Popular With Her 2014: Seraphina L’s favorite 100 songs of the year

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[One final nod to 2014 before we begin 2015 in earnest — Seraphina has compiled a gobsmacking soundtrack to her year. It’s all nice and streamable, below … Enjoy.]

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As excessive as it may sound, compiling a list of one’s favorite 100 songs is still daunting task when considering both mainstream radio hits and local gems. Popularity isn’t much of a factor here; it’s often the melodic or textural power that makes a tune stay with one throughout the year, no matter early or late it was released. That is why this list includes everything from blatant pop to woozy shoegaze to sultry R&B and more.

A Spotify playlist has been compiled for your streaming pleasure after the jump. Also below, you’ll find a straight list of songs No. 1 through no. 100 for those who would like a ranking reference.

  1. The War On Drugs — “Red Eyes”
  2. Delta Spirit — “Into the Wide”
  3. Tinashe — “2 On” feat. Schoolboy Q
  4. Jessie Ware — “Say You Love Me”
  5. Beck — “Blue Moon”
  6. Future Islands — “Seasons (Waiting On You)”
  7. Craft Spells — “Breaking the Angel Against the Tide”
  8. Avid Dancer — “Stop Playing With My Heart”
  9. BØRNS — “10,000 Emerald Pools”
  10. Jenny Lewis — “She’s Not Me”
  11. WHIRR — “Lines”
  12. First Aid Kit — “My Silver Lingin”
  13. Glass Animals — “Gooey”
  14. Kan Wakan — “Like I Need You”
  15. Run the Jewels — “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)” feat. Zach de la Rocha
  16. #1 Dads — “So Soldier” feat. Ainslie Wills
  17. Strand of Oaks — “Shut In”
  18. Hundred Waters — “Murmurs”
  19. Broods — “Bridges”
  20. Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj — “Bang Bang”
  21. Tennis — “Needle and a Knife”
  22. Gardens & Villa — “Colony Glen”
  23. Banks — “Beggin For Thread”
  24. Bombay Bicycle Club — “Luna”
  25. Banta — “Dark Charms”
  26. Sharon Van Etten — “Every Time the Sun Comes Up”
  27. Ryan Adams — “Gimme Something Good”
  28. Incan Abraham — “Concorde”
  29. James Supercave — “The Right Thing”
  30. Jungle — “Busy Earnin’”
  31. Mirah — “Oxen Hope”
  32. Real Estate — “Talking Backwards”
  33. Sam Smith — “Stay With Me”
  34. Zella Day — “Sweet Ophelia”
  35. Cathedrals — “Want My Love”
  36. The Raveonettes — “Sisters”
  37. St. Vincent — “Digital Witness”
  38. FKA Twigs — “Two Weeks”
  39. Tove Lo — “Not On Drugs”
  40. Devon Williams — “Will You Let Go Of My Heart?”
  41. Lykke Li — “No Rest For the Wicked”
  42. Speedy Ortiz — “American Horror Story”
  43. Ryn Weaver — “Octahate”
  44. Sylvan Esso — “Coffee”
  45. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart — “Eurydice”
  46. Sondre Lerche — “Sentimentalist”
  47. Beverly — “Honey Do”
  48. Strange Babes — “Holiday”
  49. Alvvways — “Archie, Marry Me”
  50. Phantogram — “Black Out Days”
  51. Hozier _ Take Me To Church”
  52. The Orwells — “Who Needs You”
  53. Beyoncé — “Drunk in Love” feat. JAY Z
  54. Wye Oak — “Glory”
  55. Springtime Carnivore — “Name on a Matchbook”
  56. Angel Olsen — “Lights Out”
  57. Death From Above 1979 — “Trainwreck 1979”
  58. Cloud Nothings — I”m Not Part of me”
  59. TV On the Radio — “Test Pilot”
  60. D’Angelo and the Vanguard — “Another Life”
  61. Alice Boman — “Waiting”
  62. Waters — “Got To My Head”
  63. Flying Lotus — “Never Catch Me” feat. Kendrick Lamar
  64. White Sea — “Future Husbands Past Lives”
  65. Avi Buffalo — “So What”
  66. Together PANGEA — “Badillac”
  67. The Primitives — “Spin-O-Rama”
  68. Movement — “Feel Real”
  69. Clean Bandit — “Rather Be” feat. Jess Glynne
  70. The Luxembourg Signal — “We Go On”
  71. MØ — “Say You’ll Be There”
  72. Vérité — “Strange Enough”
  73. Chet Faker — “1998”
  74. Grimes — “Go” feat. Blood Diamonds
  75. Mirror Days — “Empty Eyes”
  76. Tycho — “Awake”
  77. Sia — “Chandelier”
  78. yOya — “Fool’s Gold”
  79. Spoon — “Inside Out”
  80. Babes — “ATMO”
  81. Roses — “The Fog”
  82. Prince — “THIS COULD BE US”
  83. Criminal Hygiene — “Bye Bye”
  84. LP — “Night Light This”
  85. Rita Ora — “I Will Never Let You Down”
  86. Ariana Grande — “Love Me Harder” feat. the Weeknd
  87. Kimbra — “90s Music”
  88. Nick Waterhouse — “This is a Game”
  89. Beyoncé — “7/11”
  90. Boyz II Men — “Losing Sleep”
  91. Kendrick Lamar — “i”
  92. Pr0files — “Luxury”
  93. Sego — “Wicket Youth”
  94. Zola Jesus — “Dangerous Days”
  95. Made in Heights — “Death”
  96. Ella Eyre — “Comeback”
  97. Röyksopp & Robyn — “Do It Again”
  98. The Antlers — “Hotel”
  99. Cherry Glazerr — “Had Ten Dollaz”
  100. Kiesza — “Hideaway”