2010

• Adam Lambert – “Whataya Want from Me”
• Bruno Mars – “Just the Way You Are”
• Edward Maya ft Vika Jigulina – “Stereo Love”
• Eminem – “Not Afraid”
• Eminem & Rihanna – “Love the Way You Lie”
• Enrique Iglesias – “I Like It”
• Jason Derulo – “Ridin’ Solo”
• Justin Bieber – “Baby”
• Katy Perry – “California Gurls”
• Katy Perry – “Teenage Dream”
• Kelly Clarkson – “Already Gone”
• Kesha – “Tik Tok”
• Kesha – “Your Love is my Drug”
• La Roux – “Bulletproof”
• Lady Antebellum – “Need You Now”
• Lady Gaga – “Alejandro”
• Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
• Lady Gaga – “Telephone”
• Michael Buble – “Haven’t Met You Yet”
• Rihanna – “Rude Boy”
• Taio Cruz – “Dynamite”
• Taio Cruz ft Ludacris – “Break Your Heart”
• Train – “Hey, Soul Sister”
• Usher – “DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love Again"

• Toy Story 3
• Alice in Wonderland
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Inception
• Shrek Forever After
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
• Iron Man 2
• Tangled
• Despicable Me
• How to Train Your Dragon

• Persons Unknown
• Rookie Blue
• Masterchef
• Hawaii Five-O
• Mike and Molly
• Raising Hope
• Blue Bloods
• The Walking Dead

• Heroes
• American Chopper
• Dollhouse
• Numb3rs
• Ugly Betty
• Cold Case
• King of the Hill
• Ghost Whisperer
• Lost
• 24
• Law & Order
• The Tudors
• Barney & Friends
• Larry King Live

• Season: Nicaragua
• 2 tribes of 10 new players, divided by age
• Winner: Jud "Fabio" Birza
• Runners-up: Chase Rice, Matthew "Sash" Lenahan

• Season: Heroes vs Villains
• 2 tribes of 10 returning players divided by reputation
• Winner: Sandra Diaz-Twine
• Runners-up: Parvati & Russell Hantz

• Winner: Lee DeWyze
• Runner-up: Crystal Bowersox
• First season where neither finalist achieved significant album sales
• Ellen DeGeneres replaced Paula Abdul as judge
• A special tribute to Simon Cowell in the finale for his last season with the show

• Dennis Hopper - actor, in "Speed", "Easy Rider"
• Leslie Nielsen - actor/comedian, in "Naked Gun" films and "Airplane!"
• Alexander McQueen - British fashion designer
• J.D. Salinger - American writer, bets known for novel "The Catcher in the Rye"
• Corey Haim - Canadian actor, teen idol in the 80s, in "The Lost Boys"
• Gary Coleman - actor, in "Diff'rent Strokes"
• Irvin Kershner - director of "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back"
• Andy Irons - world champion surfer, died at 32 from dengue fever
• James Wall - played Mr. Baxter on kids show "Captain Kangaroo"
• Peter Graves - actor, starring role in TV series "Mission: Impossible" (1967-1973, 1988-1990)
• Donald Goerke - American businessman; while working for Campbell Soup he invented SpaghettiOs
• Eddie Fisher - most successful pop singer in first half of the 1950s; father of Carrie Fisher

• Instagram
• Pinterest
• Apple introduces its touchscreen table computer, the iPad
• 3D TV starts to become more widely available

• Arab Spring
• filter bubble
• Instagram

While beautiful, the opening ceremonies didn't go off without a hitch. Only three out of the four arms of the Olympic cauldron ever came out of the floor, leaving torchbearers Wayne Gretzky, Steve Nash, Nancy Greene Raine, and Catriona LeMay Doan to stand awkwardly by as they waited for it to light up. Games organizers poked fun at the incident in the closing ceremonies, when the cauldron finally lit as expected.

Tragedy struck the Games before they even began when 21-year-old Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died during a training run at the Whistler Sliding Centre. He exited the final curve too late before his sled flew off the track, sending him hurtling to his death. 

Canadian Alexandre Bilodeau won the first ever Olympic gold medal won by a Canadian on Canadian soil. Ice dancing couple, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, won Canada's first gold medal in the sport and became the youngest dance team to win at the Olympics. 

Jon Montgomery's gold medal win at the Whistler Sliding Centre sent waves of Canadian pride through the ski resort. In the middle of his celebration, a random follower handed him a pitcher of beer that he knocked back on live TV. Canada's women's hockey team downed the Americans 2-0 in the final, but the win was soon overshadowed by a lame controversy after the players were photographed drinking beer and smoking cigars with their medals around their necks. 

Joannie Rochette's mother Therese died of a heart attack just a few hours after arriving in Vancouver to see her daughter compete in women's figure skating. She hit the ice anyway, scoring a personal best in the short program and performing just well enough in the long program to secure the bronze medal. Rochette was later chosen as Canada's flagbearer at the closing ceremonies.

The final event of the 2010 Olympics wasn't lacking in drama and excitement. Canada looked like it had the men's hockey gold medal secured when Zach Parise put the puck past Roberto Luongo with just seconds remaining in the third period. Then at around eight minutes into overtime, Sidney Crosby flicked the puck to Jarome Iginla and immediately found some open space in front of the net. He took a pass right back from the winger and shot the "golden goal" past netminder Ryan Miller, winning the game 3-2 and sending Canadian hockey fans everywhere into a frenzy.

U.S. snowboarding legend Shaun White had already scored high enough to win the gold medal in men's halfpipe on his first try, but he wasn't about to let his fans down on the second. His victory lap saw him pull off a Double McTwist 1260, a daring trick that made the crowd at Cypress going wild.

Three deadly avalanches happened in BC within a week. The first one occured on March 13 where 2 people die, and 30 others were injured during at a snowmobile event near Revelstoke. The next avalanche kills a woman snowmobiler on Eagle Pass Mountain. On March 20, two skiers die during an avalanche near Wells Gray Provincial Park. 

January 12-24; the earthquake had magnitude 7.0; at least 52 aftershocks. Death toll estimates 100,000-160,000. 

Apr. 20: An explosion on a BP oil drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana kills 11 people and injures 17. Experts estimate that 13,000 gallons of crude oil per hour are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. Authorities estimate that the amount of oil spilling from leaks in the oil rig is approximately 42,000 gallons of crude oil per hour. Remote-controlled robots were used to try and seal off the oil well.

July 11: the FIFA World Cup was held in South Africa. The final game, between Spain and the Netherlands, went into overtime after a scoreless game. Spain finally scored in the 129th minute, winning the game and the World Cup title.