Top 100 Songs of 2018

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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!

LayersandSounds Spotify Year of 2018

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

  1. Wait by the River – Lord Huron

  2. Butterflies – Kacey Musgraves

  3. God's Plan – Drake

  4. What's the Use? – Mac Miller

  5. Love It If We Made It – The 1975

  6. Black Eyes – Bradley Cooper

  7. Superior Emotion – AlunaGeorge, Cautious Clay

  8. Lady and Man – Khruangbin

  9. Exclusive Grave – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

  10. Moonlight – Disclosure

  11. Slick Talk – JID

  12. Heaven Up There – Palace

  13. New earlsweatshirt - Interlude – Vince Staples

  14. Why Even Try – Hippo Campus

  15. Short Court Style – Natalie Prass

  16. SICKO MODE – Travis Scott

  17. Self Care – Mac Miller

  18. In My Feelings – Drake

  19. Always Remember Us This Way – Lady Gaga

  20. Gonna Love Me – Teyana Taylor

  21. Slow Burn – Kacey Musgraves

  22. ES Tales – Jay Rock

  23. Star Treatment – Arctic Monkeys

  24. Feels Like Summer – Vince Staples

  25. One Rizla – Shame

  26. Choo Choo – Diamond Thug

  27. Opener – Hookworms

  28. STARGAZING – Travis Scott

  29. Without Me – Rayland Baxter

  30. Younger – The Hails

  31. Shy – Leon Bridges

  32. Lately – Wet

  33. Water Baby – Tom Misch, Loyle Carner

  34. Cómo Me Quieres – Khruangbin

  35. Hurt Feelings – Mac Miller

  36. This Is America – Childish Gambino

  37. Sandman – BRONCHO

  38. Baby Forgive Me – Robyn

  39. Mirage – Curtis Roush

  40. Taste (feat. Offset) – Tyga, Offset

  41. Ocean Love – Dega

  42. Four Leaf Clover - Edit – The Kooks

  43. Mirror Master – Young the Giant

  44. Cinders – The Moondoggies

  45. Permanent Vacation – The Academic

  46. Pristine – Snail Mail

  47. You and Me – Shallou

  48. Drive Away – The Brummies, Kacey Musgraves

  49. Upper West Side – King Princess

  50. I Do (feat. SZA) – Cardi B, SZA

  51. Sheep – Mt. Joy

  52. Everybody Loves You – SOAK

  53. No Secrets – Jim James

  54. Turnmills – Maribou State

  55. Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves

  56. Tremolo – Young Fathers

  57. Some Birds – Jeff Tweedy

  58. Graffiti – CHVRCHES

  59. King of Alabama – Brent Cobb

  60. Hot Box (feat. Method Man & Joey Bada$$) – JID, Method Man, Joey Bada$$

  61. Take Me Back – Roosevelt

  62. Hideout – S. Carey

  63. The Return – Logic

  64. Back Seat Driver (Spirit Guide) – Bear Hands

  65. Saviers Road – Anderson .Paak

  66. Sincerity Is Scary – The 1975

  67. Heat of the Summer – Young the Giant

  68. Hot Streak – Creature Canyon

  69. She Said – HalfNoise

  70. Wu Tang Forever – Logic, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, RZA, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, Cappadonna, Jackpot Scotty Wotty, U-God, Masta Killa, GZA

  71. More Of The Same – Caroline Rose

  72. Bad Bad News – Leon Bridges

  73. Pale November Dew – The Dead Tongues

  74. Mirrors – Dega

  75. Wide Awake – Parquet Courts

  76. Lemon Glow – Beach House

  77. Hunnybee – Unknown Mortal Orchestra

  78. You're On My Mind – Tom Misch

  79. LivWithoutU – St. Paul & The Broken Bones

  80. Tribe (with J. Cole) – Bas, J. Cole

  81. When You Die – MGMT

  82. Rollin With The Flow – Kurt Vile

  83. Bubblin – Anderson .Paak

  84. City Looks Pretty – Courtney Barnett

  85. Prelude in C Sharp Major – Chilly Gonzales

  86. My Life – ZHU, Tame Impala

  87. Black Lagoon – Still Corners

  88. X (with 2 Chainz & Saudi) – ScHoolboy Q, 2 Chainz, Saudi

  89. Hoodrich Disco – Rome Fortune, Toro y Moi

  90. I Will Be Waiting – Let's Eat Grandma

  91. '98 gewehr – Nostrum Grocers, Milo, Elucid

  92. Dummies – Wale

  93. Wished Out – Carl Broemel

  94. Timothy – Little Dragon

  95. Fade Out – James Bay

  96. Self – Noname

  97. The Shape of Slaughter – Tha God Fahim, Mach-Hommy

  98. Lake Zurich – Gorillaz

  99. Magnetism – Vacationer

  100. This Old House Is All I Have – Against All Logic