These Were The Best EDM Songs of 2017
2017 was a year of many highs and lows and even more unexpected hits. In the hip-hop world, Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” delighted fans across the world, and in dance music, Axwell Λ Ingrosso, Kygo, Odesza, Kayzo, and a number of other artists dominated the scene.
Axwell Λ Ingrosso spent 2017 proving that life after Swedish House Mafia was more than fine, riding the momentum of “Something New” and “More Than You Know” into arena-sized pop-house territory. Kygo kept his tropical house reign going strong with his debut album “Kids in Love,” while Odesza pushed the genre’s boundaries even further with the release of “A Moment Apart,” an album that traded festival-ready drops for widescreen, emotional production. On the heavier end of the spectrum, Kayzo carved out his own lane by smashing together hardcore, dubstep, and trap into something entirely his own.
2017 also gave us one of the year’s biggest crossover surprises in CamelPhat and Elderbrook’s “Cola,” a slow-building tech house cut that somehow found its way onto mainstream radio. Meanwhile, Porter Robinson spent the year quietly rewriting his own rulebook, ditching the emotional electro-pop of “Worlds” for a harder, trance-and-techno-leaning alter ego called Virtual Self. The project’s self-titled EP became an instant cult favorite among heads who grew up on 2000s trance and early 2010s hard dance.
As we head into the 2018 year, you can now listen to all of the songs that made 2017 so special. Listen to the entire playlist below featuring songs such as CamelPhat’s “Cola” and Porter Robinson’s new alter alias. Also be on the lookout for the best dance music songs of 2017 in the chart below.
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Best EDM Songs of 2017
Looking back, 2017 was a year where dance music kept splintering in the best possible way, big room and progressive giants shared festival mainstages with tropical house, future bass, hardstyle, and straight-up pop crossovers, and no single sound really “won.” That’s part of what makes revisiting this list so fun, it’s a snapshot of just how many different directions the genre pulled in over twelve months.
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