US #1s of 2012

My ranking:

Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe"
Gotye f/ Kimbra, "Somebody That I Used to Know"
Adele, "Set Fire to the Rain"
LMFAO, "Sexy and I Know It"
Katy Perry, "Part of Me"
Bruno Mars, "Locked Out of Heaven"
Maroon 5, "One More Time"
Taylor Swift, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
Rihanna, "Diamonds"
Fun f/ Janelle Monae, "We Are Young"
Kelly Clarkson, "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
Flo Rida, "Whistle"

That got really iffy really fast.

love stronger and we are never ever getting back together, but i can't even imagine not voting for carly rae

"Stronger" is like a machine-tooled with every possible interesting edge sanded off until nothing remains but an inane husk. I swear someone set out to write the most generic Kelly Clarkson song possible.

whenever i've been forced to listen to the radio this year "stronger" has usually provided the sole relief during a grim endurance test. it's not super-great or anything but pretty enjoyable in a low-investment kind of way.

might toss a vote to T-Swift here, WANEGBT really grew on me in the context of the album (ie, it's pretty much a one-off, and comes off almost like TS playing up to her stereotype for kicks. plus, the indie record line remains the best thing.

i wonder if i should find out how gotye is actually pronounced one of these days. i've been saying "goaty". that song really is super dull though.

gauthier

cross at Taylor Swift for making me have a little public weepy fit when the song came on in a shop the other week, still voting for it.

love LMFAO, Kelly Clarkson, Flo Rida, like Carly Rae and Bruno, not really bothered about the rest

Gotye > Bruno > Carly > Kelly > Adele > M5 > Katy > LMFAO > Flo > Taylor > Rihanna > Fun

Gotye, easily. It was my favorite song of 2011.

"Call Me Maybe" before we drop a ways to "Locked Out of Heaven"

Gotye song is dece VH1 groove-pop, but Carly Rae broughg the metaphysics

it's so refreshing to see a list of 12 songs by 12 artists (and only one producer shared by two tracks -- Max Martin with both Katy and Taylor). 2012 was the first year no artist had more than one #1 since 1992.

"We Are Never" grew on me more than "Call Me Maybe," which never crossed over to more than a pleasant distraction for me.

Also, between Gotye and Bruno it was quite a year for Sting-singing.

On "Stronger" there's that part before the chorus where I think she's going to go into "Man in Motion," and it's disappointing when she doesn't.

I just love the restrain and the arrangement of Somebody That I Used to Know. There is a bassoon in the chorus, which just plays the same note over and over, and the disapears.

max martin also produced 'one more night', as well as the katy & taylor singles (not 'one more time' btw!)

anyway, 'call me maybe' > 'we are never' > the rubbish

it's so refreshing to see a list of 12 songs by 12 artists (and only one producer shared by two tracks -- Max Martin with both Katy and Taylor). 2012 was the first year no artist had more than one #1 since 1992.

― some dude, Monday, December 31, 2012 8:27 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark

i would sympathize if half the songs weren't total ass

at least

carly over taylor's jojo update and bruno's police update

most of these songs seem like the 4th entry in a movie franchise

KATY PERRY: ON STRANGER TIDES

i would sympathize if half the songs weren't total ass

― dead cera (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 31, 2012 9:21 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

half the songs are total ass every year though, was really talking less about quality and more about the respite from multiple Rihanna/Katy/etc. chart toppers every year

"Diamonds" is the ultimate rose-tinted glasses song for me; I don't enjoy the act of actually listening to it but my memories of it are always pleasant. No, I don't really get it either.

the Kanye remix of "Diamonds" was enjoyable enough to remind me that Stargate are basically so consistent that even when they make a bad song, it's usually down to the vocalist

Can you believe Flo Rida has been living in the top ten for five years?

dude has had 11 top 20 singles

considering that he sort of predicted the shift in pop's sound, yes

yeah top Hot 100 artists of the year is

1. Rihanna
2. Flo Rida
3. Nicki Minaj

pretty crazy tbh

for the longest time it seemed like the world would only let Flo Rida have a big hit every year or two, but right now he's on 4 back-to-back

i was a big flo rida defender in the early years but his hits have increasingly become about What He's Saying rather than what someone else is singing on the hook

i actually considered it a major talent of his to say so many words in a verse without any of them sticking

i dunno, all i can remember of "Whistle" is the hook really

oh yeah they're still negligible in hindsight, they just used to even feel like tissue paper when the song was on

i think that's his point, nobody cares about the verses. and until "Whistle," Flo Rida never delivered the hook on any of his own hits. (xp)

i still like "good feeling" better than "levels" and i think "whistle" is kinda dope... pretty decent year by his standards i think

i liked "wild ones"

flo rida featuring... = yay
flo rida = nay

i wager i legitimately fuck with 6 flo rida songs... that's about what i expected

he has some decent rap stuff too ("birthday cake" & that joint w/ briscoe & wayne) but i'm not counting those

i'll take your word for it

yeah the first Flo Rida album when he was just riding the T-Pain wave and not the Dr. Luke wave it was a pretty solid strip club rap album

also the first time i heard him on the first DJ Khaled album i was like ah damn that's a good doubletime flow, gotta check for this dude

it's kinda hilarious and intensely un-self aware that he actually named an album "only one flo"

"low" is prob my least fav song that t-pain has ever been on but the other two singles off that are pretty solid

even funnier, it was Only One Flo (Part 1), and Part 2 was never released

lmao

Flo Rida has nine top 10 hits, Rick Ross has one (and it's just a feature)

i mean even allowing for his being ahead of the curve when it came to jersey shore rap, his longevity compared to his irrelevance on his best songs is pretty impressive. i can't even begrudge that he's taking center stage now, it's not like he hasn't earned the right commercially

though he's yet to even go gold for a full-length while having 7 multi-platinum singles is something

Flo Rida has nine top 10 hits, Rick Ross has one (and it's just a feature)

― some dude, Monday, December 31, 2012 10:09 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

considering how much artists get fucked on digital revenue, i'd be really curious to find out the diff in career income b/w the two of them (not accounting for touring, endorsements etc). would be an interesting test case for the modern industry imo.

yeah his tenacity and shamelessness are kind of perversely admirable. one of my chart nerd aspirations is to someday figure out who has the highest ratio of singles chart success to comparatively low album sales, because it almost has to be him. xp

i'm embarrassed that this list doesn't have "gangnam style"

i kind of respect Maroon 5's troll game that they were able to hold that off #1 with one of their most forgettable singles

word

1) call me maybe
2) somebody that i used to know
3) stronger (what doesn't kill you)
4) locked out of heaven
5) diamonds
6) set fire to the rain
7) sexy and i know it
8) part of me
9) we are young
10) one more night
11) we are never ever getting back together
12) whistle

whistle is not among the flo rida songs i enjoy.

i think locked out of heaven and somebody that i used to know are similar in more than just their sting-singing. the first lines of their choruses are basically melodically the same. (love both songs though.)

2012 was the first year no artist had more than one #1 since 1992.

Fun fact!

In looking at that list I have no memory of the Flo Rida song. Which is probably all to the good.

"Whistle" is so so bad but at the same time I find Flo Rida's horribleness really hilarious so I am kind of glad it exists

Gotye f/ Kimbra, "Somebody That I Used to Know"
Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe"
Kelly Clarkson, "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
Adele, "Set Fire to the Rain"
Katy Perry, "Part of Me"
Taylor Swift, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
LMFAO, "Sexy and I Know It"
Flo Rida, "Whistle"
Bruno Mars, "Locked Out of Heaven"
Rihanna, "Diamonds"
Maroon 5, "One More Time"
Fun f/ Janelle Monae, "We Are Young"

same top 2 as everyone else and after that don't care

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bruno

goatie

not a lot of love for 'diamonds'...i didn't like it at all at first but it has grown to become my fav rihanna song

Really like Bruno Mars, Gotye, Taylor Swift. Not sure which one I'd pick. I'm leaning towards Bruno Mars but it's probably just in my head since it's the most current.

geauxtye

j/k CARLY RAE ALL DAY

all rae erry rae

for the love of carly rae j

Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven
Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Gotye f/ Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know
Fun f/ Janelle Monae - We Are Young
LMFAO - Sexy and I Know It
Kelly Clarkson - Stronger(What Doesn't Kill You)
Adele - Set Fire to the Rain
Rihanna - Diamonds
Flo Rida - Whistle
Katy Perry - Part of Me
Maroon 5 - One More Time

only really the bottom 5 is some shit I don't like

if carly rae doesn't win this i don't even know

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Hahaha. This was really a battle for second place. Glad to see Gotye won.