Pop Reigns Supreme in my 2019 Top 10 Year-End International Countdown

Pop music in all its different variations dominated my personal international chart for 2019.

Dance pop figured very strongly with dance stalwarts - Mark Ronson, Diplo and Robyn - ending the year strongly. Dua Lipa gets her very first year end #1 song as Electricity dominated most of my personal airplay early 2019 with the help from Silk City - who is actually Mark Ronson and Diplo working together.

Troye Sivan's Bloom album continued to chart more in 2019, with Lucky Strike and Heaven becoming his biggest hits for me this year. He also performed here in Manila this year, capping a great run for his pop masterpiece Bloom.

Classical pop led by Andrea Bocelli also returns to dominance in 2019 with his beautiful Si album producing two #1 songs this year. One of them lands in my year-end top 10.

The material I was listening to in Robyn's case was way back in 2010 but I only heard it this year due to my job of reviewing albums - and her song Stars 4 Ever ends in my top 10 this year.

Two songs from Mumford and Son's Delta album figured very well in 2019 - Woman and 42, both ending in my year-end top 10. Missing their show in Bangkok was a sad moment for me because I only learned of it belatedly. It would've been great to hear them play their new material.

BTS, Halsey and Shawn Mendes represent today's top pop artists in my year-end top 10, showing that I can still go for today's pop music.

Music veteran diva Kylie Minogue rounds off my year-end top 10 this year, with a song from her Golden album.

Here are my top 10 favorite songs by international artists in 2019 -

#1 Electricity

Dua Lipa / Silk City

#2 Lucky Strike

Troye Sivan

#3 Qualcosa piu dell'Oro

Andrea Bocelli

#4 Heaven

Troye Sivan

#5 Stars 4 Ever

Robyn

#6 42

Mumford and Sons

#7 Woman

Mumford and Sons

#8 If I Can't Have You

Shawn Mendes

#9 Boy With Luv

BTS / Halsey

#10 Every Little Part of Me

Kylie Minogue