Best Songs of the 2010s

 At long last here it is - the songs I listened to the most, or liked the most, or thought were most important for the decade.

My methodology is to accumulate a list for each year, and then combine all years into a master list. I try to remove multiple songs by the same artist (hard! For Taylor Swift, impossible.) and remove songs that, in hindsight, I barely remember after the year I discovered them. 

And then try to get below 300 songs. (very hard!)

One of my friends from highs school, upon seeing y last lust asked if my friends and I sleep with our (expletive) iPods is we listen to that much music? (It was 2010, so I'll cut her some slack.)

Anyway, here it is. Enjoy! (Bold means I just had to replay it while I was posting this.)

2010s Best - Chris' Playlist on Amazon Music

Song	Artist
24K Magic	Bruno Mars
Africa	Weezer
Ain't It Fun	Paramore
Ain't No Man	The Avett Brothers
Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams of Paramore)	B.o.B
Alexander Hamilton	Leslie Odom, Jr.
All About It (feat. Ed Sheeran)	Hoodie Allen
All About That Bass	Meghan Trainor
All Of Me	John Legend
All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye	John Mayer
American Dream Plan B	Tom Petty
Architects & Engineers (Album Version)	Guster
bad guy	Billie Eilish
Bad Romance	Lady Gaga
Bang Bang	Jessie J
Believer	Imagine Dragons
Bellbottoms	The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Best Fake Smile	James Bay
Bhang, Bhang, I'm a Burnout	Dum Dum Girls
Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell]	Robin Thicke
Bodak Yellow	Cardi B
Body Like A Back Road	Sam Hunt
Boom Clap	Charli xcx
Boys In the Better Land	FONTAINES D.C.
Bright Lights	Gary Clark Jr.
Brighter Than Sunshine	Aqualung
Bunsen Burner	The Cuts
Burn the Witch	Radiohead
Cake By The Ocean	DNCE
California Gurls [feat. Snoop Dogg]	Katy Perry
California Kids	Weezer
California Nights	Best Coast
Call Me Maybe	Carly Rae Jepsen
Can't Feel My Face	The Weeknd
Can't Hold Back (Ft. Treasure Davis)	Aceyalone
Chains	Nick Jonas
Chandelier	Sia
Cheap Thrills	Sia
Cheerleader	OMI
Classic	Mkto
Closer	The Chainsmokers
Club Can't Handle Me (feat. David Guetta)	Flo Rida
Cold Outside	Ari Lennox
Complainer	Cold War Kids
Congratulations	MGMT
Connected	Caught A Ghost
Cool for the Summer	Demi Lovato
Cool Kids	Echosmith
Counting Stars	OneRepublic
Cousins	Vampire Weekend
Creep (Single)	Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Criminal (feat. Freddie Gibbs) [feat. Freddie Gibbs]	ZZ Ward
Crushes	Charlemagne
Crystalised	The xx
Dark Fantasy	Kanye West
Delibes: The Flower Duet	Katherine Jenkins
Despacito (Remix) [feat. Justin Bieber]	Daddy Yankee
Digital Witness	St. Vincent
Do I Wanna Know?	Arctic Monkeys
Dog Days Are Over	Florence + The Machine
Don't Stop the Party	Pitbull
Drive By	Train
Dynamite	Taio Cruz
Everlasting Light	The Black Keys
Everybody Talks	Neon Trees
Everything Is AWESOME!!! (feat. The Lonely Island)	Tegan and Sara
Ex's & Oh's	Elle King
Fade	Sleater-Kinney
Fake Fireplace Things	Francine
Fancy [feat. Charli XCX]	Iggy Azalea
Feel It Still	Portugal. The Man
Feels Like Summer	Weezer
Finesse (Remix) [feat. Cardi B]	Bruno Mars
Forget You	CeeLo Green
FourFiveSeconds	Rihanna
From Finner	Of Monsters And Men
Gangnam Style	Psy
Gangsta	Tune-Yards
Gemini Feed	BANKS
Geronimo	Sheppard
Get Lucky	Daft Punk  (feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)
Gimme Something Good	Ryan Adams
Giving Up the Gun	Vampire Weekend
Gold	Kiiara
Good as Hell	Lizzo
Gotta Have It	Jay-Z
Habits (Stay High)	Tove Lo
Hand Covers Bruise	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
HandClap	Fitz & The Tantrums
Happy (From "Despicable Me 2")	Pharrell Williams
Happy Idiot	TV On The Radio
Harmony Hall	Vampire Weekend
Have Love Will Travel	The Sonics
Heartbeat	The Fray
Hello	Adele
Here	Alessia Cara
Hero	Family of the Year
High Hopes	Panic! At The Disco
Ho Hey	The Lumineers
Holdin On To Black Metal	My Morning Jacket
Home	Phillip Phillips
Homegrown	Haux
Hotline Bling	Drake
HUMBLE.	Kendrick Lamar
I Ain't the One	Spoon
I Am The Best	2NE1
I Can't Escape Myself	The Sound
I Can't Go For That	The Bird And The Bee
I Can't Stop Thinking About You	Sting
I Feel It Coming [feat. Daft Punk]	The Weeknd
I Love It (feat. Charli XCX)	Icona Pop
I Might	Wilco
If I Can't Have You	Shawn Mendes
Imagination	Foster The People
Infinity Guitars	Sleigh Bells
In-N-Out (Animal Style)	We The Kings
Invisible - (RED) Edit	U2
Japan	Tycho
Kamaloka	GoGo Penguin
Know How	Young MC
Lay Your Cards Out	Poliça
Leave a Trace	CHVRCHES
Left Hand Free	alt-J
Let's Go	Calvin Harris
Lights (Single Version)	Ellie Goulding
Like A G6 [feat. The Cataracs & DEV]	Far East Movement
Little of Your Love	HAIM
Location	Khalid
Locked out of Heaven	Bruno Mars
Lost Boy	Ruth B.
Love The Way You Lie [feat. Rihanna]	Eminem
Machine Gun Blues	Social Distortion
Macon (Album Version)	Jamey Johnson
Magic	Coldplay
Make Believe	Silversun Pickups
Make You Better	The Decemberists
Man On Fire	Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Maybe It's Time	Bradley Cooper
Me And My Broken Heart	Rixton
Me, Myself & I	G-Eazy
Midnight City	M83
Mirrors	Justin Timberlake
Moves Like Jagger	Maroon 5 [feat. Christina Aguilera]
My House	Flo Rida
Nevermind	Leonard Cohen
New Rules	Dua Lipa
Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party	Courtney Barnett
Ocean Drive (Extended Mix)	Duke Dumont
Octopus	Bloc Party
Oh Love	Green Day
Old Town Road (Remix)	Lil Nas X
On A Roll	Ashley O
On My Way Back Home	Band Of Horses
Paradise	Coldplay
Paradise Circus [feat. Hope Sandoval]	Massive Attack
Party Rock Anthem	LMFAO
Phantom Rider	Daughn Gibson
Play It Again	Luke Bryan
Please Me	Cardi B
Poker Face	Lady Gaga
Pompeii	Bastille
Pony	Ginuwine
Post Acid	Wavves
Price Tag [feat. B.o.B]	Jessie J
Problem [feat. Iggy Azalea]	Ariana Grande
Pumped Up Kicks	Foster The People
Punching In A Dream	The Naked And Famous
Radio Silence	James Blake
Renegades	X Ambassadors
Repetition	The Willowz
Riptide	Vance Joy
River	Civil Twilight
Rocket Fuel	DJ Shadow
Rococo	Arcade Fire
Rolling in the Deep	Adele
Rope	Foo Fighters
Roses	The Chainsmokers
Royals	Lorde
Runaways	The Killers
Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites	Skrillex
Scissor Runner	Jenny And Johnny
Second Chance	Peter Bjorn And John
Self Preservation	AM
Señorita	Shawn Mendes
Shake It Off	Taylor Swift
Shallow	Lady Gaga
Shape of You	Ed Sheeran
Shell Games	Bright Eyes
Should Have Known Better	Sufjan Stevens
Simple Song	The Shins
Sit Still, Look Pretty	Daya
Sixteen Saltines	Jack White
Sleepwalkers	The Hundred In The Hands
Slippery [feat. Gucci Mane]	Migos
Some Nights	Fun.
Somebody Else	The 1975
Somebody That I Used To Know	Gotye [feat. Kimbra]
Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart	Fountains Of Wayne
Something Just Like This	The Chainsmokers (with Coldplay)
Sorry	Beyoncé
South of the Border	Ed Sheeran (feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B)
Space Cowboy	Kacey Musgraves
Stay	Zedd
Stranger Things	Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stressed Out	twenty one pilots
Stripping Paper	Elvis Costello
Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)	Kelly Clarkson
Style	Taylor Swift
Stylo (feat. Mos Def and Bobby Womack)	Gorillaz
Sugar	Sister Sparrow
Sugar	Maroon 5
Sugar Storm	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Sun Daze	Florida Georgia Line
Sun of a Gun	Oh Land
Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)	Post Malone
Sweater Weather	The Neighbourhood
Sweet but Psycho	Ava Max
Take a Walk	Passion Pit
Teenage Dream	Katy Perry
That Fever (feat. Claire Tchaikowski)	Davidge
The Glorious Land	PJ Harvey
The High Road	Broken Bells
The Man	Aloe Blacc
The Puritan	This Will Destroy You
The Weekend	SZA
Theme	Shopping
They Want My Soul	Spoon
Thieves	She & Him
This Is America	Childish Gambino
This Is It	Flatbush Zombies
This Too Shall Pass	OK Go
Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz)	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Too Close	Alex Clare
Trampoline	SHAED
Trap Queen	Fetty Wap
Turn Down for What	DJ Snake
Twister	Witching Waves
Uma Thurman	Fall Out Boy
Under Cover of Darkness	The Strokes
Unobstructed Views	Death Cab For Cutie
Uprising	Muse
Uptown Funk	Mark Ronson
Vincent	Car Seat Headrest
Wake Up	Arcade Fire
Walkaway	Imperial Teen
Want to Want Me	Jason Derulo
Watch Me (Whip / Nae Nae)	Silentó
Wave to Anchor	Hundred Waters
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together	Taylor Swift
We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe)	Fun.
What You Know	Two Door Cinema Club
Where Are Ü Now (with Justin Bieber)	Jack Ü
Whutcha Want	Giovanni James
Wish I Knew You	The Revivalists
Without Me	Halsey
Work It Out	Knox Hamilton
Would That Not Be Nice	Divine Fits
Wrecking Ball	Miley Cyrus
Yeah 3x	Chris Brown
Your Love	Nicki Minaj
You're the Best	Wet
Youth Without Youth	Metric