1. “You (Ha Ha Ha),” Charli XCX
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How much more famous would Charli XCX be had she released “I Love It” and not Icona Pop, the fledgling duo she wrote it for? We’ll never know! Instead, we got one of the finest pop records of 2013 with the diary-meets-dance-floor True Romance, and we’re beyond excited to hear what Charlotte Aitchison has planned for her upcoming Britney Spears collab. If it’s anything like “You, ” with its searing Gold Panda sample and bass-throb pulse, Brit-Brit will be back on top. Our choicest lyric of 2013: “Because we used to be the cool kids/You were old school, I was on the new shit.” Charli XCX is the new shit.
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