#1 Hits of the 2010s

I think music can mean a lot to someone without it being good. I think everyone grew up with certain songs that were special to them and helped them with things. And because certain things resonate with you, you see the song in a whole different light.

yea, they look like 40 year olds acting like 14 year olds ;)

ah well long live the comment section...

jep, mäki tykkäsin.

Oh I just realized that was probably technically the previous decade.

Bad Romance was from 2009, Dynamite sadly was #2.

Bruh! Lewis Capaldi is so obnoxious! IMO he is one of the worst artists on this list!

None of their singles ever made US #1

Zayn and Harry Styles both got #1s on their own, but the group itself never got higher than #2.

Well, yes and no. As with anything, it's a matter of taste to some degree, but it's pretty close to objective that a meal from a three-star Michelin restaurant is a better meal than a McDonald's Happy Meal, even if a six-year-old doesn't think so. I myself have little patience for people and their "music nowadays is terrible! Wah, wah!" schtick because it's condescending, because most of these people can't play or write music of their own, and because these same whiners always think *their* generation's pop music (whether it be the Beatles, Van Halen, Pearl Jam, or Fall Out Boy) is music's apex. The irony is that classical musicians could likewise scoff at the notion that any of those bands is "real music," but they usually don't because they have truly devoted themselves to music and appreciate its craft. But anyone who says the Stones, Dylan, Queen, (all of whom I love) or any other 20th-century rock act is "real music" compared to classical or jazz is kidding themselves.

Billboard Hot 100 (USA)

Lyrics aren't everything

And now it's 2021. What popular thing has he done since?

It's called recency bias?

1. People always will advertise their hatred toward any form of art that is popular that doesn't speak to them. 2. The music industry is objectively declining (this trend started long before covid) - there is a lot less money going around, so there is less variety of artists "making it big," and the artists who are not making it big are making less money compared to previous decades. 3. Genres outside of pop music (which has always been degraded by critics) are getting far less attention than they used to. Yes, it is true that disco music established a lot of poor quality trends, and was despised by a majority of people in that era, but there were a lot of other alternatives at the time. There's still plenty of good music out there, it just takes turning over a few rocks to find it.

Preach

Same!! I was like 10 when I heard most of these songs (apart from the most recent ones) so listening to them are the best! I'm listening to a throwback music channel right now

Even a list of all people, including YOU?

ah yes the good old days of... 3 years ago from your comment??