US #1s of 2011

Black and Yellow will walk this easily

Wiz
LMFAO
Pitbull
Bruno
Gaga
Britney
We Found Love
Rolling in the Deep
Last Friday Night
Someone Like You
S&M
Moves Like Jagger
E.T.

LOVE

black & yellow
give me everything

DON'T MIND/CAVED IN EVENTUALLY

rolling in the deep
s&m
hold it against me
moves like jagger

BORING

someone like you

NOT GOOD

born this way

UTTERLY FUCKING EXECRABLE

we found love
last friday night
et
grenade
party rock anthem

I've softened towards "Give Me Everything but that's all the enthusiasm I can work up. Wiz in a landslide.

give me everything > rolling in the deep > black & yellow > moves like jagger > last friday night > s&m > born this way > someone like you > grenade > we found love > et > party rock anthem > hold it against me

rihanna/pitbull
lmfao
...
...
all shit

god can adele be over already

she's no lmfao, it's true

i appreciate al ship's "give me everything" stanning. i might not have come around to it otherwise.

LMFAO, "Party Rock Anthem"
Katy Perry, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"
Maroon 5 f/ Christina Aguilera, "Moves Like Jagger"
Adele, "Someone Like You"

^^^ this sequence is like 1985-level bad

"we found love" was at #1 more than any other song this year, which is kind of mindblowing to me because it's so barely even a song with the same vocal melody throughout and that stupid title lyric repeated over and over as a 'chorus' that i often forget it exists altogether

We can say the same abut "Party Rock Anthem."

wtf 1985 was a fantastic year IIRC

also when did ILMers start hating sledgehammer bass

this is ghastly:

"Miami Vice Theme" Jan Hammer
"We Built This City" Starship
"Separate Lives" Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin
"Broken Wings" Mr. Mister
"Say You, Say Me" Lionel Richie

even during an era where bad, lazy production is rampant, "we found love" stands out as particularly unlistenable. i want to shove calvin harris's toy keyboards down his fucking throat, it is unbelievable to me that a professional producer could have the temerity to inflict those sounds on the world

itt: ppl who never heard progressive house

that's not many songs.

black & yellow > give me everything >>>>>>>>>>>>>> hold it against me > s&m > rolling in the deep > we found love >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> grenade > moves like jagger > e.t. > someone like you > last friday night > party rock anthem > born this way

everything after "we found love" (yes calvin harris is terrible but the song battered me into submission after hearing it at a club for the 50th time) is truly horrible.

"Miami Vice Theme" Jan Hammer - great tune
"We Built This City" Starship - ... okay yeah
"Separate Lives" Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin - okay song, great bridge
"Broken Wings" Mr. Mister - ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER YOU PHILISTINE
"Say You, Say Me" Lionel Richie - he's done better

give me everything
black & yellow
party rock anthem
last friday night
moves like jagger

like all these in roughly descending order

Pitbull f/ Ne-Yo, Afrojack, & Nayer, "Give Me Everything"
Bruno Mars, "Grenade"
Rihanna, "We Found Love"
Katy Perry, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"
LMFAO, "Party Rock Anthem"
Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"

think this was an OK year for #1's tbh

Still sorta surprised "Super Bass" couldn't get to #1.

i don't think too many of these are horrible but also not too many i actually got psyched about.

itt: ppl who never heard progressive house

― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:24 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why does progressive house have to mean regressive songwriting? rihanna has plenty of dancey songs w/ 2 distinct melodies

yes like... "We Found Love"

i don't like any of these :(

the video for "born this way" is sick though

THE MITOSIS OF THE FUTURE

i feel like there's a mix of "born this way" that could be tremendous (i.e. not this one)

even during an era where bad, lazy production is rampant, "we found love" stands out as particularly unlistenable.

yes, a truly bland, lazy track... though it's easy to see how it hit #1.

Britney I suppose.

i feel like there's a mix of "born this way" that could be tremendous (i.e. not this one)

Released in 1989. It was called "Express Yourself."

haha yes

So sick of "Someone Like You" bringing a cloud of darkness over my coffeehouse and sandwich shop.

I didn't know it was Adele for a few weeks--I actually was sure it was Gaga, doing something that sounded like a piano-only cover of "Edge of Glory."

Good voice and all, but now I know what it must've been like to have "The Rose" bring down every trip to the supermarket in 1979.

I hadn't actually heard "Born This Way" as a song in and of itself until October because every time it came on I would sing "Express Yourself" over it because it annoyed my wife.

SOME SAY LOVE

it really is hilarious how much "Someone Like You" sticks out like a sore thumb amongst every other top 10 of the year and pop radio in general -- some stations seemed almost awkwardly apologetic for breaking up the dance party when introducing the songs, and eventually swapped in a garish house remix

never understood the love for "give me everything"

speaking of repetitive...

"Give Me Everything" does the neat trick of making Ne-Yo sound even thinner and weaker than he actually is

I bet I've heard some of these

apologetic for breaking up the dance party when introducing the songs, and eventually swapped in a garish house remix

But see this is why I hate so much commerical radio right now, like everything just has to fit the exact same vibe. Its not so much that I hate all of the individual songs, its just like one constant mix with absolutely no variation in mood.

ALL MUSIC FEAT. CALVIS HARRIS

(GAVIN GUETTA REMIX)

i actually think all of calvin harris's music was made by another man, also named calvin harris

for a really long time i had it in my head calvin harris was the guy from beat happening

there is something in what jon says, it's interesting to me how r&b AND dance AND rock AND indie all (mostly) share the same flattened, superbright, superbusy aesthetic

John Legend's "Ordinary People" was the same kind of interrupter a few years ago, in a beautiful way--since it wasn't three times an hour.

well also "Ordinary People" is a much better song

i'm actually kind of OK with pop radio being so relentlessly dancey (at least in principle, not necessarily in defense of these songs). there are always going to be ubiquitous bad songs, but i'd rather deal with light, uptempo trifles than the kind of big, monotonous, overly serious ballads that topped the charts more frequently in the 80s and 90s.

Voted "S&M," but like most of these. Guess my brain finally went to mush.

the R&B actually played on urban radio these days is actually mostly slow jams and midtempo, which may be why so little of it crosses over to the pop charts now: biggest R&B songs on urban radio 2011 (non-sandbox redux)

if we had a big, overblown ballad that was as awesome as "Total Eclipse of the Heart" or "Broken Wings", I'd be psyched

Yeah I'm not aching for a return of Chris de Burgh style ballads or anything, but I'm just sick of every pop chart song aiming for the late-teens getting ready to go out on a Friday night vibe. There isn't anything inherently wrong with such a vibe, but just, I don't know, there's more territory to be mined.

yeah i mean there's no denying that the homogeneity is pretty stifling at this point

"Separate Lives" Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin - okay song, great bridge

and chorus! the "you have no right" build is incredible! one of the single most moving performances I ever saw in my life was a couple of people lipsyncing this in '86

At least some of the success of "Pumped Up Kicks" is as a result of radio programmers wanting a change from Harrispop.

I don't have complaints with the monochromatic mood of radio playlists, I just wish there were more LMFAO-style goofballs and fewer Cobra Starships

xp: you are, of course, OTM re that chorus; obv I am slipping

Cannot process "more LMFAO".

</everydayI'mshufflin'>

You guys have no right to tell me how I feel about "Separate Lives."

I wish that chart songs still had lines like "you have no right to ask me how I feel/you have no right to speak to me so kind," is what I wish

Cobra Starship are definitely the exact same kind of douchebages in 80s shades as LMFAO, even if their biggest and most recent hit is kind of straightforward (and is also kind of tolerable and pleasant imo)

"You have no right to tell me where the party's at/You have no right to sext my man."

I wish that chart songs still had lines like "you have no right to ask me how I feel/you have no right to speak to me so kind," is what I wish

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 8:23 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

give Mariah a couple years.

Mariah doesn't do songs like that anymore, all of her current ballads go "I thought you loved me but you didn't and you wouldn't and I called you on your iPhone and went straight into voicemail and my texts have all been blocked and now you hidin' me on Facebook man I can't even believe that you be/Playin' me"

god now you're reminding me of some of those terius-penned monstrosities she sang on her last album ("you remind me of a love that seemed so sublime, your kisses told me oh so many lies") xpost

yeah between the emoid stuff and terius i've been wondering a lot about how ungainly wordy a lot of pop is now, but i'm not the right guy to try to connect those dots.

Voted LMFAO, purely due it how ridiculous a karaoke song it makes.

Would vote for "Friday" if it had made #1.

i see that rebecca black isn't the only one that's had her bowl this morning

she's no lmfao, it's true

― some dude, Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:08 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

will never understand how they get the same treatment here as they would at an indie rock blog, and i used to agree with the hatred. they seem so harmless now. maybe it's stockholm syndrome.

I've always kind of dug LMFAO because they are so shamelessly ridiculous

i like to shamefully chant SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS when the opportunity presents itself

i prefer having lively and occasionally funny novelty music on my radio than most everything else that's been on the radio

i like how theyre barry gordys son and grandson, this is possibly my fav factoid of 2011

i had to sit through three or four songs of lmfao live and it was a fucking ordeal of enforced office party style "fun" - jessie j played the same show and it was a close-run thing re: which made me want to curl up and die more

The duo has said its original name was Sexe Dude (Read as Sexy Dudes) and the two subsequently changed it at the advice of their grandmother.[5]

lol

In February 2010, SkyBlu was involved in an altercation with politician Mitt Romney on an airplane during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The rapper stated that Romney attacked him from behind, putting a "vulcan grip" on his neck.[10] SkyBlu was escorted off the plane as a result of the altercation and was booked on the next flight. The altercation was mentioned in a video showing SkyBlu being escorted off the aircraft by authorities[11] where SkyBlu and Redfoo give an account of the incident.[12]

wait waht

On August 29, 2011, LMFAO filmed a video for their new single “Sexy and I Know it” in Venice Beach, California.[15] Pornographic actor Ron Jeremy is featured in the video, which focuses thematically on male genitalia.

again, lol

Redfoo is a former day trader and has been featured on CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer.[20]

also lol

In February 2010, SkyBlu was involved in an altercation with politician Mitt Romney on an airplane during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The rapper stated that Romney attacked him from behind, putting a "vulcan grip" on his neck.[10] SkyBlu was escorted off the plane as a result of the altercation and was booked on the next flight. The altercation was mentioned in a video showing SkyBlu being escorted off the aircraft by authorities[11] where SkyBlu and Redfoo give an account of the incident.[12]
wait waht

― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 2:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LMFAO

Redfoo is a former day trader

this makes SO MUCH SENSE

will never understand how they get the same treatment here as they would at an indie rock blog, and i used to agree with the hatred. they seem so harmless now. maybe it's stockholm syndrome.

― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 2:13 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think it's dangerous to conflate any sneering at a pop act as corny indie habitual 'sneering at all pop acts' but c'mon LMFAO is the most hatefully terrible shit in the world. like, it's one thing for a journeyman hack like will.i.am to kind of fall into being the king of moronic ringtones after a long, increasingly cynical career, but i feel like it's almost worse when some fuckin' scion of motown decides to turn his douchey 'jersey shore'-esque lifestyle into a series of worldwide hits well into his 30s.

whereas I feel like party rockin' in the house tonight (get your hands up)

i like this list okay

stuff i think are top notch pop songs

1. party rock anthem
2. black & yellow
3. tgif
4. we found love
5. someone like you

songs that i like, but also kinda annoyed me at times

6. grenade
7. give me everything
8. hold it against me

will begrudgingly recognize its effectiveness

9. rolling in the deep
10. moves like jagger
11. s&m

fuck off

11. born this way

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you

12. e.t.

"sexy and i know it" is just tragic because who needed 'exactly like right said fred but not as good' at #1

knowing the names of the dudes from lmfao is good for if you want to insult people at dance clubs, just fyi

how I rate these songs:

Bruno Mars, "Grenade"
LMFAO, "Party Rock Anthem"
Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Rihanna, "We Found Love"
Wiz Khalifa, "Black & Yellow"
Katy Perry f/ Kanye West, "E.T."
Maroon 5 f/ Christina Aguilera, "Moves Like Jagger"
Adele, "Someone Like You"
Rihanna, "S&M"
Pitbull f/ Ne-Yo, Afrojack, & Nayer, "Give Me Everything"
Katy Perry, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"
Lady Gaga, "Born This Way"
Britney Spears, "Hold It Against Me"

j0rdan you should know there's something wrong when you're trying to like "hold it against me" more than you can actually bring yourself to but are still grudgingly trying to resist "rolling in the deep"

xp it sort of sounds like you're taking them seriously. like, even with 'my humps' i believe will.i.am was taking himself p seriously. lmfao is all kitsch

that's why "my humps" is funnier and better than lmfao

"my humps" is way funnier and catchier than "party rock anthem" imo, artist intent doesn't mean that much to me as far as who was serious about what

haha xpost

j0rdan you should know there's something wrong when you're trying to like "hold it against me" more than you can actually bring yourself to but are still grudgingly trying to resist "rolling in the deep"

― some dude, Tuesday, January 3, 2012 2:38 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah idk, the difference between those two made up and arbitrary categories is pretty slim -- like i had "moves like jagger" stuck in my head yesterday and i wasn't particularly mad about it

"rolling in the deep" really does nothing for me but i get why it's huge, idk -- there are parts of "hold it against me" that straight up bang tho imo (hint: not the dubstep bridge)

yeah maybe i'm reading too much into it -- i just thought it was funny. imo "hold it against me" is just pathetic on every level.

If "Till The World Ends" had charter higher than "Hold It..." (one of FF's weakest songs), it would be my #1.

people liking "till the world ends" really makes me mad for some reason -- i really can't put a finger on it

You can dance to it and there at least three different hooks.

And I love the Ke$ha remix too.

i feel like critics (not accusing alfred specifically here) usher britney through bcuz of "toxic" or "slave 4 u" or whatever even tho her new dr luke shit is worse than everyone else's dr luke shit imo

like "till the world ends" would be the fourth best kesha single if it was a kesha single and if it was a kesha single no one would give a shit about it (not that i want ppl to give a shit about kesha, but)

it's not as bad as people bizarrely thinking "how i roll" is some sort of highlight on that album

"till the world ends (remix)" worked well enough in a year when lots of pop songs seemed to be about the apocalypse

like "till the world ends" would be the fourth best kesha single if it was a kesha single and if it was a kesha single no one would give a shit about it (not that i want ppl to give a shit about kesha, but)

I don't agree with any of this except maybe the first half, as in "what's wrong with being a fourth-best Ke$ha single?"

femme fatale was an album that i went back to a surprising amount over the year, when i was doing my lists i realised i quite liked it - it's solid, the best tracks* bang, fin.

*my playlist = inside out/i wanna go/(drop dead) beautiful/seal it with a kiss/gasoline/criminal/till the world ends (remix)

britney's weird frog voice is a lot more pleasant to the ears than ke$ha's grating screech

Both are better sound effects than what LMFAO coughs up though.

and whatever Rihanna does with her larynx (does she have one?)

my ranking is basically the same as Rev's except on mine Bruno Mars is at the very bottom of the list

i feel like critics (not accusing alfred specifically here) usher britney through bcuz of "toxic" or "slave 4 u" or whatever even tho her new dr luke shit is worse than everyone else's dr luke shit imo

like "till the world ends" would be the fourth best kesha single if it was a kesha single and if it was a kesha single no one would give a shit about it (not that i want ppl to give a shit about kesha, but)

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 3, 2012 2:50 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this would be a very reasonable argument if it wasn't coming from someone who just defended "hold it against me"

Rihanna, "S&M"
Lady Gaga, "Born This Way"
LMFAO, "Party Rock Anthem"
Maroon 5 f/ Christina Aguilera, "Moves Like Jagger"
Britney Spears, "Hold It Against Me"
Adele, "Someone Like You"
Pitbull f/ Ne-Yo, Afrojack, & Nayer, "Give Me Everything"
--- the line between liking and not liking ---
Wiz Khalifa, "Black & Yellow"
Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Katy Perry, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"
Katy Perry f/ Kanye West, "E.T."
Bruno Mars, "Grenade"

Still not sure how I feel about the newer Rihanna.

this would be a very reasonable argument if it wasn't coming from someone who just defended "hold it against me"

― some dude, Tuesday, January 3, 2012 3:06 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think it would be unreasonable if i was calling "hold it against me" one of the 20 best singles of the year, which is where i think "till the world ends" has a chance of finishing in p&j

yeah i feel you

ke$ha doesn't have anything anywhere near as euphoric and propulsive as 'till the world ends'

i didn't like "till" at all til the remix, now i'm cool w/ it but it's definitely nothing special

Ke$ha needs to participate in a remix of "Beth/Rest."

ke$ha is my least favorite person currently making pop. YES, SHE'S WORSE THAN JESSIE MOTHERFUCKING J.

my ranking is basically the same as Rev's except on mine Bruno Mars is at the very bottom of the list

― nah (crüt), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 11:54 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that song is mad inoffensive, yo

can't believe flopson doesn't like "black and yellow"

ke$ha doesn't have anything anywhere near as euphoric and propulsive as 'till the world ends'

I would argue that "Tik Tok", "We R Who We R" and "Blow" are all more euphoric and propulsive than "Till The World Ends" but that is mostly because I don't like "Till The World Ends".

(I don't really like "We R Who We R" either but at least it's not nu-Brit, who really should have stopped at "3")

that song is mad inoffensive, yo

In music, as in movies, "inoffensive" is probably my least favorite quality.

both the big singles from her new album are leagues better than "3" and neither of them are that great

it's not even like offensively inoffensive

xp

it's a tad hyperbolic

if it's the inoffense "Grenade" we're discussing

can't believe flopson doesn't like "black and yellow"

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:19 (1 hour ago) Permalink

oh yeah i like black & yellow, maybe slot it b/w we found love & tgif

grenade is offensive to my ears

"moves like jagger" is so ridiculous

Saw Robbie Fulks do some lame LOL rockist makes fun of the year's hits revue, and his list of the top singles was so different from this one I couldn't figure out what ass he pulled them out of. Like, Bruno Mars, but that other song, the one about being lazy. LMFAO, but the "I'm Too Sexy" one. And some country thing about how girls and boys or different. Maybe it was just a top selling downloads list or something?

There was a gimmick where some girl on stage had to guess the singers, and she was stumped more than once, not just by the Il Divo one (or some Il Divo-like one) but also by ... Chris Brown? Was there a Chris Brown hit? With Lil Wayne?

i get das racist and lmfao confused

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lur837WXG81r0qfn7o1_500.gif

Poop.

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(out of practice)

[i]Saw Robbie Fulks do some lame LOL rockist makes fun of the year's hits revue, and his list of the top singles was so different from this one I couldn't figure out what ass he pulled them out of. [i]

This is what a lot of people would think about the list at the top of this thread don't see what there is to laugh about?

everyday I'm shufflin'!

i get das racist and lmfao confused

― k3vin k., Tuesday, January 3, 2012 6:16 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah they're pretty much funhouse mirror versions of each other

laughing my racist ass off

god can adele be over already

― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:07 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

she's no lmfao, it's true

― some dude, Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:08 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

just heard moves like jagger in the supermarket, god what a piece of shit

Chris Brown? Was there a Chris Brown hit? With Lil Wayne?

Glad I'm not the only one who wasn't aware of this song!

via what media do y'all encounter the us #1s? terrestrial radio? web? tv? supermarket?

all of the above, although very little of the music i've heard in supermarkets the last few years has been contemporary hits

Reviewing singles and listening to Top 40 radio.

via what media do y'all encounter the us #1s? terrestrial radio? web? tv? supermarket?

karaoke nights at college bars, ilx

Mostly the car radio when I'm running errands on the weekend. Sometimes if a superstar like Rihanna or Britney releases a new song and it attracts enough buzz on ILM or other sites I read, then I'll check it out on YouTube first.

maroon 5 podcast

Subway

I would love a maroon 5 podcast TBH.

(The chain, not the mode of transport.) xpost

Re podcasts, there should be a LMFAO WTF.

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Reverend nails it!

Also: apologetic for breaking up the dance party when introducing the songs, and eventually swapped in a garish house remix

Yes! Reminds me of this (c. 1990, every rap station, every 45 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr02Ahz0lT4

I remember 1990 just well enough to know that you're right, but exactly what it was doing on rap stations, rather than Lite FM, I have no idea.