Playlist Research - Top Pop Hit Songs of 2008

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2008

Top Pop Songs of 2008
by Alex Cosper

LEONA LEWIS - Bleeding Love
CHRIS BROWN - Forever
KID ROCK - All Summer Long
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD - Pocket Full of Sunshine
NE-YO - Closer
RIHANNA - Take a Bow
FLO RIDA featuring T-PAIN - Low
KATY PERRY - I Kissed a Girl
SARA BAREILLES - Love Song
CHRIS BROWN - With You
ALICIA KEYS - No One
METRO STATION - Shake It
LIL WAYNE featuring STATIC MAJOR - Lollipop
CHRIS BROWN featuring T. PAIN - Kiss Kiss
COLDPLAY - Viva La Vida
RIHANNA - Don't Stop The Music
TIMBALAND featuring ONE REPUBLIC - Apologize
JESSE McCARTNEY - Leavin'
COLBIE CAILLAT - Bubbly
T.I. - Whatever You Like
RIHANNA - Disturbia
LEONA LEWIS - Better In Time
TAYLOR SWIFT - Teardrops On My Guitar
MARIAH CAREY - Touch My Body
USHER featuring YOUNG JEEZY - Love In This Club
PINK - So What
JASON MRAZ - I'm Yours
FERGIE - Clumsy
ALICIA KEYS - Like You'll Never See Me Again
SEAN KINGSTON - Take You There
SNOOP DOGG - Sensual Seduction
RAY J & YUNG BERG - Sexy Can I
BUCKCHERRY - Sorry
JORDIN SPARKS duet with CHRIS BROWN - No Air
3 DOORS DOWN - It's Not My Time
FINGER ELEVEN - Paralyzer
NE-YO - Miss Independent
DAUGHTRY - Feels Like Tonight
KANYE WEST featuring T-PAIN - Good Life
KARDINAL OFFISHALL featuring AKON - Dangerous
ONE REPUBLIC - Stop and Stare
LINKIN PARK - Shadow of the Day
LIFEHOUSE - Whatever It Takes
JORDIN SPARKS - Tattoo
PLIES featuring NE-YO - Bust It Baby Part 2
DANITY KANE - Damaged
MADONNA featuring JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - 4 Minutes
GAVIN ROSSDALE - Love Remains the Same
GAVIN DeGRAW - In Love With a Girl
COLBY CAILLAT - Realize
WEBBIE featuring LIL' Boosie - Independent
THE DREAM - I Luv Your Girl
LIL WAYNE featuring T-PAIN - Got Money
SAVING ABEL - Addicted
COLBY O'DONIS featuring AKON - What You Got
J. HOLIDAY - Suffocate
DAVID BANNER featuring CHRIS BROWN - Get Like Me
THREE DAYS GRACE - Never Too Late
RIHANNA faturing NE-YO - Hate That I Love You
KEYSHIA COLE - I Remember
T. PAIN featuring LIL WAYNE - Can't Believe It
KEYSHIA COLE - Heaven Sent
MILEY CYRUS - See You Again
JORDIN SPARKS - One Step at a Time
MARY J. BLIGE - Just Fine
DAVID COOK - The Time of My Life
JOHN MAYER - Say
JAY-Z featuring PHARRELL - I Know
SEETHER - Rise Above This
PUDDLE OF MUDD - Psycho
LIL WAYNE - A Milli
PLIES featuring AKON - Hypnotized
THREE 6 MAFIA featuring PROJECT PAT, YOUNG D & SUPERPOWER
2 PISTOLS featuring T-PAIN & TAY DIZM - She Got It
TREY SONGZ - Can't Help But Wait
JAZMINE SULLIVAN - Need U Bad
KATY PERRY - Hot N Cold
PINK - Who Knew
INGRID MICHAELSON - The Way I Am
JACK JOHNSON - If I Had Eyes
SECONDHAND SERENADE - Fall For You
RICK ROSS featuring T-PAIN - The Boss
DAUGHTRY - Over You
FLO RIDA featuring will.i.am - In The Ayer
SANTANA featuring CHAD KROEGER - Into the Night
MAROON 5 - Won't Go Home Without You
SECONDHAND SERENADE - Fall For You
DAUGHTRY - What About Now
KANYE WEST featuring DWELE - Flashing Lights
JENNIFER HUDSON - Spotlight
LIL WAYNE featuring BOBBY VALENTINO & KIDD KIDD - Mrs. Officer
MARIO - Crying Out For Me
ESTELLE featuring KANYE WEST - American Boy
DISTURBED - Inside Fire
SEETHER - Fake It
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
LUPE FIASCO featuring MATTHEW SANTOS - Superstar
MARVIN SAPP - Never Would Have Made It
T.I. featuring RIHANNA - Live Your Life
MATT NATHANSON - Come On Get Higher

Music Industry Downturn of 2008
by Alex Cosper, Feb. 2, 2010

The music industry continued to suffer declines in CD sales throughout 2008, according to the RIAA. The international organization that represents and tracks major labels, the IFPI, reported that over 40 billion songs were illegally shared online in 2008 and that 95% of all downloads violated International Copyright Law. The study also showed that over half of college students have been involved with the illegal downloading of music (article: The Generation That Killed Rock 'n' Roll, by Nathan Harden, Huffington Post, Feb. 1, 2010).