Top 100 Songs of 2018
We finally made it! It’s my favorite playlist of the year, a playlist that I come back to years later to remember the highs and lows of decibels, depths, and soul. It’s a list that means so much to me because these songs shaped an entire year for me - a year that I spent listening to music for 68,780 minutes!
If you break that down, that’s 1,146 hours of music, which is either 48 straight days of listening to music or 143 days listening to music eight hours a day. I have to gloat, that is pretty cool! Though it doesn’t beat my record of a couple years ago of 103,000 minutes of music. I will NEVER top that.
ANYWAYS, you came here for music. As you can see, Mac Miller was my “Top Artist,” meaning I listened to him the most of any artist, and specifically, for 37 hours, according to Spotify. There’s a reason three of his songs from his last album, Swimming, are on the Top 100. Kacey Musgraves is the only other artist with three songs on the Top 100.
There are so many different genres and sounds to climb through on this list, I just know you’re going to have a great time exploring and investigating. PLEASE keep an open mind with this stuff, and if you don’t like it the first time, it doesn't mean it won’t warm up on you. I listened to Drake’s “In My Feelings” countless times, not loving it, but gradually getting there as time went on. There’s a lot of that kind of music on this playlist, so open your ears and your mind, people!
And please, let me know the bands you discovered through this playlist and fell in love with. There’s nothing more I love than hearing someone heard about a band on a Monday Mixtape or my year end lists and fell in love. It’s the beauty of art: you can be swept off your feet and taken away into a chamber of echoes, forgetting all of the world’s problems as sirens sing.
Without further ado:
Top 100 Songs of 2018
Wait by the River – Lord Huron
Butterflies – Kacey Musgraves
God's Plan – Drake
What's the Use? – Mac Miller
Love It If We Made It – The 1975
Black Eyes – Bradley Cooper
Superior Emotion – AlunaGeorge, Cautious Clay
Lady and Man – Khruangbin
Exclusive Grave – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Moonlight – Disclosure
Slick Talk – JID
Heaven Up There – Palace
New earlsweatshirt - Interlude – Vince Staples
Why Even Try – Hippo Campus
Short Court Style – Natalie Prass
SICKO MODE – Travis Scott
Self Care – Mac Miller
In My Feelings – Drake
Always Remember Us This Way – Lady Gaga
Gonna Love Me – Teyana Taylor
Slow Burn – Kacey Musgraves
ES Tales – Jay Rock
Star Treatment – Arctic Monkeys
Feels Like Summer – Vince Staples
One Rizla – Shame
Choo Choo – Diamond Thug
Opener – Hookworms
STARGAZING – Travis Scott
Without Me – Rayland Baxter
Younger – The Hails
Shy – Leon Bridges
Lately – Wet
Water Baby – Tom Misch, Loyle Carner
Cómo Me Quieres – Khruangbin
Hurt Feelings – Mac Miller
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Sandman – BRONCHO
Baby Forgive Me – Robyn
Mirage – Curtis Roush
Taste (feat. Offset) – Tyga, Offset
Ocean Love – Dega
Four Leaf Clover - Edit – The Kooks
Mirror Master – Young the Giant
Cinders – The Moondoggies
Permanent Vacation – The Academic
Pristine – Snail Mail
You and Me – Shallou
Drive Away – The Brummies, Kacey Musgraves
Upper West Side – King Princess
I Do (feat. SZA) – Cardi B, SZA
Sheep – Mt. Joy
Everybody Loves You – SOAK
No Secrets – Jim James
Turnmills – Maribou State
Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves
Tremolo – Young Fathers
Some Birds – Jeff Tweedy
Graffiti – CHVRCHES
King of Alabama – Brent Cobb
Hot Box (feat. Method Man & Joey Bada$$) – JID, Method Man, Joey Bada$$
Take Me Back – Roosevelt
Hideout – S. Carey
The Return – Logic
Back Seat Driver (Spirit Guide) – Bear Hands
Saviers Road – Anderson .Paak
Sincerity Is Scary – The 1975
Heat of the Summer – Young the Giant
Hot Streak – Creature Canyon
She Said – HalfNoise
Wu Tang Forever – Logic, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, RZA, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, Cappadonna, Jackpot Scotty Wotty, U-God, Masta Killa, GZA
More Of The Same – Caroline Rose
Bad Bad News – Leon Bridges
Pale November Dew – The Dead Tongues
Mirrors – Dega
Wide Awake – Parquet Courts
Lemon Glow – Beach House
Hunnybee – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
You're On My Mind – Tom Misch
LivWithoutU – St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Tribe (with J. Cole) – Bas, J. Cole
When You Die – MGMT
Rollin With The Flow – Kurt Vile
Bubblin – Anderson .Paak
City Looks Pretty – Courtney Barnett
Prelude in C Sharp Major – Chilly Gonzales
My Life – ZHU, Tame Impala
Black Lagoon – Still Corners
X (with 2 Chainz & Saudi) – ScHoolboy Q, 2 Chainz, Saudi
Hoodrich Disco – Rome Fortune, Toro y Moi
I Will Be Waiting – Let's Eat Grandma
'98 gewehr – Nostrum Grocers, Milo, Elucid
Dummies – Wale
Wished Out – Carl Broemel
Timothy – Little Dragon
Fade Out – James Bay
Self – Noname
The Shape of Slaughter – Tha God Fahim, Mach-Hommy
Lake Zurich – Gorillaz
Magnetism – Vacationer
This Old House Is All I Have – Against All Logic