Monday, July 04, 2011

The Best of 2011 so far: Top 40 Singles

It's half-time for 2011 which gives us the perfect opportunity to make a couple more lists. We are starting today with the selection of our 40 favorite singles of the year so far and until the end of the week we'll have that tricky album list which is currently under debate, although it's quite clear who's going to be at the top. The rule for the list you see below is to include only one single per artist for a more varied selection, while the ranking is only indicative as it's always changing. Here's how our Top 40 looks like this week, a few days into the second half of the year:

Top 40 Singles (January - June '11)

1.    The Words That Maketh Murder - PJ HARVEY
2.    Future Crimes - WILD FLAG
3.    Blackout - ANNA CALVI
4.    He Gets Me High EP - DUM DUM GIRLS
5.    Under Cover Of Darkness - THE STROKES
6.    Will Do - TV ON THE RADIO
7.    Milkman - EMA
8.    ~ (R E A L L O V E) - FACTORY FLOOR
9.    Future Starts Slow - THE KILLS
10.  I Follow Rivers - LYKKE LI
11.  I Heard You Say - VIVIAN GIRLS
12.  Two Against One (feat. Jack White) - DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI
13.  Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair - ARCTIC MONKEYS
14.  Uberlin - R.E.M.
15.  This Is Why We Fight - THE DECEMBERISTS
16.  Only The Lonely EP - UNKLE
17.  You are a Tourist - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
18.  Through The Floor - CRYSTAL STILTS
19.  Belong - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
20.  Glass Jar - GANG GANG DANCE
21.  Yonkers - TYLER, THE CREATOR
22.  Make Some Noise - BEASTIE BOYS
23.  Throw Away This - TELEPATHE
24.  Love Song - HUSBAND
25.  Our Last Waltz - HOLD KISS KILL
26.  Holing Out - YUCK
27.  Austere - THE JOY FORMIDABLE
28.  Post Break-Up Sex - THE VACCINES
29.  Face In The Crowd - CAT'S EYES
30.  Kaputt - DESTROYER
31.  A Chore - TOM VEK
32.  The Butcher / Supercollider - RADIOHEAD
33.  Ego / Mirror - THOM YORKE / BURIAL / FOUR TET
34.  Buy Nothing Day - THE GO! TEAM
35.  Villains Of The Moon - COLD CAVE
36.  Chorea - ESBEN AND THE WITCH
37.  Helplessness Blues - FLEET FOXES
38.  Calgary - BON IVER
39.  Hauntin' Me - KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS
40.  So High - RINGO DEATHSTARR

Hit play below to listen to the Top 30 (for Hold Kiss Kill's missing "waltz" go here):


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