Most Overrated Mainstream Artists of 2010

The mainstream has sold out. Remember about 5 or 10 years ago when it was awesome? Such a sad time for music..
The Top Ten
1 Justin Bieber Justin Drew Bieber (born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer. He currently resides in Ontario, Canada and is Christian. He is the son of author Pattie Mallette. ...read more.

Although many people may be jealous of his fame (Of course, who the hell isn't? ) But, let's be honest... No way can this guy achieve millions of views without trashy backing, because he's talentless compared to others

He will fade out soon just like new kids on the block, backstreet boys, nsync, Debbie Gibson, Aaron carter, spice girls, Leif garrot,and many other untalanted artists who use their looks to get exposure

worst singer ever! lack of talent, he ain't likable, his voice is terrible and he looks like a girl

another horrible artist made for the retarded 14 years old gilrs to act like crazies

Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Eminem, Katy Perry, New Boyz, Black Eyed Peas, Owl City, Usher, Jason Derulo, Coldplay, and 30 Seconds to Mars are all awesome. And the fact that they're on this list is just stupid.

2 Lil Wayne/Young Money

Worst artist EVER, and who the HELL voted Eminem for this list? Eminem is a real rapper, not this Young Money crap.

This one is just too easy. Wayne used to be good and then who knows what happened.

Nicki Minaj is the absolute worst ever

By far the worst artist. Extremely stereotypical.

3 Ke$ha Kesha Rose Sebert (formerly known as Ke$ha) was born on March 1st, 1987 in Los Angeles, United States. She is best known for her hits like Timber, Tik Tok, and We R Who We R. Kesha is an animal rights activist and she works for H.S.I. (Humane Society International). Kesha also stands up for L.G.B.T. rights in America

Just don't get how people like this with no talent and who are unattractive keep getting this famous. Its like people don't know about music existing that isn't on the radio.

"maybe I need some rehab or maybe I need some sleep. " what the heck is she drunk

Crazy teenage druggie trying to make music. Never seen that one before...

4 Lady Gaga Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

On the start of her career, she performed at an event called the Lollapalooza Festival during 2007 whereby a record label company Interscope found her due to her performance being “amusing” to watch. Since Interscope found her, she was a mastermind behind her songs with a team of producers namely Rob Fusari and RedOne. Most of her songs were deep unreleased cuts, due to her having more than 30 songs and 17 were picked. ...read more.

Songs are terrible alright. Looks are even terrifying... Can't even see a music video of her at all! :( Horrendous!

She's not terrible but she's had way too many hits.

What is so great about this freakasaurus?

5 Katy Perry Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, professionally known by her stage name Katy Perry, was born on October 25, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California. She is a singer, songwriter, actress and an ambassador on one of the most popular companies of now, UNICEF.

She is also is one of the best-selling artists of all time. She won 4 Guinness World Records, 5 MTV Awards, 5 American Music Awards, 16'ASCAP Pop Music Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards, 14 People's Choice, 1 Juno Award, 2 Myx Music Awards, 3 NRJ Awards, 6 Teen Choice and a Brit Award. ...read more.

California girls
Teenage dream
Firework
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Last friday night
All of the singles from her album went number one I just have one question why? Who listens to these songs? Whats wrong with people?

Lyrics are terrible, songs generally sound the same. Not sure where all the hype came for her.

6 Eminem Eminem, born Marshall Bruce Mathers III, is an American rapper, actor and music producer born on October 17, 1972 in St. Joseph, Missouri. Eminem has sold over 300 million records making him the bestselling hip-hop artist of all time. In addition to his solo career, he is a member of D12 and (with Royce da 5'9") half of the hip-hop duo Bad Meets Evil. Rolling Stone ranked him 83rd on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, calling him the King of Hip Hop. Including his work with D12 and Bad Meets Evil, Eminem has had ten number-one albums on the Billboard 200 and 5 number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and 13 worldwide.

Oh my god! Are people blind these days? Eminem should be number 1 or 2! For Justin Bieber's case... Really? He is famous for nothing and nobody cares about that idiot! He's no singer he's a celebutaunt! In Lil Wayne's case he deserves to be in the top 2 between him and Eminem. Kesha is just a computer with autotune who can't sing to save her life!... So is she really an artist if she can't sing? I'm no Lady Gaga fan but she is not as bad as anybody on this list. She should be way down in the end! At least she play piano! For Katy Perry can stay where she is since it's true that's she is really really overrated! Now for you Eminem, your music sucks ever since that greatest hits disk you released! Your only still famous because of these stans of yours. Really, recovery and relapse are some of the worst disks I have heard in a really long time! It's time to hang it, you were once good but you sold out!, say give that friend of yours ROYCE 5'9" a chance to be in the spotlight because ...more

7 Soulja Boy DeAndre Cortez Way (born July 28, 1990), known professionally as Soulja Boy Tell 'Em or simply Soulja Boy, is an American rapper and record producer. In September 2007, his debut single "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" peaked at number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The single was initially self-published to the internet, and later became a number-one hit in the United States for seven non-consecutive weeks starting in September 2007. On August 17, Way was listed at number 18 on the Forbes list of Hip-Hop Cash Kings of 2010 for earning $7 million that year.

Aparently the lyrics to that youu song are "watch me crank that watch me roll" But to me it sounds like "why me crack that why me row"

HORRENDOUS - words can't describe his awful lyrics and "rapping" skills.

So glad he no longer makes music.

8 Rihanna Robyn Rihanna Fenty is a Barbadian-American pop singer. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, she first entered the music industry by recording demo tapes under the direction of record producer Evan Rogers in 2003. She ultimately signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for its then-president, hip-hop producer and rapper Jay Z.

Always hated her since 2005 when she debuted. Beyonce can kick her ass. She should be at least in the top 5 or 10. Her song with Drake was just god-awful. Drake is about as awful as she is.

Rihanna always was trash and still is - No talent No voice No bearable lyrics - typical product of show-biz

Her whiny voice and strage antics need to stop. Her music sucks

Hoe-rrible! Can't sing, can't dance, can't write songs, thanks for her she has a body...

9 One Direction One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) were a British-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and previously, Zayn Malik until his departure from the band on 25 March 2015. The group signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after forming and finishing third in the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international success by social media, One Direction's four albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home, Midnight Memories and Four topped charts in most major markets, and generated hit singles including "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young", and ...read more.

I absolutely cannot stand how girls fangirl over them. They would be better as a matter of fact, if they weren't so overrated. But because of the fact that every girl wants to marry them, I see no interest in them, just another ordinary pop boy band with ordinary guys. Their songs aren't any other different from other mainstream artists.

10 New Boyz

It's not dancing at all. In fact it looks pretty rediculous. Why is the new thing in the hip hop world dressing like an emo kid?

People who "jerk" are people who have no other way of getting noticed. Please stop

The Contenders
11 Taylor Swift Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Swift is best known for writing personal songs and has won 13 Grammy Awards... read more

She is a grown up with a 10 year olds mind. Her songs are kiddy and her talent is all but ordinary. She brands herself as sweet and innocent, when in fact she has a low level of talent and the most annoying voice a girl could have. Songs are crap and isn't even country any more!

12 Black Eyed Peas The Black Eyed Peas is an American hip hop group, consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo, and singer Fergie.

Black Eyed Peas were awesome before their third album, Elephunk, with Fergie joining and all of that garbage.

Come on guys. Drop the autotune

13 Owl City Owl City is an American Synthpop/Electronica project created in 2007 in Owatonna, Minnesota; it is the most successful of several projects by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Adam Young.

Like what? All of his songs sound the same and most of his songs have meaningless and random lyrics that make no sense at all...
Apparently some fireflies taught him how to dance and he was sad when they left. Shows how big a loser he is...

Agreed, but the postal service doesn't have to use auto-tune

Rip off of the postal service

14 Nicki Minaj Onika Tanya Maraj, known professionally as Nicki Minaj (born December 8, 1982) is a Trinidadian/American rapper / pop music artist. Minaj is most known for her songs such as "Anaconda", "Super Bass", "Starships" and her feature on "Bang Bang". Despite her controversial songs, Brent Staples from "The New York Times" claimed her to be 'the most influential female rapper of all time', presumably distinctive for her fast flow and her use of alter egos with Cockney accent. She has endorsed Adidas, MAC Cosmetics and Pepsi. Minaj has received ten Grammy-nominations throughout her career, and has won multiple awards including the Billboard's Women in Music 2011 Rising Star award.

Talentless, overly-autotuned, annoying voices, etc. Her little 'multiple voices' are impossible to hear without having your ears bleed. Somehow this trashy so-calle "rapper" is actually liked.

15 Slipknot Slipknot is an American metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa in 1996. The band is best known as one of the pioneers of the New Wave of American Alternative Metal during the late 1990s - 2000s and are distinguishable by the band's clothing choices, consisting of black/red jumpsuits and horror inspired masks. ...read more.
16 Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold is an American heavy metal band, that was formed 1999 in California. Their longest lineup of members was M. Shadows (Vocals), Synyster Gates (Lead Guitar), Zacky Vengeance (Rhythm Guitar), Johnny Christ (Bass Guitar), and The Rev (Drums).

Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan (Drums), their most notable drummer, passed away in 2009, being temporarily replaced by Mike Portnoy, who was replaced by Arin Ilejay, who was finally replaced with Brooks Wackerman. A common phrase for fans "foREVer" was created after the Rev's death in his remembrance. ...read more.

The weird thing is, they were actually pretty good before they hit the mainstream.

Synester Gates's solos are nothing special at all and Matt Shadows voice is very painful to listen too

Probably because the only member with above average talent died

R.I.P Rev, Your band will forever suck without you

This band is pretty boring. Fast crappy generic metalcore sound. A terrible singer. This is the pop, the boy-band of metal. There's also the overrated part; Rev A.K. A (for many blinded a7x fans) the best drummer ever (dafuq? ). Synester Gates the best guitarrist ever? They are one of the most overrated bands of this generation. No doubt about that for me

Ever since they hit the mainstream they just have sucked. They used to be pretty good.
They have to be missin the rev not only because he was a great friend of theirs but also because he was by far the most talented

17 LMFAO LMFAO was an American hip hop-electronic dance music duo consisting of uncle and nephew Redfoo and SkyBlu.
18 Nickelback Nickelback is a Canadian post-grunge band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta, Canada. The band is composed of guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger, and drummer Daniel Adair.

So generic, so crappy, worst band ever conceived. Since when is it OK to play the same power chords in almost every song? Oh and Chad Kroeger sounds like someone is chocking a pig who smokes too much with vuvuzelas. I hate this band with such an intense hatred

Every single song is filled with nothing but one syllable rhymes and the same things said over and over. His voice is annoying as Hell. The only song I can remotely stand is Hero from Spider-Man.

19 Miley Cyrus Miley Ray Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus), known professionally as Miley Cyrus, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was born on November 23, 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, to Tish Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus. Her voice type is Mezzo-Soprano and spans 4 octaves... read more

the worst singer I ever herd and she is stupid. Also she is still on disney channel

20 30 Seconds to Mars Thirty Seconds to Mars (commonly stylized as 30 Seconds to Mars) is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998. The band currently consists of brothers Jared and Shannon Leto.

I love these guys their songs are pretty good especially "The Kill" and "Beautiful Lie"

21 Jason Derulo Jason Joel Desrouleaux, better known by his stage name Jason Derulo (an alternate spelling of his surname), is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. He is best known for his singles such as "Whatcha Say", "Ridin' Solo", "In My Head", "What If", "Wiggle", "Talk Dirty", "Trumpets" and "Want To Want ...read more.
22 Pitbull Armando Christian Pérez, better known by his stage name Pitbull, is a Grammy (and Latin Grammy) winning Cuban-American rapper, songwriter and record producer.

This guy is so bad and who put Jay Z and Eminem here? They're awesome!

23 Drake Aubrey Drake Graham, known professionally as Drake, is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor, born on October 24, 1986 in Toronto, Canada. He started his career on Canadian reality show "Degrassi: The Next Generation".
24 PSY Park Jae-sang, better known by his stage name Psy, stylized PSY, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, record producer and rapper.
25 Carrie Underwood Carrie Marie Underwood is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol, in 2005. Her debut album, Some Hearts, was released in 2005.
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