Most Inspirational Songs of 2014

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When I compiled the list for inspirational songs for 2013, I believed that it was just a coincidence that there were so many inspirational songs during that year. However, now I believe that it is a trend for artists to come up with at least one motivational song in their albums. Although there were not so many inspirational songs during 2014 there were enough to compile a list. I think the reason for artists to come up with so many inspirational songs is due to the fact that there is a popular demand for such songs. During this hectic era, the younger generation can be heavily burdened with work, life and love and so to cater to the market wants and needs, artists come up with these songs. The songs are sometimes purely inspirational while others deal with motivation to handle breakups. The genres vary from Rap, Hip-Hop and Pop to Rock, EDM and Country. Eminem ft. Sia's Guts Over Fear featured in the film The Equalizer takes the crown with Taylor Swift's global smash hit Shake It Off at second followed by the X-Factor winner Ben Haenow's winning single Something I Need at third. Sia and Fall Out Boy are the only artists with two entries with the latter having both entries within the top 10. So here are the 25 most inspirational songs of 2014:

1. Eminem ft. Sia – Guts over fear
2. Taylor Swift – Shake it off
3. Ben Haenow – Something I need (Original by OneRepublic)
4. Idina Menzel – Let it go
5. Fall Out Boy – Immortals
6. The Script – Superheroes
7. Ella Henderson – Glow
8. Imagine Dragons – Warriors
9. OneRepublic – I lived
10. Fall Out Boy – Centuries
11. Sia – Chandelier
12. Colbie Caillat – Try
13. Nico & Vinz – Am I wrong
14. Avicii – The days
15. Foxes – Let go for tonight
16. Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne – Rather be
17. Carrie Underwood – Something in the water
18. Aloe Blacc – The man
19. Paramore – Ain’t it fun
20. Tinie Tempah ft. Ella Eyre – Someday (A place in the sun)
21. American Authors – Best day of my life
22. Lily Allen – Air balloon
23. Cheryl Cole – I don’t care
24. Union J – Tonight (We live forever)
25. Ariana Grande ft. Zedd – Break free

Till the next chord…

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Xposition - March 2014

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The much anticipated 86th Academy Awards was held on 2nd March at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The Best Original Score went to Steven Price for Gravity. The Best Original Song went to Let It Go from the Disney animated feature film Frozen, which also won the coveted Best Animated Feature Film. The song was written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. The song has gained much recognition for its sharp undertone of female empowerment. The song beat Happy from Despicable Me 2, The Moon Song from Her and Ordinary Love from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. The song is performed by Idina Menzel who performed the song at the ceremony which ended with a standing ovation. The song's critical acclaim earned it commercial success which brought it to the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at No.5. A mainstream cover of the song was released by Demi Lovato and also a popular Japanese version by Hyolyn.

The Ultra Music Festival kicked off on the last weekend with headline appearances by Afrojack, David Guetta, Armin van Buuren, Zedd, Hardwell, Tiesto and Krewella. A notable performance was by Deadmau5's remix of Martin Garrix's Animals with the old children's song Old McDonald Had a Farm.  There was major controversy with security arrangements as a security guard was diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage after being trampled by a crowd of people attempting to gate crash. The Mayor of Miami vehemently condemned the injury and the festival may move to a different location in 2015.

In the US Katy Perry's Dark Horse ran its final run at the top in the first week of March and the rest of the month was dominated by Pharrell Williams' Happy. In the UK too Happy returned to the No.1 spot for a week and was replaced by My Love by Route 94 ft. Jess Glynne. This is Jess Glynne's second number one as she also peaked in the UK for Rather Be with Clean Bandit. Tsunami (Jump) by DVBBS & Borgeous ft. Tinie Tempah claimed the top spot in the third week followed by I Got U by Duke Dumont ft. Jax Jones and She Looks So Perfect by 5 Seconds of Summer in the fourth and fifth weeks respectively. 

Some other good songs released in the UK and US were:

1. Aloe Blacc - The man
2. Tiesto - Red lights
3. Enrique Iglesias ft. Pitbull - I'm a freak
4. Coldplay - Magic
5. Flo Rida - How I feel
6. Foxes - Let go for tonight
7. Lily Allen - Air Balloon 
8. DJ Snake & Lil Jon - Turn down for what
9. Martin Garrix & Jay Hardway - Wizard
10. Little Mix - Word up!
11. Pixie Lott - Nasty 
12. Paloma Faith - Can't rely on you

Til the next beat…

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