Year-End Special – 2015: A Year In Review

2015 is coming to an end people! It's crazy! We've had a ton of awesome music this past year. Like every year, radio killed SO many songs that were really good at first. I do blame myself a bit because I often do overlisten to a bunch of songs. But honestly, Hits 1 kept so many songs for a long period of time (some are still here). It saddens me that one of these songs is from possibly my favorite band of all time. This was their first truly awful song. Let's see if you can figure this one out. These five songs you're about to see are songs that were just god awful for a relatively long period of time. So without further ado, the Bottom 5 Songs Of 2015 (#1 being the worst).


Bottom 5 Songs Of 2015
5. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
4. The Heydaze – Dumb
3. Usher – I Don't Mind
2. Maroon 5 – Sugar
1. Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman


As far as all our #1 songs go, for the most part, almost all of them have been killed with the amount of airplay they've gotten on Hits 1 as well as other mainstream stations. Only a few of them have stuck with me. Now here are all the songs that hit #1 in 2015.

• Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance (12) [Tied For All Time Record]
• Adele – Hello (7)
• Taylor Swift – Blank Space (5) (6 Total)
• Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk (4)
• Wiz Khalifa/Charlie Puth – See You Again (4)
• Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud (3)
• Shawn Mendes – Stitches (3)
• Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do (2)
• Fall Out Boy – Centuries (2)
• Maroon 5 – Sugar (2)
• Taylor Swift – Bad Blood (2)
• Andy Grammer – Honey I'm Good (1)
• Ed Sheeran – Photograph (1)
• One Direction – Drag Me Down (1)
• Taylor Swift – Style (1)
• Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams (1)
• The Weeknd – Can't Feel My Face (1)

Next up, I thought I'd do something different. We've had some breakout artists this year as we do every year. What I'm going to do is say my favorite and least favorite breakout artists from this past year. So here we go:

Best Breakout Artist Of 2015: The Weeknd

Worst Breakout Artist Of 2015: Fetty Wap

We've had a TON of music on Hit-Bound. Unfortunately, a lot of songs spent some time on Hit-Bound, but didn't debut on the Weekend Countdown. Here's the list of all the Hit-Bound music that unfortunately never got announced by Spyder Harrison on the Weekend Countdown. (It's possible that I'm missing a few.)

• Becky G – Break A Sweat
• Becky G – Can't Stop Dancin'
• Becky G – Lovin' So Hard
• Betty Who – All Of You
• Carly Rae Jepsen – Run Away With Me
• Cash Cash/Julia Michaels – Surrender
• Deorro/Chris Brown – Five More Hours
• Empire Cast – No Doubt About It
• Fort Minor – Welcome
• George Ezra – Blame It On Me
• Icona Pop – Emergency
• INNA/Marian Hill – Diggy Down
• Jack & Jack – Groove
• Jason Derulo/Jennifer Lopez/Matoma – Try Me
• Just Seconds Apart – Unbelievable
• Kat Dahlia – Crazy
• Kaya Stewart – In Love With A Boy
• Pharrell Williams – Freedom
• Pitbull/Jason Derulo/Juicy J – Drive You Crazy
• R5 – Smile
• Rixton – Hotel Ceiling
• Robin Thicke/Nicki Minaj – Back Together
• Ryan Cabrera – House On Fire
• Shawn Mendes – Life Of The Party
• Sia – Elastic Heart
• Steve Aoki/Moxie – I Love It When You Cry
• The Script – Superheroes
• Who Is Fancy – Goodbye
• Years & Years – King
• ZZ Ward – Love 3X

Now it is time to announce the 2015 Lights Over Paris Hit-Bound Hero Award! I don't think I need to go into how it got its name. But if you want me to, leave a comment down below and I'll be more than happy to explain. Basically, it's the one song that I think got robbed for not making it on to the Weekend Countdown. You can clearly see that Emergency was the worst of the bunch (with Crazy coming in a really close second). But with the best song, I was really upset about this song not making it just because it's so good. So here we go!

2015 Lights Over Paris Hit-Bound Hero Award Winner: R5 – Smile


There were a few songs that were really popular worldwide, but for whatever reason, never debuted on the Weekend Countdown. This next song was a massive hit all over the world. It hit Top 10 in many different charts. I'm really shocked that it never made it to the Weekend Countdown. So I will now present that song with the Biggest Whiff Of The Year award.



Biggest Whiff Of 2015: Skrillex & Diplo/Justin Bieber – Where Are Ü Now


Tenure Trophies
There were quite a few songs that lasted a short three weeks on the countdown (Jason Derulo – Cheyenne, Zedd/Jon Bellion – Beautiful Now, Nate Ruess – Nothing Without Love, Ryn Weaver – OctaHate, and more). We didn't have any one-week tenures. But there was one two-week tenure...



Shortest Tenured Song Of 2015: David Guetta/Sam Martin – Dangerous (two weeks)


As for the longest tenure, this song has lasted just about a year debuting at the end of last year and is still on the countdown. That song is....


Longest Tenured Song Of 2015: Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud (debuted 12/27/14; still on countdown)


I realized that I kind of rushed through this. But it needed to get done. Also, I did attend the iHeartRadio 103.5 KISS FM Jingle Ball on Wednesday night. If I have the time, I'll post some of the pictures I took (even though they're not the best quality). So that'll be a different post. But I did have a blast! But back to this post, this was 2015 summed up in one post. I hope you enjoyed and get ready because the Top 45 Songs of 2015 will be posted soon! The list has been selected and I will begin the post as soon as possible!