NME Single of the Year
Every December, British music magazine NME compiles a list of what it considers the best singles or tracks of the year. It was started in 1975. The list is usually published in one of the issues sold before Christmas – in 2006 it was published in the issue for 9 December. The companion list is NME album of the year
The NME Single of the Year list is compiled by the music reviewers and independent journalists who work for the magazine and for NME.com. Each picks his or her top 20 singles of the year and hands them in to the editor. An album marked at Number One gets 20 points, Number Two gets 19 points and so on until the 20th, which gets one point. All of the points from the various top 20s are then gathered together and the overall favourites are worked out and ranked for publication in the official list. The single or track with the most points overall is Number One in the list, the one with the second most points is Number Two and so on. There have been, to date, four artists who have won Album and Single of the Year in the same year: Joy Division in 1980, Klaxons in 2007, MGMT in 2008 and Lorde in 2017. Cecil Womack and Bobby Womack also won Single & Album of the Year respectively in 1984.
Singles of the Year
File:Sex Pistols i Norge, 1977 (6263353228).jpg" by the Sex Pistols topped the listing in 1977.|alt=]]
File:Thejam.gif" by The Jam as the best single of 1979.|alt=]]
File:Prince Brussels 1986.jpg was the only artist to top the list more than once, until 2022.|alt=]]
File:Stone_Roses-17-07-2012_Milan.JPG' "She Bangs the Drum" was named the single of the year in 1989.|alt=]]
File:Primal Scream at Summercase 2008.jpg" by Primal Scream was voted the greatest single of 1991.|alt=]]
File:Blur Newcastle 2009 Coxon Albarn.jpg" by Blur as the number-one song of 1994.|alt=]]
File:MGMT.jpg had three songs in NME{{'s}} top five singles of 2008.|alt=]]
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!scope=col|Artist !scope=col|Single !scope=col class=unsortable|Top five |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1975
|{{Sortname|Bob|Marley & the Wailers}} |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1976
|"{{Sortname|The|Boys Are Back in Town}}" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1977
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1978
|"Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1979
|{{Sortname|The|Jam}} |"Eton Rifles" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1980
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1981
|{{Sortname|The|Specials}} |"Ghost Town" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1982
|"{{Sortname|The|Message|The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song)}}" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1983
|{{Sortname|Michael|Jackson}} |"Billie Jean" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1984
|"Love Wars" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1985
|{{Sortname|The|Jesus & Mary Chain}} |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1986
|"Kiss" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1987
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1988
|{{Sortname|Nick|Cave}} |"{{sortname|The|Mercy Seat|The Mercy Seat (song)}}" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1989
|{{Sortname|The|Stone Roses}} |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1990
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1991
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1992
|"{{Sortname|The|Drowners}}" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1993
|{{Sortname|The|Breeders}} |"Cannonball" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1994
|Blur |"Girls & Boys" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1995
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1996
|"Born Slippy" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1997
|{{Sortname|The|Verve}} |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1998
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1999
|"Windowlicker" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2000
|"{{Sortname|The|Real Slim Shady}}" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2001
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2002
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2003
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2004
|{{Sortname|The|Libertines}} |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2005
|{{Sortname|The|Futureheads}} |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2006
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2007
|"Golden Skans" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2008
|MGMT |"Kids" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2009
|"Zero" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2010
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2011
|{{Sortname|Lana|Del Rey}} |"Video Games" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2012
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2013
|"Get Lucky" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2014
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2015
|"Shutdown" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2016
|"Work" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2017
|"Green Light" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2018
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2019
|"Deal Wiv It" |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2020
|Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion |"WAP" | |
| scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2021
|"Good 4 U" |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2022
| Beyoncé | "Cuff It" |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2023
|"A&W" |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2024
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See also
References
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External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20051223122918/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nmeindex.html NME End of year critic lists]}}
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