Showing posts with label Circles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Circles. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Radio & Records/Mediabase: Songs of the Year 1973-2025

Radio & Records/ Mediabase: Songs of the Year

1973-2025

Radio & Records was an independent trade publication which published a weekly pop songs chart as a competitor to Billboard magazine. It ran from October 3, 1973 to August 4, 2006, when it was taken over by Mediabase, who has continued the chart to present day.

All songs to hit #1 during that period have been sorted by most weeks atop the chart. Ties were broken based on songs’ overall points in Dave’s Music Database. Here then are the top songs each year from 1973 to present according to Radio & Records/Mediabase. You can also see a list of the chart’s all-time songs here.

Note: the year reflects when the song was first released, not necessarily the year it hit #1.

Check out other “songs of the year” lists here.

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First posted 3/27/2020; last updated 2/3/2026.

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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

ASCAP: Songs of the Year (1914-2024)

ASCAP:

Songs of the Year, 1914-2024

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) formed in 1914. They are a membership association of more than 930,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. In honor of their 100th birthday, they created a list of their top 100 songs as well as a list of the songs of the year from 1914 to 2013.

This page includes all of the songs on that list as well as awards for Pop Song of the Year. I can’t find an official list of the latter, but have compiled those songs to receive the award from 2005 to 2023.

FYI – ASCAP identifies the songs by the songwriters, not the performers, but I have identified the performer associated with the highest-ranked version of the song even if that version doesn’t correspond with the referenced year.

Click here to see other lists from publications and/or organizations.

ASCAP Award for Pop Song of the Year:

ASCAP Song of the Year (2014 List):

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First posted 5/18/2023; last updated 5/8/2024.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Post Malone: Top 30 Songs

Post Malone

Top 30 Songs

Rap singer/songwriter and record producer born Austin Richard Post on 7/4/1995 in Syracuse, New York. First artist in history to have eight songs reach diamond-certified status.

For a complete list of this act’s DMDB honors, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.

Click here to see other acts’ best-of lists.

Top 30 Songs

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards.

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Rockstar (with 21 Savage, 2017)
2. Sunflower (with Swae Lee, 2018)
3. Circles” (2019)

DMDB Top 2%:

4. Psycho (with Ty Dolla $ign, 2018)

DMDB Top 5%:

5. Better Now (2018)
6. Congratulations (with Quavo, 2016)
7. Wow. (2018)
8. I Fall Apart (2016)

DMDB Top 10%:

9. White Iverson (2015)
10. Goodbyes (with Young Thug, 2019)

DMDB Top 20%:

11. I Like You (A Happier Song) (with Doja Cat, 2022)
12. Go Flex (2016)
13. Candy Paint (2017)
14. One Right Now (with the Weeknd, 2021)
15. Ball for Me (with Nicki Minaj, 2018)
16. Take What You Want (with Ozzy Osbourne & Travis Scott, 2019)
17. Only Wanna Be with You (2021)
18. Saint-Tropez (2019)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

19. Paranoid (2018)
20. Over Now (2018)

21. 92 Explorer (2018)
22. Celebrate (DJ Khaled with Travis Scott & Post Malone, 2019)
23. Enemies (with DaBaby, 2019)
24. Hollywood’s Bleeding (2019)
25. Die for Me (with Future & Halsey, 2019)
26. On the Road (with Meek Mill & Lil Baby, 2019)
27. Allergic (2019)
28. Writing on the Wall (French Montana with Post Malone, Cardi B, & Rvssian, 2019)
29. Spoil My Night (with Swae Lee, 2018)
30. Rich & Sad (2018)

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First posted 4/25/2023.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Top 50 Songs of 2019

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 50 Songs of 2019

These are the top 50 songs of the year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from year-end lists.

Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.

    DMDB Top 1%:

  1. The Weeknd “Blinding Lights”
  2. Billie Eilish “Bad Guy”
  3. Shawn Mendes with Camila Cabello “Señorita”
  4. Ariana Grande “7 Rings”
  5. Post Malone “Circles”

    DMDB Top 2%:

  6. Tones and I “Dance Monkey”
  7. Jonas Brothers “Sucker”
  8. Dua Lipa “Don’t Start Now”
  9. Roddy Ricch “The Box”
  10. Ed Sheeran with Justin Bieber “I Don’t Care”

  11. Harry Styles “Watermelon Sugar”
  12. Gabby Barrett with Charlie Puth “I Hope”
  13. Maroon 5 “Memories”
  14. Doja Cat “Say So”

    DMDB Top 5%:

  15. Khalid “Talk”
  16. Billie Eilish “Everything I Wanted”
  17. Harry Styles “Adore You”
  18. Maren Morris “The Bones”
  19. Sam Smith with Normani “Dancing with a Stranger”
  20. Dan + Shay with Justin Bieber “10,000 Hours”

  21. Chris Brown with Drake “No Guidance”
  22. Lewis Capaldi “Before You Go”
  23. Taylor Swift “You Need to Calm Down”
  24. Travis Scott “Highest in the Room”
  25. Lil Tecca “Ran$om”
  26. Arizona Zervas “Roxanne”
  27. Selena Gomez “Lose You to Love Me”
  28. Taylor Swift with Brendon Urie “Me!”
  29. J. Cole “Middle Child”
  30. Masked Wolf “Astronaut in the Ocean”

    DMDB Top 10%:

  31. The Black Keys “Lo/Hi”
  32. Blackbear “Hot Girl Bummer”
  33. The Weeknd “Heartless”
  34. Taylor Swift “Lover”
  35. Polo G with Lil Tjay “Pop Out”
  36. Post Malone with Young Thug “Goodbyes”
  37. Cardi B with Bruno Mars “Please Me”
  38. Lil Nas X “Panini”
  39. Juice Wrld “Robbery”
  40. Blanco Brown “The Git Up”

  41. Camila Cabello with DaBaby “My Oh My”
  42. Ed Sheeran with Khalid “Beautiful People”
  43. Kygo with Whitney Houston “Higher Love”
  44. Vampire Weekend “Harmony Hall”
  45. Blake Shelton “God’s Country”
  46. The Black Keys “Go”
  47. The Lumineers “Gloria”
  48. DaBaby “Suge”
  49. Jonas Brothers “Only Human”
  50. Shawn Mendes “If I Can’t Have You”
  51. Tyler the Creator “Earfquake”

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First posted 12/26/2021; last updated 1/17/2023.

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Saturday, November 30, 2019

Post Malone “Circles” hit #1

Circles

Post Malone

Writer(s): Austin Post, Louis Bell, Adam Feeney, Kaan Gunesberk, Billy Walsh (see lyrics here)

Released: August 30, 2019

First Charted: September 14, 2019

Peak: 13 US, 111 BA, 11 DG, 17 RR, 12 AC, 14 A40, 23 MR, 3 UK, 2 CN, 2 AU, 3 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 10.0 US, 1.2 UK, 12.62 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 0.94 radio, 858.40 video, 2400.49 streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

Singer/songwriter and rapper Post Malone was born Austin Richard Post in Syracuse, New York in 1995. His debut album Stoney from 2016 featured the top 10, diamond-certified song “Congratulations.” His next album, 2017’s Beerbongs & Bentleys, spawned the #1 hits “Rockstar” and “Psycho” as well as the # hit “Better Now.” In 2019, he released Hollywood’s Bleeding. The first two singles, “Wow.” and “Goodbyes” reached #2 and #3 respectively; the third single, “Circles,” gave him his fourth #1 song. It was his first chart-topper where he wasn’t accompanied by another artist.

“Circles” set a record for most weeks in the top 10 (39) before being surpassed by the Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.” It logged 61 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It became the most-played radio song of 2020 overall as well as on adult contemporary radio. WK The song was also nominated for Grammys for Record and Song of the Year.

Songfacts.com described the song this way: “Though the relationship seems to bring only sorrow, Post and his lover are unable to split. But continuing to stay together on their carousel only increases the tension between them.” SF

Billboard magazine described the song as “backed by sunny, acoustic guitars, swirling percussion, and infectious melodies.” WK R Dub, the director of programming at Z90.3, called it “an absolutely addicting, fun, emotional, and…non-fatiguing hook, combined with relatable lyrics.” WK

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First posted 10/19/2022; last updated 3/31/2024.

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Saturday, September 21, 2019

Post Malone Hollywood’s Bleeding hit #1

Hollywood’s Bleeding

Post Malone

Released: September 6, 2019

Peak: 15 US, 17 RB, 11 UK, 19 CN, 16 AU

Sales (in millions): 4.0 US, 0.3 UK, 16.25 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: rap

Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to charts.

  1. Hollywood’s Bleeding (9/21/19, 15 BB, 11 UK, 12 CN, 17 AU)
  2. Saint-Tropez (9/21/19, 18 BB, 10 RB, 52 UK, 10 CN, 19 AU)
  3. Enemies (with DaBaby) (9/17/19, 16 BB, 9 RB, 15 CN, 28 AU)
  4. Allergic (9/21/19, 37 BB, 33 MR, 39 CN, 45 AU)
  5. A Thousand Bad Times (9/21/19, 29 BB, 29 CN, 39 AU)
  6. Circles (8/30/19, 13 BB, 111 BA, 11 DG, 17 RR, 14 A40, 23 MR, 3 UK, 2 CN, 2 AU, 3 DF)
  7. Die for Me (with Future & Halsey) (9/21/19, 20 BB, 11 RB, 21 CN, 23 AU)
  8. On the Road (with Meek Mill & Lil Baby) (9/21/19, 22 BB, 13 RB, 22 CN, 35 AU)
  9. Take What You Want (with Ozzy Osbourne & Travis Scott) (10/15/19, 8 BB, 28 AR, 22 UK, 8 CN, 30 AU)
  10. I’m Gonna Be (9/21/19, 33 BB, 35 CN, 54 AU)
  11. Staring at the Sun (with SZA) (9/21/19, 34 BB, 38 CN, 48 AU)
  12. Sunflower (with Swae Lee) (10/18/18, 11 BB, 13 DG, 13 ST, 29 A40, 19 RB, 3 UK, 12 CN, 13 AU, 26 DF)
  13. Internet (9/21/19, 58 BB, 25 RB, 53 CN, 77 AU)
  14. Goodbyes (with Young Thug) (7/5/19, 3 BB, 30 A40, 2 RB, 5 UK, 5 CN, 5 AU)
  15. Myself (9/21/19, 52 BB, 47 CN, 71 AU)
  16. I Know (9/21/19, 53 BB, 24 RB, 52 CN, 76 AU)
  17. Wow. (12/24/18, 2 BB, 11 RR, 11 RB, 3 UK, 3 CN, 2 AU)

Total Running Time: 50:56

Rating:

4.072 out of 5.00 (average of 24 ratings)

Awards:

(Click on award to learn more).

About the Album:

Rap singer/songwriter Post Malone was born Austin Richard Post in 1995 in Syracuse, New York. His first chart entry, “White Iverson” in 2015, was certified diamond and reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. His debut album, 2016’s Stoney followed. It reached #4 on the Billboard album chart and was certified five times platinum. His follow-up, 2018’s Beerbongs & Bentleys, hit #1 and was also certified five times platinum. It featured the #1 hits “Rockstar” and “Psycho.”

That same year, Post Malone would reach #1 a third time with Sunflower. The twenty-times platinum single was first featured in the movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but would also show up on his third studio album, Hollywood’s Bleeding. The video was played more than two billion times on YouTube.

The first official single from the album was “the fine-tuned hip-hop gem” AMG Wow. (#2, eight-times platinum). It was followed by Goodbyes (#3, three-times platinum), and Circles, on which he allows “his signature vocal trill to soar.” AMG The latter was Post Malone’s fourth #1 and was certified ten-times platinum. It was nominated for Grammys for Record and Song of the Year. He also set a record for most weeks (34) in the top 10 with “Circles.” Those three songs and “Sunflower” all reached one billion streams on Spotify.

All of the songs from Hollywood’s Bleeding reached the Billboard Hot 100, maintaining a trend of music’s most successful artists accomplishing that feat when a new album was dropped during the age of streaming. Enemies, Allergic, and Take What You Want were released as official singles. The latter, featuring “haunting vocals” AMG from heavy-metal superstar Ozzy Osbourne, was Post Malone’s fifth top-ten hit from the Hollywood’s Bleeding album.

NME’s Danny Wright said “Post Malone is the post everything star the kids have called for, a musician made for the internet-age; a goofball chameleon instinctively skilled at understanding the ways gneres can merge together.” WK Conseqeunce’s Dan Weiss called it Malone’s “most listenable work,” WK saying it “may well be the catchiest album you hear in 2019.” WK

AllMusic.com’s Neil Z. Yeung said Post’s “basic hip-hop/rock sound and sad guy image are still at the fore” AMG but “he strikes a more well-honed balance…leaning less on the overly dark trap tones and reluctant-star posturing of past works.” AMG He adds that “there’s nary a dud to be found” AMG on the album which “pushes [Malone] even further into the pop-savvy landscape where he belongs.” AMG

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First posted 3/13/2024.

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