| 1 | Childish Gambino | "This Is America" | single | There is no such thing as required listening or required watching. You don't have to go watch the video for this. It's an interesting video, but you don't have to watch it. If you aren't going to watch it, though, listen to the song, so at least when your friends ask you if you've seen it, you can say "Oh, good song, they made a video for it?" |
| 2 | Bastille | "Quarter Past Midnight" | single | And then you can say "The oceans are rising and Hawaii is exploding and bad people are sometimes horrifyingly successful, but people are still writing songs we could listen to forever." |
| 3 | Lemaitre | "Rocket Girl (Feat. Betty Who)" | single | And then you can do some weird dance-move thing with your hands. |
| 4 | Kitten | "Strange Embrace" | single | We are the kids that are this old now, and we didn't fix everything, but you have to give the next kids their chance. |
| 5 | Petal | "Tightrope" | single | We all try things that have worked and not worked at once before. |
| 6 | Dude York | "Moon" | single | Doing things is easier than assessing them, but also more valuable. |
| 7 | worlds greatest dad | "Laughing (While You're Smiling)" | Get Well Soon | When you sing, you can't help but also hear. |
| 8 | Gold Steps | "Suckerpunch" | single | When you fight back, you can't help improving a little bit. |
| 9 | pronoun | "wrong" | single | Of course, you also can't help creating a little bit when all you're trying to do is measure. |
| 10 | VISTA | "Witch Hunt" | single | But if you have to choose one, choose try something. |
| 11 | Felin | "21st Century" | single | Choose more. |
| 12 | V for Volume | "Guts" | single | Choose again. |
| 13 | Nathalie | "In a World of Questions" | Into the Flow | Humans have kissed before. |
| 14 | Le Butcherettes | "struggle/STRUGGLE (/MEN)" | struggle/STRUGGLE 3 | Hate, unrepentant, flinches almost undetectably at the touch of our lips. |
| 15 | El Otro Yo | "Le grito al mundo" | single | Kiss it until it uncoils itself from around its own heart. |
| 16 | DIAMANTE | "Black Heart" | Volume II 5 | There are a million ways through the dark, but only one goal. |
| 17 | Follow The Cipher | "Valkyria" | Follow The Cipher | Winning is a denial; triumph is an introspection. |
| 18 | Rage Of Light | "Judas" | single | Which is why losing is a failure of envy, |
| 19 | Lords of Black | "When a Hero Takes a Fall" | Icons of the New Days | but failure is an expression of awareness and responsibility and thus power. |
| 20 | Monument | "The Chalice" | single | You can drink from Satan's chalice. It's just a cup. |
| 21 | Alkemyst | "Where I Belong" | single | Your enemies' citadels are still people's homes. |
| 22 | Crystal Tears | "Bleeding Me" | single | Your mysteries are somebody else's routine. |
| 23 | Marduk | "Equestrian Bloodlust" | single | I rode horses a couple times when I was a kid. |
| 24 | Immortal | "Northern Chaos Gods" | single | I saw the northern lights once, maybe, dimly from the window of a plane. |
| 25 | The Body | "Partly Alive" | I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer. | We make songs about the feeling of almost giving up. |
| 26 | Abraham | "Wonderful World" | Look, Here Comes the Dark! | We squander our last moments on songs about last moments. |
| 27 | The Armed | "Witness" | Only Love | We invest our transience in enduring disembodiments of joy. |
| 28 | Vampillia | "Winter Ash" | Happiness Brought by Endless Sorrow 4 | Maybe we kind of do nothing else, |
| 29 | Fleurie | "Constellate" | single | but somehow it gets us through things. |
| 30 | Von Grey | "Plans" | single | These days scoured by noise give way to quiet moments. |
| 31 | Joan Armatrading | "Still Waters" | Not Too Far Away | These cycles precess, and maybe wisdom is little more than repetition, |
| 32 | Fennesz | "Tom" | Station One 2 | but tiny changes matter, |
| 33 | Balmorhea | "Chime" | Chime / Shone 2 | little is enough, |
| 34 | Árstíðir | "Entangled" | single | moral empires are nano-accumulations of hyper-narrow victories, |
| 35 | The New Division | "Jealous" | Fader | earnest new orders declared in proofreading and revision-tracking. |
| 36 | Blair | "New Eyes" | single | Hold a familiar object in your hand until you notice something about it you had forgotten, or never knew, |
| 37 | No! Not the Bees! | "I Fall Apart" | single | and realize that the rest of it has drained away through your ineffective grasp. |
| 38 | Illenium | "Sound of Where'd U Go" | single | And then you do some weird shake-it-off dance-move thing with your hands. |
| 39 | Estiva | "Bloom" | A State Of Trance 2018 (Mixed by Armin van Buuren) | We are the creatures that attempt to dance ourselves clean. |
| 40 | Radical Face | "The Goonies "R" Good Enough" | single | We are the creatures that co-opt, |
| 41 | KT Tunstall | "I Won't Back Down" | single | and liberate, |
| 42 | The Danse Society | "Hurt" | FUTUR1ST 3 | and see more in each other than ourselves, |
| 43 | Il Divo | "Hola" | single | even as we see only ourselves in each other. |
| 44 | Skyharbor | "Dim" | single | We try to hide, but we can't hide. |
| 45 | The Afterimage | "Wrath" | single | We try to take our own hilarious furies seriously, |
| 46 | Nervosa | "Kill the Silence" | single | but if we were beasts to be taken seriously, surely evolution would have bred away this preposterous solemnity more effectively by now. |
| 47 | Obscura | "Diluvium" | single | Our complexities coallesce into ornament, |
| 48 | Subsignal | "La Muerta - Radio Version" | single | and maybe it's better when we're released from the confines of what we think we mean. |
| 49 | The Dykeenies | "Driving Cars into Swimming Pools" | I Wanted to Show Her All the Beautiful Things in the World 5 | Humans have kissed each other before, |
| 50 | Cor Scorpii | "Skuggevandrar" | single | instead of talking, |
| 51 | BABYMETAL | "Distortion" | single | or first, |
| 52 | LiSA | "Mr.Launcher" | Launcher | and kiss before talking might be a first principle for a better world. |
| 53 | PassCode | "Ray" | single | If you haven't fallen in love yet, then what is the conversation about? |
| 54 | OYASUMI HOLOGRAM | "colors" | single | The kiss obviously requires consent, |
| 55 | DREAMCATCHER | "YOU AND I" | Nightmare - Escape The ERA 6 | but the conversation less-obviously requires consent. |
| 56 | ADAM at | "Dining of D" | サイコブレイク | If you aren't willing to fall in love, then what is the conversation for? |
| 57 | Esprit D'Air | "Calling You" | Calling You +2 | It's not just a sandwich, you're trying to stay alive. |
| 58 | Fanny Lu | "Amor Verdadero" | single | The robots think "amor verda" is Catalan for "green love". |
| 59 | Despistaos | "Lo contrario de ninguno" | Lo contrario de ninguno +2 | A mis-typed "amor verdado" is supposedly Portuguese for "hidden love". |
| 60 | Olga Tanon | "Todo Pasará" | single | And eventually "amor verdadero" becomes "true love" in Spanish, but what can "true" mean if there are this many other theories? |
| 61 | RSO | "Making History" | Making History 5 | We say "making history", but don't we usually really just mean "You've got the look"? |
| 62 | Silence Wang | "搖滾唐人街 (電影《唐人街探案2》推廣曲)" | single | We are the creatures who think, correctly, that foreign languages are more romantic. |
| 63 | Vega | "Only Human" | Only Human | We are the creatures who say "I ain't missing you" when we mean "I am nothing alone". |
| 64 | Frankie Animal | "Funny" | single | We fall in love with people we don't know falling in love with each other. |
| 65 | Soft Kill | "Swaddle" | Savior | We march as an excuse to hold hands, |
| 66 | Slow Mass | "Gray Havens" | On Watch | howl in a call for harmony, |
| 67 | Slow Riot | "Betrayed" | single | disavow to find congruent occluded beliefs. |
| 68 | Holy Esque | "I Am the Truth" | single | We sing more when our voices don't quite work. |
| 69 | Skepta | "Pure Water" | single | We broadcast the boom boom, |
| 70 | Grim Sickers | "Mazza" | single | and dance to it by ourselves. |
| 71 | Coph Nia | "The Mirror" | Shape Shifter | We are tendrils of slow smoke, |
| 72 | Dead Melodies | "A Seduction of Malice" | The Foundations of Ruin | inchoate distress |
| 73 | Toygar Işıklı | "İçerde Jenerik Müziği" | İçerde (Original Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition] | encroaching in montage, |
| 74 | Seyi Shay | "Alele" | Electric Package EP Vol.1 6 | only to escape again in giddy flashmob. |
| 75 | Simi | "Gone For Good" | Simisola | We are never gone forever. |
| 76 | Mercy Masika | "Blessings" | single | When you sing, you can't help staying here for a moment longer, |
| 77 | Max Giesinger | "Legenden" | single | and in this way, a diffident conflicted moment at a time, |
| 78 | Aws | "Viszlát nyár (Eurovision Song Contest 2018)" | Viszlát nyár (Eurovision Song Contest 2018) +1 | our legends are written. |
| 79 | Bethel Music | "Reckless Love (Spontaneous)" | Moments: Mighty Sound | There is no such thing as required living, or required love, |
| 80 | Frightened Rabbit | "Floating in the Forth" | The Midnight Organ Fight | but if you have to choose a love, choose them all, and if you have to choose a day to give up, choose another year. |