NME awards single of the year accolade to Missy Elliott

Missy Elliot's Get Ur Freak On has been named NME's single of the year.

Can't Get You Out Of My Head by Kylie Minogue was second.

And The Modern Age EP by The Strokes came in third.

NME describes the Missy Elliot song as "combining sonic innovation and flawless hip-hop with a dizzying pop glee".

The full top 10 is:

1 Missy Elliot - Get Ur Freak On

2 Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head

3 The Strokes - The Modern Age EP

4 Andrew WK - Party Hard

5 The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba

6 Outkast - Ms Jackson

7 The Strokes - Hard To Explain

8 Starsailor - Good Souls

9 Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

10 MOP - Cold As Ice.