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

“Gangnam Style” is absolutely a version of K-pop

it's k and it's pop

sorry for being dismissive 2 ur #1 ufo oops lol, i will re-educate myself or something

Somewhere Near Marseilles is very cool, then it does go on a bit, but it is so cool it earns the indulgence

i feel like "bad habit" probably still has to show up? but i could see it completely missing out too idk

Is Baby Shark C-pop

Ah, it's K-pop too actually

I could see the B.O.T.A thing as the party pooper, but not Bad Habit

yeah i have a feeling i'll be left wishing this won

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#2: Rema - Calm Down - 389 points - 14 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
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REMA : days of Rave & Roses (& of course Bangers)
Best Naija Pop Album/EP in 2022
rolling afropop 2022

or did we vote “Sure Thing (Sped-Up Version)” to number one, 12 years after its original #6 peak?

“Calm Down”! my number… 9!

TOO LOW

I haven't got into many tracks from the noms list this time compared to the previous few years but Utada's was one of them (same goes for 'One Last Kiss' from last year's poll).

Rema knew:

Straight out of Benin
I drop Rema EP 2019
They think say the gbedu go finish
My music is traveling
From India to Asia to ILM
The thing wey bin pain me
Be say una no wan be believe

Fast forward to today
Every day na holiday
Every day say na holiday
Oya day, oya dey, dey, dey, dey owey

Gave it all the points I could give

damn yea would've voted for this in my ranked section if i knew it would be this close to winning it all!

playing the B.O.T.A thing now - feels appropriate, in a “It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)” type of way

What if I, what if I, what if I (what if I)…

so what

Could #1 truly be Ruger ? Afro double whammy ? I don't think it's Shirt.

oh so #1 is not 'Rich Spirit' then I guess (that would be weird but I'm more surprised it's not placed)

I wasn't into Calm Down at all until a couple of weeks ago when I went on holiday to Sri Lanka and heard it out loads. It's still nowhere near my favourite Afrobeats song of the year, not my favourite Rema even, but it's a proper earworm

i like "calm down", don't love it, but very happy it could be this high

a Rema-row, if you will

This Rema song is like a railroad spike in my ear.

I can’t even imagine what #1 will be, but that’s the joy of these polls.

Assume it's Break My Soul, no?

Has to be

I think I just didn't need another song that mentioned 'lockdown', but as I say,.it's grown on me

This is fine, but it's probably the least impressive of all the Afropop/beats things that have placed this year. To me, obv.

i don't flippin know anymore. beyonce couldve been split about as bad as Kendrick, and already had one place.

xps

it's such a relaxing soundscape, i'd gladly listen to one of those 10-hour youtube mixes of the instrumental

Gal I am wayyyward

if it's Break My Soul i'm FPing the entire site. but it isn't

bring it

Assume it's Break My Soul, no?

Still better than Get Lucky.

This Rema song is like a railroad spike in my ear.

forks already said of an earlier entry that it 'beat Beyonce' which gave the game away that we weren't getting any more, thankfully

... or did it?

Rema song goes down easily but not dislodging the two epics from my mind

xps it's aggressively annoying

Find it amusing how unpredictable the top 10 seems. You have already mentioned #1 numerous times and #78 in this thread but there’s still a “?” On #1.

It's Kate Bush but this time for real

Still better than Get Lucky.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, February 22, 2023 3:54 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

By miles.

iirc there was some misdirection in the first Carly placement

hey it's midweek let's stretch this out til Friday teatime imo

+1

xps it's aggressively annoying

Btw I would have totally predicted “somewhere near marseilles” would be #1 and would’ve been fine with it. It sounds like a super ilm song to my ears.

I didn’t really thought it deserved the 10+ minutes at first but it eventually grew on me and think Floating Points’ production is mindblowing enough to deserve the length.