Still not a fan!įinally, a new song! To be honest, this is probably my third-favorite of Rodrigo’s four singles on this list. I don’t know what that says, but it says something. I wrote about this one last year, so I’ll use this space to highlight that the top 3 spots on this year’s chart are all from projects released as the pandemic hit. Grande’s main output post Sweetener can fairly be called a little underwritten, so hearing her on a track with a good foundation shows what she can really do. OG “Save Your Tears” is a great, just structurally solid pop song, and the version with Ariana Grande is even better. Meanwhile, I’m on the record as being in the tank for After Hours. I’m on the record as a Future Nostalgia skeptic, and this song has always struck me as deeply Fine.Ģ. (Since the best/worst list will be at the bottom, let’s start at the top there’s no drama to preserve)įor everything else good about the year, I knew this list was only going to generate so much excitement once I saw “Levitating” at the top (fun fact, this song never hit number one and missed it because Billboard caught on to Dua Lipa stan VPN chicanery). Let’s sing some praises, talk some shit, and ask some questions as we dig into–eep, all 5 hours and 21 minutes–of the Billboard Year-End Hot 1! I’d be hard-pressed to call this year an unabashed winner with the number of holdover hits and some deeply middling efforts, but we at least had good stuff in here, too, even if we held onto it forever.
In Olivia Rodrigo and Lil Nas X, we even had new stars assert their presence, Doja Cat came through with a sneakily vicious year, and even Justin Bieber had a possible career-saver with Justice it felt like there were fewer hits this year that got big off just being TikTok ephemera, as well. Is it strictly better than 2020? That’s hard to say with every year having its peaks and valleys, but I’ll say that this year at least felt more distinct. Plus, this just seems more fun, we get to look at everything this way.Ģ021 in pop felt like a transitional but not insubstantial year. I found some great stuff on here I wouldn’t have listened to otherwise, and I found some truly obnoxious shit, too, that I’m going to talk about because I had to listen to it, dammit, and that’s going to count for something. There’ll still be a final verdict best/worst hits list at the end, but for 2021, I’m going to run down the entire year-end Billboard Hot 100 and give my thoughts on every single song, because I don’t want to halfass this or try to muddle through it again. So, that’s what you’re getting this year. To be transparent, these factors also made winnowing down a best and worst hits list last year kind of a grind because I knew what I thought I wanted to go with, but at the same time I didn’t want to miss anything, so there was a lot of cramming and taking in the list as a whole. a lack of mass gatherings and public events altered how I engaged with capital P Pop music which is, at its heart, a communal experience. Made following the Billboard weekly race feel sillier than it had ever been, and 2. I did abbreviated lists last year in one post by explanation that the pandemic and last year’s general 2020ness had 1. Historically, I’ve run the pop chart aspect of Listmas as a Best and Worst list broken down in two parts each to keep them from being unwieldy to both read and write. Hello! Welcome back to our final day of Listmas.
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