Over the past year music has changed incredibly. The music industry is a non stop growing business that is constantly changing. According to www.statista.com Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen was the most popular song in the United States, by number of on-demand streams. Following Trap Queen was Silento’s, Watch Me (Whip/ Nae Nae). Also according to statista.com, in 2015 Sir Georg Solti received the most Grammy Awards. Over the year favorite music genres changed as well. In 2011 classic rock (‘60s- ‘80s) was the most popular music genre in the United States. The second most popular music was country. In 2012, country became more popular than classic rock. Shows are also popular in the music industry. According to www.inquisitr.com, The member of Glee had more songs on the music charts then the legendary Beatles. Glee had managed to tally up 75, Billboard Hot 100 chart entries, surpassing the 71 chart song titles of the Beatles between 1964 and 1996. Another interesting fact from inquisitr.com, Barbra Streisand sold more than 140 million records, more than Johnny Cash, Tom Petty and Pearl Jam combined.
The most popular songs throughout 2015 are chosen by a lot of different music lists shown on different music sites that are trusted by a lot of music lovers to give them information on what is popular. So many different music sites have different top songs for 2015. The number one song in the United states at the end of 2015 was Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars for the year-end song vote for the Billboard music charts. The same information can vary between other music charts, for example Top40charts has Sorry by Justin Bieber as the top song in 2015. The best song is hard to find throughout the whole year especially songs that could have been really good at the beginning of the year and just died out. Or songs that aren’t as good but are still catchy because they are new and relevant towards the end of the year. All in all there are a top couple of songs even if they aren’t in the right order. Everyone has their own opinion on what the real top song of the year should be.
2015 has been a come up year for some new artists, a resurface for some old artists and some singers and rappers going back into the studio. One artist for example, Adele, came back after she gave birth and dropped a single, Hello, from her new album 25. Everyone loved this song the most and enjoyed in November. Justin Bieber and One Direction came strong this November also with comeback albums on the same day. This caused a bit of a stir between Directioners and Belibers because they both wanted their own day to shine and didn’t feel like sharing with the other. More importantly, Bieber’s album, Purpose, skyrocketed with the hit songs, What do you mean?, Sorry, Where are U now?,and many more. One Direction on the other hand had one prominent hit song, Drag me down. This album didn’t get as much recognition as Justin’s but just a little less. New artist Alessia Cara came out with her new hit song Here which received rave reviews from teenagers to their friends and even magazines talking about her. She was on many radio stations and many people even made covers to her song. Some artists that went back to the studio were well known rapper Kanye West, Barbados princess Rihanna and Queen Bee Beyonce. There’s a speculation that albums should be coming in the near future from all three of them.
These songs made such great impact in the music industry and society. Dj Earworm mashup made a collab of all the most popular songs of 2015 that was featured on Cosmopolitan.com. 50 shades of Pop was just a small thing that a DJ decided to make but it became something pretty big in the end.
