Most songs the crowd agrees on. As we covered in what makes a song divisive, a true 50/50 split isn't the sound of a forgettable song — it's the sound of two groups feeling strongly in opposite directions. Here are the five tracks sitting closest to the knife's edge right now, ranked by how near they are to a dead heat.
1. Roar — Katy Perry
The numbers: 53% slap across 640 votes — about as close to a coin flip as the site gets.
An empowerment anthem so successful it became inescapable, and Roar pays the overexposure tax in full. The people who found it genuinely rousing are dug in; the people who heard it in every commercial for a year are equally dug in. Six hundred votes and it still won't drift off the center line — that stubbornness is the mark of real division, not indifference.
2. Sorry — Justin Bieber
The numbers: 47% slap across 640 votes — the only track here the crowd tips slightly against.
Sorry is a genuinely well-built pop record, which is what makes the split so telling: this isn't a quality verdict, it's a referendum on the artist and the saturation. The tropical-house hook is a love-it-or-leave-it proposition, and right now the leavers have a hair's-edge majority. Watch this one — a few hundred more votes could flip the sign.
3. Closer — The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey
The numbers: 54% slap across 700 votes — the most-voted track in the divisive five.
The defining sound of a specific summer, for better and worse. Closer has the highest turnout of any track here, and it still can't escape the middle — 700 people weighed in and the room's essentially split. That's the signature of a song fused to a moment: you either remember that moment fondly or you're tired of being reminded.
4. Cheap Thrills — Sia
The numbers: 56% slap across 640 votes — edging toward consensus, but not there yet.
Sia's voice is the whole story here. It's one of the most distinctive instruments in pop, and distinctive is precisely what divides a crowd — the timbre that one listener finds thrilling is the one another can't get past. Cheap Thrills is slowly winning the room, but the holdouts aren't going quietly.
5. Despacito — Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee
The numbers: 58% slap across 900 votes — the least divisive of the five, and it took the most votes to get there.
A global juggernaut, and juggernauts breed backlash. Despacito is climbing out of the divisive zone on sheer volume — 900 votes is the biggest sample here — but the fact that a song this successful still can't clear 60% tells you how much fatigue a true phenomenon accumulates. Ubiquity is a double-edged sword every time.
The pattern across all five: not one of them is bad. They're famous, well-made, and everywhere — and "everywhere" is what manufactures the backlash that keeps a song pinned to the center line. Divisiveness is the price of saturation. Think the crowd's got one of these wrong? Cast the vote that breaks the tie.