Popular Songs Of 1999, Vol. 1

Chances are, you will recognize quite a few of the songs in this post and the three follow-up posts in the series. Chances also are, that realizing these songs are now twenty years old will make you feel old. And justifiably so. I sure feel old! That being said, there's plenty of "modern classics" to be seen and heard here. So let's get into it!  ~  JH

1)  Shania Twain  ~  “Man! I Feel Like A Woman”

2)  Citizen King  ~  “Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out)”

3)  Whitney Houston  ~  “It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay”

4)  Counting Crows  ~  “Hanginaround”

5)  Avalon  ~  “In Not Of”

6)  K-Ci & JoJo  ~  “Tell Me It’s Real”

7)  Bree Sharp  ~  “David Duchovny”

8)  Ricky Martin  ~  “She’s All I Ever Had”

9)  Dixie Chicks  ~  “Cowboy, Take Me Away”

10)  Live  ~  “Dolphin’s Cry”

11)  Mariah Carey & Jay-Z  ~  “Heartbreaker”

12)  Tal Bachman  ~  “She’s So High”

13)  702  ~  “Where My Girls At”

14)  Backstreet Boys  ~  “All I Have To Give”

15)  The Cranberries  ~  “Just My Imagination”  (I do so miss Dolores O’Riordan. She possessed a one-of-a-kind voice.)

16)  98°  ~  “The Hardest Thing”

17)  Britney Spears  ~  “(You Drive Me) Crazy”

18)  Sugar Ray  ~  “Someday”

19)  Melissa Etheridge  ~  “Angels Would Fall”

20)  Will Smith ft. Dru Hill & Kool Moe Dee  ~  “Wild, Wild West”

21)  Edwin McCain  ~  “I Could Not Ask For More”

22)  Steven Curtis Chapman  ~  “Dive”

23)  Tamia & Eric Benet  ~  “Spend My Life With You”

24)  Silverchair  ~  “Anthem For The Year 2000”

25)  Ginny Owens  ~  “Free”

26)  Eminem  ~  “My Name Is”

27)  Fiona Apple  ~  “Fast As You Can”

28)  blink-182  ~  “What’s My Age Again?”

Popular Songs Of 2009, Vol. 1

It's that time of year again, when I dredge up the best and most popular songs of years past, a decade ago at a time. First up, the year 2009. As usual, there's more good songs than can fit in one post. This is part 1 of 3. How many of these do you remember, fondly or otherwise? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Beyoncé  ~  “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”

2)  Kings Of Leon  ~  “Use Somebody”

3)  Kelly Clarkson  ~  “I Do Not Hook Up”

4)  Jason Aldean  ~  “Big Green Tractor”

5)  Addison Road  ~  “Hope Now”

6)  The Black Eyed Peas  ~  “Boom Boom Pow”

7)  Justin Bieber  ~  “One Time”  (This is a horrible song, but it was very popular that year, so here it is.)

8)  Lady Gaga  ~  “Poker Face”

9)  Akon  ~  “Right Now (Na Na Na)”

10)  Jonny Diaz ft. Audrey Assad  ~  “More Beautiful You”

11)  Miley Cyrus  ~  “The Climb”

12)  T.I. ft. Justin Timberlake  ~  “Dead & Gone”

13)  P!nk  ~  “Sober”

14)  Shinedown  ~  “Second Chance”

15)  Francesca Battistelli  ~  “Free To Be Me”

16)  Kristinia DeBarge  ~  “Goodbye”

17)  Drake ft. Kanye West, Lil Wayne, & Eminem  ~  “Forever”

18)  Lily Allen  ~  “The Fear”

19)  The All-American Rejects  ~  “Gives You Hell”

20)  Kid Cudi  ~  “Day ’N’ Nite”

21)  Colbie Caillat  ~  “Fallin’ For You”

22)  Linkin Park  ~  “New Divide”

23)  Britt Nicole  ~  “The Lost Get Found”

24)  The Pussycat Dolls  ~  “I Hate This Part”

25)  The Fray  ~  “You Found Me”

26)  Rihanna ft. Jay-Z & Kanye West  ~  “Run This Town”

27)  Daughtry  ~  “No Surprise”

28)  Phillips, Craig, & Dean  ~  “Revelation Song”

Biggest Hits Of 2018 That Never Made It Into A Post…Until Now

I've posted over 250 playlists of songs so far this year, and in them I've covered well-known songs by well-known artists, lesser-known songs by lesser-known artists, and everything in between. While many of this year's top hits have made their way into these posts, surprisingly none of these did...until now. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Taylor Swift  ~  “Delicate”

2)  Justin Timberlake ft. Chris Stapleton  ~  “Say Something”

3)  Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug  ~  “Havana”

4)  NF  ~  “Let You Down”

5)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “Butterflies”

6)  Greta Van Fleet  ~  “When The Curtain Falls”

7)  Ariana Grande  ~  “Thank U, Next”

8)  Bryce Vine  ~  “Drew Barrymore”

9)  Anne-Marie  ~  “FRIENDS”

10)  Drake  ~  “God’s Plan”

11)  Halsey  ~  “Without Me”

12)  Luke Combs  ~  “One Number Away”

13)  Khalid & Normani  ~  “Love Lies”

14)  Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran  ~  “River”

15)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “Space Cowboy”

16)  Panic! At The Disco  ~  “High Hopes”

17)  Maroon 5 ft. Cardi B  ~  “Girls Like You”

18)  Charlie Puth  ~  “The Way I Am”

19)  Lauren Daigle  ~  “You Say”

20)  Post Malone & Swae Lee  ~  “Sunflower”

21)  Zedd, Maren Morris, & Grey  ~  “The Middle”

22)  The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar  ~  “Pray For Me”

23)  Carrie Underwood  ~  “Cry Pretty”

24)  Shawn Mendes  ~  “In My Blood”

25)  Taylor Swift ft. Future & Ed Sheeran  ~  “End Game”

26)  Kane Brown  ~  “Lose It”

27)  Ariana Grande  ~  “Breathin’”

28)  5 Seconds Of Summer  ~  “Youngblood”

29)  Benny Blanco, Khalid, & Halsey  ~  “Eastside”

30)  TobyMac  ~  “I Just Need U”

31)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “High Horse”

32)  Imagine Dragons  ~  “Natural”

33)  Drake  ~  “In My Feelings”

34)  Luke Combs  ~  “She Got The Best Of Me”

35)  Bazzi ft. Camila Cabello  ~  “Beautiful”

36)  DJ Khaled ft. Justin Bieber, Quavo, & Chance The Rapper”  ~  “No Brainer”

37)  Juice WRLD  ~  “Lucid Dreams”

38)  NF  ~  “Lie”

39)  Tauren Wells  ~  “Known”

40)  Post Malone ft. Ty Dolla $ign  ~  “Psycho” / “Better Now”

More Songs About "Yourself"

Didn't get enough Songs About "Yourself" last time? Well, you're in luck. Got more than enough last time? Tough luck. Here we go...  ~  JH

1)  Eminem  ~  “Lose Yourself”

2)  Radiohead  ~  “Prove Yourself”

3)  Fantasia  ~  “Free Yourself”

4)  Lukas Graham  ~  “Better Than Yourself”

5)  Black Sabbath  ~  “Killing Yourself To Live”

6)  Kacey Musgraves ft. Katy Perry  ~  “Keep It To Yourself”

7)  The Raconteurs  ~  “Top Yourself”

8)  Morrissey  ~  “Why Don’t You Find Out For Yourself?”

9)  Goldfrapp  ~  “Eat Yourself”  (Do what, now?)

10)  Journey  ~  “Be Good To Yourself”

11)  Tom Jones  ~  “Help Yourself”

12)  Dash Berlin ft. Emma Hewitt  ~  “Disarm Yourself”

13)  Simple Minds  ~  “Sanctify Yourself”

14)  Styx  ~  “Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)”

15)  The Staple Singers  ~  “Respect Yourself”

16)  Ne-Yo  ~  “Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)”

17)  Stabbing Westward  ~  “Save Yourself”

18)  John O’Callaghan ft. Sarah Howells  ~  “Find Yourself”

19)  The Specials  ~  “Enjoy Yourself”

20)  Donovan Frankenreiter  ~  “Move By Yourself”

21)  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club  ~  “Lose Yourself”  (Gorgeous song, profoundly odd video.)

22)  Nico Vega  ~  “I Believe (Get Over Yourself)”

23)  N.W.A.  ~  “Express Yourself”

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24)  James Morrison  ~  “Save Yourself”

25)  The Jacksons  ~  “Enjoy Yourself”