The 2010s

In this category you will find articles on the best music from 2010 to 2019, focused on artists, musical groups and especially music charts with greatest hits, recommendations and discoveries that we carry out every day.

That’s about the category, but since we’re here, we want to talk about what is considered the most listened to songs from 2010 to 2019. A list created by PPL (the organization that counts all music plays in the United Kingdom. That is, not only broadcast on radio and television, but also in cinemas, clubs, pubs, restaurants, gyms and even karaoke bars). Something like the SGAE, but more international, but which helps us to establish which songs became the soundtrack of the lives of millions of people during this decade.

Like good Brits, Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars was the most streamed song of the decade, thanks in no small part to their appearance on hit TV shows at the time. However, you will also find unexpected surprises among those chosen. Here are the top 10, and then various posts about other bands we love, despite not being as popular.

The most listened music from 2010 to 2019

10. Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire

Nashville rockers Kings of Leon broke into the mainstream with Sex on Fire, though they already gained some recognition years earlier with The Bucket. In any case, neither this nor that one was a huge sales success, since it only reached number 56 in the United States. The song’s title means nothing, according to bandleader Caleb Followill, just a joke they had while making it in the studio.

The funny thing is that this track was almost left off the album because Caleb wasn’t happy with it. He told NME magazine: “I just had this tune and I didn’t know what to say. Then one day I just sang ‘this sex is on fire’ and laughed. I thought it was terrible, but the rest of the band was like, “it’s good, it’s got hook.”

9. CeeLo Green – Forget You

Forget You, also his uncensored version of Fuck You, was an angry response to what happened between Gnarls Barkley and his label, Elektra Records. It is clear that so much anger was very productive, because CeeLo Green wrote this song with Bruno Mars in just two hours.

To date, it is his only solo album to top the UK Singles Chart, and is also his most successful solo album, reaching number 3 in the UK.

8. OneRepublic – Counting Stars

OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder has always shown an eye for hits, having co-written Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love and Beyoncé’s Halo (indeed, he first came up with an idea for the song while working with Beyoncé on his album 4).

He was also involved in one of Timbaland’s biggest hits, perhaps helping the band achieve the band’s biggest chart-topping hit with Counting Stars.

7. Mark Ronson – Uptown Funk (with Bruno Mars)

Few tracks were as instantly appreciated as Uptown Funk, a gloriously upbeat single that took over a year to come to fruition as Ronson spent most of his time since songwriting trying to track down Bruno Mars for guest vocals. . It spent seven weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart.

And it is that Mark Ronson was so involved in creating the perfect guitar sound for the track that he dedicated 82 takes only to it. He also claims to have passed out in a restaurant while taking a break from recording, and had to be carried back to the studio by producer Jeff Bhasker. “I threw up three times,” he told Billboard.
6. Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
The song I Gotta Feeling became the party anthem from 2009 and extended into the next decade. It went three times platinum in the UK, second only to Lady Gaga’s Poker Face as the best-selling single of 2009.

Inspired by frontman Will.i.am’s newfound love for European dance music, it uses a sample of the song Love Is Gone by world-renowned producer David Guetta, who also produces I Gotta Feeling, as its base. Everything stays at home.

5. Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop the Feeling!

The most recent single to appear in our top 10, Can’t Stop the Feeling!, got families of all ages singing along after appearing on the soundtrack of the movie Trolls, which Timberlake stars as the lovable grumpy Branch. .

This track was co-written with Max Martin, the man responsible for co-writing hits like Britney Spears’ …Baby One More Time and Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off.

4. Daft Punk – Get Lucky (with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)

Enigmatic dance duo Daft Punk had their biggest hit to date with Get Lucky, although in Spain Around the World is still remembered with that rare video clip.

Here, going a step further, they teamed up with legendary Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers and chart-topping magnet Pharrell for an insanely catchy collaboration. It became their first number one single in the UK.

3. Maroon 5 – Moves Like Jagger (with Christina Aguilera)

The Adam Levine-led group enjoyed great success in the 2000s, and they followed it up with this funk single that pays homage to Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.

Funny enough, Levine revealed to Rolling Stone in 2012 that the band had been hesitant to release the song as a single, partly because of Jagger’s high reputation.

2. Adele – Rolling in the Deep

The lead single from Adele’s second album 21, Rolling in the Deep, was eclipsed at the time by the career-defining ballad Someone Like You, but our list reveals that it got more streams throughout the decade than the previous track. .

Like so many great songs, Adele wrote this one in just three hours with producer Paul Epworth, right after a breakup.

1. Pharrell – Happy

Finally, we go with Pharrell Williams, who spent the 90s and 2000s making productions avant-garde with the Neptunes and mixing the formula with the rock of N.E.R.D. The next decade, whatever, led him to be one of the most famous singers with the song Happy, which went stratospheric in part thanks to his appearance on the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack.

It spent four weeks at the top of the UK charts and became the biggest selling song of 2013, so it’s understandable that it’s since become such a mainstay that we still hear it on TV commercials today. in version form.