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What does a plucky guitar riff plus Adam Levine’s smooth tones plus a Cardi B verse equal? An obvious Hot 100 chart topper and delightful fixture on 2018 pop radio. Here are the Billboard staff’s 100 favorite songs of the year.ġ00. And of course, below the surface, plenty of fringier artists were creating lesser-heard jams that called back to the since-forgotten past - or predicted an even more fascinating future.įrom the “Shallow” to “The Middle” to the highest of “High Hopes,” music was captivating at all levels in 2018. Luckily, that also made this one of the most exciting years for singles on the charts and in our own personal playlists in recent memory - one in which the biggest hits were also some of the most challenging and rewarding, and in which the more conventional pop songs that did break through on a massive scale felt fresher than they have in a long time. The definition of pop music is always changing, but the last 12 months in particular felt like a transition year, a portent of a future where the music mainstream is close to unrecognizable from the perspective of where we were a decade ago. 1s included a three-movement psych-rap odyssey, an Afrobeat-trap protest song and an R&B celebrity Burn Book ballad. 1 hit had two chords and zero choruses or obvious hooks, and other No.
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