Here are my favorite songs that came out in 2018, separated into lists for the 50 best Alternative, Hip-hop, and Pop song. Full playlists can be found on Spotify, are updated frequently and include additional songs. As always, thanks for listening!
Alternative/rock songs
- Cute Thing – Car Seat Headrest
- Ullswater – Hookworms
- Your Dog – Soccer Mommy
- Last Ride – Beach House
- Bodys – Car Seat Headrest
- Art of Doubt – Metric
- We’re Not Done (End Title) – Mogwai
- Breadwinner – Everything Everything
- Nobody – Mitski
- Six Wave Hold-Down – Hot Snakes
- Nameless, Faceless – Courtney Barnett
- If You Really Love Nothing – Interpol
- Fly – Low
- Silhouettes – American Football
- Noid – Yves Tumor
- Suspirium – Thom Yorke
- Let Them Win – Jeff Rosenstock
- Fast Slow Disco – St. Vincent
- Lemon Glow – Beach House
- Dark Saturday – Metric
- When You Die – MGMT
- Sober to Death – Car Seat Headrest
- Leave It In My Dreams – The Voids
- Now or Never Now – Metric
- Dancing and Fire – Low
- Need a Little Time – Courtney Barnett
- Right Now – Dirty Projectors, Syd
- Drunk In LA – Beach House
- Tenderness – Parquet Courts
- Decompose – Preoccupations
- I Need a Doctor – Hot Snakes
- Burn – The Soft Moon
- Wide Awake – Parquet Courts
- Talking Straight – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
- Far Away Truths – Albert Hammond, Jr.
- Risk – Metric
- She Works Out Too Much – MGMT
- Pain Killer – Iceage, Sky Ferreira
- Mardi Gras Beads – Parquet Courts
- Never Fight A Man With A Perm – IDLES
- Two Slow Dancers – Mitski
- Loading Zones – Kurt Vile
- 60 & Punk – Death Cab of Cutie
- Danny Nedelko – IDLES
- Dissarray – Preoccupations
- Funeral Singers – Sylvan Esso, Collections Of Colonies Of Bees
- Honeycomb – Deafheaven
- Science Fiction – Arctic Monkeys
- Pontiac 87 – Preoccupations
- Never Ever – Lord Huron
Hip-hop/R&B songs
- Chewing Gum – Blood Orange, A$AP Rocky
- Potato Salad – Tyler, The Creator, A$AP Rocky
- Wow – Young Fathers
- SICKO MODE – Travis Scott, Drake
- Skrawberries – J.I.D., BJ The Chicago Kid
- SIRENS – Denzel Curry, J.I.D.
- King Nas – Lupe Fiasco
- If You Know You Know – Pusha T
- Reborn – KIDS SEE GHOSTS
- Vacation – Flatbush Zombies, Joey Bada$$
- Manilla – Lupe Fiasco
- WAV Files – Lupe Fiasco
- That’s How You Feel – Drake
- J’OUVERT – BROCKHAMPTON
- Prayer Song – Noname, Adam Ness
- King’s Dead – Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future, James Blake
- Shoota – Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert
- APESHIT – The Carters
- In My View – Young Fathers
- Off Deez – J.I.D., J. Cole
- Boys – Lizzo
- Tweekin’ – Vince Staples
- All The Stars – Kendrick Lamar, SZA
- ASTROTHUNDER – Travis Scott
- Imagine – Lupe Fiasco, Simon Says, Crystal Torres
- Powerglide – Rae Sremmurd, Juicy J
- Nice For What – Drake
- Cudi Montage – KIDS SEE GHOSTS
- Paramedic! – SOB X RBE
- Cops Shot The Kids – Nas, Kanye West
- OSOM – Jay Rock, J. Cole
- Caterpillar – Royce Da 5’9, Eminem, King Green
- Photograph – J. Cole
- Workin Out – J.I.D.
- What About Me – Lil Wayne, Sosamann
- Plug Walk – Rich The Kid
- SAD! – XXXTENTACION
- Wow Freestyle – Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar
- VENGEANCE – Denzel Curry
- Bad Company – S$AP Rocky, BlocBoy JB
- Blue Lights – Jorja Smith
- HONEY – BROCKHAMPTON
- the year I became a mutherfuckin’ G – Busdriver, Dntel, Lorde Fredd33
- BLACK BALLOONS – Denzel Curry, Twelve’len
- Astral Traveling – CZARFACE, MF DOOM
- Opps – Vince Staples, Yugen Blakrok, Kendrick Lamar
- This Is America – Childish Gambino
- Rotation 112th – Jay Rock
- Ghost Town – Kanye West, PARTYNEXTDOOR
- New Patek – Lil Uzi Vert
Pop and electronic songs
- Make Me Feel – Janelle Monae
- Luminous Being – Jon Hopkins
- Love It If We Made It – The 1975
- Everybody Wants To Be Famous – Superorganism
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- Focus – Charli XCX
- Honey – Robyn
- Lower the Tone – Rae Morris
- Immaterial – SOPHIE
- High Horse – Kacey Musgraves
- Pynk – Janelle Monae, Grimes
- No Tears Left To Cry – Ariana Grande
- Finesse (Remix) – Bruno Mars, Cardi B
- Missing You – Robyn
- Don’t Judge Me – Janelle Monae
- Night Time – Superorganism
- Emerald Rush – Jon Hopkins
- Saturdays – Twin Shadow, HAIM
- Call Out My Name – The Weeknd
- thank u, next – Areana Grande
- Everything Connected – Jon Hopkins
- I Like I – Cardi B, Bad Bunny
- The Middle – Zedd, Maren Morris, Grey
- Falling Into Me – Let’s Eat Grandma
- Never Be the Same – Camila Cabello
- Singularity – Jon Hopkins
- T69 collapse – Aphex Txin
- Reflections On The Screen – Superorganism
- Atletico (The Only One) – Rae Morris
- Is It Cold In The Water? – SOPHIE
- Better Now – Post Malone
- It’s Not Just Me – Let’s Eat Grandma
- Jackie Chan – Tiesto, Dzeko, Preme, Post Malone
- 1990 – Lake Turner
- Pray For Me – The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar
- Where Angels Fear to Tread – Disclosure
- God is a woman – Ariana Grande
- Like I Do – Christina Aguilera, GoldLink
- breathin – Ariana Grande
- Superior Emotion – AlunaGeorge
- Girls Night Out – Charli XCX
- New Light – John Mayer
- It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) – Peggy Gou
- Shallow – Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper
- Lower – AMBER, LUNA
- Ever Again – Robyn
- All Girls Are The Same – Juice WRLD
- Youngblood – 5 Seconds of Summer
- Lost In Japan (Remix) – Shawn Mendes, Zedd
- MALAMENTE-Cap.1: Augurio – ROSALIA