ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

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

Ah yeah it’s Rauw Alejandro x Farruko.

So anyways here’s 3 latin tracks inspired by of “hold yuh” in order of popularity:

Fuego - una vaina loca
Rauw Alejandro & Farruko - fantasias
Los Rakas - Abrazame (uproot andy hold yuh)

the big triumph of the poll to me was javiera mena making the top 20

Yeah sorry I should have led with thanks so much Moka, great rollout, looking forward to albums!!

You should extend the Albums Poll another week so no one who wants to see this tragedy happen again can vote

In the last five years particularly, but maybe for longer, it seems like everyone on ILM has retreated to particular rolling genre threads that interest them, and fewer general interest/artist-specific threads are posted every day. When it comes time to vote in polls, people emerge and are then shocked that what they're so familiar with is actually something the rest of the board knows very little about.

I'm not necessarily shocked by that (though it's a little hard for me to understand why more ppl here aren't into, say, Summer Walker) - but I am sometimes surprised by the artists/tracks that do gather consensus.

ILM 2010s Tracks Poll: stats, ballots, norwegian disco, too much pop, all sound like a dream to me

it seems like everyone on ILM has retreated to particular rolling genre threads that interest them

it's also that each of those threads didn't generally have enough consensus among their denizens to really breach the top 100 on their own much

Yeah, I'm not surprised something like Pooley or Bubble Pop! didn't top the poll, it's just that the consensus is getting more and more tasteful and 'sophisticated' by the year, and I find it kinda dull.

It feels like we're getting old :(

I sure am.

Guys, this Susanne Sundfør album is pretty cool.

Right??

"gangnam style" being the highest placing kpop track is an indictment of the board though

ugh no Rosalia in the 200

I Am The Best as second highest placing kpop track is good taste, though :) Fingers crossed for Pink Tape in the album poll, btw.

Kpop is bigger than ever but has featured less and less on the year-end polls here. Maybe because it's so broad now and the most globally popularly acts (BTS, Blackpink) are not really releasing the most interesting music. So the genre fans gather in smaller groups around lesser-known artists.

For this chart though you could imagine something like 'I Am the Best' by 2NE1 featuring. Maybe people are tired of the 2NE1 becoming ubiquitous.

Taylor would surely have suffered from vote splitting a bit too as seem to recall there were a *lot* of her tracks nominated xps

no future no thug in the top 200 means y’all were living in a completely different decade than i was hahah

i was the number one voter for “stoner,” that song completely changed the game and still sounds like nothing else

I was hoping for Playboi Carti. Should’ve voted Magnolia.