From hazy break-beats, to pumping acid techno, to hands-in-the-air Detroit diva house, 2018 was another great year for dance music. So many upstart labels shined and delivered great releases, countless new names floated to the top of lineups, and some of our favorite artists continued to bring the goods.

Bearing in mind that year-end lists tire everyone out and usually suck, here are forty tracks that heavily sound-tracked my radio show, club gigs, car stereo, and beyond — presented in alphabetical order because any ranking would be completely arbitrary.

Tune into WKDU one last time in 2018 for the ‘Resolutions Show’ from 8:30 – 10:30 pm, where we’ll read your resolutions on air, play some of the tracks below, and prepare you for a brand new year!

🎉 HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎉

The Top 40 Dance Tracks of 2018 (in alphabetical order)

Artist	Track	Label
Waajeed	After You Left	DIRT TECH RECK
Hugo Massien	Alien Shapes	E-BEAMZ
Videopath	And So Do Eye	Peach Discs
Sa’D Ali	Asylum (Louie Vega Deep In The Underground)	Nulu Electronic
Steffi	Between Form & Matter	Air Texture
Pangaea	Bonesucka	Hessle Audio
Sami	Bright Blue feat. ZSY	1432 R
Dj Steaw	Celestial Vibrations	Rutillance Recordings
Leo Pol	Dark Outside	Bass Culture
J. Albert	Deep State Riddim	Trilogy Tapes
Marquis Hawkes, Ursula Rucker	Don’t U (Dubbed Out Vocal)	Aus Music
Roza Terenzi	Electronique	Oscillate Tracks
Almaty	Gennaro (Endian Remix)	naïve
Moodymann	Got Me Coming Back Rite Now	Mahogani Music
Lady Blacktronica	How I Learned	Meda Fury
Omar S featuring Simon Black	I’ll Do It Again	FXHE
Baltra	IWUNNAF33L	CD-R
Scott Richmond and John Selway	Keep On Climbing	Firehouse NYC
Teakup	Lose My Mind	is / was
Heckadecimal	Murder Tape	Great Circles
Brother Nebula	Parting Infinity	Legwork
DJ Koze	Pick Up	Pampa
Hoshina Anniversary	Pimp	Jack Dept.
Batu	Rebuilt	XL Recordings
BMG & Derek Plaslaiko	Rendezvous (NWB Mix)	Interdimensional Transmissions
DJ Dre	Respect	These Things Take Time
Galcher Lustwerk	Rules Meant to Be Broken	Lustwerk Music
Djrum	Sex	R&S Records
D. Tiffany	Sip & Savour	Planet Euphorique
AceMo	Speedn N Smokin	Vanity Press
Will Dimaggio	Steppin W Friends	Future Times
Universal Cave	Take Your Time (Universal Cave’s 909 Rubdown)	Universal Cave
Omar S & Brian Kage	Thru The Madness	Michigander
Antemeridian	Tuesday AM	The Bunker NY
Alex Falk	Upp	International Black
The Horn	Villager (Luca Lozano Remix)	Klasse Wrecks
Scott Grooves	We Move…We Have To	Natural Midi
Marie Davidson	Work It	Ninja Tune
Shawn Rudiman	Works On Paper	Pittsburgh Tracks
Cassy X Pete Moss	You Gotta Know (Ron Trent Remix)	Kwench