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

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.

another producer credit there I should've twigged but didnt

oh I didn't realise Floating Points was involved - I'll have to relisten

anyway, I like Somewhere Near Marseilles well enough but prefer some of the less amorphous tracks on the album

there’s some beautiful strings in the background around the 9-minute mark

Moka you actually did that prediction and it made me listen to it and I gave it two points, hope you're proud

Lol thanks nabozo

It’s not my favorite song of the year I think but I think it sounds very… elegant.

I felt this whole rollout was working towards a “Marseilles” number one

it’s okay tho

we’ll always have “Paris”

(I’ll never get tired of this extremely 2022 ILM joke)

https://i.imgur.com/sfKjPhJ.png
#1: Ruger - Girlfriend - 451 points - 14 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
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"We definitely don't give a fuck" - a thread for Ruger
rolling afropop 2022

No

I’m in (skeng’s) London, you’re in (qmark, tpzee’s) Paris.

We did it!

#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