Drake

Drake is added to the Best Pop Singer of 2012 List.

This list was announced in May 2014. The Best Pop Singer hasn't been decided yet. However, Drake was added to this list tonight when I was driving around and heard the song "Take Care" by Drake, and featuring Rihanna, who was already was on this list. I don't recall hearing the song on the radio right before the list was announced in May, but now a radio station I listen to is playing it again. Below is the updated list.

Best Pop Singer of 2012 List

Ai Shinozaki - Best Pop Singer - 1st Half of 2012

Nicki Minaj - Best Pop Singer - 2nd Half of 2012

Bell Nuntita 

Ne-Yo

Drake

Rihanna

Rena Lovelis (Cherri Bomb)

Madonna

Maverick Sabre

Silvia Duyer is Best Rock Singer of a 2012 First-Half with many Alternative, Folk-Rock Songs and Singers

Silvia Duyer is the Best Rock Singer/Vocalist of the first half of 2012. This was a tough decision because in recent months I couldn't find her song on YouTube. Actually, I made the decision in 2013 and I'll stick with it. Mackinzie appears second in the names because she had the number 1 rock song of 2012 on my list.

Best Rock Singer/Vocalist - 2012 first half

Silvia Duyer, Born To Kill (She Goes) - Demo

Mackinzie, Watch me

Rain, Want to forgot 

Katie Woodward, There's Still Time

Gin Wigmore, Man Like That

Ralf Gyllenhammar (Mustasch), It's Never Too Late

Andrew Hillman (Dirty Bliss), Genre Whore (Acoustic)

Willie Shutter, Gears 

Katy Perry, Tinashe, Sebastian Bach

10 Best Rock Songs of the First Half of 2014

1. Katy Perry, Dark Horse ft. Juicy J 

2. Tinashe, 2 On ft. SchoolBoy Q

3. Sebastian Bach, Temptation

4. Iggy Azalea, Fancy ft. Charli XCX

5. The Pretty Reckless, Messed Up World (F'd Up World)

6. Shakira, Can't Remember to Forget You ft. Rihanna

7. Slash, World On Fire ft. Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators

8. Adelitas Way, Dog On a Leash

9. Courtney Love, Wedding Day

10. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence

I corrected a mistake. The name Silvia was spelled correctly most of the time but one time the spelling was wrong so I corrected it to Silvia.

Silvia Duyer had a great year in 2012.

Best Pop Singer of 2012 List

Ai Shinozaki - Best Pop Singer - 1st Half of 2012

Nicki Minaj - Best Pop Singer - 2nd Half of 2012

Bell Nuntita 

Ne-Yo

Rihanna

Rena Lovelis (Cherri Bomb)

Madonna

Maverick Sabre

"Iglood Together" by Carta Immense is Number 1

Excellent singing, lyrics, and melodies are reasons why "Iglood Together" by Carta Immense is now Number 1 on the 100 Best Rock Songs list. It's my list and my opinion. Many times I compared "Iglood Together" to "Four Sticks" by Led Zeppelin. The two songs were tied or close for much of the time I did the comparisons based on what I consider to be great music.

note: It's going to take me some more time to finish my writing about the rock list. 

Rock Songs List

It's almost time to update the 100 Best Rock Songs list. I have listened to the top songs of 2011 and compared those songs to the songs on my list of  '100 Best Rock Songs' many times. There will be more on this right away.

Chris Brown at Number 1 with "Fine China"

Rock and metal dominated the top 5, with three songs, but Brown's hit remained Number 1 after also being the top song for the first half of 2013. Katy Perry had the most songs on the list, a perfect 3-for-3 in 2013 getting all three of her singles among the 25 Best. Motorpsycho was a very close second with two songs, and was being considered for a third song of 2013. Nicki Minaj got the same two songs on both the rock and pop lists. This is my list after many hours of comparing songs. 

25 Best Pop Songs of 2013

1. Chris Brown, Fine China

2. Mudhoney, Chardonnay

3. Five Finger Death Punch, Battle Born  

4. Katy Perry, Unconditionally 

5. Motorpsycho, Ratcatcher 

6. Zedd feat. Foxes, Clarity 

7. Nicki Minaj, Automatic 

8. Alice In Chains, Voices 

9. Justin Bieber, Roller Coaster 

10. Bruno Mars, Gorilla 

11. อรอรีย์ , สักวัน 

The Coral Bay (Ornaree), Someday

12. The Holydrug Couple, Follow Your Way 

13. Katy Perry feat. Juicy J, Dark Horse  

14. Flower, 白雪姫 (Snow White) 

15. Miley Cyrus, Wrecking Ball 

16. Nicki Minaj, Marilyn Monroe 

17. Alyssa Turkowski, Waiting In Two 

18. Drake feat. Majid Jordan, Hold On We're Going Home 

19. Lady Gaga, Applause 

20. Sylwia Grzeszczak, Pożyczony 

21. Rihanna, Right Now 

22. One Direction, Story of My Life 

23. Katy Perry, Roar  

24. Motorpsycho, Hell, Part 1-3  

25. Imagine Dragons, Demons

Some Truth

Everybody won't get their songs on the 25 Best Pop Songs Of 2013.

There will be 25 Songs on that list.

I'm listening to and comparing songs, so congratulations if I listened to your songs.

Right at this minute, as I'm writing about what I'm doing, I'm listening to the J-Pop girls group 9nine. I found this on www.jpopsuki.tv and I like that website.

More truth? Are you sure? Before this, several minutes ago, I listened to the song "Let Her Go" by Passenger on the hits radio station.

I could have made a mistake here as everyone makes mistakes as a writer sometimes, but I'm trying to show that I do search for what songs are out there in the world. Some people won't let us hear all the songs, but maybe we can find the songs if we put in some effort. I want to wish everyone the best and good luck!

I will post the list when I'm finished and write about both lists after more thought on the rock and pop lists.

2013 Best Rock Songs List Also Has Alternative, Pop, and Other Songs That Rock!

25 Best Rock Songs of 2013

1. Mudhoney, Chardonnay

2. Alyssa Turkowski, Waiting In Two

3. Black Sabbath, God Is Dead?  

4. Vamps, Ahead

5. Katy Perry, Unconditionally 

6. Five Finger Death Punch, Battle Born

7. อรอรีย์ , สักวัน 

    The Coral Bay (Ornaree), Someday

8. Nicki Minaj, Automatic

9. Земфира, Чайка

    Zemfira, Seagull

10. Os Mutantes, Time and Space

11. Motorpsycho, Ratcatcher

12. Miley Cyrus, Wrecking Ball

13. Земфира, Без шансов

       Zemfira, No chance 

14. Vamps, Replay

15. Alice In Chains, Voices

16. Avenged Sevenfold, Hail to the King

17. Stevie Nicks, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee,                You Can't Fix This

18. Mazzy Star, California

19. Kohdai Aoyama, City Lights and You

20. Yellow Fang, I don't know

21. Katy Perry featuring Juicy J, Dark Horse

22. Simple Minds, Broken Glass Park

23. Kari Fleskes, Find Love 

     (original by Kari Fleskes)

24. Nicki Minaj, Marilyn Monroe

25. The Residents, Mush-Room

Note: This is my list and my opinion based on comparing many songs. 

More about songs, including lyrics

Last time I wrote: Emotion in songs was important again in 2013 and will be important again this year (2014). However, it's only one factor when I compare songs. Songwriting, how the song sounds overall, if it's interesting, the singing/vocals, and all instruments/sounds/notes and chord changes, and of course melodies, riffs, hooks, and all the words or thinking (beyond words) we can use to describe good (and great) songs are important. 

Here's some More about songs, including lyrics and how I compare songs: I just wanted to add on that lyrics are important but how I evaluate lyrics or words in a song, or compare them may be different than how other reviewers do it. This is something that is hard to describe and like music in songs, I'm not really held to anything specific or rules that say rock songs should sound like this and pop songs should sound like that because the "this is the way we've always done things" kind of thinking and rules are limiting, and prevent people from doing what they want to do. I'm for people making music and songs that branch out in any directions they want to go.

Now I want to explain why EMOTION

I've read lots of comments on YouTube where people especially teens, and some young adults, are being bullied about emotion, their emotions, and emotion in music. The other day, I saw some YouTube video by a  child who was singing a favorite song and in the comments below the video that child was being being bullied by other children or at least it appeared to be young kids. That's horrible. They need to stop being bullies. Let everyone have their chance to be a singer, musician, or anything good that they want to do. Be nice to everyone on YouTube.

I want to say something important and it's that emotion and feeling in singing and music is good, and oftentimes it's great!

Stop bullying people about emotion! Emotion and our human emotions are good and right! Bullies are wrong! Instead of putting someone down with your words, write/create some songs and then we will all be happy for you and proud of you too.

Emotion in songs was important again in 2013 and will be important again this year (2014). However, it's only one factor when I compare songs. Songwriting, how the song sounds overall, if it's interesting, the singing/vocals, and all instruments/sounds/notes and chord changes, and of course melodies, riffs, hooks, and all the words or thinking (beyond words) we can use to describe good (and great) songs are important..

EMOTION