Showing posts with label Lorde. Show all posts
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Friday, December 9, 2022

New Musical Express: Albums of the Year, 1963-2022

New Musical Express:

Albums of the Year, 1963-2022

This UK music magazine started as a newspaper in 1952, known for publishing the initial British singles charts. It ceased print publication in January 2018, but still maintains a website. They have published annual album-of-the-year lists since 1974. This list also factors in pre-1974 album-of-the-year awards based on appearances on best-of-all-time lists from NME.

Check out other album of the year awards here.

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First posted 12/30/2020; last updated 12/9/2022.

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Sunday, May 9, 2021

Adult Alternative Songs, Top 250+: 1990-2021

Adult Alternative:

Top 250+ Songs, 1990-2021

In 1996, Billboard magazine lanched the adult album alternative (AAA) chart. The radio format is a spinoff of the album-oriented radio stations focused on classic rock from the ‘60s and ‘70s. While artists like Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, and Bruce Springsteen are staples of classic rock, their current material was largely neglected by those stations. Alongside these heritage acts, AAA played mainstream-rock-oriented alternative acts like the Gin Blossoms, Goo Goo Dolls, Hootie & the Blowfish, Matchbox 20, Dave Matthews Band, and Alanis Morissette.

In 2017, the DMDB compiled a chart of the top 100 adult alternative songs based on the most weeks at #1, which has since been updated. The ranking includes all songs which spent at least 5 weeks atop the chart.

In 2020, the DMDB created a second top 100 list focused on songs from 1990 to 1996 which preceded the adult alternative chart, but which fit the format.

In 2021, in honor of the adult alternative chart’s 25th anniversary, Billboard published its list of the top 100 adult alternative songs based on chart performance. The list on this page combines those three lists, ranking the songs based on their overall Dave’s Music Database status.

Click here to see other genre-specific song lists.

1. R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)
2. Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
3. Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know” (2011)
4. Oasis “Wonderwall” (1995)
5. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (2006)
6. U2 “One” (1992)
7. Santana with Rob Thomas “Smooth” (1999)
8. Jason Mraz “I’m Yours” (2008)
9. Coldplay “Viva La Vida” (2008)
10. Goo Goo Dolls “Iris” (1998)

11. Radiohead “Creep” (1993)
12. Lorde “Royals” (2013)
13. Pearl Jam “Jeremy” (1991)
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge” (1991)
15. Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know” (1995)
16. Beck “Loser” (1993)
17. Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (2004)
18. No Doubt “Don’t Speak” (1995)
19. Eric Clapton “Tears in Heaven” (1992)
20. U2 “Beautiful Day” (2000)

21. Seal “Kiss from a Rose” (1994)
22. Oasis “Live Forever” (1994)
23. Sam Smith “Stay with Me” (2014)
24. Alanis Morissette “Ironic” (1995)
25. Coldplay “Clocks” (2002)
26. Soundgarden “Black Hole Sun” (1994)
27. Snow Patrol “Chasing Cars” (2006)
28. Sheryl Crow “All I Wanna Do” (1994)
29. The Lumineers “Ho Hey” (2012)
30. Train “Hey, Soul Sister” (2009)

31. Kings of Leon “Use Somebody” (2008)
32. Pearl Jam “Alive” (1991)
33. R.E.M. “Everybody Hurts’ (1992)
34. Bruce Springsteen “Streets of Philadelphia” (1994)
35. Silverchair “Tomorrow” (1994)
36. Train “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” (2001)
37. Oasis “Don’t Look Back in Anger” (1995)
38. Live “Lightning Crashes” (1994)
39. Stone Temple Pilots “Interstate Love Song” (1994)
40. Stone Temple Pilot “Plush” (1992)

41. Collective Soul “Shine” (1993)
42. Smashing Pumpkins “1979” (1995)
43. Green Day “Basket Case” (1994)
44. Oasis “Champagne Supernova” (1995)
45. Pearl Jam “Black” (1991)
46. Eric Clapton “Change the World” (1996)
47. Jewel “You Were Meant for Me” (1995)
48. Pearl Jam “Daughter” (1993)
49. U2 “Vertigo” (2004)
50. Green Day “Longview” (1994)

51. The Wallflowers “One Headlight” (1996)
52. Matchbox 20 “Bent” (2000)
53. Portugal, the Man “Feel It Still” (2017)
54. Pearl Jam “Better Man” (1994)
55. Weezer “Buddy Holly” (1994)
56. Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories “Stay (I Missed You)” (1994)
57. Alanis Morissette “You Learn” (1995)
58. Tracy Chapman “Give Me One Reason” (1995)
59. Smashing Pumpkins “Today” (1993)
60. Smashing Pumpkins “Disarm” (1993)

61. The Rembrandts “I’ll Be There for You” (1995)
62. Joan Osborne “One of Us” (1995)
63. Smashing Pumpkins “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” (1995)
64. Collective Soul “December” (1995)
65. Mumford & Sons “I Will Wait” (2012)
66. The Cranberries “Zombie” (1994)
67. Shawn Colvin “Sunny Came Home” (1996)
68. Sting “Fields of Gold” (1993)
69. Sarah McLachlan “Building a Mystery” (1997)
70. Green Day “When I Come Around” (1994)

71. Alanis Morissette “Head Over Feet” (1995)
72. Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees” (1995)
73. U2 “Mysterious Ways” (1991)
74. Soul Asylum “Runaway Train” (1992)
75. Jewel “Foolish Games” (1995)
76. The Verve Pipe “The Freshmen” (1996)
77. Primitive Radio Gods “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand” (1996)
78. Goo Goo Dolls “Name” (1995)
79. The Black Keys “Lonely Boy” (2011)
80. Beck “Where It’s At” (1996)

81. Live “Selling the Drama” (1994)
82. The Black Crowes “Hard to Handle” (1990)
83. Counting Crows “Mr. Jones” (1993)
84. U2 “Night and Day” (1990)
85. The Fray “You Found Me” (2008)
86. Matchbox 20 “3 A.M.” (1996)
87. KT Tunstall “Black Horse & the Cherry Tree” (2004)
88. Lenny Kravitz “Are You Gonna Go My Way?” (1993)
89. Lorde “Team” (2013)
90. Eric Clapton “Layla” (Unplugged version, 1992)

91. John Mayer “Waiting on the World to Change” (2006)
92. Fastball “The Way” (1998)
93. U2 “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own” (2004)
94. Bonnie Raitt “Something to Talk About” (1991)
95. Phillip Phillips “Home” (2012)
96. Coldplay “Paradise” (2011)
97. Hootie & the Blowfish “Only Wanna Be with You” (1994)
98. Dave Matthews Band “Crash into Me” (1996)
99. X Ambassadors “Renegades” (2015)
100. R.E.M. “Man on the Moon” (1992)

101. Imagine Dragons “It’s Time” (2011)
102. Alanis Morissette “Hand in My Pocket” (1995)
103. Crowded House “Weather with You” (1991)
104. The Cranberries “Linger” (1993)
105. Smashing Pumpkins “Tonight Tonight” (1995)
106. Coldplay “Speed of Sound” (2005)
107. David Gray “Babylon” (1998)
108. New Radicals “You Get What You Give” (1998)
109. INXS “Suicide Blonde” (1990)
110. Sheryl Crow “Soak Up the Sun” (2002)

111. Blues Traveler “Run Around” (1994)
112. Florence + the Machine “Dog Days Are Over” (2008)
113. R.E.M. “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” (1994)
114. Spin Doctors “Two Princes” (1991)
115. Milky Chance “Stolen Dance” (2013)
116. Sting “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You” (1993)
117. Bonnie Raitt “I Can’t Make You Love Me” (1991)
118. Hootie & the Blowfish “Let Her Cry” (1994)
119. Goo Goo Dolls “Slide” (1998)
120. Bonnie Raitt “Love Sneakin’ Up on You” (1994)

121. Seal “Crazy” (1990)
122. Hootie & the Blowfish “Hold My Hand” (1994)
123. Elle King “Ex’s and Oh’s” (2014)
124. The Black Keys “Fever” (2014)
125. Jack Johnson “Upside Down” (2006)
126. R.E.M. “Drive” (1992)
127. Sting “All This Time” (1990)
128. John Mayer “No Such Thing” (2001)
129. R.E.M. “Shiny Happy People” (1991)
130. Sheryl Crow “Everyday Is a Winding Road” (1996)

131. Death Cab for Cutie “Soul Meets Body” (2005)
132. Train “Calling All Angels” (2003)
133. George Ezra “Budapest” (2013)
134. Sarah McLachlan “I Will Remember You” (1995)
135. Sting with Cheb Mami “Desert Rose” (1999)
136. U2 “Electrical Storm” (2002)
137. Sheryl Crow “If It Makes You Happy” (1996)
138. Radiohead “High and Dry” (1995)
139. Beck “Dreams” (2015)
140. John Mellencamp & Me’Shell Ndegeocello “Wild Night” (1994)

141. Eric Clapton “My Father’s Eyes” (1998)
142. U2 “Even Better Than the Real Thing” (1991)
143. U2 “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” (1995)
144. Sheryl Crow “My Favorite Mistake” (1998)
145. The Cranberries “Dreams” (1992)
146. Collective Soul “The World I Know” (1995)
147. Paula Cole “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” (1996)
148. Melissa Etheridge “I’m the Only One” (1993)
149. The Black Keys “Lo/Hi” (2019)
150. Gin Blossoms “‘Til I Hear It from You” (1995)

151. U2 “Staring at the Sun” (1997)
152. Bruce Springsteen “Human Touch” (1992)
153. Bruce Springsteen “Secret Garden” (1995)
154. Pearl Jam “Just Breathe” (2009)
155. Hootie & the Blowfish “Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven)” (1996)
156. Sheryl Crow “Strong Enough” (1993)
157. Matchbox 20 “Push” (1996)
158. Death Cab for Cutie “I Will Possess Your Heart” (2008)
159. Gin Blossoms “Follow You Down” (1996)
160. Kings of Leon “Radioactive” (2010)

161. Jewel “Who Will Save Your Soul?” (1995)
162. Beck “Up All Night” (2017)
163. U2 “You’re the Best Thing About Me” (2017)
164. Jack Johnson “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing” (2005)
165. Rag ‘n’ Bone Man “Human” (2016)
166. Coldplay “Adventure of a Lifetime” (2015)
167. Paula Cole “I Don’t Want to Wait” (1996)
168. Alice Merton “No Roots” (2016)
169. The Lumineers “Ophelia” (2016)
170. Dave Matthews Band “Stay (Wasting Time)” (1998)

171. Hootie & the Blowfish “Time” (1994)
172. Arcade Fire “Everything Now” (2017)
173. The Killers “Read My Mind” (2006)
174. Jack Johnson “If I Had Eyes” (2007)
175. R.E.M. “The Great Beyond” (1999)
176. Kings of Leon “Waste a Moment” (2016)
177. Mumford & Sons “Believe” (2015)
178. John Mellencamp “Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)” (1996)
179. Coldplay “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall” (2011)
180. U2 “Window in the Skies” (2006)

181. Jack Johnson “You and Your Heart” (2010)
182. Duncan Sheik “Barely Breathing” (1996)
183. Sheryl Crow “A Change Would Do You Good” (1996)
184. Vampire Weekend “Harmony Hall” (2019)
185. Jack Johnson “Flake” (2001)
186. The Lumineers “Stubborn Love” (2012)
187. Counting Crows “Accidentally in Love” (2004)
188. The Wallflowers “6th Avenue Heartache” (1996)
189. The Black Keys “Go” (2019)
190. O.A.R. “Shattered (Turn the Car Around)” (2008)

191. Mumford & Sons “Guiding Light” (2018)
192. Counting Crows “Hanginaround” (1999)
193. Collective Soul “Run” (1999)
194. Michael Franti & Spearhead “The Sound of Sunshine” (2010)
195. Sarah McLachlan “Fallen” (2003)
196. Dave Matthews Band “Funny the Way It Is” (2009)
197. Dave Matthews Band “Where Are You Going?” (2002)
198. Blues Traveler “Most Precarious” (1997)
199. The Lumineers “Gloria” (2019)
200. Paolo Nutini “New Shoes” (2006)

201. Natalie Merchant “Kind and Generous” (1998)
202. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “You Worry Me” (2018)
203. Beck “Uneventful Days” (2019)
204. John Mellencamp with India.Arie “Peaceful World” (2001)
205. Of Monsters and Men “Mountain Sound” (2011)
206. Dave Matthews Band “Everyday” (2001)
207. Norah Jones “Sunrise” (2004)
208. The Head and the Heart “All We Ever Knew” (2016)
209. Jack Johnson “Good People” (2005)
210. The Revivalists “Wish I Knew You” (2016)

211. R.E.M. “Supernatural Superserious” (2008)
212. Bruce Hornsby “Gonna Be Some Changes Made” (2004)
213. David Gray “The One I Love” (2005)
214. Dave Matthews Band “I Did It” (2001)
215. Sheryl Crow “Anything But Down” (1998)
216. Fitz & the Tantrums “Out of My League” (2013)
217. John Mayer “Bigger Than My Body” (2003)
218. Spoon “Hot Thoughts” (2017)
219. K.T. Tunstall “Hold On” (2007)
220. Snow Patrol “Just Say Yes” (2009)

221. John Mayer “Who Says” (2009)
222. Tracy Chapman “Telling Stories (There Is Friction in the Space Between)” (2000)
223. The Avett Brothers “Ain’t No Man” (2016)
224. The Lumineers “Life in the City” (2019)
225. David Gray “You’re the World to Me” (2007)
226. The Strokes “Bad Decisions” (2020)
227. The Head and the Heart “Lost in My Mind” (2011)
228. Snow Patrol “Crack the Shutters” (2008)
229. David Gray “Fugitive” (2009)
230. Death Cab for Cutie “You Are a Tourist” (2011)

231. White Reaper “Might Be Right” (2019)
232. One Eskimo “Kandi” (2009)
233. Death Cab for Cutie “Gold Rush” (2018)
234. Bakar “Hell N Back” (2019)
235. Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs “Beg, Steal or Borrow” (2010)
236. Family of the Year “Hero” (2012)
237. Norah Jones “Chasing Pirates” (2009)
238. Nathaniel Rateliff “And It’s Still Alright” (2020)
239. Serena Ryder “Stompa” (2013)
240. Norah Jones “Thinking About You” (2006)

241. Pete Yorn “Life on a Chain” (2001)
242. Dave Matthews Band “You and Me” (2009)
243. Leon Bridges “Bad Bad News” (2018)
244. Kings of Leon “The Bandit” (2021)
245. Ray LaMontagne “Strong Enough” (2020)
246. George Ezra “Blame It on Me” (2014)
247. Gomez “See the World” (2006)
248. Caamp “Officer of Love” (2020)
249. Snow Patrol “Shut Your Eyes” (2006)
250. John Butler Trio “Better Than” (2007)

251. Milky Chance with Jack Johnson “Don’t Let Me Down” (2020)
252. Dave Matthews Band “Oh” (2003)
253. My Morning Jacket “Feel You” (2020)
254. James Morrison “Nothing Ever Hurt Like You” (2008)

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Sunday, December 31, 2017

2017: Top 25 Albums

First posted 1/8/2021.

Dave’s Music Database:

Top Albums of 2017

Based on a combination of year-end lists and overall status in Dave’s Music Database, these are the top 25 albums of 2017:

  1. Kendrick Lamar Damn.
  2. Ed Sheeran ÷ (Divide)
  3. Lorde Melodrama
  4. The Greatest Showman soundtrack
  5. Taylor Swift Reputation
  6. Jay-Z 4:44
  7. SZA CTRL
  8. Luke Combs This One’s for You
  9. Beck Colors
  10. LCD Soundsystem American Dream

  11. Drake More Life
  12. The War on Drugs A Deeper Understanding
  13. Chris Stapleton From a Room: Volume 1
  14. The National Sleep Well Beast
  15. Roger Waters Is This the Life We Really Want?
  16. Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy
  17. St. Vincent Mass Education
  18. Khalid American Teen
  19. U2 Songs of Experience
  20. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice

  21. Harry Styles Harry Styles
  22. Bob Dylan Triplicate
  23. Pink Beautiful Trauma
  24. H.E.R. H.E.R.
  25. Lana Del Rey Lust for Life

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Saturday, July 8, 2017

Lorde’s Melodrama debuted at #1

Melodrama

Lorde

Released: June 16, 2017

Peak: 11 US, 5 UK, 11 CN, 11 AU

Sales (in millions): 0.5 US, 0.1 UK, 1.0 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: pop/alternative

Tracks:

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

  1. Green Light (3/2/17, 19 US, 29 AC, 18 A40, 4 AA, 9 MR)
  2. Sober
  3. Homemade Dynamite (9/15/17, 92 US, 28 AA)
  4. The Louvre
  5. Liability (4/1/17, 78 US)
  6. Hard Feelings/Loveless
  7. Sober II (Melodrama)
  8. Writer in the Dark
  9. Supercut
  10. Liability (Reprise)
  11. Perfect Places (6/1/17, 16 MR)

Total Running Time: 40:58

Rating:

4.373 out of 5.00 (average of 27 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album:

Lorde was 16 when the blockbuster hit ‘Royals’ earned her acclaim as the voice of a generation. As her second album showed, that wasn’t quite accurate — she’s more like the voice of smart, self-conscious, neurotic people of all generations.” RS’20 After the success of her Pure Heroine debut in 2013, “the preternaturally talented New Zealand singer/songwriter” AMG “retreated from the spotlight, and travelled between New Zealand and the United States to examine the world around her. Initially inspired by her disillusionment with fame, she wrote Melodrama to capture heartbreak and solitude” WK after breaking up with James Lowe, her boyfriend of three years. She described the album as “enlightment after love lost.” WK

The album presents “Lorde as a young woman, not a sullen teenager. Tonally and thematically, it’s a considerable shift from Pure Heroine.” AMG She “knows how to execute not only songwriting and public narrative but also a melding of the two.” AMG Musically, “the sound is bigger-sounding and more club-friendly than the spare sound of her 2016 debut.” RS’20

This is “thanks in part to Lorde’s decision to collaborate with Jack Antonoff, the leader of Fun. and Bleachers who has been nearly omnipresent in 2010s pop/rock. Antonoff’s steely signatures – a reliance on retro synths, a sheen so glassy it glares – are all over the place on Melodrama but Lorde is unquestionably the auteur of the album, not just because the songs tease at autobiography but because of how it builds upon Pure Heroine.” AMG

“Lorde retains her bookish brooding, but Melodrama isn’t monochromatic.” AMG “The final product is an electropop record incorporating piano-based melodies, pulsing synthesizers, and dense electronic beats.” WK She cited Kate Bush, Sinéad O'Connor, and Laurie Anderson as inspirations for her vocal delivery. WK

Critic Carl Wilson of Slate compared the album to artists like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. WK The Guardian’s Alexis Petridis described the album as a “cocky challenge being issued to her musical contemporaries.” WK Drowned in Sound’s Joe Goggins said Lorde operates “at the highest artistic level yet [puts] it acrss as easy-access modern mainstream pop.” WK Slant’s Sal Cinquemani said it was “cathartic, dramatic, and everything else you could want an album titled Melodrama to be.” WK It was nominated for a Grammy for Album of the Year.

“Green Light opens the proceedings with a genuine sense of exuberance and it's an emotion she returns to often, sometimes reveling in its joy, sometimes adding an undercurrent of melancholy.” AMG She called the song “a traditional break-up song.” WK The writing process for the song took 18 months. WK New Musical Express (NME) named it the single of the year. WK

Sadness bubbles to the surface on occasion, as it does on the stark Liability, and so does Lorde’s penchant for blunt literalism – Writer in the Dark, where our narrator sings ‘bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark,’ thereby suggesting all of her songs are some kind of autobiography.” AMG That song was, in fact, inspired by her “waking up in the middle of the night in a stranger’s bed, feeling naughy and empowered.” WK

“Instead, Lorde is embracing all the possibilities the world has to offer but then retreating to the confines of home, so she can process everything she’s experienced. This balance between discovery and reflection gives Melodrama a tension, but the addition of genuine, giddy pleasure – evident on the neon pulse of Homemade Dynamite and Supercut.” AMG

She wrote “Homemade Dynamite” with singer Tove Lo while other songs drew inspiration form other artists. “Supercut” was inspired by Paul Simon’s Graceland album. WK The Louvre was inspired by Frank Ocean’s Blond album and Hard Feelings/Loveless used a sample from Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” from 1981. WK Perfect Places was inspired by the deaths of David Bowie and Prince, who Lord said were her two most influential artists while recording Melodrama. WK

Lorde was inspired to write Sober after playing a show at Coachella. Sober II (Melodrama) was a continuation of “Sober” with the focus on “the emotions and sense of loneliness after a party is over.” WK

Notes: In Japan, a remix of “Green Light” was added. Spotify added a remix of “Homemade Dynamite.”

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First posted 12/13/2020; last updated 4/27/2022.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Top 50 Songs of 2013

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 50 Songs of 2013

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. Pharrell Williams “Happy”
  2. Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines”
  3. Lorde “Royals”
  4. John Legend “All of Me”
  5. Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky”
  6. Katy Perry “Roar”
  7. One Republic “Counting Stars”
  8. Avici with Aloe Blacc “Wake Me Up!”
  9. Katy Perry with Juicy J “Dark Horse”
  10. Magic! “Rude”

  11. Idina Menzel “Let It Go”
  12. Pitbull with Ke$ha “Timber”
  13. Hozier “Take Me to Church”
  14. Miley Cyrus “Wrecking Ball”

    DMDB Top 2%:

  15. Eminem with Rihanna “The Monster”
  16. Justin Timberlake “Mirrors”
  17. Vance Joy “Riptide”
  18. Bastille “Pompeii”

    DMDB Top 5%:

  19. Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow”
  20. Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Drunk in Love”

  21. Milky Chance “Stolen Dance”
  22. Darius Rucker “Wagon Wheel”
  23. Drake with Majid Jordan “Hold on, We’re Going Home”
  24. Lorde “Team”
  25. Nico & Vinz “Am I Wrong?”
  26. Arctic Monkeys “Do I Wanna Know?”
  27. George Ezra “Budapest”
  28. DJ Snake with Lil Jon “Turn Down for What”
  29. Baauer “Harlem Shake”
  30. Miley Cyrus “We Can’t Stop”

  31. A Great Big World with Christina Aguilera “Say Something”
  32. Drake “Started from the Bottom”
  33. Tove Lo “Habits (Stay High)”
  34. Sia with the Weeknd & Diplo “Elastic Heart”
  35. Mr. Probz “Waves (Robin Shulz Remix)”
  36. Justin Timberlake with Jay-Z “Suit & Tie”
  37. Eminem “Rap God”
  38. Jason Derulo with 2 Chainz “Talk Dirty”
  39. Fall Out Boy “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ‘Em Up)”
  40. One Direction “Story of My Life”

  41. Naughty Boy with Sam Smith “La La La”
  42. American Authors “Best Day of My Life”
  43. MKTO “Classic”

    DMDB Top 10%:

  44. Kristen Bell with Agatha Lee Moon & Katie Lopez “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?”
  45. Arcade Fire “Reflektor”
  46. Ellie Goulding “Burn”
  47. Florida Georgia Line with Luke Bryan “This Is How We Roll”
  48. Paramore “Ain’t It Fun”
  49. Lady Gaga “Applause”
  50. Ariana Grande “Santa Tell Me”

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First posted 12/30/2013; last updated 1/18/2023.

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2013: Top 25 Albums

First posted 12/31/2013; updated 1/8/2021.

Dave’s Music Database:

Top Albums of 2013

Based on a combination of year-end lists (see resources at bottom of page) and overall status in Dave’s Music Database, these are the top 25 albums of 2013. Be sure to also check out the DMDB post of the top 50 songs of 2013.

  1. Beyoncé Beyoncé
  2. Frozen soundtrack
  3. Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
  4. Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer, Different Park
  5. Kanye West Yeezus
  6. Daft Punk Random Access Memories
  7. Arctic Monkeys AM
  8. Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
  9. Lorde Pure Heroine
  10. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2

  11. Luke Bryan Crash My Party
  12. Arcade Fire Reflektor
  13. Haim Days Are Gone
  14. David Bowie The Next Day
  15. Drake Nothing Was the Same
  16. Queens of the Stone AgeLike Clockwork
  17. My Bloody Valentine MBV
  18. Chance the Rapper Acid Rap
  19. Disclosure Settle
  20. One Direction Midnight Memories

  21. Michael Bublé To Be Loved
  22. Blake Shelton Based on a True Story
  23. Janelle Monáe The Electric Lady
  24. Jay-Z Magna Carta…Holy Grail
  25. Katy Perry Prism

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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Lorde hit #1 with “Royals”

Royals

Lorde

Writer(s): Joel Little, Ella Yelich O’Connor (see lyrics here)

Released: June 3, 2013

First Charted: June 22, 2013

Peak: 19 US, 16 BA, 15 DG, 11 RR, 2 AC, 13 A40, 18 AA, 17 MR, 11 UK, 16 CN, 3 AU, 1 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 10.0 US, 0.6 UK, 22.0 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 1032.48 video, 1064.0 streaming

Awards:

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About the Song:

“Royals” was the first single from New Zealand singer-songwriter Ella Yelich O’Connor, The singer, better known as Lorde, topped the U.S. pop charts when she was only 16 and became the first solo act from New Zealand to top the Billboard Hot 100. “Royals” also landed atop the charts in New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It reached the top five in Australia and Switzerland.

She wrote “Royals” in a half an hour in July 2012, intending it as a “response to everything that’s on pop radio,” a sort of rant against the lyrics focused on fame and luxury. She was inspired by a July 1976 National Geographic magazine which showed Kansas City Royals’ baseball player George Brett signing baseballs. As she said to VH1, “It was just that word. It’s really cool.” WK

Lorde’s critique of the high life rubbed Feministing blogger Vernoica Bayetti Flores the wrong way. She said the song was “deeply racist, because we all know who she’s thinking when we’re talking gold teeth, Cristal and Maybachs.” WK However, The Washington Times’ Aziza Jackson defended the song as being about “consumerism and class, not race…Today’s hip-hop and pop lyrics are laced with the promotion of shiny yet empty lives that is not black or white, but green.” WK

However, the song was generally praised. Digital Spy said the song had an “addictive hook that thrives on its simplicity” and that “Lorde’s success is here to stay.” WK Spin magazine said “true artpop rarely announces itself as such.” WK The song won a Grammy for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

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Last updated 7/23/2023.

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