ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

Ok, I'll post the top 200 but without points / votes and tiebreakers. Here's what we missed:

1 Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
2 Grimes - REALiTi (Demo)
3 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
4 Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
5 Robyn - Dancing On My Own
6 Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay - 212
7 Sun-El Musician ft. Samthing Soweto - Akanamali
8 Destroyer - Kaputt
9 Solange - Cranes in the Sky
10 Tinashe ft. Schoolboy Q - 2 On
11 Susanne Sundfør - Delirious
12 Beyoncé - Countdown
13 The 1975 - Love It If We Made It
14 The Knife - Full of Fire
15 Javiera Mena - Luz de Piedra de Luna
16 Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
17 Susanne Sundfør - Fade Away
18 Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
19 Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
20 Paramore - Ain't It Fun
21 Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing
21 Ariana Grande - no tears left to cry
23 Carly Rae Jepsen - Boy Problems
24 Kendrick Lamar - Alright
25 Grimes - Oblivion
26 Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
27 Ariana Grande - Into You
28 Big Thief - Not
29 Skepta ft. JME - That's Not Me
30 Lorde - Royals
31 Diddy-Dirty Money ft. Swizz Beatz - Ass on the Floor
32 Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
33 KING - Native Land
34 Rae Sremmurd ft. Gucci Mane - Black Beatles
35 Grouper - Headache
36 Burial - Come Down To Us
37 Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay Rock - Money Trees
38 The-Dream - Yamaha
39 Miguel - Adorn
39 Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
41 Charlotte Adigéry - High Lights
42 Rihanna ft. Drake - Work
43 FKA twigs - Two Weeks
43 100 gecs - money machine
45 KING - The Greatest
46 Janelle Monáe ft. Big Boi - Tightrope
47 Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
48 Beyoncé - Love On Top
49 School of Seven Bells - I L U
50 Pachanga Boys - Time
51 Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You
52 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now
53 Paramore - Still Into You
54 Lana Del Rey - Video Games
55 Richard Dawson - The Vile Stuff
56 Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer
57 Hatchie - Stay With Me
58 Taylor Swift - Style
59 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers - Get Lucky
60 Destroyer - Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
61 Björk - Stonemilker
62 Classixx ft. Nancy Whang - All You're Waiting For
63 Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
64 M83 - Midnight City
65 Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments
65 Charli XCX - SuperLove
67 Aphex Twin - XMAS_EVET10 [120​]​[​thanaton3 mix]
67 Paramore - Hard Times
69 Taylor Swift - All Too Well
69 CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share
71 Róisín Murphy - Incapable
72 Taylor Swift - Blank Space
73 KING - Hey (Extended Mix)
74 Amel Larrieux - I Do Take
75 Nicki Minaj - Super Bass
75 Migos ft. Lil Uzi Vert - Bad and Boujee
77 Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms
78 Games - Strawberry Skies
78 Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses
80 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX - I Love It
80 Frank Ocean - Pyramids
82 Weyes Blood - Andromeda
83 Tove Styrke - Ego
84 Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)
85 HAIM - If I Could Change Your Mind
86 Pet Shop Boys - Love is a Bourgeois Construct
86 Purple Mountains - Snow Is Falling In Manhattan
88 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
89 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires
90 Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
91 HAIM - Falling
91 Mitski - Your Best American Girl
93 Julia Holter - Feel You
93 Bicep - Glue
95 Låpsley - Operator (DJ Koze's Disco Edit)
96 Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
97 Dua Lipa - New Rules
98 Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn
99 Chromatics - Shadow
100 Jack Ü (Skrillex and Diplo) with Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now
100 Oranssi Pazuzu - Vasemman Käden Hierarkia
102 David Bowie - Blackstar
103 Toyboy & Robin - Jaded
104 Usher - Climax
104 Simmy - Umahlalela
106 Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings
107 Girl Unit - Wut
108 SOPHIE - BIPP
108 Lorde - Green Light
110 Drake - Hotline Bling
110 MONDO GROSSO ft. Hikari Mitsushima - Labyrinth
112 Melanie de Biasio - Blackened Cities
112 Ariana Grande - thank u, next
114 PSY - Gangnam Style
114 David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away
116 Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank)
116 Eric Church - Springsteen
116 Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
116 Real Lies - North Circular
120 Ke$ha - TiK ToK
120 Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Co.
122 Chromatics - Cherry
122 Koffee - Toast
124 Death Grips - I've Seen Footage
125 Tegan and Sara - Closer
126 StarBoy ft. L.A.X & WizKid - Caro
127 Waka Flocka Flame - Hard in Da Paint
127 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy
129 Sofi de la Torre - Vermillion
130 Jai Paul - Jasmine (Demo)
131 Deerhunter - Helicopter
132 Blawan - Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage?
133 Autre Ne Veut - Play By Play
134 2NE1 - I AM THE BEST
135 Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Lovesick
135 Guru - Pooley
135 Serge Beynaud - Akrakabo
138 Andrew W.K. - Music Is Worth Living For
139 Janet Jackson - No Sleeep
140 Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar
141 Big Boi ft. Cutty - Shutterbugg
142 Saint Etienne - Tonight
142 Courtney Barnett - Depreston
144 Scott Walker - Epizootics!
145 EMA - California
145 Sky Ferreira - I Blame Myself
147 Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
148 The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming
148 Clairo - Bags
150 Gotye ft. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know
150 Richard Dawson - Jogging
152 D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Another Life
152 Oneohtrix Point Never - Sticky Drama
154 Danny L Harle ft. Carly Rae Jepsen - Super Natural
154 Men I Trust - Tailwhip
156 StarBoy ft. WizKid, Terri, Spotless & Ceeza Milli - Soco
157 Andres - New For U
157 sakanaction - Music
159 Underworld - Custard Speedtalk
160 Autechre - bladelores
160 Aldous Harding - The Barrel
162 Spoon - Inside Out
163 The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
163 Susanne Sundfør - White Foxes
165 Cass McCombs - County Line
165 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
165 MGMT - Me and Michael
168 Miguel - Do You...
169 Robyn - Hang With Me
170 Bunji Garlin - Differentology (Ready for the Road)
170 Pusha T - If You Know You Know
172 LOONA/ODD EYE CIRCLE - Girl Front
173 Busy Signal - Balloon
174 Parquet Courts - Stoned And Starving
174 K. Michelle - V.S.O.P.
176 Blanck Mass - Rhesus Negative
177 Alex Anwandter - Cómo puedes vivir contigo mismo?
178 Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
179 Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way
179 Destroyer - The Laziest River
179 Vampire Weekend - Step
179 Jessie Ware - Imagine It Was Us
183 Tkay Maidza - U-Huh
183 The 1975 - Somebody Else
183 Octo Octa - I Need You
186 HAIM - Don't Save Me
186 Shamir - On The Regular
188 Ariana Grande - Ghostin
189 Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
189 Susanne Sundfør - Undercover
191 Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend
191 Burial - Rival Dealer
191 Playboi Carti - Magnolia
194 Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - The Copper Top
194 Grimes - Flesh Without Blood
196 Heavy-K ft. Nokwazi - Sweetie
196 Danny L Harle - Awake For Hours
198 Daft Punk ft. Julian Casablancas - Instant Crush
198 Kero Kero Bonito - Only Acting
200 Rihanna - Needed Me

Really thought 'Blackened Cities' would make it.

Damnnn I voted for the wrong SOPHIE track. Would have loved BIPP to make it.

Thanks for the rundown! It was fun.

And 'Fuck You' placing would be baffling beyond belief.

Gyptian - Hold Yuh was #264 and we're all the worse for it.

Wow, that 135 tie is all time!

Fun poll, thx ufo & Moka. As with the EOY polls, very little I voted for showed up. (I don’t really get the CRJ luv… oh wells)

my main takeaway from this poll is that there are a huge amount of songs I thought came out eons ago, but really they came out last decade

Considering Boys is the 6th best song of the decade, it really fell from grace, huh?

ty for the poll, roll on next week!

xpost: Balloon also took a big fall

"Fuck You" wasn't even nominated.

balloon deflated

That's gotta be a joke? Pining for "Fuck You?!"

I mean, it's not very good, I'm not sure why Whiney picked that one out.

Could I have pushed 2NE1 up into the main poll had I voted? We shall never be certain, alas...

Perfect top five. I still love all those songs so much. Inspector Norse was my number one and Run Away With Me was my number two. They both soundtracked so many happy moments in the last ten years.

Thanks so much to the poll runners for this. I feel emotional.

a single #1 awarded 100 points. all the way down on #543 here's the songs that had a single #1 vote:

543 The Radio Dept. - Can't Be Guilty
543 The XX - I Dare You
543 Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
543 Twin Sister - All Around And Away We Go
543 The Magnetic Fields - '01 Have You Seen It in the Snow?
543 Young Thug - Stoner
543 Perfume - ナチュラルに恋して (Natural ni Koishite)
543 mewithoutYou - Julia (or, 'Holy to the LORD' on the Bells of Horses)
543 Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1 to 6000
543 KARA - STEP
543 E-40 - Jealous
543 Far East Movement - Like A G6 (ft. The Cataracs & Dev)
543 Catcall - Swimming Pool (Julian Mendelsohn Extended Mix)
543 Cate le Bon - Daylight Matters
543 Ariana Grande - NASA

And here I was hoping that people still cared about "Bring in the Katz".

i did not expect at all the #1!

thanks guys for running the poll. loved the graphics – the font and colour were A++!

103. Toyboy & Robin - Jaded

Wow, I really overestimated the impact of this song had on this community. Was my #2. I've probably watched the video 100 time.

Norse was my #1. Just a joyous piece of music that I still play regularly. Happy it won.

The only other thing I have to say about this poll is that I'm glad KING did so well.

Yeah the amount of love for KING was surprising. I thought only 1 song of them would make it. Happy to be proven wrong. I would've thought The 1975 would be the ones with 3 songs instead based on previous eoy polls.

Hey we almost had a poll with no Drake! Rihanna saved him.

I do like Hotline Bling tho

Thank you Moka and ufo, poll was a lot of fun even with all the batching

Thank you ufo and Moka, really enjoyed the rollout (and images) during a very busy week at work.

Surprised how much of the top 100 I actually like i.e. most of it. Great #1 too.

I'm off to continue doing images for the albums poll.

Anyone cares to give it a go to compile a top 10 per year on this poll to compare it with previous eoy top 10s?

And here I was hoping that people still cared about "Bring in the Katz".

― MarkoP, Friday, August 19, 2022 1:20 PM

Ahhh dammit I must have skimmed right past it when making my ballot.

HEY GRIFF

Lol bitching

ha ah shit i forgot about bring in the katz

Thanks for the rollout. I need to spend more time with the playlist: I'm more of an albums person/rockist so I feel like I've probably heard most of these songs, but don't know them by name apart from a handful of inescapables. I voted for six songs that placed, including #1. Images look like a high fashion mag; everyone is beautiful.

Thanks, all!

can we make Moka's image for Inspector Norse the new borad description? I know it wasn't planned but what a punchline!

Sophisti-pop and tasteful disco seem to have taken over this poll even more than the usual ILM poll. The top 20 would make a killer playlist for a high-end retail shop, at least until Schoolboy Q shows up and starts rapping about cunnilingus.

Maybe it has to do with the decline of generalist music-review publications and the rise of curated streaming platforms, but the focus seems to have narrowed. Of course I'm as guilty as anyone of sticking to my knitting. If I had voted, my ballot would have reflected my own circumscribed universe of rock/metal/jazz/weirdness. Still I enjoyed seeing what people liked from the previous decade. Thanks to all who participated.

Thanks to the pollrunners!

Inspector Norse is a worthy winner

Pretty surprised these all missed the cut

102 David Bowie - Blackstar
103 Toyboy & Robin - Jaded
104 Usher - Climax
106 Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings
107 Girl Unit - Wut
116 Eric Church - Springsteen
125 Tegan and Sara - Closer
127 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy
135 Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Lovesick

thank you to the pollrunners! and the images are great.

pleased with norse as #1, it makes me smile every time.

biggest discovery for me is 2 On which i had never heard 2 On before. I was loving it until flint flossy turned up.

for a while "boy problems" was also in the top 10 if you want to know just how silly it could have been

will post the stats thread soon

as you can see 200-102 was where nearly everything people were missing was hiding out

honestly... a pretty great top 3

132 Blawan - Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage?

Quite a fall from grace there. I still voted for it.

weird #1 considering barely any house music was nominated

no waka :-(

I haven't really spent any time with "212" in several years, but I've been listening to it on repeat for a bit now and that is a fucking GREAT song. Inspired, magical, all of the things.

Shame she's been a trainwreck since then.

gonna listen to this full top 100 over the weekend. Enjoying it very much so far. A lot of this consensus pop stuff is actually pretty far from what I listen to usually so it's actually a nice change of pace for me.

In case anyone who would be interested missed it upthread here's the Tidal playlist: https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/4abe3016-8c8e-485d-ad65-627a6c1216d5

“Inspector Norse” and “Realiti (demo)” rank highly on my personal top 20 of the decade so seeing them at the top of the poll makes me very happy.

The way in which the two songs keep building and subtly changing sections while remaining in the same gear is gorgeous. So many little details going on that I never get bored of them.

Honestly a pretty good top 10 imho. I’d probably remove one of the CRJ (I guess “call me maybe” would be the one I’d ax) and make space for the Susanne Sundfor at #11, which I don’t think I had heard before and it’s pretty good.

I’d also remove the schoolboy q from the tinashe track. 212 already has the cunnilingus covered.

I'm not gonna bother checking the stats but it seems like way more stuff from the first half of the decade placed than stuff from the second half. Is this just because as we get further away in time a stronger consensus naturally forms or because the musical landscape of ilx just became more fragmented as the decade progressed?

Fewer commenters.

Seems weird to have a "why didn't Taylor Swift do better?" take when she had 3 in the top 77 but I still kind of feel that way, to me "Shake It Off" and to a lesser extent "We Are Never Ever" were decade-defining pop hits and that "Shake It Off" didn't even crack top 200 startled me. But maybe you weirdos just don't like it?

Don't like it'ers gonna don't like it don't like it don't like it don't like it don't like it.