Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Singles of 2008
10. LIVE YOUR LIFE -
T.I. feat. Rihanna
T.I.'s flow is lightning-quick as always, and Ri-Ri does her sirenlike crooning thing. But producer Just Blaze deserves a Nobel Prize in Alchemy for successfully creating a hip-hop track that riffs off of Moldovan pop hit ''Dragostea Din Teï'' — a.k.a. the ''Numa Numa'' song of viral-video infamy.
9. SOUNDS SO GOOD -
Ashton Shepherd
Nashville sent out plenty of highly polished gems this year, but none was as sweet as the 22-year-old Alabama native's old-fashioned country idyll. Her ode to a warm Southern night — counting stars, chasing lightning bugs — was the real, dirt-road thing.
8. I'M GOOD, I'M GONE -
Lykke Li
Like her fellow countrywoman Robyn, Swedish indie chanteuse Li doesn't just tweak pop music — she spins it around, spanks it, and calls it Sally. Her husky-sweet vocals float like a feather, but it's obvious that her handclap beats mean business.
7. SO WHAT -
Pink
Publicly exorcising the demons of a divorce never sounded so danceable. The always-provocative Pink ups her own in-your-face ante, and balances the song's undeniable humor with a surprising vulnerability.
6. AMERICAN BOY -
Estelle feat. Kanye West
The London newcomer's ode to trans-atlantic infatuation is brimming with flirtatious charm—plus an especially playful rap verse from Kanye in a year when he has more often opted to sing his sorrows. Is it any wonder so many American boys (and girls) loved the song right back?
5. WHITE WINTER HYMNAL -
Fleet Foxes
With pristine harmonies, pastoral imagery, and a round-and-round song structure, the shaggy Seattle-ites expertly blurred the lines between psychedelic folk and High Renaissance balladry. Take that, ''Greensleeves''!
4. BETTER IN TIME -
Leona Lewis
The ginormous smash hit ''Bleeding Love'' could have been both her grand bow and her swan song; instead, the British talent-show winner (and Simon Cowell protégée) delivered this gorgeous ballad, built simply on piano, percussion, and that flawless voice — all about healing from love, not bleeding for it.
3. PAPER PLANES -
M.I.A.
Thank Judd Apatow's up-in-smoke comedy Pineapple Express for popularizing this 2007 Clash-sampling, cash-register-rattling überjam, but all the song needed was an opportunity — it turned out no one on the corner did have swagger like her.
2. BLIND -
Hercules and Love Affair
Antony Hegarty's throaty vibrato has often brought tears to our eyes, but who knew the Antony and the Johnsons leader — who joined dance DJ Andy Butler for this project — would sound so fantastic belting out a disco anthem?
1. LOVE IN THIS CLUB -
Usher feat. Young Jeezy
Usher sees your PDA, and he raises you 1,000 percent on this irresistibly libidinous ode to public sexy-time — ahem, ''making love.'' It's hard to believe a simple GarageBand beat could be so insanely ear-wormy. And yes, hot.
Some of the songs on that list are pretty good, and no I am not talking about Live Your Life or American Boy 
.