20 Songs I Listened To Incessantly In 2008

January 6th, 2009

Contrary to popular belief, or what my pal (and former MuchMusic.com teamster) Justin thinks, I do (on occasion!) listen to music that doesn’t hail from the UK and isn’t hyped by music blogs. I have my own guilty pleasures, and there are a lot of them – I fall for the same overmarketed, glossy junk that the rest of you do. These songs hits number one for a reason, and that’s because they’re impossibly catchy and beg repeat listens.

Here’s a list of 25 singles released in 2008 that I listened to incessantly. And by incessantly I mean that I must have played each of these songs at least a hundred times. They’re divided somewhat into two categories – first, the songs that were inescapable if you turned on a radio, the TV or walked into HMV or Abercrombie, aka:

10 Earworms That Are Now Firmly Nestled In My Dura Mater Because MuchMusic Played The Crap Out Of Them In 2008:

1. Katy Perry Hot N Cold (watch)
2. Estelle f. Kanye West American Boy (watch)
3. Beyonce Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (watch)
4. Weezer Pork And Beans (watch)
5. Britney Spears Womanizer (watch)
6. Metro Station Shake It (watch)
7. Flo Rida f. T-Pain Low (watch)
8. Jordin Sparks f. Chris Brown No Air (watch)
9. Lady Gaga Poker Face (watch)
10. Jesse McCartney Leavin’ (watch)

…and then, 15 Bangin’ Singles That I Discovered Thanks To L’Internet That Are Just Plum Awesome:

1. Kings Of Leon Sex On Fire (watch)
2. Santogold L.E.S. Artistes (watch)
3. The Verve Love Is Noise (watch)
4. White Lies To Lose My Life (watch)
5. Beck Gamma Ray (watch)
6. Cut Copy Hearts On Fire (watch)
7. Hot Chip Shake A Fist (watch)
8. Glasvegas Geraldine (watch)
9. M.I.A. Paper Planes (watch)
10. Booka Shade Charlotte (watch)
11. Oasis The Shock Of The Lightning (watch)
12. Kaiser Chiefs Never Miss A Beat (watch)
13. Passion Pit Sleepyhead (watch)
14. Portishead The Rip (watch)
15. Lily Allen Everyone’s At It (watch)