B3SCI TOP 50 SONGS OF 2010

Compiling a year end Best of Songs list is not exactly the easiest ask. There are SO MANY great songs. And ‘the line’ between making one’s list a true Best of list vs. a Favorite songs of the year list can be quite the thin one. Here’s our best go at it. Also, if you’ve yet to check out our Top 50 Albums of 2010 list then you can get familiar HERE. Happy Holidays, and thanks for reading! We’ll see y’all in 2011…

01. Adele – Rolling in the Deep (Buy It)

02. Kanye West -Power (Buy It)

03. Cee-Lo Green – Fuck You (Buy It)

04. Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar (Buy It)

05. Tinie Tempah – Pass Out (Buy It)

06. Alicia Keys – Unthinkable (I’m Ready) (Buy It)

07. The Black Keys – Tighten’ Up (Buy It)

08. Beach House – Norway (Buy It)

09. Janelle Monae – Tightrope (Feat. Big Boi) (Buy It)

10. James Blake – CMYK (Buy It)

11. Far East Movement – Like a G6 (Feat. The Cataracts & Dev) (Buy It)

12. Drake – Fireworks (Feat. Alicia Keys) (Buy It)

13. B.o.B. – Airplanes (Feat. Hayley Williams) (Buy It)

14. Arcade Fire – Ready to Start (Buy It)

15. M.I.A. – Born Free (Buy It)

16. Swedish House Mafia – One (Feat. Pharrell) (Buy It)

17. Jose James – Made for Love (Buy It)

18. Ski Beatz – Cream of the Planet (Feat. Mos Def) (Buy It)

19. The Fresh and Onlys – Waterfall (Buy It)

20. Rick Ross – Super High (Feat. Ne-Yo) (Buy It)

21. Cassius – I Love You So (Buy It)

22. Gil Scott-Heron – New York Is Killing Me (Buy It)

23. The National – Terrible Love (Buy It)

24. Deadmau5 – Right This Second (Buy It)

25. Phantogram – As Far As I Can See (Buy It)

26. Washed Out – You and I (Feat. Carolyn Polachek) (Buy It)

27. Deerhunter – Helicopter (Buy It)

28. Erykah Badu – Window Seat (Buy It)

29. Wiz Khalifa – Black & Yellow (Buy It)

30. Big Boi – Shutterbugg (Feat. Cutty) (Buy It)

31. Katy B – Katy On A Mission (Prod. by Benga) (Buy It)

32. Mount Kimbie – Field (Buy It)

33. LCD Soundsystem – Oh You (Christmas Blues) (Buy It)

34. Jesse Rose – You Know It (Original Mix) (Buy It)

35. Band of Horses – Laredo (Buy It)

36. Kelis – 4th of July (Fireworks) (Buy It)

37. Funeral Party – Just Because (Buy It)

38. The Soft Pack – More or Less (Buy It)

39. Jeremy Messersmith – Tatooine (Buy It)

40. Klaxons – Echoes (Buy It)

41. Chapel Club – O Maybe I (Buy It)

42. King Reign – Money (Feat. Saukrates and Kardinal Offishall) (FREE Download)

43. Grinderman- Worm Tamer (Buy It)

44. Mona – Listen To Your Love (Buy It)

45. The Sand Band – Set Me Free (Buy It)

46. The Vaccines – Blow It Up (Buy It)

47. Beady Eye – Bring the Light (Buy It)

48. Lykke Li – Get Some (Buy It)

49. Shad – Yaa I Get It (Buy It)

50. Professor Green – Just Be Good To Green (Feat. Lily Allen) (Buy It)

Honorable Mentions:
Corinne Bailey Rae – Are You Here
Fat Joe – Ha Ha (Feat. Young Jeezy)
Chris Turner – Liquid Love
Flying Lotus – And The World Laughs With You (Feat. Thom Yorke)
Lissie – Record Collector
Crookers – Cooler Couleur
Dale Earnhardt jr jr – Simple Girl
J. Cole – Premeditated Murder
Cee Lo Green – I Want You (Demo)
Small Black – Weird Machines
NERD – Hypnotize You
Eliza Doolittle – Skinny Genes
Usher – OMG (Feat. Will.i.am.)
First Aid Kit – Ghost Town
Foals – Spanish Sahara
Nicos Gun – Dirty Girl
Flying Lotus – And the World Laughs With You (Feat. Thom Yorke)
Sia – Clap Your Hands
Taio Cruz – Dynamite
Flight Facilities – Crave You (Feat. Giselle)
Ciara – Ride the Beat (Feat. Ludacris)
Tinchy Stryder – Game Over (Feat. Giggs, Professor Green, Tinie Tempah, Example, Devlin, Chipmunk)
Crystal Castles – Celestica
Gayngs – The Gaudy Side of Town
Big K.R.I.T. – Country Shit
Two Door Cinema Club – What You Know
Everest – Let Go
E-Train – Never Love You
Breton – The Well
Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Badio – Kiss the Sky
Dylan LeBlanc – If Time Was for Wasting
Flux Pavilion – I Can’t Stop
Freddie Joachim – Transistors
Great Lake Swimmers – Gonna Make It Through This Year
Gorillaz – Empire Ants (Feat. Little Dragon)
Groove Armada – Paper Romance (Feat. Fenech-Soler)
Karen Elson – The Ghost Who Walks
Manic Street Preachers – I’m Leaving You For Solitude
Mark Ronson & The Business Int’l – Somebody to Love
PS I Love You – Facelove
Menomena – TAOS
Sleigh Bells – Kids
STS – Fuck A Hook (Prod. By Don Cannon)

Reviewed by b3