Galang (song) - Awards and Accolades

Awards and Accolades

The critical success of "Galang" was cemented after its appearance on several publications' Best of the Year Lists in 2004. The song has frequently been named one of the best compositions released in the 2000s decade and of all time. Blender positioned the song at number thirty nine on its list of the songs of the year, while it was named the seventh best single of the year on the Eye Weekly Canadian Critics Poll of 2004. Pitchforkmedia ranked "Galang" as the fourth best song the same year on their "Singles of the Year" list, while Rolling Stone (USA) - named it the tenth best on their "Singles of the Year" list. "Galang" positioned twelfth on Stylus magazine's "Singles of the Year" list while in the same year, it appeared eighth on the Village Voice list of the tops songs of 2004. German radio network 1LIVE named the song the twenty third best single on their 2004 list, while laut.de named it the forty fourth best song of the year. Iguana music magazine named it the ninety third best single of the year while Zündfunk of Germany named it the top single of 2004.

On its list of the "Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s" period, Blender ranked "Galang" eighty one. Pitchforkmedia named the song the twentieth best song in their list "The 100 Best Singles of 2000-2004." Porcys of Poland named it the eleventh best song on their "100 Singles 2000-2004" list. The song appears at number forty one on Stylus magazine's list "The 50 Best Singles of 2000-2004". "Galang" is listed on The Pitchfork 500, a 2008 published book on the Pitchfork's "Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present" in the 2003-2006 release period section. Swedish music magazine Sonic positioned the song at forty three on their "The 50 Best Songs of the 21st Century" list. Rolling Stone (Spain) named "Galang" the sixth best song on their list "The 100 Best Songs of the 21st Century". In 2010, Slant named the music video for "Galang" the forty-eighth "Best Music Video of the 2000s Decade".