Acclaimed Music Top 45 Songs from 2015 poll

Julia Holter over "Blackstar".

1 69 Kendrick Lamar - Alright
2 151 Drake - Hotline Bling
4 347 Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
24 1964 Jack Ü feat. Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now
29 2694 Thundercat feat. Flying Lotus & Kamasi Washington - Them Changes
30 2706 Adele - Hello
31 2749 Kelela - Rewind
33 2831 Major Lazer & DJ Snake feat. MØ - Lean On
39 3632 Missy Elliott feat. Pharrell Williams - WTF (Where They From)
42 3803 Björk - Stonemilker
45 4527 Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean?

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kaT5C9MWTIMa8510MZFrS

bitch better have my money

Wow, what a great list and great year for music in general. Voting for Pretty Pimpin' as it was just an off the wall song for that year,

tame impala's "let it happen" is the 165th most-acclaimed song ever? that seems nuts!

I had never heard Depreston before. What a good song.

i remember really loving that song when i heard it. i definitely prefer it to "pedestrian at best," tho that one is a solid "subterranean homesick blues"-style fast-talker

Love the whole album, tho I do tend to skip "Pedestrian" (that's the one CB mode I'm not so into – her Nirvana-esque rockers).

tame impala's "let it happen" is the 165th most-acclaimed song ever? that seems nuts!

LOL, three slots higher than "Purple Rain"

It's haunting listening to those David Bowie songs again. I haven't played anything from that album in years.

realiti can refer to the album version or the demo, right? the demo is potentially the best song of the decade, so I might have to go with that

but Run Away with Me, Where Are U Now, the Blacker the Berry, Kill V Maim and Bitch Better Have My Money are all incredibly exciting as well aaahhhhh

of all the breakthrough artists of the 2010s, has any of them had as disappointing of a career as alessia cara? "Here" blew my mind when it came out, but everything released after it lacked everything that made that track so great

I love quite a few of these but I’m going with “Norf Norf.”

I love quite a few of these but I’m going with “Norf Norf.”

Y’all are just gonna pretend Shut Up didn’t happen huh. Too obvious, or just not on your radar?

Lazarus is 2016 by any reasonable definition.

they’re going very strictly by release date, I think. “Trap Queen” was in last year’s list, and yes, it did come out in 2014 (in March) even, but as a hit and a phenomenon it was totally a 2015 thing.

(in March even),

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Yea "Trap Queen" is def a 2015 hit released a year earlier. It won ILM 2015 poll.

I vividly remember catching the "Lazarus" video that November/December and including it on my best of 2015 without a clue of its implications :(

The official music video for "Lazarus", featuring a shorter edit of the song lasting just over four minutes, was uploaded on 7 January 2016 to Bowie's Vevo channel on Youtube

Just kidding, I was thinking of "Blackstar." I actually didn't know the other video was out by the year's end.

And I guess it wasn't lol thanks

both videos are masterpieces of the form, and seemed that way even before we understood the implications

though it is harder to separate "lazarus" from the context considering it came out days before he died

Yea I was thinking of the convulsing choreography in "Blackstar" which is a standout image for me. And I remember some conversations with friends about how great his voice still sounded.

I guess "Lazarus" debuted mid-December. I did not catch the thing where Dexter sang it on TV around that time, which sounds like an event of sorts and was a full 2 weeks before the year's end. But I don't think I heard that song or caught the video until Jan 9 or later.

yeah that was part of the blackstar stage musical that bowie oversaw, and including donny mccaslin and a bunch of the other musicians who played on the album

i remember reading something about the production, and i know bowie came to visit them in december or so, but i can't recall if the players were aware of the extent of his decline when putting on their initial performances

Yea "Trap Queen" is def a 2015 hit released a year earlier. It won ILM 2015 poll.

Following its December 2014 re-release, "Trap Queen" became Fetty Wap's nationwide breakthrough and the first major hit single for 300 Entertainment.[13] It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 86 for the chart dated February 7, 2015.[34] The song entered the chart's top ten seven weeks later, largely on the strength of its streaming activity and digital download sales.[35][36] It peaked at number two for three consecutive weeks beginning on the chart dated May 16, 2015, held from the top spot by Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" featuring Charlie Puth.[37]

the fetty wap self-titled album was 2015 and trust me when i tell you that it holds up. "again," "rgf island," "joog," all bangers. i even have come around to liking "1738," which was played-to-death at the time.

*679, not 1738. i was only 1,059 off.

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tame impala's "let it happen" is the 165th most-acclaimed song ever? that seems nuts!

LOL, three slots higher than "Purple Rain"

like, there is *something* to the site and the rankings it generates are not exactly meaningless but i think ppl should keep in mind that as a project it is far less 'objective' than its presentation may lead one to believe. i know they have standards that they try to follow as far as what gets incorporated into their dataset, but as one can easily tell by glancing at their community discussions, the exercise is ultimately carried out by people with their own strong biases about what music is good and which critics of music are credible, which are hardly discarded when decisions are made about how strongly different sets of data are weighted. i'm not sure i would go as far as to call the site a pseudoscientific prop for already-canonized works, but it's not that far off either

anyway, my point is that the specific rankings do not mean as much as the ranked-list format implies, especially not for for the 'all-time' lists