The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2023
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- Опубликовано: 24 дек 2023
- In the first of our year-end lists, we dive in to examine the top ten worst hit songs of 2023!
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Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2023
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31:38 "Give Hozier another proper hit, you cowards!"
Hey Mark, good news...
Now he got his biggest hit in his career
@@JoppingBen10Fan And it's a wonderfully good song to boot.
"Give Hozier another proper hit, you cowards!"
On the date I'm writing this, Wednesday, April 24th 2024, Hozier officially has his first number one and highest charting song to date in "Too Sweet". To quote John Mulany
*"...and he took my advice."*
I can only hope that as many people forget as possible about 'Try That In A Small Town' now that the year is done and we NEVER have to deal with another hit song like it again...
Should we forget about infamy and racism?
Lol hell no, that song is an instant classic and I don’t even like country
@@kaninesenses I highly doubt this song is going to be regarded as an "instant classic" by very many people.
It will be forgotten
Anyone remember that “have you forgotten” song from 2003
@@piran1807 yes and those “many people” highly regard WAP as the most impactful female empowerment song of the 2020s…
Try That In A Small Town
2023: A #1 hit song
2024: No one remembers anymore
2026: Who’s Jason Aldean?
It just hit me, how did Morgan Wallen got away with making the same song more than twice and they all became hits? Actually dont answer that
It's country. Like 80% of it is guys that sound like him making songs that sound almost exactly the same about the same topics
@@washingmashine921 and after those racist comments, he doesn’t get blowback in the country industry.
Jelly Roll has multiple collborations with Adam Calhoun? Unfortunately, makes sense. As Mark said, IYKYK. If you don't.......good. Don't let your curiosity kill you. Save it for better things.
I know Mark said he got really angry over this list and that he's worried how it could impact everybody's Christmas in a negative way. Honestly, I think I can speak on behalf on all his fans that this absolutely won't be the case. For me, I'm actually really excited to see his Year-End lists for 2023 and I'm effectively 100% sure he'll tear apart and speak out about one particular song which is absolutely deserved given its dangerous message (we all know what it is). Keep up the incredible work Mark and Merry Christmas to you! ❤
100% agree!
TRUE!
My favourite moment of marks is the end of the worst of 2016 when the anger just flares through.
It’s sweet that he worries about that kind of thing, but, like… I don’t think anyone’s Christmas is gonna be ruined by a guy getting angry in a RUclips video xD
How do you even ruin a holiday that's already garbage?
I’m waiting for someone to kill me for liking Truck Bed.
I don't like it, but I'd much, much, rather listen to "Truck Bed" than the many overly processed, overly sentimental country songs we got this year. "You Can't Have Mine" and "Next Thing You Know" are my cue to shut off the radio.
I generally naturally reject most anything country or country-esque, but Truck Bed is also a guilty pleasure of mine as well
When I first heard Daylight in the radio I thought it was Imagine Dragons attempting a "serious" song. Vocal styles have some overlap imo.
I can see it. Especially when he gets into his upper register.
It's like the bastard child of Imagine Dragons and Hozier.
"TRUCK BED" broke into the top 40 this week. Early contender for my Worst of 2024 list.
That guy on tiktok with the ridiculous lyrics is how I heard Coi leray's song Players to a point that when the song started I internally sang the lyrics from the tiktok.
SUBSCRIBED! Have been for a while but I figured I'd leave a comment as well. Great list Mark!
this was a funnily homogenous list cuz playboy carti, drake and morgan wallen all appeared like 2 times
I'm pretty sure 21 Savage is turning into a Pokémon now, he says his name more than anything else
Lets not forget how jason aldean ran away when there was a shooting at his show, so much for “trying that in a small town”
Las Vegas is a small town?
@@SeethingSimpHis old home wasn't a small town either.
I didn't know anything about Truck Bed except that Spotify kept pushing it on me, so it's a relief to hear I'm not alone in disliking it!
I use Spotify pretty religiously myself and have quite a few playlists from this year, so I went to check what I had. I guess I must have lucked out because Truck Bed didn’t even appear on Release Radar Catalog for this year, and the songs I put on there were from my Release Radar for every week this year with over 71 hours of music.
Hot take: Jelly Roll's song immediately made me think back to Nickleback's 'Rockstar' for some reason and I love it for it. Legit smiled at 2005-07 me for thinking Nickleback's fine. Gets a pass for me for this single reason. Sign of the times I guess, alongside wishing for days of crunk, club boom, Three Days Grace/Papa Roach etc. For how bad it all was when it was atrocious, at least the middle of the road songs were distinct - if still awful. These past three years it's either goat or everything's samey shit though, at least to me
"she is thinking about morgan wallen"
do any of us think about morgan wallen? I don't even think abt morgan wallen when I'm actively listening to morgan wallen
If they are playing villains this is the banality of evil 😂🤣🤣🤣
Mark's Worst Hit Songs Of 2023 (that was on the year-end list) :
1. Try That In A Small Town
2. Thinkin' Bout Me
3. Daylight
4. Rich Flex
5. Ain't That Some
6. Need A Favor
7. Last Night
8. Players
9. I'm Good (Blue)
10. Golden Hour
DHM :
Made You Look
Rich flex 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
hey man when i try going to your channel i get a 404 error not found. idk if thats me or you but its weird
Do we put this year in the same echelon as 2016 or 2018?
Watch the best hit list of 2023 for more information on this year.
I'd say it's more like 2013 or 2017 where the best songs are great even and all timer but the bad songs are also an all timer
To me, it's moreso similar to 2005 and 2017. Good songs are really, REALLY good, but the bad songs are really, REALLY bad.
I'd put 2023 somewhere in-between these years. It was a better year for the charts than 2016 and it was a little worse than 2018
2013 is a pretty solid comparison i think
Thanks for the Christmas present, I opened it today because I was at the Christmas party so long and got tired.
I sadly don't think this is the last time we are going to see bad faith or at least misguided political songs top the charts.
i think what really shocks me about the snippets of Try That etc. that i've heard (because no way am i seeking the song out) is that i expected it to be some attempt at meatheaded southern rock and it's... largely more of Aldean's R&B-fusion type shit???
they're really gonna try and threaten people with this willowy fart of a song???
The guitar solo is also lifted from Michael Jackson's Beat It.
Because making a lynching anthem wasn't enough, nooooo, Aldean's crew just had to interpolate one of the many classics from a BLACK artist for said lynching anthem.
Hey dude! I look forward to these every year, you and ARTV are always must-sees!
I like that you and Todd put 5 Drake songs combined in your top 10s, and none of them were the same.
Yeah
And all of them were worthy of their respective spots on the Worst Ofs!
Thank you for saying what needed to be said about fein, god that song is trash, repetitive garbage, and i didnt understand what anyone liked about it. The beat is sick imo, but everything else sucks
That's kind of the thing. Most young modern rap fans seem to care more for the beat, the hype, and the moshpit around these kind of tracks than they care for... well, anything the rappers say.
Great content as always.
the daylight song sounds like if imagine dragons did take me to church, not great
I'm not against Mark changing the rules, but i would like there to be at least 15 songs from the dishonorable mentions so that we can know all the songs ranked in year-end list that he hated.
I noted 11 songs that are on the year-end in the video and I would like to at least know the other 6 songs without necessarily changing the rule he put in place!
This is just speculation, but based on how Mark reacted on Billboard Breakdown I would guess Peaches & Eggplants, I Wrote the Book and Search & Rescue would have been included
Would I be able to see the full list of songs you used for these best and worst lists? Thank you.
My Top 10 Worst:
1. Thinkin' Bout Me
2. Try That in a Small Town
3. I'm Good (Blue)
4. Peaches & Eggplants
5. La Bebé
6. Tomorrow 2
7. Under the Influence
8. Search & Rescue
9. Barbie World
10. Religiously
Oh God @ Barbie World! 😖 It makes Aqua’s song sound like a legendarily good song in comparison.
@@markwilson4078I mostly find it pointless and useless. Why couldn't they just use the original for the soundtrack?
I actually like Religiously, I'd probably replace that with "Last Night." Otherwise this list is spot on. I'm surprised Mark didn't have "Search & Rescue" on his worst list.
@@thel8624
I was thinking the same thing. I believe it's a rights issue, but it's disappointing that Barbie Girl didn't show up in the film.
@acorn9134
That's a gosh darn lie, and you know it.
Who the hell likes crappy pop rap remixes of old songs?
Not me.
It's a shame that "Left & Right" would've made your worst list in 2022. It's my second favorite hit of 2022...
Agreed. I actually like that song
Same
Golden hour by JVKE is my favorite hit song of 2023. Guess how I felt when it appeared on the dhms…😢
@juhaniaho6698 I really like that song, too. I don't get the hate
@@juhaniaho6698 I can’t stand that song, only bc of how terribly manufactured his rise, and the song in general feels. It all feels way too planned, and he’s js everywhere out of nowhere, it’s js very annoying imo.
I'll say here what I said on Todd in the Shadows' video re: "Daylight"...
David Kushner can't sell "Daylight" because he hasn't put any genuine feeling behind it. Speaking from experience as someone who grew up in a rather extreme sect of Christianity, even the most sheltered and/or most devout religious people still angst pretty hard over a good piece of forbidden fruit.
Either ol Dave here is one of the few folks so godly that he's never truly experienced a sinful desire, or he's too much of a goody-two-shoes to allow himself to admit it without a heavy dose of sanitization.
Either way, "Daylight" just comes off as devoid of any actual emotion or drama. Lactose intolerant people have more genuine, interesting internal crises over a pint of Ben & Jerry's than whatever sin David Kushner is supposed to be singing about.
This is a wild list 😳 but a banger and made me a subscriber
Late to the party, though about #4. (Thinking about me)
Within the red pill men's community there is a set of values, one of which is once a relationship is over, it's over. You move on.
His inability to move on is pathetic. He presents a weak and disgusting portrayal of masculinity in his obsession with the new guy and being better than him.
It's a repugnant song.
My list in no order (including ones that charted LOW in the top 100)
- “try that in a small town” by Jason Alden
- “Watch the World Burn” by Ronnie Radke (there’s no band anymore, he’s now the TERF Adam Levine. If you’re going to make lyrical spiritual stuff, make it interesting)
- “Broadway girls” by Morgan Wallen and Lil Dirk
- “IDGAF” by Drake
- “Rich Men North of Richmond” by Oliver Anthony Music
- “Rich Flex” by Drake and 21 Savage
- “Daylight” by David Kushner
Ronnie Radke's transphobic? Did not know that until I saw this post, and upon checking... yep, he sure is. What a vile, rancid little twerp.
@jessie6600 the autotune is so...bad....
great job mark, i really appreciate you putting in this much work for this list.
2022 Worst List: At least 3 Riverdale mentions
2023 Worst List: 2 solid Twilight mentions
2024 is the year of Glee
Don’t speak things into existence, please don’t.
Lol Drake and Morgan Wallen both got 3 entries each! Part of me thinks they're still so big BECAUSE they suck so much.
Mark always gets a like just by going after Billboard.
You know, if the reaction against Try That IN A Small Town wasn't bad enough, look at how people reacted to that Oliver Anthony song Rich Men North of Richmond. That song should not have charted at all, or if it did, maybe something like 75 or 85, something like that, because the right-leaning crowd would embrace it, then it would disappear into the ether, never to be thought of again. But because all of the so-called progressives brought so much hate towards the song, that made it big as it became. So it's like they learned nothing from Try That In A Small Town, and made the same mistake with Rich Men North of Richmond.
If you think a song is so bad and reprehensible and doesn't deserve to be big, then don't share it publically with others and say "this song is shit, and I'm mad because it's about this." Just ignore the song, let it disappear into the ether.
Normally, I hate the don't like don't watch arguments, but in some ways, had the left have collectively just ignored both Try That In A Small Town and Rich Men North of Richmond, then maybe they wouldn't have made it as big as they did.
In othe rwords, those that hate the fact that both Try That In A Small Town and Rich Men North of Richmond made it to number 1, it's your own damn fault for pushing the hell out of those songs because you had to rage about it, share your rage, and over and over.
It's like why Rebecca Black made it as big as she did in 2011 with Friday, we all complained to everyone and our babas about it, and that made the song huge as it was.
Just like Friday, both Try That In a Small Town and Rich Men North of Richmond made it as big as they did because of how much people just had to rage over those songs. The left took the bate, and the right is now laughing all the way about this, just like how Patrice Wilson took all the hate we gave Friday all the way to the bank.
Yeah, pretty much that. Thank God I'm one of the more wiser individuals to not play into that immediate bullshit!
A little bit surprised that Peaches and Eggplants by Young Nudy missed the list (I guess it was eligible)
So refreshing to find someone else who isn't so ready to give fuckin Travis Scott a pass.
No one has given him a pass, not many amongst the music critic scene. Todd also shitted on him. Good artist but shitty person
Makes sense that Anthony Fantano's worst song of this year is also this channel's worst hit song of the year as well. Shit, I don't blame anyone for thinking that way either since it's well deserved on that mark.
EDIT: 43:45 I mean, you say that now... hope you're still saying that for 2030.
Yeah, TTIAST is pretty much a lock for the bottom three on his Worst Hits of the 2020s list, if he makes it in seven years' time.
@@gabingston3430 Yeah, unless somehow even worst shit since then somehow usurps it multiple times beyond just once or twice.
For whatever reason this video popped up for me…and for #1 alone I subscribed 😂
Dang, sad to see you don’t like Nonsense, I really like that track.
What about Bebe Dame? I think that's the only Fuerza Regida song I like, I think Mark that forgot to at least give a credit.
For me, they make the song worse imo on vocal performance.
I genuinely can’t think of who listens to drake. I might live in europe but i genuinely don’t hear any of his stuff from after scorpion, and I can’t imagine many people willingly being excited for a new drake album so much that all songs enter the hot 100 at once
they’re mostly teenage white kids form the suburbs at this point i think
@@TheEagleEnigmaDrake has such a broad appeal he has that J. Cole esque draw amongst women listeners
One of my best friends loves him. But me..I have tried..and I mean multiple times to listen to even one of Drake's songs all the way through..and..just..no way..ugh..
@@TheEagleEnigmayes and also black people who live in bad neighborhoods. Really, people are looking for something that "goes hard" or is "heavy." But they don't want to listen to rock or metal because it's not popular enough.
Looking forward to your top 10 (if you can find enough) this year
I'm curious which song that uses a sample of Blue Da Ba Dee you think is worse between Flo Rida and Wynter Gordon's Sugar or I'm Good (Blue). Also would you say Try That in a Small Town is the modern day equivalent of Ballad of the Green Berets and the worst song to ever top the Billboard Hot 100?
I'm Good (Blue) for sheer laziness. I don't love Blue Da Ba Dee as it is and I think Sugar isn't a good song, but atleast Flo Rida had energy.
I’d have to actually listen to I’m Good to have an opinion on it.
What I will say is that I do agree with the other comment that Flo Rida had energy in Sugar. It’s actually good if you’re looking to use a pop song for your workouts. So Sugar serves its purpose and you can get mileage out of it, even more than the song it sampled if we’re being honest. So that’s what I’m Good has to go up against.
Honestly, among all the garbage of this year's hits (which among are the #1 spot which I will never acknowledge on name because it wants me to do that, and Morgan Wallen's Last Night which I consider my actual #1 since its the song that made me feel the most hollow and miserable listening to it. I have heard worse music, but the absolute numbness that song makes me feel is what makes it fucking putrid) I'm surprised you didn't mention one song that counts as some of the worst of this year...so I will
What It Is (Block Boy) by Doechii ft. Kodak Black:
- You have talked a lot about how disappointment plays a lot in your perception of the worst hit songs you have heard, and this is the first time I think this has applied to me because holy shit. Doechii has become one of my favorite new artists in recent memory, and her EP from last year, "she/her/black bitch," is still a top 10 best musical projects of 2022- such an incredible first impression for me which made me go back to revisit all her music and see such a musical genius that balances swagger and compassion for her art and the muses of her songs, with bangers like Swamp Bitches with Rico nasty being top 10 best songs of 2022 material and songs from "Oh The Places You'll Go" genuenly making me tear up. Hell, this exact year she put out the song "Pacer" which is a terrific, bombastic piece of horrorcore rap which just makes me question...why.
Who told Doechii this song was a good idea and how fast does a rocket go to the sun? I honestly have heard more than one time the solo version of the song in question, and its utterly baffling to me. How do you make one of your most vivid and talented acts sound so lifeless and waste all her potential like this? I'll tell you how: you deprave her of showing that talent and leave her to a singing role despite her being A FUCKING RAPPER on a song that is so backwards on everything that came before to have a "thugs need love" song which-listen I'm not saying is a bad idea but more that she makes zero sense here given how commanding of a presence she is. She just ends up sounding like she's playing second fiddle on HER OWN SONG.
And the fact that she's playing second fiddle to Kodak Black...look I heard the version with Kodak once and it was more than enough to tell me how fucking ashamed TDE should be for pushing this instead of Persuasive as a single despite the recent success of afro-beat and dance music on the charts, and...you know...LITERALLY FEATURING SZA ON THE REMIX WHO IS ALSO ON TDE is inexcusable. I literally just checked right now and she released her previously amazing ep on TDE so why the fuck would you not? Shame on all of you.
And at this point do I even have to bring up the production? To be fair, that guitar is pulling a lot of work in making me like it...but like Crow (@CawCophony you should check them out they're great) mentioned during their worst hits of the 2010's video, why would I stand through the rest of a bad song for one aspect if the sum of its parts is way less than? The song is just incredibly flat it might as well be a fucking circle. It's incredibly dissapointing how one of the best new artists I heard recently had her debut on the charts fumbled this fucking bad due to honestly inexplicable musical choices, and I just hope that this is not her only hit cuz she deserves way, WAY better than she has right now.
(geebuz christ that's a lot of words)
So where can I find these year end lists you created with Talk of the Charts?
Nah what got me kinda tight is the fact that Sabrina Carpenter, someone who’s of legal drinking age, is at a high school party hitting on a 14 year old 😭😭😭
mark doesnt rate blonde... thats certainly something
Nonsense and Need a Favor were probably of my favorite, most played hit songs this yr lol we got them as dishonorable mentions here
Whatttt? How could he have ‘Nonsense’ on dishonorable mentions? 😭😭
Worst song of the year for me Mother by Meghan Trainor
Honestly I learned my lesson with Breitbart freakshow rappers years ago and do my best to ignore all the reactionary ragebait and keep it off my own lists. Hoping 2024 is the year everyone else finally learns to ignore them too.
Give it its own list, the CHUD-rock Hall of Ass, and then put it at the very bottom of a video description for nobody to notice, in reflection of the amount of promotion these (I cannot in good conscience call them artists) deserve.
Not quite cuz that Tom McDonald with Ben Shapiro song went #1 on iTunes!!!
What is bad seed
I think Popular's sound was supposed to be reminiscent of a Pharrell-produced Justin Timberlake song from the Justified era, which was fine with me because those are good. It is strange that the song never actually appeared in the "Idol" despite Sam Levinson's credit, which further supports the theory that the original show was supposed to take place in the early 2000s and be about a Britney-esque pop star, but that Sam and the Weeknd fucked it up
I love fein and utopia but I like to hear different opinions
It’s a really good album. Gets quite a lot of praise but also a bit divided. Certainly his most divisive album
Hey was just wondering if you have the list of the 200 songs because that’d be quite fun to look at
I hadn’t heard any of these, but they were all justifiably terrible. Good to know I’m not missing anything important. No substance in anything, just sell it because some idiot will buy it.
At this point, Drake stopped caring.
He stopped caring after views
Love the Bad Seeds tshirt
Popular is kind of a jam tbh
one thing that i want to do once i finally learn some proper music theory is rewrite both daylight and thinkin bout me into the most dramatic lesbian thing possible. i'm not the best singer ever, but i can be funny sometimes and literally anything would be better than the original versions of those songs.
Now I'm wondering what would make his best list. I'm not sure if I even have 10 new tracks that I enjoy enough to make my best list.
To keep it simple, I couldn’t agree more.
7:52 and to make it even worse (better?), she remixes this song into a Christmas version called "Nonsense Christmas", which is hilariously, and unnecessarily, horny.
LOL I LOVE The Christmas remix to Nonsense! It is so hilariously horny!
I'd say better. At least indulging in the now largely dead cliché of the gratuitous Christmas retread allows the lame meta joke to come full circle on a conceptual level, particularly if it's bafflingly horny.
@@TheBlackPanther05 It can't be serious. She has to be doing it as a joke.
@@ConvincingPeople i agree.
I just looked up the lyrics and oH MY GOD SABRINA YOU NEED TO CHILL
Your rants on "Circo Loco" and "Try That In A Small Town" is indeed satisfying.
*My Top Ten Worst Hit Songs Of 2023*
10. Barbie World - Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice ft. Aqua
9a. TQM - Fuerza Regida
9b. Sabor Fresa - Fuerza Regida
8. Search & Rescue - Drake
7. Last Night - Morgan Wallen
6. Wait In The Truck - Hardy ft. Lainey Wilson
5. Made You Look - Meghan Trainor
4. One Thing At A Time - Morgan Wallen
3. Baby Don't Hurt Me - David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray
2. Thinkin' Bout Me - Morgan Wallen
1. Try That In A Small Town - Jason Aldean
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*Dishonorable Mentions*
*I'm Good (Blue) - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha
*Rich Flex - Drake ft. 21 Savage
*Need A Favor - Jelly Roll
*Religiously - Bailey Zimmerman
*Eyes Closed - Ed Sheeran
*Rich Men North Of Richmond - Oliver Anthony Music
*PRC - Peso Pluma & Natanael Cano
*What My World Spins Around - Jordan Davis
*Ain't That Some / I Wrote The Book- Morgan Wallen
*Wild As Her - Corey Kent
*Peso Pluma: Bzrp Music Sessions Vol. 55 - Bizarrap & Peso Pluma
*Miss You - Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz
Outside of Barbie World, which I still think is an absolute bop, I agree with pretty much every pick you have here
My only disagreements are "wait in the truck," "Made You Look," and "One Thing At A Time." Though I get why they're here. "Baby Don't Hurt Me" is more mediocre than bad. I actually prefer it over "I'm Good (Blue)"
Remove my man Morgan Wallen😂
You used to defend Miss you didn't you?
@@Gabriel_KS If my list were to exclusively be based on the Hot 100 Year-End chart, "I'm Good (Blue)" and "Religiously" would've made my top 10. As for dishonorable mentions, there were a lot of other songs I'd say were pretty bad such as "Area Codes", "Peaches & Eggplants", "La Bebe", and "Creepin'" (which might be a hot take).
omg a #1 worst song pick you and I both agree on...is this the apocolypse?
Mother by Megan Trainor is easily the worst pop song of this year and possibly ever and its disturbing how close it came to actually charting.
2023 sure is the year of bad politics that sound bad.
Hopefully, next year will see a good protest song or two, we miss these.
Damn awesome job Mark! Outside of some disagreements here and there, I really enjoyed the video! I like how you expanded your rules for the Year-End list and included other songe outside of the year-end list, and it was SO satisfting to see you absolutely tear into the worst hits this year (I.E. #3)! Again, you ATE THIS DOWN!
That stiff cowbell groove from “Popular” haunts my dreams
I posted my personal year end ranking of this year’s year end, and, while I have had some thoughts of mine change on it, here’s the bottom ten in the form of a top 10 worst list, not counting carryovers:
10. Superhero (Heroes & Villains) - Metro Boomin, Future, & Chris Brown
9. I’m Good (Blue) - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha
8. Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage
7. One Thing at a Time - Morgan Wallen
6. Search and Rescue - Drake
5. Peaches and Eggplants - Young Nudy ft. 21 Savage
4. Rich Men North of Richmond - Oliver Anthony Music
3. Thinkin’ Bout Me - Morgan Wallen
2. Under the Influence - Chris Brown
1. Try That in a Small Town - Jason Aldean
Okay, "Young Nudy" is officially one of the weirdest and worst stage names I've heard in a LONG time.
@@heymistercarter. he's been around a while lol, got proper big off a feature on playboi carti's first album
Superhero, is really good tho 😭 The ending wit Chris, is the only thing I like from Chris.
There's a way "Circo Loco" could've worked. Cut the Megan couplet, add Babytron's verse from when he remixed it, make that goofy interpolation the hook, and actually try to make it fun. As it is now... I don't have any use for it.
Sounds like an idea for Diamond Axe Studios to do... years ago.
We want to see that expanded full list 😍
Yeah
Bruh Your Drake hate is funny 😂
try that in a small town was fire
meanibng behind it
Hey Mark did you forget "Search And Rescue" or did you just not want to talk about 4 drake songs on 1 list
Hey Mark, thank you for this. I always appreciate your perspective on country music. The bro country video essay was excellent.
I only have two more observations to make
1. Im really happy you finally ditched the shitty Billboard format given how irrelevant they made themselves for inexplicable reasons (which might as well be the motto for why the music industries popular right now and the biggest artists right now do so many stupid shit.) Some pop chart followers and music commentators on youtube already do this and they just give a more profound view on what actually moved and was popular, so that's swell.
2. Genuenly I'm just waiting on the best lists to see how much overlap there is between your bests picks with mine. I still gotta finish writing my 100 top songs of the year tho...
something i only learned once sean fay wolfe finally released the second half of his worst list is that david kushner was actually making tiktoks BEGGING hozier to come onto daylight in the most homosexual way possible, and it’s absolutely hilarious.
9:26 What a waste of a good sample.
Is anyone else getting sick of the fact that almost every single time a mainstream pop star releases an upbeat, cheerful pop song, it either fails to chart or only charts for a few weeks before immediately losing all its streams and flopping?
Yes :(
@@CellistOncemymidzy78 The sad thing is that this doesn't seem to be the case for popular music in most countries. Its just that most happy pop music doesn't have enough of an audience to reach the top 40 in the United States anymore for some weird reason.
Is it weird that I tried to see if myself or any of my comrades were in the protest footage used in the Try That In a Small Town music video? (This isn't dry snitching; I live in Montreal.)
were any of your friends in the video?
Yeah I wasn't a fan of this years year end but I always love your commentary (even if we can agree to disagree on some songs):
Top 10 Worst Hits of the Billboard 2023 Year:
1. Try That in a Small Town - Jason Aldean
2. Search & Rescue - Drake
3. I’m Good (Blue) - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha
4. Peaches & Eggplants - Young Nudy & 21 Savage
5. Made You Look - Meghan Trainor
6. Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage
7. Under the Influence - Chris Brown
8. PRC - Peso Pluma & Nathanael Cano
9. Bebe Dame - Fuerza Regida & Grupo Frontera
10. Daylight - David Kushner
Dishonorable Mentions: (Morgan Wallen songs - Putting them all here because they all have the same issues imo, but some of them are definitely worse than songs in the Bottom 10, I just don't want to put my energy into this man 7 times...)
Last Night - Morgan Wallen
Thinkin’ Bout Me - Morgan Wallen
One Thing at a Time - Morgan Wallen
Everything I Love - Morgan Wallen
Thought You Should Know - Morgan Wallen
Ain’t That Some - Morgan Wallen
I Wrote The Book - Morgan Wallen
NGL, I actually consider Bebe Dame one of the better Regional Mexican songs and CERTAINLY one of Fuerza Regida's more tolerable songs.
@@TheBlackPanther05 Fair yea, ngl, I did my list based off Mark's old rules, so if I used the new rules, I'd definitely have both of the songs he had on his list (TQM & Sabor Fresa)
I can’t believe Chris brown even tried
popular kind of reminds me of a very bad justin timberlake rip. and i know barely anything about justin timberlake.
Ok I'm legit hyped that you're dropping billboard as your source for these!
ok…there are spoilers (thanks the YT auto music in description) HAHAHA
Jesus, this was the first year of pop music I truly felt disconnected to the majority of hits, and yet I hate to say I am glad that was the case. As much as I love the way in which pop music critics have been a part of my life through RUclips, I also am glad I can still enjoy them without the sense of attachment I used to have with the charts.
2016 was the year I properly started following the charts closely thanks to billboard breakdown, and I will always be grateful to you Mark for that! But now as I prepare to get married in March and begin the next phase of my life, I don’t have the time or interest in following the charts as closely nowadays. Still, I will always look forward to the year-end lists like these and I do love the album review shorts, so please keep up the amazing work Mark!
Need A Favor by Jelly Roll is #8 on my Top 20 Best Of vid. It's ok - disagreement is interesting. I think it's very relatable for people who have conflicted feelings about faith and I think the recording sounds excellent.
Here's my personal least favorite top 10 songs
10 (tie): Cowgirls and 180 (lifestyle) by Morgan wallen
9: Members only by Drake ft PARTNEXTDOOR (Partynextdoor saved the song, but damn Drake sounds more drier than how Drake sounds when bored out)
8: CS by lil uzi vert (this didn't chart, but this is worthless from a 26-song album it came from which I actually like, also endless fashion ain't THAT bad)
7: Baby, don't hurt me by David gruetta
6: Search and rescue by Drake
5: Mother by Meghan Trainor
4: Watch the world burn by falling in reverse
3: Mathmetical disrespect by Lil Mabu
2: American Flags by Tom Macdonald and Adam Calhoun (fun fact, if Utopia didn't release that week, this song could've actually charted)
1: Try that in a small town by Jason Aldean
Fantastic video as per usual Mark! You are one of the best in this plataform, and I'm really sorry you got so angry at this.
But we are done with this at least, looking forward the positivity and good vibes in the next YE videos! 💚
Also, I will never get the hate for Daylight. Yeah, it's yet another depressing pop song but at least it sounds more interesting then 90 percent of pop piano ballads and at least the emotions he's trying to get across come through.
I absolutely agree
This song could've been good if it weren't for that murky faux-chamber-pop production. It feels too much like a bad crossover between some third-rate Bon Iver and Imagine Dragons.
@@antoinemouthon6501 I like the production. It makes it sound more artsy then your average pop piano ballad and I enjoyed that.
@@thevarietychannelofyoutube4769 Sure it has something different from usual pop ballads, but it just doesn't work in my opinion. Anyway, I'm not going to dwell on this because you are entitled to your own opinion and I totally respect it.
Boring af, nothing interesting
I haven’t seen Mark this righteously pissed in a while. That’s how bad 2023 was. Great video.
Note: Try That In A Small Town is the music equivalent of an engagement-farming tweet. It only exists to make money off of outrage.
I haven't seen Mark this genuinely angry in a Worst List since at least 2016/2017. That says A LOT
Facts. He did NOT hold back on some of those hits. Especially #1 (for a damn good reason).
Also huge shoutout to your hillarious billboard music reviews. I Used to read them alot in 8th-9th grade.
2018 was exhaustion, 2019 was disappointing, 2020 was disgust, 2021 was embarrassment, 2022 was bewildered, 2023 back to anger. What a journey.