The 2010s has been a decade of two halves. It began with some unbelievable music which seemed to become popular organically – because people liked it and chose to buy it. Later in the decade the whole chart scene changed because people didn’t need to choose what to buy as it was streamed instead. People began to simply subscribe to a playlist which chose the music for you. So for large amounts of the year the chart has been slow paced and full of tuneless dirge.
But there have been some fantastic tunes:
Avicii – Wake Me Up (2013)
Sigma – Nobody To Love (2014)
Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams – Get Lucky (2013)
Rudimental featuring John Newman – Feel The Love (2012)
Route 94 featuring Jess Glynee – My Love (2014)
Disclosure featuring Sam Smith – Latch (2012)
Coldplay – Sky Full Of Stars (2014)
Florence + The Machine – Spectrum (Say My Name) (Calvin Harris Remix) (2012)
Neiked featuring Dyo – Sexual (2016)
Pharrell Williams – Happy (2013)
David Guetta featuring Sia – Titanium (2011)
Armin Van Buuren featuring Trevor Guthrie – This Is What It Feels Like (2013)
Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud (2014)
Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop The Feeling! (2016)
Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk (2014)
DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora – Hot Right Now (2012)
Alan Walker – Faded (2015)
Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin – Don’t You Worry Child (2012)
OneRepublic – Counting Stars (2013)
Carly Rae Jepson – Call Me Maybe (2011)
Rihanna & Calvin Harris – We Found Love (2011)
Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynee – Rather Be (2014)
George Ezra – Shotgun (2018)
Walk The Moon – Shut Up And Dance (2014)
Pitbull & Ke$ha – Timber (2013)
Gary Barlow – Let Me Go (2013)
Alesso featuring Tove Lo – Heroes (we could be) (2014)
McFly featuring Taio Cruz – Shine A Light (2010)
Omi – Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) (2015)
Matoma featuring Ja Rule and The Notorious B.I.G. – Old Thing Back (2015)
Ellie Goulding – Burn (2013)
Naugty Boy featuring Beyonce & Arrow Benjamin – Runnin’ (Lose It All) (2015)
Ed Sheeran – Castle On The Hill (2017)
Ed Sheeran – Sing (2014)
Pink and Nate Ruess – Just Give Me A Reason (2012)
The Script – If You Could See Me Now (2013)
SecondCity – I Wanna Feel (2014)
The 1975 – Chocolate (2013)
Bruno Mars – Just The Way You Are (Amazing) (2010)
fun. featuring Janelle Monae – We Are Young (2011)
Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman – This Is Me (2018)
Kygo featuring Conrad Sewell – Firestone (2014)
Adele – Rolling In The Deep (2011)
Passenger – Let Her Go (2014)
Plan B – She Said (2010)
Tinie Tempah featuring Eric Turner – Written In The Stars (2010)
Imany – Don’t Be So Shy (Filatov & Karas Remix) (2016)
Sigala – Easy Love (2015)
Ed Sheeran – Perfect (2017)
The Chainsmokers & Coldpay – Something Just Like This (2017)
Christina Perri – A Thousand Years (2011)
Disturbed – Sound Of Silence (2015)
Imagine Dragons – Radioactive (2013)
Maroon 5 featuring SZA – What Loves Do (2017)
Ella Henderson – Ghost (2014)