Underrated means undervaluing
something or not giving something the recognition it deserves. In the music
industry it is particularly difficult for new artists to make headway in the
mainstream as they have to compete with the already established and popular
artists. So when highly overrated artists spew album after album and single
after single backed by their record labels the smaller and lesser known artists
or the new ones find it almost impossible to gain ground in the music scene.
Pop culture is such however, that sometimes even the best of songs do not necessarily
get chart success. Some of these songs which do get radio airplay, counts for
almost nothing compared to physical and digital sales as well as streaming.
The following songs are the
inverse of overrated as I believe they should have performed much better than
they did on the global charts. Dua Lipa’s Hotter Than Hell tops the list as
although it was a minor hit, the song deserves much more when taking the
production as a whole. She has two songs
on the list as her follow-up single also failed to make any mark on the charts
although now she is a worldwide phenomenon and is one of the most sought after
artists to be featured. So here are the 20 most underrated songs of 2016:
- Dua Lipa – Hotter than hell
- Pitbull ft. Enrique Iglesias – Messin’ around
- Flo Rida – Zillionaire
- Tim McGraw – Humble and kind
- Thomas Rhett – Die a happy man
- Dua Lipa – Blow your mind (mwah)
- RedOne ft. Enrique Iglesias, R.City, Shaggy & Serayah – Don’t you need somebody
- Zedd ft. Kesha – True colors
- Hailee Steinfeld ft. DNCE – Rock bottom
- Bebe Rexha ft. Nicki Minaj – No broken hearts
- Years & Years – Worship
- Anne Marie – Alarm
- Troye Sivan – Youth
- OneRepublic
- Fifth Harmony – That’s my girl
- Selena Gomez – Kill em with kindness
- Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – I know what you did last summer
- Alan Walker – Sing me to sleep
- Zara Larsson
- Alessia Cara – Wild things
At Ease!!!
