#thetenx5 day 50! This is the most-streamed of my 50, unsurprising given who’s involved. I think they’re both great in this, particularly Eminem inhabiting a truly horrible character (again) Eminem ft Rihanna, Love The Way You Like (2010, 🇺🇸/🇧🇧) For a day 50 treat here’s the Guns n Roses mashup

#thetenx5 day 49 Into the 2 billion streamers with a huge banger that was rejected both by Rhianna and, seemingly, this selectorate Good plain mid-10s silly pop fun Sia ft Sean Paul, Cheap Thrills (2015 🇦🇺🇯🇲)

#thetenx5 day 48 What could be more 2010s than a video which no longer appears to be available because it was originally posted to the artist’s tumblr? Here’s a live performance instead, lovely song, astonishing vocals Frank Ocean, Thinkin Bout You (2011 🇺🇸)

#thetenx5 day 47 Happy memories of both London 2012, but also the Paris games the other year - the director of both opening and closing ceremonies seemed keen to lean on millennial French electronica- not sure what the Gen Z competitors made of it, but I loved it M83, Midnight City (2011 🇫🇷)

#thetenx5 day 46 Into the billion-streamers! And when you want to restrict yourself to one song per artist AND represent both Gaga and Beyoncé how can you resist this? This remix adds a bit of Metallica to make a huge sound even huger! Lady Gaga ft Beyoncé, Telephone (2010 🇺🇸)

#thetenx5 day 45 (or thereabouts) For my money, the strongest single on his strongest album of the decade. Reached the dizzying heights of no 58 on the Billboard chart! (Proving that Brits were more in touch with US hip hop, it reached no 56 here) Kendrick Lamar, King Kunta (2015 🇺🇸)

#thetenx5 day 44(bis) Check the hashtag, check the date, post the banger, done Camden’s finest Kosovan Dua Lipa, Be The One (2017, 🇬🇧/🇽🇰/🇦🇱)

#thetenx5 day 44 [note to self: check spelling] Sad banger ahoy! Her debut might have been more interesting but this is my favourite, the line about kissing when we danced on the light-up floor is really evocative Lorde, Green Light (2017 🇳🇿)

#thetenx5 day 42 Can’t tell my y from my t, or my Japanese from my Korean Typo-laden k-pop choice below

#theyenx5 day 42 K-Pop! And as a simple soul, I just stuck with the biggest band’s first song. (The fact that the only English lyrics are them repeating their name over and over prob helped it stick) Blackpink, Boombayah (2016, 🇰🇷/🇹🇭🇳🇿)

#thetenx5 day 41 Phoebe Bridgers, Motion Sickness (2017 🇺🇸) “I hate you for what you did And I miss you like a little kid” Don’t think I can do better than the YouTube commenter who describes Phoebe as “Taylor Swift for women with crumbs in their bed”

#thetenx5 day 40 🚨 11 POINT BONUS 🚨 Huge bit of French electronic pop this. Love it. Woodkid, Run Boy Run (2012, 🇫🇷) NKC ❌ (13)

#thetenx5 day 39 Haven’t had a “problematic” choice since Solange (who beat up that guy in the lift) This song’s still fun, and the video even funner Azealia Banks ft Lazy Jay, 212 (2011, 🇺🇸 & 🇧🇪)

#thetenx5 day 38 I’m trying to go through my list in increasing order of popularity But in some cases the streaming figures don’t quite seem right - esp earlier in the decade. This felt bigger at the time than some of the songs that follow Rudimental ft John Newman, Feel The Love (2012, 🇬🇧)

#thetenx5 day 37 My Lana choice is the cinematic, arch, American Gothic one Lana Del Ray, Mariner’s Apartment Complex (2019, 🇺🇸)

#thetenx5 day 36 Think this song is best described as ‘rollicking’. It seems to be about failing to quit drinking and therefore makes a great drinking soundtrack Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, S.O.B. (2015, 🇺🇸) NKC ❌ (12)

#thetenx5 day 35 The last great yacht rock song? The War On Drugs, Red Eyes (2013, 🇺🇸) NKC ❌ (11)

#thetenx5 day 34 The closest thing to a good Prince record last decade, and my favourite gigger of this one Janelle Monáe, Make Me Feel (2018, 🇺🇸)

#thetenx5 day 33 Simple route one indie chanting time now. Given our kids’ age at the time it may have ended up as the most listened song in our house Resisting the temptation to go for the Latin cover version Bastille, Pompeii (2013, 🇬🇧) NKC ❌

#thetenx5 day 32 Not seen this one yet, which is mad as it covers genres all the way from east London grime to south London rap Not sure many other tunes refer both to Harry Potter and boxing someone with “the fob I use to log in to my HSBC” either Jme ft Giggs, Man Don’t Care (2015, 🇬🇧)

#thetenx5 day 31 Combination of late 60s sound, very 10s production and frankly quite a 90s video Think it was released quite late in 2019, and the line about not wanting to live like this but not wanting to die hit quite hard during the pandemic Vampire Weekend, Harmony Hall (2019, 🇺🇸) NKC ❌ (9)

#thetenx5 day 30 My Taylor Swift choice is mainly percussion-based Taylor Swift, Out of the Woods (2016 - as a single anyway, 🇺🇸)

#thetenx5 day 29 🚨12 POINT DOUBLE BONUS!! 🚨 The real talent in her family? Her best song? In fact, the best record of the 2010s? Some of you may have different answers but in my head it’s clear Solange, Losing You (🇺🇸, 2012)

#thetenx5 day 28 11 POINT BONUS 🚨!! Although the video shows her dancing on her own, my favourite Robyn song is different. So happily contributing to the vote splitting with this breakup (from the other side) banger Robyn, Call Your Girlfriend (2011,🇸🇪) (Think she passes the Poppy clause?)

#thetenx5 day 27 I’ve reached the songs with over 100,000,000 streams! In this case, at least 99 million of them must be from Scotland. This song reached no 50 in the UK charts, but the guy can fill Hampden and everyone knows all the words Gerry Cinnamon, Canter (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, 2019) NKC ❌ (8) (main path)

#thetenx5 day 26 (checked the hashtag 74 times before posting!) Is there a subject matter more perfectly pitched to this demographic? Here’s Sharon Van Etten reminiscing about how things used to be and what she’s lost and gained since Sharon Van Etten, Seventeen (2019, 🇺🇸)

#therenx5 HM5 Final interlude selection for an enormous Poppy clause fail - having started her career in the year Paul McCartney was born, it’s astonishing that Petula Clark was still performing in the 2010s! And it sounds good too Petula Clark, Cut Copy Me (2013, 🇬🇧)

#thetenx5 HM4 This was a big part of any 2010s European holiday. we were eating out in Nîmes one summer, the Tour de France were in town, and a marching band went by playing this song followed by all the students who work the TdF caravan dancing along. Joyous! Lucenzo, Danza Kuduro (2011, 🇫🇷/🇵🇹)

#thetenx5 HM3 Time to completely breach the Poppy clause, with good reason, for this cracking Spanish-Jamaican banger New to me in this music challenge. Really pleased to have hard it! Beatriz Luengo ft Shaggy & Toy Selectah, Luenga (2012, 🇪🇸🇯🇲🇲🇽)

#thetenx5 Hon Men 2 This is one that I’m just really annoyed I forgot about. In my defence, it’s timeless, so there’s no reason to specifically think of it as a 2010s song Black Pumas, Colors (2019, 🇺🇸)

#thetenx5 Hon mention 1 This would probably have been on my list if Arron had run this part of the project back in November/December but feels unseasonable now. Still a fun, jaunty ditty which has joined the playlist for our Christmas drives The X-Misses, She Gave Me Hell for Christmas (2018, 🇺🇸)

#thetenx5 day 25 Halfway! Christine & the Queens’ eponymous song - until he renamed himself after a Middlesbrough suburb (not sure how they’re treated for the purpose of counting points but it is basically the same song as Tilted) Christine, Christine and the Queens (2014, 🇫🇷)

#thetenx5 day 24 A bit of vote splitting here, bvt that’s fair enovgh as they had a few of abovt the same level - lovely crystalline voice and sovnd Spelling is annoying thovgh Chvrches, Recover (2013, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿)

#thetenx5 day 23 Another obvious Poppy fail, with a beautiful late career highlight from the original manufactured boy band. Some of their loveliest harmonies The Monkees, Me & Magdalena (2016, 🇺🇸) NKC ❌ (7) PC ❌ (2)

#thetenx5 day 22 Aware that I’m splitting the Katy B vote here, but do like this one. Assume people have ignored it because googling the title just takes you to self-help/medical advice. Anyway, lovely garageyballady banger Katy B, Crying For No Reason (2014, 🇬🇧)

#thetenx5 day 21 Yr unig bangyr Cymreig ar fy rhestr. Trist! (Added after some late realisation about release dates) Marina and the Diamonds, Hollywood! (2010, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿)

#thetenx5 day 20 Here’s Grinderman appropriating *all* the cultures No official video appears to be easily available so here’s a live performance from Ally Pally. It was during 2020 so Nick Cave is isolating from the rest of the band Grinderman, Palaces of Montezuma (2010, 🇦🇺) NKC ❌ (6)

#thetenx5 day 19 “I can taste the ocean on your skin That is where it all begins” REM’s career ended almost perfectly, I reckon REM, We All Go Back To Where We Belong (2011, 🇺🇸) NKC ❌ (6) PC ❌ (1)

#thetenx5 day 18 Time for an 11 point bonus! Frank Turner, Recovery (2013. 🇬🇧) NKC ❌ (5)

#thetenx5 day 17 Pulling some strands together, here’s a Vampire Weekend solo project that also appeared in FIFA 2016 Sadly no proper video Baio, Sister of Pearl (2015, 🇺🇸) NKC ❌ (3?)

#thetenx5 day 16 Time for some jazz, with a glorious instrumental that is somehow entirely clear about what it’s about Ibrahim Maalouf, True Sorry (2014, 🇱🇧🇫🇷)

#thetenx5 day 15 Gradually climbing the popularity charts with the finest ‘higher than a motherfucker’ chorus of the ‘10s FKA Twigs, Two Weeks (2014, 🇬🇧)

#thetenx5 day 14 One of the big things of the 10s for me was the increasing use of games to sell music This banger made Red Dead 2 a source of something better than just memories of falling off a horse and being shot by my son D’Angelo, Unshaken (2019, 🇺🇸)

#thetenx5 day 13 Sometimes songs get remixed into bangers while you’re in the middle of the shortlisting process (but to confirm the vote is for the 2010 original) Groove Armada, Paper Romance (2010, 🇬🇧) NKC ❌ (3 - possibly, Saint Saviour is on it but not clear she has a credit)

#thetenx5 day 12 Sometimes bangers are everywhere for 10 minutes then just disappear off the face of the earth Petite Meller, Baby Love (2015, 🇫🇷/🇮🇱)

#thetenx5 day 11 Sometimes bangers are even in English. And sometimes the lyrics matter too Killer Mike, Reagan (2012, 🇺🇸)

#thetenx5 day 10 Continuing with the bangers (mostly) not in English MACO, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Japanese version) (2013, 🇯🇵) Single? ❌ (3)

A banger not in English? She has loads

#thetenx5 day 9 So pleased to see this one pop up yesterday Video is a work of art Fucked Up, Queen of Hearts (2011, 🇨🇦)

#thetenx5 day 8 Getting the next one done straight away- Fado is far from my favourite genre, but sometimes a track just grabs you. This has a lovely sound to it (and so the purists probably don’t count it as fado) Ana Moura, Desfado (🇵🇹, 2012)