Here are your rankings for Week 44 (number of weeks on the chart so far in parentheses):
1. alt-J - "Left Hand Free" (4)
2. TV on the Radio - "Careful You" (2)
3. Sharon Van Etten - "Every Time the Sun Comes Up" (4)
4. Hozier - "Take Me to Church" (1)
4. Run the Jewels - "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)" (1)
6. Lana Del Rey - "Florida Kilos" (8)
7. Alvvays - "Archie, Marry Me" (1)
7. SBTRKT feat. Ezra Koenig - "NEW DORP. NEW YORK" (1)
9. Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - "Uptown Funk" (2)
10. Damien Rice - "It Takes a Lot to Know a Man" (4)
11. Cold War Kids - "All This Could Be Yours" (9)
12. Taylor Swift - "Shake It Off" (1)
13. Steve Gunn - "Tommy's Congo" (6)
14. Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - "Rather Be" (1)
14. Taylor Swift - "Blank Space" (1)
16. Azealia Banks - "Chasing Time" (3)
17. Cold War Kids - "Go Quietly" (1)
17. Dan Mangan + Blacksmith - "Vessel" (1)
19. Sinoia Caves - "Forever Dilating Eye" (3)
20. Sleater-Kinney - "Surface Envy" (1)
Total Votes: 89
The top 10 songs from last week's chart went on to this week's. Four veteran songs being eliminated at once isn't a new precedence (I think), but taking out two very strong competitors past their fifth week might be. The EOY chart takes no prisoners, it seems.
2014 Chart-Toppers by Week (by vote count, not chart position; total weeks atop chart in parentheses):
1. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - "Fuck Off Get Free (For the Island of Montreal)"
2. Damien Jurado - "Silver Timothy" / Warpaint - "Love Is to Die"
3. Warpaint - "Love Is to Die" (2)
4. Damien Jurado - "Silver Timothy" (2)
5. Young Fathers - "Get Up"
6. St. Vincent - "Digital Witness" / Warpaint - "Love Is to Die" (3)
7. Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" / Warpaint - "Love Is to Die" (4)
8. The War on Drugs - "Red Eyes" / Warpaint - "Love Is to Die" (5)
9. Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" (2)
10. Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" (3)
11. Todd Terje feat. Bryan Ferry - "Johnny and Mary"
12. Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" (4) / Todd Terje feat. Bryan Ferry - "Johnny and Mary" (2)
13. Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" (5)
14. tUnE-yArDs - "Water Fountain"
15. Todd Terje feat. Bryan Ferry - "Johnny and Mary" (3)
16. The Black Keys - "Weight of Love"
17. The War on Drugs - "Under the Pressure"
18. The Black Keys - "Weight of Love" (2) / Lana Del Rey - "West Coast" / tUnE-yArDs - "Water Fountain" (2) / The War on Drugs - "Under the Pressure" (2)
19. The Black Keys - "Weight of Love" (3)
20. Lana Del Rey - "West Coast" (2)
21. First Aid Kit - "My Silver Lining"
22. Spoon - "Do You"
23. Lana Del Rey - "West Coast" (3)
24. Lana Del Rey - "West Coast" (4)
25. First Aid Kit - "My Silver Lining" (2) / Owen Pallett - "The Riverbed"
26. Jon Allen - "Night and Day"
27. Spoon - "Do You" (2)
28. First Aid Kit - "My Silver Lining" (3) / Interpol - "All the Rage Back Home" / Sun Kil Moon - "Micheline"
29. Spoon - "Do You" (3)
30. alt-J - "Every Other Freckle" / Interpol - "All the Rage Back Home" (2)
31. Spoon - "Do You" (4)
32. alt-J - "Every Other Freckle" (2) / Interpol - "All the Rage Back Home" (3) / Leonard Cohen - "Almost Like the Blues"
33. Leonard Cohen - "Almost Like the Blues" (2)
34. Interpol - "All the Rage Back Home" (4) / Röyksopp & Robyn - "Every Little Thing"
35. Leonard Cohen - "Almost Like the Blues" (3) / Marianne Faithfull - "Late Victorian Holocaust" / Röyksopp & Robyn - "Every Little Thing" (2) / Spoon - "Outlier"
36. Sharon Van Etten - "Our Love"
37. Sharon Van Etten - "Our Love" (2)
38. Leonard Cohen - "Almost Like the Blues" (4) / Sharon Van Etten - "Our Love" (3) / Spoon - "Outlier" (2)
39. Sharon Van Etten - "Our Love" (4)
40. Sharon Van Etten - "Our Love" (5)
41. Cold War Kids - "All This Could Be Yours" / Spoon - "Outlier" (3)
42. Cold War Kids - "All This Could Be Yours" (2)
43. Sharon Van Etten - "Every Time the Sun Comes Up"
44. alt-J - "Left Hand Free"
2014 Hall of Fame (10 weeks of advancing votes; automatically retired from chart):
St. Vincent - "Digital Witness" (Week 1-14)
Warpaint - "Love Is to Die" (Week 1-11)
Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" (Week 2-14)
tUnE-yArDs - "Water Fountain" (Week 9-18)
Future Islands - "Seasons (Waiting on You)" (Week 10-19)
The War on Drugs - "Under the Pressure" (Week 10-19)
Lana Del Rey - "West Coast" (Week 15-24)
The Black Keys - "Weight of Love" (Week 16-25)
Owen Pallett - "The Riverbed" (Week 17-26)
Jon Allen - "Night and Day" (Week 18-27)
First Aid Kit - "My Silver Lining" (Week 19-28)
Spoon - "Do You" (Week 22-31)
Interpol - "All the Rage Back Home" (Week 25-34)
Röyksopp & Robyn - "Every Little Thing" (Week 27-36)
Sun Kil Moon - "Micheline" (Week 28-37)
Leonard Cohen - "Almost Like the Blues" (Week 31-40)
Sharon Van Etten - "Our Love" (Week 31-40)
Spoon - "Outlier" (33-42)
Here is this week's 15-song Spotify chart (with 4 songs included below via YouTube link and 1 via external link):
Kristin Diable - "I'll Make Time for You"
Thank you all for voting and nominating continuously every week! Please don't be afraid to supply us with nominations - all songs six months old and younger (or who have received promotion via album/video/single in the last six months) are accepted! And seconding nominations by others' gives those songs a better chance at making the next poll!
As per usual, the next poll will be created as close to Sunday at 19:00 GMT as I can make it. Best of voting!