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  • Throughout the Decade

    2010

    • Ke$ha’s song “Tik Tok” was the number one song of the year.
    • Haiti earthquake
    • Taylor Swift jousted with Kanye West and was nominated for 4 Grammys.
    • Justin Bieber’s “shaggy hair” was in trend.
    • Good Luck Charlie aired its first show.

    2011

    • Beginning of the Syrian civil war.
    • Hurricane Irene strikes the East Coast of the United States killing 47 citizens and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.
    • NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon.

    2012

    • The End of the World rumor came out, putting people in a large amount of panic.
    • The Avengers movie first came out, bringing popular comic book characters to life and fans going wild.
    • The Endeavour Space Shuttle was brought to Los Angeles after having taken its final flight in the month of September.
    • Dumb Ways to Die was introduced as a public service announcement for Metro Railroad Safety and rose itself to the top.

    2013

    • Miley Cyrus releases her Wrecking Ball, turning her good image into a naughty one.
    • Frozen became the most popular movie of the year.
    • Playstation 4 is released by Sony while the Xbox One is released by Microsoft.
    • Avicii released hit song “Wake Me Up”.

    2014

    • Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Disappearance.
    • Ebola Virus Breakout.
    • Sochi Winter Olympics.
    • Beloved actor and comedian, Robin Williams passes away.
    • Ellen’s Epic Oscar’s Selfie.

    2015

    • Same sex marriage is legal!
    • The death of BB King .
    • The blue/black vs gold/white dress debacle .
    • The debut of the Hotline Bling music video.
    • NASA confirms the presence of water on Mars.

    2016

    • Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential Election.
    • Beyonce releases Lemonade.
    • Harambe was killed at the Cincinatti Zoo and his name was entered into the 2016 Presidential Election.
    • Lil Uzi Vert becomes popular with his release of Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World.

    2017

    • Donald Trump officially became the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017.
    • Las Vegas had a mass shooting at an outdoor music festival along the Vegas strip.
    • Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria hit southern United States.
    • North Korea launches 23 different missiles in 16 different tests within a couple months.
    • For the first time in 99 years on August 21, a solar eclipse crossed the US from coast to coast.

    2018

    • Winter Olympics in South Korea.
    • Stoneman Douglas Shooting.
    • Stephen Hawkings died.
    • Tide Pod challenge banned on YouTube.
    • Beyonce becomes first black female to headline.

    2019

    • The world-famous Instagram egg beat Kylie Jenner in having the most liked Instagram photo.
    • Lori Lauglin was caught in a college admission scandal, where she paid to get her kids into prestigious colleges.
    • Greta Thunberg inspired the world with her climate-change activism.
    • Pop artists Camilla Cabello and Shawn Mendes get together.
    • Rumors about an Area 51 raid took the internet by storm.

     

  • Artists of the Decade

    As we prepare for the end of 2019, and the end of the decade, numbers were released from Spotify, a music streaming platform, showing which artists, songs albums listeners streamed the most during the past 10 years. The most streamed artist was, of course, Drake, followed by Ed Sheeran, Post Malone, Ariana Grande, and Eminem. Since 2010, Drake has released nearly an 18 track album each year, not count counting singles and features. His album Scorpion gained 745.9 million U.S streams and the first week it was released. Within the decade he has gotten over 28 Billion streams on Spotify. For over a decade he has had a dominant presence in the music industry, which helped him become one of the most influential people this decade.

  • Movies of the Decade

    The year has finally come to an end, also bringing the decade to an end. Within these 10 years, there have been many films which have most certainly left quite an impression on us. Here is a list of 10 films which have made it to the top throughout the past ten years.

    • 2010 Despicable Me
    • 2011 Captain America: The First Avenger
    • 2012 The Hunger Games
    • 2013 Frozen
    • 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy
    • 2015 Jurassic World
    • 2016 Moana
    • 2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    • 2018 Avengers: Infinity War
    • 2019 Avengers: Endgame