best of Nick's Best of 2018 [Songs 10-1; Artists 5-1]

[potent]

2 hours ago, Remmy said:

Songs: Natural I think it's the best from Origins kiii whoops! The Middle + Learn to Let Go My Blood, Beautiful Trauma and Sober Up Those 3 are lovely. Some of these writeups are a little confusing they make it sound like the song shouldn't even be top 40
Artists: I like some songs from GD/CB/KL but overall, don't really care that much. OneRepublic Yeah, their quick lil singles are generally lame, hopefully they're saving quality for OR5. CHVRCHES I mean if you only listened to Love Is Dead once or twice I can understand songs sounding the same, but I can't really agree with that.

Well if that artist did better work in the past, then only top 40 might not be that great

CHVRCHES still have two entries to come!

[collin]

Best Friend is one of those stuck-in-your-head bops. I liked that it became popular this year. Learn To Let Go

[MusicLoverDude]

In My Feelings makes me wish Keke ran as far away from Drake as possible.

 

Learn To Let Go and The Middle

 

That Avril shade ain't cute though. 

[TayRianaPH]

Hello sweetie!  

Great list so far!  

 

My Top 3 from this set:

3] Learn To Let Go

2] Beautiful Trauma

1] This Is Me

 

A cute pop set!  

 

See you in my Best Of too!  

[kelly-clarkson]

Beautiful Trauma & The Middle  

[potent]

17 hours ago, MusicLoverDude said:

In My Feelings makes me wish Keke ran as far away from Drake as possible.

 

Learn To Let Go and The Middle

 

That Avril shade ain't cute though. 

And Avril is done while Kesha still has an entry left

If Avril had released TMIO earlier though she might've had a chance to be this high!

[potent]

So before we get to the top 30, here's a few songs that would've made it if I got into them a couple weeks earlier, or if they had been released a couple weeks earlier... (some might make it next year instead!)

• Avril Lavigne - "Tell Me It's Over"
  • Well yeah this song wasn't released until like a couple weeks ago after I finalized my list so it goes without saying why it didn't make it. It's pretty good but feels like a non-event already tbh.
• Brandi Carlile - "The Joke"
  • This was released earlier in the year but to be very honest I had no idea it existed until the Grammy noms came out. I thought it would be that cheesy HAC type Grammy bait and it kinda is, but her powerful vocals in the chorus really resonate with me.
• Kacey Musgraves - "Butterflies"
• Kacey Musgraves - "Space Cowboy"
  • I really didn't know Kacey released more than one single this year, so you'll only be seeing High Horse here (it's yet to appear btw!)
• Khalid - "Better"
  • I don't use this basic guy who is in all likelihood an industry plant, but this song is kind of a chill bop?
• Panic! At the Disco - "Hey Look Ma, I Made It"
  • It's cute. Way better than the irritating High Hopes but don't @ me!
• P!nk - "A Million Dreams"
  • I didn't care to listen to the Greatest Showman soundtrack when it came out, but I love P!nk so I was eventually drawn to this. It's cheesy but well done overall.
• Rina Sawayama - "Cherry"
  • A bop! I think I kinda tried to get into it at some point, but then I forgot about it. It's a great pop song.
• Robyn - "Honey"
  • This song really only grew on me with the video, but I'm obsessed with it right now.
• Seeb x Bastille - "Grip"
  • So I guess EDM collabs are Bastille's new thing? I was skeptical of this one at first but it's actually good on its own.
• The 1975 - "Love It If We Made It"
  • Still inferior to many songs on ILIWYS, but probably their best effort this year!

[Remmy]

Tell Me It's Over  Honey  Hey Look Ma, I Made It  (I agree it's better than HH)

A Million Dreams, cheesy???  Show some respect to the best song from both soundtracks!

Kacey was a late bloomer for me as well, except none of her singles made it dd. Space Cowboy would've done the best.

[Jet]

Learn To Let Go  Kesha really did her thing last year

[Mr. Loco]

P!nk's version of A million dreams is actually really good!!

 

Hey look ma I made it is cool, but the other P!ATD singles this year were better tbh

[lhdang2000]

P!nk's A Million Dreams is very good.  

 

I kinda feel the same with The Joke. I didn't pay attention to it until the Grammys. 

[JGibson]

A Million Dreams + Love It If We Made It + Tell Me It's Over + Grip + Butterflies 

[-mUsIcLoVeR-]

Kacey, Robyn, and the 1975  

[MusicLoverDude]

Avril, P!nk, Panic! and Rina

[Brandon]

 

Tell Me It's Over & Love It If We Made It  

[kelly-clarkson]

Tell Me It's Over it's amazing

[Legend E]

I have also discovered Brandi thanks to the Grammys and I hate that I discovered her too late  

 

Kacey x2, P!nk, Robyn deserved to make the list  

[Blue Rose]

Kacey, Khalid, The 1975, Robyn. All excellent 

[TheWayWeWere]

TMIO already feels like non-event even tho I came out just few weeks ago

Space Cowboy  

Cherry is a pop perfection  

Honey  

[TayRianaPH]

Omg, I'm about to reveal Space Cowboy in my list too!  The way we are shedding a masterpiece nowI also forgone Honey already, I wished I put it higher.  

 

Tell Me It's Over is present here, so is taste, I see.  

[potent]

Lol so like everyone else I'm getting tired of posting these sets, but I'm committed to finish as I started, so I'll be posting the next set right now, and finish within the week

[potent]

SONGS: 30-21

 

taking another break from artists, I'll finish that list within the next two sets ~

 

[Mr.Link]

Hey! 

I'm so glad to see you're still posting your countdown and seems like this time you will actually finish! 

I will catch up with the rest of the list but as as of this set i really like most of the songs. Happier, Finesse and Bloom being my favorites. 

I think CHVRCHES' last album is their weakest but Graffiti is such a bop. 

 

Looking forward to see your top 20. 

[JGibson]

You Say + Happier + Miracle  

[Kiss It Better]

Finesse remix and Frontline