List of tracks awarded Pitchfork Best New Track in 2010

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In 2010, Pitchfork Media, in their second year 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 on March 15, when they renamed their track review section to "The Playlist". [1] 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.

TrackArtistScoreReview dateAlbum
"Soldier of Love" [2] Sade 8January 4 Soldier of Love
"Chase the Tear" [3] Portishead 8January 6-
"Exhibit C" [4] Jay Electronica 8January 11
"Colouring of Pigeons" [5] The Knife featuring Mt. Sims and Planningtorock 9January 13 Tomorrow, in a Year
"Lil Freak" [6] Usher featuring Nicki Minaj 8January 14 Raymond v. Raymond
"Facelove" [7] PS I Love You 8January 18"All Yr Songs/Facelove"
"Yellow Wings" [8] Keepaway9January 22Baby Style
"Odessa" [9] Caribou 8January 27 Swim
"New York Is Killing Me" [10] Gil Scott-Heron 8February 5 I'm New Here
"Rocket" (Richard X One Zero remix) [11] Remix of a song by Goldfrapp 8February 15Original song from Head First
"Excuses" [12] The Morning Benders 8February 17 Big Echo
"Good Intentions Paving Company" [13] Joanna Newsom 9February 19 Have One on Me
"Tightrope" [14] Janelle Monáe featuring Big Boi 9February 22 The ArchAndroid
"Night" [15] Zola Jesus 8February 23 Stridulum II
"World Sick" [16] Broken Social Scene 8February 26 Forgiveness Rock Record
"Go Outside" [17] Cults 9March 5 Cults
"In New Jersey" [18] Julian Lynch8March 8Mare
"Round and Round" [1] Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -March 15 Before Today
"I'm Back" [19] T.I. - No Mercy
"Over" [20] Drake - Thank Me Later
"The Blues" [21] Primary 1 featuring Nina Persson -March 17Other People
"Collector" [22] Here We Go Magic -March 18 Pigeons
"You" [23] Kingdom-March 19"Mindreader/You"
"O.N.E" [24] Yeasayer -March 24 Odd Blood
"Tron" [25] Joker -March 25-
"Stay Close" [26] Delorean -March 26 Subiza
"Drunk Girls" [27] LCD Soundsystem -March 29 This Is Happening
"Window Seat" [28] Erykah Badu -March 31 New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
"Year's Not Long" [29] Male Bonding -April 2 Nothing Hurts
"Shutterbugg" [30] Big Boi featuring Cutty-April 7 Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
"All I Want" [31] LCD Soundsystem-April 15This Is Happening
"Burn Bridges" [32] Dom - Sun Bronzed Greek Gods
"Dancing on My Own" [33] Robyn -April 20 Body Talk Pt. 1
"Celestica" [34] Crystal Castles -April 23 Crystal Castles II
"Tell 'Em" [35] Sleigh Bells -April 29 Treats
"32 leaves dipped in blackness making clouds forming altered carbon" [36] Shabazz Palaces -May 3Shabazz Palaces
"Just Enough" [37] Julian Lynch-May 13Mare
"Solitude Is Bliss" [38] Tame Impala -May 14 Innerspeaker
"Country Shit" [39] Big K.R.I.T. -May 21 K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
"Blue Moon" [40] Cover of a Big Star song by Kendal Johansson-May 24Original track from Big Star's 3rd
"Come With Me" [41] ceo -June 2White Magic
"Chinatown" [42] Wild Nothing -June 3 Gemini
"POWER" [43] Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
"CMYK" [44] James Blake -June 4 CMYK
"Younger Us" [45] Japandroids -June 9 Celebration Rock
"I Go Away" [46] MNDR -June 10E.P.E.
"We Can't Fly" (radio edit) [47] Aeroplane -June 21We Can't Fly
"Don't Change For Me" [48] Ramadanman-June 22Ramadanman
"King Night" [49] SALEM -June 23 King Night
"Yamaha" [50] The-Dream -June 24 Love King
"Let's Get Lost" [51] Beck and Bat for Lashes -June 25 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
"Mr. Peterson" [52] Perfume Genius -June 28 Learning
"Boyfriend" [53] Best Coast -June 29 Crazy for You
"While We're Young" [54] Department of Eagles -July 8Archive 2003-2006
"Slow Motion" [55] Panda Bear -July 15"Tomboy/Slow Motion"
"Revival" [56] Deerhunter -July 22 Halcyon Digest
"Reckless (With Your Love)" (Tensnake remix) [57] Azari & III -July 23-
"Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" [58] Arcade Fire -July 30 The Suburbs
"Phoenix" [59] Hyetal-"Phoenix/Like Silver"
"Cheaters" [60] Teengirl Fantasy -August 37AM
"National Anthem (Fuck the World)" [61] Freddie Gibbs - Str8 Killa
"Cold War" [62] Janelle Monáe-August 6The ArchAndroid
"Little People (Black City)" [63] Matthew Dear - Black City
"Returnal" (piano rework) [64] Oneohtrix Point Never featuring Antony-August 9Original version from Returnal
"Decisions" [65] How to Dress Well featuring Yüksel Arslan-August 13 Love Remains
"Fuck You" [66] CeeLo Green -August 23 The Lady Killer
"Heirloom" [67] Sufjan Stevens -August 25 All Delighted People
"Home" [68] Glasser -August 27Ring
"Slow" [69] Twin Shadow - Forget
"Monster" [70] Kanye West ft. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver and Nicki Minaj-September 7My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
"Helicopter" [71] Deerhunter-September 10Halcyon Digest
"Eyesore" [72] Women -September 13 Public Strain
"Ready for the World" [73] How to Dress Well-Originally:
February 2010
Republished:
September 14, 2010
Love Remains
"I Can't Wait" [74] Twin Shadow-September 17Forget
"Parade" [75] Tyler, The Creator - Bastard
"Kaili" [76] Caribou-September 20Swim
"Fever Dreaming" [77] No Age -September 21 Everything in Between
"I Only Know (What I Know Now)" [78] James Blake-September 24 Klavierwerke
"Angela Surf City" [79] The Walkmen -September 28 Lisbon
"MmmHmm" [80] Flying Lotus featuring Thundercat -September 29 Cosmogramma
"Runaway" [81] Kanye West featuring Pusha T -My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
"2 Forms of Anger" [82] Brian Eno -October 1 Small Craft on a Milk Sea
"The Heat" [83] Twista featuring Raekwon -October 5 The Perfect Storm (Best Buy edition)
"Limit to Your Love" [84] James Blake-October 13 James Blake
"Not in Love" [85] Cover of a Platinum Blonde song by Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith -October 27Crystal Castles II (Big Day Out deluxe reissue)
"The Joy" [86] Kanye West ft. Jay-Z, Pete Rock, Charlie Wilson, and Kid Cudi -November 3-
"Weekend" [87] Smith Westerns -November 4-
"Narrow With the Hall" [88] Women-November 8Public Strain
"Upside Down" [89] Off! -November 9 First Four EPs
"Heart in Your Heartbreak" [90] The Pains of Being Pure at Heart -November 11 Belong
"Carolina" [91] Girls -November 17 Broken Dreams Club
"Call Your Girlfriend" [92] Robyn-November 23 Body Talk
"Only Girl (In the World)" [93] Rihanna -November 24 Loud
"Chinatown" [94] Destroyer - Kaputt
"Written on the Forehead" [95] PJ Harvey -December 2 Let England Shake
"Fireworks" (Deadboy Slo Mo House edit) [96] Remix of a song by Drake featuring Alicia Keys -December 3Original song from Thank Me Later
"Six Foot Seven Foot" [97] Lil Wayne featuring Cory Gunz -December 15 Tha Carter IV

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