US #1s of 2015

Tied with 2005 for fewest #1s in a single year?

better batch than last year I guess. I'd rank them:

Uptown Funk
Cheerleader
The Hills
What Do You Mean
Can't Feel My Face
Bad Blood
Hello
See You Again

2002 had less songs reach #1 for the first time that year (which is the standard I use for these polls)

The Weeknd, "The Hills"
Mark Ronson f/ Bruno Mars, "Uptown Funk"
The Weeknd, "Can't Feel My Face"
Adele, "Hello"
Wiz Khalifa f/ Charlie Puth, "See You Again"
OMI, "Cheerleader"
Taylor Swift f/ Kendrick Lamar, "Bad Blood"
Justin Bieber, "What Do You Mean"

"what do you mean" by a lot

"see you again" probably one of the worst songs i've ever heard

cheerleader > can't feel > uptown > hello > the hills > what do u mean > bad blood > see you again

weak year for #1s. i've done a EOY singles list every year since 2003, and this is the first year i've had no Hot 100 #1 in my top 10.

i'll suck your ween

Listening to Wiz Khalifa f/ Charlie Puth, "See You Again" is like being eaten by dung beetles.

Uptown Funk feels like 2013 by now, so much airplay

"Can't Feel My Face" over "Cheerleader" and "What Do You Mean"

Bieber, because I know I voted for "Uptown Funk" the last time we did one of these things.

nope, it hadn't hit #1 at the end of last year

Yeah, I remember it starting to boil the week before the new year.

voted bad blood remix but on different days could easily have voted cheerleader hello or uptown funk

hills

yea see u again is rough

going w/bad blood i guess

Uptown Funk by a mile

The Hills
Uptown Funk
Can't Feel My Face
What Do You Mean
Cheerleader
Bad Blood
Hello
See You Again

The Hills is the pits, I tell ya. Worst song on the list.

I'll go with the Biebz.

it's dreadful in its way but it also works. meh.

Friend zone apologists!

"the hills" is awful and I can't imagine enjoying it

"Uptown Funk" rest are garb

Nah but some are at least, seeee uuuuaGAIN especially

Idc about "friendzone" usage but "The Hills" is lame haunted-house shit

i was watching the american music awards and was kind of intrigued by how the blaring/droney synth at the beginning of "the hills" got all the girls in the audience screaming wildly, both during weeknd's own performance and when it was incorporated into j.lo's random dance medley at the beginning. tbh the song goes downhill from there so girls in audience otm i guess

charlie puth is the worst on "see you again" he sounds like a disney prince who whimpers during orgasm

anyway i voted for "uptown funk" which i am mostly tired of but which is still better than the lackluster remainder

oooooof this list is even worse than last year. last year was "trash, plus a decent taylor swift single" iirc; this year is "trash, including one of the worst singles of taylor swift's career"

i haven't heard the wiz khalifa song! maybe when it's not 8.30am and i've just woken up. unless it's miraculously adequate, i'll probably go with omi.

Cheerleader. I dont think Ive geard Hills but What Do You Mean >>>>> both Uptown Funk & Cant Feel My Face

the concept of the "friend zone" is such a reprehensible one, it's based on the idea that to be friends with someone you're into is the worst of all possible outcomes?

also completely socially oblivious, a substantial majority of the long-term hetero relationships among my friends emerged out of long-term friendships. being friends with people is a good thing!

just listened to the hills for the first time on my iphone & had to google the lyrics because I thought the chorus began "I only fuck you when it's half mast"

I spent most of my teenage years listening to bleak goth and industrial music; having "The Hills" not only be #1 but having it stay there for multiple weeks and be more successful than the peppier-sounding "Can't Feel My Face" is the closest I'm ever going to get to seeing Skinny Puppy or My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult have runaway mainstream success.

I like the song anyway but there was something partic poignant and relevant to ~modern lyfe~ imo that he uses the hills as the closer to his fall tour, complete w/ lights and pyrotechnics keyed to the 'when im fucked up that's the real me' line idk

I am 100% behind saying the sentiments behind "The Hills" are ugly, regressive and not to be emulated. I am also 100% down with enjoying the creepy nihilism, particularly as his behavior becomes more self-destructive in the second verse.

btw rev did you start these bc it's not worth waiting or bc it's obvious that the current #1 won't be dislodged? there are still two uk charts to go i think

Like It a Lot: "What Do You Mean"

Like: "Can't Feel My Face," "The Hills," "Hello"

Had to Remind Myself What This Was (i.e., okay: "See You Again")

Don't Recognize This at All: "Cheerleader"

Despise: "Uptown Funk," "Bad Blood"

cheerlader

just listened to the hills for the first time on my iphone & had to google the lyrics because I thought the chorus began "I only fuck you when it's half mast"

Just did the same.

billboard post-dates its charts to be in line w/ its issue dates so the last chart dated 2015 has come out already xp

i also like "What Do You Mean" but "Uptown Funk" feels like the winner here

btw rev did you start these bc it's not worth waiting or bc it's obvious that the current #1 won't be dislodged? there are still two uk charts to go i think

― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, December 18, 2015 4:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

billboard post-dates its charts to be in line w/ its issue dates so the last chart dated 2015 has come out already xp

― dyl, Friday, December 18, 2015 8:47 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, chart year is over. Current Billboard chart is dated December 26, next will be dated January 2.

it's not like anything but "Hello" is gonna be #1 for at least another month anyway

"Cheerleader" is horrible

has to be "Funk" or Bieber

still have not actually heard "Hello" or "See You Again" tho

I still haven't heard "The Hills"

Yeah, chart year is over. Current Billboard chart is dated December 26, next will be dated January 2.

ohhhh ok. uk media currently trying to hype up xmas no 1 to be announced on xmas day

uptown funk

good #1s this year, "see you again" aside. i'm not partic fond of "bad blood" or "the hills" but recognize game. hard to choose between "cheerleader" "can't feel my face" "uptown funk" or biebs... prob "face" for me, the chorus still thrills me

xxp I feel like I get asked that by a Brit every year.

I listened to The Hills; I had heard it before but hadn't realized this was THAT song. It's better than Face--really no surprise that it did even better on the charts imo--but I cant really fuck with that either. Go Omi!

anyone who hasn't heard "see you again" before and decides to listen to it, plz let us know yr thoughts

"See You Again" is prob not the worst song I've ever heard

Maybe see you again can't really be appreciated in isolation, but alongside the rip video and fan community it works nice - also that "how can we not talk abt family when family is all that we got" is sympathetic to my ears, it's like a song by brutes explaining why they're so emotional

felix jaehn remix?

The ever-brutish Wiz Khalifa

lol, yeah "see you again" was 100% baffling to me until i realized most dudes associated it with fast & furious/dead paul walker. it is still terrible, though.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

anyone who hasn't heard "see you again" before and decides to listen to it, plz let us know yr thoughts

― dyl, Sunday, December 20, 2015 8:03 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

horrified fyi

More horrifying was that Sevyn Streeter did a really good song for the Furious 7 OST…

"Cheerleader" in a walk in this poll.

until i realized most dudes associated it with fast & furious/dead paul walker

ok this kind of makes me if not actually like it at least have a good lol when reminded of it

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lol wow see you again no votes out of 110 ppl, ive never been prouder of ilx

great results

given the historic juggernaut popularity of both taylor and kendrick here, it says a lot about "bad blood" that it did so badly even with no overwhelming competition. very deserved.

One day all of you are going to look back at these terrible Bieber songs and be hideously embarrassed.

the collective list is already an embarrassment though

Dan, don't you love that Major Lazer song that's exactly the same thing except worse?

One day all of you are going to look back at these terrible Bieber songs and be hideously embarrassed.

― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Thursday, December 31, 2015 11:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, of all the fucking songs, seriously

no... please no... not my posterity... anything but that

not sure this list is obviously holistically worse than previous years', but this one has no songs that i would listen to on purpose

Idk Im pretty pleased with my Omi vote, the way he twists the melody around thise internal rhymes and uneven cadences thr same way a young girl will twist her hair around her finger