Here is the link to the spreadsheet:



Many thanks to Chris for doing the work behind this spreadsheet another year!

The critics' lists so far:

USA & Canada
Textura, Grammy, Paste

Rest of the World:
Rumba, Magic

Not a lot of consensus so far...

New additions:

USA: Pop Matters, Treble
UK: NME, Q
Germany: Intro

The current top 25:
1. M83 - Midnight City
2. Lana Del Rey - Video Games
3. Adele - Rolling in the Deep [2010]
4. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
5. Tyler The Creator - Yonkers
6. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
7. Radiohead - Lotus Flower
8. The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness
9. Destroyer - Kaputt
10. Real Estate - It's Real
11. tUnE-yArDs - Bizness
12. Fucked Up - Queen of Hearts
13. James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream
14. PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
15. Florence + The Machine - Shake it Out
16. Metronomy - The Look
17. Bon Iver - Holocene
18. The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love?
19. Bon Iver - Calgary
20. The Horrors - Still Life
21. Battles - Ice Cream
22. Metronomy - The Bay
23. Kreayshawn - Gucci Gucci
24. Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers
25. Lykke Li - Sadness Is a Blessing

Thanks Chris!

"Pumped Up Kicks" should be labeled a 2010 song.

I think this confirms that this was a year without a lot of great consensus-building singles. Last year, we had songs like "Tightrope," "Dancing on My Own," and "Shutterbug" that were liked pretty much across the board by all types of listeners and seemed obvious for inclusion in year-end lists.

Not so much this year (though I'm on record as saying The Words That Maketh Murder should be, I am surprised it's ranked as high as 14th). This is exactly the kind of a year a very good but not huge band like M83 might get itself a SOTY.

On another note, I did not expect "Pumped Up Kicks" to receive this kind of acclaim. Maybe it's just the small sample size of lists right now.

Definitely a poor year for songs -- I just don't see any standouts and the lists that I've seen confirm that thought. I can't imagine M83's "Midnight City" as number one for the year, but then again, I can't see any of these songs considered great. I actually contributed to the PopMatters list, but I can say that I'm not familiar with most of those songs. This looks to be a year that won't show up well on the all-times lists.

Isn't Rolling In The Deep pretty consensus?

I don't like anything else on the album, but man what a single.

This feels like a silly post when there are more relevant things to think about, like Nicolas' question about indie domination (which I will have plenty to say about tomorrow). But this evening I'm catching up on what the critics perceived to be the best songs of the year. First thoughts? Well, one of my first thoughts is that it says quite something about the catchiness of a song when this gay man can't help but find himself singing: "Oooh Nooo. Tell me where that pussy gone. Cause it don't feel the same no more. I miss that pussy, that pussy, that pussy..."

Updated with...

USA: Amazon, Consequence of Sound, Pretty Much Amazing, Spin
UK: Gigwise
Mexico: Club Fonograma

Thanks Chris!

Updated again (Spin removed (Charles Aaron only))

There's been a little mistake. The Consequence of Sound and Rolling Stone positions you accounted for Run the World are actually for Countdown. Both from Beyoncé though

Hmmm... of the current top 10 only 1 of them will be in my own top 10 (James Blake's The Wilhelm Scream... and maybe Helplessness Blues but there are other songs on the Fleet Foxes album I like more). And of the current top 50 only 7 of them will be in my own top 50. In other years it's usually about 5 out of 10 and 20 out of 50.

I guess the list can still change, and in a year when nobody really had a clue what the top 10 songs would look like before the critcs lists started coming in, it shouldn't really be a surprise that my individual list will look very different to the critics' overall list.

Still... M83's Midnight City is very decent synth pop, but the song of the year? And I was worried that Adele's Rolling in the Deep was going to overtake it, but fortunately that doesn't seem possible anymore. The woman clearly has a strong pair of lungs on her, but maybe a bit too strong for my liking. Every time I listen to the song I think: Tone it down, dear. There's no need to shout. You're not on X Factor.

OK, time for me to shut up and stop being so unusually grumpy... and continue to be baffled that I'm losing touch with the critics while secretly being pleased that I'm paying attention to my own opinions rather than those of the critics this year.

Henrik - why was Spin removed?

Paren

Updated with

Pitchfork (USA)
Slant (USA)
Musikexpress (Germany)
Jenesaispop (Spain)
Playground (Spain)

Thanks Chris!

Henrik, I think the spreadsheet is not updated

OK Henrik. I have closed my excel and then worked

Thanks

Huge update!

USA: The Agit Reader, American Songwriter, Austin Town Hall, Little White Earbuds, MTV, NPR, One Thirty BPM, Spinner
UK: Dummy, Fact, Juno Plus, Resident Advisor
France: Les Inrockuptibles, Mowno
Germany: Laut
Norway: Dagbladet
Spain: Muzicalia

Lots of thanks, Chris!

Wow, if this is close to what the final list will look like.. that's perhaps the oddest yearly AM list I have ever seen.

Am I so out of touch with music?

I don't understand why PJ Harvey is doing so badly in the songs lists.

Another update from Chris.

USA: Rhapsody, xlr8r
UK: Muso's Guide
Germany: Spex
Sweden: Swedish Radio's "Musikguiden"

Time for a top 100!

1. M83 - Midnight City
2. Lana Del Rey - Video Games
3. Adele - Rolling in the Deep [2010]
4. Tyler, The Creator - Yonkers
5. James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream
6. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks [2010]
7. Bon Iver - Holocene
8. Radiohead - Lotus Flower
9. The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love?
10. Real Estate - It's Real
11. tUnE-yArDs - Bizness
12. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
13. Nicki Minaj - Super Bass
14. SBTRKT feat. Yukimi Nagano - Wildfire
15. St. Vincent - Cruel
16. Jay-Z and Kanye West - Otis
17. Destroyer - Kaputt
18. Frank Ocean - Novacane
19. Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers
20. Girls - Vomit
21. The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
22. Metronomy - The Look
23. Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris - We Found Love
24. Cut Copy - Need You Now
25. Adele - Someone Like You
26. EMA - California
27. Jay-Z and Kanye West - N****s in Paris
28. Drake - Marvin's Room
29. Battles feat. Matías Aguayo - Ice Cream
30. Cults - Go Outside [2010]
31. Omar-S - Here's Your Trance, Now Dance!!
32. Florence + The Machine - Shake it Out
33. Azealia Banks - 212
34. PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
35. Beyoncé - Countdown
36. Bon Iver - Calgary
37. Britney Spears - Till the World Ends
38. The Horrors - Still Life
39. The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness
40. Fucked Up - Queen of Hearts
41. Jamie xx - Far Nearer
42. Cold Cave - The Great Pan is Dead
43. Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You
44. Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory
45. Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar
46. Cass McCombs - County Line
47. Beyoncé - 1+1?
48. Blawan - Getting Me Down
49. Little Dragon - Ritual Union
50. Zomby - Natalia’s Song
51. Metronomy - The Bay
52. Wilco - I Might
53. Smith Westerns - Weekend [2010]
54. Dum Dum Girls - Coming Down
55. Yuck - Get Away
56. Cults - Abducted
57. Mosca - Bax
58. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
59. Unknown (Unknown Artist / Joy O) - Sicko Cell
60. Kreayshawn - Gucci Gucci
61. The Weeknd - Wicked Games
62. Ja, Panik - DMD KIU LIDT
63. Jacques Greene - Another Girl
64. The Weeknd - The Morning
65. Generationals - Ten-Twenty-Ten
66. The Weeknd - House of Balloons
67. The Drums - Money
68. Das Racist - Michael Jackson
69. WU LYF - We Bros
70. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx - I’ll Take Care Of You
71. Wild Flag - Romance
72. Burial / Four Tet / Thom Yorke - Ego
73. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
74. Washed Out - Amor Fati
75. Jai Paul - BTSTU
76. Todd Terje - Ragysh
77. Virgo Four - It’s A Crime (Caribou Remix)
78. Feist - Graveyard
79. The Vaccines - If You Wanna
80. Frank Ocean - Swim Good
81. Massive Attack & Burial - Paradise Circus [2010]
82. John Maus - Believer
83. James Blake - Limit To Your Love [2010]
84. The Kills - Satellite
85. Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend [2010]
86. Veronica Maggio - Jag kommer
87. Girls - Honey Bunny
88. Purity Ring - Ungirthed
89. Wilco - Art of Almost
90. Junior Boys - Banana Ripple
91. Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean
92. A$AP Rocky - Peso
93. The Antlers - I Don't Want Love
94. Holy Other - Touch
95. Beirut - Santa Fe
96. Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans
97. Bon Iver - Perth
98. Levon Vincent - Man Or Mistress
99. Grimes - Vanessa
100. Atlas Sound - Te Amo

Thanks Chris!

Updated with Mixmag and the Guardian (UK) and Scanner FM (Spain).

Thanks Chris!

Frank Ocean - Swim Good is listed twice and should be 58th overall, a much more rewarding rank for this wonderful song !

Is this the final list, or is an update coming?

There are about 10 more lists I have to add. I've been busy at work lately, but will hopefully have it done this weekend.

keep up the good work my friend, and sorry for the impatience

Good news Chris, but take your time.

Thanks for your work Chris.

If it can help you, i made this for myself... :

- Lists already on the Excel file :
Agit Reader, The (20)
Amazon (100)
American Songwriter (50)
Austin Town Hall (100)
Club Fonograma (50 int)
Consequence of Sound (50)
Dagbladet (25+25norsk)
Dummy (52)
Fact (50)
Gigwise (49) UK
Grammy (5)
Guardian (40)
Les Inrock (100)
Intro (50)
jenesaispop (100)
Juno Plus (100)
Laut (30)
Little White Earbuds (30)
Magic (15)
Mixmag (100)
Mowno (50)
MTV (10)
Musikexpress (50)
Muso's Guide (50)
Muzicalia (55no order)
NME (50)
NPR (100 no)
One Thirty Bpm (100)
Paste (50)
Pitchfork (100)
Playground (100)
Pop Matters (75)
Pretty Much Amazing (100)
Q (20)
Resident Advisor (50) UK
Rhapsody (50)
Rolling Stone (50)
Rumba (25+25fi)
ScannerFM (50)
Slant (25)
Spex (30)
Spinner (60)
SR-P3 (100) Musikguiden
Textura (20)
Treble (50)
xlr8 (50)

-Other lists found on AM :
Eligible :
78s (20no)
The[Au]review (40)
Billboard (20)
CHARTattack (26)
Dagsavisen (10)
Entertainment Weekly (10)
Hihopdx (10)
I Guess I'm Floating (50)
Inertia (50nc) (AUS)
The Line of Best Fit (50)
NewNowNext (15)
Ology (7)
Plattentests (10)
Rock de Lux (60+20 spain)
Rock First (Fr) (15, by genre)
Screenagers (50)
The Silent Ballet (50)
The Sun (20)
Technikart (20)
Tentaciones (25+25nat)
Village Voice (2225)
The Wild Honey Pie (50)
Zündfunk (20)

Ineligible :
Gorilla vs Bear (50+50no)
Spin (20)

I've also found a lot of other lists (from mags or web).
These ones look eligible : good alexa stats, staff picks (as far as i can see)

AOL (10)
B92 50na45 (50) (Ser)
Beatportal (100)
Bet (100)
Bleep (100nc)
Blitz (22nc)
Boomkat (100)
The Boot (AOL) (10)
Boston Herald (The Edge) (111)
Club Fonograma
Complex (25)
Dazed Digital (100nc)
Death & Taxes (20+18)
Diskomer (Studio B) (30+20nat)
Goutemesdisques.com (30)
Groove (De) (20)
Hypetrack (20)
indiespot (50+25) (Sp)
Jonk Music (100)
Kmag (20) UK
La Voix du Nord (12 no order) (F)
Le Vif (50) (Be)
Loudwire (10 metal + 10 rock)
Metromix (50)
MSN (10)
Nialler9 (100)
New York Post (100)
Noise Pop (KQED) (13)
Okayafrica (11)
Only for DJ's (50+50)
Pigeons & Planes (25+22)
Popdust (100)
Popjustice (45+123)
Porcy's (20)
Proxart (25)
Rap-up (10)
The Recommender.net (40)
Remezcla (25)
Revista O Grito (50) (Bra)
RocknBeats (20+10nat) (Bra)
SoulBounce (16+42)
SoundXP (20)
State (20)
Taste of Country (10)
Time Out London (10)
Tiny Mix Tapes (20no order)
Vibe (66no order)
Vinyle Musique (10)
Wired (100)
XXLMag (100)
Zimbio (10x6 genres)

I will post them if you want.

- Lists published in mags, not found :
Hot Press
Under the radar
Sonic
(DJ Mag ?)

So, is this it for this list now?

Well Chris. I appreciate that you've waited until we were ready. Now we are ready for a new update.