Fifty years ago, I made my first appeared on the Earth. In celebration, we are going to take a look at the year-end Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for each year of my life and see what songs resonated with me at the time and if they continue to do so to this day.
We continue our look back at the music of my lifetime with 2015, the year I celebrated my 41st birthday. A mere seven of these songs remain familiar to me today, with just three of them appearing in my collection in one way or another.
#60: Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman
iTunes stats: 9 plays
Featuring a sample of the theme song from The Munsters, it peaked at #22 on the Hot 100.
#57: Taylor Swift – Wildest Deams
iTunes stats: 14 plays
Reaching #5, it became the fifth consecutive top ten hit from her 1989 album.
#43: Fall Out Boy – Centuries
iTunes stats: 44 plays
The lead single from the group’s sixth studio album, it went to #10, their first top ten hit in eight years.
#35: Adele – Hello
iTunes stats: N/A
Debuted at #1 on the Hot 100, where it remained for ten weeks.
#29: Taylor Swift – Style
iTunes stats: 25 plays
The third single from her fifth studio album, it peaked at #6.
#28: Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass
iTunes stats: 30 plays
Spending eight weeks at #1, it made Trainor the 21st female artist in Hot 100 history to top the chart with their debut single.
#18: Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
iTunes stats: 54 plays
Debuting at #1, it then spent eight weeks at #2 before returning to the top spot for an additional two weeks.
#15: Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar – Bad Blood
iTunes stats: 53 plays
The third single from 1989 to reach the top of the Hot 100, it spent a single week at #1
#7: Taylor Swift – Blank Space
iTunes stats: 32 plays
Spending seven weeks atop the charts, it earned three Grammy nominations.
#1: Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
iTunes stats: 17 plays
The lead single from Ronson’s fourth studio album, it spent fourteen weeks at #1.
