2014 Year End Media Charts

Top Songs of 2014
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Depth of My Soul	Thievery Corporation (feat. Shana Halligan)	112
2	All of Me	John Legend	95
3	The Mother We Share	Chvrches	92
4	Pompeii	Bastille	90
5	Cruel World	Lana Del Rey	90
6	Somebody to You	The Vamps	83
7	Thrift Shop	Macklemore	81
8	These Days	Take That	81
9	Timber	Pitbull (feat. Ke$ha)	77
10	Not a Bad Thing	Justin Timberlake	76
11	Team	Lorde	74
12	My Silver Lining	First Aid Kit	70
13	Riptide	Vance Joy	67
14	Nobody Praying for Me	Seether	67
15	Claridad	Thievery Corporation (feat. Natalia Clavier)	65
16	Rollercoaster	Bleachers	64
17	Cool Kids	Echosmith	61
18	Recover	Chvrches	61
19	Rain Plans	Israel Nash	61
20	We Come Running	Youngblood Hawke	60
21	Air Balloon	Lily Allen	57
22	Bad Blood	Bastille	56
23	Atonement	Anberlin	55
24	Ultraviolence	Lana Del Rey	53
25	I Wanna Get Better	Bleachers	50
26	Hold Back the River	James Bay	49
27	Girls Chase Boys	Ingrid Michaelson	49
28	Cadillac, Cadillac	Train	48
29	Rather Be	Clean Bandit, Jess Glynne	46
30	Gunshot	Lykke Li	46
31	Ripple	Iamamiwhoami	45
32	Fever	The Black Keys	45
33	Bang Bang	Jessi J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj	44
34	Pseudologica Fantastica	Foster the People	44
35	Royals	Lorde	42
36	Shot at the Night	The Killers	41
37	Out of My League	Fitz and the Tantrums	41
38	Superstition	The Birthday Massacre	41
39	The Best Day of My Life	American Authors	40
40	Wings	Birdy	40
41	The Man	Aloe Blacc	40
42	Sad Girl	Lana Del Rey	39
43	In Time	The Black Keys	39
44	Stay With Me	Sam Smith	38
45	Chandelier	Sia	38
46	Fragments of Time	Daft Punk, Todd Edwards	38
47	Come a Little Closer	Cage the Elephant	36
48	Firelight	Thievery Corporation	35
49	Really Love	D'Angelo	35
50	Say Something	A Great Big World	33
2014
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	Saudade	Thievery Corporation	4.9
2	Ultraviolence	Lana Del Rey	4.5
3	Black Messiah	D'Angelo & the Vanguard	3.8
4	Random Access Memories	Daft Punk	3.6
5	True Blue	The Black Keys	3.5
6	The Heist	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	3.1
7	The Bones of What You Believe	Chvrches	2.8
8	Isolate and Medicate	Seether	2.8
9	Sheezus	Lily Allen	2.6
10	Strange Desire	Bleachers	2.4
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	The Goldfinch	Donna Tartt	2.7
2	Capital in the Twenty-first Century	Thomas Picketty	2.0
3	Annihilation	Jeff Vandermeer	1.8
4	Flash Boys	Michael Lewis	1.5
5	The Sixth Extinction	Elizabeth Kolbert	1.5
6	The Fault in Our Stars	John Green	1.4
7	Zodiac	Romina Russell	1.3
8	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	1.3
9	Unbroken	Lauren Hillenbrand	1.2
10	The Invention of Wings	Sue Monk Kidd	1.2
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	Interstellar		19.7
2	The Wolf of Wall Street		12.5
3	Whiplash		10.9
4	Boyhood		10.7
5	12 Years a Slave		10.5
6	Frozen		10.1
7	The Giver		7.3
8	The Imitation Game		8.0
9	Her		7.7
10	Pompeii		7.6

The Ice Queen

I can still hear her voice, clear as polished porcelain, whispering lullabies on a soft, silvery night.      

The moon revolves around a castle that’s perched above the green pastures of Kirkjufell.  Located in the heart of Iceland, there is no greater waterfall in all the world than this one.  This is where I met her, the love of my life.  Stringy cascades flare off the side of a bluff, like the way her hair would bend in the candlelight as she read stories to me about London under the stars.  A sharply pointed mountain salutes the sky above the falls, where Apollonian birds take flight on a runway of smooth, green soil.  On the eve of twilight, an undulating trail of neon begins to snake its way across the sky.  ‘Tis the Aurora Borealis, wild above the wilderness, blazing its way over the peak of a mountain, returning to the castle it once illuminated whenever her bright smile tried to outshine it. 

Her castle of ice is a monument of stability, standing tall in a landscape wrought by the ferocity of nature.  It stands the way her spirit did, on proud days when we flocked out on the tundra, impervious to frostbite and fragility.  Bjork’s music paints a blueprint of her face in the stars, a constellation of codes carved on a pagan scroll.  For a moment I can see her up there, casting holy coils of halos in the clouds, drifting over the Earth like the Pequod over the white whale’s ocean.  Something in the sky bursts.  The angel’s cloud releases tiny white flakes of the purest fractal form, falling to the land as slowly as flakes of feathers, coming to rest on the terraces of the palace, where her flesh once nested on pillows as light as her grace.