ILM Top 77 Tracks of 2020 Poll Afterparty: Ballots, Statistics and Pastiche

ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2020

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RESULTS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CsucGieeETJFv1dpIMpQAdClFTQI9PtH4jiFKDkHNUU/edit?usp=sharing

VOTERS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bdvrnin5jCrrfOQJMsWwuaXBhRf20wtSwMXhA0yCK38/edit?usp=sharing

#1: SAULT - “Wildfires” - 548 points - 16 votes - 3 #1 Track Vote
#2: Christine and the Queens - “People, I’ve Been Sad” - 462 points - 14 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#3: The 1975 - “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)” - 462 points - 12 votes - 3 #1 Track Vote
#4: Róisín Murphy - “Murphy’s Law” - 445 points - 16 votes
#5: Charli XCX - “Forever” - 398 points - 12 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#6: Chloe x Halle - “Do It” - 394 points - 13 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#7: Jayda G - “Both of Us” - 382 points - 11 votes - 2 #1 Track Vote
#8: Jessie Ware - “Remember Where You Are” - 382 points - 10 votes - 3 #1 Track Vote
#9: Victoria Monét and Khalid with SG Lewis - “Experience” - 376 points - 15 votes
#10: Azana - “Your Love” - 368 points - 10 votes - 2 #1 Track Vote

#11: Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion - “WAP” - 340 points - 11 votes
#12: Jazmine Sullivan - “Lost One” - 332 points - 12 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#13: Poppy - “Concrete” - 332 points - 9 votes - 2 #1 Track Vote
#14: Jessie Ware - “Spotlight” - 326 points - 9 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#15: Koffee - “Lockdown” - 288 points - 11 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#16: Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé - “Savage (Remix)” - 285 points - 12 votes
#17: HAIM - “The Steps” - 262 points - 8 votes
#18: 070 Shake - “Guilty Conscience” - 243 points - 8 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#19: Kabza de Small and DJ Maphorisa with Aymos, Samthing Soweto, Mas Musiq and Myztro - “eMcimbini” - 243 points - 7 votes - 2 #1 Track Vote
#20: Fiona Apple - “Cosmonauts” - 238 points - 7 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#21: Horse Lords - “Fanfare for Effective Freedom” - 226 points - 7 votes
#22: Dua Lipa - “Physical” - 224 points - 8 votes
#23: Theo Parrish - “This Is For You” - 222 points - 9 votes - 1 #1 Track Vot
#24: Kate NV - “Telefon” - 220 points - 5 votes
#25: Soccer Mommy - “Circle the Drain” - 217 points - 11 votes

#26: Hen Ogledd - “Trouble” - 212 points - 6 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#27: Selena Gomez - “Rare” - 209 points - 8 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#28: clipping. - “Pain Everyday” - 208 points - 7 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#29: Anderson.Paak - “Lockdown” - 198 points - 6 votes
#30: Roddy Ricch - “The Box” -193 points - 7 votes
#31: Chloe x Halle - “Ungodly Hour” - 190 points - 7 votes
#32: SAULT - “Fearless” - 188 points - 8 votes
#33: Doja Cat - “Say So” - 188 points - 7 votes
#34: Rema - “Woman” - 188 points - 5 votes
#35: DJ Tunez and Wizkid - “Cool Me Down” - 182 points - 6 votes
#36: Run the Jewels - “Walking in the Snow” - 180 points - 5 votes
#37 (tie): Algiers - “Chaka” - 179 points - 6 votes
#37 (tie): Bob Dylan - “Murder Most Foul” - 179 points - 6 votes
#39: Nihiloxica - “Black Kaveera” - 176 points - 7 votes
#40: Fiona Apple - “Shameika” - 173 points - 6 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#41: Yves Tumor - “Kerosene!” - 172 points - 7 votes
#42: Simmy and Sino Msolo - “Ngihamba Nawe” - 170 points - 6 votes
#43: The Beths - “Dying to Believe” - 170 points - 5 votes
#44: Wizkid - “No Stress” - 168 points - 6 votes
#45: Real Lies - “Boss Trick” - 166 points - 6 votes
#46: Dua Lipa - “Levitating” - 164 points - 6 votes
#47: Tiwa Savage - “Dangerous Love” - 162 points - 6 votes
#48: Charli XCX - “anthems” - 162 points - 4 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#49 (tie): Sufjan Stevens - “My Rajneesh”- 158 points - 5 votes
#49 (tie): Taylor Swift and Bon Iver - “Exile” - 158 points - 5 votes

#51: US Girls - “4 American Dollars” - 156 points - 6 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#52: The 1975 - “Birthday Party” - 156 points - 4 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#53: Wande Coal - “Again” - 155 points - 5 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#54: Romy - “Lifetime” - 154 points - 6 votes
#55 (tie): Jessy Lanza - “Lick in Heaven” - 154 points - 5 votes
#55 (tie): Kelly Lee Owens - “Melt!” - 154 points - 5 votes
#55 (tie): Owen Pallett - “A Bloody Morning” - 154 points - 5 votes
#58: Waxahatchee - “Fire” - 154 points - 4 votes
#59: Master KG and Nomcebo Zikode - “Jerusalema” - 152 points - 7 votes
#60: J Hus and Koffee - “Repeat” - 152 points - 6 votes
#61: Jorja Smith - “Rose Rouge” - 152 points - 5 votes
#62: Dagny - “Somebody” - 152 points - 4 votes
#63: YOU’LL MELT MORE - “Surpriser!” - 151 points - 6 votes
#64: Victoria Monét - “Jaguar” - 150 points - 6 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#65: Reece Madlisa and Zuma with Mr JazziQ and Busta 929 - “Jazzidisciples (Zlele)” - 150 points - 5 votes
#66: Thundercat - “Dragonball Durag” - 148 points - 5 votes
#67: Khruangbin - “Time (You and I)” - 148 points - 4 votes
#68: Avalon Emerson - “Rotting Hills” - 147 points - 5 votes
#69 (tie): Cleo Sol - “When I’m in Your Arms” - 146 points - 4 votes
#69 (tie): Disclosure with Fatoumata Diawara - “Douha (Mali Mali)” - 146 points - 4 votes
#71: Taylor Swift - “Cardigan” - 145 points - 5 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote
#72: Susanne Sundfør - “When the Lord” - 144 points - 6 votes
#73: Headie One with AJ Tracey and Stormzy - “Ain’t It Different” - 144 points - 5 votes
#74: Westerman - “Blue Comanche” - 138 points - 5 votes
#75 (tie): BENEE with “Gus Dapperton” - “Supalonely” - 136 points - 4 votes
#75 (tie): Destroyer - “Cue Synthesizer” - 136 points - 4 votes
#77: Jessie Ware - “What’s Your Pleasure?” - 134 points - 4 votes - 1 #1 Track Vote

mixed

Pablo Bozzi - Out of Sight
Kate NV - Telefon
George Clanton & Nick Hexum - Crash Pad

(G)I-DLE - Oh My God
ARTHUR - 8 Melodies
Caroline Polachek - Breathless
Crack Cloud - Ouster Stew
CS + Kreme - Saint
DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Charmed
Eyeliner - Los Angeles
Holodrum - No Dither
More Eaze - talk
Onipa - Yenimno
Patricia Taxxon - Spiral Staircase
Perfume Genius - On The Floor
Plone - Build a Small Fire
Plone - Miniature Magic
Progetto Tribale - Behaviour 2020 (Donato Dozzy & Peter Micioni Remix)
Viagra Boys - Ain't Nice
Vic Bang - Op
YOU'LL MELT MORE - Surpriser!

Here's the named artists that placed multiple tracks:

• Jessie Ware - 3
• Taylor Swift - 2
• Victoria Monet - 2
• Koffee - 2
• The 1975 - 2
• Dua Lipa - 2
• Wizkid - 2
• Fiona Apple - 2
• SAULT - 2
• Chloe x Halle - 2
• Megan Thee Stallion - 2
• Charli XCX - 2

That’s a total of 12 artists responsible for 25 songs. As breastcrawl pointed out upthread, you could bump that up to 13 and 26 by giving the nod to Disclosure with a pair, as they placed with “Douha”' and also produced Chloe X Halle’s “Ungodly Hour”.

My fully weighted ballot:

1. Kabza de Small & DJ Maphorisa ft. Aymos, Samthing Soweto, Mas Musiq & Myztro – eMcimbini
2. Roddy Ricch - The Box
3. Poppy - Concrete
4. Christine and the Queens - People, I've Been Sad
5. Koffee - Lockdown
6. Dawn Richard - Die Without You
7. Usher ft. Ella Mai - Don't Waste My Time
8. playboi carti - @meh
9. Headie One ft. AJ Tracey & Stormzy - Ain't It Different
10. Billie Eilish - No Time to Die
11. Master KG ft. Nomcebo Zikode - Jerusalema
12. Hatchie - Adored
13. Kelly Lee Owens - Melt!
14. SAULT - Wildfires
15. Jessy Lanza - Lick in Heaven
16. Erika de Casier – No Butterflies, No Nothing
17. Olamide - Green Light
18. Waylon Payne - Sins of the Father
19. Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky
20 Jazmine Sullivan - Pick Up Your Feelings
21. Caribou - New Jade
22. Spillage Village ft. Earthgang & JID - End of Daze
23. Samthing Soweto ft. Mzansi Youth Choir - The Danko! Medley
24. Westerman - Blue Comanche
25. Rosalia - Juro Que

Unweighted, bolded placed

Algiers - Chaka
Autechre - Metaz form8
Black Foxxes - Badlands
Clipping - Pain Everyday
Ela Minus - Dominique
Jessie Ware - Remember where you are
Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyoncé – Savage Remix
Neil Cicierega - 10,000 Spoons
Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto
Poppy - Concrete
Rina Sawayama - Comme Des Garçons (Like The Boys)
Run the Jewels ft. Pharrell & Zack de la Rocha - JU$T
SAULT - Wildfires
Soccer Mommy - Circle the Drain
Stephen Malkmus - Xian Man
TALsounds - Soar
Tangerine Dream - Los Santos City Map
The Mountain Goats - Rat Queen
Westerman - Blue Comanche
Wizkid - No Stress
YOU'LL MELT MORE - Surpriser!
Yves Tumor - Kerosene!

Weighted

Riki - Böse Lügen (Body Mix)
Lola Le Lann - Portofino
Pale Blue - I Walk Alone With Acid
M¥ss Keta - Giovanna hardcore
Annie - American Cars
Kate NV - Telefon
Dagny - Somebody
Luna - Fata Morgana
Avalon Emerson - Rotting Hills
Miss Li - Komplicerad
Pauline Chagne - Orange Sanguine
Ms Nina - La caprichosa
Oklou - Galore
Javiera Mena - Corazón Astral
Tienhaara - Avaa hiukset, Medusa
Katie Pruitt - Normal
LAUREL - Scream Drive Faster
Biig Piig - Feels Right
Ellen Allien - Confusion
Suzanne Sundfør - When the Lord
Dua Lipa - Physical
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Expanding Electricity
I Break Horses – Baby You Have Travelled For Miles Without Love In Your Eyes
TOPS - I Feel alive
Aly & AJ - Joan of Arc on the Dance Floor

mixed ballot, bold placed

Pirra – Limousine Lies (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Extended Remix)
Diff Sanders - Ravana
Rival Consoles - Forwardism
Run the Jewels - Walking in the Snow
Nihiloxica - Black Kaveera
Jockstrap - The City
Filmmaker - Wacky Leaders
Destroyer - Cue Synthesizer
Anunaku - Teleported
Carl Stone - The Jugged Hare

Julian Winding - Chamber Secrets
SWART - Power Lust Greed Fame
Boy Harsher - R.O.V. (New Beat Edit - Part Time Punks Session)
HENGE - Exo
MC Yallah - Emcees
Deena Abdelwahed - Wein Al Malayeen
Machine Woman - Timbu Limbu And Her War Bass
Lone - Dragonrush
Figueroa - Back to the Stars
Azusa - Golden Words
Wylie Cable - Contacting People From Your Past
The Flashbulb - Nextless
Coco Bryce - Ma Bae Be Luv
Pale Blue - I Walk Alone With Acid
Burial - Chemz

This is the lowest number of my votes that has placed since I started participating in the year end polls. Check out the stuff from my list! It's great!

Unweighted, bold DNP

Azana - Your Love
Westerman - Your Hero Is Not Dead
Bullion - We Had A Good Time
Suzanne Sundfør - When the Lord
Roisin Murphy - Murphy's Law
Il Quadro di Troisi - Raggio Verde
Isola - Any Day
Jessie Ware - Remember where you are
Kush Jones - Earth Note
Kelly Lee Owens - Jeanette
Ana Roxanne - Suite Por L'Invisible
The 1975 - If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)
Lord of the Isles ft. Ellen Renton – Inheritance
Bree Runway ft. Young Baby Tate - Damn Daniel
Algiers - Chaka
Anderson.Paak - Lockdown
SAULT - Fearless
Sufjan Stevens - Video Game
Victoria Monét - Experience
Ela Minus - Dominique
Laura Groves - Infinite Wisdom
Moses Boyd - 2 Far Gone
Sansibar - What Now?
Oneohtrix Point Never - No Nightmare
Dua Lipa - Hallucinate (Tensnake Remix)

Here's my weighted ballot, bolded the ones that made it to the top 77:

1. Tiiu Helinä - Pimeys
2. Sara Hebe - Chiri
3. Tienhaara - Avaa hiukset, Medusa 4. 4. Maisha - Open the Gates
5. Ilana Bryne - Give Me Strength
6. 박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Like This
7. Deena Abdelwahed - Wein Al Malayeen
8. Ellen - Häkkilintu
9. Ana Tijoux - Antifa Dance
10. Nicole - Inside
11. Yazz Ahmed - Ruby Bridges (DJ Plead Remix)
12. Ms Nina - La caprichosa
13. DakhaBrakha - Vynnaya ya
14. Yemi Alade & Angelique Kidjo - Shekere
15. Simmy ft. Da Capo & Sun-El Musician – Emakhaya 16. Ellen Allien - Confusion
17. Lido Pimienta ft. Li Saumet – Nada 18. Aterciopelados ft. Walka - Más allá de la ventana 19. M¥ss Keta - Giovanna hardcore
20. Róisín Murphy - Murphy's Law 21. Eris Drew - Transcendental Access Point
22. Yemi Alade ft. Estelle - Weekend
23. Kimiko - Early Reflections
24. Bomba Estéreo ft. Nidia Góngor - Sonic Forest 25. Moses Boyd ft. Poppy Ajudha - Shades of You

I guess I'm pretty much out of touch with ILM trends, as per usual. I did expect "Emakhaya" to make it to the 77, though.

Sorry, don't know what happened with the formatting there, let's try that again:

1. Tiiu Helinä - Pimeys
2. Sara Hebe - Chiri
3. Tienhaara - Avaa hiukset, Medusa
4. Maisha - Open the Gates
5. Ilana Bryne - Give Me Strength
6. 박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Like This
7. Deena Abdelwahed - Wein Al Malayeen
8. Ellen - Häkkilintu
9. Ana Tijoux - Antifa Dance
10. Nicole - Inside
11. Yazz Ahmed - Ruby Bridges (DJ Plead Remix)
12. Ms Nina - La caprichosa
13. DakhaBrakha - Vynnaya ya
14. Yemi Alade & Angelique Kidjo - Shekere
15. Simmy ft. Da Capo & Sun-El Musician – Emakhaya
16. Ellen Allien - Confusion
17. Lido Pimienta ft. Li Saumet – Nada
18. Aterciopelados ft. Walka - Más allá de la ventana
19. M¥ss Keta - Giovanna hardcore
20. Róisín Murphy - Murphy's Law
21. Eris Drew - Transcendental Access Point
22. Yemi Alade ft. Estelle - Weekend
23. Kimiko - Early Reflections
24. Bomba Estéreo ft. Nidia Góngor - Sonic Forest
25. Moses Boyd ft. Poppy Ajudha - Shades of You

Unweighted ballot, bold placed:

Christine and the Queens - I Disappear in Your Arms
Dizzee Rascal ft. Chip - L.L.L.L.
Fatima Yamaha - Unwashed
Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyoncé – Savage Remix
FELBM - Filatelie
Gwamba and Mlindo the Vocalist - Yaz Abantu
Headie One ft. AJ Tracey & Stormzy - Ain't It Different
Jasiah - Crisis
Jazmine Sullivan - Pick Up Your Feeling
iMarkkeyz x DJ Suede the Remix God - Lose Yo Job
K Michelle - Supahood
Lil Baby - The Bigger Picture
Nihiloxica - Black Kaveera
Roddy Ricch - The Box
Róisín Murphy - Narcissus
Sansibar - Glide Till Dawn
SG Lewis ft. Lucky Daye - Feed the Fire
Sky Joose - Garage Bunnies
Soccer 96 with Alabaster DePlume - I Was Gonna Fight Fascism
Theo Parrish - This Is For You
Viagra Boys - Ain't Nice
Sam Hunt - Hard to Forget
DJ Tunez ft. Wizkid – Cool me down
Worlasi - Skreentime
Real Lies - Boss Trick

"No Time To Die" getting more than double "my future"'s points is among the more baffling things I've seen in a while

mixed ballot, 1-5 ranked rest unranked. none of my ballot placed lol

1-Oneus - Come Back Home
2-Suzanne - Can't Hang
3-Blackpink - Pretty Savage
4-Stray Kids - God's Menu
5-Ateex - Thanxx

Loona - Why Not?
Red Velvet - Psycho
Cherry Bullet - Hands Up
Sikka Rymes - Ready
Park Woo Jin - Color Eye (ft AB61X)
(G)I-DLE - Oh My God
Oneus - To Be Or Not To Be
Bibi - Kazino
Momoland - Tiki Taka
Eric Nam - Pardise
PinkFantasy - Shadow Play
VERIVERY - Thunder
K/DA - More
YooA - Bon Voyage
Taemin - Strangers
Irene & Seulgi - Naughty
Hwa Sa - Maria
Pete & Bas - Lightwork Freestyle
KARD - Gunshot
Mike Shannon - The Well Wicked

Mixed, bold placed

Chloe x Halle - Do It
Jazmine Sullivan - Lost One
Victoria Monét - Experience
Romy - Lifetime
Róisín Murphy - Murphy's Law
Jayda G - Both Of Us
Lous and the Yakuza - Amigo
Dua Lipa - Levitating
RAYE - Love Of Your Life
Javiera Mena - Corazón Astral
Princesa Alba - Ya No Quieres Quererme

Bree Runway ft. Young Baby Tate - Damn Daniel
Biig Piig - Feels Right
COY - Promises
Ela Minus - el cielo no es de nadie
Eris Drew - Transcendental Access Point
JONES - Camera Flash
Kiana Ledé ft. Ari Lennox - Chocolate
Kylie Minogue - Say Something
Laura Groves - Infinite Wisdom
Lola Le Lann - Portofino
Ngaiire - Boom
NIKI - Switchblade
Pauline Chagne - Orange Sanguine
Remi Wolf - Disco Man

weighted, bold dnp, sole voter italics, barely missed placing (i.e. 78-100) gets an angry underline

Black Foxxes - Badlands
Good Sad Happy Bad - Shades
Pharaoh Overlord - Path Eternal
Cardiacs - Vermin Mangle
Clipping - Pain Everyday
Klô Pelgag - À L'Ombre Des Cyprès
Gupi & Fraxiom - Thos Moser
Patricia Taxxon - Spiral Staircase
Owen Pallett - A Bloody Morning
Kairon; IRSE - An Bat None
Katie Dey - Happiness
Charli XCX - Forever
Machine Girl - The Fortress [The Blood Inside...]
Slum Of Legs - Benetint & Malevolence
YOU'LL MELT MORE - Go Out
Algiers - Dispossession
Pantayo - Kaingin
Pye Corner Audio - Resist (John Talabot Remix)
The Mountain Goats - Rat Queen
Perfume Genius - Jason
NAUTICULT ft. SB the Moor - TOE T@G (ur it!!!!)
Stephen Malkmus - Shadowbanned
Tim Heidecker & Weyes Blood - Oh How We Drift Away
Quelle Chris & Chris Keys - Mirage
Beauty Pill - Pardon Our Dust

genuinely, 100% dumbstruck that I was the sole voter for À L'Ombre Des Cyprès. absolutely cannot believe it. stunned

Mixed ballot; bold DNP

Koffee - Lockdown
Azana - Your Love
Rema - Woman
Bad Boy Timz - MJ
Prince Kaybee, Shimza, Black Motion & Ami Faku - Uwrongo
Pa Salieu f. Boy Boy - No Warnin'
Brent Faiyaz – Dead Man Walking
J Hus f. Koffee - Repeat
Chronixx - Dela Move

Davido - FEM
Wizkid f. Tems - Essence
Kabza de Small & DJ Maphorisa ft. Aymos, Samthing Soweto, Mas Musiq & Myztro - eMcimbini
Intence - Yeng
Govana f. Aidonia - Yeah Man
Govana - Likkle Bit Of Money
Olamide - Green Light
Chronic Law - Good Name
Jahvillani - Lizzad Pon Limb
Jahvillani f. Skillibeng - Smooth
Rytikal - My World
Jada Kingdom - Heavy!
Wande Coal - Again
The Scientists DJ f. Aymos - Imphumelelo
Ejoya & Buju - Mind Games
Teejay - Internet Badness

Weighted, bold did not place.

Special Interest - Street Pulse Beat
Deena Abdelwahed - Wein Al Malayeen
Patricia Taxxon - Try the Wine
Pettaluck - Algorythmn
Meth Math - El Vals de La Piedra
Massive Luxury Overdose - Run For Your Money
Hey String - Firefly
Pantayo - Kaingin
Djif Sanders - Ravana
Owen Pallett - A Bloody Morning
Katie Dey - Dancing
Il Quadro di Troisi - Raggio Verde
4s4ki - Hyper Angry Cat
Silvia Tarozzi - Domina
YUNIS - Hannonua
Black Dresses - CREEP U
Anna Homler and Elizabeth Falconer - Sisu
Reol - HYPE MODE
Zebra Katz - ISH
Scooter - FCK 2020
Hen Ogledd - Trouble
Rina Sawayama - Comme Des Garçons (Like The Boys)
Nihiloxica - Black Kaveera
Princess - Crystals and Lichen
Public Practice - Moon

unweighted

24kGoldin feat. Iann dior - Mood
AJ Tracey & Mabel - West Ten
Anderson .Paak - Lockdown
Better Person - Dotknij Mnie
CJ - Whoopty
clipping. - Pain Everyday
Flamingo Pier - Indigo
Holodrum - No Dither
India Jordan - For You
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Kamaiyah feat. Trina - Set It Up
LAUREL - Scream Drive Faster
MC Teteu - Sou Pivete Mas Não To Moscando
Megan Thee Stallion - Shots Fired
No Moon - 653 Miles
Park Hye Jin - Like This
Real Lies - Boss Trick
Rhapsody - 12 Problems
Run The Jewels - JU$T
ShooterGang Kony - Jungle
Sweeping Promises - Hunger For A Way Out
Swervyy - Smoke
Thundercat - Dragonball Durag
Tiwa Savage - Glory
Victoria Monét feat. Khalid - Experience

Weighted:

Fiona Apple - Shameika
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Dreamsicle
Waxahatchee - Lilacs
Simmy ft. Sino Msolo - Ngihamba Nawe
Bob Dylan - Murder Most Foul
The Mountain Goats - Get Famous
Joy Oladokun - Smoke
The 1975 - If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)
Owen Pallett - Paragon of Order (Version)
Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion - WAP
Sun-El Musician & Msaki - Ubomi Abumanga
Cornershop - St Marie Under Canon
Max García Conover - Handsome Suit
Romy - Lifetime
Run the Jewels ft. Pharrell and Zack de la Rocha - JU$T
Soccer Mommy - Circle the Drain
Dua Lipa - Physical
U.S. Girls - Denise, Don’t Wait
Jazmine Sullivan - Lost One
Aimee Mann - Avalanche

unweighted, bold DNP, Bold/italics sole voter

Algiers - Chaka
Ariana Grande ft. The Weeknd - Off the Table
Bartees Strange - Boomer
Billie Eilish - My Future (<---)
Black Foxxes - Badlands
Christine and the Queens - People, I've Been Sad
clipping. - say the name
Control Top - One Good Day
Creeper - Annabelle
Deftones - Street Carp (Phantogram Remix)
Dua Lipa - Break My Heart
Erika de Casier – No Butterflies, No Nothing
Flatbush Zombies - Afterlife
Greg Puciato - A Pair of Questions
Jeff Rosenstock - The Beauty of Breathing
Koffee - Lockdown
Loathe - Two-Way Mirror
Machinedrum ft. Freddie Gibbs - Kane Train
Malome Vector ft. Blaq Diamond - Dumelang
Mozzy ft. Polo G and Lil Poppa - Pricetag
Poppy - Concrete
Róisín Murphy - Murphy's Law
Run the Jewels - Walking in the Snow
The Lemon Twigs - The One
US Girls - Overtime (Alex Frankel Remix)

Weighted ADD ballot, bolded placed

Charli XCX - Forever
Gupi & Fraxiom - Thos Moser
Carly Rae Jepsen - Stay Away
Katie Dey - Dancing
The Avalanches ft. Rivers Cuomo & Pink Siifu - Running Red Lights
Yves Tumor - Kerosene!
Patricia Taxxon - Try the Wine
Perfume Genius - Jason
Owen Pallett - Paragon of Order (Version)
Shadow Community - Restless Song
Juice WRLD - Man of the Year
YOU'LL MELT MORE - Surpriser!
Cardiacs - Vermin Mangle
Jean Dawson - Dummy
Soccer Mommy - Circle the Drain
Selena Gomez - Souvenir
A. G. Cook - Silver
Rico Nasty - IPHONE
Poppy - Concrete
Kesha - High Road
Phoebe Bridgers - I See You
Beauty Pill - Pardon Our Dust
Backxwash - Spells
Neil Cicierega - 10,000 Spoons
Blackpink ft. Selena Gomez - Ice Cream

Nice ballot zchyrs! Think this is the first year I've ever not been imago's neighbour

genuinely, 100% dumbstruck that I was the sole voter for À L'Ombre Des Cyprès. absolutely cannot believe it. stunned

― imago

Okay, this is lovely. Why didn't more people vote for this?

My mixed ballot:

HAIM - I Know Alone
Cleo Sol - When I'm In Your Arms
SAULT - Wildfires
Jessie Ware - Remember where you are
Bullion - We Had A Good Time
070 Shake - Guilty Conscience
Westerman - Blue Comanche
Fiona Apple - Cosmonauts
Mac Miller - Right
Yves Jarvis - For Props
Material Girl - Funeral Parade of Roses
Oklou - Entertnmnt

Bad Bunny - Si Veo a tu Mamá
Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke - Her Revolution
Gorillaz ft. Peter Hook and Georgia - Aries
Victoria Monét - Jaguar
The Strokes - The Adults Are Talking
Theo Parrish - This Is For You
Phoebe Bridgers - Garden Song
Christine and the Queens - People, I've Been Sad
Moodymann - Let Me In
SAULT - Fearless
Selena Gomez - Rare
Tiwa Savage - Dangerous Love
Owen Pallett - A Bloody Morning

Mixed ballot, bold placed (13). Feeling decidedly hivemind-y outside of my country votes. If I'd have voted for the right Roisin track, I'd have plugged 6 of the top 10.

#1 The 1975 - If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)
#2 HAIM - The Steps

Victoria Monét - Experience
Dua Lipa - Physical
The Beths - Dying To Believe
Chloe x Halle - Do It
Simmy ft. Sino Msolo - Ngihamba Nawe
SAULT - Fearless
Charli XCX - Forever
070 Shake - Guilty Conscience
Soccer Mommy - Circle the Drain
Kelly Lee Owens - Melt!
Jayda G - Both Of Us
Burna Boy - Wonderful
Róisín Murphy - Narcissus
Luke Dick ft. Miranda Lambert - Polyester
Ashley McBryde - One Night Standards
Emily Scott Robinson - The Time for Flowers
Taylor Swift - Mirrorball
Taylor Swift - Cowboy Like Me
McKay & Leigh – Hundred Year Old Farmhouse
S.G. Goodman – Space and Time
Katie Pruitt - Normal
Iris DeMent - How Long
Sun-El Musician ft. Msaki - Ubomi Abumanga

My unusually-for-me not-very-hivemindish weighted ballot, bold placed:

Azana - Your Love
Solitary Dancer – Will You Meet Me?
Brent Faiyaz – Dead Man Walking
Algiers - Chaka
Earth Trax – I’m Not Afraid (Baltra Remix)
Jorja Smith – Rose Rouge
Lyra Pramuk - Tendril
Wande Coal - Again
Philip D Kick & Om Unit – The Riviera
Inigo Vontier – Bo Ni Ke (Nicola Cruz Remix)
I Break Horses – Baby You Have Travelled For Miles Without Love In Your Eyes
Justine Sky – Million Days
Kelly Lee Owens - On
Black Foxxes - Badlands
Lord of the Isles ft. Ellen Renton – Inheritance
Theo Parrish - This Is For You
austra ft. cecile believe – mountain baby (octo octa’s contemplation mix)
Soccer Mommy - Circle the Drain
Jenevieve - Baby Powder
Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyoncé – Savage Remix
Róisín Murphy - Murphy's Law
DaBaby ft. Roddy Ricch - Rockstar
Mthunzi & Sun-El Musician – Insimbi
Bella Boo - She's Back! (Off the Meds Mix)
70 SHIINE & Nacho - Domino

Think this is the first year I've ever not been imago's neighbour

― tangent x (tangenttangent), Friday, 29 January 2021 21:09 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

now DJP is my best friend haha

yes this klo pelgag track that imaga linked is p good

imago

mixed tracks ballot! bold placed (8 in total), itals for lone votes (there were a lot)

Bob Dylan - I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You
King Von - Took Her To The O
The 1975 - If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)
The Beths - Dying To Believe
Fireboy DML - ELI
Chloe x Halle - Do It
Destroyer - Cue Synthesizer
Sorry - Rock 'N Roll Star
DJ Tunez ft. Wizkid – Cool me down
Special Interest - Street Pulse Beat

Yves Tumor - Kerosene!
Sada Baby - Aktivated
J Hus - Triumph
Ratboys - My Hands Grow
Raveena - Headaches
Rio Da Yung OG & Louie Ray - Movie
Koffee - Lockdown
Sufjan Stevens - My Rajneesh
Los & Nutty ft. WB Cash - I'm Jus Fuckin Around
Empty Country - Marian
PG Ra & Jetson Made - Keeping Time
42 Dugg ft. Babyface Ray - One Of One
Brian Brown ft. Reaux Marquez - Runnin
Yg Teck - What You Know

Weighted, bold DNP

Azana - Your Love
Tiwa Savage - Dangerous Love
DRB LasGidi ft. Boj, Teezee, Fresh L & Tems - Trouble
Avalon Emerson - Rotting Hills
SZA - Good Days
Sister Deborah ft. Y'akoto - Somebody
Cracker Mallo ft. Fireboy DML - Wickedest Wyne
Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyoncé – Savage Remix
Backroad Gee ft. Lethal Bizzle & JME - Enough Is Enough
Ogranya & Efya - Wicked Somebody
Dawn Richard - Die Without You
Laura Marling - Held Down
Cruel Santino ft. Octavian - End of the Wicked
Jayda G - Both Of Us
Taylor Swift - Willow
Chloe x Halle - Do It
Jessy Lanza - Lick In Heaven
Prince Kaybee, Shimza, Black Motion & Ami Faku - Uwrongo
Zora Jones - Paranoid
Dua Lipa - Levitating
S-Tone ft. Simmy - Vuka Africa
Shamir - On My Own
Kylie Minogue - Magic
Wizkid - No Stress
DJ Lace ft. Khanye - Izint Ezinhle

I don't have very many interesting stats to report. I'm infinitely Antifuxx0r this year, 8th least hivemindy, and my neighbour is silverfish. Hey silverfish!

are we doing bold placed or bold didn't place

lol voodoo chili that is a wild mix of placed songs and lone votes

indeed haha

My ballot, ranked, bolds placed (only 3 so that's easier to mark); this is from my notes, I might have slightly shifted the order when I actually submitted

Trouble
The Business
Things Can Only Get Better
Dynamite
Invisible String
Champagne Problems
Shameika
Shadowbanned
Look Alive
Get Famous
down at the so and so on somewhere
fanfare for effective freedom
ice cream, blackpink
anything (adrienne lenker)
arboretum
say something
tiki taka
lose yo job
i was gonna fight fascism
dark star (jack river)
murder in the cathedral, kiwi jr.
Barre, Songhoy Blues
Go Screw Yourself
With All Due Respect

Having a daughter in 5th grade may have given me a distorted idea of which songs were big, it did not occur to me for a single moment that BTS wouldn't place!

are we doing bold placed or bold didn't place

― Guayaquil (eephus!)

We have this argument every year, and every year I state that bolding DNP gives you a chance to rep for loved songs that we haven't already discussed to death, and therefore is a much better system. But people are going to do what they want to do.

v glad to note emil.y on the taxxon train btw

It depends on the composition of your ballot - if a minority of your tracks placed then bolding everything else is harsh on the eyes

I'm not fully on the Taxxon train, partly because I just can't cope with artists who release way way too much, but I did get completely obsessed with 'Try the Wine'. I love it.

xp

:)

what's everyone doing now

also yeah every year I see zchyrs' ballot and think 'that dude shd be my friend or something'

bolding DNP gives you a chance to rep for loved songs that we haven't already discussed to death, and therefore is a much better system

Not gonna post my ballot (b/c who cares) – but it would be 22 bold and 3 non-bold, lol

Go Screw Yourself
With All Due Respect

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, January 29, 2021 5:49 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

u have to it's the law we all care xp

Things I voted for that surprised didn't place, besides BTS:

Tiesto, "The Business" -- 150m Spotify plays, my daughter listens to this all the time, of the year's chart singles the one I find myself singing constantly, I just assumed everybody liked this but I was the one and only voter!

Mountain Goats "Get Famous" -- after not caring about the last couple of records I really dug both this and "Rat Queen," maybe the album will place?

weighted (did not place, sole voter)

Haim - I Know Alone
Sun-El Musician & Nobuhle - Never Never
Azana ft. Claudio x Kenza - Bafazi
Roddy Ricch - The Box
Brandy - Borderline
Don Toliver - After Party
Sun-El Musician & Msaki - Ubomi Abumanga
Ledisi - Anything For You
Dixie D'Amelio, Blackbear & Lil Mosey - Be Happy (Remix)
Lil Baby & 42 Dugg - We Paid
Lonr. ft. H.E.R. - Make The Most
Bad Bunny - Yo Perreo Sola
Lil Mosey - Blueberry Faygo
Victoria Monét - Dive
Summer Walker & Usher - Come Thru
Arlo Parks - Eugene
Masego & Don Toliver - Mystery Lady
Victoria Monét, Khalid & SG Lewis - Experience
Polo G - DND
Omarion - Involved
Sevyn Streeter - HMU
Phoebe Bridgers - Garden Song
Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyoncé - Savage Remix
Reece Madlisa & Zuma ft. Mr JazziQ & Busta 929 - Jazzidisciples (Zlele)
Jazmine Sullivan - Lost One

(whoa @ "i know alone" getting two #1 votes out of three votes total. props to moka for being the other one!)

morris i would want to see your ballot

i loved endless by taxxon a few years back, will check last years output

much respect to eephus for keeping it real

thanks but I am not sure in what respect I am keeping it real, to what do you refer

re: your bottom ballot placements

PS, listening through the 177, I am confirmed in my vote for Kylie Minogue "Say Something," a discovery for me off the noms -- this rules and I lift a glass to whoever else voted for it

xp oh yeah got it... what can i say, like dennis deyoung I'm a straight-talking, hard-working son of a gun

i was the "Hard to Forget" voter; did you nominate it Murgatroid? It really damaged me for awhile! McAnally is such a good songwriter/collaborator.

I did not nominate/vote for anything this year unfortunately, so not me

Bold placed.

Christine and the Queens - People, I've Been Sad
Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion - WAP
Arca - Nonbinary
Run the Jewels - Walking in the Snow
Duval Timothy - Fall Again
Jessy Lanza - Lick In Heaven
Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour
Lido Pimienta ft. Li Saumet – Nada
Disclosure ft. Fatoumata Diawara - Douha (Mali Mali)
Julianna Barwick - Inspirit
Samthing Soweto ft. Mzansi Youth Choir - The Danko! Medley
I Break Horses - I Live At Night
The Weeknd ft. Rosalía - Blinding Lights (Remix) Maybe? Not sure if this was counted with original
Autechre - M4 Lema
Yaeji - WAKING UP DOWN
Róisín Murphy - Murphy's Law
Theo Parrish - This Is For You
Moodymann - Do Wrong
Lyra Pramuk - Tendril
Simmy ft. Da Capo & Sun-El Musician – Emakhaya
Ka - Solitude of Enoch
Oklou - God’s Chariots
Fiona Apple - Shameika
Machinedrum ft. Freddie Gibbs - Kane Train
Lake Turner - No Way Back Forever

Mixed ballot, first 12 weighted, rest unweighted (iirc, could be 13/12)

sorry octobeard, Blinding Lights placing at all was a fake-out

lol seeing that now! my bad

I miss the more obviously jokey placements of old if I'm being honest

it almost feels like we inadvertently mocked some voters this time

Unweighted; would not vote for Trey Lewis, would vote for Owen Pallett if I were to do it again; put more thought into the albums ballot

Deep Purple - Nothing At All
Young Jesus - Faith
Blue Öyster Cult - Box in My Head
The Nels Cline Singers - Segunda
William Beauvais - Lydian Sunrise
Trey Lewis - Dicked Down in Dallas
Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl - Mexican War Streets
Dennis deYoung - With All Due Respect
Vincent Bishop - Dansons la corona
Horse Lords - Fanfare for Effective Freedom
Patricia Taxxon - Spiral Staircase

All placed except for Young Jesus, obv.

I am playing my 10-year-old "Concrete" and she is screaming in disgust, "AUUUUUUUGGGGGH, CHOOSE A GENRE YOU IDIOT"

"I HATE THIS SONG"

"Is their strategy to get popular JUST TO ANNOY ME???"

I wish you guys could be here, her performative rejection of this song (which I like) is everything

I listened to about half of the album. Nothing else quite hit the same spot but I'll give it time.

I wonder how my life would have turned out if my Dad played hipster pop-metal obscurities for me and delighted in my critical responses. Maybe I would have become an accountant.

the badly assembled posters fakes were wonderful

i think maybe that 'choose a genre you idiot' is possibly my favourite genre of all

Bad Bunny's track seemed curious and I thought "a few people here probably like this, so whatever...I know he's a big name" but then the next two were obvs fake in a chin-scratchy, not very funny kind of way.

Weeknd at #7 seemed loathsome if not believable. A fun(ny) fake imo.

Someone else voting for "With All Due Respect" is the best thing about this poll.

I hope that's what made eephus my top neighbour.

Damn right I voted for it, and if that's your nom that's how I knew it existed and for that I thank you

Daughter thought "With All Due Respect" was hilarious btw

very perplexed as to how I became an ILM consensus voter for tracks

We all just copy your ballot

i agree with moodles

I like how technopolis was my closest neighbour, evidently because we had 4 tracks in common, which placed at, like, 232 and 593, etc. :)

My ballot, bold did not place

1 SAULT - Wildfires
2 Fiona Apple - Shameika
3 Horse Lords - Fanfare for Effective Freedom
4 Jon Anderson - Go Screw Yourself
5 Jessie Ware - Spotlight
6 Destroyer - Cue Synthesizer
7 Grimes - IDORU
8 Charli XCX - Forever
9 Soccer Mommy - Circle the Drain
10 Shinichi Atobe - Lake 2
11 Neil Cicierega - Ribs
12 Charli XCX - claws
13 Oneohtrix Point Never – No Nightmares
14 Clipping - Pain Everyday
15 SAULT - Fearless
16 Pye Corner Audio - Resist (John Talabot Remix)

I like how technopolis was my closest neighbour, evidently because we had 4 tracks in common, which placed at, like, 232 and 593, etc. :)

Vic Bang unites! You weren't the other Keeley Forsyth voter, by any chance?

:) Not me! (I probably should have posted mine properly. The other 3 were "Suite...", "Domino" & "Crash")

Is there a relatively simple metric that allows you to group together songs (or albums) that were voted on by a single cluster of people? Like, say a song S1 is voted on by voters V1, V2,..., V5, and S2 is voted on by V1,..., V4, whereas S3 and S4 is voted on by V6, V7,..., V10. They don't have to be distinct clusters, but the idea is that S1 and S2 were voted on by one group, S3 and S4 by another, etc. I don't feel like implementing it but this seems doable.

I'm interested in this as a way to measure the consensus-y-ness of polls over the years. If a poll had many of these (small-is) clusters, it would point to a fragmented poll; fewer (but bigger) ones would indicate more consensus.

I feel like ILM year end polls have gotten more fragmented, but I would like a way to measure this more distinctly.

I could do it but it might feel a bit too much like work right now

ok this is a slightly confusing chart but it plots the number of voters each year (line) against the number of tracks that received at least one vote

https://i.imgur.com/mbi5IAJ.png

You wouldn't expect a linear relationship (the 100th ballot will contribute fewer "unseen" items than the 1st), and we only have a few samples to go on; but still you'd expect that on average, more ballots->more tracks. It does look like things are less hivemindy than they used to be (pre-2015-ish), for whatever reason.

ok, thanks!

You've given one way of estimating fragmentedness / "hivemindedness", by isolated voters. I'm also interested in another way in which the vote could be more fragmented, that there are distinct communities voting for particular songs, in clusters of 4 or 5 voters, in a higher proposition than in the past. You could envisage a poll like this having a single hive mind, or by contrast several smaller clusters of minds, that mostly ignore what other clusters are interested in, and are just happy to get their two or three favored songs to place.

This is happening to some extent. I’ve seen debate on rolling and artist threads - k pop in 2019, SAULT in 2020 for example - about whether there is a consensus on favourite songs, with a view to avoid vote splitting in the EOY poll. But it’s only ever going to amount to one or two votes out of 25 per ballot. Not enough to define a sub-community within the overall ILX community? After all, some SAULT voters will also vote J Ware, others will find her terminally dull or go nowhere near her music in the first place.

With ~2000 observations to work with I think it might be too sparse to say anything conclusive at the track level. Might find more regularities in artist space or genre space; or the album poll data might be more stable. If I get time some day, I can try something. Or if anyone wants to take a shot at it send me an ILXmail and we can talk about how to share the data.

ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2020

Who was the other voter for Summer Walker - “My Affection”?

Moodles I admire your moxie in ranking "Go Screw Yourself" in 4th place and I think that must be the driving force behind you being my nearest neighbor!

taylor really got vote-split to death on this huh. bold placed.

Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto
Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion - WAP
Waxahatchee - Fire
Taylor Swift - Mirrorball
BFB Da Packman ft. Sada Baby - Free Joe Exotic
The Beths - Dying To Believe
The 1975 - If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)
Rina Sawayama - STFU
Jazmine Sullivan - Lost One
HAIM - The Steps
Jessie Ware - Save A Kiss
Shamir - On My Own
Kelly Lee Owens - Melt!
Christine and the Queens - People, I've Been Sad
Yves Tumor - Kerosene!
Lila Iké - I Spy
Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky
Ariana Grande - Positions
India Jordan - For You
Cut Copy - Love Is All We Share (Octo Octa Deep Feelings remix)
Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me
SZA ft. ty dolla $ign – hit different
Hot Dad - Now That's What I Jack Off About!
Burial - Chemz
Caribou - Never Come Back (Four Tet Remix)

It blew me away that Jon Anderson was suddenly getting pissed off at this late point in his career. I love it!

xp

bold did not place

Clipping - Pain Everyday
Slum Of Legs - Benetint & Malevolence
Tkay Maidza - Shook
Algiers - Chaka
clipping. - say the name
The Mountain Goats - Rat Queen
SAULT - Don't Shoot Guns Down
Beauty Pill - Pardon Our Dust
The Mountain Goats - Get Famous
SAULT - I Just Want to Dance
Neil Cicierega - Ribs
Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion - WAP
Owen Pallett - A Bloody Morning
Róisín Murphy - we got together
SAULT – Free
Tkay Maidza - 24K
Disclosure – Ecstasy
Purity Ring - Better Off Alone
Chloe x Halle - Do It
Algiers - Dispossession
Billie Eilish - No Time to Die
Selena Gomez - Rare
Neil Cicierega - Fredhammer
Busta Rhymes ft. Kendrick Lamar - Look Over Your Shoulder
Blackpink ft. Selena Gomez - Ice Cream

love it. if I'd voted Neil we'd have been even more best buds lol

Top 77 Tracks manifesting in the real world: I introduced my anime-loving 12-year-old son to You’ll Melt More, thanks to this poll. Guess what we listened to in the car on the way to drop him off at school today?

genuinely, 100% dumbstruck that I was the sole voter for À L'Ombre Des Cyprès. absolutely cannot believe it. stunned

So it turns out that the entire (unnominated) Klô Pelgag album is yet another buried 2020 masterpiece. Thanks for heads-up imago!