My general approach with (music) best-of lists is to compile a large playlist in iTunes of my favorite stuff, adding to it throughout the year. That usually works out to 40-50 tracks, in total. In past years (2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003), I've edited that list down to my top 10-15 tracks.
But this year, I said fuck it, and decided to just throw the whole list up here. I think it's actually a better representation of what I listened to than a top 10 would be, anyway, and I really did love all of these songs.
I put together a Spotify playlist with all of these tracks (modulo the ones that aren't on Spotify), for anyone interested in playing them all together in one place.
Here we go, in alphabetical order. Links link to video/audio clips, and some video clips are embedded. For variety and visual fun.
A$AP Rocky, "Peso"
Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Amy Winehouse, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?"
Atlas Sound, "Te Amo"
Azealia Banks, "212"
Beyoncé, "Countdown"
Charli XCX, "Stay Away"
Danny Brown, "Monopoly"
Destroyer, "Kaputt"
DJ Shadow, "Scale it Back"
Drake, "Marvins Room"
Dum Dum Girls, "Coming Down"
Eleanor Friedberger, "My Mistakes"
Florence + The Machine, "Shake it Out"
Frank Ocean, "Thinking About You"
Goapele, "Play"
Gotye feat. Kimbra, "Somebody That I Used to Know"
James Blake, "Measurements"
Katy B, "Broken Record"
Lady Gaga, "Yoü and I"
Lana del Rey, "Video Games"
Lloyd feat. Titi Boi & Salo, "Bang!!!!"
Lykke Li, "Made You Move"
M83, "Midnight City"
Mr. Dream, "Croquet"
Ms. Dynamite, "Neva Soft"
Nicola Roberts, "Beat of My Drum"
Patrick Wolf, "Together"
PJ Harvey, "The Last Living Rose"
The Rapture, "How Deep Is Your Love?"
Robin Thicke, "Love After War"
Rye Rye feat. Robyn, "Never Will Be Mine"
Shabazz Palaces, "A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)"
Slow Club, "Two Cousins"
St. Vincent, "Surgeon"
The-Dream, "Nothing But Love"
tUnE-yArDs, "Powa"
Tyler, The Creator, "Yonkers"
The Weeknd, "The Morning"
Wild Beasts, "Loop the Loop"
And finally, the song that I've played more than any other song in the last month, Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe":
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