All right everyone, the time has finally come and the End Of Year polls are opening up.

Singles Lists are due Saturday, December 19. There aren't any exceptions to that. You've got about three weeks, so there shouldn't be any problems with people not having enough notice. Also, let me know when you submit your list if you are interested in writing blurbs for the top 40 singles.

I don't know the exact timeline for the results thread yet. Since I am working a full time job this year instead of being the college student with all the free time in the world, it is a little bit harder to figure out how long it will take me to put everything together. At this point, I'm imagining that the week of December 21-25 will have the Miscellaneous and Compilation/Reissue poll results and then the week of December 28-January 1 will have the album and singles polls with probably about 20-25 of each posted each day of the week. I will keep everyone updated on this as we get closer to that point. I do have about a week and a half off from Christmas to the start of January so the results will be all posted in this time frame, just maybe not on as tight of a schedule as they have in years past.

Just to go through the guidelines again:

-You can vote for as few as five 2009 singles or as many as one hundred 2009 singles.

-Singles include:
1. Songs with released 7 or 12", CD, or clearly identified digital singles bearing their name
2. EPs of both 5 songs and 22 minutes less (if either is greater, than it is eligible for the albums list)
3. Songs with a video (assuming not live, and assuming the artist didn't make one for every song on the album)
4. Songs that have charted on any major US or UK chart (except for download)
5. Singles released between December 2008 and December 8, 2009. Anything after that should be considered a 2010 release

-Voting for a single can include B-Sides and Remixes of the song on the same vote.

-To submit your list, either post it in the thread or PM it to me. Any list posted in this thread in countdown form will be considered a final list. If you need to make a change once your list is submitted, you can only swap one single out to replace with another. Also, if you can please format your numbered countdown as ARTIST - RELEASE NAME, that will really help me out when tabbing them.

-2008 vs. 2009 eligibility is broken down as follows--if you can make a case for it being 2009, you can vote for it. So that includes singles released in your country for the first time in 2009, singles that didn't receive wide exposure or peak on the charts until 2009, or singles that were released in Dec. 2008 and didn't have enough time to sink in before voting last year.

-Singles that received votes last year that are still eligible for the 2009 poll will carry over 10% of their 2008 total. Last year this didn't change any of the songs that made the top 100, but did boost up the handful that carried over points up a few spots.

-Finally, nothing that was on our Top 100 Singles of 2008 list is eligible. You can not, under any circumstances vote for anything that made the top 100 singles last year. Just so you know, these 100 singles are:

1 Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (feat. Antony Hegarty) / Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
2 Estelle - American Boy (feat. Kanye West) / American Boy (Album Version)
3 Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor / Shake A Fist (Diplo's Noise of Art Remix) / Bubbles They Bounce / Ready for the Floor (Smoothed Out on an R&B tip Version) / Ready For The Floor (Soulwax Remix)
4 Weezer - The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived
5 Kanye West - Love Lockdown / Love Lockdown (R. Kelly Remix) / Love Lockdown (Misto & Pizzi Electro Mix)
6 Trai'D - Gutta Bitch
7 MGMT - Time to Pretend
8 Portishead - The Rip
9 Weezer - Pork and Beans
10 M83 - Kim & Jessie
11 MGMT - Kids / Kids (Soulwax Remix) / Kids (Pet Shop Boys Remix)
12 Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
13 Portishead - Machine Gun
14 MGMT - Electric Feel / Eletric Feel (Justice Remix)
15 Weezer - Troublemaker
16 Coldplay - Viva La Vida
17 Juan Maclean, The - Happy House
18 M83 - Graveyard Girl
19 Mae Shi, The - Run To Your Grave
20 Lil Wayne - Lollipop (feat. Static Major) / Lollipop (Remix feat. Kanye West)
21 Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
22 Jay Reatard - See Saw / Screaming Hand
23 Ting Tings, The - Shut Up and Let Me Go
24 Hold Steady, The - Sequestered In Memphis
25 Killers, The - Human
26 Neon Neon - I Told Her On Alderaan/Trick For Treat / I Told Her On Alderaan (Richard X Andress Mix)
27 Radiohead - Reckoner
28 Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
29 Lykke Li - Little Bit / Little Bit (Loving Hand Remix) / Little Bit (CSS Remix)
30 National, The - Fake Empire
31 Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More / You Mean Nothing To Me
32 Lil Wayne - A Milli
33 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!
34 TV on the Radio - Dancing Choose
35 Cut Copy - Lights & Music
36 Santogold - Lights Out
37 Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
38 Kanye West - Heartless
39 Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone / I'm Good, I'm Gone (Metronomy Remix) / I'm Good, I'm Gone (Fred Flake Remix) / I’m Good I’m Gone (CB Remix) / I’m Good I’m Gone (Black Kids Remix)
40 Rihanna - Disturbia
41 Goldfrapp - A&E / A&E (Maps Remix) / A&E (Gui Buratto Remix) / A&E (Herculues & Love Affair Remix)
42 T.I. - Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna)
43 Hercules & Love Affair – You Belong
44 Hot Chip - One Pure Thought - EP
45 Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
46 Young Jeezy - Put On (feat. Kanye West)
47 Glasvegas - Geraldine / The Prettiest Thing on Saltcoats Beach / Everybodys Got To Learn Sometime
48 Bon Iver - Skinny Love
49 Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
50 Wire - One Of Us
51 Beck - Gamma Ray / Jay Reatard - Gamma Ray
52 Usher - Love in This Club (feat. Young Jeezy)
53 Annie - I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me
54 David Byrne & Brian Eno – Strange Overtones
55 Air France - Collapsing at Your Doorstep
56 Amadou and Mariam - Sabali
57 Kills, The - Last Day Of Magic
58 Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
59 Wiz Khalifa - Say Yeah
60 Feist – I Feel It All / I Feel It All (Diplo’s Plastic Remix) / I Feel It All (Escort Remix) / I Feel It All (Britt Daniel Remix) / I Feel It All (Gonzales Remix)
61 Laura Marling - Ghosts / The Man Sings About Romance / The Needle and The Damage Done
62 British Sea Power - Waving Flags / Everybody Must Be Saved / Elizabeth and Susan Meet The Pelican / Ooby Dooby Doo
63 Aeroplane - Whispers (feat. Kathy Diamond) / Whispers (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)
64 Panic At The Disco - Nine In The Afternoon
65 T.I. - Whatever You Like
66 Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
67 Ting Tings, The - That's Not My Name
68 She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
69 Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
70 Weezer – Dreamin’
71 T.I. - Swagga Like Us (feat. Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lil Wayne)
72 Chris Brown - Forever
73 Radiohead - House of Cards
74 Friendly Fires - Paris / Paris feat. Au Revoir (Aeroplane Remix)
75 British Sea Power - No Luicfer EP (10")
76 Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
77 Black Kids - I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You / Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover / I'n Not Gonna Teach Your Boyrfriend How To Dance With You (Twelves Remix)
78 Nas - Hero (feat. Keri Hilson)
79 Duffy - Mercy
80 Kylie Minogue – Wow / Wow (CSS Remix) / Wow (MSTRKRFT Remix)
81 Blitzen Trapper – Furr
82 Last Shadow Puppets, The - Standing Next To Me / Sequels
83 AC/DC – Rock ‘N Roll Train
84 Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
85 Miley Cyrus - See You Again
86 TV on the Radio - Golden Age
87 Elbow - Grounds For Divorce
88 Kid Cudi - Day 'N' Nite / Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix)
89 Killers, The - Spaceman
90 Fennesz - Saffron Revolution
91 Paramore - That’s What You Get
92 Adele – Chasing Pavements
93 My Morning Jacket – I’m Amazed
94 Crystal Castles – Courtship Dating
95 Late Of The Pier – Heartbeat
96 Lupe Fiasco - Superstar (feat. Matthew Santos) / Superstar (Remix feat. Young Jeezy and T.I.)
97 Kanye West - Good Morning
98 Mystery Jets - Young Love (feat. Laura Marling)
99 Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart
100 Lykke Li - Breaking It Up


If you're unsure that a song is a single, check rateyourmusic, discogs, or wikipedia. Also, we're had a bunch of single suggestion threads to take a look at for ideas (although I would always double check somewhere else to make sure that it really counts as a single just to be sure).

Also, one last thing I just want to remind everyone about. If there is a single that you're really passionate about but not many others know of it, don't wait until we start the countdown to complain about it not being higher. Use this thread to make sure that everyone else is made aware of it before it is too late to vote.

Beats So Big I’m Stompin’ on Leprechauns

Caley’s Top 100 Singles of 2009


100. Subtle Sexuality - Male Prima Donna
099 RevoLucian - BaleOut
098 Jeremih - Birthday Sex
097 Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double or Triple
096 Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
095 Crystal Stilts - Love Is A Wave
094 The Dream featuring Mariah Carey - My Love
093 Regina Spektor - Eet
092 Regina Spektor - Laughing With
091 Gold Panda - Quitters Raga
090 Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
089 Air - Do the Joy
088 Flo Rida featuring Wynter - Sugar
087 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
086 Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
085 Miley Cyrus - The Climb
084 Lily Allen - The Fear
083 Air - Sing Sang Sung
082 jj - My Swag, My Life
081 Mr. Hudson featuring Kanye West - Supernova
080 Paramore - Brick By Boring Brick
079 Thursday - Resucitation of a Dead Man
078 Superchunk - Crossed Wires
077 Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin
076 Nelly Furtado - Mas
075 Ciara - Like A Surgeon
074 Jonas Brothers - Fly With Me
073 Ciara featuring Missy Elliott - Work
072 Dananananaykroyd - Pink Sabbath
071 a-ha- Foot of the Mountain
070 Editors - Papillon
069 Royksopp - This Must Be It
068 Paramore - Ignorance
067 Royksopp - Happy Up Here
066 Britney Spears - Radar
065 Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
064 Frankmusik - Confusion Girl
063 Jay-Z featuring Rihanna & Kanye West - Run This Town
062 Flight of the Conchords - Pencils in the Wind/Albi The Racist Dragon
061 Jonas Brothers - Paranoid
060 Shakira featuring Lil Wayne - Give It Up To Me
059 Ciara featuring Young Jeezy - Never Ever
058 Kanye West - Welcome to Heartbreak
057 Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em featuring Sammie - Kiss Me Thru the Phone
056 Kleerup - Longing For Lullabies
055 The Killers - A Dustland Fairytale
054 Demi Lovato - Here We Go Again
053 Kings of Convenience - Boat Behind
052 Handsome Furs - I’m Confused
051 Emily Osment - All the Way Up
050 Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
049 Drake featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem - Forever
048 The Dream - Rockin’ That Thang
047 Passion Pit - The Reeling
046 Ciara featuring Justin Timberlake - Love Sex Magic
045 Tiesto featuring Sneaky Sound System - I Will Be Here
044 The Radio Dept. - David
043 Coldplay - Life in Technicolour II/The Goldrush
042 The Dream featuring Kanye West - Walkin’ on the Moon
041 Nelly Furtado - Manos al Aire
040 Coldplay - Strawberry Swing
039 Metric - Help, I’m Alive
038 Bat For Lashes - Daniel
037 Karen O and the Kids - All is Love
036 Neko Case - People Got A Lotta Nerve
035 Metric - Sick Muse
034 Kings of Convenience - Mrs. Cold
033 Rihanna - Wait Your Turn
032 Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway
031 Animal Collective - My Girls
030 Thom Yorke - All For the Best
029 The Lonely Island - Jizz in My Pants
028 Keri Hilson featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo - Knock Me Down
027 Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A.
026 The Thermals - Now We Can See
025 Jamie Cullum & Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino
024 Pink - Please Don’t Leave Me
023 The Field - The More That I Do
022 Kanye West featuring Young Jeezy - Amazing
021 Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings
020 Shakira - Did It Again
019 The Lonely Island - Like A Boss
018 Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
017 Britney Spears - If U Seek Amy
016 Sean Paul - So Fine
015 Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
014 Royksopp - The Girl and the Robot
013 Matt and Kim - Daylight
012 Rihanna featuring Young Jeezy - Hard
011 Phoenix - Lisztomania


10. Beyonce - Sweet Dreams

Previous #10s: Goldfrapp - Happiness (2008); Rihanna - Don’t Stop the Music (2007); Nelly Furtado - Say It Right (2006).


09. The Lonely Island featuring T-Pain - I’m On A Boat

Previous #9s: The Guillemots - Kriss Kross (2008); Young Jeezy featuring R.Kelly - Go Getta (2007); Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland - Promiscuous (2006).


08. Shakira - She Wolf

Previous #8s: Kylie Minogue - All I See (2008); Paramore - Misery Business (2007); Beyonce featuring Jay-Z - Deja-Vu (2006).


07. Rihanna - Russian Roulette

Previous #7s: Goldfrapp - A&E 2008); Nelly Furtado - Do It (2007); Regina Spektor - Samson (2006).


06. Metric - Gimme Sympathy

Previous #6s: Miley Cyrus - 7 Things (2008); Rich Boy featuring Polow Da Don - Throw Some Ds (2007); Sean Paul - Temperature (2006).


05. MSTRKRFT featuring John Legend - Heartbreaker

Previous #5s: Kathleen Edwards - I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory (2008); LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (2007); Fiona Apple - Not About Love (2006).


04. Maino featuring T-Pain - All the Above

Previous #4s: Kylie Minogue - Wow (2008); Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella (2007); Sigur Ros - Hoppipola (2006).


03. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me

Previous #3s: Kanye West - Love Lockdown (2008); Omarion - Ice Box (2007); NeYo - So Sick (2006).


02. Kanye West - Paranoid

Previous #2s: Fennesz - Saffron Revolution (2008); Aly & AJ - Potential Breakup Song (2007); Rihanna - SOS (Rescue Me) (2006).


01. Phoenix - 1901

Previous #1s: m83 - Kim & Jessie (2008); The Killers - Read My Mind (2007); The Guillemots - Trains to Brazil (2006).

Paul, thank you for your dedication, its so cool we have dedicated people like yourself who will do stuff like this, and we can actually have a fun end of hte year list. Sign me up to write a Top 40 blurb for single or album.

My Top 25 Singles
25. Dizzee Rascal - Holiday
24. Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
23. Taylor Swift - You Belong to Me
22. Wavves - So Bored
21. Big Boi - Shine Blockas
20. Black Lips - Drugs
19. Dinosaur Jr. - Over It
18. Morrissey - I'm Throwing my Arms Around Paris
17. Cymbals Eat Guitars - ...And the Hazy Sea
16. La Roux - Quicksand
15. Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
14. JJ - From Africa to Malaga
13. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
12. Animal Collective - Brothersport
11. BBU - Chi Don't Dance
10. Phoenix - Listzomania
9. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
8. Flaming Lips - Watching the Planets
7. Phoenix - 1901
6. Girls - Lust for Life
5. Atlas Sound - Walkabout
4. God Help the Girl - Funny Little Frog
3. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others
2. Animal Collective - What Would I Want, Sky
1. Dirty Projects - The Stillness is the Move

Man, all I have in my list at this stage is techno 12"s. Really need to get everything else straight.

EPs of both 5 songs and 22 minutes less (if either is greater, than it is eligible for the albums list)

I've never fully understood this. There are plenty of EP's that are longer than 22 minutes, but to vote them amongst albums at times seems unfair. And more than 5 tracks? I'd imagine about 1/2 the eps released every year have more than 5 songs.

the new Late of the Pier song "Blueberry" wouldn't qualify, even tho it leaked awhile ago, the release date apparently is December 14th.

I don't remember exactly when the EP decision was made, but it basically was done along the same lines as the UK charts are. An EP that has more tracks than that or is longer than that is classified as a full length release and places on the sales charts as such. It has never been an issue for our singles poll as longer EPs have placed on the albums list and for the most part, any EP with more than 5 tracks that has a possibility of placing in our poll has a video or promotional release for one of the tracks and we vote for that like a single.

Wait until next year for the Late of the Pier song. There is a physical release with a b-side scheduled for February.

01. Lakes – Tray of Fire 7” (myspace.com/invertedcrux)

02. Ladyhawke – Magic

03. Chrome Dome – Negative Vibes 7” (myspace.com/chromechromedome)

04. Pets w Pets – We Only Found This Place 7” (myspace.com/petswithpets)

05. Rihanna – Hard

06. Mariah Carey – Obsessed

07. Ciara – Like A Surgeon

08. Naked On The Vague – Chitty Chat 7” (myspace.com/nakedonthevague)

09. Vibes – Psychic 7”

10. Emeralds – Fresh Air 7”

Most EPs released each year don't have more than five tracks. No way. Looking at the top 100 for 2009 there are 16 that would qualify as singles and 4 as albums in the top 20. Very likely the same for other years as well.

Obviously a 7" inch with a flip-side is a single. As is a CD with the lead track and two or three b-sides. When you start going beyond that you are going past a single release into the world of mini-albums. No way can you be considering things that are 35 minutes long as a single.

It works pretty well, a 4 or 5 song EP that lasts about 20 minutes is a single. Something that's half an hour long with 8 tracks isn't going to be able to fit on a 7" so it wasn't considered a single.

Also "What Would I Want? Sky" is not a single. The Be Kind EP is eligible for the album poll.

Is From Africa To Malaga by 'jj' eligible? Would probably vote for every song from that album as a single if possible, so want to know what I can throw on there.

http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/jj

40. Chipmunk - Chip diddy chip
39. The Horrors - who can say
38. Lily Allen - The fear
37. Fever Ray - Triangle walks
36. Ciara - Like a surgeon
35. The Dream ft Kanye West - Walkin on the moon
34. Air - Sing sang sung
33. Peter, Bjorn & John - Nothing to worry about
32. Gui Boratto - No turning back
31. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
30. The Dream - Rockin that thing
29. Fever Ray - If I had a heart
28. Annie - Anthonio
27. Kat DeLuna ft Lil' Wayne - Unstoppable
26. Mini Viva - I left my heart in Tokyo
25. Daniel Steinberg - Cry all night
24. Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the move
23. Weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
22. The Dream - Sweat it out
21. Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
20. Loney Island - On a boat
19. Fever Ray - Seven
18. Lil' Wayne - Prom queen
17. Ladyhawke - Magic
16. Taio Cruz - Break your heart
15. Animal Collective - My girls
14. Bat For Lashes - Daniel
13. Destra Garcia - Hott
12. Electrik Red - So good
11. Âme - Ensor
10. Tinchy Stryder ft N-Dubz - Number 1
09. Joker - Do it
08. Electrik Red - Friend lover
07. Symfoniorkestern - Reprise
06. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
05. Kei$ha - tik tok
04. Kink - Psyche funk
03. Fuck Buttons - Surf solar
02. Annie - Songs remind me of you
01. Tinchy Stryder ft Taio Cruz - Take me back

Ciara could have won if she'd had the common sense to release Echo as a single, tho.

Was this released?

It has a video and it's on RYM and wiki, so assuming so.

Thanks for the great work Paul

Man, I have a lot of thinking and listening left to do for this. :/

Sorry, wasn't being a pedantic ass, I had just been looking at what singles he had released this year and hadn't seen it (guess I didn't look at December last year)

Only came up with 40 that I really enjoyed, some great songs that weren't singles this year (Fun - Light A Roman Candle, The Dream - Fancy, most of the jj album, etc)...

Edit: Fuck, forgot 'Sweat It Out' got a single release...


1. Annie – Anthonio
2. The Dream – Sweat It Out
3. The Dream – Walkin On The Moon
4. JJ – From Africa To Malaga
5. Lisa Mitchell – Coin Laundry
6. Chicane – Poppiholla
7. The Dream – My Love
8. Mariah Carey – Obsessed
9. Crayon Fields – All The Pleasures Of The World
10. Pet Shop Boys – Love Etc
11. Taylor Swift – Love Story
12. Peter Doherty – Last Of The English Roses
13. Annie – Songs Remind Me Of You
14. Mini Viva – Left My Heart In Tokyo
15. Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone
16. Memory Tapes - Bicycle
17. Fun – At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)
18. Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me
19. Ciara – Like A Surgeon
20. Morrissey – I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
21. Dizzee Rascal – Dirtee Cash
22. Robin Thicke – Sex Therapy
23. The Streets – Trust Me
24. Infected Mushroom – Smashing the Opponent
25. Ladytron – Tomorrow
26. Pet Shop Boys – Did You See Me Coming
27. Miley Cyrus – Party in the USA
28. Jay-Z – Empire State Of Mind
29. Deadmau5 – Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff
30. Medina – You & I
31. Annie – My Love Is Better
32. Tiesto – I Will Be Here
33. Taylor Swift - Fifteen
34. Electrik Red – So Good
35. Peter Doherty – Broken Love Song
36. The Streets – In The Middle/Blinded By The Lights (Nero Remix)
37. Dizzee Rascal - Holiday
38. The Dream - Rockin That Thang
39. Phoenix – 1901
40. CoCoComa – Ask, Don’t Tell

Added links to ones on my list that aren't already somb megahits AFAIK incase anyone is interested.

Was Watching The Planets released as a single?

Pretty good lists so far.


FTR this works fine for rock/pop stuff... not quite as well for dance-oriented musics since dancefloor-oriented remixes stretch them over the length limit. There's a few things every year that have to drop entirely because they don't qualify for singles, but I'm obviously not going to put a dance track remixed twice and coming in at 27 minutes in with the albums. But it's not a big deal, and I recognize that no system is going to be prefect.

Surely if it's a mix of the same song then you can consider the original as a stand-alone digital release. I guess if you are looking to vote for the remixes themselves as well / instead of that doesn't help you out.

Yeah, in most cases there's some sort of workaround, it's only a problem when you have a 12" with great remixes that goes above the time limit. Nothing that cripples the poll by any means, just something worth noting.

Some sites are calling it a single, but I don't believe there has been an official release. I'll probably include it and hope no one notices...

It has a video. That's the only evidence but it's good enough for this poll.

Think I'm going to post this now and use the next couple weeks to catch up on albums:

100 - Casiokids - Fot I Hose
99 - We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices
98 - Royksopp - The Girl and The Robot (f/ Robyn)
97 - The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother
96 - Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
95 - Ramona Falls - I Say Fever
94 - Future of the Left - The Hope that House Built
93 - Mount Kimble - Sketch on Glass
92 - Girls - Laura
91 - Doves - Kingdom of Rust

90 - Spoon - Got Nuffin'
89 - Blacklist - Flight of the Demoiselles
88 - Fight Like Apes - Tie Me Up With Jackets
87 - The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
86 - Telekinesis - Coast of Carolina
85 - Handsome Furs - I'm Confused
84 - The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
83 - Hockey - Too Fake
82 - The xx - Basic Space
81 - Dragonette - Fixin' to Thrill

80 - Annie - My Love is Better
79 - Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
78 - The Drums - Let's Go Surfing
77 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
76 - DJ Kwik & Kurupt - 9x's Outta 10
75 - Royksopp - This Must Be It (f/Fever Ray)
74 - The Phantom Band - The Howling
73 - Matt & Kim - Daylight
72 - Jenny Wilson - Wooden Chair
71 - The Raveonettes - Last Dance

70 - Micachu & the Shapes - Golden Phone
69 - Amadou & Mariam - Masiterladi
68 - The Antlers - Bear
67 - V.V. Brown - Shark in the Water
66 - A.C. Newman - The Heartbreak Rides
65 - Lady GaGa - Paparazzi
64 - Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
63 - YACHT - Psychic City
62 - Hockey - Learn to Lose
61 - Drake - Best I Ever Had

60 - White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
59 - Katy Perry - Waking Up in Vegas
58 - Silversun Pickups - There's No Secrets This Year
57 - Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
56 - Theives Like Us - Your Heart Feels
55 - Gui Boratto - No Turning Back
54 - Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me
53 - Atlas Sound - Walkabout (f/Panda Bear)
52 - Music Go Music - Light of Love
51 - The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You

50 - Florence and the Machine - You've Got the Love
49 - Depeche Mode - Wrong
48 - Coconut Records - Microphone
47 - Passion Pit - The Reeling
46 - La Roux - Bulletproof
45 - V.V. Brown - Leave
44 - Junior Boys - Hazel
43 - The xx - Islands
42 - Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
41 - Kings of Leon - Use Somebody

40 - Christophe Willem - Berlin
39 - Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling on a Line
38 - Kelly Clarkson - I Do Not Hook Up
37 - Pet Shop Boys - Love Etc.
36 - Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move
35 - Brand New - At the Bottom
34 - Banjo or Freakout - Upside Down
33 - Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends
32 - St. Vincent - Actor Out of Work
31 - Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked

30 - Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
29 - Dan Deacon - Get Older
28 - Jamie T - Sticks and Stones
27 - The Big Pink - Dominos
26 - The Antlers - Two
25 - Metric - Gimme Sympathy
24 - Camera Obscura - French Navy
23 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
22 - Phoenix - Lisztomania
21 - Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch

20 - Major Lazer - Keep It Goin' Louder
19 - Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind
18 - Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
17 - Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others
16 - Dananananakroyd - Black Wax
15 - Donkeyboy - Ambitions
14 - Lily Allen - The Fear
13 - Annie - Songs Remind Me of You
12 - Basement Jaxx - Feelings Gone
11 - Animal Collective - My Girls

10 - Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone

9 - Passion Pit - Sleepyhead

8 - Bat For Lashes - Daniel

7 - The Maccabees - No Kind Words

6 - Free Energy - Dream City

5 - Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin

4 - Music Go Music - Warm in the Shadows

3 - Kanye West - Paranoid

2 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero

1 - Phoenix - 1901

Great minds think alike.

2009: Capturing the zeitgeist

1. Phoenix “1901”
2. Animal Collective “My Girls”
3. Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks”
4. HEALTH “Die Slow”
5. Bat For Lashes “Daniel”
6. The Antlers “Bear”
7. Grizzly Bear “While You Wait for the Others”
8. Metric “Gimme Sympathy”
9. Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys “Empire State of Mind”
10. Animal Collective “Summertime Clothes”
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Zero”
12. Dirty Projectors “Stillness is the Move”
13. Baroness “A Horse Called Golgotha”
14. The Big Pink “Velvet”
15. Franz Ferdinand “No You Girls”
16. The Very Best (feat. Ezra Koenig) “Warm Heart of Africa”
17. St. Vincent “Actor Out of Work”
18. Annie “Songs Remind Me of You”
19. Fashawn “Life as a Shorty”
20. The xx – “Crystalised”
21. Raekwon “House of Flying Daggers”
22. Neko Case “People Got a Lotta Nerve”
23. The Antlers “Two”
24. YACHT “Psychic City (Voodoo City)”
25. Mastodon “Divinations”
26. Bat For Lashes “Sleep Alone”
27. The Big Pink “Dominos”
28. Mos Def “Casa Bey”
29. No Age – Losing Feeling EP
30. Jarvis Cocker “Angela”
31. El Perro Del Mar “Change of Heart”
32. Suckers – s/t EP
33. Antony and the Johnsons “Epilepsy is Dancing”
34. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart “Young Adult Friction”
35. Fever Ray “If I Had a Heart”
36. Pictureplane “Goth Star”
37. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Heads Will Roll”
38. Fuck Buttons “Surf Solar”
39. Phoenix “Lisztomania”
40. Animal Collective “Brother Sport”
41 The Field “The More That I Do”
42. Cymbals Eat Guitars “And the Hazy Sea”
43. A Place to Bury Strangers “In Your Heart”
44. The Drones “Minotaur”
45. Metric “Sick Muse”
46. Bat For Lashes “Pearl’s Dream”
47. Franz Ferdinand “Ulysses”
48. Junior Boys “Hazel”
49. Future of the Left “The Hope that House Built”
50. Morrissey “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris”
51. BLK JKS – Mystery EP
52. St. Vincent “Marrow”
53. Bibio “Ambivalence Avenue”
54. Annie “Anthonio”
55. Wale “Pretty Girls”
56. Kylesa “Unknown Awareness”
57. Wild Beasts “All the King’s Men”
58. Morrissey “Something is Squeezing My Skull”
59. Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears – s/t EP
60. The xx – Basic Space
61. Mos Def “Life in Marvelous Times”
62. Phantom Band “Left Hand Wave”
63. The Twilight Sad “I Became a Prostitute”
64. Annie “My Love is Better”
65. Super Furry Animals “Mt.”
66. Dinosaur Jr. “Over It”
67. Fever Ray “Triangle Walks”
68. Mastodon “Oblivion”
69. Tanya Morgan “So Damn Down”
70. Sonic Youth “Sacred Trickster”
71. Music Go Music “Warm In the Shadows”
72. Micachu and the Shapes “Golden Phone”
73. Mos Def “Quiet Dog”
74. The Decemberists “The Rake’s Song”
75. Jarvis Cocker “Further Complications”
76. Bear In Heaven “Wholehearted Mess”
77. Fashawn “Freedom”
78. Fool’s Gold “Surprise Hotel”
79. Mew “Introducing Palace Players”
80. Spoon – Got Nuffin’
81. Fashawn “Our Way”
82. Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
83. Fever Ray “When I Grow Up”

...one of these years I'll actually put in the effort to get to 100.

Again with the great minds comment

definitely. Song's the jam. And, oddly enough, was one of the most popular choices at my wedding earlier this month.

1. Animal Collective - My Girls
2. Mew - Introducing Palace Players
3. Phoenix - 1901
4. Akron/Family - River
5. Animal Collective - Brothersport
6. Andrew Bird - Anonanimal
7. The Antlers - Bear
8. The Flaming Lips - Watching the Planets
9. Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring
Ramona Falls - I Say Fever
10. Royksopp - This Must Be It (feat. Fever Ray)
11. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
12. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
13. Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
14. Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
15. The Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move
16. Mosters of Folk - Say Please
17. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
18. Metric - Sick Muse
19. Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
20. The Dream - Rockin' That Thang
21. The Antlers - Two
22. Mos Def - Casa Bey
23. Muse - United States of Eurasia
24. The Mars Volta - Cotopaxi
25. Dredg - I Don't Know
26. M. Ward - Rave On (feat. Zooey Deschanel)
27. P.O.S. - Drum Roll
28. Mute Math - Backfire
29. Fun – At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)
30. Coldplay - Strawberry Swing
31. Paper Route - Carousel
32. Kanye West - Paranoid
33. Yo La Tengo - Here to Fall
34. The Big Pink - Dominos
35. The Eels - Fresh Blood
36. Fun - All the Pretty Girls
37. Bat for Lashes - Daniel
38. Mastodon - Oblivion
39. Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double or Triple
40. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
41. Lily Allen - The Fear
42. Florence and The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)
43. Passion Pit - The Reeling
44. Dredg - Information
45. The Mars Volta - Cotopaxi
46. The Horrors - Who Can Say
47. Antony and the Johnsons - Epilepsy is Dancing
48. St Vincent - Marrow
49. Camera Obscura - French Navy
50. mewithoutYou - The Fox, The Crow, and the Cookie
51. Metric - Help, I’m Alive
52. Mastodon - Divinations
53. Phoenix - Lisztomania
54. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others
55. The Mars Volta - Since We've Been Wrong
56. Fever Ray - Triangle Walks
57. The xx - Crystallized
58. The Field - The More That I Do
59. Mos Def - Quiet Dog
60. Lily Allen - 22
61. The Dream - Walkin on the Moon
62. Music Go Music - Warm in the Shadows
63. Spoon - Got Nuffin
64. Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
65. Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
66. Mute Math - Spotlight
67. Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
68. Jay-Z - Run This Town (feat. featuring Rihanna & Kanye West)
69. The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
70. Lily Alen - Not Fair
71. Lily Allen - Who'd Have Known
72. The xx - Basic Space
73. Muse - Uprising
74. The Bird and the Bee - Love Letter to Japan
75. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Born On A Day The Sun Didn't Rise

1)Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
2)Telekinesis - Coast of Carolina
3)Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For
4)Eminem - We Made You
5)Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars
6)Memory Cassette - Call and Response EP (Asleep At A Party)
7)Lamb of God - Set To Fail
8)Stone Gods - Start of Something
9)Dinosaur Jr - Pieces
10)Surfer Blood - Swim (To Reach The End)
11)Alice In Chains - A Looking In View
12)Washed Out - Feel It All Around
13)Passion Pit - The Reeling
14)Goatwhore - Apocalyptic Havoc
15)Empire of the Sun - Standing on the Shore

would have placed if they were singles--<<Passion Pit - Let Your Love Grow Tall (#1), Bibio - Lovers Carvings>>

EDIT

1. animal collective - brothersport
2. animal collective - my girls
3. kanye west - paranoid
4. animal collective - summertime clothes
5. grizzly bear - two weeks
6. major lazer - keep it going louder
7. weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want To) I Want You To
8. phoenix - lisztomania
9. phoenix - 1901
10. dirty projectors - stillness is the move


absolutely terrible, terrible year for pop music (and good melodies). and fuck lady gaga (i may regret saying that some day in the near future).

List is nothing to be ashamed of. Forgot about that Major Lazer, need to put that on mine.

It only seems that this year has been a poor one for mainstream pop music because the last few years produced fucking gold. "A Milli," etc.

Also:

11. Jay Z - Empire State of Mind

Hmm... I'm not sure, but I really hope I'm not the first one to have included Akron/Family - River...

HELLO SOMB

...



just kidding. what am i now, some kind of asshole. why aren't more people making posts, this thread should be hopping right about now

The guy who has no Shakira, Electrik Red, or The-Dream on his list doth declare it a terrible year for pop music. Hm.

you think i pay attention to that hipster trash?

edit

for the record, i'm joking. i haven't paid attention to much modern music this year.

Interesting how a not especially singles driven genre looks like it might totally dominate the singles list.

This poll always take slower to get going, at least partly because people haven't posted their singles lists 45 times throughout the year already.

Also, always a lot fewer people. Shame, it's always the superiour list.

It's slo hopefully because people are going through lists of singles, hearing new stuff and making a list of the ones they like. Not thinking of songs from albums they liked and trying find if they were singles.

Arse backward way of doing things.

Mitch otm about a good approach for a singles list.


I think this year the mainstream stuff was too fragmented ...without a single clear Umbrella/American Boy-type pop rallying point for indie rock listeners, the list is ripe for Phoenix to swoop in and rack up a lot of high-ranking votes.

I'm thinking maybe indie rock will have a bigger percentage of the top 10 than the past few years, but pop will have a bigger percentage of the top 40 during the same period.

Idk, hopefully there's more pop/dance/rap/rnb voters to come. Hope so, at the moment it looks like indie all the way with maybe some token Dream songs.

Wonder where 'If I ever feel better' placed back in the day, infinitely better single than this '1901', thing.

Why aren't the Mount Kimbie EPs on any of these lists?

"1901" is great but "Lisztomania" should have as many high votes and neither songs touch "Too Young," "If I Ever Feel Better," or even "Everything Is Everything." Those are the facts.

My Girls leaked around this time last year, didn't it? That song is still my #1 jam.

Because my scarf music infested list has not dropped yet.

What do you mean, see Northern Voice's 93rd favorite of 2009. Barrelin' up the charts.

'Everything Is Everything' is probably my least favourite Phoenix single ever. And that includes 'Party Time'. It's not actively bad, just kind of dull.

Of the ones listed it goes something like

Too Young
If I Ever Feel Better
1901
Lisztomania



Everything Is Everything

"1901" cracked the Alternative top 10 this week, so while we can argue about the quality of it with their past singles, it shouldn't be a shock that it places highest of the bunch when it clearly has had the widest crossover appeal. Also, it's awesome. Also, it's in a Cadillac commercial.