ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

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.

Which Swift tracks would Morbs have voted for?

Shake It Off (apart from the terrible This. Sick. Beat. section) is better than Call Me Maybe

that’s not true

I remember Shake It Off being widely derided on here when it came out. So no surprise from me to see it miss out.

I'm no Taylor hater (voted for "Lover") but I still can't stand "Shake It Off." It is one of the few songs that I regularly hear on the radio these days that always sends me reaching for the dial the second I hear it start up.

I am surprised We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together or I Knew You Were Trouble didn't place, though I didn't vote for either but All Too Well seems to have collected the Red vote which is fair enough I guess. I just thought Red was peak Taylor not 1989 but seems like I am in the minority there.

Big lead pop singles from the past few Taylor Swift albums have not faired well here. If there was going to be another Taylor Swift song showing up on the list, it would have been "Treacherous".

thx moka and ufo for the hard work. nothing I voted for placed but that's unsurprising. think about 10 of the top 100 are songs that I wouldn't turn off.

yeah thanks pollrunners!

definitely too low for Hold Yuh moka! everyone should listen to it for sure.

Cannot believe Balloon didn't place.

Akanamali was my No. 1 and probably one of the more impactful musical discoveries of my life up to this point. That song still moves me deeply every time I hear it. Inspector Norse was my #2.

Another song I was SHOCKED didn't place:
DJ Koze - Pick Up

Way way way too much CRJ, LDR and Arianna Grande and similar type stuff. HAIM didn't need to be here either. Taylor Swift a bit over represented too. Not enough Simmy or Rosalía. Good lord. But I guess to be expected given the vote splitting and volume of tracks to choose from

“Hold Yuh” is indirectly massive in latinamerica and spain via “una vaina loca” you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn’t recognize the melody.

There’s the version by Fuego which was a massive hit. The version by Ozuna and Manuel Turrizo which was also a massive hit (probably bigger tbh, it has 1 billion plays on youtube) and my favorite version Rakas’ “abrazame (uproot andy rmx)” which isn’t really popular but is a super fun track.

I like how Taylor Swift peaked at 72 and there are people saying that there's too much of her on here and others saying there's not enough.

Oh wait the ozuna track is a different “vaina loca” that doesn’t sample “hold yuh”… I’m thinking of another one… just a minute