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

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

wow, that's great and what a coincidence!

shd form a group called 'archives' and call the album 'nominative determinism' imo

thx 2 pollrunners! (and voters)

Despite the slow roll-out pace, I still didn't manage to comment while it was running. Just wanted to say that I've discovered lots of interesting music and read some great and insightful comments. So well done, everybody!

Yes, thanks all, without fail I always discover great new stuff in the poll.

The tracks I keep coming back to ITT that I didn't previously know are:

High School In Jakarta, Anti-Hero, This Is Why, Munch, 23, Expert In A Dying Field, Holiday, Edge of the Edge

I don't like Step By Step much but the Axel Boman remix is really good.

I do love the original but yeah, that Boman remix gives off pure Bangalter/Falcon vibes

forgot to vote and just caught up today. but I hadn't heard the Shabason & Krgovich song before and its great, gives me very One AM Radio vibes.

Just listened to "Girlfriend" again and, well, let's not piss about. It is the best isn't it

finally finished listening to the results recently, and... great job ilm, for real. i'm not sure why, but i enjoyed nearly all the placing tracks that i hadn't previously heard, certainly not a typical response for me to any poll. idk, maybe having listened to much less music than usual this past year, and not being too enthused abt most of the mainstream stuff that crossed my awareness w/ no effort on my end, has made me more enthusiastic to belatedly enjoy some things. thank y'all for continuing to have great taste even when the conversations aren't quite as busy + dunderheads like me can't bother to figure out which threads to keep even minimally plugged into throughout the year

my ballot only had like 20 songs on it and was frankly rather reflective of my very limited horizons this year, but a few of the songs i voted for placed and i was happy to see them. i don't think it's worth posting my ballot in the other thread but i was the #1 vote for "provenza" (the only track in the weighted section of my ballot) + i was glad to hear what y'all thought abt it, even imago's distaste for it. rly cool to see "calm down" so high, i thought i didn't know it until i clicked play and realized oh yeah it's that quite-lovely afrobeats song i've heard every now and again w/ or w/o selena gomez (lol). "last last" i also knew but didn't recall until hitting play -- frankly the toni braxton sample turned me off it for a while due to my increasing annoyance w/ ~2/3 of all radio hits in america now being reliant on samples of highly recognizable old hits, but i came to like it just fine. tho i certainly don't dislike afrobeats, i tend not to be as enthusiastic abt it as its fans on here anyhow

fav discoveries were real lies ("dream on" especially but both of the placing ones -- just getting into the album too now!) and "step by step" lol

thanks to the pollrunners and the voters for introducing me to a lot of good stuff :)