ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

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02. Grimes - REALiTi (Demo) (2015)
[1513 points / 23 votes / 3 Nº1 votes]
Previous Placement: 1 in 2015
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oh shi

...

Still no idea why CRJ so bewitches ILM with her perfectly serviceable white-bread-with-a-glass-of-water-on-the-side-for-dippin' mainstream pop sounds.

I guess it was a sign of shitheadedness to come that Grimes seemed mystified and kinda annoyed at this song’s popularity.

"Call Me Maybe" my #1. The only song of the decade I feel fully sure I'll be hearing and loving in 2050. And not just that -- it's a song which I think of as inextricably tied up with my ILM reading, I think the first one where I felt like my grasp of a huge hit was really deepened by the board.

I just listened to "Run Away With Me" for the first time, and I gotta agree, Camaraderie, I'm baffled.

Also, you kids, get off my lawn.

CRJ is a feast of mnstrm pop drama, and some of us like that sort of meal now and again, in between avant-weirdo binges

Formation?

Not that I personally voted for her, but happy for the double placement, these are classix

no 1975 track could unify so many voters surely?
please?

🎈

I think Indexed has already hinted towards what number 1 is.

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01. Charli XCX - BOYS

I think I know what it's gonna be

here we go:

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01. Todd Terje - Inspector Norse (2012)
[1652 points / 24 votes / 3 Nº1 votes]
Previous Placement: 1 in 2012
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Heh.

thanks for running ufo and moka, enjoyed this a lot

a great number one, i listen to norse regularly still

ok real result please

yawn

ok, fair enough.

Oh man, where's Balloon???

I did not vote for this, but I had a good feeling form the start that would take the top spot, because it is a very ILM choice.

Completely memory-holing Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" and Kanye West's "Mercy" so we could fit in more Carly Jeppers, good work

Thank you all!

Here's the picture album:

https://imgur.com/a/IEJjXmO

I'll pass the ball along for full results and a thread for stats / ballots to ufo!

I like this song but ended up using my Terje vote on Snooze 4 Love

yeah Snooze 4 Love is a bit better

Thanks for the great work ufo and Moka :)

yeah, good rollout, nicely done

At least the images looked nice on this absolutely dogshit list of songs, good work moka

Thanks Moka and ufo! Great rollout. I learned about a lot of stuff I had never heard before, or had forgotten.

Completely memory-holing Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" and Kanye West's "Mercy" so we could fit in more Carly Jeppers, good work

― marcel the shell with swag on (Whiney G. Weingarten)

Eh, I wouldn't find those placing to be any better or more interesting than CRJ.

Full results will be shared but in the meantime here's the 10 songs lurking below 101:

102. David Bowie - Blackstar
103. Toyboy & Robin - Jaded
104. Simmy - Umahlalela
105. Usher - Climax
106. Girl Unit - Wut - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings
107. SOPHIE - BIPP
108. Lorde - Green Light
109. Drake - Hotline Bling
110. MONDO GROSSO ft. Hikari Mitsushima - Labyrinth

If there's interest I can probaly update the spotify playlist to be a top 200?

Thanks for the rollout

thank you both, ufo and Moka!

Excellent work by the poll-runners, not so excellent work by the voters but you can't have everything. Tbh I like 'Inspector Norse' better than most of the other things so placed so by that metric it is indeed a very worthy winner, hoorah!

Thank you Moka and ufo! Great poll and images.

Thanks for the kind words!

Ok, I'll post the top 200 but without points / votes and tiebreakers. Here's what we missed:

1 Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
2 Grimes - REALiTi (Demo)
3 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
4 Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
5 Robyn - Dancing On My Own
6 Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay - 212
7 Sun-El Musician ft. Samthing Soweto - Akanamali
8 Destroyer - Kaputt
9 Solange - Cranes in the Sky
10 Tinashe ft. Schoolboy Q - 2 On
11 Susanne Sundfør - Delirious
12 Beyoncé - Countdown
13 The 1975 - Love It If We Made It
14 The Knife - Full of Fire
15 Javiera Mena - Luz de Piedra de Luna
16 Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
17 Susanne Sundfør - Fade Away
18 Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
19 Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
20 Paramore - Ain't It Fun
21 Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing
21 Ariana Grande - no tears left to cry
23 Carly Rae Jepsen - Boy Problems
24 Kendrick Lamar - Alright
25 Grimes - Oblivion
26 Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
27 Ariana Grande - Into You
28 Big Thief - Not
29 Skepta ft. JME - That's Not Me
30 Lorde - Royals
31 Diddy-Dirty Money ft. Swizz Beatz - Ass on the Floor
32 Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
33 KING - Native Land
34 Rae Sremmurd ft. Gucci Mane - Black Beatles
35 Grouper - Headache
36 Burial - Come Down To Us
37 Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay Rock - Money Trees
38 The-Dream - Yamaha
39 Miguel - Adorn
39 Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
41 Charlotte Adigéry - High Lights
42 Rihanna ft. Drake - Work
43 FKA twigs - Two Weeks
43 100 gecs - money machine
45 KING - The Greatest
46 Janelle Monáe ft. Big Boi - Tightrope
47 Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
48 Beyoncé - Love On Top
49 School of Seven Bells - I L U
50 Pachanga Boys - Time
51 Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You
52 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now
53 Paramore - Still Into You
54 Lana Del Rey - Video Games
55 Richard Dawson - The Vile Stuff
56 Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer
57 Hatchie - Stay With Me
58 Taylor Swift - Style
59 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers - Get Lucky
60 Destroyer - Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
61 Björk - Stonemilker
62 Classixx ft. Nancy Whang - All You're Waiting For
63 Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
64 M83 - Midnight City
65 Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments
65 Charli XCX - SuperLove
67 Aphex Twin - XMAS_EVET10 [120​]​[​thanaton3 mix]
67 Paramore - Hard Times
69 Taylor Swift - All Too Well
69 CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share
71 Róisín Murphy - Incapable
72 Taylor Swift - Blank Space
73 KING - Hey (Extended Mix)
74 Amel Larrieux - I Do Take
75 Nicki Minaj - Super Bass
75 Migos ft. Lil Uzi Vert - Bad and Boujee
77 Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms
78 Games - Strawberry Skies
78 Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses
80 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX - I Love It
80 Frank Ocean - Pyramids
82 Weyes Blood - Andromeda
83 Tove Styrke - Ego
84 Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)
85 HAIM - If I Could Change Your Mind
86 Pet Shop Boys - Love is a Bourgeois Construct
86 Purple Mountains - Snow Is Falling In Manhattan
88 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
89 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires
90 Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
91 HAIM - Falling
91 Mitski - Your Best American Girl
93 Julia Holter - Feel You
93 Bicep - Glue
95 Låpsley - Operator (DJ Koze's Disco Edit)
96 Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
97 Dua Lipa - New Rules
98 Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn
99 Chromatics - Shadow
100 Jack Ü (Skrillex and Diplo) with Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now
100 Oranssi Pazuzu - Vasemman Käden Hierarkia
102 David Bowie - Blackstar
103 Toyboy & Robin - Jaded
104 Usher - Climax
104 Simmy - Umahlalela
106 Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings
107 Girl Unit - Wut
108 SOPHIE - BIPP
108 Lorde - Green Light
110 Drake - Hotline Bling
110 MONDO GROSSO ft. Hikari Mitsushima - Labyrinth
112 Melanie de Biasio - Blackened Cities
112 Ariana Grande - thank u, next
114 PSY - Gangnam Style
114 David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away
116 Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank)
116 Eric Church - Springsteen
116 Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
116 Real Lies - North Circular
120 Ke$ha - TiK ToK
120 Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Co.
122 Chromatics - Cherry
122 Koffee - Toast
124 Death Grips - I've Seen Footage
125 Tegan and Sara - Closer
126 StarBoy ft. L.A.X & WizKid - Caro
127 Waka Flocka Flame - Hard in Da Paint
127 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy
129 Sofi de la Torre - Vermillion
130 Jai Paul - Jasmine (Demo)
131 Deerhunter - Helicopter
132 Blawan - Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage?
133 Autre Ne Veut - Play By Play
134 2NE1 - I AM THE BEST
135 Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Lovesick
135 Guru - Pooley
135 Serge Beynaud - Akrakabo
138 Andrew W.K. - Music Is Worth Living For
139 Janet Jackson - No Sleeep
140 Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar
141 Big Boi ft. Cutty - Shutterbugg
142 Saint Etienne - Tonight
142 Courtney Barnett - Depreston
144 Scott Walker - Epizootics!
145 EMA - California
145 Sky Ferreira - I Blame Myself
147 Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
148 The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming
148 Clairo - Bags
150 Gotye ft. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know
150 Richard Dawson - Jogging
152 D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Another Life
152 Oneohtrix Point Never - Sticky Drama
154 Danny L Harle ft. Carly Rae Jepsen - Super Natural
154 Men I Trust - Tailwhip
156 StarBoy ft. WizKid, Terri, Spotless & Ceeza Milli - Soco
157 Andres - New For U
157 sakanaction - Music
159 Underworld - Custard Speedtalk
160 Autechre - bladelores
160 Aldous Harding - The Barrel
162 Spoon - Inside Out
163 The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
163 Susanne Sundfør - White Foxes
165 Cass McCombs - County Line
165 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
165 MGMT - Me and Michael
168 Miguel - Do You...
169 Robyn - Hang With Me
170 Bunji Garlin - Differentology (Ready for the Road)
170 Pusha T - If You Know You Know
172 LOONA/ODD EYE CIRCLE - Girl Front
173 Busy Signal - Balloon
174 Parquet Courts - Stoned And Starving
174 K. Michelle - V.S.O.P.
176 Blanck Mass - Rhesus Negative
177 Alex Anwandter - Cómo puedes vivir contigo mismo?
178 Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
179 Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way
179 Destroyer - The Laziest River
179 Vampire Weekend - Step
179 Jessie Ware - Imagine It Was Us
183 Tkay Maidza - U-Huh
183 The 1975 - Somebody Else
183 Octo Octa - I Need You
186 HAIM - Don't Save Me
186 Shamir - On The Regular
188 Ariana Grande - Ghostin
189 Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
189 Susanne Sundfør - Undercover
191 Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend
191 Burial - Rival Dealer
191 Playboi Carti - Magnolia
194 Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - The Copper Top
194 Grimes - Flesh Without Blood
196 Heavy-K ft. Nokwazi - Sweetie
196 Danny L Harle - Awake For Hours
198 Daft Punk ft. Julian Casablancas - Instant Crush
198 Kero Kero Bonito - Only Acting
200 Rihanna - Needed Me

Really thought 'Blackened Cities' would make it.

Damnnn I voted for the wrong SOPHIE track. Would have loved BIPP to make it.

Thanks for the rundown! It was fun.

And 'Fuck You' placing would be baffling beyond belief.

Gyptian - Hold Yuh was #264 and we're all the worse for it.

Wow, that 135 tie is all time!

Fun poll, thx ufo & Moka. As with the EOY polls, very little I voted for showed up. (I don’t really get the CRJ luv… oh wells)

my main takeaway from this poll is that there are a huge amount of songs I thought came out eons ago, but really they came out last decade

Considering Boys is the 6th best song of the decade, it really fell from grace, huh?

ty for the poll, roll on next week!