These songs came out 10 years ago.

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After listening to all those song I truly feel old now. 😔
What about you?

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I just discovered that Ohio's next governor had a guest role in Mariah Carey's music video of Touch My Body. I knew that I had seen that Hackfresse before.
I didn't know that he had already been famous back then.

[Bojack Horseman]

10 years flies by like 10 seconds.

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While we're at it, I have wanted to ask a native English speaker about the lyrics of When I Grow Up for ten years. What do the Pussycat Dolls really sing in the chorus? "When I grow up I wanna see the world, drive nice cars, I wanna have ..."

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10 years flies by like 10 seconds.

Yeah! Why does time have to fly so fast? It's so unfair. 😪

[junior chįmp]

Growing up is a scam

[Theodore]

I never heard of any of these songs

[DavidB.]

Oh wow. You make me feel old. Which probably was the entire purpose of this thread. Most of them are FF songs, especially those by Britney, Christina, Miley and the RnB/hiphop stuff. A few of them are very American, so I don't know these.

[Green Line]

Wow, I started going down the list and clicking but then I realized I would have to click on every single song!  This was the best era of music, or maybe that's just nostalgia talking.  Sad.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Metro Station Shake it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wjFahULCK8

Sean Kingston Fire Burning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvrRx-3eUE

Kanye West Stronger - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsO6ZnUZI0g

This is such a depressing thread knowing that 2008 was 10 years ago. Sean Kingston was pumping out hit after hit in 2008, then he just vanished. I heard he got into a boating accident.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Ah Paper Planes by MIA reminds me of my GCSE Drama days. We had a module where we had to go into old folks homes and do some kind of show that I remember involved some sort of chorographed routine to Paper Planes. I think the play was about WW2 or something so I'm not sure whether the song made sense in context, but still.

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Interesting. A certain trend is becoming apparent after 23 votes.
I knew that we have many Katy Parry and Lady Gaga disciples on this site, but I didn't know that there are so many Coldplay fans.

For those who are interested in both American politics and British music, MAD TV made a parody of Viva La Vida. 😁

[JGibson]

On the Alt/Rock side, those where the big hits 10 years ago not listed:
Shinedown "Second Chance" (although more of an 09 one)
Kings Of Leon "Sex On Fire"
Death Cab For Cutie "I Will Possess Your Heart"
Weezer "Pork and Beans"
Disturbed "Inside The Fire"
Seether "Rise Above This"
Foo Fighters "Let It Die"
The Bravery "Believe"
Apocalyptica/Adam Gontier "I Don't Care"
The Offspring "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid"
Metallica "The Day That Never Comes"

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Kings Of Leon "Sex On Fire"

I was about to add it to the list, but I looked it up and the single came out in 2009.

A song that I really forgot is Untouched by The Veronicas. 
The string ensemble at the beginning is epic and still gives me goosebumps.

[FairBol]

Just for historical reference....if anybody's interested, here are the number one hits for this day a certain number of years ago (followed by the next song to go number one). 

2008 (ten years ago)

(4/12): "Touch My Body" (Mariah Carey)
(5/3): "See You Again" (Miley Cyrus)

2003 (fifteen years ago)

(4/12): "In Da Club" (50 Cent)
(5/10): "Get Busy" (Sean Paul)

1998 (twenty years ago)

(4/11): "All My Life" (K-Ci & JoJo)
(4/25): "Too Close" (Next)

1993 (twenty-five years ago)

(4/10): "Informer" (Snow)
(5/1): "Freak Me" (Silk)

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Wow...."In Da Club" hit number one fifteen years ago? Damn, do I feel old, LOL!!

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Time for an intermediate result:

#1  Viva La Vida by Coldplay
#2  Hot N Cold by Katy Perry
#3  I Kissed A Girl by Katy Perry
#4  Just Dance by Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis
#5  Disturbia by Rihanna
      So What by P!nk
      Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) by Beyoncé
#8  Love Song by Sara Bareilles
      Pocketful Of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield
      I'm Yours by Jason Mraz
      Paper Planes by M.I.A.
      American Boy by Estelle feat. Kanye West

I must say I do like the forum community's taste in music do far.  

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Viva la Vida and only Viva la Vida

Ain't you one of Katy Perry's or Lady Gaga's disciples?

[Leinad]

Other possibilities for 2008 songs that I totally thought would've made the list:

MGMT - Kids

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

Not that those are necessarily my favorites from that year, but, well, I guess we can tell that my finger isn't always exactly on the pulse of popularity

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Other possibilities for 2008 songs that I totally thought would've made the list:

MGMT - Kids

No. I was actually considering to add that song to the list, but declined it after I'd found out that it was released in March 2009. Thus, you'll have to wait one more year.
(But you're right, it is really one great composition.)

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Since no one else will probably ballot for a song anymore, I'm going to analyze the results:

#1 Viva La Vida by Coldplay (75%) 🥇
#2 Hot N Cold by Katy Perry (50%) 🥈
#3 I Kissed A Girl by Katy Perry (46.9%) 🥉
#4 Just Dance by Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis (40.6%)
#5 Disturbia by Rihanna (37.5%)
     Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) by Beyoncé
#7 So What by P!nk (34.4%)
#8 Love Song by Sara Bareilles (31.3%)
     I'm Yours by Jason Mraz
     American Boy by Estelle feat. Kanye West
#11 Pocketful Of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield (28.1%)
       Paper Planes by M.I.A.
#13 Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis (25%)
       Whatever You Like by T.I.
       Womanizer by Britney Spears
       Heartless by Kanye West
#17 No Air by Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown (21.9%)
       When I Grow Up by The Pussycat Dolls
#19 Touch My Body by Mariah Carey (18.8%)
       Shake It by Metro Station
       Stop And Stare by OneRepublic
       Let It Rock by Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil' Wayne
       Love Story by Taylor Swift
       All Summer Long by Kid Rock
       Gotta Be Somebody by Nickelback