What was your favorite #1 hit in 2013?

[solarstorm]

2013 is drawing to an end and hence it's time to retrospect this music year.
11 songs made it to the top of the Billboard Top 100 this year.
Which is your favorite #1 hit?

[Ebowed]

Roar.

[morgieb]

I'm pretty sure I only know 3 of those songs.

F**k I feel like Naso when it comes to music.

[Хahar 🤔]

A remarkably weak list. Bruno Mars is almost impossibly bland; he sounds like The Police without Sting.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Top 3

1. Blurred Lines
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2. Locked Out of Heaven
3. Thrift Shop

[Gass3268]

Out of those tracks, only Macklamore and Lorde had songs worth a damn.

[Kushahontas]

out of this list, prob Can't Hold Us

[Alcon]

I wouldn't say I love any of these songs, but I definitely like "Royals" the most of any of 'em.

Unironically like
1. "Royals" by Lorde
2. "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz
3. "Locked Out of Heaven" by Bruno Mars (even if the Police comment is well-taken)
4. "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell (even if Robin Thicke is terrible)
5. "Can't Hold Us" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton

Fine, I guess
6. "When I Was Your Man" by Bruno Mars
7. "Just Give Me a Reason" by Pink featuring Nate Ruess
8. "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus

Mildly irritating
9. "Roar" by Katy Perry

Too new to me to have an opinion
-. "The Monster" by Eminem featuring Rihanna

?!?
§. "Harlem Shake" by Baauer (and I'd definitely go with "irritating" if pressed)

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I never heard of any of these.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Tie between Thrift Shop and Harlem Shake. Voted Harlem Shake because that drop is filthy.

[Del Tachi]

I voted Thrift Shop.

The song of the year, though, is unmistakably I Need Your Love by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding.  It was the song of the summer.

[NewYorkExpress]

1. Roar
2. Royals
3. Harlem Shake
4. Locked out of Heaven
5. When I was Your Man
6. Wrecking Ball


Hate Blurred Lines completely... most Misogynist song I have ever heard... and thought we were in 2013.

[Bacon King]

These songs are weak. Thrift Shop is the best of the mediocre bunch tho

[© tweed]

Lorde - Royals by a mile

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Hate Blurred Lines completely... most Misogynist song I have ever heard... and thought we were in 2013.

Thank you

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I think I've heard some of these songs, and I don't recall particularly liking any of them.

[⛄]

Hate Blurred Lines completely... most Misogynist song I have ever heard... and thought we were in 2013.

And I thought I were alone in thinking this.

Bart Baker, btw, made an excellent parody of the song, picking up on that issue.

[minionofmidas]

I thankfully didn't hear much top40 radio this year and off the top of my head can relate three of these songs, two of which are very bad and the third off-the-charts bad.

[Flake]

Blurred lines explained:

 
 
 

[Grumpier Than Thou]

^ Saw that on Tumblr. Applauded loudly.

[Boris]

I like Mackelmore and Lorde. Bauuer is a fun time live, but trap music just isn't really my thing.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Ugh terrible. Even worse than 2012.

[Foucaulf]

Some context: from March onwards Billboard changed its ranking methodology to include Youtube streaming numbers; this is how Harlem Shake took the #1 spot after it became a meme. What was an attempt to better reflect consumer taste has, in my opinion, become a ways to flood the charts with music approved by teenagers and white people. In the end the biggest songs were "edgy," "controversial" or "misogynist," its dissemination kosher because a white guy's singing it.

Locked Out of Heaven because it's at least imitating something that has worked.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Hate Blurred Lines completely... most Misogynist song I have ever heard... and thought we were in 2013.

Thank you

God, stop being such Liberals. I suppose you hate rap music for that reason too. Robin Thicke has three ways with Paula Patton. Have you f[inks]ing seen Paula Patton? That gives him a free pass to say what ever he wants in any song.

[Dr. Cynic]

Thrift Shop is the only one I've actually ever heard.