Most Overplayed Songs of 2017

The Top Ten
1 Shape of You - Ed Sheeran

One time I was in the car with my sister and I was generous enough to let her control the radio and she turned on a pop station and this was on. I put up with it until it was over. Or so I thought, because she changes to another pop station and guess what atrocity was playing? Yep, Shape of You. I put up with this unbearable song for another about 3 or 4 minutes, and then I rested knowing it was over. Or so I thought again, because she changes the station again and guess what song is playing again? Shape of You. I've made a vow since that day to never let my sister control the radio again.

For any of you who listen to 98.1 CHFI or Kiss 92.5, have you ever listened to a song one of those two radio stations and then when you change the station, you hear that exact same song THERE? It happened to me, but not with this song, thank GOD!
First of all, let me start by saying that I really DON'T like Ed Sheeran. I don't like Shape Of You, but I also really hate Perfect too. Both of those songs came out the same year, in my opinion, one of the worst years in regards to music. I don't like music from 2014-2020 (I'm writing this in 2020 by the way), because I really don't like most of the artists who made music that time.
Back to the song. It played so MUCH! I'd hear this song every single day in 2017, 2018, 2019 and now, during COVID-19, it's annoying. Let me use Senorita by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello for example. Once, I was just listening to 98.1 CHFI, usually, I just skim through radio stations to see if there is anything I might want to listen to, and GUESS what ...more

This song is horrendous. Why? Some people complain about the subject matter. Unless it's handled in a mature way, the lyricist has failed. Not to mention, it's one of the more annoying pop tunes I've heard. Especially the singing and "humming." This song is, simply put, trash. Don't support Ed Sheeran. He's not a good song writer. You should only support song writers who write something that is well-put together. And a predictable, annoying, boring pop tune fails in every way, shape, and form.

I HATE Ed Sheeran's songs. Every. Last. One. Of. Them. (I have a special hate for "Thinking Out Loud.") He clearly has zero talent, each song consists of repeating the same words over and over and over again. It's 2018 but I really felt the need to hate on the worst pop musician.

@JBDBIB_Baerman I feel exactly the same way you do. This song is just annoying. I wholeheartedly agree the song is trash, the lyrics suck, and he's an awful song writer. You probably won't see this comment anyway, but have you heard of The Score? It's a two-man indie band that's severely underrated. Their music is full of true meaning and passion you won't find with most "artists" - and I use that term loosely with Sheeran - highly recommend The Score. My favorites are Tightrope, Where Do You Run, and Legend. Go listen to them, you won't regret it.

2 Despacito - Luis Fonsi

To be fair, this song wasn't intended for kids to listen to, they just heard all the older people were, but even they don't know what it means. The song itself is innocent unless you look up the english translation. Bieber did ruin though 100%. Not to be racist at all but he is the stereotypical spoiled little white boy dirtbag, and can't pull of the romantic latino vibe. It just wasn't intended for people like him.

Why was this song as huge as it was? Seriously, I have never understood. Was it because of Justin Bieber (I would not be surprised)? Was it because of how upbeat it was in such a dower year? Was it because we needed a song to compete with "Shape of You" (which is also a very overplayed song)? I do not know. All I know is that I do not want to hear this song again and if I do, I will want to throw up.

Some crazy thing happened to me

I was listening to the radio, and Despacito played.

3 songs later, Despacito played.

2 songs later, Despacito played.

3 songs later, Despacito played.

After the ads, Despacito played.

A song later, Despacito played.

WHAT THE HECK?

It stereotypes Latino/Latina as sex addicts, it's annoying, and every single teenage girl at my school was practically in love with it and I don't see why? It was alright when Justin wasn't on this song, but it gets worse every time I hear it.

3 Look What You Made Me Do - Taylor Swift

I feel as thought Taylor Swifts music career as gone from Okay to Cringe to Hey Everyone I'm Trying Way To Hard To Make Music So Can You Please Buy My Music No Okay I'll Go I've Over Stayed My Welcome In The Music Industry. But the song Look What You Made Me do is complete trash I don't like this song if you can even count this as a song its more of a first degree murder to my ears. So I do think this song has over stayed its welcome and should be forbidden to all.

Yes yes yes I know Taylor Swift has an enormous fanbase and her previous songs were nice but definitely not the entire album of reputation. I am personally a fan of her but I definitely don't like this. I mean, you don't like a song just because who sang it without considering how good it actually is.

Guys don't forget we all love a song about revenge over a generic GarageBand drum beat which doesn't show any progression whatsoever!

Finally! I can talk about how awful this song is! The beat makes my ears bleed, and it makes me want to get a hammer out and smash the radio

4 That's What I Like - Bruno Mars

First time I heard this song was in my school's Talent Show. I thought, "Hey, this song is great."
Then, as they kept playing, on and on and on, I actually started to dislike it. The good thing is I didn't hear it at all in 2019 or 2020

I still find it hard to believe that this won Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards. RIP music. We will all miss you. And let's not forget how overplayed this was last year.

Sad 24K Magic is not on the list, because then I'll vote for it. But this is the second most OVERPLAYED tune which actually sucks, same as 24K Magic.

This was good the first few times, but it has quickly become annoying and played every 10 minuites on the radio...

5 Strip that Down - Liam Payne

It's catchy in an awful way. The kind of catchy where you just wish you had never heard it, but yet still listen to it because it's stuck in your head. It's a better version of shape of you, but Liam Payne is a below average and boring singer at best and his voice is obviously so heavily computerized, taking any human qualities out.

Whoops wrong song. My phone acted up and made me say this song was "Not too bad". NOPE. I loathe this song. It's talentless autotuned garbage.

My parody of this song:
Whenever I hear this awful song it really really annoys me
Yeah yeah
Because it's talentless autotuned trash, just end my life in 1, 2, 3
So, get a noose, loop it round my neck, hang me in a tree!

I HATE THIS SONG

It stole the bass from "Why You Always Hatin," I don't know if it was with permission but every time it comes on I get excited and then I realizes what it is

I love this song

6 Havana - Camila Cabello

This should be number 1, not 6. Besides, Camila is one of the worst female singers in history, who sounds like a 5 year old with a bad cold when she sings

The song is repetitive and terrible. And Young Thug's verse sounds like a grandpa slurring his speech.

7 Body Like a Back Road - Sam Hunt

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Everyone says this song is AMAZING.

This honestly deserves #1 on the list because it's obnoxious and has no creativity whatsoever.

This is a bad influence to drivers if you're listening to the radio in the car. Really?
"Driving with my eyes closed"
"Doing 15 in a 30"

Ugh! The absolute worst of the worst! I'd rather hear shape of you 10 times in a row than this!

The beat sounds like a preschool song's beat. Obnoxious sexual song with no talent.

8 What About Us - P!NK

I literally cannot go on a single car ride without hearing this song. Yesterday it was on 95.5 AND 97.3 at the SAME TIME, and before 97.3 was done playing the song, it came on 97.9. That's 3 times within 5 minutes! Also it was on 101.5 abut ten minutes earlier during the same car ride! I bet everything I have that this song is playing somewhere as I write this. When I ride shotgun I usually change the station the instant I hear this song playing but my dad loves it for some reason. The message is good and all but this is just another one of those songs that have been constantly played for WEEKS but I can't understand why. Please vote this up!
(Written November 17, 2017)

Get this above Despacito please. Despacito was huge for only a few months and then almost completely faded away after that. On the other hand, I still hear this song twice in as little as 10 minutes even 10+ months after its release, sometimes even more than The Middle.

9 Closer - The Chainsmokers

It was a great song at first but than lost interest because of the amount of times it is played.

I actually kind of like it but I have to admit it's incredibly overplayed. Like seriously.

Just overrated. End of story. It had its time being cool but just overrated and overplayed now

Yes, it's overplayed. That's not a bad thing though. Hearing Halsey makes my day.

10 Mi Gente - J Balvin

Most overplayed song on the radio right now apart from that P! nk song. While What About Us isn't bad, just horrifically overplayed, THIS on the other hand is garbage with a capital G. That annoying beat that sounds like a dying goat on autotune, yet playing every hour on car radio.

The Contenders
11 Stay - Zedd & Alessia Cara

I loved this song when it came out, but overplay caused me to stop loving it and move on. Even Despacito hasn't grown old yet for me, unlike this one.

Look to your left, then look to your right, your "friends" love all of this crap, and are the reason the rest of us are constantly tortured by crap.

Used to love this song, hated it when it played 4 times on the radio in one hour- like, seriously?

Great at first but gets annoying over time. Now it is deleted from my music list. Period!

12 Believer - Imagine Dragons

I used to like this song when it first came out, but it's gotten a bit boring nowadays.

ESPN plays it going into every break during each football game...bleah! Want to scream!

It's amazing like Imagine Dragons is.

13 Something Just Like This - The Chainsmokers & Coldplay

I honestly love this song still. I think it's amazing. Yeah, they could play it on the radio less but overall I love this song.

I heard this in a hotel bar... Wait that's not right. I heard this in a store and I wanted to run out of the store it was so bad

It's beautiful. I wish more songs were something just like this masterpiece.

Roses with another synthesiser. No way you couldn't escape this at the peak of it's release.

14 I'm the One - DJ Khaled

Not only is it overplayed, but it is overrated. Why? The first time I listened to it, was because my friend forced me to. After that, I barely survived. I did not want to EVER hear this garbage, AGAIN. Unfortunately, it played on the radio OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Also, it played on my math teacher's phone when she provided music for us while we were working.

When Justin Bieber is the best part of your song, you know you've got a problem.

Auto tune is out of control in one part. everywhere else is in a different form of cringeworthy

15 Little Do You Know - Annie Leblanc and Hayden Summerall

This is not overplayed. People obviously don't know the meaning of overplayed and overrated. This song is not overplayed. It deserves to be number one on this list! People, just listen to it!

Annie and Hayden are awesome singers. This is a great song with perfect harmonies and the story line is so cool in the video. I keep playing this song over and over again. #Hannie #BESTSONGEVER!

A great song...The lyrics was awesome...Music was so romantic and should be in top three!

I didn't even know this was a real thing, it's probably not played.

16 Everyday - Ariana Grande

I actually like this song. The beat is catchy, she sounds good in the song as always, and I like Future's parts even though pretty much all he says throughout the song is everyday.

Am I the only one, who actually likes this song?

This song is catchy and awesome.

17 I Don't Wanna Live Forever - Zayn & Taylor Swift

Not only is this a bad song (0.5/5), it also fares terribly against overplay. The beat is, surprise, flat nothing. This song's overplay makes sense. After all, if you're going to get two names as big as Zayn Malik and Taylor Swift, who would've thought iHeartRadio would put this in their top fifteen while this song was getting shoved back on the charts along with other hits that should've stayed in the wintertime (think Bad And Boujee).

First time I heard this song, and discovered how atrocious it is, I will never ever think of hearing this ever, first thing I know it's on, I change the station immediately, that's how much I hate this song. Everything about it I hate, my least favorite song of the year, and possibly for my life.

Well, who WOULD want to live forever after hearing this song, much less making it?

This song is so overplayed that I'm starting to get sick of it!

18 Ex's & Oh's - Elle King

Still plays twice every hour, somtimes even more than Despacito. This list didn't SAY it HAD to be realesed in 2017. It still drives me crazy!

This garbage is from 2014, and yet it still gets airplay all the damn time.

19 Love So Soft - Kelly Clarkson

Of course, this song doesn't get played that often anymore because everyone except Kelly Clarkson fangirls who like anything with her name on it got sick of hearing this song. But back in October and November 2017, you couldn't go anywhere or watch Nick Music for more than 10 minutes without hearing this song. Which is kind of strange because this is by far the worst song in Kelly Clarkson's discography. First, I thought this song was okay. Then I thought it was bad. Then I thought it was garbage. My faith in her as a singer was severely shaken after listening to this garbage. - 12/12/2017
At least it did not win the Grammy it was somehow nominated for.

Hey, Kelly Clarkson, you are not innovative. Pop soul has been done by Amy Winehouse and Adele in 2007-2008. And that is at least a class above anything Kelly Clarkson sings.

I used to kind of like this song, but it was overplayed and then it just got boring.

The worst song of 2017

20 Paris - The Chainsmokers

This is a good song with meaning and it has an amazing beat! 10/10.

Ever thought "Closer" is trash? Maybe you've never heard this song

Even though the year is in its beginning, car radio has been really overplaying these

This song is just plain bad, it's a song about comparing ugly parents to the city paris

21 Chained to the Rhythm - Katy Perry

Turn it up, it's your LEAST favourite song! Jump out of a window and die yeah because no one likes this song!

Katy perry is trash! This song is actually more tolerable than most of her older songs.

Never heard it on the radio, but even if I did, I wouldn't really mind it.

22 Thunder - Imagine Dragons

It's an awesome song. Shame they didn't use it for Thor: Ragnarok, it would've gone well with the movie.

23 Issues - Julia Michaels

I hated this song anyway but after 100th time its impossible to listen to...

I didn't really like this song, in fact I found it to be kind of boring.

24 Bodak Yellow - Cardi B

This song is repetitive on every Hip Hop/R&B radio station. "Let Me Love You" is 10 times better than this song (in my opinion).
This song is annoying and so repetitive.
When my bus took me and my brother back home...then...this song has come on again!
Ugh, why are they playing this song too much? So... I think "Let Me Love You" is just 10 times better for me.

This song is annoying, they got me singing the damn lyrics, shyyt.

25 There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back - Shawn Mendes

Yep, I heard this way too many time back in the day.

This is also one of the worst songs I've ever heard

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