After the joy of creating my cinematic top 10 a few days back, I decided to take a stab at a lesser-qualified list, music. I love year-end music lists because it gives me the opportunity to go download a few dozen songs I missed from the year to keep me going through the generally drab group of releases that happens in market-low January and February. Though certainly as much a part of my life as film, I've never felt particularly informed on music. But my iTunes suggests, its there for me everyday, and 2007 found a good thousand tracks added to my iTunes library.

The list that follows is nothing out of the ordinary. It varies drastically from true artists whose entire albums could have made a top 100 list to manufactured pop sluts whose album found more of a place in my iPod rotation than I had expected. Its loosely representative of said library's "most listened" function, though I decided to exclude artist repeats (or else Feist would have five songs in my top twenty), and tinkered with the rankings (the pop-hook-that-makes-you-repeat-it qualities of songs like Rihanna's "Umbrella" made it the unchallenged #1 most-listened), to create a good representation of the 25 songs that found themselves in heavy rotation in my 2007 ears.

Multiples from artists that deserve a slot despite my "rules": The Arcade Fire - Intervention; Feist - I Feel It All & My Moon, My Man; Britney Spears - Piece of Me; LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum; M.I.A. - Jimmy; Lily Allen - LDN; Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good; Bloc Party - The Prayer; Nine Inch Nails - In This Twilight; Bjork - Innocence