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New Year’s Eve Party Songs - 2009

Last year a friend asked me to compile a list of well-known pop tracks that should be on his party playlist, and I happily obliged.  I did the same this year, albeit hastily.  As I said to him:

“These aren’t necessarily my favorites, but these are some of the biggest tracks of the year from the pop, indie, and rap scenes.  (I didn’t include a bunch that aren’t really suitable for parties like Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, etc.)”

MAJOR POP

• Drake - Best I Ever Had (Skeemix) (feat. R. Kelly)
• Kid Cudi - Make Her Say (feat. Kanye West, Common & A-Trak)
• The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
• Lady Gaga - Just Dance (feat. Colby O’Donis) (or Paparazzi, or Bad Romance…)
• The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
• Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
• Beyonce - Halo
• Kanye West - Heartless
• T.I. - Dead and Gone (feat. Justin Timberlake)
• T.I. - Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna)
• The Fray - You Found Me
• Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
• Keri Hilson - Knock You Down (feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo)
• Jamie Foxx - Blame It (feat. T-Pain)
• Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)
• Soulja Boy Tell ‘em - Kiss Me Thru The Phone (feat. Sammie)
• Jay Sean - Down (feat. Lil Wayne)
• Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
• Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)
• Ciara - Love and Sex and Magic (feat. Justin Timberlake)

LESS KNOWN BUT REASONABLY WORTH PLAYING

• Gucci Mane - Wasted (feat. Plies)
• The-Dream - Rockin’ That Shit
• Chris Brown - Crawl
• Major Lazer - Pon de Floor (feat. VYBZ Kartel)
• Major Lazer - Keep It Goin’ Louder (feat. Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze)
• 50 Cent - Baby By Me
• Mary J. Blige - The One (feat. Drake)
• LMFAO - I’m in Miami Bitch
• Basement Jaxx - Raindrops

INDIE HITS

• Micachu and the Shapes - Golden Phone
• Discovery - Orange Shirt
• La Roux - Bulletproof
• Röyksopp - Happy Up Here
• Passion Pit - The Reeling
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
• Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
• Phoenix - 1901
• Animal Collective - My Girls
• The XX - Islands

INDIE AND OUT THERE

• Joker & Ginz - Purple City
• Matias Aguayo - Rollerskate
• Four Tet - Love Cry