to actually make this useful you dumb cunt 2011 hits January 1 "Firework" Katy Perry [1] January 8 "Grenade" Bruno Mars [2] January 15 "Firework" Katy Perry [3] January 22 "Grenade" Bruno Mars [4] January 29 "Hold It Against Me" Britney Spears [5] February 5 "Grenade" Bruno Mars [6] February 12 [7] February 19 "Black and Yellow" Wiz Khalifa [8] February 26 "Born This Way" Lady Gaga [9] March 5 [10] March 12 [11] March 19 [12] March 26 [13] April 2 [14] April 9 "E.T." Katy Perry featuring Kanye West [15] April 16 [16] April 23 [17] April 30 "S&M" Rihanna featuring Britney Spears[18] [19] May 7 "E.T." Katy Perry featuring Kanye West [20] May 14 [21] May 21 "Rolling in the Deep" Adele [22] May 28 [23] June 4 [24] June 11 [25] June 18 [26] June 25 [27] July 2 [28] July 9 "Give Me Everything" Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer [29] July 16 "Party Rock Anthem" LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock [30] July 23 [31] July 30 [32] August 6 [33] August 13 [34] August 20 [35] August 27 "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" Katy Perry [36] September 3 [37] September 10 "Moves Like Jagger" Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera [38] September 17 "Someone Like You" Adele [39] September 24 "Moves Like Jagger" Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera [40] October 1 [41] October 8 [42] October 15 "Someone Like You" Adele [43] October 22 [44] October 29 [45] November 5 [46] November 12 "We Found Love" Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris [47] November 19 [48] November 26 [49] December 3 [50] 2001 year-end hot 100 (top 25) 1 "Hanging by a Moment" Lifehouse 2 "Fallin'" Alicia Keys 3 "All for You" Janet Jackson 4 "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" Train 5 "I'm Real" Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule 6 "If You're Gone" Matchbox Twenty 7 "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" Eve and Gwen Stefani 8 "Thank You" Dido 9 "Again" Lenny Kravitz 10 "Independent Women" Destiny's Child 11 "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" Blu Cantrell 12 "It Wasn't Me" Shaggy and Rikrok 13 "Stutter" Joe and Mystikal 14 "It's Been Awhile" Staind 15 "U Remind Me" Usher 16 "Where the Party At" Jagged Edge and Nelly 17 "Angel" Shaggy 18 "Ride wit Me" Nelly and City Spud 19 "Follow Me" Uncle Kracker 20 "Peaches & Cream" 112 21 "Drive" Incubus 22 "What Would You Do?" City High 23 "Survivor" Destiny's Child 24 "Lady Marmalade" Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink 25 "Ms. Jackson" Outkast
You completely missed my point. How is a list of only #1 hits going to properly represent all the music in the charts throughout the year? Moreover, a year-end hot 100 isn't guaranteed to represent a time period as similarly to a year-long list of chart toppers as that juxtaposition might suggest. So then we have two possibly sub-ideal representations of each scene, those representations not even being consistent among themselves. Plus, I think the word "empirical" is ill-chosen in this context.
I was mostly just joking, I listened to the radio more this year than I did 10 years ago but my memories of what I heard back then make me feel warm and fuzzy. Nostalgia is just as big an influence as a year end hot 100, but at least it does actually have the power to make you enjoy music more, even though it shouldn't.
The age at which you listen to the pop music (which also probably relates to your current music tastes) is also a huge factor.
Man, I remember hating that Blu Cantrell song so much back in the day. I'm sure I still would. Fucking cunt.
Definitely now. Just comparing the top 10 of the 2001 list to the 2011 list, which seems more fair, I can definitely say I like at least twice as many of the songs on the 2011 list than on the earlier list.
Those lists are both terrible and shitty, but at least 2001 has What Would You Do? by City High. What a tune. Am I right guys?
