Pandora's "Top Thumb Hundred" of 2018 & artists to watch in 2019
You’ve already seen Spotify’s and Apple Music’s 2018 year-end lists, and now Pandora‘s are here. As usual, they put out their annual “Top Thumb Hundred,” the list of the 100 most thumbed-up songs of the year. It was topped by Drake‘s “God’s Plan,” which was also the most streamed song of the year on Spotify and Apple Music. As you can probably predict, there’s plenty more Drake where that came from, and Cardi B, Post Malone and Migos also have multiple songs near the top of the list. The very controversial XXXTENTACION (who also made Spotify’s and Apple Music’s lists) and 6ix9ine (who also made Apple Music’s list) are here too. You can see the top 10 below and see the full Top Thumb Hundred (and hear it as a playlist) here.
Pandora also posted playlists of the top rock songs (including Weezer’s “Africa” cover), top hip hop songs, top R&B songs, top Latin songs, top dance/electronic songs, and top country songs. You can see the top 10s for all of those below too.
Lastly, the Pandora blog made lists of Artists to Watch in 2019, Country Artists to Watch in 2019, and Latin Artists to Watch in 2019. The non-genre-specific Artists to Watch list includes Brockhampton (who are already pretty massive and scored a No. 1 album this year), King Princess, Jade Bird, Empress Of, City Girls, and one that’s a little (pleasantly) surprising to see: rising blues artist J.S. Ondara (who just toured with Lindsey Buckingham). You can see that full list below too.
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Top Thumb Hundred
Drake “God’s Plan”
Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin “I Like It”
Post Malone “Psycho (ft. Ty Dolla $ign)”
Drake “Nice For What”
Drake “In My Feelings”
BlocBoy JB “Look Alive (ft. Drake)”
Migos “Walk It Talk It (ft. Drake)”
Queen Naija “Medicine”
Lil Baby & Drake “Yes Indeed”
Cardi B “Be Careful”
Top Rock songs
Bad Wolves “Zombie”
Imagine Dragons “Natural”
Godsmack “Bulletproof”
Weezer “Africa”
AJR “Burn the House Down”
Three Days Grace “The Mountain”
Five Finger Death Punch “Gone Away”
Five Finger Death Punch “Blue on Black”
Panic! At the Disco “Say Amen (Saturday Night)”
Billie Eilish “you should see me in a crown”
Top R&B songs
Khalid & Normani “Love Lies”
Khalid, 6LACK & Ty Dolla $ign “OTW”
TK Kravitz “Ocean (ft. Jacquees)”
The Weeknd “Call Out My Name”
Queen Naija “Medicine”
Jhene Aiko “Sativa “ft. Swae Lee)”
Drake & Michael Jackson “Don’t Matter to Me”
Miguel “Come Through and Chill (ft. J. Cole & Salaam Remi)”
Nicki Minaj “Bed (Ft. Ariana Grande)”
Ella Mai “Trip”
Top Latin songs
Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin “I Like It”
Nicky Jam & J Balvin “X”
Ozuna “La Modelo (ft. Cardi B)”
Daddy Yankee “Dura”
Darelle, Nicky Jam, Ozuna, Nio Garcia, Casper Magico & Bad Bunny “Te Bote (Remix) (ft. Darell, Nicky Jam & Ozuna)”
Ozuna & Romeo Santos “El Farsante (Remix)”
Reik “Me Niego (ft. Ozuna & Wisin)”
Ozuna, Mambo Kingz & DJ Luian “Solita (ft. Bad Bunny, Wisin & Almighty)”
Luis Fonsi & Demi Lovato “Echame La Culpa”
Chris Jeday, J Balvin & Ozuna “Ahora Dice (Real Hasta La Muere Remix) (ft. Cardi B, Offset, Anuel & Arcangel)”
Top Hip-Hop songs
Drake “God’s Plan”
Post Malone “Psycho (ft. Ty Dolla $ign)”
Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin “I Like It”
BlocBoy JB “Look Alive (ft. Drake)”
G-Eazy & Halsey “Him & I”
Migos “Walk It Talk It (ft. Drake)”
Drake “In My Feelings”
Post Malone “Better Now”
Lil Baby & Drake “Yes Indeed”
Tyga “Taste (ft. Offset)”
Top Dance/Electronic songs
Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey “The Middle”
Marshmello & Anne-Marie “FRIENDS”
Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa “One Kiss”
Tiesto “Jackie Chan (ft. Dzeko, Preme & Post Malone)”
Kygo “Remind Me to Forget (ft. Miguel)”
Marshmello & Bastille “Happier”
Clean Bandit “Solo (ft. Demi Lovato)”
Calvin Harris & Sam Smith “Promises”
Rudimental “These Days (ft. Jess Glynn, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)”
Silk City & Dua Lipa “Electricity (ft. Diplo & Mark Ronson)”
Top Country Songs
Jason Aldean “You Make It Easy”
Kane Brown “Heaven”
Chris Lane “Take Back Home Girl (ft. Tori Kelly)”
Thomas Rhett “Marry Me”
Cole Swindell “Break Up in the End”
Chris Stapleton “Millionaire”
Kenny Chesney “Get Along”
Dan + Sway “Tequlia”
Kane Brown “Lose It”
Jason Aldean “Drowns The Whiskey (ft. Miranda Lambert)”
Pandora’s Artists To Watch in 2019
Normani
City Girls
Alec Benjamin
Brockhampton
Yella Beezy
Flipp Dinero
Summer Walker
Gunna
Masego
King Princess
Mitchell Tenpenny
Young Nudy
Lele Pons
Jade Bird
Lauren Daigle
Monsta X
Ruel
Big Wild
Queen Naija
Bri Steves
Bulow
Empress Of
Rufus Du Sol
J.S. Ondara
Grandson
Shenseea
Tekno
