The results below will be split into six segments, with the first two covering statistics and analysis of the songs given this year and how they fare. Diagrams will be shown in some segments to give a better overall picture rather than just displaying tables of data. Finally, I'll conclude on with The Top 20 and an audio edit of them by yours truly, so to give a better idea of what songs truly represent the year around in terms of general mood in listening to music.

Firstly, I break down the songs to who sings them and sort them by size and gender, giving a good looks to a certain bias of hearing just female artists sing good songs, also known as the Vocal Styles Popularity Survey. For 2018, Female Solo vocals are close to a two-to-one ratio against Male Solo vocals, which shows a consistent improvement of reducing vocalist bias over the years.

Then, we have the Song Integrity Survey. Taken as an experimental analysis in Klassic Note, here I give further detailed analysis to the many songs rated in the generic 4-star category to give a better insight into how most of the songs are rated. It is also became the new benchmark in recent years in pushing to give more 5-star songs based on impression as done in early years of Klassic Note. As you can see, there is bias to giving more 5-star songs as songs above average rank are more than below average. Also, starting from next year, the categories for 4-stars will be increased from three to four, with 4C being average in order to show lesser bias to the standard average rating.

Thirdly, we have the generic statistics of the songs for the year. These include language (for those with a vocalist), year of release (old songs can appear in the list as far as 2001 for this year), Anime songs (because "sometimes") and B-side analysis for singles which is a direct representation of showing that songs which are good need not be their release's topic songs.

Lastly, we have the Song Appetite Report. The chart represents how many songs I've given every month, and whether there are peak period of giving songs or not, typically based on release month dependent on the music industry or periods of time where I just want to give more or less songs.

The first two tables below show what are the most popular songs I've listened for the year and for each month. The last two tables show the most popular songs to wake up and sleep to to give a different perspective as to how they potentially can feel if you start and end the day with maybe.

Starting from this year, I'll transform this to a rank based system, where every mention pushes you up one rank so that rank sharing will make sense now; the results shouldn't be much of difference though.

In Klassic Note, best singles are determined by (1) whether they are on the shelf ie. all songs of the single have been given and (2) how good they fare in impression. Details for giving these singles shall not be discussed here since there is The Klassic Note Review for your reference. Best albums are determined mostly by how many songs have been given in it, so best album have a natural advantage if I've been listening to the artist for years, and mini-albums tend to get an edge on these too but they have been put lower in priority to allow full length albums to shine.

Commendations are given to songs which stand out on their own (eg. terrible English, same song title) known as Song Commendations, releases that I reviewed and/or are outstanding known as Release Commendations, artists which may or may not be singing this year also known as Artist Commendations, and honours for (promotional) music videos which excelled in impressions also known as Video Commendations.

Instead of giving them Awards, Klassic Note here compliments videos which stand out better than their music, sometimes better than not, in order to give better representation and thus impression to their audio listeners. And so, I commend and also criticise (a bit) on those, as you can see below too. Many of the music videos can be found online too, so be sure to check those out for yourself. I'll post the links to get you started.

The Award titles mean exactly unless stated otherwise, which are stated as follows:

• THE CHARASON now represents all songs from the Anime and Game genres so to give more songs recognition on how good they are (CV refers to "Character Voice" ie. the actual voice actor behind the role)
• THE IDOLISM awards idol songs (sung by voice actress who became solo artists mostly) which have been on the rise and the award goes to the one with best impressions
• THE INSPIRATIONAL awards songs which spark motivation and/or creativity for me, and encourage me to move on with life
• THE NUMBER ONE SONG OF THE YEAR is based on Song of the Day (see Segment 2), and the award is presented to the best here
• THE SINGLE and THE ALBUM are based on Release Rankings (see Segment 3), and the award is presented to the best of each category here

Nominees are excluded from the list due to presentation space constraints, but I will find a way to show them in the near future.

In Klassic Note, The Top 20 will include certain conflicts in rank number as some of the songs have to share the same rank due to my lack of criteria to differentiate between them, but is also a ingenious method to show certain trends or similarity within topics and timeframes, to a smaller extent. So do not be surprised to see up to 25 songs every year on this supposedly "Top 20" list.