Top 100 Songs Of 2008 «FRESH ›»

"Just read your article. You made "Bleeding Love" sound almost okay."

He took a sip of flat Coke. #55: "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis. His ex-girlfriend, Sam, had cried to this song the night she broke up with him. He remembered sitting on the curb outside her dorm, watching her silhouette in the window, Leona Lewis belting out the chorus from a laptop speaker. He had to close his eyes for a full minute. top 100 songs of 2008

He was twenty-two, a recent graduate with a degree in "Media Studies" and no job prospects. The only offer he had was from a dying blog called The Frequency . His assignment: write the definitive retrospective on the Billboard Top 100 songs of 2008. The pay was seventy-five dollars. The deadline was New Year’s Eve. "Just read your article

Finally, he reached #1. He already knew what it was. He'd known since he started. His ex-girlfriend, Sam, had cried to this song

It was December 2008, and Alex’s entire world had been reduced to a 160-gigabyte iPod Classic and a folding chair in the basement of his parents’ house.

He started typing.

His phone buzzed. A text from Sam, whom he hadn't spoken to in eight months.