For those of you still getting your music the old-fashioned way, Pandora is a pioneering internet radio platform that boasts some 250 million active listeners, with 76.5 million in the US alone, who represent over 9 percent of all radio listening in the US.
What makes the service unique is that it lets you teach it what to play by giving songs a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down”, and the company recently announced that users have voted with their thumbs an incredible 50 billion times since the service launched.
That’s a pretty staggering number. In fact, according to BuzzFeed, that’s the equivalent of seven thumbs for every person on Earth. This leads us to the obvious question: who’s received the most thumbs up? Well BuzzFeed did the legwork of requesting Pandora’s top ten most liked tracks.
The results, for all intents and purposes, are about as basic as you could possibly get. Looking down the list, they’re more or less what you’d find on the iPod of your out-of-touch uncle or aunt, or alternatively, your little sibling who doesn’t know about good music yet.
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Kicking off the list is ‘How To Save A Life’ by The Fray, who were the mid-2000s answer to Five for Fighting, but with less staying power. They’re followed by Adele and our boy Gotye, who may be the list’s only redeeming entries.
From there, the list zig-zags between inoffensive, to downright corny, with entries from OneRepublic (‘Counting Stars’), Maroon 5 (‘She Will Be Loved’), and the Goo Goo Dolls (‘Iris’). After that easy-listening best-of, we venture into some saccharine R&B with ‘Let Me Love You’ by Mario.
Third place is awarded to Imagine Dragons with ‘Radioactive’, which was only considered a better ‘Rock Performance’ than Jack White and Queens of the Stone Age’s singles by members of the Grammy committee, who are known for their stellar taste.
This is followed by Drake’s ‘The Motto’, which is single-handedly responsible for the scourge that is “YOLO”. The top spot was taken out by Journey and their karaoke staple ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’, which was introduced to a new generation thanks to the irritating TV series Glee.
