potent Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) Nick's Best of 2019 So yeah I finally decided to make a thread. I honestly was not going to do a Best Of this year, I felt like it wasn't worth the effort, especially since the section is pretty dead. I always like to check in on other people's lists though and since I prepared my own I thought that I might as well share it. My taste is probably not quite the same as you'll be seeing in other threads, I like a mixture of pop and alternative so expect to see a fair amount of male artists and bands here, mixed in with some other ATRL favorites. I'll be commenting back as usual and hopefully I'll discover some new music by checking all of your countdowns! I have a pretty plain layout as usual (not big on graphic design lol), but I'll try to at least make it look aesthetically pleasing. So before I start, I'll review my last years top 20: 1 Drake - Nice for What 2 Janelle Monae - Make Me Feel 3 Troye Sivan - My My My 4 Kendrick Lamar & SZA - All the Stars 5 Christine & the Queens - Girlfriend 6 Florence + the Machine - Hunger 7 Bleachers - Alfie's Song 8 Ella Mai - Boo'd Up 9 Kacey Musgraves - High Horse 10 James Bay - Pink Lemonade 11 CHVRCHES - Get Out 12 Robyn - Missing U 13 The Carters - Apeshit 14 The Weeknd - Call Out My Name 15 Lovely the Band - Broken 16 Sigrid - Sucker Punch 17 Ciara - Level Up 18 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow 19 John Mayer - New Light 20 Demi Lovato - Tell Me You Love Me 2015-2017 lists: 2015: 1 Ed Sheeran - Photograph 2 Twenty One Pilots - Ride 3 Florence + the Machine - Ship to Wreck 4 James Bay - Let It Go 5 Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer 6 CHVRCHES - Leave a Trace 7 Adele - Hello 8 Foals - Mountain at My Gates 9 Cold War Kids - First 10 One Direction - Night Changes 11 Kygo & Conrad Sewell - Firestone 12 Calvin Harris - Pray to God (feat. HAIM) 13 Andy Grammer - Honey I'm Good 14 Lana Del Rey - High by the Beach 15 Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out 16 Kodaline - Honest 17 Imagine Dragons - Shots 18 Natalia Lafourcade - Hasta La Raiz 19 Sara Bareilles - She Used to Be Mine 20 Fall Out Boy - Immortals 2016: 1 Beyonce - Formation 2 Lukas Graham - 7 Years 3 The Weeknd - Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) 4 The Lumineers - Cleopatra 5 CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue 6 Kings of Leon - Waste a Moment 7 Adele - When We Were Young 8 Rihanna - Kiss It Better 9 The 1975 - Somebody Else 10 Mike Posner - I Took a Pill in Ibiza 11 Tame Impala - The Less I Know the Better 12 Foxes - Better Love 13 Troye Sivan - Youth 14 Two Door Cinema Club - Are We Ready (Wreck) 15 The Lumineers - Ophelia 16 Beyonce - Sorry 17 Coldplay - Hymn for the Weekend (feat. Beyonce) 18 Gwen Stefani - Make Me Like You 19 Kelly Clarkson - Piece by Piece 20 Kungs & Cookin on 3 Burners - This Girl 2017: 1 Lorde - Perfect Places 2 Glass Animals - Agnes 3 Kesha - Praying 4 Grouplove - Good Morning 5 Imagine Dragons - Thunder 6 The Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This 7 The xx - Say Something Loving 8 Lana Del Rey - Love 9 The Weeknd - I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk) 10 MGMT - Little Dark Age 11 Kendrick Lamar - Humble 12 P!nk - What About Us 13 Phoenix - Ti Amo 14 Glass Animals - Pork Soda 15 Kodaline - Brother 16 Demi Lovato - Sorry Not Sorry 17 Lorde - Green Light 18 Lizzo - Truth Hurts 19 The xx - On Hold 20 Calvin Harris - Feels (feat. Pharrell & Katy Perry) This year I have a top 195 singles and top 50 most played artists. While I do like all of the songs here my favorites don't really start until the top 100, so I'll probably go through the first sets pretty quickly. I'll put recaps on this post once the countdown gets started. A few more notes: Only songs released this year or late last year are eligible; this affects sleeper hits which got a renewed release this year such as Lizzo's. She will be represented in my decade countdown, but I wanted this year's countdown to focus on what artists released specifically this year. However, since the artists countdown is most played, it is not exclusive to this year; older artists who I played a lot this year, for whatever reason that might be, will also be represented. Top 195 Songs: Spoiler 11 Red Hearse - Half Love 12 Tegan & Sara - I'll Be Back Someday 13 Bastille - Joy 14 Hatchie - Without a Blush 15 Bombay Bicycle Club - Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You) 16 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy 17 Hozier - Movement 18 Lana Del Rey - The Greatest 19 Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep 20 Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall 21 Foals - Exits 22 Aurora - Animal 23 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved 24 Avril Lavigne - Tell Me It's Over 25 Two Door Cinema Club - Satellite 26 Kacey Musgraves - Rainbow 27 Vampire Weekend - This Life 28 Young the Giant - Superposition 29 Illenium & Jon Bellion - Good Things Fall Apart 30 Marshmello & CHVRCHES - Here with Me 31 Madonna - Crave (feat. Swae Lee) 32 Imagine Dragons - Bad Liar 33 P!nk - Walk Me Home 34 Robyn - Honey 35 Harry Styles - Lights Up 36 Alec Benjamin - Jesus in LA 37 Foster the People - Pick U Up 38 Vampire Weekend - Sunflower 39 HAIM - Now I'm In It 40 Twenty One Pilots - Chlorine 41 Marshmello & Kane Brown - One Thing Right 42 Billie Eilish - When the Party's Over 43 Local Natives - When Am I Gonna Lose You 44 Lauv & Troye Sivan - I'm So Tired 45 Brandi Carlile - The Joke 46 BANKS - Contaminated 47 Sigrid - Don't Feel Like Crying 48 Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd - Lost in the Fire 49 Of Monsters and Men - Alligator 50 Cardi B & Bruno Mars - Please Me 51 Friendly Fires - Silhouettes 52 Two Door Cinema Club - Talk 53 Seeb & Bastille - Grip 54 Billie Eilish - All the Good Girls Go to Hell 55 Avicii - SOS (feat. Aloe Blacc) 56 Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You 57 MO - Blur 58 Christine & the Queens - 5 Dollars 59 Foster the People - Worst Nites 60 Ellie Goulding - Flux 61 Twenty One Pilots - The Hype 62 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow 63 Kesha - Raising Hell (feat. Big Freedia) 64 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now 65 Coldplay - Orphans 66 Mariah Carey - With You 67 Lauren Daigle - You Say 68 Jonas Brothers - Sucker 69 Foster the People - Style 70 Lukas Graham - Love Someone 71 Sara Bareilles - Fire 72 Janelle Monae - Crazy Classic Life 73 Aurora - Apple Tree 74 The Lumineers - Gloria 75 Cage the Elephant - Ready to Let Go 76 Avicii - Heaven (feat. Coldplay) 77 Hippo Campus - Golden 78 Foster the People - Imagination 79 Jess Glynne & Jax Jones - One Touch 80 Tame Impala - Borderline 81 Marshmello & Bastille - Happier 82 The Cranberries - All Over Now 83 Silversun Pickups - It Doesn't Matter Why 84 Alicia Keys - Show Me Love (feat. Miguel) 85 Maren Morris - Girl 86 HAIM - Summer Girl 87 Ed Sheeran - Cross Me (feat. Chance the Rapper) 88 George Ezra - Hold My Girl 89 Absofacto - Dissolve 90 Astrid S - Emotion 91 Sigrid - Sucker Punch 92 Broods - Too Proud 93 Dean Lewis - 7 Minutes 94 The Naked and Famous - Sunseeker 95 Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted 96 Of Monsters and Men - Wars 97 Flora Cash - You're Somebody Else 98 James Bay - Peer Pressure (feat. Julia Michaels) 99 The Veronicas - Think of Me 100 Lindsey Stirling & Elle King - The Upside 101 Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go 102 Troye Sivan - Lucky Strike 103 Kelsea Ballerini - Homecoming Queen 104 Bastille - Those Nights 105 Jon Bellion - Stupid Deep 106 Muse - Pressure 107 Metric - Risk 108 Maty Noyes - New Friends 109 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar 110 Lana Del Rey - **** It I Love You 111 Mabel - Don't Call Me Up 112 Florence + the Machine - Moderation 113 Tame Impala - Patience 114 HER - Hard Place 115 James Bay - Bad 116 Cold War Kids - Complainer 117 Lauren Daigle - Rescue 118 Mark Ronson & Lykke Li - Late Night Feelings 119 Jonas Brothers - Cool 120 Lizzo - Cuz I Love You 121 OneRepublic - Wanted 122 Ed Sheeran - Blow (feat. Chris Stapleton & Bruno Mars) 123 Dua Lipa - Swan Song 124 Charli XCX & Troye Sivan - 2099 125 Aly & AJ - Church 126 Khalid - Right Back 127 A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera - Fall on Me 128 Red Hearse - Red Hearse 129 John Mayer - I Guess I Just Feel Like 130 Janelle Monae - Screwed (feat. Zoe Kravitz) 131 Lana Del Rey - Hope is a Dangerous Thing 132 Bastille - Another Place 133 Ed Sheeran - South of the Border (feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B) 134 MUNA - Number One Fan 135 Kelly Clarkson - Broken and Beautiful 136 Beyonce - Spirit 137 Kygo & Valerie Broussard - Think About You 138 Dean Lewis - Stay Awake 139 Silk City & Dua Lipa - Electricity 140 Cage the Elephant - Social Cues 141 Allie X - Little Things 142 Walk the Moon - Timebomb 143 P!nk - Can We Pretend (feat. Cash Cash) 144 Ed Sheeran & Travis Scott - Antisocial 145 Maren Morris - The Bones 146 Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait 147 Madonna - Medellin (feat. Maluma) 148 SZA, The Weeknd, Travis Scott - Power is Power 149 Winona Oak - Break My Broken Heart 149 150 Labrinth, Sia, & Diplo - Genius Foals - Black Bull 151 Robyn - Ever Again 152 Alec Benjamin - If We Have Each Other 153 Astrid S - Someone New 154 Hozier - Almost (Sweet Music) 155 Beyonce - Before I Let Go 156 Ellie Goulding - Sixteen 157 Sigrid - Mine Right Now 158 Carly Rae Jepsen - Too Much 159 P!nk - Hurts 2 B Human (feat. Khalid) 160 Charli XCX & Troye Sivan - 1999 161 Adam Lambert - Superpower 162 Gesaffelstein & Pharrell - Blastoff 163 The Weeknd - Heartless 164 Mariah Carey - A No No 165 Lewis Capaldi - Bruises 166 P!nk - Love Me Anyway (feat. Chris Stapleton) 167 Charli XCX - Blame It on Your Love (feat. Lizzo) 168 Carly Rae Jepsen - Party for One 169 Avril Lavigne - I Fell in Love with the Devil 170 Carrie Underwood - Southbound 171 FKA Twigs - Holy Terrain (feat. Future) 172 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights 173 P!nk - A Million Dreams 174 Alec Benjamin - Let Me Down Slowly 175 Gucci Mane - Wake Up in the Sky (feat. Bruno Mars) 176 Kesha - My Own Dance 177 Madonna - Batuka 178 Grey - Want You Back (feat. LEON) 179 Allie X - Fresh Laundry 180 Alessia Cara - Out of Love 181 Kiana Lede - Ex 182 Zedd & Katy Perry - 365 183 Milky Chance - The Game 184 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber - I Don't Care 185 Hatchie - Stay with Me 186 BANKS - Gimme 187 Astrid S - The First One 188 David Guetta & RAYE - Stay 189 Catfish & the Bottlemen - Longshot 190 Walk Off the Earth - I'll Be There 191 Rina Sawayama - Cherry 192 DJ Khaled & SZA - Just Us 193 Maggie Rogers - Light On 194 CHVRCHES - Death Stranding 195 Zedd & Kehlani - Good Thing 50 Most Played Artists: Spoiler 11 Lorde 12 Foster the People 13 Kodaline 14 Vampire Weekend 15 Foals 16 Passion Pit 17 Ed Sheeran 18 Allie X 19 MGMT 20 Sigrid 21 Two Door Cinema Club 22 Beck 23 Gorillaz 24 Muse 25 Lana Del Rey 26 Hozier 27 Twenty One Pilots 28 U2 29 James Bay 30 5 Seconds of Summer 31 Lights 32 Sam Smith 33 Bastille 34 Michael Jackson 35 Mariah Carey 36 Janelle Monae 37 Kings of Leon 38 Kacey Musgraves 39 Shakira 40 Kygo 41 Marshmello 42 Foxes 43 P!nk 44 Silversun Pickups 45 The Civil Wars 46 Coldplay 47 Jess Glynne 48 Tame Impala 49 Alicia Keys 50 Bombay Bicycle Club Edited December 27, 2019 by potent
Sunderland 4ever Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 9 Kacey Musgraves - High Horse 12 Robyn - Missing U Two enjoyable songs from two albums I liked last year!
Mr. Loco Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 Shallow & Call out my name from last year's list
TheWayWeWere Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 that top 2 Girlfriend, High Horse, TMYLM
JGibson Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 12/20 broken + Get Out + Shallow + Tell Me You Love Me + High Horse
MusicLoverDude Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 Looking forward to your lists. Praying Top 3 in 2017 and Pray To God Top 15 in 2015
Brandon Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 Quote 1 Drake - Nice for What 11 CHVRCHES - Get Out 13 The Carters - Apeshit 14 The Weeknd - Call Out My Name 15 Lovely the Band - Broken 16 Sigrid - Sucker Punch 18 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow 20 Demi Lovato - Tell Me You Love Me ????? ???? ????????? ?? ???? ??? ??,???'? ???? ?? ??? ???? ?????.
BlackoutZone Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 10 hours ago, potent said: 2 Janelle Monae - Make Me Feel 3 Troye Sivan - My My My 4 Kendrick Lamar & SZA - All the Stars 5 Christine & the Queens - Girlfriend 6 Florence + the Machine - Hunger 9 Kacey Musgraves - High Horse 11 CHVRCHES - Get Out 12 Robyn - Missing U 14 The Weeknd - Call Out My Name 16 Sigrid - Sucker Punch I have no choice but to stan Though I feel like Graffiti is a better version of Get Out
K$Ellie Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 Nice For What is a bop but Make Me Feel deserved All The Stars and High Hopes top 10 last year Get Out was one of their few good songs last year The Weeknd, Ciara, Sigrid, Robyn and Demi's songs are cute
ATRL Moderator Legend E Posted December 7, 2019 ATRL Moderator Posted December 7, 2019 Ew at Drake Florence, Kacey, CHVRCHES, Gaga + Bradley, Robyn Can't wait for the rest!
potent Posted December 7, 2019 Author Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) 13 hours ago, BlackoutZone said: I have no choice but to stan Though I feel like Graffiti is a better version of Get Out Yeah if I could remake the list I probably wouldn't put Get Out so high. It's still a great song but I prefer Miracle at this point. 9 hours ago, K$Ellie said: Nice For What is a bop but Make Me Feel deserved All The Stars and High Hopes top 10 last year Get Out was one of their few good songs last year The Weeknd, Ciara, Sigrid, Robyn and Demi's songs are cute High Horse was top 10, High Hopes would be nowhere close Again though I think I might've placed High Horse too high, but it would definitely still be top 25 or so. 48 minutes ago, Legend E said: Ew at Drake Florence, Kacey, CHVRCHES, Gaga + Bradley, Robyn Can't wait for the rest! Nice for What is a bop No more Drake this year though Edited December 7, 2019 by potent
TRF. Posted December 7, 2019 Posted December 7, 2019 Janelle top 3 on the 2018 list... queen deserves
Lazuli Posted December 7, 2019 Posted December 7, 2019 drake as your #1 is questionable but at least it's better than IMF/GP!
Remmy Posted December 7, 2019 Posted December 7, 2019 We were pretty connected last year, both of our top 20s shared plenty of songs Wonder if that'll happen again. Ready to see what you've got!
K$Ellie Posted December 7, 2019 Posted December 7, 2019 20 hours ago, potent said: High Horse was top 10, High Hopes would be nowhere close Again though I think I might've placed High Horse too high, but it would definitely still be top 25 or so. absolutely yes Kacey, yes white mediocrity
potent Posted December 8, 2019 Author Posted December 8, 2019 (edited) SONGS: 195-151 No pictures or fancy layout for these first couple sets - these songs aren't really epic enough to warrant it anyway, but they at least deserved a mention. Edited December 8, 2019 by potent
potent Posted December 8, 2019 Author Posted December 8, 2019 ARTISTS: 50-46 So these are my top played last.fm artists from December 2018 to November 2019. Any ties were resolved on the basis of personal preference. Again you should expect to see a good mixture of current and older artists charting here.
potent Posted December 8, 2019 Author Posted December 8, 2019 14 hours ago, Lazuli said: drake as your #1 is questionable but at least it's better than IMF/GP! IMF is a bop although not nearly as good as NFW. God's Plan is lowkey trash though. 7 hours ago, K$Ellie said: absolutely yes Kacey, yes white mediocrity P!ATD is also white mediocrity
popstar Posted December 8, 2019 Posted December 8, 2019 1 Drake - Nice for What 2 Janelle Monae - Make Me Feel 3 Troye Sivan - My My My 4 Kendrick Lamar & SZA - All the Stars 9 Kacey Musgraves - High Horse 12 Robyn - Missing U 18 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow such a flawless taste! tbh Carly Rae's music this year was not bad but it wasn't my cup of tea Too Much is the best song she released as a single i guess... My fave from this set is 'A No No'
JGibson Posted December 8, 2019 Posted December 8, 2019 Love Me Anyway + Death Stranding + Longshot + I Don't Care + 3 Nights + A Million Dreams + Southbound + Sixteen Coldplay + Alicia Keys + Tame Impala
TheWayWeWere Posted December 8, 2019 Posted December 8, 2019 Gimme, Stay With Me, 365, Ever Again, Holy Terrain could've been higher Hurts 2B Human is amazing, should've been a lead tbh that entire era is a mess and a half, like new level of laziness
Lazuli Posted December 8, 2019 Posted December 8, 2019 death stranding and cherry are cute agreed that gimme was kind of a weak lead! stay with me so low ever again, mine right now
K$Ellie Posted December 8, 2019 Posted December 8, 2019 Let It Happen most played for Tame Impala Cherry, holy terrain, Before I Let Go, Mine Right Now and A No No so low
ATRL Moderator Legend E Posted December 8, 2019 ATRL Moderator Posted December 8, 2019 Some of these are too low Light On, Death Stranding, 365, Love Me Anyway deserved better. Also, stan one of Ms. Keys' best songs.
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