"Crying" moves toward the top

More that I listened to Nov. 7:
Aerosmith, "Crying", 1993. When I was going through listening to songs and trying to figure out how I was going to go about this project, there were a number of groups and individuals that I heard and really didn't remember how good they were. Aerosmith was one of those. "Crying" is great! Nobody screams out the lyrics as well as Stephen Tyler, the video on this is good as I recall. 250, may go higher.
On Nov. 8, I was listening to songs from the aughts on Sirius XM Channel 10.
Black Eyed Peas, "I Got a Feeling" from 2009. It's the "Tonight's going to be a good night" song. 3,600.
The Calling, "Wherever You Will Go". Not sure of the year. 4,100.
Snoop Dogg/Charlie, "Beautiful" from 2003. It's really more weird than beautiful. It's mixing rap with some kind of song. I'm just not sure why they do it. It's like taking decaf coffee and mixing it with regular coffee. What's the point? 4,600. I would have gone 4,500 for Snoop, but Charlie, I don't know about that dude.
Lil Wayne, "Go DJ" from 2004. 4,700. I had a thought that I really didn't know a lot about hip hop and rap music, what makes it good. I'm willing to have anybody who could write something to explain that, and include it with my work.
These songs are a top 30 list. Lance Bass is spinning the discs or hitting the play button or whatever it is radio personalities do these days. The latest was Nelly and Joheim (I think it's pronounced YO-hime) with "My Place". If I gave the other one 4,700 I can't see this one being any better than 4,750, and I think I'm going to be hearing a lot of the same kind of music and I might not be giving too many good grades.
Ryan Cabrera, "On the Way Down", from '04. I think he said it was number 15. 4,600. I'm also thinking I'm on a pace to have several thousand songs between 4,000 and 5,000 so naturally some of these lower numbers will be sliding up.
Alicia Keys, "Diary", says it's from '03, so maybe we're taking a break from the countdown. I can't imagine this being number 14 from any year. Dear Diary: If this is on Alicia' best-of album, she's not as good as I thought she is. Obviously, she can sing. She can play the piano. This particular song should come with a can of Red Bull to keep us awake. 4,800.
N.O.R.E./Nina Sky/Daddy Yankee and one or two others, "Oye Mi Canto", I think it's pronounced NOR-ee. 2004. It's partly in Spanish and partly in English, and I thought I heard an "arigato" in there, so maybe it's partly in Japanese too. It was lively, it had some energy, so it picked me up a little bit. I'd say it was better than the music I would hear in Panama when I was in the Army, so 4,650.
Avril Lavigne, "My Happy Ending", '04. It's got some energy. I don't think of Avril as particularly happy in some of her songs, but this one's pretty good. 3,800.
Akon, number 11, "Locked Up". I understand it's about an African-American man who's locked up in jail, maybe unjustly, which is a hot topic as I write this. But musically it's pretty monotonous. 4,720.
Before I forget, Philip told me the Pussycat Doll he sat next to on a plane was Nicole Scherzinger herself, who is THE Doll probably.
Trick Daddy and another couple of people, "Let's Go". It has the Ay-ay-ay thing in it, and it's got some energy. I'd rather see collaborations between people in the same kind of business than to hear a Trick Daddy/Justin Timberlake or Akon/Miley Cyrus collaboration. It makes no sense to me.