Voting for the 2022 Ultimate Pop Rate is Open!!!

    Hey, all! So, while I still don't have the final list for the Pop Rate, I figured we could get started on it anyways. I'll just get rid of songs that end up being ineligible. So, without further ado, here is the list of songs for the 2022 Ultimate Pop Rate!

• 10 Things I Hate About You - Leah Kate
• 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) - Lizzo
• 2step - Ed Sheeran/Lil Baby
• abcdefu - GAYLE
• About Damn Time - Lizzo
• All 4 Nothing (I'm So In Love) - Lauv
• Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift
• Anxiety - Coi Leray
• Are You Entertained - Russ/Ed Sheeran
• As It Was - Harry Styles
• attention - Omah Lay/Justin Bieber
• Baby Boo - Muni Long/Saweetie
• Bad Decisions - benny blanco/BTS/Snoop Dogg
• Bad Habit - Steve Lacy
• Bam Bam - Camila Cabello/Ed Sheeran
• Becky's So Hot - FLETCHER
• Better Days - NEIKED/Mae Muller/Polo G
• Betty (Get Money) - Yung Gravy
• Big Energy - Latto
• Bigger Than Me - Louis Tomlinson
• BILLIE EILISH. - Armani White
• Bite Me - Avril Lavigne
• Bones - Imagine Dragons
• Boyfriend - Dove Cameron
• Boys Don't Cry - Anitta
• BREAK MY SOUL - Beyoncé
• Calm Down - Rema/Selena Gomez
• Can't Stop Us Now - Pitbull/Zac Brown
• Chosen - Blxst/Tyga/Ty Dolla $ign
• Closer - Saweetie/H.E.R.
• COMPLETE MESS - 5 Seconds of Summer
• Cooped Up - Post Malone/Roddy Ricch
• CUFF IT - Beyoncé
• Dancing Feet - Kygo/DNCE
• Devil Doesn't Bargain - Alec Benjamin
• Die For You - The Weeknd
• Do It To It - ACRAZE/Cherish
• Don't Forget My Love - Diplo/Miguel
• Don't Let The Light Go Out - Panic! At The Disco
• Don't Lose Sight - Lawrence
• DON'T YOU WORRY - Black Eyed Peas/Shakira/David Guetta
• Dreamers - Jung Kook
• Dress - Charlotte Sands
• Easy Lover - Ellie Goulding/Big Sean
• Easy On Me - Adele
• emo girl - Machine Gun Kelly/WILLOW
• Enemy - Imagine Dragons/JID
• Enough - charlieonnafriday
• Escape - Kx5/Hayla
• Evergreen (You Didn't Deserve Me At All) - Omar Apollo
• Faking Love - Anitta/Saweetie
• feel like shit - Tate McRae
• The Feels - TWICE
• Fingers Crossed - Lauren Spencer Smith
• First Class - Jack Harlow
• Flowers - Lauren Spencer Smith
• fmk - GAYLE/blackbear
• Forget Me - Lewis Capaldi
• For Tonight - Giveon
• Freaky Deaky - Tyga/Doja Cat
• Get Into It (Yuh) - Doja Cat
• Ghost - Justin Bieber
• Glimpse of Us - Joji
• golden hour - JVKE
• Good Ones - Charli XCX
• Grand - Kane Brown
• Have Mercy - Chlöe
• Heat Waves - Glass Animals
• High - The Chainsmokers
• Hold Me Closer - Elton John/Britney Spears
• Hold My Hand - Lady Gaga
• Honest - Justin Bieber/Don Toliver
• House On Fire - Mimi Webb
• I Ain't Worried - OneRepublic
• I AM WOMAN - Emmy Meli
• IDGAF - BoyWithUke/blackbear
• i feel everything - Amelia Moore
• I Feel Good - Pitbull/Anthony Watts/DJ White Shadow
• I Hate U - SZA
• I Like You (A Happier Song) - Post Malone/Doja Cat
• I Love U - The Chainsmokers
• I Love You So - The Walters
• I'm a Mess - Avril Lavigne/YUNGBLUD
• I'm Good (Blue) - David Guetta/Bebe Rexha
• I'm Tired - Labrinth/Zendaya
• iPad - The Chainsmokers
• I Remember - Cheat Codes/Russell Dickerson
• It's Been So Long - K.Flay
• It Was A... (Masked Christmas) - Jimmy Fallon/Ariana Grande/Megan Thee Stallion
• I Won't - AJR
• Jiggle Jiggle - Duke & Jones/Louis Theroux
• Jimmy Cooks - Drake/21 Savage
• The Joker And The Queen - Ed Sheeran/Taylor Swift
• Just a Cloud Away - Pharrell Williams
• Late Night Talking - Harry Styles
• Left and Right - Charlie Puth/Jung Kook
• let you - iann dior
• Life Goes On - Oliver Tree
• Lift Me Up - Rihanna
• Light Switch - Charlie Puth
• THE LONELIEST - Måneskin
• Love It When You Hate Me - Avril Lavigne/blackbear
• Love Me More - Sam Smith
• love nwantiti (ah ah ah) - CKay
• Made You Look - Meghan Trainor
• Make You Say - Zedd/Maren Morris/BEAUZ
• Male Fantasy - Billie Eilish
• MAMIII - Becky G/KAROL G
• MANIAC - Macklemore/Windser
• Massive - Drake
• Maybe You're The Problem - Ava Max
• Meet Me At Our Spot - THE ANXIETY
• Me Myself & I - 5 Seconds of Summer
• Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran/Elton John
• Message In A Bottle (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift
• Middle Of A Breakup - Panic! At The Disco
• Million Dollar Baby - Ava Max
• MONEY - LISA
• Moth To A Flame - Swedish House Mafia/The Weeknd
• The Motto - Tiësto/Ava Max
• Move - DNCE
• Music For a Sushi Restaurant - Harry Styles
• My Mind & Me - Selena Gomez
• Need to Know - Doja Cat
• Numb - Marshmello/Khalid
• Numb Little Bug - Em Beihold
• Oh My God - Adele
• One Right Now - Post Malone/The Weeknd
• Out of Time - The Weeknd
• Overpass Graffiti - Ed Sheeran
• Peru - Fireboy DML/Ed Sheeran
• Pink Venom - BLACKPINK
• Potion - Calvin Harris/Dua Lipa/Young Thug
• Record Player - Daisy the Great/AJR
• Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush
• Sacrifice - The Weeknd
• sheluvme - Tai Verdes
• she's all i wanna be - Tate McRae
• SIMPLY THE BEST - Black Eyed Peas/Anitta/El Alfa
• SKIN OF MY TEETH - Demi Lovato
• Skyline - Khalid
• Smokin Out The Window - Silk Sonic
• SNAP - Rosa Linn
• So Good - Halsey
• STAR WALKIN' - Lil Nas X
• STAYING ALIVE - DJ Khaled/Drake/Lil Baby
• Sunroof - Nicky Youre/dazy
• Super Freaky Girl - Nicki Minaj
• SUPERMODEL - Måneskin
• Sweetest Pie - Megan Thee Stallion/Dua Lipa
• THATS WHAT I WANT - Lil Nas X
• this is what falling in love feels like - JVKE
• Thousand Miles - The Kid LAROI
• TO THE MOON - Jnr Choi/Sam Tompkins
• Toxic Pony - ALTÉGO/Britney Spears/Ginuwine
• uh oh - Tate McRae
• Unholy - Sam Smith/Kim Petras
• Unstoppable - Sia
• Until I Found You - Stephen Sanchez
• Vegas - Doja Cat
• Victoria's Secret - Jax
• Viva Las Vengeance - Panic! At The Disco
• WAIT FOR U - Future/Drake/Tems
• Wandered To LA - Juice WRLD/Justin Bieber
• Weatherman - Eddie Benjamin
• We Don't Talk About Bruno - Encanto Cast
• The Weekend (Remix) - 88rising/BIBI/347aidan
• When I'm Gone - Alesso/Katy Perry
• When You're Gone - Shawn Mendes
• Where Are You Now - Lost Frequencies/Calum Scott
• Woman - Doja Cat
• Wonderland - AleXa
• World's Smallest Violin - AJR
• Wrapped Around Your Finger - Post Malone
• WYD Now? - Sadie Jean

The rules are simple. You're going to rate each song from 1-10. You may give ONE song a 0 and ONE song an 11. Also, it's highly encouraged to add a fun little comment next to each song. For my convenience, please format your responses like this:

World's Smallest Violin: 0, World's Smallest Violin? More like World's ANNOYINGEST Violin amirite?

Also, yes, I know that this is a lot of songs, but you guys have probably heard the vast majority of these many times, so I don't care. This is gonna be fun, and you'll LIKE IT.

Also also, please rate the songs based on how you genuinely feel about them. So I don't care if you don't like old songs coming to radio, rate them honestly.

SUBMIT YOUR SUBMISSION HERE

Voting is closed two weeks after the list is set. I will update this post once that happens.

Big Announcement!

    Hey all! Wow, it's been a while since I've been here. I hope you're all doing well, and I've missed checking in on you guys every week. However, I have an announcement to make, and I think it's one that you guys will be very excited about. In the coming months, I'm planning on hosting a HUGE 2022 Ultimate Pop Rate!! Basically, I'll post a form for you guys to rate every Weekend Countdown song and every Billboard Pop song in 2022. Then, over the course of a few weeks, I'll reveal the list! It's important to note that I won't be including every single song to reach either chart over the past year, only the ones that were the most successful in 2022 on either chart. So for example, I won't be including Shivers or Creepin', as Shivers performed better in 2021 on both charts, and I expect Creepin' to perform better in 2023 on both charts. However, I will be including songs like Heat Waves, as while it didn't chart at all on the Countdown in 2022, it was actually more successful in 2022 than in 2021 on the Billboard Pop Chart. Because of that, I won't be releasing the form right away, as I need to see how things shake up in the coming weeks (possibly even a month or two), to see if certain songs will be bigger in 2022 or 2023. I likely won't be participating in this myself, as I've really grown these past months to just appreciate music, rather than trying to form an opinion on it, so I'll be solely acting as your host.

    Now, to just talk about the state of this blog, as I know I kind of abandoned it without really letting you guys I was going to, and the reason for that is that I didn't know I was going to either. Life just really got busy, and I've almost completely run out of time for stuff like this. That's why I want to let you guys know that this will probably end up being the last year that I post here, as I really can't see myself having time for this at all in the future. But if it is my last year, I want to make it a memorable one instead of quietly drifting away, so I'm going to try my best to give you guys a different post every month. The posts will probably be quite different from what you're used to, and I have a few ideas bouncing around that I know you guys will like. But we'll kick it off with a top 10 songs of 2022 that I'll release this month (I'll also post what I had as my top 45 of 2021 in the comments of this one, as I promised you guys that post, and then never delivered).

    Q&A will be open in the comments below, so if you guys want to ask me about anything in particular, music-related or not, drop your questions down below, and I'll try to get back to you guys ASAP.

    Kwaheri, everybody! See you all in the next one.