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With three songs in the year-end top 10, 2013 was undeniably the year of Imagine Dragons on the Rock Songs Chart, with ‘Radioactive’ leading the pack. A fairly wide definition of “rock” allows The Lumineers to snatch the #2 spot, while breakout act Lorde lands at #3.

I don’t particularly consider Mumford & Sons‘ Babel to be a straight-up rock album but the re-emergence of folk-rock sees the British band top the year-end Rock Albums Chart. Even though it was released way back in 2011, Ed Sheeran‘s + album got a huge boost this year from his inclusion on Taylor Swift‘s Red World Tour, and the disc ends the year at #8.

With his celebration of rape culture, Robin Thicke leads the year-end Pop Songs Chart with ‘Blurred Lines.’ Let’s hope it is never heard from again in 2014. Taylor Swift‘s dub-step hit, ‘I Knew You Were Trouble,’ finishes at #3 and seems to cement her transition to pop artist.

Billboard 2013 Year-End Rock Songs Chart:
1. ‘Radioactive’ – Imagine Dragons
2. ‘Ho Hey’ – The Lumineers
3. ‘Royals’ – Lorde
4. ‘Safe and Sound’ – Capital Cities
5. ‘Sail’ – AWOLNATION
6. ‘It’s Time’ – Imagine Dragons
7. ‘My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ’em Up)’ – Fall Out Boy
8. ‘Demons’ – Imagine Dragons
9. ‘Home’ – Phillip Phillips
10. ‘Gone, Gone, Gone’ – Phillip Phillips

Billboard 2013 Rock Albums Chart:
1. Babel – Mumford & Sons
2. Night Visions – Imagine Dragons
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
4. The World from the Side of the Moon – Phillip Phillips
5. Some Nights – fun.
6. Rebel Soul – Kid Rock
7. The Great Gatsby: Music from Baz Lurhmann’s Film – Soundtrack
8. + – Ed Sheeran
9. My Head is an Animal – Of Monsters and Men
10. Born to Die – Lana Del Rey

Billboard 2013 Year-End Pop Songs Chart:
1. ‘Blurred Lines’ – Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. + Pharrell
2. ‘Locked Out of Heaven’ – Bruno Mars
3. ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ – Taylor Swift
4. ‘Can’t Hold Us’ – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Ray Dalton
5. ‘Clarity’ – Zedd Featuring Foxes
6. ‘Mirrors’ – Justin Timberlake
7. ‘Radioactive’ – Imagine Dragons
8. ‘Don’t You Worry Child’ – Swedish House Mafia Featuring John Martin
9. ‘Thrift Shop’ – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz
10. ‘Daylight’ – Maroon 5

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Liv is a career coach for creatives, and the people who work with them.
She holds several certificates from Berklee College of Music, and a certificate in Positive Psychology from UC Berkeley.
Her main influences are coffee, cats, and Alexander Hamilton.

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