ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

New Rules was robbed, dammit

lol same amount of votes

list is super thin on rnb in general, though my tracks ballot is as much to blame as anyone's. I assume all the rnb albums I voted for will place

Huh, I really had no idea Boys was this popular. Thought to myself SZA would win for sure.

Is this the whole "ilxors voting on autopilot" thing Johnny was talking about? Because no ones excited about this

CTRL is one of those album's that if you ask 10 different people you'll prob get 9 different favorite songs, but still, it's shocking that not even Love Galore placed in the 77

so... er... what is good about this song / video?

pc music at #1

The "Boys" video isn't bad, but it's no "Ice Cream Truck."

i remember being enthralled by 'superlove' in this same poll rollout however many years ago but she's never made another song i like enough to vote for

srsly that Tove video is like pregnant spiderman goes to the dentist

lol

I never even heard "Boys" until I saw that it won.

god i forgot will.i.am is in the video

playlist now updated with the top 177
SZA at 81 and 94 respectively

pc music at #1

― ogmor, Thursday, January 25, 2018 7:29 PM (sixteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was about to say

Huh.

Will once again plug the Howie Lee remix of Boys, though it just missed my ballot.

Interesting rollout. Can't believe SZA didn't make it. First year I don't catch up on the Singles Jukebox and "Akanamali" takes me by surprise, though I guess I don't follow South African stuff compared to Nigeria/Ghana/Angola/etc. Gorgeous track!

the mario sound effects are cute and i guess it's nice to have a gender-flipped version of ludacris' "area codes"

only one number 1 vote

SZA better win albums to make up for this

― ufo, Thursday, January 25, 2018 7:27 PM

and g-eazy's in the video too, fuckin' barf

I could bring back Arcade Fire if'n y'all want.

Here's an interesting piece of trivia: Emil Warren co-wrote bouth #1 and #2 on our list

great list. thanks guys!

the Mario coin sound is good. Song as a whole is whatever.

only one number 1 vote

― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, January 25, 2018 7:30 PM (fifteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That would be me

pc music at #1

Sophie-produced 'Yeah Right' for Vince Staples nearly my own #1 tbh

and also somebody from the band slaves. i could probably assemble a worst list of men but it wouldn't be that much worse xxxp

thanks guys, indeed. today's run only had a couple of things i was interested in but nevertheless the rest of the poll was excellent.

this song had nothing to do with PC Music except some of them are in the video

the very PC Music-heavy album Pop 2 she released in December though is by far her best release and I hope it wasn't ignored in the albums poll

i think boys is great but would put it at the second half of a top ten and i guess there were enough people who felt the same way that it won with majority rules

She gets worse with each new release cycle imo (first album was the best).

I made hints earlier about ILX voting on auto-pilot, but that was based on a guess that HAIM was going to show up somewhere.

who literally got 78'd?

...and #78 was?

78 is big thief

Big Thief is #78

"Boys" is grebt and I couldn't leave it off my ballot, although I did on first pass.

aww it was Big Thief

xp obv

Thank you JF and ulysses for this!

my fault for voting for a different Big Thief song, I guess

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yes, thank you, this was a lot of fun

JF do you have a gallery of all 77 images?

I should have put Drew Barrymore higher on my ballot but I figured it likely wouldn't need my help and I was voting for the album anyway, oh well.

great poll, thanks for doing this

thanks to all the poll-runners

Also, we are all spoiled by now but holly hell, amazing artwork, JF!

yes thanks guys + seandalai

I agree that it isn't her best track, and also that it doesn't deserve to be #1, but it was still in my unranked 25, would have been at the lower end if they were ranked

never got over the disappointment of the CXCX song not just being a cover of this

Fun list, good job, top 20 a little less my kind of thing, but I discovered lots of great new tracks on the way, more than any other site's year-end list.