Thanks so much to everyone who send me their lists of Tracks of the Year: we had over 40 entries in the end, which makes this the biggest such poll I’ve done. We had over 500 nominated songs, with 139 of them getting more than one vote.
You’re a diverse bunch and nobody, me included, will like everything that placed in the poll. But the point is to hear things you hadn’t already, which is why I’m going to post the Top 100 here. Here are the first 50. Ordering this low down might as well be arbitrary (i.e. my system for doing it is consistent but too boring to explain) but pretend it isn’t in the comments if you like. I’ve not sourced videos for this lot, but there is a Spotify playlist with most of them, which I’ll update with the rest of the poll.
*=not on Spotify
italics = not in the original 51-100 version of this post, before I discovered some missing ballots under the virtual dresser.
112. KYLIE MINOGUE – “Aphrodite”
111. SUNNY SWEENEY – “From A Table Away”*
110. NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – “Crash Years”
109. E.VIA – “Shake!”
107=. AFTER SCHOOL – “Bang”*
107=. KOURTNEY HEART ft MAGNOLIA SHORTY – “My Boy”*
106. GLASSER – “Mirrorage”
105. ARCADE FIRE – “Rococo”*
103=. TIGA – “Gentle Giant (Martyn’s Heaven Remix)”
103=. TRAVIE MCCOY ft BRUNO MARS – “Billionaire”
102. KE$HA – “Cannibal”*
101. 2NE1 – “Try To Follow Me”*
100. BOB ft BRUNO MARS – “Nothin’ On Me”
99. FOALS – “Spanish Sahara”
98. AVI BUFFALO – “What’s In It For?”*
97. WARPAINT – “Undertow”
96. KELIS – “4th Of July (Fireworks)”
95. TAYLOR SWIFT – “The Story Of Us”
94. ROBYN – “Dance Hall Queen”
93. CARIBOU – “Sun”
92. JAMES BLAKE – “CMYK”
91. ZOLA JESUS – “Night”
90. KYLIE MINOGUE – “Get Outta My Way”
89. KANYE WEST ft PIMP C – “Runaway”
88. PROFESSOR GREEN – “Need You Tonight”
87. KATY PERRY – “Firework”
86. MASSIVE ATTACK – “Saturday Come Slow”
84=. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – “Home”
84=. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS – “I Am Not A Robot”
83. PLAN B – “She Said”
82. JANELLE MONAE – “Cold War”
81. INTOCABLE – “Estamos En Algo”*
78=. SADE – “Soldier Of Love”
78=. YEASAYER – “O.N.E.”
78=. SKY FERREIRA – “One”
77. NICOLE SCHERZINGER – “Poison”
76. JOANNA NEWSOM – “Good Intentions Paving Company”
75. TAKE THAT – “The Flood”
74. HOT CHIP – “I Feel Better”
73. TREY SONGZ ft NICKI MINAJ – “Bottoms Up”
72. VAMPIRE WEEKEND – “White Sky”
71. CYPRESS HILL ft PITBULL & MARC ANTHONY – “Armada Latina”
70. KATY PERRY ft SNOOP DOGG – “California Gurls”
69. JAVIERA MENA – “Hasta La Verdad”
68. ROBYN – “Don’t Fucking Tell Me What To Do”
67. LISSIE – “When I’m Alone”
66. MAGNETIC MAN ft KATY B – “Perfect Stranger”
65. SCISSOR SISTERS – “Fire With Fire”*
64. THE WALKMEN – “Angela Surf City”
63. JAMIE WOON – “Night Air”
62. ELIZA DOOLITTLE – “Skinny Genes”
60=. ALOE BLACC – “I Need A Dollar”
60=. KE$HA – “Tik Tok”
59. TAYLOR SWIFT – “Mine”
58. BLACK EYED PEAS – “The Time (Dirty Bit)”
57. USHER – “OMG”
56. EXAMPLE – “Kickstarts”*
55. THE BLACK KEYS – “Tighten Up”
We’ll spread the countdown proper – 54 to 1 – over the rest of the week in chunks. It begins, I should warn you, with a top pop hate figure…