Top 10 Biggest Music Flops of the Decade

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Not every hit ages well… some were just plain bad. Welcome to WatchMojo, where we’re counting down the Top 10 worst songs of the last decade, from annoying earworms to critically panned tracks that fans couldn’t stand.  Which song do you think deserved to be on this list? Let us know in the comments!

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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the songs released between

00:102015 and 2025 that made us want to plug our ears.

00:2110. Shape of You – Ed Sheeran

00:24It's impossible to deny that English troubadour Sheeran is a jack-of-all-trades,

00:34a prolific hitmaker with an ear for what's hip and, most importantly, what's catchy.

00:40Well, unless you count his global smash hit, Shape of You.

00:43Girl, you know I want your love Your love was handmade for somebody like me

00:49Debuting at the very beginning of 2017, a time when Tropical House and dancehall music were ubiquitous,

00:56Shape of You wears its influences on its sleeve.

01:01Even cringier than Sheeran's attempt at making music for the club, the song's lyrics,

01:06which depict the singer-songwriter as a skeevy, hard-partying womanizer, a confounding,

01:13inauthentic departure from his carefully-cultivated boy-next-door image.

01:18Although my heart is falling too, I'm in love with your body

01:239. We Didn't Start the Fire – Fall Out Boy

01:28You can tell the Chicago pop-punks meant well. When putting together this reinterpretation of

01:40Billy Joel's 1989 iconic smash hit, Joel's original We Didn't Start the Fire rattled off a series of

01:47notable cultural events ranging from his birth year of 1949 to the song's debut in 1989.

01:54Megan, Michael, George Floyd, Birch, Khalifa, Metroid, Fermi, Paradox, Venus and Serena

02:01Fallout Boys, in comparison, picks up where Joel left off, listing developments starting in 1989

02:09until 2023. Although Billy Joel endorsed the cover and reiterated his lack of interest in making a sequel,

02:17it was lambasted by fans and critics alike, who took issue with the song's lack of tact,

02:23as well as a number of curious omissions. No, they didn't start the fire, but they definitely put

02:30it out.

02:378. Way Too Sexy – Drake featuring Future and Young Thug

02:42This is just one of those songs that leads you to wonder, what was everyone involved thinking?

02:55Based on a sample of Right Said Fred's grading number one hit, I'm Too Sexy, the three rappers' 2021

03:02update lacks the bravado needed to back up their claims.

03:13Everything about Way Too Sexy is annoying, from its vapid materialistic chorus to its cringeworthy

03:20verses in which Drake declares that he's way too sexy to go unprotected. Way Too Sexy finds its stars

03:27treading water, embodying many of the problems that are all too common in modern-day hip-hop,

03:33and failing to say anything new about having a lot of money in jewelry.

03:377. 7 Years – Lucas Graham

03:48Once I was seven years old, my mama told me, go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely.

03:56Folks, do you know what the worst thing about this sappy Hallmark card of a song is? The fact that

04:03Lucas Graham is a band and not someone's name. Time Magazine named Seven Years as one of the worst

04:11songs of 2016. Released in 2015, the song only made global waves the following year.

04:18It was a big, big world, but we thought we were bigger. Pushing each other to the limits,

04:25we were learning quicker. This schmaltzy, melodramatic ballad drones on and on.

04:31espousing tired platitudes about living life to the fullest. Said Time, good luck explaining the

04:38meteoric popularity of this chewy contemporary pop-rock ballad, which makes a listener yearn

04:45for the artistic integrity of a band like Maroon 5. Oof.

04:50Soon I'll be sixty years old, will I think the world is cold, or will I have a lot of children,

04:56who can warn me?

04:586. Thunder – Imagine Dragons

05:02Just a young girl, with a quick fuse, I was uptight, wanna let loose.

05:08Ironically, for a song thinking outside of the box and forging one's own path,

05:14Thunder is a safe, sterile, and almost entirely forgettable song that sounds like it was specifically

05:21engineered to be played at malls and dentists' offices. Well, maybe we should clarify, the only

05:28thing that prevents Thunder from slipping into relative obscurity is its repetitive, irritating

05:34refrain. While you could argue that Thunder's one redeeming quality is its positive message,

05:47it's hard to even totally grant it that, given its smug, generic lyrics. We hardly think all pop music

05:54music can be dismissed, but when a song as hollow as Thunder becomes a top 10 hit around the globe,

06:00you start to question things.

06:025. Earth – Little Dicky

06:11Look, we can argue about whether or not it's appropriate to trash a charity record,

06:22but it's hard to deny that Earth is less a song than a vague, hastily constructed sketch of one.

06:28Released just before Earth Day in 2019, the comedic rapper assembled a murderer's row of pop's biggest

06:36hitmakers, and made them deliver stale, vulgar jokes about animals.

06:41I'm a baboon, I'm like a man just less advanced and my innocence is huge.

06:48Tonally confused and utterly disposable, Earth's biggest crime might be that it's simply unfunny,

06:55with its generic, tropical beats a mere backdrop for head-scratching punchlines.

07:01The song's low point? That would be Dicky's verse, which almost makes us embarrassed to be humans.

07:09Like, let's all just chill, respect what we built, like look at the internet, it's crackin' as hell.

07:154. High Hopes – Panic at the Disco

07:25Oh, Brendon Urie, what happened?

07:28Panic at the Disco started off strong with witty, biting pop-punk tunes like

07:34I Write Sins Not Tragedies, pointing them on the map. With each successive album after their 2005 debut,

07:41A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, the band's members dropped like flies until 2015,

07:47when bassist Dalton Weeks' departure left singer Urie as Panic's only member.

07:53It hardly seems like a coincidence then, that the outfit began releasing its worst music from that

08:05point on, like the abominable High Hopes. A painfully uninspired self-help seminar set to

08:12what sounds like a beat that Imagine Dragons rejected. High Hopes isn't only bad, it's a bummer.

08:193. Marvin Gaye – Charlie Puth featuring Meghan Trainor

08:31Let's Marvin Gaye and get it on

08:35You got the healing that I want

08:37We generally agree with Taylor Swift's assessment that Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist. As an

08:44artist who writes, plays, and produces his own songs, his output in recent years has been impressively

08:51prolific and full of pop songs that sound like bonafide smash hits.

09:04Having said that, if you go back to his debut single, Marvin Gaye, you may be in awe of how far Puth has managed to come in the years since.

09:13Ostensibly intended as a playful pastiche of 50s doo-wop music, Marvin Gaye instead comes across as a bizarrely

09:22raunchy parody of its namesake's career. Did they really need to drag the soul great's name into this?

09:29We got this king sense to ourselves. Don't have to share with no one else.

09:372. I'm Good – Blue – David Guetta and Bebe Rexha

09:43I'm good, yeah, I'm feeling alright. Baby, I'mma have the best f***ing night of my life.

09:51Say what you will about a number of songs on our list today, but at least their creators tried to

09:57put something new out into the world. The same cannot be said of I'm Good, a dance-pop tune so

10:04creatively bankrupt that it's a barely-disguised remake of Eiffel 65's already kitschy, Blue Dab-A-D.

10:12At least the original told a compelling story about a blue guy who lives in a blue world.

10:25I'm Good rips the original melody to spin a devastatingly boring, unoriginal yarn about

10:31having a good night. It's not even clear what circumstances constitute a good night. It could

10:38refer to going to the club or knitting at home with grandma, which might actually be more fun

10:44than listening to this song.

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11:071. Dance Monkey – Tones and I

11:18The only positive thing we can think of to say about this song is that Tones came out of nowhere to

11:23deliver one of this century's biggest hits, becoming one of the most streamed songs ever.

11:30That's where the praise ends.

11:32Dance Monkey lays a legitimate claim to being one of the most annoying songs ever recorded,

11:42with Tones' shrieking wails giving way to an unfortunate earworm of a chorus. If nothing else,

11:49you can't say that Dance Monkey is forgettable, because everyone who hears it wishes they could

11:55forget it.

12:05Which songs on our list leave you wanting to smash the skip button?

12:09Are there any we missed? Be sure to let us know in the comments below.

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