Towards the end of every year, we ask our listeners and patrons to take a look back at the music of the year and offer their opinions on the best that the year had to offer – musically speaking. We do this via an annual poll in which we ask our listeners to vote for one song from our list of songs. Rather unsurprisingly, the list is put together by us – and is based on what we think are the noteworthy musical highlights of the year. In the past, we restricted this list only to singles but this year, we had to extend the scope of this list since we believe that some of the year’s best songs were NOT released as singles. Furthermore, we also list songs based on unique votes that these songs have received through our online radio player’s “vote button” during the course of the year. The votes are weighted based on the country that the voter is from. The reason we do this is because we want to make sure that our voting results are reflective of our radio station’s listener base and our radio blog’s reader base. Votes from countries that we have zero listeners from will not make any difference to the final result. We encourage you to vote AND share this poll with your friends via your Facebook walls, twitter feeds, or just plain old e-mail! The poll closes on December 27, 2015. The options are below. If you are unable to see them (mobile device users might have trouble seeing them), please click HERE:
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Great! It was a close call for me between Madonna and Duran Duran, but I went with Madonna!
I think it’s great that you don’t limit it to singles.
I”m just curious what countries do you have the most listeners from? I would think a Internet station like yours would draw an audience from many different countries not just the US and the UK.
@Frannie: Thanks so much for voting. I think making you folks pick between the Madonna track and Duran Duran one was probably a crazy thing to do. Both songs are awesome but represent very different moods and different contexts. Comparing them is like comparing apples and oranges. As for the mix of countries, the constant at the top of that is the US (I think this was expected given that the station was created with that type of audience in mind). There appears to be no consistency with regard to the other countries but based on the last 30 days, these are the top 5 countries BESIDES the US:
Japan, Russia, Taiwan, Spain, Canada
Quite an odd mix. The only top 5 music market in that list is Japan – and even this is a fairly recent phenomenon (i.e. the Japan bit).
I can think of a song that should be on this list but isn’t: “Faith in You” by Lulu.
I’m just curious though. Why isn’t the Madonna song Ghosttown, rather than Joan of Arc? I think Ghosttown is a better song than Joan of Arc and it had a video and she did some quite nice performances of it on tv and also at her concerts?
Good question, Frannie. I like the demo version of Joan of Arc better. But yes, like you, I think Ghosttown would’ve made a better pick. I haven’t heard all the songs from her album, but of those I have heard, “Hold Tight” is my favorite.
As for the Duran Duran song, I hadn’t heard it before, so I just listened to it a few times. Frankly, I think it tries a bit too hard to be cute and catchy, and wears thin pretty quickly. It’s certainly a decent song, but song of the year material? Not in my book. And I could do without the silly “oh oh oh”s. 😉 I plan to wade through the whole list here, but I sure hope there are better songs to be had.
Actually, whenever I listen to “best of” lists, I usually end up disagreeing with them for the most part. But I guess life would be kinda boring if we all liked the same stuff, huh? 🙂