The Worst Songs To Top The Charts

[dx1997]

What song do you absolutely hate, cannot understand why it became as big as it did, and why it ended up on the charts?

Here's a list from Blender as food for thought:

http://www.blender.com/guide/66629/run-for-your-life-it146s-50-worst-songs-ever.html

Man, that Color Me Badd song, oh, that brought back memories.

 

[Zeddemore]

Barbie Girl.

 

[EHME]

Man, that Color Me Badd song, oh, that brought back memories.

That song was awesome, fuck you.

 

[BUTT]

I'm not reading that crappy Blender list again but dear God was it some stupid shit. Their criteria for listing "I'd Do Anything For Love" was DURR ALBUMS CAN'T HAVE SEQUELS and they also said some crap about "The Final Countdown" having a fascist drumbeat or something like that. Oh, and "We Built This City" is awesome, F.U. if ya disagree.


The worst song ever to top the charts was "Butterfly" by Crazy Town.

 

[OG]

I Wanna Sex You Up is a kick ass song. The whole New Jack City soundtrack is great.

 

[EHME]

I'm not reading that crappy Blender list again but dear God was it some stupid shit. Their criteria for listing "I'd Do Anything For Love" was DURR ALBUMS CAN'T HAVE SEQUELS and they also said some crap about "The Final Countdown" having a fascist drumbeat or something like that. Oh, and "We Built This City" is awesome, F.U. if ya disagree.

"Make Em Say Ughhhh" was fucking awesome as well.

 

[Gary]

I thought they stopped making Blender.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

I thought they stopped making Blender.

Blender magazine is a shit rag. I remember them giving an ICP album, I believe 3 out of 4, so something like that. They gave it a great review when it first came out. I believe it was The Amazing Jeckel Brothers. Later that year they were calling it th worst album of the year. I just find it stupid for anyone to give a great review to something, and then call it the worst of the year later on. (This is not a debate on if the album was good, or if you like ICP).

And fuck them, The Sound of Silence is awesome, especially Nevermore's cover. We Didn't Start the Fire is a great song. This list is horrible.

 

[Psycho Penguin]

Was "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent a #1 song? If not, BUTTerfly it is!

Actually, I like a majority of the songs on this list. My musical taste is very unique.

 

[KOAB]

Man, that Color Me Badd song, oh, that brought back memories.

That song was awesome, fuck you.

I'm gonna sex you up?

 

[KOAB]

Oh shit they hate on BROKEN WINGS??!!

Whoever came up with this can eat a big old fat dick.

 

[Kinetic]

What the hell is Blender anyway? I think of it as being kind of a cross between Metal Edge and Maxim. Like Metal Edge if it were written by by the residents of your nearest college town's Phi Beta Kappa fraternity house.

Anyway, I always believed that "One Week" was the worst Top 40 single of my lifetime, but hondabro69 makes an intriguing case for "Butterfly."

 

[Gary]

Blender was created by the folks behind Maxim, only they added faux Pitchfork style writing to their scheme.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

AWESOME!
MEAT LOAF
“I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” 1993
UNCLE KRACKER
“Follow Me” 2000
BILLY JOEL
“We Didn’t Start the Fire” 1989
REDNEX - Swedish Hillbillies FTW
“Cotton Eye Joe” 1995
CRASH TEST DUMMIES
“Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” 1994
EUROPE
“The Final Countdown” 1987
FIVE FOR FIGHTING
“Superman” 2000
SPIN DOCTORS
“Two Princes” 1992
MR. MISTER
“Broken Wings” 1985

*Runs for Cover*

 

[Czech]

"Butterfly" wasn't really that bad. No, it wasn't GOOD, but in spite of being some sort of white-guy hybrid-rap thing, it's never really offended my musical sensibilities the way offerings from Limp Bizkit or Greatest Band Of The Decade Linkin Park have. Given that it samples the Red Hot Chili Peppers before they became irretrievably awful, it can't be the worst thing in the world. Since this is specifically the worst songs to top the charts and not just a catch-all "shitty Top 40 songs" thread, I checked to see if "With Arms Wide Open," a contemporary of this song, made the #1. It did. There's at least one that's worse.

"Two Princes" is too vanilla to be the worst anything. I already had this general argument a few months ago with now-fellow administrator dubq, regarding the hits of Hootie and the Blowfish.

I don't remember "Superman" by Five For Fighting, but I remember the band being kinda agreeable and vanilla as well. Let's check. FAKE EDIT: Oh man, mea culpa. I remember this one. This is pretty bad. Faux-artsy overwrought crap that sounds like the bastard child of Dave Matthews and Train. Blarrrggh.

I was at a wedding last night and almost got roped into--as it were--dancing to "Cotton-Eyed Joe" by Rednex. The fact that almost every wedding reception ostensibly requires this song is probably the #2 reason that I'm never getting married, one spot ahead of "no girl worth marrying would marry me," incidentally.

 

[BUTT]

You liked "Butterfly" when you were 14, didn't you.

 

[KOAB]

"Butterfly" wasn't really that bad. No, it wasn't GOOD, but in spite of being some sort of white-guy hybrid-rap thing, it's never really offended my musical sensibilities the way offerings from Limp Bizkit or Greatest Band Of The Decade Linkin Park have.

holy crap you suck

 

[Czech]

13, and I just sorta liked it. I resented that it unseated "The Bad Touch (eiffel-65 mix)" from the nightly countdown.

 

[BUTT]

No really it's terrible. There's no excuse for having any opinion otherwise.

 

[Czech]

Wanted to make sure I got that for posterity.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Did "Crank That" by Souljah Boy reach number 1? Because everything he does solidifies my hatred of hip hop after the post-Death Row.

 

[pbone]

Move along

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Nope. No Orglazms. I actually do want to know, because that song is the bane of my existence. Moreso than anything Tool, Radiohead, ICP, or any emo band has ever been.

 

[dx1997]

It hit #4 in the Top 100, and #1 on the top hip hop charts.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Nope. No Orglazms. I actually do want to know, because that song is the bane of my existence. Moreso than anything Tool, Radiohead, ICP, or any emo band has ever been.

Congrats on getting all worked up over a dumb fun dance song made by a 16 year old.

 

[BUTT]

I always thought Laz was something of a Juggalo.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I don't remember "Superman" by Five For Fighting, but I remember the band being kinda agreeable and vanilla as well. Let's check. FAKE EDIT: Oh man, mea culpa. I remember this one. This is pretty bad. Faux-artsy overwrought crap that sounds like the bastard child of Dave Matthews and Train. Blarrrggh.

I blame 9/11 for that song being huge. I remember I saw the video once on VH1 sometime in the Summer of '01 and thought nothing of it other than "Well, that sucked." Then after 9/11, the top song was everywhere and I hated that bastard (as far as I can tell---I think Five For Fighting is just one dude ala Nine Inch Nails. Maybe dude was trying to one up Ben Folds Five?) as much as I hated the terrorists. Not to mention it totally stole the shine of Live's unintentional 9/11 power ballad*.



*Hey, I was 12 and stupid

I don't think Laz is a juggalo. I think maybe he was one of the many smarks of the early '00s who hated the music but liked the smarky wrestling tapes with "insider" commentary.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

I can't believe some of the songs you guys are defending.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Congrats to KK. Was never a Juggalo, just a fan of the JCW tapes for the commentary. They've proven they can be funny (their stint in TNA was one of the few bright spots during Mantel's original reign of terror), but their music is awful, and their fans are even worse.

And Byron, try listening to that song about 9 or 10 times a day for weeks on end. Then tell me to not get worked up over it.

 

[Smues]

Crank Dat SoulJa Boy is indeed awful. When browsing the charts to jog my memory I noticed that Hey There Delilah topped the charts for a couple of weeks. That certainly qualifies as a worst #1 contender. I'll make it a 2007 triple threat and throw out Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston as well.