ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2022: 17th Anniversary Edition

wow "calm down" scans really well in arabic haha

That Arabic version of Calm Down is great!

live footage from Naija -
the news just got in

Halfway through maybe only my second listen of 'Angel' and I remember the first time thinking yeah cool I'll put it in my 2022 ah wait maybe he did something else I'll like even more then getting distracted. Loved 'Lampara' from a few years back too.

Somewhere Near Marseilles has gotten a big thumbs-up from my not-so-easily-impressed companion here!

obviously whatever on this because nothing i voted for even made top ten. but i found a ton of great stuff yet again thanks to you lot!

and one more round for sean, forks, and moka. well done + much appreciated!

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98 | Phoenix ft. Ezra Koenig - Tonight | 106 | 4 | 1

I can’t remember if this was my #1 but probably

Thanks to the poll runners for making it happen!

yes thanks to moka, forks, and seandalai

Thank you pollrunners, this year's tracks rollout has been a good one, had no idea what was going to place and discovered some great tracks ('Last Last' in particular).

Passing the ball to seandali for the ballots thread

14 voters deciding the best song of 2022 for all of ILM … what is this, a U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?

ILM 2022 Tracks Poll: The Battle of Ballads: Verse Your Ballot and Join the Rhyme-Fueled Debate!

Thanks again pollrunners! Couldn't even vaguely follow the thread this week so I have much reading, image-gazing and playlist-listening in my future...

I guess I haven't been paying attention (and I didn't vote this year), but I'm a little surprised "Break My Soul" didn't make it. I don't have strong feelings about Beyonce, but that song has always struck me as an undeniable jam. Did people just want to avoid the obvious critical favorite?

I'm surprised it didn't make it but I don't especially like the song either so

I'm guessing everyone picked their favorite cut on the Beyonce album and split the votes (I had a different one on mine, Break My Soul is definitely not my fave).

as far as Beyoncé in 2023 goes (and as someone that listed Renaissance as #1 in the album poll) I would only have countenanced a vote for the Queens Remix of "Break My Soul", despite the original technically being my most played track of 2022 (this is because it was released before the album, so I played it a bit then, and then once the album itself arrived it demanded a complete listen from beginning to end every single time, so, there wasn't much opportunity for any other track to beat it out in scrobble count).

A great song but I'd pick, like, 12 other tracks from the album over it easily. "Cuff It" not getting a single vote is more surprising to me honestly.

"Cuff It" wasn't nommed

I spent barely seconds on nominations this time, but I doubt I've had two of them ("Saoko" and "Gary Asby") making the top 100 before. Finger secretly very much on the pulse, lol.

I'm surprised it didn't make it but I don't especially like the song either so

― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Wednesday, February 22, 2023 7:11 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

sorry, "Cuff It" was nommed. I guess the only way to know is to show all posts on the nominations thread.

Giving my head a shake.

ILX is officially an anti-Beyonce zone

great poll outcome, sick images and excellent work as always from our pollrunners!

Wait … Kate Bush was used as a prop herein?

Do you wanna know that it didn't hurt her?

I was out for the end of the rollout but enjoyed it all. I think 14 things off my ballot placed, so no complaints from me. Curious, is this the least Anglo-American top 10 ever?

I don't quite the rationale of all the fake-outs... seems there's plenty of reaction/argument over the actual placements anyway, and the fakes don't really generate an "extra" response or do anything except cause confusion(?) A friend who's been monitoring the Spotify playlist had to ask me if certain ones were real (after he brought up "Bruno," I said no, that's fake)... and I got Drake wrong, didn't realize that was a fake-out. What's the point(?)

Just my 2c... thanks to the poll-runners, as always!

Beyonce album made the top 10 so I don’t think ILM is anti-beyonce, it got vote splitted. Also I don’t really follow her but as an outsider I didn’t see any singles - other than “break my soul” - being pushed?

I’m checking her youtube page and I don’t see any music videos for any other song

There isn’t even a video for “break my soul” just a visualizer and a cliquebait video whatever that means.

The ongoing lack of Renaissance music videos (presumably, due to protracted contractual negotiations with a streaming giant - it seems like she needs their cash before she can release them) has been a source of great agony for all Beyoncé fans over the last ~7 months. There was also a rumour that the videos for all songs had to be reworked in December as Beyoncé wasn’t happy with the final cuts.

Anyway, “Cuff It” is currently in the Billboard top 10 so I think it counts as a bona fide hit.

annoyed that I'll be travelling when GIRLFRIEND wins

― rob, Monday, February 20, 2023 3:18 PM (two days ago)

well dang, I did not expect this joke post to turn true wtf

I don't really have time to post right now, but what a result, amazing!, genuinely bummed I was on a long-ass flight for today and didn't get to celebrate with yall

big big thanks to forks, Moka, and seandalai as ever

not that surprised that "break my soul" didn't place given that people here were a little underwhelmed by it overall, and there wasn't another big single to rally around ("cuff it" was pushed to radio a few months after the album but didn't get a big promo push with a video or anything) which is why "virgo's groove" ended up the closest to a consensus pick

i am a bit surprised kendrick got vote-split so badly though because i loved "the heart part 5" but didn't care for most of the album, and it was the pre-album single (even though it wasn't actually on the album)

Hahaha my placeholder images for tests were Saoko and The Heart Pt 5. Thought Kendrick Lamar was a lock and was unsure about Rosalia.

'break my soul' is excellent f the haters. and the terry hunter remix is where it's at imo.

Yeah I was the same with "The Heart part 5" — it set me up for an album that wasn't the album he released, and I mostly like it better than anything on the album. (I considered voting for "N95" too.)

Rich Spirit has become one of my fave KL tracks. Love the sound design on that one.

But after that one The Heart was my favorite one of the tracks released last year.

two favourite tracks of the year placed 1&2 tho i would have had them the other way round (voting crept up and past me unfortunately).

having, slightly unexpectedly seen charlotte adigéry et pal last week, can confirm live it all works really well. certainly better than the belgian jive bunny bullshit that headlined.

saw Alewya last night and it was *so fresh* with an amazing crowd, but iirc the one i woulda coulda shoulda voted for turned out to be 2021.

anyway, really good poll rundown imo - thanks to moka, fct etc!

Wow. We won. Congrats, everyone!

I was one of the "Break My Soul" voters and considered it one of the standout pop songs of 2022, weak rap verse and all, but was thrilled to see a track I didn't know finish at #1. Always nice to walk away from these with a dozen or more discoveries, and this was definitely one of those years.

Many thanks, poll runners. Loved the images this year and spent way more time staring at them than usual. 3 or 4 thumbs up.

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listening to the spotify list now...really great stuff

nia archives is amazing as is daliwonga
really like the weyes blood song, they are better in small doses for me

Speaking of Weyes Blood, I was surprised only 2 people (including me) voted for "Grapevine." I know there was an underwhelmed reaction to the album but that song just washes over you.

Oh wow, I missed that there is a Nia Archives in addition to Sudan Archives.

People had archive fever in 2022

yeah is there some pop culture thing with "archives" i don't know about or is it just a coincidence?

Seems like just a weird coincidence, since I think it comes from Sudan Archives was studying ethnomusicology?

Loool

tha nia archives x sudan archives link up just happened 2day n let me tell ya we made a mazzaaaaa pic.twitter.com/eEm2BPlfMM

— Nia Archives (@archives_nia) February 23, 2023