The Top Ten Songs of 2009

The last year of the aughts, the aughties, the naughties or whatever you wanted to call them, was a year populated far more by brilliant single songs than cohesive album statements. This has been an increasing trend over the past decade, as file sharing has gone pop, the iPod has become ubiquitous, and the biggest question about downloading music has been how much to charge per month, rather than how much to charge per lawsuit.

There have been some great albums this year, too, and we'll be getting to those tomorrow. Today, however, is about the singles. From previews of promising 2010 albums to one-offs that sound ridiculous on paper to mind-blasting Billboard chart-toppers from otherwise mediocre albums, here's Racecar Brown's top ten songs of 2009.

In the interests of full disclosure, I only allowed myself one song by any artist to make the list.