Something like 'Hey Ya!' 'Crazy' 'Seven Nation Army' or 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', a crossover hit that you always loved and always thought it deserved to be successfull?...

Some of the options you may like:

Rolling In The Deep, Adele
Fuck You, Cee Lo Green
We Are Young, Fun.
Somebody That I Used to Know, Gotye
Get Lucky, Daft Punk
Tightrope, Janelle Monae
Treasure, Bruno Mars
Adorn, Miguel
Royals, Lorde
Lonely Boy, The Black Keys
Moves Like Jagger, Maroon 5
Video Games, Lana Del Rey
Monster, Kanye West
Pumped Up Kicks, Foster The People
All of The Lights, Kanye West
....
....

(Successfull doesn't neccessairly mean a top 10 hit, it can be a song you always hear on TV, outside....)

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how old is Use Somebody by KOL? i don't listen to radio so when i finally heard that song, i was impressed immediately

Turn Down For What ~ DJ Snake & Lil Jon

Wepa ~ Gloria Estefan

Wrong ~ Depeche Mode

Tattoo ~ Van Halen

Vida ~ Ricky Martin

Just A Dream ~ Nelly

Lions, Tigers & Bears ~ Jazmine Sullivan

My Love Is All I Have ~ Charlie Wilson

Girl Panic ~ Duran Duran

I Blame You ~ Ledisi

Love On Top ~ Beyoncé

Runaway- Kanye West
M83_ Midnight City
Kongos- Come With Me Now
Pyramids- Frank Ocean

Poetic Justice- Kendrick Lamar
When A Woman Loves- R. Kelly
Fuck You- Cee-Lo Green
Adorn- Miguel
You & I- Lady GaGa
Madness- Muse
Hold On, We're Going Home- Drake
We Found Love- Rihanna
Paradise- Coldplay
Sixteen Saltines- Jack White
The Catalyst- Linkin Park

Not ashamed of any of these

Rolling In The Deep, Adele
Fuck You, Cee Lo Green
We Are Young, Fun.
Somebody That I Used to Know, Gotye
Get Lucky, Daft Punk
Tightrope, Janelle Monae
Treasure, Bruno Mars
Adorn, Miguel
Royals, Lorde
Lonely Boy, The Black Keys
Moves Like Jagger, Maroon 5
Video Games, Lana Del Rey
Monster, Kanye West
Pumped Up Kicks, Foster The People
All of The Lights, Kanye West

Those have clicked with me. Yes, I like "Moves Like Jagger" too. It's pretty funky for a contemporary hit and when it gets played in bars and clubs I find myself enjoying it more than most of the other stuff played in those place. It's not bad live either:

don't forget "Happy" Pharrell.....

Shawy89 said:

Something like 'Hey Ya!' 'Crazy' 'Seven Nation Army' or 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', a crossover hit that you always loved and always thought it deserved to be successfull?...

Some of the options you may like:

Rolling In The Deep, Adele
Fuck You, Cee Lo Green
We Are Young, Fun.
Somebody That I Used to Know, Gotye
Get Lucky, Daft Punk
Tightrope, Janelle Monae
Treasure, Bruno Mars
Adorn, Miguel
Royals, Lorde
Lonely Boy, The Black Keys
Moves Like Jagger, Maroon 5
Video Games, Lana Del Rey
Monster, Kanye West
Pumped Up Kicks, Foster The People
All of The Lights, Kanye West
....
....

(Successfull doesn't neccessairly mean a top 10 hit, it can be a song you always hear on TV, outside....)

[Edited 6/5/14 12:23pm]

chriss said:

don't forget "Happy" Pharrell.....

Have you heard the Diamond Dave version?

Party in the U.S.A

In terms of songs I really like that had some sort of widespread audience, there aren't too many:

Kylie Minogue - "All the Lovers"

Gotye and Kimbra - "Somebody That I Used to Know"

Lady Gaga - "The Edge of Glory"

Lady Gaga - "Born This Way"

Songs with critical, if not commercial success:

Janelle Monae - "Cold War"

LCD Soundsystem - "All I Want"

LCD Soundsystem - "I Can Change"

LCD Soundsystem - "Dance Yrself Clean"

Robyn - "Dancing on My Own"

iamamiwhoami - ";john"

M83 - "Midnight City"

Metronomy - "The Bay"

St. Vincent - "Cruel"

Bat for Lashes - "Laura"

Grimes - "Oblivion"

iamamiwhoami - "sever"

Janelle Monae - "Dance Apocalyptic"

Most of my very favorites didn't have either critical or commercial success.

Prince - Fallinluv2nite (feat. Zooey Deschanal)

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I knew this was destined for The Hits Vol. 4 as soon as I heard it as the background commercial music for the Bachelorette.

lazycrockett said:

Party in the U.S.A

Yeah, Wrecking Ball sucked, Party in the USA was Miley's magnum opus and it really set the bar for a new musical genre.... Its def one of the few groundbreaking songs to be released in the past few years.

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Of the ones that had a lot of radio airplay and that struck a chord with me beyond 'Oh, that's a nice ditty', I would name 'Latch' by Disclosure and Sam Smith, 'I Follow Rivers', by Lykke Li in the Magician Remix, and 'Nothin' On You', by B.O.B. and Bruno Mars. YMMV among the Org, and I respect that, but these are my jams. When it comes to popular music that's in the mainstream ear the past 5 years, I feel the most interesting sounds aren't coming from soul and rock, but rather from the electronic genres (James Blake's self-titled album was dope). For me personally that's a peculiar switch, considering that I had very little love for electronic music when I was a teenager. I do think that, outside of the mainstream channels, there are a lot of great neo-soul-esque acts at large.

Shawy89 said:

Something like 'Hey Ya!' 'Crazy' 'Seven Nation Army' or 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', a crossover hit that you always loved and always thought it deserved to be successfull?...

Some of the options you may like:

Rolling In The Deep, Adele
Fuck You, Cee Lo Green
We Are Young, Fun.
Somebody That I Used to Know, Gotye
Get Lucky, Daft Punk
Tightrope, Janelle Monae
Treasure, Bruno Mars
Adorn, Miguel
Royals, Lorde
Lonely Boy, The Black Keys
Moves Like Jagger, Maroon 5
Video Games, Lana Del Rey
Monster, Kanye West
Pumped Up Kicks, Foster The People
All of The Lights, Kanye West
....
....

(Successfull doesn't neccessairly mean a top 10 hit, it can be a song you always hear on TV, outside....)

[Edited 6/5/14 12:23pm]

Exactly which of these songs would you consider iconic?

MotownSubdivision said:

Shawy89 said:

Something like 'Hey Ya!' 'Crazy' 'Seven Nation Army' or 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', a crossover hit that you always loved and always thought it deserved to be successfull?...

Some of the options you may like:

Rolling In The Deep, Adele
Fuck You, Cee Lo Green
We Are Young, Fun.
Somebody That I Used to Know, Gotye
Get Lucky, Daft Punk
Tightrope, Janelle Monae
Treasure, Bruno Mars
Adorn, Miguel
Royals, Lorde
Lonely Boy, The Black Keys
Moves Like Jagger, Maroon 5
Video Games, Lana Del Rey
Monster, Kanye West
Pumped Up Kicks, Foster The People
All of The Lights, Kanye West
....
....

(Successfull doesn't neccessairly mean a top 10 hit, it can be a song you always hear on TV, outside....)

[Edited 6/5/14 12:23pm]

Exactly which of these songs would you consider iconic?

All of them.

Shawy89 said:

Shawy89 said:

Something like 'Hey Ya!' 'Crazy' 'Seven Nation Army' or 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', a crossover hit that you always loved and always thought it deserved to be successfull?...

Some of the options you may like:

Rolling In The Deep, Adele
Fuck You, Cee Lo Green
We Are Young, Fun.
Somebody That I Used to Know, Gotye
Get Lucky, Daft Punk
Tightrope, Janelle Monae
Treasure, Bruno Mars
Adorn, Miguel
Royals, Lorde
Lonely Boy, The Black Keys
Moves Like Jagger, Maroon 5
Video Games, Lana Del Rey
Monster, Kanye West
Pumped Up Kicks, Foster The People
All of The Lights, Kanye West
....
....

(Successfull doesn't neccessairly mean a top 10 hit, it can be a song you always hear on TV, outside....)

[Edited 6/5/14 12:23pm]

Happy by Pharrell maybe? You don't like Mary J Blige but you seem to like Marroon 5....yikes

[Edited 6/26/14 15:12pm]

Iconic doesn't imply on only good music, it could be bad iconic music.

Moves Like Jagger is popular for the whistle, the chorus, the whole thing, it's something comedy films would mention in the future. It may be bad, but it's popular enough to go down as one of the most popular songs of the last years.

I'm gonna have to add Pokerface and Bad Romance by Lady Gaga as well!

I love "Wrecking Ball." The best hit song (in the U.S.) by a female artist in almost a decade.

"Iconic" is of no interest to me. If the herd fixate on something enough then it becomes "iconic", but it can also be shit, so I'll skip over that consideration and just focus on the "impressive" part instead.

If we're talking hit singles there are two great ones that spring to mind. Best one is easily "Young Blood" by The Naked and Famous. After that is "Happy" by Pharell. There are probably others, but I don't follow these things closely anymore.

datdude said:

how old is Use Somebody by KOL? i don't listen to radio so when i finally heard that song, i was impressed immediately

I agree that's a great song, but it's almost 6 years old now. When I first heard the song in 08 I actually did a thread on it because it impressed me so much. That whole album was easily one of the best of the 00s.