It’s funny how certain sites and blogs that are all about “alt” and “indie” music would never share anything that was Top 40, unless of course it was in the most ironic of ways. If you know SO’s taste, then you know we love a certain kind of music, call it a blend of indie/hip hop/PMA/pitchfork/alt, or just call it “good”, either one works. But we don’t frown upon Top 40 music, we like a lot of it, un-ironically, because good music is good music. Does 98% of Top 40 music all sound the exact same and consist of lyrics I could have written in third grade? Maybe. But there’s also some really great music to be found in all that…music. We picked out 20 songs that we we couldn’t stop listening to of the years most popular music for our Best of 2012: Top 40 Songs That We Loved. Turn it up and enjoy!
Bruno Mars – “Locked Out Of Heaven”
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Carly Rae Jepsen – “Call Me Maybe”
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Alicia Keys – “Girl On Fire”
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Ke$ha – “Die Young”
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Kanye West ft. Big Sean & Jay-Z – “Clique”
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Justin Bieber ft. Big Sean – “As Long As You Love Me”
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Ed Sheeran – “The A Team”
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Fun ft. Janelle Monae – “We Are Young”
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The Lumineers – “Ho Hey”
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Goyte ft. Kimbra – “Somebody That I Used To Know”
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Drake ft. Lil Wayne – “The Motto”
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David Guetta ft. Sia – “Titanium”
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Jay-Z & Kanye West – “Niggas In Paris”
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Usher – “Climax”
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Miguel – “Adorn”
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Bruno Mars – “Young Girls”
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Ellie Goulding – “Anything Could Happen”
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Of Monsters And Men – “Little Talks”
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Passion Pit – “Take A Walk”
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Childish Gambino – Heartbeat
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SO Note: What Top 40 songs did you love this year? Let us know @Serial_Optimist.
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