Let me start this out by saying, in the last year I've started REALLY liking new music again, like I've been digging some songs almost on the same level I did as a kid in the '80s/earlier 90s. Some have already become that much of a favorite, maybe it's because the super urban crunk and post-grunge of most of the zeroes is kinda declining and more melodic, synthy stuff is getting big again. And ballads too.

Here's my list - I know alot of these are probably mid-late 2008 but are popular now:

Pokerface, and Just Dance - Lady Gaga
Love Song - Taylor Swift
Shake it - Metro Station (probably the most new wave stuff to ever come out since like 1992!)
Thinking of You - Katy Perry (it took awhile to grow on me, but it's actually a good ballad. Meanwhile "Hot N Cold" has to already be one of my absolute favorite songs)
Sober - Pink (probably her best song, I love midtempo stuff like this)
One Step at a Time - Jordin Sparks
Heartless - Kanye West (usually not into him, but I like the slower ballad groove of this song)
Human - the Killers
Womanizer - Britney (it's more synthy/club type pop like Rihanna more than her own style)

Uhhh... The year barely got started
  ::)

A lot of 08/09 hybrids since we're early in the year.

Circus - Britney Spears
Poker Face - Lady GaGa
Just Dance - Lady GaGa (this has been out a while too, it's on my 2008 list but it's peaking in early 2009 in this country so I'll put it)
Sober - Pink
Love Story - Taylor Swift
Single Ladies - Beyonce
Dead and Gone - T.I.
I Hate this Part - Pussycat Dolls
My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson
Day N Nite - Kid Cudi
Turnin Me On - Keri Hilson (one of the hottest songs on urban radio now, not to mention Keri Hilson is HOT)
Where I Stood - Missy Higgins (this has been out too but they're just starting to play it on Hot AC seemingly)
Mad - Ne-Yo
You Found Me - Fray
Thinking of You - Katy Perry (same for me doesn't have that instant appeal that Hot N Cold had but I've warmed up to it)
Heartless - Kanye West
Untouched - Veronicas (another song that's been out for a while but didn't peak until now here)

I like 'Just Dance' and 'Poker Face', but over here, they be 2008 songs.  Heck, 'Just Dance' hit #1 here back in the Autumn of '08 LOL


Most of the songs I like so far in 2009 are left overs from 2008 ...

♦ Flowers and Football Tops - Glasvegas (Will be released in February as the 3rd single from their 2008 debut album)

♦ Move for Me - Kaskade featuring Deadmau5 (Debuted in the Canadian chart in January.  Was already a dance club hit in September of 2008)

♦ Lady Killer - Kreesha Turner (Hasn't peaked in the chart yet.  It's still rising)

Thinking of you sounds very alanis morissettey. maybe too much

Day N Nite - Kid Cudi


Rock on.  I was bumpin' the Crookers remix of this last year.  8)

Nothing released so far this year has stood out for me just yet.

Let me start this out by saying, in the last year I've started REALLY liking new music again, like I've been digging some songs almost on the same level I did as a kid in the '80s/earlier 90s. Some have already become that much of a favorite, maybe it's because the super urban crunk and post-grunge of most of the zeroes is kinda declining and more melodic, synthy stuff is getting big again. And ballads too.

Here's my list - I know alot of these are probably mid-late 2008 but are popular now:

Pokerface, and Just Dance - Lady Gaga
Love Song - Taylor Swift
Shake it - Metro Station (probably the most new wave stuff to ever come out since like 1992!)
Thinking of You - Katy Perry (it took awhile to grow on me, but it's actually a good ballad. Meanwhile "Hot N Cold" has to already be one of my absolute favorite songs)
Sober - Pink (probably her best song, I love midtempo stuff like this)
One Step at a Time - Jordin Sparks
Heartless - Kanye West (usually not into him, but I like the slower ballad groove of this song)
Human - the Killers
Womanizer - Britney (it's more synthy/club type pop like Rihanna more than her own style)
Yeah "Womanizer" does sound more Rihannalike than actually Britney.

"Sober" is the best "Pink" single since "Don't Let Me Get Me" or "Just Like A Pill" I think.

I agree "Metro Station" does seem very 80's new wave influenced too.

"That's Not My Name" Ting Tings, though from 2008 despite that there's a US version of the video that was aired recently (the UK version is far better, IMHO)

^ Dont know any of these songs - apologies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know only one song.

Cerf, Mitiska and Jaren - Man On The Run (Dash Berlin Mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evyy3rBgcM4

Lady GaGa - Just Dance
The Fray - You Found Me
All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell
Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil' Wayne - Let It Rock
T-Pain feat. Ludacris - Chopped And Screwed

Rock on.  I was bumpin' the Crookers remix of this last year.   8)

Nothing released so far this year has stood out for me just yet.


Oh wait!  Album released Nov 2008, "Human" by The Killers is getting some play here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SJo8Tdc-b8

Ah, I see it's in Marty's list.  Good stuff. :)

I heard another one this morning I like - "Gives You Hell" by the All American Rejects.

I was shocked when I looked it up to download it and found out it was them, lol. It's a different sound for them, it kinda sounds like medium tempo '90s alternative.

"Sex On Fire" by "Kings Of Leon" is a pretty good song.

yeah human is a freaking good song.

Few adds:

Right Round by Flo Rida
Blame It by Jamie Foxx
Lucky by Jason Mraz
Lions, Tigers, and Bears by Jazmine Sullivan
Beautiful by Akon

Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) lady ga ga im hopeing this gets relised in the US soon

I really like that "Right Round" song.

Not sure if this is an '09 song or one from last year, but "Hot & Cold" by Katy Perry seems to be on my faves list right now.

Been listening to Mando Diao's "Dance With Somebody."

♦ Never Ever - Ultrabeat
♦ Everybody - Rudenko
♦ Dress You Up - Kelly Llorenna
♦ All My Life - N-Force
♦ Take Me Back - Tinchy Stryder featuring Taio Cruz
♦ LoveGame - Lady GaGa (Technically from '08 as it charted here way back when it was just an album track)

Not sure if this is an '09 song or one from last year, but "Hot & Cold" by Katy Perry seems to be on my faves list right now.

I stand corrected on this one...it had been released last year, and reached #1 in November, but it still retained popularity into the early part of this year. I wonder if "ellipsis" will try to take this up with me. ::) Still, I do like it somewhat.


Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You", which I think is from this year, is probably the best song I enjoy that has come out this year so far.

More to add:

"Day and Nite" by Kid Cudi
"Rockin' That Thang" by The-Dream
"Diva" by Beyonce
"Jai Ho" by A. R. Rahman
"Get On Your Boots" by U2

Overall, I don't think 2009 is as good musically as 2008 was, at least so far. Maybe it will pick up as the summer approaches, hopefully.

Some other decent 2009 songs:

Everyone's At It - Lily Allen
Love Sex Magic - Ciara feat. Justin Timberlake
Knock You Down - Keri Hilson
Paranoid - Kanye West
You Complete Me - Keyshia Cole
No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand
Jai Ho - A.R. Rahman
If This Isn't Love - Jennifer Hudson
Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas

You Can Get It All - Bow Wow

I love it because it uses one of the beats from TLC's song Baby-Baby-Baby and he even sings one of the verses.

I think Nostalgia for the early 90's is starting take off?

^^^I think nostalgia for the 90s in general is starting to take off. I just heard Flo Rida's latest single yesterday called "Sugar" ft. Wynter Gordon and Mista Mac Freestyle. The chorus samples the mega-popular 1999 song "Blue" by Eiffel 65. I actually like this song more than "Right Round"; it's catchy. It kinda has a early '00s feel to it.

^^^I think nostalgia for the 90s in general is starting to take off. I just heard Flo Rida's latest single yesterday called "Sugar" ft. Wynter Gordon and Mista Mac Freestyle. The chorus samples the mega-popular 1999 song "Blue" by Eiffel 65. I actually like this song more than "Right Round"; it's catchy. It kinda has a early '00s feel to it.


I just made a post about Sugar LOL before I read this.

Yes, 2009 definitely has some 90's nostalgia to it. I like it more than Right Round too.

2009 feels more like an opening of the 10's decade to me than a closing of the 2000's. But I can't be so sure because we haven't esperienced the 10's. I'm not sure if I want to, considering I'll be in my 30's and my generation will be 20 years old.

Day and Nite-Kid Cudi
Kids-MGMT
Love S** Magic-Ciara featuring Justin Timberlake
Poker Face-Lady GaGa
I Love College-Asher Roth
You Found Me-The Fray
Chasing Pavements-Adele

Some other decent 2009 songs:


Love Sex Magic - Ciara feat. Justin Timberlake
Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas


I'm digging these two and "Don't Trust Me" by 3OH!3 at the moment

Some hot new songs on CHR/Top 40 radio

Goodbye - Kristinia DeBarge
Take Me on The Floor - The Veronicas
99 Times - Kate Voegele

Dreamer--Prince.

Y'all knew that was coming.  ;D

Some other decent 2009 songs:

Everyone's At It - Lily Allen


Speaking of whom, what, no love for...

F*bleep*k You - Lily Allen

So delightfully whimsical, and yet so bitterly on target.  Love it.  Been humming it all week.

1,2,3,4 ~ Plain White T's   It's very Beatles-y!

The whole No Line on The Horizon cd by U2

Everything I've heard so far of Lily Allen

Feel That Fire ~ Dierks Bentley (the whole cd is great, but it's Country)

Thank You ~ Keith Urban  (more Country, written for his wife, Nicole Kidman)

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Some other decent 2009 songs:

Everyone's At It - Lily Allen


Speaking of whom, what, no love for...

F*bleep*k You - Lily Allen

So delightfully whimsical, and yet so bitterly on target.  Love it.  Been humming it all week.




Whoa!!!  Talk about great minds thinking alike!!!! We posted about Lily Allen at the same time! :)

Speaking of whom, what, no love for...

F*bleep*k You - Lily Allen

So delightfully whimsical, and yet so bitterly on target.  Love it.  Been humming it all week.


I love that one too.  ;D  ;)

I'm also digging Pitbull's "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)", complete with sample stabs from Chicago's "Street Player" (also used in Bucketheads' "The Bomb (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)").

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2tMV96xULk

Another - released in 2008 but gettin' play in '09

"I'm In Miami B!tch" - LMFAO

"Poker Face" by Lady Gaga  8)

Another - released in 2008 but gettin' play in '09

"I'm In Miami B!tch" - LMFAO


I saw that one in the chart and with an artist name like that, I had to listen.  It's a cool track fo' sho 8)

My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson
Lentamente/Let Me Show You - Fey

I saw that one in the chart and with an artist name like that, I had to listen.  It's a cool track fo' sho 8)


They're making regional versions for parts of the US ("I'm In L.A.", "I'm In The Valley" (for AZ) ).

LMFAO also did an electro-remix of Fergie's "Clumsy" called "Girl Can't Help It" that's kinda cool.

I love college by Asher Roth has become a fave.
Boom Boom Pow by Black Eye Peas.
Pokerface, Lady Gaga.

Another - released in 2008 but gettin' play in '09

"I'm In Miami B!tch" - LMFAO


I enjoy this one too.  8)

I'm Yours ~ Jason Mraz

More added:

"One More Time on the Merry-Go-Round" by Wouter Hammel
"Don't Trust Me" by 3OH!3
"Epiphany" by Chrisette Michelle
"Pretty Wings" by Maxwell
"Birthday Sex" by Jeremih
"There Goes My Baby" by Charlie Wilson
"Wetter" by Twista
"Download" by Lil' Kim feat. Charlie Wilson and T-Pain (good sample of "Computer Love" and gives it a whole new meaning being about MySpace)

In the Heat of the Night - Star Pilots
Dead End Countdown - The New Cities
Major Tom (Coming Home) - Shiny Toy Guns (Peter Schilling cover as heard in TV Ads for the Lincoln MKZ.  Hit #48 in Canada and #108 in the USA)

I like that Shiny Toy Guns song too.

More to add:

- Bow Wow - "You Can Get It All"
- Method Man, Red Man - "A-YO"

This year (along with some of 2008) isn't so bad in terms of music unlike other years this decade. My fave songs so far are:

Sugar - Flo Rida ft. Wynter (gives me an early 00s feel for some reason; I feel like this could've been released in the summer of '02...)
The Wind Blows - All American Rejects
Just Dance - Lady Gaga
Lovegame - Lady Gaga
Pokerface - Lady Gaga (starting to get too overplayed)
Gives You Hell - All American Rejects (getting too overplayed)
My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson (also starting to get too overplayed)
If You Seek Amy - Britney Spears

^^Geez, I forgot about O-Town and that song in particular. Can't believe people are already making covers of it :P

Noisettes - Never Forget You - I think it's the best song from the late 2000s. It's better than Duffy songs. It has that Motown-like sound.

I agree with that Sugar song having an early 00's feel. I think of... being in college when I hear it.

I like "Knock You Down" by Keri Hilson featuring others.

I agree with that Sugar song having an early 00's feel. I think of... being in college when I hear it.


It might be because it samples "The Blue Song" by Eiffel 65, which came out around 1999/2000.

It might be because it samples "The Blue Song" by Eiffel 65, which came out around 1999/2000.


Yeah that and the the girls voice... Wynter... reminds me of someone I've heard in a song in the early 2000's but I just can't put my finger on it.

Currently my fave from this year is "Fallin' For You" by Colbie Caillat. :)

I'm gonna list my Top 20 favourite songs of 2009 (in no particular order apart from the first one) and see if this list will hold until the end ...


1 | Every Word - Ercola featuring Daniella http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png

2 | Every Morning - Basshunter
3 | Blame it on You <Wideboys Stadium Remix> - Gathania
4 | In the Heat of the Night - Star Pilots
5 | Keep This Fire Burning - Outsiders featuring Amanda Wilson
6 | When Love Takes Over - David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland
7 | Everybody - Rudenko
8 | Runnin' - Doman and Gooding featuring Dru and Lincoln http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
9 | I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas (featuring David Guetta)
10 | Gone - Lasgo
11 | I'm Not Alone - Calvin Harris
12 | Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden
13 | Take Me Back - Tinchy Stryder featuring Taio Cruz
14 | Dangerous - Cascada
15 | Fantasy - Danny Fernandes http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
16 | Sexy Chick - David Guetta featuring Akon
17 | I Promised Myself - Basshunter
18 | Feel Your Love - Kim Sozzi
19 | Never Ever - Ultrabeat
20 | Ghosts 'N Stuff - deadmau5 featuring Rob Swire http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png


'Every Word' is a 2008 song.  It didn't hit the International charts until 2009 which is when I first heard of it

I'd forgotten that RevCo still existed.  Yep, the one and only Revolting Cocks.

And it's been months since they came out with both a brand-new album and a remix album, and even a tour (dammit, I missed it!), and I just found out about it this week.

Not sure if it's "of the year", but it's definitely in contention: Hookerbot 3000 (Tweaker Mix).  Great mix of industrial, funk, electro, and a little 8-bit thrown in.

What I've been playing most lately.

Party In The USA - Miley Cyrus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11SvDtPBhA

Paparazzi - Lady GaGa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrKLUlh-To

Already Gone - Kelly Clarkson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZaA2s7xYI

Fireflies - Owl City

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4JLa0hbUw

Sexy Chick - David Guetta feat. Akon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9hazmsUxrM

Sweet Dreams - Beyonce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbGV2_8Yqg4

Forever - Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Eminem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rym6rGHAJg

Russian Roulette - Rihanna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEbc48xe20I

Need You Now - Lady Antebellum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB7T3lJ3dZ4

Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm61weFrK4c

Tik Tok - Ke$ha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiW3fibOGSQ

Cowboy Casanova - Carrie Underwood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu32vyCldh8

Wheels - Foo Fighters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLdmTyE4_sA&feature=fvst

Already Gone - Kelly Clarkson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZaA2s7xYI

yeah that's a pretty good one. :) I think she performed that one on "The View" not too long ago.

Don't really have any favorites as of now... I'm sooo out of touch  :-\\ ::) :P :-X

These are my favourites right now:


Ambitions - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_WQ6u9os50

Sometimes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFB5hbPrnZo

Broke My Eyes -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuKKKtMovgQ

Awake - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsJMJu0sXFQ

Caught In A Life - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcvPS5-VUvQ

Is Viva La Vida '09?  I really like that one.

"Viva la Vida" is from 2008 but yeah it's still great!  ;)

"Viva la Vida" is from 2008 but yeah it's still great!  ;)

So is "Hot N Cold" by Katy Perry, but I got into that one in early '09.

So is "Hot N Cold" by Katy Perry, but I got into that one in early '09.


I LOVE that song so much, seriously it is one of my favorite pop songs of the decade!

Anything by Black Eyed Peas. They put out the most hits and their songs are so fun

Hot And Cold by Katy Perry
This Is It by Michael Jackson.  ;)

Hot And Cold by Katy Perry
This Is It by Michael Jackson.  ;)


"This Is It" is really starting to grow on me. I love it. ;D

Lots of new ones, especially lately:

waking up in vegas; thinking of you - katy perry
shake it; seventeen forever; true to me - metro station
you belong with me - taylor swift
savior - lights
just go - lionel richie
i'm just here for the music - paula abdul
fireflies; hot air balloon; fuzzy blue lights; west coast friendship - owl city
lovegame; paparazzi; speechless; dance in the dark - lady gaga
good girls go bad - cobra starship
we own the sky - m83
fallin for you - colbie callait
21 guns; murder city - green day
sober; funhouse - pink
party in the usa - miley cyrus
according to you - orianthi

I love Rihanna's "Hard" right now. It's so badass lmao.

Of all the songs in 2009, I think my favourite was 'Infinity 2008' by Guru Josh Project.  Not only did it enter the Canadian Hot 100, it rose to #35 in it's second week (May 2009).  This to me remains the biggest surprise of 2009, just slightly ahead of David Guetta's double Top 40 score.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzy2dgEUOhY

All of Lady Gaga's music
All of Rihanna's songs
American Boy- Estelle
I Got A Feeling- Black Eyed Peas
Single Ladies- Beyonce