ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

My mind's gone completely blank and I can't remember what's left to place other than DNA.

i voted for FEEL. and DNA. and XXX.

forgot to nominate YAH., might have thrown a vote there too.

I voted for Loyalty

if the ballot were bigger i would've voted for "loyalty"

hell yeah lbi

there's 7 tracks left that seem like sure places to me but idk what'll miss out, maybe Boys or Bad Liar?

Humble is another song that I only really fell for when I watched the video. That seemed to happen a lot last year.

Wow this year’s top 20 is a bit bonkers... love it.

Listening to Humble now - it's still really good of course. Kendrick's pickings are rich

https://i.imgur.com/IajHKKX.jpg

06 BIG SHAQ "Man's Not Hot." [482 points, 15 votes]
https://youtu.be/3M_5oYU-IsU

a little surprised that didnt show up anywhere

man's not got...the hang of image posting

there's 7 tracks left that seem like sure places to me but idk what'll miss out

Y'all could've fixed this conundrum by not voting for Migos, but too late.

wow

That shitpost up there actually made me realize there's not much grime in this poll

Cut to the Feeling
Boys

SZA?

I've been a Paramore fan since the 2nd album - love Hard Times but the chorus of Rose Colored Boy is my favorite thing on the album. Reminds me of the giddiness that I got the first time I heard the choruses of "That's What You Get" and "Playing God".

man's not got...the hang of image posting

― #TeamHailing (imago), Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:50 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1. it looks the same if you're logged out or on mobile
2. i didn't make an entire gag photoshop, you caught me in my laziness

my best guess, in this order:

DNA
Love Galore
New Rules
Bad Liar
Cut to the Feeling

That shitpost up there actually made me realize there's not much grime in this poll

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:54 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cold has a better-than-zero shot of making the top 6

sza
kendrick
crj
either dua lipa or charli
selena
sun-el musician

in some kind of order

i *wish* iu had gotten this far but lol

We're forgetting the obvious here ppl.

Saer.

https://i.imgur.com/7tazJ6P.jpg

06 SUN EL-MUSICIAN ft. SAMTHING SOWETO "Akanamali" [463 points, 16 votes, 3 first place votes]
https://youtu.be/f4ApmPc4g48

yay

obviously i'm super happy to see this pop up so high; my #1 song

https://youtu.be/eKxFS8L6AlQ going to implore everyone to listen to the full version instead of the video edit, since that lacks the organ solo

what a great song, real shame it isn't #1

hell yes, such a beautiful song!

I totally forgot to vote for this on any of the three passes I made at my tracks ballot. I could've bumped it up, but not much.

btw, though i didn't find anything else on the Akanamali level, Sun-El's soundcloud is worth exploring:
https://soundcloud.com/sun-el-sithole

So between charli, Selena, Kendrick, sza, crj and dua lipa, one of them's getting brutally 78'ed :/

beautiful song

This really would've been a neat #1.

This song on the top 10 feels very ILM to me. Voted for it obviously think this might be the first year where a song in my top 10 ends in the top 10.

I'm listening for the first time and <3 ILM for voting this so high. Those rising warm house pads are so gorgeous.

I think I actually voted for new rules and bad liar too but not inmy top10 iirc.

aww, this is really nice. wish i’d made more of an effort to follow african pop music this year but my attention was already stretched thinner than that pancake-looking woman off dr who

every single sound that is introduced on that track is warm and pleasant, v sweet song.

he has an album coming sometime this year so hopefully it'll be great

This was my #1 which I felt a little strange about since I only heard it for the first time in, I think, November. But Samthing Soweto's vocals are absolutely the best thing I heard all year, and the production is perfect for it

listening for the first time now, but yeah this is awesome and ufo otm about that organ solo

https://soundcloud.com/sun-el-sithole/sun-el-random-original-mix
^ this is great btw

I'm just happy Akanamali placed! Well done, ILM!

https://youtu.be/SL1Q4P2jPR0
https://youtu.be/mlVhfJLAVG0

these two are great as well and are going to be on the album

i thought this song was gonna place somewhere in the fifties. this is so great

btw - and i'll mention this again when we get there - i have the top 177 tracks queued up to add to the playlist as soon as we hit #1, so there is much listening yet to be done.

This is really pleasant.

I love both CRJ and Charli but I hope it's either of them that doesn't make it this year.

same. feel like "new rules" is most likely to have been 78'd though

i kinda expected Boys and Bad Liar to both show up around where Green Light did

Really not sure what's going to miss out here. I know Carly Rae Jepsen is popular on here, but there's barely any discussion about that song on her thread. Could SZA have suffered from major split voting? I hope Selena has made it. I can't see New Rules missing out.

we could stop the poll here, and declare Akanamali the ILM song of the year