Big ups to Michael with The Strokes – Slow Animals!
Big downs to Tom with Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball!

Who is this ‘James Blake” guy?

Downvote me all you want, but I stand by what I said. Integrating journalism and advertisement is a dangerous, dangerous path to go down.

and yet here you are, posting in this thread.

This post is presented by Virgin Mobile who encourage you to #BreakFree.
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Jesus, I hate Imagine Dragons. And that’s before you even factor in that my ex-girlfriend loves them.

Ah. The new artist category. Always a joy.

It’s really interesting to see your guys own personal tastes rather than just another top 50 list. Thanks for sharing!

Also, thanks for putting this in list for so I don’t have to click through 50 pages of a slide show!

‘This post is presented by Virgin Mobile who encourage you to #BreakFree.”
I understand there’s financial pressure and that this can make things easier. But it’s hard to see this.

I for one admire the #BreakFree campaign and thought I’d share my tale of how I broke free in 2013. I’ve chosen to #BreakFree by joining an anti-government militia. We’ve formed a colony and are asserting our sovereignty as a way to #BreakFree from the fascist oligarchy that is the Obama administration. To #BreakFree from this unjust socialist hellscape, we have occupied a large swath of land in the Idaho wilderness, acquired a formidable arsenal of weapons, and built turrets to repel any attacks from invaders attempting to sign us up for Obamacare and tax our hard-earned dollars in order to fund abortions and ‘the arts.” While the rest of American sinks into a hell of its own making due to its multiculturalist, pro-sodomy, anti-freedom policies, we’ll be waiting out the apocalypse with the assistance of God’s grace, 250 pocket-sized copies of the US Constitution, and our stockpile of high-powered weaponry. So #BreakFree indeed! By the way, I love Bowling for Soup! Glad to see they’re doing well.

Did the Strokes really release a record this year? Did anyone notice?

But definitely big ups for Charli XCX’s ‘Nuclear Seasons’, although I think it came out about 3 years ago.

Does it strike anyone else as highly suspicious that there is only a single Arcade Fire song in the top ten lists of all five listmakers. Doesn’t that seem, I don’t know, suspicious?

Record of the Year is you should’ve Googled this. Song of the Year is what prevented you from Googling this?

I’m all for daily Kanye news, but I don’t think Stereogum should start covering cartoons for Ritalin-addled tweens and the basement-dwelling 30-somethings who resemble them.

SARA BAREILLES deserves the nominations

Oh man you totally nailed them. Take that Metallica!