It’s that time of year again. No, not the holiday spirit, but the blogosphere spirit where everyone turns in their top albums of the year list. We’ve never been one to make lists. Hell, we’re not really too deep into the whole “album” spirit. With that in mind, we’ve created a list of some of our top singles of this year. There are obviously plenty others that we love, but most of them are here because we posted about them on the site. Of course we love the Adeles, Florence and The Machines, and Radioheads of the 2011 music year. It’d be crazy not to. Check out some of our favorite tracks of 2011:

M83 – “Midnight City”

Gotye – “Somebody That I Used To Know”

Penguin Prison – “Don’t Fuck With My Money”

Monarchy – “Maybe I’m Crazy”

Keep going, there’s more:

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As if I need to explain the title, Kanye and Jay-Z performed their biggest hit from Watch The Throne, “Niggas in Paris,” live at the VS Fashion Show.

If you really didn’t have a reason to watch models in bikinis, you missed out on Jay, Yey, and Beyonce.

Three words: Watch. The. Throne.

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New MP3: Kanye West and Jay-Z: “Otis”

Kanye West + Jay-Z + Otis Redding = Must-listen music. Jay-Z and Kanye West sample Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness” in their forthcoming album entitled, Watch The Throne.

You can stream the track here on Jay’s Life + Times website. You can also download the track below.

Watch the Throne is out August 1 digitally and August 5 physically, According to USA Today.

Jay-Z & Kanye West – “Otis”

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