Hard to believe the year’s halfway done! It’s shaping up to be a pretty good year for music. With three months to go until the Grammy eligibility deadline, it appears certain that fans of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will want to be watching come Grammy night (or they can just catch it on-line afterwards). And who would have expected 2013 to be the year of Daft Punk? In any event, here’s my 1st half of 2013 best tracks list:

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Thrift Shop feat. Wanz
Kodaline – All I Want
Justin Timberlake – Suit & Tie
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – We the Common (For Valerie Bolden)
Disclosure feat. Aluna George – White Noise
Paloma Faith – Picking Up The Pieces
Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man
Gin Wigmore – Man Like That
Kat Dahlia – Gangster
Youth Lagoon – Dropla
Rhye – The Fall
Dizzee Rascal – Bassline Junkie
Portugal. The Man – Evil Friends
Little Mix – Wings
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – If You Didn’t See Me (Then You Weren’t on the Dancefloor)
Laura Mvula – That’s Alright
Lorde – Royals
Iggy Azalea – Work
Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre – Waiting All Night
Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – Get Lucky
Valerie June – You Can’t Be Told
Icona Pop – I Love It
Robin Thicke feat. Pharrell Williams & T.I. – Blurred Lines
Passenger – Let Her Go
Avicii vs. Nicky Romero – I Could Be The One (Nicktim)

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