47 Calvin Harris – “How Deep Is Your Love” (Feat. 2 My Youth”Ī pop-minded rock band dabbles in the tropes of dark R&B and comes up with one of the stickiest hooks of the year. 49 Years & Years – “Shine”īritain’s promising pop upstarts were doing the Justin Bieber “Sorry” sound months before “Sorry” even dropped, albeit with a much heavier house influence. But if Steinfeld insists on it, she might as well do it with a titanic chorus as blunt and effective as its masturbation metaphors. There’s really no reason for an Oscar nominee who holds the keys to the Pitch Perfect franchise to forge a career as a third-rate pop star. (Unfortunately, “Worth It” is no “BO$$,” and “BO$$” was already on last year’s list.) They say time’s supposed to heal you, and indeed, the 2015 pop mainstream marked a major step up from 2014’s sordid array of appropriation and/or saxophones and/or butts. There were plenty of excellent singles to choose from - so many that Fifth Harmony, whose Reflection I proclaimed 2015’s first great pop album way back in February, couldn’t even land a track on this list.

Consider it my attempt to triangulate the biggest and best hits of 2015, to sum up this year’s most universal music at its finest. Like the parameters of pop itself, the ranking system was difficult to define but intuitive enough. And as always, some of these songs were technically released in 2014, but their impact on 2015 was massive. Nor is this an objective rundown of the biggest singles of the year - I still hate #1 summer smashes “ Cheerleader” and “ See You Again,” and I’m ambivalent about “ Bad Blood” - though chart statistics, cultural impact, and general ubiquity certainly weighed on my choices. It is not exactly a list of my personal favorites - you’ll note my own top 2015 track doesn’t crack the top 10 here - but my personal taste certainly shaped it. What do I mean by The 50 Best Pop Songs Of 2015? This list is the 2015 finale of my weekly pop column, The Week In Pop, which means the picks are mine and mine alone, not something the Stereogum staff voted on together.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year - year-end list season - and the festivities continue today with the Week In Pop’s second annual rundown of the finest pop singles of the past 12 months.

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