The 50 Best Songs of 2012

Added on by Andrew Marzoni.

A little late, I know—but here you are, nonetheless.

  1. Cat Power, feat. Iggy Pop, “Nothin’ But Time”
  2. Beach House, “Myth”
  3. Jessie Ware, “Devotion”
  4. Merchandise, “Time”
  5. Carly Rae Jepsen, “Call Me Maybe”
  6. Jessie Ware, “Running”
  7. R. Kelly, “Feelin’ Single”
  8. Grizzly Bear, “Yet Again”
  9. Frank Ocean, “Sweet Life”
  10. Beach House, “Lazuli”
  11. Jessie Ware, “Sweet Talk”
  12. Lee FIelds & the Expressions, “You’re the Right Kind of Girl”
  13. Frank Ocean, feat. Earl Sweatshirt, “Super Rich Kids”
  14. Jessie Ware, “110%”
  15. Grizzly Bear, “Sleeping Ute”
  16. R. Kelly, “Believe That It’s So”
  17. Frank Ocean, “Thinkin Bout You”
  18. Tame Impala, “Apocalypse Dreams”
  19. Mac DeMarco, “Cooking Up Something Good”
  20. The Shins, “The Rifle’s Spiral”
  21. Frank Ocean, “Crack Rock”
  22. Frankie Rose, “Know Me”
  23. Daniel Rossen, “Up on High”
  24. Mac DeMarco, “Freaking Out the Neighborhood”
  25. Young Prisms, “Floating in Blue”
  26. Mac DeMarco, “Ode to Viceroy”
  27. Tame Impala, “Elephant”
  28. Allah-Las, “Ela Navega”
  29. Cat Power, “Sun”
  30. R. Kelly, “Share My Love”
  31. Grizzly Bear, “Gun-Shy”
  32. Mac DeMarco, “My Kind of Woman”
  33. kitty pryde, “okay cupid”
  34. Wild Nothing, “Shadow”
  35. Cat Power, “Human Being”
  36. Bob Dylan, “Duquesne Whistle”
  37. The Shins, “Bait and Switch”
  38. Cat Power, “3,6,9”
  39. Hot Chip, “Let Me Be Him”
  40. Dirty Projectors, “Offspring Are Blank”
  41. Dirty Projectors, “Gun Has No Trigger”
  42. Cat Power, “Manhattan”
  43. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, “Baby”
  44. Merchandise, “Roser Park”
  45. Frankie Rose, “Apples from the Sun”
  46. Julia Holter, “In the Same Room”
  47. Sébastien Tellier, “Cochon Ville”
  48. Father John Misty, “I’m Writing a Novel”
  49. Dirty Projectors, “The Socialites”
  50. Cuckoo Chaos, “Super Skeleton”