ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

101. Jack Ü (Skrillex and Diplo) with Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now - [302 points / 5 votes]
100. Oranssi Pazuzu - Vasemman Käden Hierarkia - [302 points / 6 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
99. Chromatics - Shadow - [303 points / 4 votes]
98. Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn - [304 points / 6 votes]
97. Dua Lipa - New Rules - [305 points / 9 votes]
96. Selena Gomez - Bad Liar - [306 points / 6 votes]
95. Låpsley - Operator (DJ Koze's Disco Edit) - [307 points / 7 votes]
94. Julia Holter - Feel You - [308 points / 5 votes]
93. Bicep - Glue - [308 points / 7 votes]
92. Mitski - Your Best American Girl - [309 points / 5 votes]
91. HAIM - Falling - [309 points / 6 votes]
90. Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk - [310 points / 6 votes]
89. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires - [311 points / 4 votes]
88. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream - [313 points / 6 votes]
87. Pet Shop Boys - Love is a Bourgeois Construct - [316 points / 5 votes]
86. Purple Mountains - Snow Is Falling In Manhattan - [316 points / 6 votes]
85. HAIM - If I Could Change Your Mind - [321 points / 5 votes]
84. Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High) - [322 points / 5 votes]
83. Tove Styrke - Ego - [324 points / 4 votes]
82. Weyes Blood - Andromeda - [327 points / 5 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
81. Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX - I Love It - [329 points / 5 votes]

80. Frank Ocean - Pyramids - [329 points / 8 votes]
79. Games - Strawberry Skies - [332 points / 6 votes]
78. Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses - [332 points / 7 votes]
77. Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms - [333 points / 9 votes]
76. Migos ft. Lil Uzi Vert - Bad and Boujee - [337 points / 6 votes]
75. Nicki Minaj - Super Bass - [337 points / 9 votes]
74. Amel Larrieux - I Do Take - [339 points / 6 votes]
73. KING - Hey (Extended Mix) - [346 points / 6 votes]
72. Taylor Swift - Blank Space - [353 points / 6 votes]
71. Róisín Murphy - Incapable - [354 points / 7 votes]
70. Taylor Swift - All Too Well - [355 points / 6 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
69. CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share - [355 points / 7 votes]
68. Aphex Twin - XMAS_EVET10 [120​]​[​thanaton3 mix] - [356 points / 5 votes]
67. Paramore - Hard Times - [356 points / 6 votes]
66. Charli XCX - SuperLove - [357 points / 5 votes]
65. Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments - [357 points / 6 votes]
64. M83 - Midnight City - [363 points / 7 votes]
63. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me - [364 points / 7 votes]
62. Classixx ft. Nancy Whang - All You're Waiting For - [366 points / 7 votes]
61. Björk - Stonemilker - [374 points / 8 votes]

60. Destroyer - Suicide Demo for Kara Walker - [375 points / 6 votes]
59. Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers - Get Lucky - [377 points / 6 votes]
58. Taylor Swift - Style - [378 points / 8 votes]
57. Hatchie - Stay With Me - [382 points / 7 votes]
56. Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer - [383 points / 8 votes]
55. Richard Dawson - The Vile Stuff - [386 points / 6 votes]
54. Lana Del Rey - Video Games - [387 points / 8 votes]
53. Paramore - Still Into You - [395 points / 7 votes]
52. Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now - [399 points / 7 votes]
51. Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You - [405 points / 5 votes]
50. Pachanga Boys - Time - [406 points / 6 votes / 2 Nº1 votes]
49. School of Seven Bells - I L U - [407 points / 6 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
48. Beyoncé - Love On Top - [413 points / 6 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
47. Fetty Wap - Trap Queen - [417 points / 10 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
46. Janelle Monáe ft. Big Boi - Tightrope - [419 points / 7 votes]
45. KING - The Greatest - [425 points / 7 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
43. FKA twigs - Two Weeks - [426 points / 8 votes]
43. 100 gecs - money machine - [426 points / 8 votes]
42. Rihanna ft. Drake - Work - [430 points / 6 votes]
41. Charlotte Adigéry - High Lights - [434 points / 8 votes]

40. Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) - [439 points / 7 votes]
39. Miguel - Adorn - [439 points / 9 votes]
38. The-Dream - Yamaha - [442 points / 9 votes]
37. Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay Rock - Money Trees - [451 points / 7 votes]
36. Burial - Come Down To Us - [453 points / 7 votes / 2 Nº1 votes]
35. Grouper - Headache - [454 points / 6 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
34. Rae Sremmurd ft. Gucci Mane - Black Beatles - [456 points / 9 votes]
33. KING - Native Land - [464 points / 7 votes]
32. Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill - [466 points / 9 votes]
31. Diddy-Dirty Money ft. Swizz Beatz - Ass on the Floor - [467 points / 8 votes]
30. Lorde - Royals - [469 points / 7 votes]
29. Skepta ft. JME - That's Not Me - [471 points / 8 votes]
28. Big Thief - Not - [475 points / 10 votes]
27. Ariana Grande - Into You - [476 points / 9 votes]
26. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy - [477 points / 7 votes]
25. Grimes - Oblivion - [483 points / 8 votes]
24. Kendrick Lamar - Alright - [487 points / 10 votes]
23. Carly Rae Jepsen - Boy Problems - [520 points / 8 votes]
22. Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing - [525 points / 10 votes]
21. Ariana Grande - no tears left to cry - [525 points / 10 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]

here's the recap

"adorn" - too low! shocked this didn't end up top 20 but then i did vote for "coffee"
"money trees" - surprised this is now the consensus pick from gkmc?
"sugar for the pill" - i love this album but what is this doing here, it's one of the weakest tracks. at least when it placed in the 2017 poll half the votes were for the avalon emerson remix
"royals" - i still hate this!

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

well there is one outrageous afropop banger I voted for that I am still hopeful about...

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haha you see right through me breastcrawl

i won't give up...there's another London track we all rather need, from a bobbins-y yet curiously folkish direction

there's been a lot of grousing from people whose specialist subjects haven't been much represented so far, but there are a lot of subjects in that boat. we almost didn't have any metal lol. but yeah the lack of any PC Music, afropop, much rap and so on can be filed alongside the lack of (much) bobbins, rock, psych-pop, emo, footwork, etc etc. then again this is very clearly a pop poll and pop hegemony will always hold sway

but who knows eh. who knows

lack of any PC Music

not exactly the same but surely 100 gecs are the rep for that here

I really hope not, no.

the yanks took our musical heritage and made it brasher innit m8

isn’t ironic, don’t you think…

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273cb26017ea500c898d369b49b

this is very clearly a pop poll and pop hegemony will always hold sway

everything good about PC music (and there is plenty) is not in 100 gecs

footwork is a good call too, I nominated two tracks but will be chuffed if either got a second vote.

isn’t *it* ironic - gah

time for bed

I was one of the no.1 voters for the Burial track. It's incredible. I always joke to myself it is his Westlife stepping of the stools track.

Also High Lights wow. Amazing.

Sugar For The Pill is undeniable for a 1990 shoegaze kid. Where do think Coldplay got that shit from?

It's very 6music but

lol, fair, fair

I didn't vote for Archie but I could have. Someone commented on the singing but cmon. Some of us miss The Pastels.

Long shot guesses…

Avalon Emerson - The Frontier
LOONA/Yves - New

Would passion fruit hit the top 20?

just want to praise Girl Unit’s Wut, which is not going to show up. It was the ILM #1 of 2010, no? but it’s been disparaged here since then. It still sounds very dramatic and utterly fantastic to me, such downcast euphoria replete with piled-up cartoon vocals and airhorn

I think "Wut" is still showing up

i love wut

would love to see more top 20 guesses though because there's one fantastic track no one has even mentioned as a possibility that will surely catch everyone off-guard

Ah Wut was my last cut, would be great to see show up.

Other top 20 guesses..

XO Tour Llif3
Wrecking Ball
The Riverbed

There are at least 2 Robyn tracks coming, right?

Losing You

oooh, I would love to see “XO Tour Llif3” show up!

Alexis Jordan’s “Happiness”

had never even heard of this before but wow it's great, let's just pretend it did place

there's definitely more definite placers than can fit in a top 20 - will be a weird ILM poll if Javiera Mena doesn't show up

think she reliably showed up at position 27 for a couple of years on end, she won’t be going top 20 now - also: strong vote splitting alert!

_Alexis Jordan’s “Happiness”_

had never even heard of this before but wow it's great, let's just pretend it did place

Like flopson I've been thinking about nostalgia a lot this week...it's kind of hard to disentangle strong memories of e.g. Skott posting about moombahton or a few people going mad for Toyboy & Robin from an idea of what actually got a majority of votes in the EOY polls. My memories tend to specific moments that were meaningful for me, so I shouldn't surprised when the end-of-decade poll doesn't line up with "what ILM meant to me".

Putting together my ballot was a really fun exercise in revisiting those memories :)

Oh yeah, "Jaded" was the other one. I could see that and Inspector Norse being 1 & 2.

I've ignored the reunions of the shoegaze bands I liked as a wee bairn. I shall cling to ufo's assessment of that Slowdive track as I'd prefer to imagine that the LP is more interesting than that lol.

"Adorn" was on my ballot for ages but naturally I eventually switched to a Miguel nom that was probably always destined for #527 or something.

__Alexis Jordan’s “Happiness”_

had never even heard of this before but wow it's great, let's just pretend it did place_

this is one track I regret not campaigning for, and I wouldn’t have even thought of it had someone else not nominated it

I love Toyboy & Robin's Jaded and it was high on my list but it is another one I don't see placing

My memories tend to specific moments that were meaningful for me, so I shouldn't surprised when the end-of-decade poll doesn't line up with "what ILM meant to me".

Putting together my ballot was a really fun exercise in revisiting those memories :)

― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, August 18, 2022

that is exactly how I feel, the tracks I voted for are important to me for personal reasons, for the moments of connection and social occasions that meant a lot to me. I like that this poll is an amalgam of a bunch of different takes

"Native Land" is genuinely... haunting. (Yes, I should have known this already; I've had more than enough tip-offs that We Are King had been a big deal during my Inattentive Years.)

Don't know if people rate it now, but REALiTi - Demo is a track + video that I felt so many connections to at the time, and it still seems really good to me.

My #1

mine too

"Realiti" is one of those pop songs I've barely tired of over the years. "No Tears Left to Cry" is another

Only had 2 of my ballot place, Lapsley and Peggy Gou. I think there’s about 6 more which might place but wouldn’t be surprised if none of them do.

I was this minute old when I learnt that Dawn Richard was in Diddy-Dirty Money

can’t wait till you find out about Danity Kane

yeah that's where her following here came from originally (& i wasn't even here at the time)

"ass on the floor" really is the greatest, the overlapping vocals in the chorus & then swizz beatz's hook coming in over the top halfway through is just transcendent.

there's a clear enough throughline between the tracks dawn co-wrote on LTTP and her solo work really

I think Akanamali was the only African song to make the top 10 any year of the decade, so realistically it was probably the only one that could hope to make this list. And if High Lights can make it, Akanamali could have too, it's just a quirk of the vote.

That said, I am a bit bored by the results. It's very pop, yes, but a lot of the pop is of the very tasteful kind. What was more POP than K-pop and azonto last decade? Might be nostalgia, but I think when I began reading this board, it seemed ahead of the pop charts, but now it honestly feels like it's lacking behind. It'd be more fun to just listen to the Spotify Top 50, even though Tobias Rahim has four of the top six songs in Denmark.

2019 had "sondela" and "anybody" too