List of tracks awarded Pitchfork Best New Track in 2010
In 2010, Pitchfork Media, in their second of reviewing tracks, including album-only cuts, singles, remixes, a-sides and b-sides of singles and so on, awarded 97 tracks as Best New Track (BNT) as part of its Best New Music section. The first song to earn this honor in 2010 was the English band Sade's title track of their Sixth Studio Album, soldier of Love, while the last was "Six Foot Seven Foot" by Lil Wayne featuring Cory Gunz. Pitchfork assigned track reviews numerical scores until the week of their review of Round and Round by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti in March 15, when they renamed their track review section to "The Playlist". If a track was awarded a score of 8+ but was not labeled BNT it will not be included on this list. This list also does not include tracks that were featured on Pitchfork's staff lists, but did not receive BNT.
Track |
Artist |
Score |
Review date |
Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
"Soldier of Love" |
Sade |
8 |
January 4 |
Soldier of Love |
"Chase the Tear" |
Portishead |
8 |
January 6 |
- |
"Exhibit C" |
Jay Electronica |
8 |
January 11 |
|
"Colouring of Pigeons" |
The Knife featuring Mt. Sims and Planningtorock |
9 |
January 13 |
Tomorrow, in a Year |
"Lil Freak" |
Usher featuring Nicki Minaj |
8 |
January 14 |
Raymond v. Raymond |
"Facelove" |
PS I Love You |
8 |
January 18 |
"All Yr Songs/Facelove" |
"Yellow Wings" |
Keepaway |
9 |
January 22 |
Baby Style |
"Odessa" |
Caribou |
8 |
January 27 |
Swim |
"New York Is [...] Me" |
Gil Scott-Heron |
8 |
February 5 |
I'm New Here |
"Rocket" (Richard X One Zero remix) |
Remix of a song by Goldfrapp |
8 |
February 15 |
Original song from Head First |
"Excuses" |
The Morning Benders |
8 |
February 17 |
Big Echo |
"Good Intentions Paving Company" |
Joanna Newsom |
9 |
February 19 |
Have One on Me |
"Tightrope" |
Janelle Monáe featuring Big Boi |
9 |
February 22 |
The ArchAndroid |
"Night" |
Zola Jesus |
8 |
February 23 |
Stridulum II |
"World Sick" |
Broken Social Scene |
8 |
February 26 |
Forgiveness Rock Record |
"Go Outside" |
Cults |
9 |
March 5 |
Cults |
"In New Jersey" |
Julian Lynch |
8 |
March 8 |
Mare |
"Round and Round" |
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti |
- |
March 15 |
Before Today |
"I'm Back" |
T.I. |
- |
No Mercy |
|
"Over" |
Drake |
- |
Thank Me Later |
|
"The Blues" |
Primary 1 featuring Nina Persson |
- |
March 17 |
Other People |
"Collector" |
Here We Go Magic |
- |
March 18 |
Pigeons |
"You" |
Kingdom |
- |
March 19 |
"Mindreader/You" |
"O.N.E" |
Yeasayer |
- |
March 24 |
Odd Blood |
"Tron" |
Joker |
- |
March 25 |
- |
"Stay Close" |
Delorean |
- |
March 26 |
Subiza |
"Drunk Girls" |
LCD Soundsystem |
- |
March 29 |
This Is Happening |
"Window Seat" |
Erykah Badu |
- |
March 31 |
New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) |
"Year's Not Long" |
Male Bonding |
- |
April 2 |
Nothing Hurts |
"Shutterbugg" |
Big Boi featuring Cutty |
- |
April 7 |
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty |
"All I Want" |
LCD Soundsystem |
- |
April 15 |
This Is Happening |
"Burn Bridges" |
Dom |
- |
Sun Bronzed Greek Gods |
|
"Dancing on My Own" |
Robyn |
- |
April 20 |
Body Talk Pt. 1 |
"Celestica" |
Crystal Castles |
- |
April 23 |
Crystal Castles II |
"Tell 'Em" |
Sleigh Bells |
- |
April 29 |
Treats |
"32 leaves dipped in blackness making clouds forming altered carbon" |
Shabazz Palaces |
- |
May 3 |
Shabazz Palaces |
"Just Enough" |
Julian Lynch |
- |
May 13 |
Mare |
"Solitude Is Bliss" |
Tame Impala |
- |
May 14 |
Innerspeaker |
"Country [...]" |
Big K.R.I.T. |
- |
May 21 |
K.R.I.T. Wuz Here |
"Blue Moon" |
Cover of a Big Star song by Kendal Johansson |
- |
May 24 |
Original track from Big Star's 3rd |
"Come With Me" |
ceo |
- |
June 2 |
White Magic |
"Chinatown" |
Wild Nothing |
- |
June 3 |
Gemini |
"POWER" |
Kanye West |
- |
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
|
"CMYK" |
James Blake |
- |
June 4 |
CMYK |
"Younger Us" |
Japandroids |
- |
June 9 |
Celebration Rock |
"I Go Away" |
MNDR |
- |
June 10 |
E.P.E. |
"We Can't Fly" (radio edit) |
Aeroplane |
- |
June 21 |
We Can't Fly |
"Don't Change For Me" |
Ramadanman |
- |
June 22 |
Ramadanman |
"King Night" |
SALEM |
- |
June 23 |
King Night |
"Yamaha" |
The-Dream |
- |
June 24 |
Love King |
"Let's Get Lost" |
Beck and Bat for Lashes |
- |
June 25 |
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
"Mr. Peterson" |
Perfume Genius |
- |
June 28 |
Learning |
"Boyfriend" |
Best Coast |
- |
June 29 |
Crazy for You |
"While We're Young" |
Department of Eagles |
- |
July 8 |
Archive 2003-2006 |
"Slow Motion" |
Panda Bear |
- |
July 15 |
"Tomboy/Slow Motion" |
"Revival" |
Deerhunter |
- |
July 22 |
Halcyon Digest |
"Reckless (With Your Love)" (Tensnake remix) |
Azari & III |
- |
July 23 |
- |
"Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" |
Arcade Fire |
- |
July 30 |
The Suburbs |
"Phoenix" |
Hyetal |
- |
"Phoenix/Like Silver" |
|
"Cheaters" |
Teengirl Fantasy |
- |
August 3 |
7AM |
"National Anthem ([...] the World)" |
Freddie Gibbs |
- |
Str8 Killa |
|
"Cold War" |
Janelle Monáe |
- |
August 6 |
The ArchAndroid |
"Little People (Black City)" |
Matthew Dear |
- |
Black City |
|
"Returnal" (piano rework) |
Oneohtrix Point Never featuring Antony |
- |
August 9 |
Original version from Returnal |
"Decisions" |
How to Dress Well featuring Yüksel Arslan |
- |
August 13 |
Love Remains |
"[...] You" |
CeeLo Green |
- |
August 23 |
The Lady Killer |
"Heirloom" |
Sufjan Stevens |
- |
August 25 |
All Delighted People |
"Home" |
Glasser |
- |
August 27 |
Ring |
"Slow" |
Twin Shadow |
- |
Forget |
|
"Monster" |
Kanye West ft. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver and Nicki Minaj |
- |
September 7 |
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
"Helicopter" |
Deerhunter |
- |
September 10 |
Halcyon Digest |
"Eyesore" |
Women |
- |
September 13 |
Public Strain |
"Ready for the World" |
How to Dress Well |
- |
Originally: |
Love Remains |
"I Can't Wait" |
Twin Shadow |
- |
September 17 |
Forget |
"Parade" |
Tyler, The Creator |
- |
[...] |
|
"Kaili" |
Caribou |
- |
September 20 |
Swim |
"Fever Dreaming" |
No Age |
- |
September 21 |
Everything in Between |
"I Only Know (What I Know Now)" |
James Blake |
- |
September 24 |
Klavierwerke |
"Angela Surf City" |
The Walkmen |
- |
September 28 |
Lisbon |
"MmmHmm" |
Flying Lotus featuring Thundercat |
- |
September 29 |
Cosmogramma |
"Runaway" |
Kanye West featuring Pusha T |
- |
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
|
"2 Forms of Anger" |
Brian Eno |
- |
October 1 |
Small Craft on a Milk Sea |
"The Heat" |
Twista featuring Raekwon |
- |
October 5 |
The Perfect Storm (Best Buy edition) |
"Limit to Your Love" |
James Blake |
- |
October 13 |
James Blake |
"Not in Love" |
Cover of a Platinum Blonde song by Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith |
- |
October 27 |
Crystal Castles II (Big Day Out deluxe reissue) |
"The Joy" |
Kanye West ft. Jay-Z, Pete Rock, Charlie Wilson, and Kid Cudi |
- |
November 3 |
- |
"Weekend" |
Smith Westerns |
- |
November 4 |
- |
"Narrow With the Hall" |
Women |
- |
November 8 |
Public Strain |
"Upside Down" |
Off! |
- |
November 9 |
First Four EPs |
"Heart in Your Heartbreak" |
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
- |
November 11 |
Belong |
"Carolina" |
Girls |
- |
November 17 |
Broken Dreams Club |
"Call Your Girlfriend" |
Robyn |
- |
November 23 |
Body Talk |
"Only Girl (In the World)" |
Rihanna |
- |
November 24 |
Loud |
"Chinatown" |
Destroyer |
- |
Kaputt |
|
"Written on the Forehead" |
PJ Harvey |
- |
December 2 |
Let England Shake |
"Fireworks" (Deadboy Slo Mo House edit) |
Remix of a song by Drake featuring Alicia Keys |
- |
December 3 |
Original song from Thank Me Later |
"Six Foot Seven Foot" |
Lil Wayne featuring Cory Gunz |
- |
December 15 |
See also
- List of albums awarded Pitchfork Best New Album
- List of tracks awarded Pitchfork Best New Track in 2009