Skip to main content

Songs That Should Have Been Hits

When releasing pop songs, major labels have been surprisingly good.  Sure, they often go with the obvious choices: the songs produced by famous producers and the songs featuring other big name acts.  However, after some bumbling around, they usually do end up releasing all the good songs as singles.  Every once in a while, though, they mess up big time.  Top 10 singles that could make millions of dollars and sometimes change the course of an artist's career are left to languish as album cuts because people are too stupid to comprehend their greatness.  Here's a list of songs that would conquer the world, if only someone would bother releasing them, and their likely peak chart position in the U.S.  There's links to YouTube videos of the songs imbedded below (obviously, there are some quality issues), and here's a Spotify Playlist with all available songs.

  1. Katy Perry - Hummingbird Heartbeat: #1
  2. Jennifer Lopez - Hypnotico: #1 (Note: The YouTube video is sped up.)
  3. Bruno Mars - Marry You: #2
  4. B.o.B - Wonderland: #3
  5. Usher - Guilty: #3
  6. Christina Aguilera - Prima Donna: #4
  7. Wiz Khalifa - No Sleep: #5
  8. Leona Lewis - Take a Bow: #6
  9. Rihanna - Complicated: #6
  10. Katy Perry - Who Am I Living For?: #7
  11. Big Boi - Hustle Blood: #8
  12. Rihanna - Fire Bomb: #10
  13. Taylor Swift - Ours: Country #1
  14. Taylor Swift - Mary's Song (Oh My My My): Country #1
(Bonus)
Jesse McCartney - Bleeding Love: While this version, the original, never became a hit, the Leona Lewis cover went #1 basically everywhere.  I don't know what I find more shocking, that Jesse McCartney wrote this song, or that he gave it away.

Comments

  1. I love how you provide all the links. So much better for lazy people like me.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Lists 4 Bitches

Now, for some actual music.  First, my last.fm account if you want a quick snapshot of what I like.  (Yes, I know, the name is stupid, go ahead and laugh, I don't care...)  Also, I made you bitches a list...bitches love lists... Top 10 Songs of 2011 (so far): The Weeknd - Wicked Games :   This song is perfect.  The best track off of the most interesting album to come out this year (It's also free, you should download it and give it a listen if you haven't already: Link ).  The overblown drums and grimy guitars give the song a lot of momentum and a great ambiance, but really, the song is all about Abel Tesfaye.  His voice is hauntingly perfect (or perfectly haunting, either one works) and his songwriting is on point all the way through.  I tried to pick the best part of this song, but I just can't.  It's that good. Tyler, The Creator - Yonkers : Should have won Video of the Year.  At least he won Best New Artist. Kid deserved it. His mom looked so proud. Anywa

New Albums [9/13]

This week's a pretty good one for new releases.  Girls' Father, Son, Holy Ghost as well as St. Vincent's Strange Mercy will be officially released.  I've listened through both of them, and I thought I'd give them both a quick review. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost: Girls is a San Francisco band, whose singer had a fucked up childhood in the Children of God cult, that makes ramshackle, charming, lo-fi, Beach Boys-sounding rock music. If you haven't heard their music, listen to Lust for Life , Laura , and/or Hellhole Ratrace off their first album (which was terribly titled as "Album").  Anyways, this album is definitely more expensive sounding than their debut, with more intricate and varied arrangements.  However, the songwriting is just not there.  I listened through the whole thing twice and found nothing to like.  Ironically, the only song that didn't make me want to vomit was the one called Vomit.  For that, I'll give this album a point