How the 2010s Pop Hits bracket works
Rank 2010s pop songs without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Uptown Funk or Shape of You? Happy or Somebody That I Used to Know? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 32 tracks in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 tracks in the field. The field is reshuffled on every play, so the same track can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Uptown Funk, Shape of You, Happy and Somebody That I Used to Know.
Uptown Funk
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars
Shape of You
Ed Sheeran
Happy
Pharrell Williams
Somebody That I Used to Know
Gotye
Despacito
Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee
Rolling in the Deep
Adele
Closer
The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey
Thinking Out Loud
Ed Sheeran
Old Town Road
Lil Nas X
Can't Stop the Feeling
Justin Timberlake
Chandelier
Sia
bad guy
Billie Eilish
Hello
Adele
Sorry
Justin Bieber
Sunflower
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Royals
Lorde
thank u, next
Ariana Grande
We Found Love
Rihanna
Call Me Maybe
Carly Rae Jepsen
Radioactive
Imagine Dragons
Stressed Out
Twenty One Pilots
Shallow
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Havana
Camila Cabello
Dance Monkey
Tones and I
Senorita
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello
Cheap Thrills
Sia
7 rings
Ariana Grande
Attention
Charlie Puth
Lean On
Major Lazer & DJ Snake
Darkside
Alan Walker
Thunder
Imagine Dragons
Love Yourself
Justin Bieber
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 12 completed 2010s Pop Hits brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Call Me Maybe
21W - 8L · won 2 brackets
72%
win rate
- 2
Uptown Funk
18W - 8L · won 2 brackets
69%
win rate
- 3
Despacito
24W - 11L
69%
win rate
- 4
Shape of You
18W - 9L · won 1 bracket
67%
win rate
- 5
Somebody That I Used to Know
18W - 11L · won 1 bracket
62%
win rate
- 6
Sunflower
18W - 11L · won 1 bracket
62%
win rate
- 7
Royals
15W - 11L
58%
win rate
- 8
Thinking Out Loud
12W - 9L · won 1 bracket
57%
win rate
- 9
Thunder
15W - 12L
56%
win rate
- 10
We Found Love
12W - 10L
55%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Go with the track you would rather hear right now — instant reaction beats a considered take.
- 2The default run puts all 32 tracks in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
2010s Pop Hits bracket FAQ
How many tracks are in the 2010s Pop Hits bracket?
The pool holds 32 tracks. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which tracks are included?
Uptown Funk, Shape of You, Happy, Somebody That I Used to Know, Despacito, Rolling in the Deep, Closer, Thinking Out Loud, Old Town Road, Can't Stop the Feeling, Chandelier and bad guy, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank 2010s pop songs take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and you can abandon a run at any point without losing anything.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other track grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two tracks that never met. If you would rather place the tracks into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the 2010s Pop Hits community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a track I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own tracks, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.