hadn’t heard, but I suppose it’s because they’re more hip-hop and the pop stations don’t really play those. Interesting observation considering all the people who go on and on about how hip-hop has taken over and ruined popular music (and many have been complaining about a 40+ year-old “fad” for decades). I don’t listen to rap made for the stations, so I really wouldn’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/25 "2017-12-19T14:25:01Z")
I proudly know not one song on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/26 "2018-01-01T00:06:04Z")
The Weeknd and Daft Punk. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/27 "2018-01-01T03:46:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Other pop hits from this year that I might’ve voted for if they’d made #1, in no particular order: > > - The Weeknd w/ Daft Punk - “I Feel It Coming” > - Kesha - “Praying” > - Portugal. The Man - “Feel It Still” > - Miley Cyrus - “Malibu” > - Rihanna - “Love on the Brain” > - Machine Gun Kelly w/ Camila Cabello - “Bad Things” > - Halsey - “Bad At Love” I heard “Feel It Still” on an alt-radio station and it clicked every synapse. They played it every ten minutes and I didn’t get tired of it. OTOH, I looked up “Despacito” on YouTube because everyone was talking about it and I forgot it by the time the video ended. ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/28 "2018-01-01T09:43:31Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > We also had the Ed Sheeran infestation. He seems like a nice lad, but his music is just awful. I don’t think he’s awful, he’s just everywhere. I think he should let someone else have a go, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/29 "2018-01-01T17:13:40Z")
> [@Teuton](#): > > I don’t think he’s awful, he’s just everywhere. I think he should let someone else have a go, myself. He absolutely is awful. On the bright side, we didn’t have any Chainsmokers songs hit the top of the charts this year. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/30 "2018-01-01T17:45:16Z")
Like many others, I don’t know a single song on the list by title. I’m tempted to create a Spotify playlist of them and listen to it until I learn them all, just so I can get back in the game. Or not. mmm ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/31 "2018-01-29T01:57:30Z")
Sorry. forgot about this one. I reviewed all the songs and still went with Taylor Swift’s song because (1) it’s not bad, (2), it irritated a lot of people and broke the internet for about 24 hours, and (3), I like the confidence of somebody actually writing a song where they go “I’m changing my style… look at me changing my style… see how I changed my style”. #Respect America needed the idiotic self-absorption of this song as a respite to the non-stop political news of 2017, and Taylor Swift handled our needs like the pro she is. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/32 "2018-01-29T02:10:36Z")
Just watched Despacito on the Grammys. I like Latin music. But this song is like a computer listened to a bunch of Latin music and wrote the most generic slice of Latin music ever. It goes in one ear and out the other. I just don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/33 "2018-01-29T02:58:05Z")
I’m familiar with about 1/2 of the artists, but that I know of I’ve never heard any of these songs. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761/34 "2018-01-29T03:10:21Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Just watched Despacito on the Grammys. I like Latin music. But this song is like a computer listened to a bunch of Latin music and wrote the most generic slice of Latin music ever. It goes in one ear and out the other. I just don’t get it. You got it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-2017/804761.md?page=1)