A Special Hits 1 Post – 2014: A Year In Review

Wow. Just wow. What a year we had this year. We've had a lot of new music and overall, at least 75% of that music is good. Sure, we've had some bad songs. And we've had songs that make our ears bleed. I know I have. But I'll get to that in a bit. But first, we'll start with our breakout artists.

We've had A TON of breakout artists who debuted with #1 songs. Some were good, some were bad. I'm going to list all the breakout artists from this year. Please inform me if there are anymore than I put. This isn't completely accurate. So here we go.

• Charli XCX
• Iggy Azalea
• DJ Snake
• Nico and Vinz
• Magic!
• Tove Lo
• Sam Smith
• 5 Seconds Of Summer
• Disclosure
• Hozier
• Meghan Trainor

Some of those artists have had #1 songs. Speaking of #1 songs, we've had a couple of songs spend quite a while in that #1 spot. And because of that, we did not have as many #1 songs as we did last year, unfortunately. As always, the majority of songs that hit #1 were good. I know there were a couple of random #1's that weren't popular anywhere else. But whatever. Here is a list of all the songs that hit #1 in 2014.

• Taylor Swift – Shake It Off (12) [New All-Time Record]
• Pitbull/Ke$ha – Timber (8) (9 Total)
• OneRepublic – Counting Stars (7) (8 Total)
• Bastille – Pompeii (5)
• 5 Seconds Of Summer – She Looks So Perfect (4)
• Maroon 5 – Maps (4)
• Jason Derulo – Talk Dirty (2)
• Imagine Dragons – On Top Of The World (2)
• Sam Smith – Stay With Me (2)
• Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass (2)
• Taylor Swift – Blank Space (1)
• OneRepublic – Love Runs Out (1)
• Iggy Azalea/Charli XCX – Fancy (1)
• Fall Out Boy – Young Volcanoes (1)

Although the countdown had a lot of good music. There was a lot of crap as well. A lot of that crap were songs that were good at some point, but got old because of radio overplay. (cough) Counting Stars (cough). But there were at least 5 songs this year that I did not like when they first debuted up to when they left. What's annoying is that some of these songs have had ridiculously long tenures. And I was annoyed whenever these songs came on the radio. So now, I present to you, the Bottom 5 Songs Of 2014 (#1 being worst).

Bottom 5 Songs Of 2014

5. Haim – The Wire

4. Jason Derulo/Snoop Dogg – Wiggle

3. Magic! – Rude

2. AJR – I'm Ready

1. Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass

Quite a few songs were on Hit-Bound this year, but never made it on to the countdown. I'd like to take time to recognize all those songs that weren't good enough to be announced by Spyder Harrison. Here are those songs. (Please Note: This list may not be completely accurate. There may be more songs I didn't know about.)

• Calvin Harris/Ayah Marar – Thinking About You
• Janelle Monae – Dance Apocalyptic
• Chris Wallace – Keep Me Crazy
• Peter Thomas/Betty Who – All Of You
• Coldplay – Magic
• The Chainsmokers – #SELFIE
• Little Mix – Move
• New Hollow – She Ain't You
• Ellie Goulding – Beating Heart
• 5 Seconds Of Summer – Kiss Me Kiss Me
• Mayra Veronica – Mama Mia
• Cris Cab/Pharrell – Liar Liar
• Nicki Minaj – Pills N Potions
• Pretty Reckless – Heaven Knows
• Brantley Gilbert – Bottoms Up
• Childish Gambino – 3005
• Jake Miller – First Flight Home
• Florida Georgia Line – Dirt
• New Politics – Everywhere I Go (Kings and Queens)
• Meghan Trainor – Title
• Mary J. Blige – Right Now
• Tiffany Houghton – Love Like That
• Bebe Rexha – I Can't Stop Drinking About You
• Magic! – Let Your Hair Down
• Olly Murs/Travie McCoy – Wrapped Up

Now what I'm gonna do with those 23 songs is pick the best. Since CountdownRecap stopped blogging at the beginning of 2014, I'm gonna carry over what he did of his year end review posts and continue it for him. For the award of best song that hit Hit-Bound, but not the countdown, he called it the Lights Over Paris Hit-Bound Hero Award, in honor of Lights Over Paris (a band he clearly didn't like) who came out with a song called Turn Off The Lights a few years ago. The song made it on to Hit-Bound, but never graduated to the countdown. The song I'm about to announce is a song that I really liked. I liked it so much that I was sad when I found out that it didn't make it on to the countdown. So without further ado, here we go.

2014 Lights Over Paris Hit-Bound Hero Award Winner: Brantley Gilbert – Bottoms Up

Continuing to carry over CountdownRecap's awards, I'm gonna announce the song that made it big in the world, but of course, didn't debut on the countdown. Hits 1 did a pretty good job at picking out the majority of the hits this year while also picking out songs I most likely would've never heard before. There were a few songs that debuted on other countdowns that didn't on this one. But they didn't necessarily make it big. Songs like Lil Jon/Tyga – Bend Ova and Kendrick Lamar – I debuted on AT40, but not here. But it lasted on AT40 for only a few weeks. This award is called the Biggest Whiff Of The Year. So here we go

Biggest Whiff Of 2014: Jeremih/YG – Don't Tell Em

There were several songs that didn't necessarily make it big on Top 40 charts. What I'm going to do is announce the song that was somewhat popular, but if I asked a lot of people, they probably will tell me that they don’t know the song. I know some people know it. But it should've been a song everyone knows. It was originally going to be Shawn Mendes – Life Of The Party. But that song just debuted on Hit-Bound as I'm typing this. But here is the winner.

2014 Song That Should’ve Made It Big: Brantley Gilbert/Justin Moore/Thomas Rhett – Small Town Throwdown

Tenure Trophies
~ Let's admit it. We've quite a bit of songs with short countdown tenures. These were mainly from underrated artists like Hot Chelle Rae. But when it comes to the Most Hysterically Short Tenure, 4 songs tied at (obviously) one week.

Shortest Tenured Songs Of 2014 (one week):

• DJ Snake/Lil Jon – Turn Down For What
• Taylor Swift – Out Of The Woods
• Taylor Swift – Welcome To New York
• Bastille – Flaws

Now the longest tenure of 2014 is a little weird. I'm putting the song that had the longest tenure in the calendar year. Really Fall Out Boy – My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) would be crowned for longest tenure as it did break the record for longest tenure (I think). But in the calendar year, the song I'm about announce had a ridiculously long tenure, even though it didn't last a full year. But it came pretty close.

Longest Tenured Song Of 2014: OneRepublic – Counting Stars (debuted: 11/16/13; left: 11/1/14)