The Elements Music presents The Top 10 songs of 2021 from their resident Music Supervisor, Nick Maker.

Nick brings a decade of music supervision experience to the table, having recently joined The Elements after an award-winning stint as in-house Music Producer at Energy BBDO. With a strong passion for pairing brands with bands, Nick has worked with global clients such as Jack Daniels, Starbucks, Champion, Wrigley, and MillerCoors, among others.

A native of Australia, Nick pulled this list together to vote in this weekend’s Triple J Hottest 100 - the Aussie radio station’s annual countdown of the best songs of the year and ‘the world’s biggest music democracy’. Listen through the full list (and plenty of honourable mentions) below. 

• Little Simz - I Love You, I Hate You
• TOBi, Baby Rose - Come As You Are
• Gabriels - Love and Hate in a Different World
• Genesis Owusu - A Song About Fishing
• Arlo Parks - Hurt
• Pa Salieu - Glidin’ (feat. slowthai)
• Nubian Twist - If I Know (feat K.O.G.)
• Skegss - Valhalla
• Jungle - Keep Moving
• Dijon - Many Times