ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

"if Balloon gets in"

I'm very confident that my entire ballot, apart from the 2 that already showed up, will be #1-#23 on the final countdown as you are all right thinking individuals.

I voted for it! xps

Kasper Marott didn't really click for me, maybe I need to hear it in the right context?

xp to Johnny Fever: it's fixed, refresh your browser.

i would like some balloon toast to make my butterburger
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oh I know Balloon will place...anyway I'm preemptively complaining again, sorry

and I'm glad people like Busy Signal :)

gonna float all the way to the top

Seeing three of my faves place here -- including/especially Tayla, whom I wasn't expecting to land on the countdown -- has already made up for the disappointment of Grammy night :)

Good results today, I like most of these songs, Aute Cuture and Basquiat my only votes but I should definitely have had High Lights on my ballot too.

Great images and I also appreciate the video links, I hardly saw any new music videos last year but some of these are great (thinking Peggy Gou and Zlatan x Burna Boy especially).

only one of my votes made it so far, but i've been very hivemind-y this year. hopefully this means good things for shootergang kony.

Thought I only had two of today's placements on my ballot (Charlotte Adigéry and Tayla Parx), but I apparently also voted for Cate Le Bon too—forgot I'd done that—so glad I could help it get in.

i'm surprised you guys like Jamila's Basquiat as much as I do! The whole album is amazing but that's the song i keep coming back to. Thought it was just me!

Wait did I put 2020 in the thread title? I was certain I wrote 2019 and found odd forks had 2020 as the year in the playlist. I hadn’t had my cup of coffee so I might have been half asleep.

Can mods edit the title please? And thank you for fixing my errors through the day.

I'm seeing 2019 on bookmarks and 2020 everywhere else...?

It's fixed! But I think bookmarks aren't fixable?

bumping. Somebody tell me if the bookmark looks fixed to you?

I closed and reopened my browser and everything and it still says 2020.

bookmark says 2019, thread title says 2020 for me at least

my bookmarks says 2019, but that is actually correct, no?

*agent cooper voice* what year is this

Yeah, the bookmark says 2019, but the title of the thread on the main page still reads 2020.

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see you could have voted for Toast after all

ithink that Cooper quote on him in the flintstones movie is my fav tweet this year

I voted for Cate le Bon, Jamila Woods and Charlotte Adigéry so far.

I didn't even think I liked CLB before 2019. Kinda wish I'd gone weighted now to give her a heftier shove.

Now it's fixed. Ta!

The Jamila Woods track is great. Thanks folks!

i really do not find the roll-out crazy at all. there is lots of good stuff to disover (eg the mark ronson, the vampire weekend, the raphael saadiq or the peggy gou), i am surprised about the almost complete lack of rap until now which i don't miss though. already three tracks of my ballot made it. wild time, cattails and intimate. i think wild time is elegant and profound at the same time. probably the best song on titanic rising though i voted another song higher which will surely show up in the top 20 or something.

to discover

last year was also pretty light on rap iirc (or at least I remember it being noted during the first couple days of rollout)

goon cru only assemble when there's a thread to title

I voted for 4 rap songs but don't think any will place alas. Also I don't think any of them are goon cru approved (Teejayx6 maybe?)

It was a bad year for rap for me. I ended up placing on rap-album on my ballot, and now I regret it because it really isn't as good as the Jamila Woods one.

i sure hope "swipe story" makes it but who knows

despite there being a lot of good rap released in '19, there didn't seem to be a whole lot of ILM consensus around hip hop this year.
wondering if blaming the growing schisms between pop and street shit and abstract/experimental is worthwhile but what defines those terms is in such constant upheaval (dababy is street shit or pop now?) i doubt it.

A good first day today and - apart from the bobbins stuff which I never follow in year - pretty representative of what I was seeing in New Answers week on week.

xp. but somehow that jamila woods song does not sound like rap to me at all. where is the rhythmic spitting of words - that would be rap for me - in there?

It fell to me to nominate the Danny Brown and Maxo Kream singles I wanted to vote for, which surprised me. Probably a bad sign. Somewhat more confident about Rapsody though.

Swipe Story was my vote, yeah. Didn't give it much so hoping others have made up the difference

i also voted for "ballin" and i'm hoping to see it but not holding my breath

voted for 8 rap tracks or so.

but ballin and teejay just missed for me.

y'all should've voted for shootergang kony

I do regret not voting for "Meet Again"

Overjoyed to see Charlotte Adigery place, although I voted for Okashi.

The Rosalia that's placed so far is my favourite of the three big ones this year, but I expect all of them to show up.

^ mine, too

Okashi is amazing too. Followed a strict one-song-per-artist policy tho alas

Jamila Woods sounds to me closer to beatnik jam poetry than rap.

okashi my pick too, guess we'll see it

xp Jamila Woods comes out of the same Chicago poetry scene as Noname and Chance the Rapper.