Every December, I look forward to counting down my 50 favorite songs for the year. However, I’m on the Yow Yow 4th birthday train so I’m making it 60 tracks! The task has become a little easier for me this year because I haven’t added any new tracks to my iTunes library so the majority of the songs will be coming from my Spotify playlists and Yow Yow’s Songs of the Day!
There aren’t really any terms that I’ve set for the countdown, but since I run this – I pretty much decide what songs I want to be on the list and it is basically tied to one thing: They are songs that I’ve loved in 2012, but not necessarily released in 2012. And of course they are in no particular order. That’d be impossible!
Here are my favorite 60 songs of 2012:
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1. The Shins – Simple Song
2. Brian Fennell – Perfect Time (Blue Eyes)
3. Apparat – Black Water
4. Michael Kiwanuka – I’m Getting Ready
5. Lemaitre – Coffee Table
6. Big Time Rush – Music Sounds Better With You
7. Mesita – Living / Breathing
8. Bad Rabbits – Advantage Me
9. Brandon Flowers – Crossfire
10. Big Deal – Swoon
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11. Electric Guest – This Head I Hold
12. Martin Solveig – The Night Out (Madeon Remix)
13. Azure Ray – Sleep
14. Matthew Perryman Jones – Satellites
15. Of Monsters & Men – Mountain Sound
16. Yuna – Live Your Life
17. Estelle – Do My Thing ft. Janelle Monae
18. Calvin Harris – Feel So Close
19. Rihanna – You Da One
20. Andy Grammer – We Could Be Amazing
photo cred | American Eagle – Made To Last
21. Lucy Schwartz – Porcelain
22. Youngblood Hawke – We Come Running
23. Hey Marseilles – Elegy
24. Dumbfounded – Growing Young
25. Kennedy – Karate
26. TV Girl – I Wonder Who She’s Kissing Now
27. Crystal Fighters – Home
28. Victoria Justice – Make It In America
29. Cary Brothers – Free Like You Make Me
30. Sufjan Stevens – Futile Devices
31. The Wanted – Glad You Came (Alex Gaudino Remix)
32. Imagine Dragons – It’s Time
33. Jonquil – History of Headaches
34. Young Wonder – Orange
35. Mr. Little Jeans – Runaway
36. Vacationer – Good As New
37. Summer Heart – I Wanna Go
38. How To Dress Well – & It Was You
39. Gemini Club – Nothing But History
40. Liz Coyles – Butterflies
41. Mayer Hawthorne – No Strings
42. The Lumineers – Ho Hey
43. Matt & Kim – Let’s Go
44. Beat Connection – Palace Garden 4 a.m.
45. Stars – Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It
46. Little Dragon – Sunshine
47. Alexandra Burke – Elephant
48. Atlas Genius – Back Seat
49. Passion Pit – Constant Conversations
50. Madeon – The City
51. Trails and Ways – Nunca
52. Lee DeWyze – Sweet Serendipity
53. Ed Sheeran – Small Bump
54. The Middle East – Blood
55. Ellie Goulding – Anything Could Happen
56. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Same Love
57. Flight Facilities ft. Christine Hoberg – Clair De Lune
58. Lord Huron – She Lit A Fire
59. Dwntwn – See My Eyes
60. Nas and Amy Winehouse – Cherry Wine