Hey Violet #1 "This Is Why"

Best Rock Songs of 2015 List
(Rock songs and other songs)

1. Hey Violet, This Is Why
2. Taylor Swift, Style
3. The Weeknd, In The Night
4. The Weeknd, Earned It
5. Weedpecker, Reality Fades
6. Aroob Mallhi, Lost Without You ...Not
7. Story of Hope, Forever
8. Drake, Hotline Bling
9. Demi Lovato, Cool for the Summer
10. Aranda, Don't Wake Me
11. Nicki Minaj, The Night Is Still Young
12. Queensrÿche, Hellfire
13. Chris Brown, Zero
14. Elle King, Ex's & Oh's
15. Lil Wayne & Charlie Puth, Nothing But Trouble
16. Red Sun Rising, The Otherside
17. Jason Derulo, Get Ugly
18. 眩暈SIREN "明滅する"
19. MESTIS, Pura Vida (feat. Mario and Erick of CHON)
20. Chris Cornell, Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart
21. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Downtown
22. Tech N9ne, Hood Go Crazy ft. B.o.B., 2 Chainz
23. Scott Stapp, Proof of Life
24. Snoh Aalegra, Emotional
25. Hayley Richman, Will To Survive

Note: This is my list and my opinion.

The Weeknd and Taylor Swift are tied at #1

2015 Pop Songs List

Tie at #1 
1. The Weeknd, In The Night
1. Taylor Swift, Style

3. Demi Lovato, Cool for the Summer
4. The Weeknd, Earned It
5. Hasenchat Music, Move With You ( Female Vocal Mix )
6. Demi Lovato, Confident
Tie at #7
7. Ariana Grande, Focus  
7. Aroob Mallhi, Lost Without You ...Not
   (Original song)

9. Justin Bieber, What Do You Mean?
10. Drake, Hotline Bling
11. Lil Wayne & Charlie Puth, Nothing But Trouble
12. Chris Brown, Zero
13. Post Malone, White Iverson
14. Travis Scott, Antidote
15. Aranda, Don't Wake Me
16. She's My Lover
      (Original Song)
17. I wish～君がいるこの街で～／森口博子
18. Jason Derulo, Want To Want Me
19. Ellie Goulding, On My Mind
20. Nicki Minaj, The Night Is Still Young
21. Tinashe, Player ft. Chris Brown
22. Fetty Wap, Trap Queen
23. Nelly, The Fix ft. Jeremih (radio version)
24. Ludacris, Good Lovin ft. Miguel
25. Natalie La Rose, Somebody ft. Jeremih

Note: This is my list and my opinion.  

Cherri Bomb in the Top 10

I'm getting ready to update the 100 Best Rock Songs list again. It's my list and my opinion.

"Mirror Mirror" by Cherri Bomb will be in the Top 10. 

What? It's a '10 Best' List. Why? Why Not! Oh wait a minute, "This Is Why" by Hey Violet is #1

It's my list

10 Best Rock Songs of the First Half of 2015

There's a tie at #10

1. Hey Violet, This Is Why

2. Taylor Swift, Style

3. The Weeknd, Earned It

4. Weedpecker, Reality Fades

5. Aranda, Don't Wake Me

6. Nicki Minaj, The Night Is Still Young

7. Scott Stapp, Proof of Life

8. Snoh Aalegra, Emotional

9. björk: lionsong

10. Seether, Nobody Praying For Me

10. ถนน / อรอรีย์ (Road / Ornaree)

Note: It's my list and my opinion. It looked like there wasn't going to be a #10, then I decided on a tie at #10.

Best Pop Singer of 2012 is Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj is the Best Singer of Pop Music of 2012. The official title is Best Pop Music Singer/Vocalist of 2012.

YouTube Important to Music: Eric Payton in 2014

At what I will refer to here as 'press time', I did make a decision about how to list the songs.

Eric Payton's name appears the way he put it on that video/song on YouTube as Eric payton. The song at #8 on my Pop songs list is "deep" and it was lower case there, on YouTube. I was going to put (Rough draft called deep.) just below the song to identify it, the way he published/posted it there, so that would be remembered if someday there is another newer version by him. Eric is a great song writer and creator of songs.  That main melody is amazingly beautiful and makes the song very memorable, catchy in the right way, and worthy of the top 10. I like his guitar-playing a lot and hope to hear more songs from him.

I didn't base my Pop songs list, which I just called "Pop - 25 Best of 2014", on other lists or awards or what is most 'popular', so hopefully everyone can be happy and feel proud to be included. I spent many hours listening to and comparing songs. This list includes mainstream songs on the radio, songs from videos on YouTube and songs by bands or artists on the rise, especially singer-songwriters like Eric, who I hope all my readers will be able to listen to when they have time. I know I always have time for music.

"Empire" by Shakira is #1 in Pop for 2014

Pop - 25 Best of 2014

1. Shakira, Empire

2. Baby Bash, Certified Freak ft. Baeza, G Curtis 

3. Ariana Grande, Problem ft. Iggy Azalea

4. Nick Jonas, Jealous

5. DJ Khaled, Hold You Down ft. Chris Brown, August Alsina, Future, Jeremih

6. Meghan Trainor, All About That Bass

7. Mastodon, The Motherload
8. Eric payton, deep

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

10. Pitbull, Ne-Yo, Time Of Our Lives

11. Falling In Reverse,  God, If You Are Above...

12. Taylor Swift, Shake It Off

13. Ne-Yo, She Knows ft. Juicy J

14. Flower,  熱帯魚の涙
15. Iggy Azalea, Fancy ft. Charli XCX

16. Foo Fighters, Subterranean

17. Usher, Good Kisser

18. Morning Musume '14 , Beyond the time and space

モーニング娘。'14 『時空を超え 宇宙を超え』

19. Ariana Grande, Break Free ft. Zedd

20. Wiz Khalifa, You and Your Friends ft. Snoop Dogg & Ty Dolla $ign

21. Trey Songz, Touchin, Lovin ft. Nicki Minaj

22. Calvin Harris, Blame ft. John Newman

23. Selena Gomez, The Heart Wants What It Wants

24. B.o.B , Not For Long ft. Trey Songz

25. Chris Brown, Loyal ft. Lil Wayne, Tyga

Note on the appearance of the rock songs list

In case someone is reading my blog for the first time, here's how my list goes:

music artist or band and then a comma, then the song title and ft. is an abbreviation for featuring.

This time, I put two spaces after the comma if there was a comma between names or between words in the song title. I also put a double space after comma when the song title was a different language and that's because I had some sort of technical problem once but don't understand it and therefore can't explain it.

2014 Rock Songs List: Katy Perry is #1

Best Rock Songs of 2014 List

1. Katy Perry, Dark Horse ft. Juicy J

2. Tinashe, 2 On ft. SchoolBoy Q

3. Mastodon, The Motherload

4. Sebastian Bach, Temptation

5. Iggy Azalea, Fancy ft. Charli XCX

6. Marmozets,  Move, Shake, Hide

7. Shonen Knife, Black Crow

8. Sweet Mullet,  จะเป็นจะตาย

9. In This Moment, Sick Like Me

10. Gamma Ray, Avalon

11. Hayley Richman, Marionette

12. Ariana Grande, Break Free ft. Zedd

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

14. Carmen North, Bloodline (rough version)

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

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

17. Adelitas Way, Dog On a Leash

18. Courtney Love, Wedding Day

19. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence

20. Lana Del Rey, Brooklyn Baby

21. Alyssa Turkowski, The Edge Of Love 

22. Rumtoad, When The War Begins

23. DJ Snake, Lil Jon,  Turn Down for What

24. Eric payton, Sleep

25. Anova Skyway, Wishful Thinking

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

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