Year-End Top 100 Songs of 2013

Year-End most popular songs according to Billie's listening habits, roughly estimated on a regular basis (typically daily).
1

Wonderwall

Oasis

2

Bitter Sweet Symphony

The Verve

3

Get Lucky

Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers

4

Stereo Hearts

Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine

5

Overkill

Men at Work

6

Take Me Out

Franz Ferdinand

7

Rock Me Amadeus

Falco

8

Don't Cry

Asia

9

Panic Station

Muse

10

Wake Me Up

Avicii

11

Save Me

Gotye

12

Disturbia

Rihanna

13

X Gon' Give It To Ya

DMX

14

Sledgehammer

Peter Gabriel

15

MMMBop

Hanson

16

Another One Bites The Dust

Queen

17

You're The Reason I Come Home

Ron Pope

18

What I Wouldn't Do

Serena Ryder

19

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Queen

20

Counting Stars

OneRepublic

21

Fall In Love With Me

Earth Wind & Fire

22

Hungry Like The Wolf

Duran Duran

23

To Be With You

Mr. Big

24

Pompeii

Bastille

25

Right Now

PSY

26

United States of Eurasia

Muse

27

The Promise

Globus

28

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

Starship

29

Iron Man

Sir Mix-A-Lot featuring Metal Church

30

The Last Time

The Rolling Stones

31

1999

Prince

32

The Way

Fastball

33

Home

Phillip Phillips

34

Knights of Cydonia

Muse

35

Just Give Me A Reason

P!nk featuring Nate Ruess

36

Why Am I The One

fun.

37

Out On The Town

fun.

38

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

39

All Star

Smash Mouth

40

Hey There Delilah

Plain White T's

41

Bonfire Heart

James Blunt

42

Summer Paradise

Simple Plan featuring MKTO

43

Awake

Godsmack

44

Makes Me Wonder

Maroon 5

45

I Don't Want To Miss A Thing

Aerosmith

46

Funky Town

Pseudo Echo

47

Can't Hold Us

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton

48

All Night

Icona Pop

49

Blurred Lines

Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell Williams & T.I.

50

Meet Me Halfway

The Black Eyed Peas

51

Playing God

Paramore

52

Daylight

Maroon 5

53

The Drugs Don't Work

The Verve

54

If I Never See Your Face Again

Maroon 5 featuring Rihanna

55

Berzerk

Eminem

56

Give Your Heart A Break

Demi Lovato

57

Satisfaction Guaranteed

Alyssa Reid

58

Make Up Your Mind (French)

Final State featuring Laurence Pagé

59

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

The Rolling Stones

60

Lights

Ellie Goulding

61

Down With The Sickness

Disturbed

62

It's Time

Imagine Dragons

63

The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel

64

Stubborn Love

The Lumineers

65

Africa

Toto

66

Suit & Tie

Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z

67

Take Back The Night

TryHardNinja

68

Time To Pretend

MGMT

69

Through the Fire and Flames

Dragonforce

70

Bulletproof

La Roux

71

We Are the People

Empire of the Sun

72

Dancing Queen

ABBA

73

And We Danced

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ziggy Stardust

74

Together Forever

Rick Astley

75

Little Talks

Of Monsters and Men

76

Next To Me

Emeli Sandé

77

Radioactive

Imagine Dragons

78

Nothing Compares 2 U

Sinéad O'Connor

79

Don't You Worry Child

Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin

80

Rolling In The Deep

Adele

81

We Got The World

Icona Pop

82

When It's Love

Van Halen

83

Everybody To The Limit

Strong Bad

84

Demons

Imagine Dragons

85

Youth

Foxes

86

Float On

Modest Mouse

87

Learnalilgivinandlovin'

Gotye

88

Orchard of Mines

Globus

89

Enter Sandman

Metallica

90

We Can't Stop

Sarahjanelist featuring Nick Proch

91

Usher

More (Remix)

92

It's My Life

Bon Jovi

93

Because We Can

Bon Jovi

94

Inner Ninja

Classified featuring David Miles

95

Levels

Avicii

96

Straight Up

Paula Abdul

97

Love Is All

Yanni

98

Die MF Die

Dope

99

Let It Rock

Kevin Rudolf featuring Lil Wayne

100

Call Me

Blondie

Author's Notes

2013 was the very first year I started doing personal charts. That year was marked by a lot of experimentation, in terms of format and frequency. At first, I tried to do a weekly top 25, but only managed to keep it going for 2 weeks. Afterwards, I began making simple Top 10s, with extremely infrequent updates. Some a week apart, others nearly a month apart.

Finally, on August 11th 2013, I settled on a Daily Top 10 format. Every day (or so), I would sit down and write down the ten songs that felt most impactful that day. Since I had not yet found any data aggregators like Last.FM at the time, estimating my top songs was the best method I had of creating charts.

As for my music taste in 2013... it's very chauvinistic, I won't lie. Lots of indie/alternative/rock and oldies. Not a lot of pop or even girlies at this time. I was still slowly warming up to the idea that pop music wasn't trash, but there were some big disruptions (see Rihanna, Maroon 5 and Serena Ryder, just to name a few!) We're definitely still a few years away from big pop music breakthroughs though.

Fun fact: I actually banned instrumental songs (new age, relaxation music, video game OSTs, and so on) from charting in my charts that year. That was because 95% of my music listening in high school was those kinds of songs. I was trying to push myself to seek out more songs with vocals, which I think worked out quite well honestly! This decision would be reversed after 2013, however.