Top 30 Artists of 2011: #25 – Martin Solveig & Dragonette Total Points – 90 Charted Songs: 11 Hello – Martin Solveig & Dragonette (90 points) Last Year’s Rank: N/A First of all, I loved the music video for this song. The first time I saw the video, I was stuck in line for [...]
10) Keri Hilson – Knock You Down Keri Hilson has been around for a while so I don’t understand exactly why she’s nominated for Best New Artist for 2010, but I guess it’s because she hasn’t really been in the limelight. I mean she was in the Timbaland mega hit “The Way I Are.” Anywho, [...]
17) Wonder Girls – Nobody Finally? I think anyone who knew me knew that “Nobody” would appear on my list. I’ve been listening to this song since 2008. I really don’t think the song gets old. The song has a simplistic sound to it with it’s Motown-esque style combined with it’s 80s synth-pop love. It [...]
22) Pink – Please Don’t Leave Me Like I mentioned with Owl City at 23, “Please Don’t Leave Me” has one strong music video based off of the Stephen King classic, Misery. I found this song to be really good top 40 fodder, because it then ended up on the Lite FM stations. Why you [...]
23) Owl City – Fireflies There’s what I call a “College Radio” sound to Owl City’s “Fireflies.” The cheesy lyrics (I get a thousand hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs? Did this song also use the term “Foxtrot?”), weird slightly auto-tuned voices, synth sounds, and techno undertones make it college fodder. The biggest thing that vaulted [...]