Twitter account (@cantorpedia)<\/a>. Evaluating impact, vision and, of course, quality, the list celebrates the absolute best music offered this past year.<\/p>\nReigning supreme are Lorde’s “Royals” and Vampire Weekend’s “Step,” which claimed one and two, respectively. More impressively, both acts landed additional<\/i> songs on the Top 13 list.<\/p>\n
Those selections should hardly come as shocks; while the Grammys did not acknowledge their work the way many in the industry expected, there should be little debate among music lovers that Lorde was<\/i> 2013’s Best New Artist. Vampire Weekend’s “Modern Vampires of the City” album, meanwhile, was clearly one of the year’s top three or four LPs.<\/p>\n
The full list of 13 follows:<\/p>\n
13) Lorde – 400 Lux
\n12) HAIM – The Wire
\n11) Kacey Musgraves – Follow Your Arrow
\n10) Robin Thicke, Pharrell & TI – Blurred Lines
\n9) Avicii & Aloe Blacc – Wake Me Up
\n8) Vampire Weekend – Hannah Hunt
\n7) John Mayer – Wildfire
\n6) Daft Punk, Pharrell & Nile Rodgers – Get Lucky
\n5) Sky Ferreira – I Blame Myself
\n4) CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share
\n3) HAIM – Honey & I
\n2) Vampire Weekend – Step
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