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10. “Royals,” Lorde
09. “Cups,” Anna Kendrick
08. “Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy),” David Bowie
07. “We Can’t Stop,” Miley Cyrus
06. “Copy Me,” Petula Clark
05. “I Got a Boy,” Girls’ Generation
The nine-woman South Korean group Girls’ Generation is a ridiculously effective hook machine, and a major phenomenon in Asia, whose biggest pop acts make One Direction and Katy Perry sound like audience-alienating avant-gardists. If you like songs that do everything at once, go straight to YouTube and call up the over-the-top video for this monomaniacally charming hybrid of bubblegum, dubstep and hard rock, whose Korean lyrics are sprinkled with incongruous English phrases (“Ayo, stop, let me put it down another way”).
04. “Ohm,” Yo La Tengo
03. “Control,” Big Sean feat. Jay Electronica & Kendrick Lamar
02. “The Wire,” Haim
01. “Get Lucky,” Daft Punk