ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

that’s No T, not Not

My only vote today was "Alright" - a lot of tracks which I think are fine but don't get the love for in today's 20 - hope for more consistency tomorrow.

My criticism of ILM hivemind taste is that a lot of the choices seem theoretically sound, but in reality leave me completely unmoved. No doubt you would all have the same reaction listening to my 50 though.

My only vote today was "Alright" - a lot of tracks which I think are fine but don't get the love for in today's 20 - hope for more consistency tomorrow.

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), donderdag 18 augustus 2022 19:40

I have no doubt it will be a very consistent 197520 tracks

I actually want to see people's guesses. It's been implied that surprises lie in store, and none of them happened today, that's for sure

the only African track I can see place after this point is “Akanamali”

lol thanx rob for calling me an ass!

gathered you hadn’t voted. there were only three dancehall and one soca track nominated anyway (I don’t even think I’m exaggerating). still hoping (against hope perhaps) for the soca one to actually place. “Soco” at number one, soca at two (or the other way around) - we could have had it all, people!

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, August 18, 2022 1:27 PM (sixteen minutes ago)

lol sorry, I reread my post before seeing yours and realized it could be (mis)interpreted that way--suffice to say, I am the only ass I had in mind, I swear! (as witnessed on numerous past EOY poll threads)

But yeah Differentology was one of the "wild omissions" I had in mind, though I suppose it could still place. Was Akanamali nominated? I'm a bit surprised that hasn't shown up, but maybe I'm either over- or underestimating its popularity

(lol xpost!)

no Future or Young Thug yet right? honestly this is a weird list, not entirely in a bad way, but odd

My criticism of ILM hivemind taste is that a lot of the choices seem theoretically sound, but in reality leave me completely unmoved. No doubt you would all have the same reaction listening to my 50 though.

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

People would hate most of mine but at least it would be fun.

si let’s see your ass on the floor, r diddy!

si = so

Are Pooley or Hold Yuh not gonna place? those were my highest afropop and dancehall picks. I voted for Akanamali but lower on my ballot

Also surely Transgender Dysphoria Blues will pop up right?

i voted for a young thug song at #1, but i'm not holding out hope

Hold Yuh was on the unranked portion of my ballot.

Hope it makes it ;)

xp
I sincerely think everyone has heard my complaints about the lack of geographical & genre diversity before. And yet, people continue liking the music they like, disgusting behavior!

Lifestyle has to place, no...? I suppose Thug could suffer from having an insanely huge catalog

No chance for Pooley

Hold Yuh would be a massively pleasant surprise

There's a handful of songs I voted for that I learned of solely through placing high on previous ILM poll rollouts and that I was certain would show up, but now I'm not so sure.

i voted for a different thug song and a different quan song, but did not vote for "lifestyle" :/

I'm going to guess another Aphex Twin track sneaks in.

I'm taking a wild guess that Black Pumas might be among the remaining choices.

xp I feel you vc: those are the kinds of decisions I didn't want to think about

In terms of things I associate strongly w/ILM that haven't made a showing yet. How do people feel about this stuff in 2022? Duke Dumont and A*M*E - Need U (100%) - Rolling UK dance pop interzone thread. It's been a while for me, but I think I'd still enjoy my personal faves

Also no solo DAWN yet, but she's guaranteed to place in the albums list

I've definitely heard the 2015 tracks results but no memory of this Donnie Trumpets

Voted strongly for a solo DAWN fwiw

fwiw Donnie Trumpet now goes by Nico Segal for obvs reasons

they love the Velvets AND action movies?

well maybe his parents did

Inow I’m imagining DJT having a lightbulb moment while listening to “Sunday Candy” in 2015: ‘Hey, how about I start my own social experiment?’

Maybe after seeing them perform the song at the white house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6vvDV7MCo

It’s a pretty good performance by the way

A best of the decade survey is inevitably going to be both safer and less interestingly quirky than a SOTY one, and have more glaringly offensive omissions. So it's kinda designed to make everyone unhappy. But I'm enjoying it! Just pissed I forgot to vote.

Afropop and afrohouse can't compete, they don't have the charts and media, they're only global through diasporas and messengers, five committed voters on ILM will be splitting their votes even with previous YEP consensus, and five votes was not enough anyway, and that's all the beauty and pleasure of a niche interest into something that is big elsewhere. It's like asking people to be converted to jazz because the music is very good - does not happen even in a hundred years.

I was expecting two jazz-influenced tracks to place.

?? afropop does have charts, huge hits. Tems is on one of the biggest songs of the year if not the biggest, america wise. ilx is just ..

https://hitparade.ch/charts/singles

please check this week’s Swiss charts, especially numbers 6, 46, 59 (a former #1) and 98.

…and that’s just your country

I rather meant specific charts in their country of origin and overseas. The US afrobeats chart was established only this year. Charts in Nigeria must also be relatively new, the music and the hype circulate differently (video streams, club concerts, tabloids, fashion). There are exceptions and they're growing and the market is maturing and globalizing - but that's a loong way from Antenna. What's actually exciting is that the market formed at the same time as the artists that we're rooting for. But it's not helping a US-UK-based audience see clearly, they can't just pick, cause the system to elevate and identify the "anthems" is not quite there yet. Afropop and afrohouse is still everyone's jam. Which is a good thing imo if the alternative is commodification. I'm just saying I'm not surprised.

I'm glad that Calm Down is following Jerusalema in Switzerland, that's nice. But I was recently at an afropop night in Bern and the song came on, and it didn't elicit any particular reaction and clearly no one in the room knew the steps, at best they knew it was South African. But that was because it was a normal youthful crowd. Something of the culture does not travel, and that's another reason the echo is always going to be different.

If only Burna Boy had the same visibility as "Marry Me Archie" or whatever

Yeah. We could help Burna Boy by setting up individual wiki pages for his songs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie,_Marry_Me

eagerly anticipating the next album from swiss afrobeats star bern-a boy

""Archie, Marry Me" examines modern romance and traditional marriage, and touches on themes of commitment and financial stability."

not sure I understand all of the points you’re trying to make here, at least several of them seem wrong to me. but if you think Global Afropop is still struggling to somehow emulate that “Antenna” peak of a decade ago - and failing, I don’t know what to tell you.

Rema’s “Calm Down” is currently number one here in the Netherlands after having already topped the French charts.

Burna’s “Last Last” is a big hit the world over.

Fireboy’s “Peru” is the second-biggest hit of the year in the UK so far

this after “Love Nwantiti”, “Essence”, “Jerusalema”.

it took much longer than it should have, but afropop is getting more mainstream by the day. there’s no guarantee it will ever be as big globally as reggaeton is now, but I also wouldn’t want to bet against it, the trajectory is very similar.

anyway, bringing it back to this poll, the issue, as has been noted already, is broader than just African pop. and yes, that is a (lack of) numbers game to a large extent, at the ILM level - although the more recent EOY polls have seen much better representation than this decade poll.

xps

Which reminds me there has been 0 representation of reggaeton or any latinamerican music in this poll.

Will it all be redeemed on our top 20? We’ll see.

it took a while for afrobeats to break stateside. wizkid was on “one dance” in 2016, it didn’t become a critical cause celebre until 2019 or so, and it took even longer for it to become a commercial force over here. obv the uk timeline is accelerated a bit.

there will be lots more afrobeats in the 2020s poll

Felt aggrieved when the Donnie Trumpet placed as I was sure I hated it first time around; saw I had liked it, listened again and realised in fact I love it. Memory is an idiot.

Ass on the Floor absolute favourite discovery of the poll so far - such a weird and twisty little song!

Which reminds me there has been 0 representation of reggaeton or any latinamerican music in this poll.

Will it all be redeemed on our top 20? We’ll see.

Obviously, Despacito is going to take the top spot.

Ass on the Floor absolute favourite discovery of the poll so far - such a weird and twisty little song!

― tangenttangent, Thursday, 18 August 2022 20:16 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

I wasn't kidding!

I'm hardly the borad's biggest Last Train To Paris fan, but if yall haven't heard that album yet, it's certainly worth checking out

Voted for "Headache" (#1), "Ass on the Floor," "Into You," and "Sunday Candy" today, and probably chose the "wrong" Burial and Carly Rae Jepsen songs to rank, but oh well. I think of "Sunday Candy" as much as a Jamila Woods song as a Chance song. "Not" is a jam and probably should have made my ballot.

I assume we will see "Inspector Norse," "212," "Love It If We Made It," and one more Carly song ("Warm Blood" or "Call Me Maybe"?) tomorrow. I've given up on a couple of my higher ranked country songs at this point, but I guess another Kacey track could rank. As far as left-field choices, I'm going with The Comet is Coming's "Summon the Fire," which I think I remember finishing ~20 in that year's poll and garnering a lot of ooohs when it ranked.

I assumed if there was more Carly, it would probably be "Call Me Maybe" and "Run Away With Me". Maybe "Cut to the Feeling" as well.

I reckon something really popular in the outside world but which we barely covered here might place.

I'm hardly the borad's biggest Last Train To Paris fan, but if yall haven't heard that album yet, it's certainly worth checking out

― rob, Thursday, August 18, 2022 4:27 PM (fourteen minutes ago)

Revisiting this now and I forgot how much of this I love. Shades is a speed bump after that incredible opening run, but it's not as front-loaded as I thought