So far I think “Uptown Funk”, “Blinding Lights”, and “Old Town Road”. That doesn’t mean I love those songs. It means I think they answer the question. I know you may love “Irony x3” by Zigbones. But they ain’t it.

Edit: I’m sorry for the poorly worded question. I think it’s autism related, but I don’t see possibilities or alternative understandings easily, and when I wrote “decade” I thought 10 years and that was it.

Of course anyone answering from the perspective of 2010-2020 was making a perfectly reasonable and rational answer and I was very dismissive. I’m really sorry for that.

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    Talking about pop:

    • Blinding lights
    • Rolling in the deep
    • Get Lucky
    • Happy

    No need to write the singers, that’s how famous they are.

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          I wouldn’t count them out quite yet. Thomas Bangaltar and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo are still producing stuff each on their own. Sometimes they even collaborate on the same project. I don’t think there will be another Daft Punk album or song but I suspect their hands are going to be on a lot of work.

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            I think by 30 we’ll have a new Daft Punk album… They’ll both miss the feeling of working creatively on one big project and it will likely be on the same scale as RAM where they use it as an opportunity to collaborate with people in music that they really admire.

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          There’s a new Tron movie being worked on. I have no idea who’s doing the music, but the soundtrack for the most recent Tron was such a big reason it had any success. The movie looked cool, but it sounded amazing. The story was bland as hell, which is a shame. That’s one of the few soundtracks for a movie I’ll actually listen to outside of the movie, and I can’t see whatever the new one does being even half as good.

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        your wording was a tad ambiguous. it is possible that the above commenter thought you were asking about the last decade, as in the 2010s, rather than the last decade, as in the ten years immediately preceding today (roughly 2014-2024)

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      I only know Blinding lights from those. Looks like I’m pretty out of touch with modern music.

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        I had to look up Blinding Lights, and I don’t recognize it. I know the others from that list (whether they fit the criteria or not).

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    Anyone over 35 should just not answer this question, very little chance we’ll be right

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      Also, for anyone over 35, our ability to understand “last decade” means the last 10 years, decreases over time. I read this question and still thought about songs that came out 2009.

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        I think that is up for interpretation a little bit. “The last decade” I think grammatically it means the last 10 years. In this case 2014-2024. But I am so used to it referring to the years ending in zero that my head immediately goes to 2010-2020 not 2014-2024. Especially in the context of music. Music is historically is reference as the years ending in zero 60s, the 70s the 2000s 2010s etc…

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      I think I disagree. Only a very small subset of music from the decade permeated my oblivion of modern music. I expect the songs that managed to do that are the ones that will be remembered. I agree with OP’s list, I know those songs.

      Add to that:

      • Born this Way
      • Wake me up
      • Shake it off
      • Someone that I used to know
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        Taylor Swift probably has at least 5 that will be considered classics.

        Just go to her top played songs and you could put any of them on that list. Which is wild

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    Nothing too niche or topical. Has to have some sort of timeless quality, meaningful lyrics and emotional resonance. Not a “fad” genre, a sea shantey won’t do (yes its centuries of tradition but in it’s old form it isn’t mainstream). Cultural impact which means it will moat likely be from your mainstream artists, taylor swift, kanye west, maybe billie eilish gets there. I also think it’s probably going to be more women defining an era of music than ever before.

    Added advantages, either something that was early in a musical tradition or helped it peak, we’ve seen this with classics in the moat recent big genre, rap.

    As for the tiktok songs. We don’t know how internet virality affects the legacy of these songs. A lot of the earbugs are shallow short bits. I’m going to ignore those, otherwise I think some of the smarter songs will maybe be appreciated a little while later too.

    So my list:

    • Royals by lorde
    • Rolling in the deep by adele
    • Runaway by Kanye
    • Sign of the times by harry styles
    • Hotline Bling by drake, i’m 50/50 on this one
    • All Too Well/ Blank Space by Taylor Swift
    • Alright by Kendrick Lamar
    • Formation by Beyonce
    • Teenage Dream by Katy Perry
    • Chandlier by Sia
    • Uptown Funk Mark Ronson 50/50
    • Let It Happen by Tame Impala
    • Nights by Frank Ocean

    I think a couple of these are pre 2014 tho. But are within the last 15 for sure.

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    I’m not really in tune with nowadays music, but I think Rag’n’Bone Man’s Human goes in there automatically, it’s in every playlist.
    I guess we’ll have to put Imagine Dragons in there somehow, I think both Believer and Bones are a good fit.

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    I remember an article that used (Spotify?) play trends to project this, and at the time they thought Pompeii by Bastille would be the one with longevity, while a few other hit songs by big names would be forgotten. I can’t find it now.

    IIRC the basic idea was that genuinely memorable songs peak less hard and only fade very slowly, while trendy songs crash as everyone moves on to the next shiny thing marketers put out.

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    If I put my old man hat on, I’d say none. I think the idea of “classics” is dead. I also think most modern mainstream music is terrible. But hey what do I know.