It is now time to look at the best of music in the year 2019!

I have tracked every single song I have listened to since January 1, 2019 at 12:00 a.m. until December 28, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. when I decided to put this list together. What follows is the ranking, by amount of playbacks, of each artist, song, and album that I listened to in the year 2019.

Just as the Billboard Hot 100 tracks the amount of plays on the radio of a song, the Halvy Hot 100 tracks the amount a song and artist has blasted through my headphones, car speakers, and in various studios at 1600 Utica while I got work done. You are not going to find a better list with better music on this planet.

Artists

Bring Me the Horizon
Shinedown
Shawn Mendes
5 Seconds of Summer
I Prevail
The Vamps
Halsey
Niall Horan
Post Malone
The Chainsmokers
Harry Styles
Eric Church
Badflower
Papa Roach
Linkin Park
Chris Hawkey
Nickelback
One Direction
Machine Gun Kelly
Bon Jovi
Eminem
Sixx:A.M.
Three Days Grace
Scott Stapp
REO Speedwagon
Foo Fighters
Staind
Asking Alexandria
Illenium
Logic
Creed
Louis Tomlinson
Seether
Why Don't We
311
Teddy Geiger
3 Doors Down
Ed Sheeran
Zayn
Billie Eilish
Blake Shelton
Falling in Reverse
John Grip
Snow Patrol
Bush
Mötley Crüe
Wrabel
Danny Worsnop
Goo Goo Dolls
Backstreet Boys
Chevelle
Cold Kingdom
Fleetwood Mac
Michael Shynes
Disturbed
Theory of a Deadman
The Weeknd
blink-182
Breaking Benjamin
Jonas Brothers
Pearl Jam
Rise Against
Chris Cornell
Mac Miller
Taylor Swift
The Driver Era
Andy Williams
Audioslave
X Ambassadors
30 Seconds to Mars
Britney Spears
Daughtry
Mike Posner
Puddle of Mudd
Starset
The Lumineers
Alok
John Denver
RL Grime
Yungblud
B.o.B
Five Finger Death Punch
Frank Sinatra
Jason Aldean
Jimmy Eat World
Lady Gaga
Luke Bryan
A Day to Remember
Avenged Sevenfold
Kulick
Nothing More
The 1975
Benny Blanco
Céline Dion
Cinderella
Dean Lewis
Hollywood Undead
Lauv
My Chemical Romance
Sia

Shinedown AND Shawn Mendes failed to make the No. 1 spot. Bring Me the Horizon is the Halvy's Hot 100 Artist Of The Year thanks to their killer new album amo which followed one of my favorite albums of all time That's The Spirit. I saw these guys at The Armory in February and it was a hell of a show. I hope they come back soon! Congrats to Oli and the guys!

Songs

Bring Me the Horizon - Medicine
I Prevail - Hurricane
The Vamps - Missing You
Bring Me the Horizon - In The Dark
Bring Me the Horizon - Mother Tongue
Halsey - Graveyard
I Prevail - Bow Down
Badflower - Promise Me
Shawn Mendes - If I Can't Have You
The Chainsmokers - Who Do You Love (with 5 Seconds of Summer)
Bring Me the Horizon - i don't know what to say
Bring Me the Horizon - Mantra
Bring Me the Horizon - Why You Gotta Kick Me When I'm Down?
Eric Church - Give Me Back My Hometown
Bring Me the Horizon - I Apologise If You Feel Something
Bring Me the Horizon - Nihilist Blues (feat. Grimes)
Shawn Mendes - Señorita
Bring Me the Horizon - Wonderful Life (feat. Dani Filth)
Halsey - Nightmare
I Prevail - Low
John Grip - Fire and Ice
Blake Shelton - God's Country
Bring Me the Horizon - ouch
Harry Styles - Lights Up
I Prevail - Rise Above It
Shawn Mendes - One of Those Nights
Bring Me the Horizon - Heavy Metal (feat. Rahzel)
Niall Horan - Nice To Meet Ya
Papa Roach - Come Around
The Vamps - What Your Father Says
Bring Me the Horizon - Drown - New
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
I Prevail - Let Me Be Sad
Illenium - Lost
Snow Patrol - Run
Halsey - Without Me - ILLENIUM Remix
5 Seconds of Summer - Teeth
Bring Me the Horizon - Fresh Bruises
Chris Hawkey - Set Free
Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar
I Prevail - Breaking Down
5 Seconds of Summer - Easier - Live from The Vault
I Prevail - Paranoid
Bring Me the Horizon - Go to Hell, for Heaven's Sake
Bring Me the Horizon - Shadow Moses
Bring Me the Horizon - sugar honey ice & tea
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain - 2004 Remaster
Post Malone - Over Now
5 Seconds of Summer - Intro - Live
Badflower - The Jester
Ed Sheeran - Cross Me (feat. Chance the Rapper & PnB Rock)
Post Malone - Die For Me (feat. Future & Halsey)
Post Malone - Take What You Want (feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Travis Scott)
The Vamps - Right Now
The Weeknd - Blinding Lights
5 Seconds of Summer - Babylon - Live
Bon Jovi - Blood On Blood
I Prevail - DOA
I PrevailI - Don't Belong Here
Post Malone - Allergic
Teddy Geiger - These Walls
The Vamps - What Your Father Says - Live At Sofar Sounds, London
5 Seconds of Summer - Easier
Bring Me the Horizon - Avalanche
Jonas Brothers - Burnin' Up
Shawn Mendes - Mercy
Shinedown - Get Up
The Driver Era - Preacher Man
311 - Crossfire
Alok - All The Lies (with Felix Jaehn & The Vamps)
Billie Eilish - when the party's over
Bring Me the Horizon - Deathbeds
I Prevail - Every Time You Leave
I Prevail - Gasoline
RL Grime - I Wanna Know
Scott Stapp - Purpose For Pain
Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better
Teddy Geiger - For You I Will (Confidence)
5 Seconds of Summer - Talk Fast - Live
Falling in Reverse - Losing My Life
Illenium - Good Things Fall Apart (with Jon Bellion)
Niall Horan - So Long feat. The RTÉ Concert Orchestra - Live
Post Malone - Goodbyes (feat. Young Thug)
Shawn Mendes - In My Blood
Shinedown - GET UP - Acoustic Version
Shinedown - If You Only Knew
Shinedown - Sound of Madness
Why Don't We - 8 Letters
X Ambassadors - Baptize Me
Yungblud - 11 Minutes (with Halsey feat. Travis Barker)
Kulick - Colors
Mike Posner - How It's Supposed to Be
Shinedown - Creatures
The Vamps - Cheater - Live From The O2 Arena
Why Don't We - What Am I
Benny Blanco - Eastside (with Halsey & Khalid)
blink-182 - I Really Wish I Hated You
Dean Lewis - Be Alright
Eric Church - Springsteen
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle

It's no surprise that the Artist Of The Year would win Song Of The Year. I obsessed over Medicine so much so you could say I overdosed! The lyrics combined with the pop-rock beat that didn't sound like anything I had heard before made this a near instant hit with me.

Albums/EPs

Bring Me the Horizon - amo
I Prevail - Trauma
5 Seconds of Summer - Meet You There Tour Live
Shinedown - ATTENTION ATTENTION
Shinedown - The Sound of Madness
Bring Me the Horizon - That's The Spirit
Post Malone - Hollywood's Bleeding
5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood
The Vamps - Missing You - EP
Niall Horan - Flicker Featuring The RTÉ Concert Orchestra (Live)
Badflower - OK, I'm Sick
Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal
Shawn Mendes - Shawn Mendes
Shinedown - Somewhere In The Stratosphere
Chris Hawkey - Set Free
Shinedown - Leave A Whisper
Shinedown - Threat to Survival
Eric Church - The Outsiders
The Vamps - Night & Day (Night Edition)
Niall Horan - Flicker (Deluxe)
The Vamps - Night & Day (Day Edition)
Shawn Mendes - Handwritten
One Direction - FOUR
Shinedown - Amaryllis
Shawn Mendes – Illuminate
Shawn Mendes - Live At Madison Square Garden
Teddy Geiger Underage Thinking
Shawn Mendes - MTV Unplugged
Shinedown - Us and Them
Papa Roach - Who Do You Trust?
Creed - Greatest Hits
Machine Gun Kelly - General Admission
Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys
The Vamps - Wake Up
Danny Worsnop - Shades Of Blue
The Chainsmokers - Memories...Do Not Open
The Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl
311 - Voyager
Illenium - Awake
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Harry Styles - Fine Lne
Linkin Park - One More Light
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Logic - The Incredible True Story
Three Days Grace - One-X
Eric Church - Chief
The Vamps - Meet The Vamps
5 Seconds of Summer - Sounds Good Feels Good
Eminem - Recovery
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Halsey - BADLANDS
Halsey - hopeless fountain kingdom
Jonas Brothers - A Little Bit Longer
Nickelback - The Long Road
The Driver Era - Preacher Man
Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
John Denver - The John Denver Collection, Vol. 1: Take Me Home Country Roads
Mac Miller - Best Day Ever
Nickelback - All The Right Reasons
Nickelback - Dark Horse
Nickelback - Feed The Machine
Papa Roach - Crooked Teeth
Scott Stapp - Purpose For Pain
Game Of Thrones - For The Throne (Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones)
Why Don't We - 8 Letters
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Eminem - Curtain Call
Jason Aldean - Night Train
Mike Posner - A Real Good Kid
Zayn - Mind of Mine
Audioslave - Audioslave
Daughtry - Daughtry
Harry Styles Harry Styles
Sixx:A.M. - Prayers for the Blessed
Staind - The Singles
The Chainsmokers - World War Joy...Takeaway
Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi Greatest Hits
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Michael Shynes - Hell to Pay
Scott Stapp - Face of the Sun
Staind - Chapter V
The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now
Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day
Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born Soundtrack
Lauv - There's No Way (feat. Julia Michaels)
Louis Tomlinson - Two of Us
Michael Shynes - Scars
Papa Roach - The Connection
Puddle of Mudd - Best Of
Scott Stapp - Name
Sixx:A.M. - Prayers For The Damned
The 4onthefloor - 4x4
Vitamin String Quartet - Strung Out On Shinedown: The String Quartet Tribute
Walking On Cars - Somebody Else
Whitney Houston - Whitney
Wrabel - love to love u
3 Doors Down - Away from the Sun
5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer
Cold Kingdom - A New Disaster

I knew it would either be amo or Trauma as I wore both albums out, start to finish, this year. I think I might enjoy I Prevail's Trauma a little more and I think it is worthy of the Grammy it is nominated for. However, it was amo that I played more so that album wins Album Of The Year and Bring Me the Horizon sweeps Halvy's Hot 100 of 2019!

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