So far I think “Uptown Funk”, “Blinding Lights”, and “Old Town Road”. That doesn’t mean I love those songs. It means I think they answer the question. I know you may love “Irony x3” by Zigbones. But they ain’t it.

Edit: I’m sorry for the poorly worded question. I think it’s autism related, but I don’t see possibilities or alternative understandings easily, and when I wrote “decade” I thought 10 years and that was it.

Of course anyone answering from the perspective of 2010-2020 was making a perfectly reasonable and rational answer and I was very dismissive. I’m really sorry for that.

  • SnokenKeekaGuard ( SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
    19·
    3 years ago

    Nothing too niche or topical. Has to have some sort of timeless quality, meaningful lyrics and emotional resonance. Not a “fad” genre, a sea shantey won’t do (yes its centuries of tradition but in it’s old form it isn’t mainstream). Cultural impact which means it will moat likely be from your mainstream artists, taylor swift, kanye west, maybe billie eilish gets there. I also think it’s probably going to be more women defining an era of music than ever before.

    Added advantages, either something that was early in a musical tradition or helped it peak, we’ve seen this with classics in the moat recent big genre, rap.

    As for the tiktok songs. We don’t know how internet virality affects the legacy of these songs. A lot of the earbugs are shallow short bits. I’m going to ignore those, otherwise I think some of the smarter songs will maybe be appreciated a little while later too.

    So my list:

    • Royals by lorde
    • Rolling in the deep by adele
    • Runaway by Kanye
    • Sign of the times by harry styles
    • Hotline Bling by drake, i’m 50/50 on this one
    • All Too Well/ Blank Space by Taylor Swift
    • Alright by Kendrick Lamar
    • Formation by Beyonce
    • Teenage Dream by Katy Perry
    • Chandlier by Sia
    • Uptown Funk Mark Ronson 50/50
    • Let It Happen by Tame Impala
    • Nights by Frank Ocean

    I think a couple of these are pre 2014 tho. But are within the last 15 for sure.

  • CanadaPlus ( CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
    7·
    3 years ago

    I remember an article that used (Spotify?) play trends to project this, and at the time they thought Pompeii by Bastille would be the one with longevity, while a few other hit songs by big names would be forgotten. I can’t find it now.

    IIRC the basic idea was that genuinely memorable songs peak less hard and only fade very slowly, while trendy songs crash as everyone moves on to the next shiny thing marketers put out.

  • pH3ra ( pH3ra@lemmy.ml ) 
    7·
    3 years ago

    I’m not really in tune with nowadays music, but I think Rag’n’Bone Man’s Human goes in there automatically, it’s in every playlist.
    I guess we’ll have to put Imagine Dragons in there somehow, I think both Believer and Bones are a good fit.

  • TheFriar ( TheFriar@lemm.ee ) 
    5·
    3 years ago

    Jesus I hope uptown funk wouldn’t be considered a classic of the era.

    Radiohead, Fiona apple, lcd soundsystem, the roots…there are a lot of great jams from truly timeless bands and artists that I think will ultimately hold up better than the pop megahits.

  • dinomug ( miguel@lemmy.ml ) 
    2·
    3 years ago

    Any music of any genre other than reggaeton and trap. Their “hit songs” rarely manage to survive more than 5 years in the collective thought of the masses, then they become “background noise” in nightclubs, supermarkets, squares and other meeting places, overshadowed by the disposable “hit of the moment”.

    • limeaide ( limeaide@lemmy.ml ) 
      1·
      3 years ago

      You must not be outside then

      In the communities where this music is popular, there are definitely a lot of classic songs coming out that aren’t just background noise, and they actually turn up the clubs.

      To people outside of these communities it might seem like they only survive 5 years, but if you’re inside you’ll recognize patterns in songs that keep coming up and that people listen to the most. That’s what really makes them classics, not just random people on Lemmy deeming them as such.

      Bad bunny, El Alfa, Tokischa, Chucky73, RaiwAlejandro, and Daddy Yankee have all been relasing songs that the community will remember for a long time and deem classics. Reggaeton is going through a second, smaller, golden age and it will be remembered.

      Your comment sounds a bit racist ngl

      • dinomug ( miguel@lemmy.ml ) 
        1·
        3 years ago

        I’m Latin American, I grew up in this, it’s part of my culture, that’s why I know where all this is going (about musical genres). I’m not an “outsider”.

        Your comment sounds a bit racist ngl

        You have no idea what you’re talking about, right?

    • pH3ra ( pH3ra@lemmy.ml ) 
      6·
      3 years ago

      As an avid Gorillaz listener, I don’t think they have put out what we would define “a commercial hit” in the past decade, at least not at the same level of the singles from the first two albums.
      That said, I love the collaborations they did with Thundercat and Stevie Nicks in the last record, it should deserve way more recognition than what it had