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Welcome to Pitchfork's best of , which kicks off with our favorite tracks of the year. As we did in years past, we've extended the candidate pool beyond the confines of singledom-- basically any song released or covered in , whether a single or not, was fair game for this list. Some songs that made a huge impact this year-- M. For individual lists from our staff, click here. And to hear the tracks, be sure to check out our Spotify playlist. Here we go Plus, hell, it already feels like I pulled rank with this low-key release from San Francisco's Girls: almost nobody outside of our office voted for it, i. Ideally that will change in the new year: With luck, Girls will get big enough for people to complain that female-centric band names see also: Women, the Girls, Vivian Girls are the new "crystal" or the new superfluous consonant see: Wavves, Nodzzz, Lovvers. So long as people are listening.
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Alternative Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most-played songs on American modern rock radio stations. Introduced by Billboard in September , [1] the chart is based on electronically-monitored airplay data compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems from a panel of national rock radio stations. The top single of the s on Billboard ' s Alternative Songs decade-end list was " Headstrong " by Trapt , [7] which topped the chart for three weeks and was also its year-end number-one single for
Alternative Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most-played songs on American modern rock radio stations. Introduced by Billboard in September , [1] the chart is based on electronically-monitored airplay data compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems from approximately 80 national rock radio stations. The Man broke this record by topping the chart for 20 weeks.