ILM's 2021 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

sent over an album vote, won't have enough time for the tracks unfortunately x

The ones I would've nominated in retrospect are Leon Bridges's album and singles, and Callahan/Bonnie/Drag City's "The Wild Kindness."

voting now!

my tracks ballot has 8 playlist discoveries and several more the playlist pushed me back towards; it is the result of a painstaking and comprehensive process and it has left me feeling attuned to ilm's listening habits. my albums ballot has 0 playlist discoveries and was finalised well over a month ago. idk what lessons can be drawn from this

Now that toddintheshadows has chosen it as his song of the year I feel sad that I couldn’t give a vote to “meet me at our spot” because it wasn’t nommed at all. It was one of the very few mindless pop songs I loved this year.

Voted! Four discovered on ILM playlists made it in, so well worth listening to at least half the play length of every track this year (93 other tracks were saved besides).

Ugh please DISREGARD FIRST BALLOT. Sending my ballot again due to a glaring albums omission.

^^this but a glaring singles omission

Voted! Modest amount of submissions in both my ballots but hope to see them all do well.

pretty sure i could do a fairly legit top 25 based solely on "A" artists. these nominations are a rich vein of music; managing about a 75% hit rate or higher.

voted! thank you pollrunners

voted. 25 albums, 1 track. thanks so much everyone who is making this possible!

Voted! Leaving it until the last minute and doing it after lots of drinks possibly ill advised but probably a truer, more impulsive ranking.

voted :)

Sneaked mine in with an hour to go

same! just submitted my ballot, yey

+1 thank you to the pollsters <3

Voted about 10 mins before deadline. Which is pretty good by my standards.

voted!

"meet me at our spot" was nommed (by me), it just doesn't say willow/tyler cole in the spreadsheet if that's how you were searching for it

i still haven't voted lol lemme throw it together real quick

oh shit yeah gimme a few

sean what kinda numbers we looking at here

sent!!

whodunnit idunnit

voteddd literally minutes before the deadline lol, trax only as usual

oops, thought the deadline was next week. sent in my ballot anyway, looking forward to the rollout even if my votes didn't make it!

no one nommed PUNK, huh?

Oh god I've missed out an album. Do I have time to amend if I do it in the next five minutes???

Going to leave it open for about another two hours

Ty! Resubmitted!

Snuck in!

woop!

hurry up now everyone

5 minutes to drink up

all done, gonna go press some buttons now

Results are in! Looking forward to the bloodbath.

final count: 86 albums ballots, 77 tracks ballots

Auspicious number indeed for the trax poll

Any idea what the numbers were in the last few years?

yep

https://i.imgur.com/oT5MYNW.png

hard to deny there's a bit of a trend but the quality/quantity ratio is still looking good

teh borad :(

Introduce mandatory voting imo :D

Also means that everyone who voted has comparatively more influence than in previous years

where we've come from and where we've been

ILM's top albums 2010-2020

2010 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Food: The Son of Chico Dusty
2011 Destroyer - Kaputt
2012 Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
2013 Haim - Days Are Gone
2014 D’Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
2015 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2016 KING- We Are KING
2017 Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
2018 Low - Double Negative
2019 Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
2020 Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?

ILM's top tracks 2010-2020

2010 Girl Unit - Wut
2011 Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay - 212
2012 Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
2013 Daft Punk - Get Lucky
2014 Tinashe ft. Schoolboy Q - 2 On
2015 Grimes - Realiti (Demo)
2016 Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles
2017 Charli XCX - Boys
2018 Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
2019 Busy Signal - Balloon
2020 SAULT - Wildfires

oops lol at "Sir Lucious Left Food"

yeah I can't eat sprouts either

less votes should make for more interesting results imo

thanks all for running, cya on the other side

I figured there'd be fewer voters again this year, but didn't anticipate the scale of attrition. Oof.

on the bright side weve still got another 8 years til 0 votes based on that trend

i have to admit it was very hard to get myself to put together a ballot or even noms this yr

perhaps persistent stress abt society's slow collapse has something to do w/ it idk