ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2022: 17th Anniversary Edition

#77: TOPS - Perfected Steps - 120 points - 5 votes
#76: DJ Sofa - So Soft - 121 points - 5 votes
#75: Wet Leg - Ur Mum - 123 points - 4 votes
#74: Perfume - Spinning World - 124 points - 4 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#73: Asake - Peace Be Unto You (PBUY) - 126 points - 5 votes
TIE - #71: Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Perfume Genius - Spitting Off the Edge of the World - 127 points - 4 votes
TIE - #71: Bad Bunny - Tití Me Preguntó - 127 points - 4 votes
#70: Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul - It Hit Me - 128 points - 4 votes
#69: Carly Rae Jepsen - Talking to Yourself - 131 points - 4 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#68: Beyoncé - Virgo's Groove - 132 points - 4 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#67: Alvvays - Pomeranian Spinster - 135 points - 4 votes
TIE - #65: Panda Bear and Sonic Boom - Edge of the Edge - 135 points - 6 votes
TIE - #65: Horsegirl - Anti-glory - 135 points - 6 votes
#64: Vigro Deep ft. Murumba Pitch & Lady Du - Asijabule - 136 points - 3 votes
#63: Alex G - Runner - 137 points - 6 votes
#62: Carla Morrison - Diamantes - 138 points - 4 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#61: beabadoobee - Talk - 139 points - 5 votes
#60: Koffee - Pull Up - 139 points - 6 votes
#59: The Soft Pink Truth - Sunwash - 140 points - 5 votes
#58: Two Shell - Home - 140 points - 6 votes
#57: The Center for Understanding New Trigonometries - Common Shapes and Uncommon Shapes - 141 points - 5 votes
#56: Sky Ferreira - Don't Forget - 143 points - 5 votes
#55: The Beths - Silence is Golden - 144 points - 6 votes
#54: Oliver Sim - Hideous - 146 points - 5 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#53: Chat Pile - Why - 148 points - 5 votes
#52: Confidence Man - Holiday - 152 points - 4 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#51: Objekt - Bad Apples - 154 points - 4 votes
#50: NIKI - High School in Jakarta - 154 points - X5 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#49: Shabason & Krgovich - In The Middle of The Day - 157 points - 6 votes
#48: Carly Rae Jepsen - Western Wind - 159 points - 6 votes
#47: Momma - Speeding 72 - 160 points - 5 votes
#46: Ice Spice - Munch (Feelin U) - 160 points - 6 votes
#45: Omah Lay - Never Forget - 161 points - 6 votes
TIE - #43: Skeng - London - 162 points - 6 votes
TIE - #43: Lil Yachty - Poland - 62 points - 6 votes
#42: Carly Rae Jepsen ft. Rufus Wainwright - The Loneliest Time - 162 points - X6 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#41: Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa - Kraut- 167 points - 6 votes
#40: Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be A Mirrorball - 167 points - 8 votes
#39: Ibibio Sound Machine - Protection From Evil - 168 points - 5 votes
#38: death’s dynamic shroud - Messe de E-102 - 169 points - 5 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#37: The 1975 - Part of the Band - 170 points - 5 votes
TIE - #35: The Garden - Freight Yard - 174 points - 6 votes
TIE - #35: Mondo Grosso ft. Hikari Mitsushima - In This World (Extended) - 174 points - 6 votes
#34: Karol G - Provenza - 174 points - 6 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#33: Sudan Archives - Home Maker - 181 points - 7 votes
#32: Nilüfer Yanya - stabilise - 184 points - 6 votes
#31: Paramore - This Is Why - 186 points - 7 votes
#30: KH - Looking at Your Pager - 189 points - 7 votes
#29: Men I Trust - Billy Toppy - 192 points - 7 votes
#28: Beth Orton - Friday Night - 195 points - 7 votes
#27: Vitesse X - Us Ephemeral (George Clanton Remix) - 200 points - 7 votes
#26: Big Thief - Simulation Swarm - 204 points - 6 votes
#25: Jessie Ware - Free Yourself - 204 points - 9 votes
#24: Real Lies - Dream On - 206 points - 7 votes
#23: Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero - 208 points - 7 votes
#22: Rosalía - Saoko - 216 points - 8 votes
#21: Caroline Polachek - Billions - 219 points - 7 votes
#20: Braxe and Falcon with Panda Bear - Step by Step - 224 points - 6 votes - 2 #1 Track Votes
#19: Ethel Cain - American Teenager - 225 points - 6 votes - 3 #1 Track Votes
#18: The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field - 226 points - 7 votes
#17: SZA - Kill Bill - 231 points - 8 votes
#16: Real Lies - An Oral History Of My First Kiss - 232 points - 6 votes
#15: Destroyer - June - 234 points - 7 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#14: Shygirl - Firefly - 238 points - 8 votes
#13: Burna Boy - Last Last - 244 points - 8 votes
#12: Duke Deuce with Glorilla - JUST SAY THAT - 257 points - 8 votes
#11: Sevyn Streeter - 23 - 258 points - 11 votes
#10: Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul - 276 points - 9 votes
#9: NewJeans - Ditto - 277 points - 9 votes - 2 #1 Track Votes
#8: Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love - 305 points - 8 votes
#7: Harry Styles - As It Was - 316 points - 9 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#6: Sudan Archives - Freakalizer - 317 points - 9 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#5: DJ Python - Angel - 350 points - 11 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#4: Big Thief - Spud Infinity - 376 points - 9 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#3: Hikaru Utada - Somewhere Near Marseilles - 376 points - 15 votes
#2: Rema - Calm Down - 389 points - 14 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#1: Ruger - Girlfriend - 451 points - 14 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote

Results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kYFwb3ju5ZnK1T8nJkOKmfqtQYoMej0Gf5Wu0c3uHLk/edit?usp=sharing

That’s it. Good night and good luck.

Don't fuck with me man

AI is not only bad at hands, it also doesn’t understand the concept of eye patches.

Sorry Ruger

Rex Ruger!

Have I heard this yet? ID even K

Another spike in Johnny Fever's ear

Did Girlfriend seriously win? It's not another fakeout? Because that was one of two tracks I thought could beat Calm Down and it would be acceptable (the other being Feel My Rhythm, of course).

If this is for real I am super duper delighted!!

...especially your DJ Python move...

lol i don't pay much attention and my memory is for shit but that must be the best top 3 one of these things has ever had

Agreed best top 3 ever

#2: Rema - Calm Down - 389 points - 14 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#1: Ruger - Girlfriend - 451 points - 14 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote

same number of votes and #1 votes, but look at that margin!

didn't vote for it but a worthy #1

really great results overall wow

It seems like only yesterday that afro-pop was condemned to the lower part of the poll.
Sad that this comes at the price of number of voters bleeding out, but I'm doing a little dance here.

the secret is *leans in* fewer ballots

Here’s the album of top 77 uncanny valley hands:

https://imgur.com/a/Y9NNVZ3

Mannnnnn

Fucking tune. Only heard it during the noms but goddamn. My number 5.

Brilliant rollout everyone!

We certainly do give a fuck.

lol i don't pay much attention and my memory is for shit but that must be the best top 3 one of these things has ever had

― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 22:10 (forty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

balloon/not/jogging foreverrrrrr

this is cool tho haha

damn what a #1. found it too late to vote for it but yeah it bangs

I mean:

getting ready for tomorrow:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTn9kwIW9C-6w4waZY6OiX26YdHwc-FiQLTFw&usqp=CAU

🖼

ILM's Afropop contigent has taken the crown, well done lads.

Ruger certainly makes being a philandering scoundrel sound like being a charming scamp, I'll give him that.

This really was an extraordinary year for Nigerian music, so well deserved.

Man oh man I am so happy with this whole poll but especially the winner.

Baby, let me take a look.... Oh lord!

Another spike in Johnny Fever's ear

― Nabozo, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 5:09 PM

I'll never be a big fan of the "beats" part of Afrobeats, but at least this doesn't have the words/sounds repeating ad nauseam.

I am lost for words, I mean, what if I, what if I, what if I…

I don't mind the #1, but there was sure not much for me in this final stretch (I already knew & loved "Spud" – I suspect I was its sole voter last year – and was familiar w/"Calm Down," but prefer the version with Selena Gomez). These chilly club tracks, every year, I just don't get the appeal.

Thanks forks!

Thanks forks and Moka, an amazing run down. Great images and words too

great stuff. thanks all

I'm gonna do a proper write up of the tracks sooners. I hardly knew or voted for anything but there are a fair few new discoveries here

Calm Down was my #3 and Girlfriend my #17, but it's kinda funnier this way. But Calm Down, man what a song. First time I heard 'Rave and Roses' that one just stood out immediately. The whole thing is so simple, but I love how the bass and synth only pops in in the chorus. A bit amapiano.

Wahooo Ruger! Peeps should also check out his other stuff like Dion and Wewe

wow great top 3, thanks pollrunners!

Thank you to the poll-runners, it's been a delight as usual. I'm not fully on-board with the 'best top three ever' group but I do think it's been a pretty great year overall.

I mean I can’t think of another recent eoy ilm poll where I like a lot the tracks on the top 3.

2020 I loved Sault and Christine & the queens songs, but don’t think The 1975 song was as good.

Jordan S., take your flowers!

been loving ruger - "girlfriend" ... just a sublime song

― J0rdan S., vrijdag 8 juli 2022 22:10

of course, I knew better:

“Girlfriend” spells out his cock bandit persona times two. it’s a great song, but I love “WeWe”, another new track on his upgraded The Second Wave EP even better

(and equally of course, I was wrong, because "Girlfriend" has the hook of the year - but "WeWe" remains an absolute stunner too)

top marks to the pollrunners, ofc! patience under assail and fine images alike

holy shit what a top 3

Maybe Rema is the least interesting song for me in the top 3 but it was one of my favorite mainstream hits of the year or at least one of the few that didn’t make me want to switch stations.

I think forks has taken off but here’s the link to the results on Google: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kYFwb3ju5ZnK1T8nJkOKmfqtQYoMej0Gf5Wu0c3uHLk/edit?usp=sharing

thanks to the poll runners!

Hearing both 'Girlfriend' and 'Calm Down' for I think the first time is among other things making me wish DaVido's 'Aye' could've won in 2014 (that was just as romantic a jam but a fair bit faster with it).

capital V there is some weird thing I can't stop doing ha ha

thank you pollrunners! seandalai, moka and forks, you have done an exceptional job on all fronts.

singling out forks for today, the buildup along this fully unpredictable top ten was masterful, with maximum suspense. I absolutely loved it!

(oh, and on a totally unrelated note: what a great result! is afropop the new scandiwave?)

(oh, and am I still allowed to complain? there has been waaay too little amapiano!)

You certainly can’t complain about the lack of afropop recognition this year ;)

1 | Ruger - Girlfriend | 451 | 14 | 1
2 | Rema - Calm Down | 389 | 14 | 1
3 | Hikaru Utada - Somewhere Near Marseilles | 376 | 15 | 0
4 | Big Thief - Spud Infinity | 376 | 9 | 1
5 | DJ Python - Angel | 350 | 11 | 1
6 | Sudan Archives - Freakalizer | 317 | 9 | 1
7 | Harry Styles - As It Was | 316 | 9 | 1
8 | Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love | 305 | 8 | 0
9 | NewJeans - Ditto | 277 | 9 | 2
10 | Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul | 276 | 9 | 0
11 | Sevyn Streeter - 23 | 258 | 11 | 0
12 | Duke Deuce ft. Glorilla - JUST SAY THAT | 257 | 8 | 0
13 | Burna Boy - Last Last | 244 | 8 | 0
14 | Shygirl - Firefly | 238 | 8 | 0
15 | Destroyer - June | 234 | 7 | 1
16 | Real Lies - An Oral History Of My First Kiss | 232 | 6 | 0
17 | SZA - Kill Bill | 231 | 8 | 0
18 | The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field | 226 | 7 | 0
19 | Ethel Cain - American Teenager | 225 | 6 | 3
20 | Braxe + Falcon ft. Panda Bear - Step by Step | 224 | 7 | 2
21 | Caroline Polachek - Billions | 219 | 7 | 0
22 | Rosalía - Saoko | 216 | 8 | 0
23 | Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero | 208 | 7 | 0
24 | Real Lies - Dream On | 206 | 7 | 0
25 | Jessie Ware - Free Yourself | 204 | 9 | 0
26 | Big Thief - Simulation Swarm | 204 | 6 | 0
27 | Vitesse X - Us Ephemeral (George Clanton Remix) | 200 | 7 | 0
28 | Beth Orton - Friday Night | 195 | 7 | 0
29 | Men I Trust - Billy Toppy | 192 | 7 | 0
30 | KH - Looking at Your Pager | 189 | 7 | 0
31 | Paramore - This Is Why | 186 | 7 | 0
32 | Nilüfer Yanya - stabilise | 184 | 6 | 0
33 | Sudan Archives - Home Maker | 181 | 7 | 0
34 | Karol G - Provenza | 174 | 6 | 1
35 | Mondo Grosso ft. Hikari Mitsushima - In This World (Extended) | 174 | 6 | 0
35 | The Garden - Freight Yard | 174 | 6 | 0
37 | The 1975 - Part of the Band | 170 | 5 | 0
38 | death’s dynamic shroud - Messe de E-102 | 169 | 5 | 1
39 | Ibibio Sound Machine - Protection From Evil | 168 | 5 | 0
40 | Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be A Mirrorball | 167 | 8 | 0
41 | Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa - Kraut | 167 | 6 | 0
42 | Carly Rae Jepsen ft. Rufus Wainwright - The Loneliest Time | 162 | 6 | 1
43 | Lil Yachty - Poland | 162 | 6 | 0
43 | Skeng - London | 162 | 6 | 0
45 | Omah Lay - Never Forget | 161 | 6 | 0
46 | ice spice - munch (feelin u) | 160 | 6 | 0
47 | Momma - Speeding 72 | 160 | 5 | 0
48 | Carly Rae Jepsen - Western Wind | 159 | 6 | 0
49 | Shabason & Krgovich - In The Middle of The Day | 157 | 6 | 0
50 | NIKI - High School in Jakarta | 154 | 5 | 1
51 | Objekt - Bad Apples | 154 | 5 | 0
52 | Confidence Man - Holiday | 152 | 4 | 1
53 | chat pile - why? | 148 | 5 | 0
54 | Oliver Sim - Hideous | 146 | 5 | 1
55 | The Beths - Silence is Golden | 144 | 6 | 0
56 | Sky Ferreira - Don't Forget | 143 | 5 | 0
57 | The Center for Understanding New Trigonometries - Common Shapes and Uncommon Shapes | 141 | 5 | 0
58 | Two Shell - Home | 140 | 6 | 0
59 | The Soft Pink Truth - Sunwash | 140 | 5 | 0
60 | koffee - pull up | 139 | 6 | 0
61 | beabadoobee - talk | 139 | 5 | 0
62 | Carla Morrison - Diamantes | 138 | 4 | 1
63 | Alex G - Runner | 137 | 6 | 0
64 | Vigro Deep ft. Murumba Pitch & Lady Du - Asijabule | 136 | 3 | 0
65 | Horsegirl - Anti-glory | 135 | 6 | 0
65 | Panda Bear/Sonic Boom - Edge of the Edge | 135 | 6 | 0
67 | Alvvays - Pomeranian Spinster | 135 | 4 | 0
68 | Beyoncé - Virgo's Groove | 132 | 4 | 1
69 | Carly Rae Jepsen - Talking to Yourself | 131 | 4 | 1
70 | Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - It Hit Me | 128 | 4 | 0
71 | Bad Bunny - Tití Me Preguntó | 127 | 4 | 0
71 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs ft. Perfume Genius - Spitting Off the Edge of the World | 127 | 4 | 0
73 | Asake - Peace Be Unto You (PBUY) | 126 | 5 | 0
74 | Perfume - Spinning World | 124 | 4 | 1
75 | Wet Leg - Ur Mum | 123 | 4 | 0
76 | DJ Sofa - So Soft | 121 | 5 | 0
77 | tops - perfected steps | 120 | 5 | 0
78 | Beth Orton - Weather Alive | 120 | 4 | 0
79 | Asake ft. Burna Boy - Sungba (Remix) | 118 | 4 | 1
80 | Caroline Polachek - Sunset | 118 | 4 | 0
81 | Hatchie - Lights Out | 118 | 3 | 0
82 | Sudan Archives - NBPQ (Topless) | 116 | 4 | 1
83 | Jamie XX - Let's Do It Again | 116 | 3 | 0
84 | Raye ft. 070 Shake - Escapism. | 114 | 5 | 0
85 | Red Velvet - Feel My Rhythm | 114 | 3 | 0
86 | Fever Ray - What They Call Us | 113 | 3 | 1
87 | Tyla - To Last | 112 | 5 | 0
88 | Little Simz - Gorilla | 112 | 4 | 0
88 | Megan Thee Stallion - Her | 112 | 4 | 0
90 | Veeze - let it fly | 112 | 3 | 1
91 | Kendrick Lamar - Rich Spirit | 111 | 6 | 0
92 | Rhyw - Honey Badger | 111 | 4 | 1
93 | Sza - Shirt | 110 | 3 | 1
94 | Charli XCX - Yuck | 110 | 3 | 0
94 | Hyolyn - Over You | 110 | 3 | 0
96 | Dry Cleaning - Gary Ashby | 107 | 4 | 0
97 | Angel Olsen - Big Time | 106 | 5 | 0
98 | Phoenix ft. Ezra Koenig - Tonight | 106 | 4 | 1
99 | Beyoncé - Break My Soul | 106 | 4 | 0
99 | Jim Legxacy - dj | 106 | 4 | 0

get acquainted with Ruger’s entry in the 2023 EOY:

”Asiwaju”

78 | Beth Orton - Weather Alive | 120 | 4 | 0
80 | Caroline Polachek - Sunset | 118 | 4 | 0
83 | Jamie XX - Let's Do It Again | 116 | 3 | 0
86 | Fever Ray - What They Call Us | 113 | 3 | 1
88 | Little Simz - Gorilla | 112 | 4 | 0
91 | Kendrick Lamar - Rich Spirit | 111 | 6 | 0
96 | Dry Cleaning - Gary Ashby | 107 | 4 | 0

would've particularly liked these all to have been 10 or 20 higher

Voted for the wrong Veeze track :(

Also, godspeed Tyla we almost made it.

“Sungba” got 79’d :-(
“To Last” got 87’d :-(

“Break My Soul” at 99 - that’s just perfect

Surprised “rich spirit” didn’t made it. Thought there was heavier consensus about that one.

Great poll! I think Somewhere Near Marseilles is my personal #1 of the top 3.

itching for the ballots thread already as ever

mega grateful to this poll for introducing me to "somewhere near marseilles," i would have been caning that if i'd known about it. perfect for a slopeside party this saturday!

thank you Forks and Moka!

If I were to re-arrange the top 10 by personal favorites I’d probably rank them as

1. Somewhere near marseilles
2. Freakalizer
3. Angel
4. Girlfriend
5. Selfish Soul
6. Calm Down
7. Ditto
8. Tove lo
9. Spud infinity
10. Harry styles

Overall a strong top 10 imho

just discovered there's a seriously lovely Arabic version of "Calm Down".

it's by Rachid Aseyakhe

Well idk probably Girlfriend in my own top 3 from these. It’s lovely.

It shouldn’t be but it is. Such a smooth track.

Btw Hikaru Utada album has two more tracks produced by Floating Points. They’re more pop than house but they’re good too!

wow "calm down" scans really well in arabic haha

That Arabic version of Calm Down is great!

live footage from Naija -
the news just got in

Halfway through maybe only my second listen of 'Angel' and I remember the first time thinking yeah cool I'll put it in my 2022 ah wait maybe he did something else I'll like even more then getting distracted. Loved 'Lampara' from a few years back too.

Somewhere Near Marseilles has gotten a big thumbs-up from my not-so-easily-impressed companion here!

obviously whatever on this because nothing i voted for even made top ten. but i found a ton of great stuff yet again thanks to you lot!

and one more round for sean, forks, and moka. well done + much appreciated!

^^^^^^^^

98 | Phoenix ft. Ezra Koenig - Tonight | 106 | 4 | 1

I can’t remember if this was my #1 but probably

Thanks to the poll runners for making it happen!

yes thanks to moka, forks, and seandalai

Thank you pollrunners, this year's tracks rollout has been a good one, had no idea what was going to place and discovered some great tracks ('Last Last' in particular).

Passing the ball to seandali for the ballots thread

14 voters deciding the best song of 2022 for all of ILM … what is this, a U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?

ILM 2022 Tracks Poll: The Battle of Ballads: Verse Your Ballot and Join the Rhyme-Fueled Debate!

Thanks again pollrunners! Couldn't even vaguely follow the thread this week so I have much reading, image-gazing and playlist-listening in my future...

I guess I haven't been paying attention (and I didn't vote this year), but I'm a little surprised "Break My Soul" didn't make it. I don't have strong feelings about Beyonce, but that song has always struck me as an undeniable jam. Did people just want to avoid the obvious critical favorite?

I'm surprised it didn't make it but I don't especially like the song either so

I'm guessing everyone picked their favorite cut on the Beyonce album and split the votes (I had a different one on mine, Break My Soul is definitely not my fave).

as far as Beyoncé in 2023 goes (and as someone that listed Renaissance as #1 in the album poll) I would only have countenanced a vote for the Queens Remix of "Break My Soul", despite the original technically being my most played track of 2022 (this is because it was released before the album, so I played it a bit then, and then once the album itself arrived it demanded a complete listen from beginning to end every single time, so, there wasn't much opportunity for any other track to beat it out in scrobble count).

A great song but I'd pick, like, 12 other tracks from the album over it easily. "Cuff It" not getting a single vote is more surprising to me honestly.

"Cuff It" wasn't nommed

I spent barely seconds on nominations this time, but I doubt I've had two of them ("Saoko" and "Gary Asby") making the top 100 before. Finger secretly very much on the pulse, lol.

I'm surprised it didn't make it but I don't especially like the song either so

― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Wednesday, February 22, 2023 7:11 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

sorry, "Cuff It" was nommed. I guess the only way to know is to show all posts on the nominations thread.

Giving my head a shake.

ILX is officially an anti-Beyonce zone

great poll outcome, sick images and excellent work as always from our pollrunners!

Wait … Kate Bush was used as a prop herein?

Do you wanna know that it didn't hurt her?

I was out for the end of the rollout but enjoyed it all. I think 14 things off my ballot placed, so no complaints from me. Curious, is this the least Anglo-American top 10 ever?

I don't quite the rationale of all the fake-outs... seems there's plenty of reaction/argument over the actual placements anyway, and the fakes don't really generate an "extra" response or do anything except cause confusion(?) A friend who's been monitoring the Spotify playlist had to ask me if certain ones were real (after he brought up "Bruno," I said no, that's fake)... and I got Drake wrong, didn't realize that was a fake-out. What's the point(?)

Just my 2c... thanks to the poll-runners, as always!

Beyonce album made the top 10 so I don’t think ILM is anti-beyonce, it got vote splitted. Also I don’t really follow her but as an outsider I didn’t see any singles - other than “break my soul” - being pushed?

I’m checking her youtube page and I don’t see any music videos for any other song

There isn’t even a video for “break my soul” just a visualizer and a cliquebait video whatever that means.

The ongoing lack of Renaissance music videos (presumably, due to protracted contractual negotiations with a streaming giant - it seems like she needs their cash before she can release them) has been a source of great agony for all Beyoncé fans over the last ~7 months. There was also a rumour that the videos for all songs had to be reworked in December as Beyoncé wasn’t happy with the final cuts.

Anyway, “Cuff It” is currently in the Billboard top 10 so I think it counts as a bona fide hit.

annoyed that I'll be travelling when GIRLFRIEND wins

― rob, Monday, February 20, 2023 3:18 PM (two days ago)

well dang, I did not expect this joke post to turn true wtf

I don't really have time to post right now, but what a result, amazing!, genuinely bummed I was on a long-ass flight for today and didn't get to celebrate with yall

big big thanks to forks, Moka, and seandalai as ever

not that surprised that "break my soul" didn't place given that people here were a little underwhelmed by it overall, and there wasn't another big single to rally around ("cuff it" was pushed to radio a few months after the album but didn't get a big promo push with a video or anything) which is why "virgo's groove" ended up the closest to a consensus pick

i am a bit surprised kendrick got vote-split so badly though because i loved "the heart part 5" but didn't care for most of the album, and it was the pre-album single (even though it wasn't actually on the album)

Hahaha my placeholder images for tests were Saoko and The Heart Pt 5. Thought Kendrick Lamar was a lock and was unsure about Rosalia.

'break my soul' is excellent f the haters. and the terry hunter remix is where it's at imo.

Yeah I was the same with "The Heart part 5" — it set me up for an album that wasn't the album he released, and I mostly like it better than anything on the album. (I considered voting for "N95" too.)

Rich Spirit has become one of my fave KL tracks. Love the sound design on that one.

But after that one The Heart was my favorite one of the tracks released last year.

two favourite tracks of the year placed 1&2 tho i would have had them the other way round (voting crept up and past me unfortunately).

having, slightly unexpectedly seen charlotte adigéry et pal last week, can confirm live it all works really well. certainly better than the belgian jive bunny bullshit that headlined.

saw Alewya last night and it was *so fresh* with an amazing crowd, but iirc the one i woulda coulda shoulda voted for turned out to be 2021.

anyway, really good poll rundown imo - thanks to moka, fct etc!

Wow. We won. Congrats, everyone!

I was one of the "Break My Soul" voters and considered it one of the standout pop songs of 2022, weak rap verse and all, but was thrilled to see a track I didn't know finish at #1. Always nice to walk away from these with a dozen or more discoveries, and this was definitely one of those years.

Many thanks, poll runners. Loved the images this year and spent way more time staring at them than usual. 3 or 4 thumbs up.

🪬

listening to the spotify list now...really great stuff

nia archives is amazing as is daliwonga
really like the weyes blood song, they are better in small doses for me

Speaking of Weyes Blood, I was surprised only 2 people (including me) voted for "Grapevine." I know there was an underwhelmed reaction to the album but that song just washes over you.

Oh wow, I missed that there is a Nia Archives in addition to Sudan Archives.

People had archive fever in 2022

yeah is there some pop culture thing with "archives" i don't know about or is it just a coincidence?

Seems like just a weird coincidence, since I think it comes from Sudan Archives was studying ethnomusicology?

Loool

tha nia archives x sudan archives link up just happened 2day n let me tell ya we made a mazzaaaaa pic.twitter.com/eEm2BPlfMM

— Nia Archives (@archives_nia) February 23, 2023

wow, that's great and what a coincidence!

shd form a group called 'archives' and call the album 'nominative determinism' imo

thx 2 pollrunners! (and voters)

Despite the slow roll-out pace, I still didn't manage to comment while it was running. Just wanted to say that I've discovered lots of interesting music and read some great and insightful comments. So well done, everybody!

Yes, thanks all, without fail I always discover great new stuff in the poll.

The tracks I keep coming back to ITT that I didn't previously know are:

High School In Jakarta, Anti-Hero, This Is Why, Munch, 23, Expert In A Dying Field, Holiday, Edge of the Edge

I don't like Step By Step much but the Axel Boman remix is really good.

I do love the original but yeah, that Boman remix gives off pure Bangalter/Falcon vibes

forgot to vote and just caught up today. but I hadn't heard the Shabason & Krgovich song before and its great, gives me very One AM Radio vibes.

Just listened to "Girlfriend" again and, well, let's not piss about. It is the best isn't it

finally finished listening to the results recently, and... great job ilm, for real. i'm not sure why, but i enjoyed nearly all the placing tracks that i hadn't previously heard, certainly not a typical response for me to any poll. idk, maybe having listened to much less music than usual this past year, and not being too enthused abt most of the mainstream stuff that crossed my awareness w/ no effort on my end, has made me more enthusiastic to belatedly enjoy some things. thank y'all for continuing to have great taste even when the conversations aren't quite as busy + dunderheads like me can't bother to figure out which threads to keep even minimally plugged into throughout the year

my ballot only had like 20 songs on it and was frankly rather reflective of my very limited horizons this year, but a few of the songs i voted for placed and i was happy to see them. i don't think it's worth posting my ballot in the other thread but i was the #1 vote for "provenza" (the only track in the weighted section of my ballot) + i was glad to hear what y'all thought abt it, even imago's distaste for it. rly cool to see "calm down" so high, i thought i didn't know it until i clicked play and realized oh yeah it's that quite-lovely afrobeats song i've heard every now and again w/ or w/o selena gomez (lol). "last last" i also knew but didn't recall until hitting play -- frankly the toni braxton sample turned me off it for a while due to my increasing annoyance w/ ~2/3 of all radio hits in america now being reliant on samples of highly recognizable old hits, but i came to like it just fine. tho i certainly don't dislike afrobeats, i tend not to be as enthusiastic abt it as its fans on here anyhow

fav discoveries were real lies ("dream on" especially but both of the placing ones -- just getting into the album too now!) and "step by step" lol

thanks to the pollrunners and the voters for introducing me to a lot of good stuff :)