Best of 2010 • Honourable mentions

The competition this year was fierce but we think we’ve hit upon a top fifty that genuinely reflects the best that 2010 had to offer in terms of women in music. As always, some painful sacrifices had to be made so, because we’re a bit soft, here’s a nod in the direction of some of our favourite exclusions.

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And some we didn’t get time to review

Tagged change is good change is good, crooked, fossils and other phantoms, grass widow, hawk, into the trees, isobel campbell, it's the evil, kairos, kathryn williams, kelis, kelli ali, kristin hersh, lucy and the wolves, martha tilston, mary gauthier, nicki minaj, peggy sue, penelope, rose elinor dougall, sarah kirkland snider, serafina steer, shara worden, she and him, smoke fairies, the foundling, the quickening, white hinterland, white lung, without why, zoe keating