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)
We also had the Ed Sheeran infestation. He seems like a nice lad, but his music is just awful.
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:
I might have voted for Calvin Harris’s “Feels” if it had made the list. It’s crap but I loved it.
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.
I proudly know not one song on the list.
The Weeknd and Daft Punk.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I’m familiar with about 1/2 of the artists, but that I know of I’ve never heard any of these songs.
You got it.