Nialler9’s top 100 songs of 2013
Artwork by Fatti Burke.
Of all the annual Best Of Lists, top tracks is the most fun to compile. You’ll find my 100 favourite songs of the year below and playlists come in three flavours: Youtube, Spotify and Soundcloud. Capping this at 100 was hard but then that’s what the blog is for. Check out my albums, remixes, Irish releases and videos of the year. Readers’ Poll results coming next week…
Top 100 songs of 2013
- Disclosure – ‘White Noise’
- Mount Kimbie – ‘Made to Stray’
- Drake – ‘Hold On, We’re Going Home’ (feat. Majid Jordan)
- New Jackson – ‘Sat Around Here Waiting’
- Daniel Avery – ‘Drone Logic’
- Sophie – ‘Bipp’
- The Knife – ‘A Tooth For An Eye’
- Daft Punk – ‘Get Lucky’
- John Grant – ‘Glacier’
- Todd Terje – ‘Strandbar (Disko)’
- A$AP Ferg – ‘Shabba’ remix feat. Busta Rhymes, Migos and Shabba Ranks
- HAIM – ‘The Wire’
- Lorde – ‘Royals’
- Run the Jewels – ‘Banana Clip’ feat. Big Boi
- Disclosure – ‘Help Me Lose My Mind’ feat. London Grammar
- Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’
- Holy Ghost! – ‘Dumb Disco Ideas’
- Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’
- Kelela – ‘Guns & Synths’
- Autre Ne Veut – ‘Play By Play’
- Ikonika – ‘Beach Mode (Keep It Simple)’ feat. Jessy Lanza
- Chromeo – ‘Sexy Socialite’
- Busta Rhymes – ‘Thank You’ ft. Q-Tip, Kanye West, Lil Wayne
- Kate Boy – ‘The Way We Are’
- Glass Candy – ‘The Possessed’
- James Vincent McMorrow – ‘Cavalier’
- Nadia Ksaiba – ‘Virtual Lover’
- Pedestrian – ‘Hoyle Road’
- Shit Robot feat. Reggie Watts – ‘We Got A Love’
- Daithí – ‘Chameleon Life’ feat. Raye
- Kanye West – ‘Black Skinhead’
- Polica – ‘Chain my Name’
- Come On Live Long – ‘Little Ones’
- Arctic Monkeys – ‘Do I Wanna Know?’
- Mount Kimbie – ‘You Took Your Time’ feat. King Krule
- Not Squares – ‘Simpler Vibe’
- Sampha – ‘Too Much’
- Lone – ‘Airglow Fires’
- FKA twigs – ‘Water Me’
- The Knife – ‘Full of Fire’
- I Am The Cosmos – ‘Leaving/The Shift’
- Pusha T – ‘Numbers On The Boards’
- Hozier – ‘Take Me To Church’
- Ghostpoet – ‘Meltdown’
- SZA – ‘Julia’
- Future Brown – ‘Wanna Party’
- Zomby – ‘Soliloquy’
- Glasser – ‘Shape’
- Katy B feat. Jessie Ware – ‘Aaliyah’
- Zebra Katz – ‘Y I Do’
- Haim – ‘Let Me Go’
- Majical Cloudz – ‘Childhood’s End’
- ScHoolboy Q and Kendrick Lamar – ‘Collard Greens’
- Daft Punk feat. Panda Bear – ‘Doing It Right’
- Valentina – ‘Wolves’
- Blondes – ‘Elise’
- MØ – ‘Waste Of Time’
- King Krule – ‘Easy Easy’
- Four Tet – ‘For These Times’
- Janelle Monáe – ‘Primetime’ feat. Miguel
- MMOTHS – ‘All These Things’ (feat. Holly Miranda)
- Arcade Fire – ‘Afterlife’
- Dana Falconberry – ‘Please Sparrow’
- Young Wonder featuring Sacred Animals – ‘Time’
- Daughter – ‘Smother’
- Julia Holter – ‘Maxim’s I’
- Jai Paul – ‘Str8 Outta Mumbai’
- Shit Robot – ‘Feels Real’ featuring Luke Jenner of The Rapture
- James Blake – ‘Retrograde’
- Lightning Dust – ‘Diamond’
- Bicep – ‘Stash’
- Gramme – ‘Fascination’
- Bonobo – ‘Cirrus’
- Holden – ‘Renata’
- Jessie Ware – ‘Imagine It Was Us’
- Rhye – ‘The Fall’
- Dancing Suns – ‘The World’
- Woman’s Hour – ‘To The End’
- Villagers – ‘Passing A Message’
- Mano Le Tough – ‘Please’
- Austra – ‘Home’
- Space Dimension Controller – ‘The Love Quadrant’
- Factory Floor – ‘Fall Back’
- Hot Natured – ‘Magic Carpet Ride’ feat. Egyptian Lover
- London Grammar – ‘Strong’
- Sam Amidon – ‘My Old Friend’
- Thundercat – ‘Oh Sheit It’s X’
- Solar Bears – ‘Love Is All’
- Disclosure – ‘F For You’
- Lion Babe – ‘Treat Me Like Fire’
- Four Tet – ‘Kool FM’
- Adultrock – ’Chants’
- Foals – ‘My Number’
- Charles Bradley – ‘Strictly Reserved For You’
- Melt Yourself Down – ‘Fix My Life‘
- Darkside – ‘Golden Arrow’
- Jacques Greene – ‘On Your Side’ Feat. How To Dress Well’
- Toro y Moi – ‘Say That’
- inc. – ‘5 days’
- Vondelpark – ‘California Analog Dream’
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.