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At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2021, the list was published on December 2, calculated with data from November 21, 2020 to November 13, 2021.
- ABBA, "Don't Shut Me Down" One of the year’s most gratifying LP releases was ABBA’s Voyage comeback set, a delightfully low-stakes set of shimmering pop confections with precious little imprint from the 40 years that had passed since the pop legends’ previous album.
- Lana Del Rey, 'White Dress' The opener for the first of her two 2021 albums, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, “White Dress” sets a vivid, dynamic first scene for the otherwise lukewarm LP, with all the drama fans have come to expect from Lana Del Rey.
- Pronoun, "I Wanna Die But I Can't ('Coz I Gotta Keep Living)" “I Wanna Die But I Can’t” functions as both a scream-along anthem about stunted emotional growth, and proof as to why Pronoun leader Alyse Vellturo needs to be playing bigger stages — who wouldn’t want to lose their mind to this chorus in an arena?
- Brockhampton feat. Danny Brown, 'Buzzcut' After 2020 marked the first year since 2016 without a new Brockhampton studio album, the self-proclaimed boy band returned in early spring with the acclaimed Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine.
Find the top 100 Pop songs for the year of 2021 and listen to them all! Can you guess the number one Pop song in 2021? Find out now!
- Beatrice Deer – “The Storm”
- Willow – “T R A N S p A R E N T S O U L”
- Tommy Genesis – “A Woman Is A God”
- Duran Duran – “Anniversary”
- Mdou Moctar – “Chismiten”
- Violet Cold – “We Met During The Revolution”
- Kacey Musgraves – “Cherry Blossom”
- G Perico & Rucci – “Keep Killin”
- Parquet Courts – “Homo Sapien”
- Drake – “Champagne Poetry”
The sound is so simple that, at first, it feels almost formless: a primal drum groove, shards of metallic electric guitar, dollops of distorted bass, a vocal mantra sung in Inuktitut. But “The Storm,” the centerpiece of Beatrice Deer’s sixth LP, SHIFTING, is masterful in painting these small brush strokes — shakers, synth drone, squiggly six-string...
If you’re gonna go full pop-punk, you might as well hire a master. “t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l,” the lead single from Willow’s fifth LP, is built on the signature drum drama of Blink-182’s Travis Barker: the king of rapid-fire hi-hats and floor toms. And Willow matches that vibe with cathartic F-bombs and lines about two-faced “fake friends” who...
Who knew a fetish-obsessed Canadian rapper and model could sound so humble in 2021? Tommy Genesis did, especially since quiet banger “A Woman Is a God” trades her normally explicit subject matter (sort of) for a propulsive treatise on authenticity and power. Genesis, a.k.a. 31-year-old Vancouver native Genesis Yasmine Mohanraj, can sound like Cardi...
Like their hero David Bowie, Duran Duran generally look ahead and not back when making a new record — one reason the band has stayed together for over 40 years. One stylistic exception, however, is “Anniversary,” from their latest LP, Future Past. This pulsating, hypnotic dance-rock track uncannily recalls the band’s classic sound of the early and ...
Mdou Moctar has been decentralizing experimentalism — and updating cultural interchange — since his 2008 debut, Anar, building a robust catalog defined by his distinct brand of Tishoumaren (or “desert blues”).With his sixth album, Matador Records debut Afrique Victime, the Tuareg guitarist captures an uncanny symbiosis between the lyrical and explo...
While 2021 seemed like a comparatively slow year for Azerbaijan’s prolific Violet Cold, “We Met During the Revolution” from Empire of Loveis one hell of a statement — a centerpiece not just for the record but the project as a whole. Blackgaze is rarely this anthemic or romantic — it’s not explosive because of any pyrotechnics (though it does have s...
“When we’re on fire, it’s something to see / No one can question the chemistry,” Kacey Musgraves sings, hinting that her exciting new spring fling may be spiked with a touch of danger. While her fifth studio album dissects all emotional angles of her real-life divorce, the buoyant, strummy guitar-pop of “cherry blossom” is a soothing balm. The song...
G Perico has long been South L.A.’s answer to the question, “What if Eazy-E could rap very well?” In his most prolific year, the avowed BG Crip tapped Rucci, Inglewood’s best Blood-affiliated rapper since Mack 10, for “Keep Killin.” The song’s joyous yet menacing roller rink bounce comes courtesy of producer Low Da Great, who adds the locker-slammi...
The first guitar lick rips the seal off this banger, unleashing a campy scream, a choogle, a screed. The stomp-charging “Homo Sapien” finds Parquet Courts co-leader A. Savage in a bluntly cynical frame of mind about the species he’s part of. Wait, this is the endpoint of centuries of human evolution: hand-off plunder, impulsive subjugation, all mod...
Does Drake mean it— any of it — or is he camping? Does it matter? For the last several years, the improbable, prolonged celebrity of this Canadian multi-hyphenate star has rendered these questions moot. Everything comes down to this: His production cabal bought a sample of a Beatles cover, and it kicks off Certified Lover Boyin extravagant fashion....
The official music video premiered alongside the song on July 21, 2021. It shows a reference to Silicon Valley and shows a bunch of modern items, such as "skyscraper gardens, autonomous vehicles, drone deliveries, and smart homes". The music video also shows Khalid's PlayStation 5.
Dec 17, 2021 · Will 2021 be the poppiest year yet as artists head back to the studio and crank out powerful bangerz? From electrifying ballads to playful hit singles, this year's chart-topping pop music includes a wide range of talent and artistry.
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Dec 29, 2021 · To celebrate the music that got us through another whirlwind year, the Genius community put together its annual list of the year’s best songs.
