I can only hope that as many people forget as possible about 'Try That In A Small Town' now that the year is done and we NEVER have to deal with another hit song like it again...
I know Mark said he got really angry over this list and that he's worried how it could impact everybody's Christmas in a negative way. Honestly, I think I can speak on behalf on all his fans that this absolutely won't be the case. For me, I'm actually really excited to see his Year-End lists for 2023 and I'm effectively 100% sure he'll tear apart and speak out about one particular song which is absolutely deserved given its dangerous message (we all know what it is). Keep up the incredible work Mark and Merry Christmas to you! ❤
It’s sweet that he worries about that kind of thing, but, like… I don’t think anyone’s Christmas is gonna be ruined by a guy getting angry in a TH-cam video xD
"Give Hozier another proper hit, you cowards!" On the date I'm writing this, Wednesday, April 24th 2024, Hozier officially has his first number one and highest charting song to date in "Too Sweet". To quote John Mulany *"...and he took my advice."*
I'll say here what I said on Todd in the Shadows' video re: "Daylight"... David Kushner can't sell "Daylight" because he hasn't put any genuine feeling behind it. Speaking from experience as someone who grew up in a rather extreme sect of Christianity, even the most sheltered and/or most devout religious people still angst pretty hard over a good piece of forbidden fruit. Either ol Dave here is one of the few folks so godly that he's never truly experienced a sinful desire, or he's too much of a goody-two-shoes to allow himself to admit it without a heavy dose of sanitization. Either way, "Daylight" just comes off as devoid of any actual emotion or drama. Lactose intolerant people have more genuine, interesting internal crises over a pint of Ben & Jerry's than whatever sin David Kushner is supposed to be singing about.
I don't like it, but I'd much, much, rather listen to "Truck Bed" than the many overly processed, overly sentimental country songs we got this year. "You Can't Have Mine" and "Next Thing You Know" are my cue to shut off the radio.
You and me both man - there are bigger problems in country music than an overexagirated country story song. We had bigger fish to fry in country both last year and this year
I use Spotify pretty religiously myself and have quite a few playlists from this year, so I went to check what I had. I guess I must have lucked out because Truck Bed didn’t even appear on Release Radar Catalog for this year, and the songs I put on there were from my Release Radar for every week this year with over 71 hours of music.
Jelly Roll has multiple collborations with Adam Calhoun? Unfortunately, makes sense. As Mark said, IYKYK. If you don't.......good. Don't let your curiosity kill you. Save it for better things.
That guy on tiktok with the ridiculous lyrics is how I heard Coi leray's song Players to a point that when the song started I internally sang the lyrics from the tiktok.
I'm not against Mark changing the rules, but i would like there to be at least 15 songs from the dishonorable mentions so that we can know all the songs ranked in year-end list that he hated. I noted 11 songs that are on the year-end in the video and I would like to at least know the other 6 songs without necessarily changing the rule he put in place!
This is just speculation, but based on how Mark reacted on Billboard Breakdown I would guess Peaches & Eggplants, I Wrote the Book and Search & Rescue would have been included
i think what really shocks me about the snippets of Try That etc. that i've heard (because no way am i seeking the song out) is that i expected it to be some attempt at meatheaded southern rock and it's... largely more of Aldean's R&B-fusion type shit??? they're really gonna try and threaten people with this willowy fart of a song???
The guitar solo is also lifted from Michael Jackson's Beat It. Because making a lynching anthem wasn't enough, nooooo, Aldean's crew just had to interpolate one of the many classics from a BLACK artist for said lynching anthem.
Makes sense that Anthony Fantano's worst song of this year is also this channel's worst hit song of the year as well. Shit, I don't blame anyone for thinking that way either since it's well deserved on that mark. EDIT: 43:45 I mean, you say that now... hope you're still saying that for 2030.
Hot take: Jelly Roll's song immediately made me think back to Nickleback's 'Rockstar' for some reason and I love it for it. Legit smiled at 2005-07 me for thinking Nickleback's fine. Gets a pass for me for this single reason. Sign of the times I guess, alongside wishing for days of crunk, club boom, Three Days Grace/Papa Roach etc. For how bad it all was when it was atrocious, at least the middle of the road songs were distinct - if still awful. These past three years it's either goat or everything's samey shit though, at least to me
"she is thinking about morgan wallen" do any of us think about morgan wallen? I don't even think abt morgan wallen when I'm actively listening to morgan wallen
7:52 and to make it even worse (better?), she remixes this song into a Christmas version called "Nonsense Christmas", which is hilariously, and unnecessarily, horny.
I'd say better. At least indulging in the now largely dead cliché of the gratuitous Christmas retread allows the lame meta joke to come full circle on a conceptual level, particularly if it's bafflingly horny.
something i only learned once sean fay wolfe finally released the second half of his worst list is that david kushner was actually making tiktoks BEGGING hozier to come onto daylight in the most homosexual way possible, and it’s absolutely hilarious.
Mark's Worst Hit Songs Of 2023 (that was on the year-end list) : 1. Try That In A Small Town 2. Thinkin' Bout Me 3. Daylight 4. Rich Flex 5. Ain't That Some 6. Need A Favor 7. Last Night 8. Players 9. I'm Good (Blue) 10. Golden Hour DHM : Made You Look
Jesus, this was the first year of pop music I truly felt disconnected to the majority of hits, and yet I hate to say I am glad that was the case. As much as I love the way in which pop music critics have been a part of my life through TH-cam, I also am glad I can still enjoy them without the sense of attachment I used to have with the charts. 2016 was the year I properly started following the charts closely thanks to billboard breakdown, and I will always be grateful to you Mark for that! But now as I prepare to get married in March and begin the next phase of my life, I don’t have the time or interest in following the charts as closely nowadays. Still, I will always look forward to the year-end lists like these and I do love the album review shorts, so please keep up the amazing work Mark!
Is anyone else getting sick of the fact that almost every single time a mainstream pop star releases an upbeat, cheerful pop song, it either fails to chart or only charts for a few weeks before immediately losing all its streams and flopping?
@@CellistOncemymidzy78 The sad thing is that this doesn't seem to be the case for popular music in most countries. Its just that most happy pop music doesn't have enough of an audience to reach the top 40 in the United States anymore for some weird reason.
@@juhaniaho6698 I can’t stand that song, only bc of how terribly manufactured his rise, and the song in general feels. It all feels way too planned, and he’s js everywhere out of nowhere, it’s js very annoying imo.
What I find hilarious about that Small Town song is how so many people who like it moan about "authenticity" in music and "what happened to real music" meanwhile going on about how "real" the song is whilst failing to realise that the song is likely focus group made to appeal to a specific target audience
I haven’t seen Mark this righteously pissed in a while. That’s how bad 2023 was. Great video. Note: Try That In A Small Town is the music equivalent of an engagement-farming tweet. It only exists to make money off of outrage.
Facts. He did NOT hold back on some of those hits. Especially #1 (for a damn good reason). Also huge shoutout to your hillarious billboard music reviews. I Used to read them alot in 8th-9th grade.
My Top 10 Worst: 1. Thinkin' Bout Me 2. Try That in a Small Town 3. I'm Good (Blue) 4. Peaches & Eggplants 5. La Bebé 6. Tomorrow 2 7. Under the Influence 8. Search & Rescue 9. Barbie World 10. Religiously
I actually like Religiously, I'd probably replace that with "Last Night." Otherwise this list is spot on. I'm surprised Mark didn't have "Search & Rescue" on his worst list.
You know, if the reaction against Try That IN A Small Town wasn't bad enough, look at how people reacted to that Oliver Anthony song Rich Men North of Richmond. That song should not have charted at all, or if it did, maybe something like 75 or 85, something like that, because the right-leaning crowd would embrace it, then it would disappear into the ether, never to be thought of again. But because all of the so-called progressives brought so much hate towards the song, that made it big as it became. So it's like they learned nothing from Try That In A Small Town, and made the same mistake with Rich Men North of Richmond. If you think a song is so bad and reprehensible and doesn't deserve to be big, then don't share it publically with others and say "this song is shit, and I'm mad because it's about this." Just ignore the song, let it disappear into the ether. Normally, I hate the don't like don't watch arguments, but in some ways, had the left have collectively just ignored both Try That In A Small Town and Rich Men North of Richmond, then maybe they wouldn't have made it as big as they did. In othe rwords, those that hate the fact that both Try That In A Small Town and Rich Men North of Richmond made it to number 1, it's your own damn fault for pushing the hell out of those songs because you had to rage about it, share your rage, and over and over. It's like why Rebecca Black made it as big as she did in 2011 with Friday, we all complained to everyone and our babas about it, and that made the song huge as it was. Just like Friday, both Try That In a Small Town and Rich Men North of Richmond made it as big as they did because of how much people just had to rage over those songs. The left took the bate, and the right is now laughing all the way about this, just like how Patrice Wilson took all the hate we gave Friday all the way to the bank.
Thank you for saying what needed to be said about fein, god that song is trash, repetitive garbage, and i didnt understand what anyone liked about it. The beat is sick imo, but everything else sucks
That's kind of the thing. Most young modern rap fans seem to care more for the beat, the hype, and the moshpit around these kind of tracks than they care for... well, anything the rappers say.
My list in no order (including ones that charted LOW in the top 100) - “try that in a small town” by Jason Alden - “Watch the World Burn” by Ronnie Radke (there’s no band anymore, he’s now the TERF Adam Levine. If you’re going to make lyrical spiritual stuff, make it interesting) - “Broadway girls” by Morgan Wallen and Lil Dirk - “IDGAF” by Drake - “Rich Men North of Richmond” by Oliver Anthony Music - “Rich Flex” by Drake and 21 Savage - “Daylight” by David Kushner
I think Popular's sound was supposed to be reminiscent of a Pharrell-produced Justin Timberlake song from the Justified era, which was fine with me because those are good. It is strange that the song never actually appeared in the "Idol" despite Sam Levinson's credit, which further supports the theory that the original show was supposed to take place in the early 2000s and be about a Britney-esque pop star, but that Sam and the Weeknd fucked it up
Honestly, among all the garbage of this year's hits (which among are the #1 spot which I will never acknowledge on name because it wants me to do that, and Morgan Wallen's Last Night which I consider my actual #1 since its the song that made me feel the most hollow and miserable listening to it. I have heard worse music, but the absolute numbness that song makes me feel is what makes it fucking putrid) I'm surprised you didn't mention one song that counts as some of the worst of this year...so I will What It Is (Block Boy) by Doechii ft. Kodak Black: - You have talked a lot about how disappointment plays a lot in your perception of the worst hit songs you have heard, and this is the first time I think this has applied to me because holy shit. Doechii has become one of my favorite new artists in recent memory, and her EP from last year, "she/her/black bitch," is still a top 10 best musical projects of 2022- such an incredible first impression for me which made me go back to revisit all her music and see such a musical genius that balances swagger and compassion for her art and the muses of her songs, with bangers like Swamp Bitches with Rico nasty being top 10 best songs of 2022 material and songs from "Oh The Places You'll Go" genuenly making me tear up. Hell, this exact year she put out the song "Pacer" which is a terrific, bombastic piece of horrorcore rap which just makes me question...why. Who told Doechii this song was a good idea and how fast does a rocket go to the sun? I honestly have heard more than one time the solo version of the song in question, and its utterly baffling to me. How do you make one of your most vivid and talented acts sound so lifeless and waste all her potential like this? I'll tell you how: you deprave her of showing that talent and leave her to a singing role despite her being A FUCKING RAPPER on a song that is so backwards on everything that came before to have a "thugs need love" song which-listen I'm not saying is a bad idea but more that she makes zero sense here given how commanding of a presence she is. She just ends up sounding like she's playing second fiddle on HER OWN SONG. And the fact that she's playing second fiddle to Kodak Black...look I heard the version with Kodak once and it was more than enough to tell me how fucking ashamed TDE should be for pushing this instead of Persuasive as a single despite the recent success of afro-beat and dance music on the charts, and...you know...LITERALLY FEATURING SZA ON THE REMIX WHO IS ALSO ON TDE is inexcusable. I literally just checked right now and she released her previously amazing ep on TDE so why the fuck would you not? Shame on all of you. And at this point do I even have to bring up the production? To be fair, that guitar is pulling a lot of work in making me like it...but like Crow (@CawCophony you should check them out they're great) mentioned during their worst hits of the 2010's video, why would I stand through the rest of a bad song for one aspect if the sum of its parts is way less than? The song is just incredibly flat it might as well be a fucking circle. It's incredibly dissapointing how one of the best new artists I heard recently had her debut on the charts fumbled this fucking bad due to honestly inexplicable musical choices, and I just hope that this is not her only hit cuz she deserves way, WAY better than she has right now. (geebuz christ that's a lot of words)
There's a way "Circo Loco" could've worked. Cut the Megan couplet, add Babytron's verse from when he remixed it, make that goofy interpolation the hook, and actually try to make it fun. As it is now... I don't have any use for it.
Honestly I learned my lesson with Breitbart freakshow rappers years ago and do my best to ignore all the reactionary ragebait and keep it off my own lists. Hoping 2024 is the year everyone else finally learns to ignore them too.
Give it its own list, the CHUD-rock Hall of Ass, and then put it at the very bottom of a video description for nobody to notice, in reflection of the amount of promotion these (I cannot in good conscience call them artists) deserve.
I'm honestly impressed by Mark's ability to have any feelings at all about songs like "Daylight" or "Golden Hour." To me, songs like that are just pleasant sounding nothingness that immediately fade into the background.
I think Mark recognizes that he listens to so much music that his variety can create a lot of factors that lead him to have differing opinions on various hit songs. It’s common for him to have a lot of dislike for certain songs that some find to be easy listening but he just wants more out of, which I completely understand!
@@JRJuggernaut1that's how it is with anyone who listens to a lot of music. There is always more interesting stuff out there than the lifeless and unchallenging corporate music shoved down our throats only to make said corporations more money. Some of which are really just jokes in song form.
I genuinely can’t think of who listens to drake. I might live in europe but i genuinely don’t hear any of his stuff from after scorpion, and I can’t imagine many people willingly being excited for a new drake album so much that all songs enter the hot 100 at once
One of my best friends loves him. But me..I have tried..and I mean multiple times to listen to even one of Drake's songs all the way through..and..just..no way..ugh..
@@TheEagleEnigmayes and also black people who live in bad neighborhoods. Really, people are looking for something that "goes hard" or is "heavy." But they don't want to listen to rock or metal because it's not popular enough.
Even as someone who doesn't listen to much country, I totally understand your anger towards the way "Try That in a Small Town" poisoned the well around country music as a whole. It sounds like everyone who created hype or anti-hype around that dumb-ass song just wanted attention for themselves, and couldn't care less about the quality of country music as a whole.
Late to the party, though about #4. (Thinking about me) Within the red pill men's community there is a set of values, one of which is once a relationship is over, it's over. You move on. His inability to move on is pathetic. He presents a weak and disgusting portrayal of masculinity in his obsession with the new guy and being better than him. It's a repugnant song.
I only have two more observations to make 1. Im really happy you finally ditched the shitty Billboard format given how irrelevant they made themselves for inexplicable reasons (which might as well be the motto for why the music industries popular right now and the biggest artists right now do so many stupid shit.) Some pop chart followers and music commentators on youtube already do this and they just give a more profound view on what actually moved and was popular, so that's swell. 2. Genuenly I'm just waiting on the best lists to see how much overlap there is between your bests picks with mine. I still gotta finish writing my 100 top songs of the year tho...
Anyone who says that they enjoy seeing Mark do these angry rants (specifically at Try That In A Small Town), y’all are exactly who he is angry at. Y’all are so desperate for rage bait that you actually find enjoyment in seeing a critic get angry at a song that you also got angry at. Anyone who enjoys that kind of stuff needs to gain some more emotional maturity.
Yeah I wasn't a fan of this years year end but I always love your commentary (even if we can agree to disagree on some songs): Top 10 Worst Hits of the Billboard 2023 Year: 1. Try That in a Small Town - Jason Aldean 2. Search & Rescue - Drake 3. I’m Good (Blue) - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha 4. Peaches & Eggplants - Young Nudy & 21 Savage 5. Made You Look - Meghan Trainor 6. Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage 7. Under the Influence - Chris Brown 8. PRC - Peso Pluma & Nathanael Cano 9. Bebe Dame - Fuerza Regida & Grupo Frontera 10. Daylight - David Kushner Dishonorable Mentions: (Morgan Wallen songs - Putting them all here because they all have the same issues imo, but some of them are definitely worse than songs in the Bottom 10, I just don't want to put my energy into this man 7 times...) Last Night - Morgan Wallen Thinkin’ Bout Me - Morgan Wallen One Thing at a Time - Morgan Wallen Everything I Love - Morgan Wallen Thought You Should Know - Morgan Wallen Ain’t That Some - Morgan Wallen I Wrote The Book - Morgan Wallen
@@TheBlackPanther05 Fair yea, ngl, I did my list based off Mark's old rules, so if I used the new rules, I'd definitely have both of the songs he had on his list (TQM & Sabor Fresa)
"You do not have to give this shit oxygen because you need rage-bait." In one sentence Mark described my feelings on music discourse for damn near the entire year. Jason Aldean, Avenged Sevenfold, Sleep Token, Morgan Wallen, Drake, all could have been less of a big deal if music nerds didn't feel the need to hate-watch and hate-post and just moved on instead. These artists do not care that you don't like them. Learn to let go and move on.
Part of the fun of being a pop music fan is complaining about the crappiness of pop music. In a normal year, we're complaining about dumb lyrics or lazy samples or annoying vocals. This year, a lot of the stuff on the charts was downright offensive. NOT commenting on it kind of would be like stating we're accepting it and lead to even more of it. We're probably getting more of it anyway, but hopefully the formula will have declining returns very, very, quickly.
@@crazyluigi6664 metal communities would not shut up about how terrible the new album was. Like, months later people were still bringing it up when the rest were just moved on.
@@michaelmacvittie6977 Oh yeah, I got you now. I mean, I didn't think Avenged Sevenfold's album was the worst of the year. Maybe not all of their ideas hit, sure, but worst album of the year bad? Behind The Brave 2? Not by a long shot, Anthony Fantano. And I say that even by listening to just one of Avenged Sevenfold's songs from that album alone.
Is it weird that I tried to see if myself or any of my comrades were in the protest footage used in the Try That In a Small Town music video? (This isn't dry snitching; I live in Montreal.)
This list was very well worth the wait, and you didn't ruin my holidays, in fact, this was a great Christmas gift lol I'm very interested to see how your own year-end 200 list will factor into later worst/best hits lists.
I hadn’t heard any of these, but they were all justifiably terrible. Good to know I’m not missing anything important. No substance in anything, just sell it because some idiot will buy it.
29:39 I cannot explain what it is but this song is one of the few songs that make me unintentionally incredibly sad and depressed whenever it’s one the radio and these always have a spot on my worst lists. I almost wanted to even place it first on my worst list, because it’s the song that unintentionally took the most from me without ever giving anything in return. At the end It’s just a mid version of Take Me To Church that was played 12000000 times on the fucking radio. I mean I hate it but idk if it offends me enough to be my least fave of 2023 when songs like “Alone” by Kim Petras and “Try That In A Small Town” exist but it’s definitely up there or should I say down there, anyways it makes me upset without knowing why and I’ve only had this with YBMF before so that is kind off a reason to hate this more than songs that I have a solid, obvious and justified reason to be upset about when they’re played or isn’t it? Ps: I’m German and mainly base these pick off logic (for Try That In A Small Town) and whatever bothered me the most while being exposed to local top 40 radio during my work shifts. Ps, ps: I’m sorry if you do like to happen “Daylight” like I said I can’t explain my feelings when I listen to this song, I just know that it’s not helpful for me to listen to it and I therefore can’t help but dislike it but I’m fine if any of you like it.
I'm not sure how I feel about doubling the number of eligible songs in one go. Makes it hard to compare with previous years when you're using double the number of songs
I want to really badly make a longer piece on how I feel about the "pop music" landscape on 2023 and what is emblematic of but knowing me I would break my brain trying to balance that and actually writing about music I like which I'm still doing so Imma try to be thorough here: 2023 was the year that tried to tell you to give up I don't think that I have seen a year in popular music that is more emblematic of how fucking awful the world, both inside and outside of pop music, is where the mask has been pulled off completely. The mask might have been pulled off many years ago (and really all of this seemed to be coming, god Jean Grae was right), but now it is impossible not to notice. Given how much of the worst music of this year showed a lack of interest in the artists, and honestly the industry at large, to have any sense of decency and respect for anyone or anything to the point where they can just be the worst pieces of shit imaginable and the masses won't care. Two possible reasons for that. 1: the affordmentioned rage bait that gets propped by dogshit actors that don't give a shit about the art as much to shit on it for easy clicks, which ends up making everything worse (the same people that think debating Ben Shapiro does anything instead of doing real work to make things better YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE). And 2: a mass audience that in the late-era-capitalism-hellmode world we live right now cannot fathom to change their consuming options and just want the same thing because fuck it. Just give up. This is what the popular music of this year made me feel, and honestly that's how 2023 made me feel in general. I really wanted to give up in every sense of the word on this year given how there is no mask anymore on how awful the nation I have to live in is, and how complacency and enablement are the words of now as the powerful give any passes to kill the marginalized in the many wars happening right now. It's all in plain sight...and many of us are incapable of doing shit. "When you're this rich... they just let you get away with it...y'know." But you know what, I'm with you Mark. I'm fucking tired, but more than that I'm fucking angry. At this point in my life I realize that anger is a powerful emotion that can do so much good. So we can do shit about it. Protest. Speak for those who can't. Make noise when they don't want you to. Don't stop. Never give up even if you fucking want so bad. Free Palestine. And Congo. And Sudan. Don't give up.
Damn awesome job Mark! Outside of some disagreements here and there, I really enjoyed the video! I like how you expanded your rules for the Year-End list and included other songe outside of the year-end list, and it was SO satisfting to see you absolutely tear into the worst hits this year (I.E. #3)! Again, you ATE THIS DOWN!
I'm at least 20% sure that Hozier's comeback was entirely because David Kushner reminded us that Hozier is way better than whatever this kid pushes out
@@crazyluigi6664 I think it's referring to that Alabama boat fight that happened earlier this year where someone got bodied with a chair. It was a big meme subject for a good minute.
I posted my personal year end ranking of this year’s year end, and, while I have had some thoughts of mine change on it, here’s the bottom ten in the form of a top 10 worst list, not counting carryovers: 10. Superhero (Heroes & Villains) - Metro Boomin, Future, & Chris Brown 9. I’m Good (Blue) - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha 8. Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage 7. One Thing at a Time - Morgan Wallen 6. Search and Rescue - Drake 5. Peaches and Eggplants - Young Nudy ft. 21 Savage 4. Rich Men North of Richmond - Oliver Anthony Music 3. Thinkin’ Bout Me - Morgan Wallen 2. Under the Influence - Chris Brown 1. Try That in a Small Town - Jason Aldean
Also, I will never get the hate for Daylight. Yeah, it's yet another depressing pop song but at least it sounds more interesting then 90 percent of pop piano ballads and at least the emotions he's trying to get across come through.
This song could've been good if it weren't for that murky faux-chamber-pop production. It feels too much like a bad crossover between some third-rate Bon Iver and Imagine Dragons.
@@thevarietychannelofyoutube4769 Sure it has something different from usual pop ballads, but it just doesn't work in my opinion. Anyway, I'm not going to dwell on this because you are entitled to your own opinion and I totally respect it.
December 25, 2024 - 10:05 P.M.: Today was the *1* year anniversary of when "The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2024" was uploaded! The bad hit songs of 2023 were more interesting than the bad hit songs of 2024. 🤓➡️😅
*Overhated Hit Songs Of 2023* 34. Need A Favor *5/10* 42. Religiously *7/10* 54. Wait In The Truck *10/10* (I know it's lyrically controversial but it's hard to rate it anything but 10/10 cause it's one of the most listened songs of the year) 62. Daylight *5/10* 92. Ain't That Some *6/10*
@@jeremyduminy7730A lot of people think it focuses more on playing into the male fantasy for violence than actually saying anything worth saying about domestic abuse. Personally, I understand why people think that, but I think the presence of a woman on the song keeps it from feeling too self-indulgent. It still doesn't hold a candle to any of the similar songs actually written by women though (Goodbye Earl, Blown Away, probably others)
I can only hope that as many people forget as possible about 'Try That In A Small Town' now that the year is done and we NEVER have to deal with another hit song like it again...
Should we forget about infamy and racism?
Lol hell no, that song is an instant classic and I don’t even like country
@@kaninesenses I highly doubt this song is going to be regarded as an "instant classic" by very many people.
It will be forgotten
Anyone remember that “have you forgotten” song from 2003
@@piran1807 yes and those “many people” highly regard WAP as the most impactful female empowerment song of the 2020s…
31:38 "Give Hozier another proper hit, you cowards!"
Hey Mark, good news...
Now he got his biggest hit in his career
@@JoppingBen10Fan And it's a wonderfully good song to boot.
I know Mark said he got really angry over this list and that he's worried how it could impact everybody's Christmas in a negative way. Honestly, I think I can speak on behalf on all his fans that this absolutely won't be the case. For me, I'm actually really excited to see his Year-End lists for 2023 and I'm effectively 100% sure he'll tear apart and speak out about one particular song which is absolutely deserved given its dangerous message (we all know what it is). Keep up the incredible work Mark and Merry Christmas to you! ❤
100% agree!
TRUE!
My favourite moment of marks is the end of the worst of 2016 when the anger just flares through.
It’s sweet that he worries about that kind of thing, but, like… I don’t think anyone’s Christmas is gonna be ruined by a guy getting angry in a TH-cam video xD
How do you even ruin a holiday that's already garbage?
"Give Hozier another proper hit, you cowards!"
On the date I'm writing this, Wednesday, April 24th 2024, Hozier officially has his first number one and highest charting song to date in "Too Sweet". To quote John Mulany
*"...and he took my advice."*
It just hit me, how did Morgan Wallen got away with making the same song more than twice and they all became hits? Actually dont answer that
It's country. Like 80% of it is guys that sound like him making songs that sound almost exactly the same about the same topics
@@washingmashine921 and after those racist comments, he doesn’t get blowback in the country industry.
I like that you and Todd put 5 Drake songs combined in your top 10s, and none of them were the same.
Yeah
And all of them were worthy of their respective spots on the Worst Ofs!
Lets not forget how jason aldean ran away when there was a shooting at his show, so much for “trying that in a small town”
Las Vegas is a small town?
@@SeethingSimpHis old home wasn't a small town either.
I'm pretty sure 21 Savage is turning into a Pokémon now, he says his name more than anything else
When I first heard Daylight in the radio I thought it was Imagine Dragons attempting a "serious" song. Vocal styles have some overlap imo.
I can see it. Especially when he gets into his upper register.
It's like the bastard child of Imagine Dragons and Hozier.
"TRUCK BED" broke into the top 40 this week. Early contender for my Worst of 2024 list.
My opinion has not changed. "TRUCK BED" is likely my #2 worst for 2024, behind only "CARNIVAL".
I'll say here what I said on Todd in the Shadows' video re: "Daylight"...
David Kushner can't sell "Daylight" because he hasn't put any genuine feeling behind it. Speaking from experience as someone who grew up in a rather extreme sect of Christianity, even the most sheltered and/or most devout religious people still angst pretty hard over a good piece of forbidden fruit.
Either ol Dave here is one of the few folks so godly that he's never truly experienced a sinful desire, or he's too much of a goody-two-shoes to allow himself to admit it without a heavy dose of sanitization.
Either way, "Daylight" just comes off as devoid of any actual emotion or drama. Lactose intolerant people have more genuine, interesting internal crises over a pint of Ben & Jerry's than whatever sin David Kushner is supposed to be singing about.
I’m waiting for someone to kill me for liking Truck Bed.
I don't like it, but I'd much, much, rather listen to "Truck Bed" than the many overly processed, overly sentimental country songs we got this year. "You Can't Have Mine" and "Next Thing You Know" are my cue to shut off the radio.
I generally naturally reject most anything country or country-esque, but Truck Bed is also a guilty pleasure of mine as well
truck bed is laughable its so “i hate my wife”-core its so fucking funny
@@lucyw4195nah Next Thing You Know is legitimately amazing
You and me both man - there are bigger problems in country music than an overexagirated country story song. We had bigger fish to fry in country both last year and this year
I didn't know anything about Truck Bed except that Spotify kept pushing it on me, so it's a relief to hear I'm not alone in disliking it!
I use Spotify pretty religiously myself and have quite a few playlists from this year, so I went to check what I had. I guess I must have lucked out because Truck Bed didn’t even appear on Release Radar Catalog for this year, and the songs I put on there were from my Release Radar for every week this year with over 71 hours of music.
Try That In A Small Town
2023: A #1 hit song
2024: No one remembers anymore
2026: Who’s Jason Aldean?
Jelly Roll has multiple collborations with Adam Calhoun? Unfortunately, makes sense. As Mark said, IYKYK. If you don't.......good. Don't let your curiosity kill you. Save it for better things.
this was a funnily homogenous list cuz playboy carti, drake and morgan wallen all appeared like 2 times
That guy on tiktok with the ridiculous lyrics is how I heard Coi leray's song Players to a point that when the song started I internally sang the lyrics from the tiktok.
SUBSCRIBED! Have been for a while but I figured I'd leave a comment as well. Great list Mark!
I'm not against Mark changing the rules, but i would like there to be at least 15 songs from the dishonorable mentions so that we can know all the songs ranked in year-end list that he hated.
I noted 11 songs that are on the year-end in the video and I would like to at least know the other 6 songs without necessarily changing the rule he put in place!
This is just speculation, but based on how Mark reacted on Billboard Breakdown I would guess Peaches & Eggplants, I Wrote the Book and Search & Rescue would have been included
I sadly don't think this is the last time we are going to see bad faith or at least misguided political songs top the charts.
i think what really shocks me about the snippets of Try That etc. that i've heard (because no way am i seeking the song out) is that i expected it to be some attempt at meatheaded southern rock and it's... largely more of Aldean's R&B-fusion type shit???
they're really gonna try and threaten people with this willowy fart of a song???
The guitar solo is also lifted from Michael Jackson's Beat It.
Because making a lynching anthem wasn't enough, nooooo, Aldean's crew just had to interpolate one of the many classics from a BLACK artist for said lynching anthem.
Makes sense that Anthony Fantano's worst song of this year is also this channel's worst hit song of the year as well. Shit, I don't blame anyone for thinking that way either since it's well deserved on that mark.
EDIT: 43:45 I mean, you say that now... hope you're still saying that for 2030.
Yeah, TTIAST is pretty much a lock for the bottom three on his Worst Hits of the 2020s list, if he makes it in seven years' time.
@@gabingston3430 Yeah, unless somehow even worst shit since then somehow usurps it multiple times beyond just once or twice.
Hot take: Jelly Roll's song immediately made me think back to Nickleback's 'Rockstar' for some reason and I love it for it. Legit smiled at 2005-07 me for thinking Nickleback's fine. Gets a pass for me for this single reason. Sign of the times I guess, alongside wishing for days of crunk, club boom, Three Days Grace/Papa Roach etc. For how bad it all was when it was atrocious, at least the middle of the road songs were distinct - if still awful. These past three years it's either goat or everything's samey shit though, at least to me
"she is thinking about morgan wallen"
do any of us think about morgan wallen? I don't even think abt morgan wallen when I'm actively listening to morgan wallen
7:52 and to make it even worse (better?), she remixes this song into a Christmas version called "Nonsense Christmas", which is hilariously, and unnecessarily, horny.
LOL I LOVE The Christmas remix to Nonsense! It is so hilariously horny!
I'd say better. At least indulging in the now largely dead cliché of the gratuitous Christmas retread allows the lame meta joke to come full circle on a conceptual level, particularly if it's bafflingly horny.
@@TheBlackPanther05 It can't be serious. She has to be doing it as a joke.
@@ConvincingPeople i agree.
I just looked up the lyrics and oH MY GOD SABRINA YOU NEED TO CHILL
something i only learned once sean fay wolfe finally released the second half of his worst list is that david kushner was actually making tiktoks BEGGING hozier to come onto daylight in the most homosexual way possible, and it’s absolutely hilarious.
2022 Worst List: At least 3 Riverdale mentions
2023 Worst List: 2 solid Twilight mentions
2024 is the year of Glee
Don’t speak things into existence, please don’t.
I mean Chappell Roan got big... that's close right?
Hey dude! I look forward to these every year, you and ARTV are always must-sees!
Mark's Worst Hit Songs Of 2023 (that was on the year-end list) :
1. Try That In A Small Town
2. Thinkin' Bout Me
3. Daylight
4. Rich Flex
5. Ain't That Some
6. Need A Favor
7. Last Night
8. Players
9. I'm Good (Blue)
10. Golden Hour
DHM :
Made You Look
Rich flex 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Jesus, this was the first year of pop music I truly felt disconnected to the majority of hits, and yet I hate to say I am glad that was the case. As much as I love the way in which pop music critics have been a part of my life through TH-cam, I also am glad I can still enjoy them without the sense of attachment I used to have with the charts.
2016 was the year I properly started following the charts closely thanks to billboard breakdown, and I will always be grateful to you Mark for that! But now as I prepare to get married in March and begin the next phase of my life, I don’t have the time or interest in following the charts as closely nowadays. Still, I will always look forward to the year-end lists like these and I do love the album review shorts, so please keep up the amazing work Mark!
Is anyone else getting sick of the fact that almost every single time a mainstream pop star releases an upbeat, cheerful pop song, it either fails to chart or only charts for a few weeks before immediately losing all its streams and flopping?
Yes :(
@@CellistOncemymidzy78 The sad thing is that this doesn't seem to be the case for popular music in most countries. Its just that most happy pop music doesn't have enough of an audience to reach the top 40 in the United States anymore for some weird reason.
So refreshing to find someone else who isn't so ready to give fuckin Travis Scott a pass.
No one has given him a pass, not many amongst the music critic scene. Todd also shitted on him. Good artist but shitty person
It's a shame that "Left & Right" would've made your worst list in 2022. It's my second favorite hit of 2022...
Agreed. I actually like that song
Same
Golden hour by JVKE is my favorite hit song of 2023. Guess how I felt when it appeared on the dhms…😢
@juhaniaho6698 I really like that song, too. I don't get the hate
@@juhaniaho6698 I can’t stand that song, only bc of how terribly manufactured his rise, and the song in general feels. It all feels way too planned, and he’s js everywhere out of nowhere, it’s js very annoying imo.
20:36
*casually sneaks in a brag about his video essay as i nod my head in agreement*
What I find hilarious about that Small Town song is how so many people who like it moan about "authenticity" in music and "what happened to real music" meanwhile going on about how "real" the song is whilst failing to realise that the song is likely focus group made to appeal to a specific target audience
Your rants on "Circo Loco" and "Try That In A Small Town" is indeed satisfying.
I haven’t seen Mark this righteously pissed in a while. That’s how bad 2023 was. Great video.
Note: Try That In A Small Town is the music equivalent of an engagement-farming tweet. It only exists to make money off of outrage.
I haven't seen Mark this genuinely angry in a Worst List since at least 2016/2017. That says A LOT
Facts. He did NOT hold back on some of those hits. Especially #1 (for a damn good reason).
Also huge shoutout to your hillarious billboard music reviews. I Used to read them alot in 8th-9th grade.
2018 was exhaustion, 2019 was disappointing, 2020 was disgust, 2021 was embarrassment, 2022 was bewildered, 2023 back to anger. What a journey.
My Top 10 Worst:
1. Thinkin' Bout Me
2. Try That in a Small Town
3. I'm Good (Blue)
4. Peaches & Eggplants
5. La Bebé
6. Tomorrow 2
7. Under the Influence
8. Search & Rescue
9. Barbie World
10. Religiously
Oh God @ Barbie World! 😖 It makes Aqua’s song sound like a legendarily good song in comparison.
@@markwilson4078I mostly find it pointless and useless. Why couldn't they just use the original for the soundtrack?
I actually like Religiously, I'd probably replace that with "Last Night." Otherwise this list is spot on. I'm surprised Mark didn't have "Search & Rescue" on his worst list.
@@thelESC18
I was thinking the same thing. I believe it's a rights issue, but it's disappointing that Barbie Girl didn't show up in the film.
@acorn9134
That's a gosh darn lie, and you know it.
Who the hell likes crappy pop rap remixes of old songs?
Not me.
You know, if the reaction against Try That IN A Small Town wasn't bad enough, look at how people reacted to that Oliver Anthony song Rich Men North of Richmond. That song should not have charted at all, or if it did, maybe something like 75 or 85, something like that, because the right-leaning crowd would embrace it, then it would disappear into the ether, never to be thought of again. But because all of the so-called progressives brought so much hate towards the song, that made it big as it became. So it's like they learned nothing from Try That In A Small Town, and made the same mistake with Rich Men North of Richmond.
If you think a song is so bad and reprehensible and doesn't deserve to be big, then don't share it publically with others and say "this song is shit, and I'm mad because it's about this." Just ignore the song, let it disappear into the ether.
Normally, I hate the don't like don't watch arguments, but in some ways, had the left have collectively just ignored both Try That In A Small Town and Rich Men North of Richmond, then maybe they wouldn't have made it as big as they did.
In othe rwords, those that hate the fact that both Try That In A Small Town and Rich Men North of Richmond made it to number 1, it's your own damn fault for pushing the hell out of those songs because you had to rage about it, share your rage, and over and over.
It's like why Rebecca Black made it as big as she did in 2011 with Friday, we all complained to everyone and our babas about it, and that made the song huge as it was.
Just like Friday, both Try That In a Small Town and Rich Men North of Richmond made it as big as they did because of how much people just had to rage over those songs. The left took the bate, and the right is now laughing all the way about this, just like how Patrice Wilson took all the hate we gave Friday all the way to the bank.
Yeah, pretty much that. Thank God I'm one of the more wiser individuals to not play into that immediate bullshit!
Thank you for saying what needed to be said about fein, god that song is trash, repetitive garbage, and i didnt understand what anyone liked about it. The beat is sick imo, but everything else sucks
That's kind of the thing. Most young modern rap fans seem to care more for the beat, the hype, and the moshpit around these kind of tracks than they care for... well, anything the rappers say.
If they are playing villains this is the banality of evil 😂🤣🤣🤣
the daylight song sounds like if imagine dragons did take me to church, not great
My list in no order (including ones that charted LOW in the top 100)
- “try that in a small town” by Jason Alden
- “Watch the World Burn” by Ronnie Radke (there’s no band anymore, he’s now the TERF Adam Levine. If you’re going to make lyrical spiritual stuff, make it interesting)
- “Broadway girls” by Morgan Wallen and Lil Dirk
- “IDGAF” by Drake
- “Rich Men North of Richmond” by Oliver Anthony Music
- “Rich Flex” by Drake and 21 Savage
- “Daylight” by David Kushner
Ronnie Radke's transphobic? Did not know that until I saw this post, and upon checking... yep, he sure is. What a vile, rancid little twerp.
@jessie6600 the autotune is so...bad....
Broadway Girls was a 2022 hit
Love the quotation marks calling daylight “goth” pop. We truly have Hozier at home
Do we put this year in the same echelon as 2016 or 2018?
Watch the best hit list of 2023 for more information on this year.
I'd say it's more like 2013 or 2017 where the best songs are great even and all timer but the bad songs are also an all timer
To me, it's moreso similar to 2005 and 2017. Good songs are really, REALLY good, but the bad songs are really, REALLY bad.
I'd put 2023 somewhere in-between these years. It was a better year for the charts than 2016 and it was a little worse than 2018
2013 is a pretty solid comparison i think
I think Popular's sound was supposed to be reminiscent of a Pharrell-produced Justin Timberlake song from the Justified era, which was fine with me because those are good. It is strange that the song never actually appeared in the "Idol" despite Sam Levinson's credit, which further supports the theory that the original show was supposed to take place in the early 2000s and be about a Britney-esque pop star, but that Sam and the Weeknd fucked it up
Thanks for the Christmas present, I opened it today because I was at the Christmas party so long and got tired.
You know it was a terrible year for Mark when 3 Drake songs made the list and he didn’t mention Search And Rescue at any point in the video!
I was shocked it wasn’t here.
Honestly, among all the garbage of this year's hits (which among are the #1 spot which I will never acknowledge on name because it wants me to do that, and Morgan Wallen's Last Night which I consider my actual #1 since its the song that made me feel the most hollow and miserable listening to it. I have heard worse music, but the absolute numbness that song makes me feel is what makes it fucking putrid) I'm surprised you didn't mention one song that counts as some of the worst of this year...so I will
What It Is (Block Boy) by Doechii ft. Kodak Black:
- You have talked a lot about how disappointment plays a lot in your perception of the worst hit songs you have heard, and this is the first time I think this has applied to me because holy shit. Doechii has become one of my favorite new artists in recent memory, and her EP from last year, "she/her/black bitch," is still a top 10 best musical projects of 2022- such an incredible first impression for me which made me go back to revisit all her music and see such a musical genius that balances swagger and compassion for her art and the muses of her songs, with bangers like Swamp Bitches with Rico nasty being top 10 best songs of 2022 material and songs from "Oh The Places You'll Go" genuenly making me tear up. Hell, this exact year she put out the song "Pacer" which is a terrific, bombastic piece of horrorcore rap which just makes me question...why.
Who told Doechii this song was a good idea and how fast does a rocket go to the sun? I honestly have heard more than one time the solo version of the song in question, and its utterly baffling to me. How do you make one of your most vivid and talented acts sound so lifeless and waste all her potential like this? I'll tell you how: you deprave her of showing that talent and leave her to a singing role despite her being A FUCKING RAPPER on a song that is so backwards on everything that came before to have a "thugs need love" song which-listen I'm not saying is a bad idea but more that she makes zero sense here given how commanding of a presence she is. She just ends up sounding like she's playing second fiddle on HER OWN SONG.
And the fact that she's playing second fiddle to Kodak Black...look I heard the version with Kodak once and it was more than enough to tell me how fucking ashamed TDE should be for pushing this instead of Persuasive as a single despite the recent success of afro-beat and dance music on the charts, and...you know...LITERALLY FEATURING SZA ON THE REMIX WHO IS ALSO ON TDE is inexcusable. I literally just checked right now and she released her previously amazing ep on TDE so why the fuck would you not? Shame on all of you.
And at this point do I even have to bring up the production? To be fair, that guitar is pulling a lot of work in making me like it...but like Crow (@CawCophony you should check them out they're great) mentioned during their worst hits of the 2010's video, why would I stand through the rest of a bad song for one aspect if the sum of its parts is way less than? The song is just incredibly flat it might as well be a fucking circle. It's incredibly dissapointing how one of the best new artists I heard recently had her debut on the charts fumbled this fucking bad due to honestly inexplicable musical choices, and I just hope that this is not her only hit cuz she deserves way, WAY better than she has right now.
(geebuz christ that's a lot of words)
There's a way "Circo Loco" could've worked. Cut the Megan couplet, add Babytron's verse from when he remixed it, make that goofy interpolation the hook, and actually try to make it fun. As it is now... I don't have any use for it.
Sounds like an idea for Diamond Axe Studios to do... years ago.
That stiff cowbell groove from “Popular” haunts my dreams
Honestly I learned my lesson with Breitbart freakshow rappers years ago and do my best to ignore all the reactionary ragebait and keep it off my own lists. Hoping 2024 is the year everyone else finally learns to ignore them too.
Give it its own list, the CHUD-rock Hall of Ass, and then put it at the very bottom of a video description for nobody to notice, in reflection of the amount of promotion these (I cannot in good conscience call them artists) deserve.
Not quite cuz that Tom McDonald with Ben Shapiro song went #1 on iTunes!!!
I'm honestly impressed by Mark's ability to have any feelings at all about songs like "Daylight" or "Golden Hour." To me, songs like that are just pleasant sounding nothingness that immediately fade into the background.
I think Mark recognizes that he listens to so much music that his variety can create a lot of factors that lead him to have differing opinions on various hit songs. It’s common for him to have a lot of dislike for certain songs that some find to be easy listening but he just wants more out of, which I completely understand!
@@JRJuggernaut1that's how it is with anyone who listens to a lot of music. There is always more interesting stuff out there than the lifeless and unchallenging corporate music shoved down our throats only to make said corporations more money. Some of which are really just jokes in song form.
Ok I'm legit hyped that you're dropping billboard as your source for these!
I genuinely can’t think of who listens to drake. I might live in europe but i genuinely don’t hear any of his stuff from after scorpion, and I can’t imagine many people willingly being excited for a new drake album so much that all songs enter the hot 100 at once
they’re mostly teenage white kids form the suburbs at this point i think
@@TheEagleEnigmaDrake has such a broad appeal he has that J. Cole esque draw amongst women listeners
One of my best friends loves him. But me..I have tried..and I mean multiple times to listen to even one of Drake's songs all the way through..and..just..no way..ugh..
@@TheEagleEnigmayes and also black people who live in bad neighborhoods. Really, people are looking for something that "goes hard" or is "heavy." But they don't want to listen to rock or metal because it's not popular enough.
hey man when i try going to your channel i get a 404 error not found. idk if thats me or you but its weird
Now I'm wondering what would make his best list. I'm not sure if I even have 10 new tracks that I enjoy enough to make my best list.
Even as someone who doesn't listen to much country, I totally understand your anger towards the way "Try That in a Small Town" poisoned the well around country music as a whole. It sounds like everyone who created hype or anti-hype around that dumb-ass song just wanted attention for themselves, and couldn't care less about the quality of country music as a whole.
Late to the party, though about #4. (Thinking about me)
Within the red pill men's community there is a set of values, one of which is once a relationship is over, it's over. You move on.
His inability to move on is pathetic. He presents a weak and disgusting portrayal of masculinity in his obsession with the new guy and being better than him.
It's a repugnant song.
Lol Drake and Morgan Wallen both got 3 entries each! Part of me thinks they're still so big BECAUSE they suck so much.
At this point, Drake stopped caring.
He stopped caring after views
I only have two more observations to make
1. Im really happy you finally ditched the shitty Billboard format given how irrelevant they made themselves for inexplicable reasons (which might as well be the motto for why the music industries popular right now and the biggest artists right now do so many stupid shit.) Some pop chart followers and music commentators on youtube already do this and they just give a more profound view on what actually moved and was popular, so that's swell.
2. Genuenly I'm just waiting on the best lists to see how much overlap there is between your bests picks with mine. I still gotta finish writing my 100 top songs of the year tho...
The fact that every time you covered slut me out you had a different line to point out as out of pocket 😂
great job mark, i really appreciate you putting in this much work for this list.
Hey Mark did you forget "Search And Rescue" or did you just not want to talk about 4 drake songs on 1 list
Anyone who says that they enjoy seeing Mark do these angry rants (specifically at Try That In A Small Town), y’all are exactly who he is angry at. Y’all are so desperate for rage bait that you actually find enjoyment in seeing a critic get angry at a song that you also got angry at. Anyone who enjoys that kind of stuff needs to gain some more emotional maturity.
this feels very presumptive i do just enjoy seeing man call bad thing bad because it is bad
Hey was just wondering if you have the list of the 200 songs because that’d be quite fun to look at
Yeah I wasn't a fan of this years year end but I always love your commentary (even if we can agree to disagree on some songs):
Top 10 Worst Hits of the Billboard 2023 Year:
1. Try That in a Small Town - Jason Aldean
2. Search & Rescue - Drake
3. I’m Good (Blue) - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha
4. Peaches & Eggplants - Young Nudy & 21 Savage
5. Made You Look - Meghan Trainor
6. Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage
7. Under the Influence - Chris Brown
8. PRC - Peso Pluma & Nathanael Cano
9. Bebe Dame - Fuerza Regida & Grupo Frontera
10. Daylight - David Kushner
Dishonorable Mentions: (Morgan Wallen songs - Putting them all here because they all have the same issues imo, but some of them are definitely worse than songs in the Bottom 10, I just don't want to put my energy into this man 7 times...)
Last Night - Morgan Wallen
Thinkin’ Bout Me - Morgan Wallen
One Thing at a Time - Morgan Wallen
Everything I Love - Morgan Wallen
Thought You Should Know - Morgan Wallen
Ain’t That Some - Morgan Wallen
I Wrote The Book - Morgan Wallen
NGL, I actually consider Bebe Dame one of the better Regional Mexican songs and CERTAINLY one of Fuerza Regida's more tolerable songs.
@@TheBlackPanther05 Fair yea, ngl, I did my list based off Mark's old rules, so if I used the new rules, I'd definitely have both of the songs he had on his list (TQM & Sabor Fresa)
I can’t believe Chris brown even tried
"You do not have to give this shit oxygen because you need rage-bait."
In one sentence Mark described my feelings on music discourse for damn near the entire year. Jason Aldean, Avenged Sevenfold, Sleep Token, Morgan Wallen, Drake, all could have been less of a big deal if music nerds didn't feel the need to hate-watch and hate-post and just moved on instead. These artists do not care that you don't like them. Learn to let go and move on.
Avenged Sevenfold? What did they do this year?
Part of the fun of being a pop music fan is complaining about the crappiness of pop music.
In a normal year, we're complaining about dumb lyrics or lazy samples or annoying vocals. This year, a lot of the stuff on the charts was downright offensive. NOT commenting on it kind of would be like stating we're accepting it and lead to even more of it. We're probably getting more of it anyway, but hopefully the formula will have declining returns very, very, quickly.
@@jadedheartsz Called out is one thing, but when it's clear yelling about the thing is not going to do anything, you need to move on.
@@crazyluigi6664 metal communities would not shut up about how terrible the new album was. Like, months later people were still bringing it up when the rest were just moved on.
@@michaelmacvittie6977 Oh yeah, I got you now. I mean, I didn't think Avenged Sevenfold's album was the worst of the year. Maybe not all of their ideas hit, sure, but worst album of the year bad? Behind The Brave 2? Not by a long shot, Anthony Fantano. And I say that even by listening to just one of Avenged Sevenfold's songs from that album alone.
What about Bebe Dame? I think that's the only Fuerza Regida song I like, I think Mark that forgot to at least give a credit.
For me, they make the song worse imo on vocal performance.
Is it weird that I tried to see if myself or any of my comrades were in the protest footage used in the Try That In a Small Town music video? (This isn't dry snitching; I live in Montreal.)
were any of your friends in the video?
Saying the Sabrina Carpenter track is "her Funstyle" is so nasty for those in the know XD
For as grim as the tone gets here, I must say, I am loving the ruthless Drake slander on this list.
Dang, sad to see you don’t like Nonsense, I really like that track.
Mark always gets a like just by going after Billboard.
2023 sure is the year of bad politics that sound bad.
Hopefully, next year will see a good protest song or two, we miss these.
This list was very well worth the wait, and you didn't ruin my holidays, in fact, this was a great Christmas gift lol
I'm very interested to see how your own year-end 200 list will factor into later worst/best hits lists.
I hadn’t heard any of these, but they were all justifiably terrible. Good to know I’m not missing anything important. No substance in anything, just sell it because some idiot will buy it.
29:39 I cannot explain what it is but this song is one of the few songs that make me unintentionally incredibly sad and depressed whenever it’s one the radio and these always have a spot on my worst lists. I almost wanted to even place it first on my worst list, because it’s the song that unintentionally took the most from me without ever giving anything in return. At the end It’s just a mid version of Take Me To Church that was played 12000000 times on the fucking radio. I mean I hate it but idk if it offends me enough to be my least fave of 2023 when songs like “Alone” by Kim Petras and “Try That In A Small Town” exist but it’s definitely up there or should I say down there, anyways it makes me upset without knowing why and I’ve only had this with YBMF before so that is kind off a reason to hate this more than songs that I have a solid, obvious and justified reason to be upset about when they’re played or isn’t it?
Ps: I’m German and mainly base these pick off logic (for Try That In A Small Town) and whatever bothered me the most while being exposed to local top 40 radio during my work shifts.
Ps, ps: I’m sorry if you do like to happen “Daylight” like I said I can’t explain my feelings when I listen to this song, I just know that it’s not helpful for me to listen to it and I therefore can’t help but dislike it but I’m fine if any of you like it.
So where can I find these year end lists you created with Talk of the Charts?
Worst song of the year for me Mother by Meghan Trainor
To keep it simple, I couldn’t agree more.
I'm not sure how I feel about doubling the number of eligible songs in one go. Makes it hard to compare with previous years when you're using double the number of songs
A little bit surprised that Peaches and Eggplants by Young Nudy missed the list (I guess it was eligible)
I want to really badly make a longer piece on how I feel about the "pop music" landscape on 2023 and what is emblematic of but knowing me I would break my brain trying to balance that and actually writing about music I like which I'm still doing so Imma try to be thorough here:
2023 was the year that tried to tell you to give up
I don't think that I have seen a year in popular music that is more emblematic of how fucking awful the world, both inside and outside of pop music, is where the mask has been pulled off completely. The mask might have been pulled off many years ago (and really all of this seemed to be coming, god Jean Grae was right), but now it is impossible not to notice. Given how much of the worst music of this year showed a lack of interest in the artists, and honestly the industry at large, to have any sense of decency and respect for anyone or anything to the point where they can just be the worst pieces of shit imaginable and the masses won't care. Two possible reasons for that. 1: the affordmentioned rage bait that gets propped by dogshit actors that don't give a shit about the art as much to shit on it for easy clicks, which ends up making everything worse (the same people that think debating Ben Shapiro does anything instead of doing real work to make things better YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE). And 2: a mass audience that in the late-era-capitalism-hellmode world we live right now cannot fathom to change their consuming options and just want the same thing because fuck it. Just give up. This is what the popular music of this year made me feel, and honestly that's how 2023 made me feel in general. I really wanted to give up in every sense of the word on this year given how there is no mask anymore on how awful the nation I have to live in is, and how complacency and enablement are the words of now as the powerful give any passes to kill the marginalized in the many wars happening right now. It's all in plain sight...and many of us are incapable of doing shit. "When you're this rich... they just let you get away with it...y'know." But you know what, I'm with you Mark. I'm fucking tired, but more than that I'm fucking angry. At this point in my life I realize that anger is a powerful emotion that can do so much good. So we can do shit about it. Protest. Speak for those who can't. Make noise when they don't want you to. Don't stop. Never give up even if you fucking want so bad. Free Palestine. And Congo. And Sudan. Don't give up.
Chill out bruh, how can you even link Last Night by Morgan Wallen with actual oppression on a third world country?
Damn awesome job Mark! Outside of some disagreements here and there, I really enjoyed the video! I like how you expanded your rules for the Year-End list and included other songe outside of the year-end list, and it was SO satisfting to see you absolutely tear into the worst hits this year (I.E. #3)! Again, you ATE THIS DOWN!
I'm at least 20% sure that Hozier's comeback was entirely because David Kushner reminded us that Hozier is way better than whatever this kid pushes out
Would I be able to see the full list of songs you used for these best and worst lists? Thank you.
At this point can we wish Drake away?
"Try That In A Small Town" got exposed for being a fraud by the Montgomery Brawl
I need an explanation on that second part...
@@crazyluigi6664 I think it's referring to that Alabama boat fight that happened earlier this year where someone got bodied with a chair. It was a big meme subject for a good minute.
@@lol88133 Oh yeah, that's a good point there. :P
I posted my personal year end ranking of this year’s year end, and, while I have had some thoughts of mine change on it, here’s the bottom ten in the form of a top 10 worst list, not counting carryovers:
10. Superhero (Heroes & Villains) - Metro Boomin, Future, & Chris Brown
9. I’m Good (Blue) - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha
8. Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage
7. One Thing at a Time - Morgan Wallen
6. Search and Rescue - Drake
5. Peaches and Eggplants - Young Nudy ft. 21 Savage
4. Rich Men North of Richmond - Oliver Anthony Music
3. Thinkin’ Bout Me - Morgan Wallen
2. Under the Influence - Chris Brown
1. Try That in a Small Town - Jason Aldean
Okay, "Young Nudy" is officially one of the weirdest and worst stage names I've heard in a LONG time.
@@heymistercarter. he's been around a while lol, got proper big off a feature on playboi carti's first album
Superhero, is really good tho 😭 The ending wit Chris, is the only thing I like from Chris.
Nonsense and Need a Favor were probably of my favorite, most played hit songs this yr lol we got them as dishonorable mentions here
Whatttt? How could he have ‘Nonsense’ on dishonorable mentions? 😭😭
This is a wild list 😳 but a banger and made me a subscriber
Also, I will never get the hate for Daylight. Yeah, it's yet another depressing pop song but at least it sounds more interesting then 90 percent of pop piano ballads and at least the emotions he's trying to get across come through.
I absolutely agree
This song could've been good if it weren't for that murky faux-chamber-pop production. It feels too much like a bad crossover between some third-rate Bon Iver and Imagine Dragons.
@@antoinemouthon6501 I like the production. It makes it sound more artsy then your average pop piano ballad and I enjoyed that.
@@thevarietychannelofyoutube4769 Sure it has something different from usual pop ballads, but it just doesn't work in my opinion. Anyway, I'm not going to dwell on this because you are entitled to your own opinion and I totally respect it.
Boring af, nothing interesting
ok…there are spoilers (thanks the YT auto music in description) HAHAHA
December 25, 2024 - 10:05 P.M.:
Today was the *1* year anniversary of when "The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2024" was uploaded! The bad hit songs of 2023 were more interesting than the bad hit songs of 2024. 🤓➡️😅
For whatever reason this video popped up for me…and for #1 alone I subscribed 😂
Hey Mark, thank you for this. I always appreciate your perspective on country music. The bro country video essay was excellent.
Search and rescue is worse than literally every Drake song on the list
Try That in a Small Town is the most obvious #1 for a worst list since Birthday Cake back in 2012.
I'm sure it will be #1. I'm just surprised that the #1 would be shown in the thumbnail
Honestly it's so predictable, I'm more interested to see what other songs are gonna be on his list ngl
It never gets old seeing that song get torn apart
*Overhated Hit Songs Of 2023*
34. Need A Favor *5/10*
42. Religiously *7/10*
54. Wait In The Truck *10/10*
(I know it's lyrically controversial but it's hard to rate it anything but 10/10 cause it's one of the most listened songs of the year)
62. Daylight *5/10*
92. Ain't That Some *6/10*
why it's controversial?
@@jeremyduminy7730A lot of people think it focuses more on playing into the male fantasy for violence than actually saying anything worth saying about domestic abuse. Personally, I understand why people think that, but I think the presence of a woman on the song keeps it from feeling too self-indulgent. It still doesn't hold a candle to any of the similar songs actually written by women though (Goodbye Earl, Blown Away, probably others)