Although you might be ready to scamper on out of this year and erase it from your mind all together, you can’t quite forget those anthems that kept you civil & sane through it all. Through the best of times and the worst of times, music was the lover that never left your side.

Here’s to the songs that got stuck in your head all year. Featuring Giraffage, Bonobo, Ho99o9, SZA, Vince Staples, King Krule, Kendrick Lamar and more, our Best Tracks of 2017 Spotify and Apple Music playlist will surely refresh your memory.

IHC’s 100 Best Tracks of 2017 (in alphabetical order):

• A-Trak & Baauer – “Fern Gully”
• Action Bronson – “Let Me Breathe”
• Alice Glass – “Without Love”
• Amber Mark – “Lose My Cool”
• Anna Lunoe – “Radioactive”
• Arcade Fire – “Everything Now”
• Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood – “Tears on Fire”
• Bonobo – “No Reason (ft. Nick Murphy)”
• Caleb – “Kunle Eden”
• Calvin Harris – “Slide (ft. Frank Ocean & Migos)”
• Cannons – “Miracle”
• Car Seat Headrest – “War is Coming (If You Want It)”
• Cardi B – “Bodak Yellow”
• Cashmere Cat – “9 (After Coachella) feat. MO & SOPHIE”
• Charlie XCX – “Boys”
• Charlotte Gainsbourg – “Deadly Valentine (Soulwax Remix)”
• Chela – “Bad Habit”
• Chicano Batman – “La Jura”
• Chromeo – “Juice”
• Cigarettes After Sex – “K.”
• Corbin “Mourn”
• Curls – “Emotion”
• Daniele Luppi / Parquet Courts – “Flush”
• Downtown Boys – “Lips That Bite”
• Drake – “Passionfruit”
• E1sbar – “Looser Futurism”
• Elbow – “Trust the Sun”
• Empress Of – “Go to Hell”
• Foxygen – “Follow the Leader”
• Frankie Rose – “Trouble”
• Frank Ocean – “Chanel”
• Future – “Mask Off”
• Future Islands – “Ran”
• G-Worthy – “Never Miss”
• GAS – “Narkopop1”
• Gavin Turek – “Birdie Bees”
• Giraffage – “Slowly”
• Gorillaz – “Submission (ft. Danny Brown & Kelela)”
• Ho99o9 – “Neighborhood Watch”
• HOMESHAKE – “Khmlwugh”
• Hundred Waters – “Better”
• Jacques Greene – “I Won’t Judge”
• Jaden Smith – “Icon”
• Japanese Breakfast – “Machinist”
• Jimmy Edgar – “Wow”
• Joe Goddard – “Home”
• Juiceboxx – “Freaking Out”
• Kehlani – “Distraction”
• Kelela – “Let Me Know”
• Kendrick Lamar – “XXX (ft. U2)”
• Kevin Morby – “Crybaby”
• King Krule – “Czech One”
• Knox Fortune – “Lil Thing”
• Liars – “Cred Woes”
• Lights – “Giants”
• Lil Yachty – “Better (ft. Teflon Don)”
• Louis the Child – “World on Fire (ft. Ashe)”
• Mac Demarco – “On the Level”
• Machine Drum – “1 2 B Needed (ft. Roses Gabor)”
• Matthew Dear – “Modafinil Blues”
• Mija – “Bad for U (ft. Kelli Schaefer)”
• Miya Folick – “Give it to Me”
• Mount Kimbie – “Marilyn”
• Myd – “The Sun”
• NAO – “Nostalgia”
• Nick Hakim – “Roller Skates”
• Oliver – “Heart Attack (ft. De La Soul)”
• Phoenix – “J-Boy”
• Poppy – “My Style (ft. Charlotte)”
• Promiseland – “Take Down the House”
• Princess Nokia – “Tomboy”
• Protomartyr – “Windsor Hum”
• Sampha – “Plastic 100°C”
• San Holo – “Light”
• Sevdaliza – “Human”
• Shabazz Palaces – “Shine a Light”
• Sinkane – “Telephone”
• Sondre Lerche – “Soft Feelings”
• Spoon – “Hot Thoughts”
• starRo – “Fantasy ft. Bosco”
• Superorganism – “Something for Your M.I.N.D.”
• SZA – “The Weekend”
• The Black Madonna – “He is the Voice I Hear”
• The Breeders – “Wait in the Car”
• The Orielles – “Sugar Tastes Like Salt”
• The Orwells – “They Put a Body in the Bayou”
• The Preatures – “Girlhood”
• The War on Drugs – “Thinking of a Place”
• The xx – “On Hold (Jamie xx Remix)”
• Thundercat – “Show You the Way (ft. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins)”
• TOKiMONSTA – “Don’t Call Me (ft. Yuna)”
• TOPS – “Petals”
• Toro y Moi – “Girl Like You”
• TR/ST – “Bicep”
• Tyler the Creator – “911/ Mr. Lonely”
• Vince Staples – “Bagbak”
• Washed Out – “Hard to Say Goodbye”
• Wavves – “Million Enemies”
• Wolf Alice – “Don’t Delete the Kisses”
• Yellow Days – “That Easy”

• Stream them all on our Best Tracks of 2017 Spotify and Apple Music playlist!

  Not enough music for you? Check out our Best Records of 2017 list!