The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2014 (Pt. 2)
aka: The good half of the best list
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aka: The good half of the best list
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@BlitzTD
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
0:05 “This was the hardest rock song that became a hit this year”
Come With Me Now was a top 40 hit, and Do I Wanna Know had to be kicked off the charts after 20 weeks.
@ShawstinAu
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
It feels weird for Todd to build up to presenting Uptown Funk as if it were any other song on this list and not goddamn Uptown Funk.
@wopovoho
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
5:18 Toddstradamus strikes again. Sia is so alive she made a song about it.
@niyamitchell6818
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
What the hell? La La La came out in 2014?
@thereyvan
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
0:37 God, remember when people were scared of the Fall Out Boy fandom?
@persuisixh4804
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
This is my favorite year of music ever
@bielaggs
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
jesus this list was awful, makes the 2023 list seem good
@cee_ves
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
clean bandit have the best schtick of techno pop producers and that is that gorgeous violin, probably one of the least technopop instruments there could ever be
@notmomoayase
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
uptown funk is the APT of 2014 except without the blackpink member in it… because it's 2014. APT did not came out 10 years before APT happened
@HEHEHE_I_AM_A_MASKED_WARRIA
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
Everyone knows the #1 song of 2014 was Goomba Got Back.
@CaptainCJ97
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
Aint it fun is such a comfy song 10 years later Charlie xcx i just found out shes still around & bigger than ever
@krzie18
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
I cannot wait to see Todd reference the "Boom Clap" segment when he talks about "girl so confusing" on this year's best list
@Kididdler
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
0:12 2:57 6:38 8:46 10:34 13:01
@ajlorentz
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
10 years oh wow
@uglyaniimals
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
9:14 this is an underratedly good todd prediction
@CarlFredrik-uo1cu
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
"Rather Be" is FANTASTIC. Damn I got really nostalgic now.
@Billiamwoods
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
Todd was woke to Charli XCX early on lmao
AND he made the Lorde comparison. Toddstramus IS REAAAAAL
@manicpaniccomix
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
The only good Coldplay song is Clocks
@manicpaniccomix
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
I feel like I'd Rather Be has been here since the 70s
@raskatraska7233
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
if only 2015 boom clap liking todd could see brat era charli he'd be so confused
@johnd5931
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
It's too bad Ms Mr, and Sonic Highways by the Foo Fighters weren't pop hits, because they're some of the best of 2014. Although, the best album, maybe of the whole decade, came out in 2014 by The Colourist. It's a shame they only had one album and a follow up EP and then split, because that album was so freakin' good!
@johnd5931
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
Uptown Funk is a terrible song! Make it stop! 🙉
@sonicjrjr14
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
Looking back it's kind of weird how he went the whole year without talking about Beyoncé's self-titled album. Like it was the biggest album that year.
@Dank_Engine
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
It's so wild watching these in 2024. I can definitely see the precipitous drop, or maybe the point where pop music lost me. To me everything sounds the same now and most music feels disposable. It's a wild ride to go back a decade and realize that pop music used to sound way more interesting.
@DKdrop
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
Uptown Funk is one of those songs that got overplayed so much that it’s only in retrospect that I can appreciate how amazing it is.
@raidersbevans7395
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
One republic counting stars?? How is that not #1
@peccator4050
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
ngl i thought back then that rather be by clean bandit was released in like,, the 80s or something then i found out that it was released in 2014. damn, this song is so perfect it's timeless.
@memelephant
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
#3 one of my fav songs of all time, really liking your playlists from the 2010s, binging em rn
@drdarkeny
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
Whoa, Todd! You're starting to show positive emotions!
Are you sure you're feeling okay…?
@isaiasromo1159
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
It appears Lindsey Stirling did top Jess Glynne.
@jedisalsohere
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
What's the song in the transitions?
@hillcat7685
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 am
Todd, I love your content, from all the images and pop references and explanations you make in your reviews and your year-end countdown videos! There is one feedback I'd like to make, though. At 7:20, you say that the lyrics of "Rather Be" mean literally nothing, but actually, the lyrics do have meaning. Genius (the lyrics website) does a great job explaining the line you pointed out. "We're different and the same, gave you another name" means the narrator and her lover are so intertwined that they are effectively two in one. "Switch up the batteries" has two meanings. On the surface, it can refer to the relationship between her and her lover: as long as they switch up their batteries, they can keep their relationship going. "Switch up the batteries" can also apply to you, the listener, and refer to the song itself. Songs can be interpreted in more than one way, and part of the fun of music is to decide what YOUR interpretation of it is. Genius further explains: as long as you switch up the performers you can continue to paraphrase the same message and story. The lyrics of "Rather Be" tell quite an interesting story, actually. Despite the difficulties she encounters in her relationship, the relationship was built on a strong foundation of faith and love and is a healthy one, so she is willing to overcome those difficulties to keep it going. Maren Morris' "The Bones" is also about the same theme: a strong foundation allows you to overcome struggles that will inevitably pop up and allow you to stick together with your lover through thick and thin.
Todd, for future reference, Genius is a great tool to help you decipher the lyrics of a song in case you get confused. I noticed that in your "best of 2012" video, you were confused by "what's up with that Prince song inside my head" in Owl City's "Good Time." Well, Adam Young, the vocalist of Owl City, revealed in an interview that the Prince song that was in his head was "Purple Rain." Adam Young said: "It’s “Purple Rain”. It’s kind of cliché because it’s one of the ones, but you can’t really go wrong."
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