The Best Songs of the 2010s

The 2010s ranked by beer score, from the festival EDM boom to the start of the streaming era.

Top 25 of 68 songs with at least 10 ratings. Ranked by average beer score on a 0 to 11 scale.

1. 1
   

   The Less I Know The Better

   Tame Impala

   That bassline carries the entire song and knows it.

   1.8beers51 ratings
2. 2
   

   Do I Wanna Know?

   Arctic Monkeys

   The slowest, most confident riff of the 2010s.

   2.4beers14 ratings
3. 3
   

   Pumped Up Kicks

   Foster The People

   The breeziest melody ever bolted to the darkest lyrics. Read them once.

   2.6beers43 ratings
4. 4
   

   Somebody That I Used to Know

   Gotye ft. Kimbra

   Kimbra's verse is why this went from good to inescapable.

   2.9beers50 ratings
5. 5
   

   HUMBLE.

   Kendrick Lamar

   Sit down. Be humble. Nobody sat down.

   3.1beers10 ratings
6. 6
   

   Can't Feel My Face

   The Weeknd

   A song about cocaine that radio played to children. Impressive.

   3.2beers11 ratings
7. 7
   

   Get Lucky

   Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams

   Nile Rodgers' guitar carried the entire summer of 2013.

   3.4beers67 ratings
8. 8
   

   Tennessee Whiskey

   Chris Stapleton

   Smoother than the whiskey. Zero beers required.

   3.6beers10 ratings
9. 9
   

   Blinding Lights

   The Weeknd

   The eighties pastiche that outstreamed every actual eighties song.

   3.6beers35 ratings
10. 10
    

    Locked Out of Heaven

    Bruno Mars

    The Police, but considerably happier about it.

    3.7beers10 ratings
11. 11
    

    Bad Guy

    Billie Eilish

    That bassline does more with less than anything else this century.

    3.9beers38 ratings
12. 12
    

    Royals

    Lorde

    A sixteen-year-old dismantled an entire genre of lyrics.

    4.0beers43 ratings
13. 13
    

    Sorry for Now

    Linkin Park

    The one nobody agrees on. Cast your beers.

    4.1beers27 ratings
14. 14
    

    Battle Symphony

    Linkin Park

    Later-era Linkin Park, for the ones who stuck around.

    4.2beers29 ratings
15. 15
    

    Rolling in the Deep

    Adele

    Adele at full power. The beer is superfluous but welcome.

    4.2beers41 ratings
16. 16
    

    Sweater Weather

    The Neighbourhood

    The definitive song of every teenage bedroom since 2013.

    4.2beers33 ratings
17. 17
    

    Halfway Right

    Linkin Park

    Sounds like a pop song right up until you read the lyrics.

    4.4beers25 ratings
18. 18
    

    Old Town Road

    Lil Nas X

    Country radio said no. The charts said nineteen weeks.

    4.5beers10 ratings
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    Sharp Edges

    Linkin Park

    An acoustic Linkin Park song. It really did happen.

    4.5beers16 ratings
20. 20
    

    Uptown Funk

    Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars

    Too hot. Called the police and the fireman. Still works.

    4.6beers77 ratings
21. 21
    

    N***** in Paris

    Jay-Z

    That beat switch. Every single time.

    4.6beers11 ratings
22. 22
    

    Diamonds

    Rihanna

    Sia wrote it in fourteen minutes. Rihanna made it eternal.

    4.7beers12 ratings
23. 23
    

    Happy

    Pharrell Williams

    Inescapable in 2014. Still genuinely difficult to dislike.

    4.7beers36 ratings
24. 24
    

    Someone You Loved

    Lewis Capaldi

    Devastating at zero beers. Do not attempt at seven.

    4.7beers31 ratings
25. 25
    

    Starboy

    The Weeknd

    Daft Punk again, this time with menace.

    5.0beers10 ratings