If you know me, you know of my disdain for “chart” music. For
as long as I can remember, I’ve only been able to stomach a few songs in the
American popular charts. When I was 12 or 13 years-old I’d listen to American Top-40 with Casey Kasem, though I would end up rooting for/liking just two
or three songs. Looking at the entire “Hot 100,” I’d maybe see a few more
tracks I liked. The ones I did enjoy, of course, were the new wave songs
(mostly). Rarely could I warm to a top-ten hit, though it did happen. And
occasionally a song I liked from the start would get to the top of the charts,
sometime to number 1. A similar situation occurred this year with my favorite
song of 2011 peaking at number 8 on the
Billboard chart.
It’s about as perfect a pop song as you could find. Better
yet, repeated radio play didn’t manage to kill it, like numbers 39 and 40 on
this chart. Good songs too, but you couldn’t escape them, and they just didn’t
have the durability of the number 1 song. Another oddball is Bruno Mars. I never
really got into his previous singles and all went top-ten here in America
Enough editorializing though, here’s the list…
40. “Stereo Hearts” – Gym Class Heroes Featuring Adam Levine
39. “Without You” – David Guetta & Usher
38. “Let Down” – Hot Chelle Rae”
37. “Money” – The Drums
36. “Yacht Club” – Owl City
35. “Dig A Little Deeper” – Peter, Bjorn & John
34. “Colours”- Zebra and Snake
33. “Still Life” – The Horrors
32. “Our Perfect Disease” – The Wombats
31. “Magdalena” – Brandon
30. “Waste of Time” – Paradise
Fears
29. “Tomorrow has to wait – Peter, Bjorn & John
27. “Tonight’s The Kind of Night” – Noah and the Whale
26. “Under Cover of Darkness” – The Strokes
25. “Norgaard” – The Vaccines
24. “Over You” – We The Kings
23. “Rescue song (RAK
Mix)” – Mr. Little Jeans
22. “Deer in the Headlights” – Owl City
21. “Marry You” – Bruno Mars
20. “Call Your Girlfriend” - Robyn
19. “Say You Like Me” – We The Kings
18. “I Feel Like Dancin’” – All Time Low
17. “Turn it Up” – Oh, Land
16. “Young Forever” – The Ready Set
15. “Can You Feel It” – One Night Only
14. “Forget About It” – All Time Low
13. “Master Chef Synesthesia (Buttery Biscuit Bass)” - Swede
Mason
12. “Dumb Love” – Sean Kingston
11. “Post Break-up Sex” – The Vaccines
10. “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S O.N.” – Noah and the Whale
9. “Simple
Trance-Like Getaway” – Never Shout Never
8. “What Makes You
Beautiful”- One Direction
7. “Bedroom Eyes” –
Dum Dum Girls
6. “Toes” - LIGHTS
5. “Someone Like You”
– The Summer Set
4. “The Body” – The
Pains of Being Pure at Heart
3. “History of Modern
Part I”- OMD
2. “If You Wanna” –
The Vaccines
1. “Tonight, Tonight” – Hot Chelle Rae”
