2014 Top Ten: Songs

Welcome to the end of the year: One top 10 post for each of the last 10 days of 2014.

First up: songs.

I don’t “Care About Music” as deeply as a lot of people do… I like silence… and I’m definitely not a music snob. I love pop mostly, dance often, lots of British artists. So, to start, I loved these two DJ’s mashups of 2014 in pop, and I think you should listen to them, because they’re fun as hell:

• Robin Skouteris
• Earworm

And here are my top 10 songs for the year. “Top 10” doesn’t mean I want to hear some of them ever again – they’re not my favorites of the year, necessarily – but they were the year for me. I know they’ll remind me of 2014.

1. Let It Go – Idina Menzel
2. All of Me – John Legend
3. Rather Be – Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne
4. Jungle – X Ambassadors
5. Clarity – Zedd feat. Foxes
6. Stay With Me – Sam Smith
7. Trumpets – Jason Derulo
8. Turn Down for What – DJ Snake & Lil Jon
9. Cool Kids – Echosmith
10. Happy – Pharrell

Plus, really, anything Pitbull, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry or Iggy Azalea.

Now, 10 I think we’ll hear of / hear more of in 2015:

1. G.R.L.
2. Sheppard
3. Walk the Moon
4. Nico & Vinz
5. Mary Lambert
6. Aloe Blacc
7. Ed Sheeran
8. Meghan Trainor
9. Ella Henderson
10. and the Pitch Perfect 2 soundtrack

Each of these top 10 posts will end with a question. Here’s the first one:

Who’s on your musical watch list for 2015?