Billboard Hot 100 Highlights January 9th 2016

In Christmastime 2015, a Christmas song released in 1994 almost made the Top 10 for the first time. I don't know how to feel about it but it's impressive at the very least. Anyway, mostly stasis for the Top 10 this week. Happy last chart of 2015. It's late because real job.

Billboard Hot 100 Highlights January 2nd, 2016

Remember when I said these wouldn't have intros anymore? I lied. Here's an intro. And here's to 2016 in Billboard. I never got why they needed to date their charts in the future like this. Oh also, new feature to these, a Top 20 ranking, since it's something you all seem to like doing. It'll be at the end of these. Okay, here ya go:

Billboard Hot 100 Highlights December 26th, 2015

For a while now I've been making Word documents on the weekly Hot 100 charts. They list the Top 10 of that week along with changes in position of 5 or higher. They also include dropouts and new additions. Now I haven't really been doing these for anyone but myself, but I figured I might as well convert them to blog format. I'm not gonna go in depth into any of these categories except my ranking of the new and returning entries of the week, though. It's more of a documentation of the changes that took place. Also the rest of these won't have an intro. Now you know.

(x) represents a song's position the previous week.

Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2014

In 2014, I discovered online music critics Todd in the Shadows and Spectrum Pulse. Yes, it took me that long to find the former. So I kinda decided to let myself become fascinated by pop music and do my own music critiques and lists. Overall I'm not proud of those lists, though. Guess I just wasn't used to it yet. Writing-wise, at least. So, before we talk about the best songs, let's just briefly list off what I think were the worst songs of 2014:

10. Na Na by Trey Songz 
9. Amnesia by 5 Seconds of Summer 
8. Show Me by Kid Ink ft. Chris Brown
7. Fancy by Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
6. Latch by Disclosure ft. Sam Smith
5. Loyal by Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne & Tyga
4. Wiggle by Jason Derulo ft. Snoop Dogg
3. Lifestyle by Rich Gang ft. Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan
2. 23 by Mike WiLL Made-It ft. Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa & Juicy J
1. Anaconda by Nicki Minaj

DHM: 
Adore You by Miley Cyrus
No Mediocre by T.I. ft. Iggy Azalea
Dark Horse by Katy Perry ft. Juicy J
Drunk In Love and Partition by Beyoncé
This Is How We Roll by Florida Georgia Line ft. Luke Bryan
Don't Tell 'Em by Jeremih ft. YG

Okay, got those out of the way. Now for the positivity. Since I wasn't even following the charts for more than half of 2014, the songs I put on the best list were kinda rushed. I didn't have much time to let the songs of 2014 sink in and truly digest what I thought were the best. Most of my favorite songs from the year weren't even mainstream hits. Also I included Counting Stars and Radioactive. While I stand by loving those songs, they were also on the 2013 list and I should've only really touched songs that debuted on the 2014 list. Some of the picks I had for the list before still stand, but overall, my picks need an overhaul. Heh. Rhymes. (My picks for the worst list still stand because holy crap they're bad.) Okay, song is only eligible if it hit the year end 100 in 2014, let's go!