24) Sara Bareilles – Gravity I will admit that I tend to just listen to music on the radio, with several artists that I found on either college radio or browsing on iTunes, so lots of times I don’t wander through an artist’s full library. “Gravity” was one of those songs that emerged with the [...]

25) Jamie Foxx – Blame It “Blame It” is one of those club oriented songs with a strong beat and a catchy way of saying the word “alcohol.” The fact that there is silly pop culture references like Hennessy makes me giggle (why you ask? Something involving poverty.) I also didn’t expect much from Jamie [...]
26) David Guetta – When Love Takes Over (Ft. Kelly Rowland) I think that Kelly Rowland is underrated, especially in comparison to Beyonce. She was definitely shadowed. Kelly also never got that big success that Beyonce received. I’m happy to hear a dance-driven version of Kelly and I’m happy to hear how well she does. [...]

27) Tiesto – Kaleidoscope I heavily blame YouTube for me liking this song. They continuously played a commercial for Tiesto before several of their videos this summer. Like some brainless consumer I was mesmerized and I sampled the music on iTunes. It turned out to be good. The whole album in general is a strong [...]

28) Adam Lambert – Time for Miracles As I mentioned before, Adam Lambert was going to show up on this list. For fans, I guess they would be disappointed that this song didn’t show up later. The song showed up on 2009′s music scene a little late for it to make a big impact. Then [...]

29) Leona Lewis – Happy We all know how Leona Lewis got famous and how I fell in love with the song “Bleeding Love” after the dance performance on So You Think You Can Dance. Happily, she hasn’t become a one hit wonder, but I still don’t think that anything she’s done has topped her [...]

30) Phoenix – “1901″ Sometimes you know a song, but you just don’t know who sang it, or where you remember it from. Well, Phoenix performed a song that was on a specific car commercial for a very long period on television this year. I was happy to know that the rest of the song [...]