It was a pretty good year for new music, though. Some of my favorite artists released new albums this year (Kylie Minogue and Goldfrapp, to name two). I've also discovered new ones (iamamiwhoami, even though they started releasing their videos in 2009 they didn't start releasing their singles until this year). Below is a compilation of the best songs of this year (in my opinion, of course).
The criteria for this was simple - it had to be released this year, in some shape or form - whether on an album, b-side to a single or released online (digital only releases through iTunes or Amazon MP3, for example). I also had to have liked it and played it all throughout the year. Some of these have not been posted on the blog yet. I have included individual links as well as all the songs packed into a zip file (it will show up as a compilation in iTunes).
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- Goldfrapp - Alive
- Goldfrapp - Believer
- Kylie Minogue - Everything is Beautiful
- Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite
- Scissor Sisters - Sex Exciter
- Hurts - Wonderful Life
- Hurts - Better Than Love
- Ladytron - Ace of Hz
- Freezepop - Magnetic
- Christina Aguilera - Birds of Prey
- The Golden Filter - Thunderbird
- The Golden Filter - Solid Gold
- Spark - Revolving
- Kaskade featuring Dragonette - Fire In Your New Shoes
- The Ting Tings - Hands
- Sophie Ellis Bextor - Bittersweet
- Kelis - 4th of July
- Kelis - Home
- Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed
- Ellie Goulding - Under the Sheets
- Grum - Through the Night
- Chromeo - Don't Turn the Lights On
- Chromeo - Hot Mess
- Katie Melua - The Flood
- Kanye West - Power
- Sugababes - About A Girl
- Lady GaGa feat. Beyonce - Telephone
- M.I.A - Born Free
- M.I.A - XXXO
- Electric Youth - Right Back To You (Demo)
- Bunny Lake - Army of Lovers
- Gabriella Cilmi - Hearts Don't Lie
- Chromeo feat Elly Jackson - Hot Mess
- Schiller feat Despina Vandi - Sunday
- Nicole Scherzinger - Poison
Links had to be removed. DMCA notice again. Sigh. You can email me if you want a link to the compilation or the tracks that hadn't been featured on the blog until now. What's really messed up about this is that this time I didn't get an email from them regarding this complaint, so I have no idea which artist triggered the complaint.
