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2016 Year End Song Lists

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#1

NME

  1. Angel Olsen – ‘Shut Up Kiss Me’
  2. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – ‘A 1000 Times’
  3. Blossoms – ‘Charlemagne’
  4. Drake – ‘One Dance’
  5. Kaytranada – ‘Lite Spots’
  6. Bastille – ‘Good Grief’
  7. Tove Lo – ‘Cool Girl’
  8. Warpaint – ‘New Song’
  9. The 1975 – ‘The Sound’
  10. David Bowie – ‘Lazarus’
  11. Charli XCX – ‘After The Afterparty’
  12. Lady Leshurr – ‘Where Are You Now?’
  13. Skepta – ‘Man’
  14. Kanye West – ‘Ultralight Beam’
  15. Beyoncé – ‘Formation’
  16. Christine & The Queens – ‘Tilted’
  17. Iggy Pop – ‘Gardenia’
  18. Chance The Rapper – ‘All Night’
  19. The 1975 – ‘Somebody Else’
  20. Rihanna – ‘Work’
#2

TIME

  1. Formation - Beyoncé
  2. The Sound - The 1975
  3. Not Above That - Dawn Richard
  4. No Problem - Chance The Rapper feat. Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz
  5. Work From Home - Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign
  6. Broccoli - D.R.A.M. feat. Lil Yachty
  7. No Woman - Whitney
  8. Fake I.D. - Joyce Manor
  9. Dang! - Mac Miller feat. Anderson .Paak
  10. Famous - Kanye West
#3

Rolling Stone

  1. Beyoncé - “Formation”
  2. Frank Ocean - “Ivy”
  3. Drake - “One Dance” [feat. Wizkid, Kyla]
  4. David Bowie - “No Plan”
  5. Kanye West - “Ultralight Beam” [feat. Kirk Franklin, Kelly Price, The-Dream, Chance The Rapper]
  6. PWR BTTM - “Projection”
  7. Solange - “Cranes in the Sky”
  8. Fifth Harmony - “Work From Home” [feat. Ty Dolla $ign]
  9. LVL Up - “Pain”
  10. Rae Sremmurd - “Black Beatles” [feat. Gucci Mane]
  11. Young M.A - “OOOUUU”
  12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Dark Necessities”
  13. Wilco - “If I Ever Was a Child”
  14. Mannequin Pussy - “Romantic”
  15. Kendrick Lamar - “Untitled 05 | 09.21.2014.”
  16. Chance The Rapper - “Angels” [feat. Saba]
  17. Lucy Dacus - “I Don’t Want To Be Funny Anymore”
  18. The Monkees - “Me & Magdalena”
  19. Danny Brown - “Really Doe” [feat. Earl Sweatshirt, Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar]
  20. Bob Dylan - “That Old Black Magic”
  21. Metro Boomin, 21 Savage - “X” [feat. Future]
  22. Ariana Grande - “Side to Side” [feat. Nicki Minaj]
  23. Little Big Town - “Better Man”
  24. Courtney Barnett - “Three Packs a Day”
  25. Leonard Cohen - “Treaty”
  26. Vince Staples - “War Ready”
  27. Angel Olsen - “Sister”
  28. Lady Gaga - “Perfect Illusion”
  29. Cobalt - “Beast Whip”
  30. A Tribe Called Quest - “The Space Program”
  31. Miranda Lambert - “Vice”
  32. Kodak Black - “Everything 1K”
  33. Mitski - “Your Best American Girl”
  34. Britney Spears - “Clumsy”
  35. Japanese Breakfast - “Everybody Wants to Love You”
  36. Drive-By Truckers - “Ever South”
  37. Tacocat - “Night Swimming”
  38. Maren Morris - “80s Mercedes”
  39. Paul Simon - “Cool Papa Bell”
  40. Lil Uzi Vert - “Original Uzi (4 of Us)”
  41. Yohuna - “The Moon Hangs in the Sky Like Nothing Hangs in the Sky”
  42. Bob Mould - “Voices in My Head”
  43. Free Cake For Every Creature - “All You Gotta Be When You’re 23 Is Yourself”
  44. Desiigner - “Tiimmy Turner”
  45. Car Seat Headrest - “Drunk Drivers / Killer Whales”
  46. Helado Negro - “Runaround”
  47. D.R.A.M. - “Broccoli” [feat. Lil Yachty]
  48. Sturgill Simpson - “Keep It Between the Lines”
  49. Nicki Minaj - “Black Barbies”
  50. Van Morrison - “Going Down to Bangor”
#4

Consequence of Sound

  1. Beyoncé – “Freedom”
  2. Kanye West – “Ultralight Beam”
  3. Car Seat Headrest – “Drunk Drivers / Killer Whales”
  4. ANOHNI – “4 Degrees”
  5. David Bowie – “I Can’t Give Everything Away”
  6. Chance the Rapper – “No Problem”
  7. Radiohead – “True Love Waits”
  8. Mitski – “Your Best American Girl”
  9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – “I Need You”
  10. Angel Olsen – “Shut Up Kiss Me”
  11. Anderson .Paak – “Come Down”
  12. Sia – “Cheap Thrills”
  13. Frank Ocean – “Ivy”
  14. Wilco – “If I Ever Was a Child”
  15. Rihanna – “Work”
  16. Leonard Cohen – “You Want It Darker”
  17. Schoolboy Q – “That Part”
  18. Animal Collective – “Floridada”
  19. Tegan and Sara – “Stop Desire”
  20. Savages – “Adore”
  21. Chance the Rapper – “Angels”
  22. Jamila Woods – “Blk Girl Soldier”
  23. Solange – “Cranes in the Sky”
  24. Chairlift – “Ch-Ching”
  25. A Tribe Called Quest – “We the People…”
  26. Drake – “One Dance”
  27. Moses Sumney – “Lonely World”
  28. DMA’s – “Delete”
  29. Young Thug, Travis Scott – “Pick Up the Phone” (ft. Quavo)
  30. Kevin Morby – “Dorothy”
  31. Bon Iver – “22 (Over Soon)”
  32. Danny Brown – “When It Rain”
  33. Kaytranada – “Glowed Up” (ft. Anderson .Paak)
  34. Mothers – “Hold Your Own Hand”
  35. The 1975 – “Somebody Else”
  36. LUH – “$ORO”
  37. Christine and the Queens feat. Booba – “Here”
  38. Beyoncé – “All Night”
  39. Bishop Briggs – “River”
  40. Sing Street – “Drive It Like You Stole It”
  41. Kendrick Lamar – “Untitled 7”
  42. A$AP Ferg – “New Level”
  43. Greys – “No Star”
  44. Sheer Mag – “Can’t Stop Fighting”
  45. Jessy Lanza – “It Means I Love You”
  46. Kvelertak – “Nattesferd”
  47. Rae Sremmurd – “Black Beatles”
  48. Lucy Dacus – “I Don’t Want To Be Funny Anymore”
  49. Xenia Rubinos – “See Them”
  50. Underworld – “I Exhale”
#5

Paste

  1. Eric Prydz- Last Dragon
  2. Alicia Keys- Blended Family (What You Do For Love)
  3. Wilco- Locator
  4. Syvlan Esso- Radio
  5. Cymbals Eat Guitars- Have a Heart
  6. Kevin Gates- Kno One
  7. The Hotelier- Piano Players
  8. Lizzo- Good As Hell
  9. Ages and Ages- As It Is
  10. Porches- Be Apart
  11. Case/Lang/Veirs- Atomic Number
  12. Big Thief- Masterpiece
  13. Andrew Bird- Capsized
  14. Parquet Courts- Human Performance
  15. Whitney- No Woman
  16. Hinds- Bamboo
  17. Brandy Clark- Girl Next Door
  18. Vince Staples (featuring A$AP Rocky)- Prima Donna
  19. Blood Orange (featuring Empress Of)- Best To You
  20. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down- Hand To God
  21. PWR BTTM- Projection
  22. Tacocat- The Internet
  23. Sturgill Simpson- In Bloom
  24. Courtney Barnett- Three Packs a Day
  25. Tegan and Sara- Boyfriend
  26. Danny Brown (featuring Kendrick Lamar, Ab Soul, Earl Sweatshirt)- Really Doe
  27. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam- A 1000 Times
  28. The Avalanches- Colours
  29. Savages- Adore
  30. Anderson .Paak- The Bird
  31. Joey Purp- Girls@
  32. Drive-by Truckers- What It Means
  33. YG & Nipsye Hussle- FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)
  34. Lucius- Dusty Trails
  35. A Tribe Called Quest- We The People
  36. Leonard Cohen- You Want It Darker
  37. Solange- Don’t Touch My Hair
  38. Rihanna- Kiss It Better
  39. Bon Iver- 22 (Over Soon)
  40. Pinegrove- Old Friends
  41. Kanye West- Ultralight Beam
  42. Frank Ocean- Ivy
  43. David Bowie- Blackstar
  44. Chance the Rapper- No Problem
  45. Radiohead- Burn the Witch
  46. Car Seat Headrest- Drunk Drivers / Killer Whales
  47. Lucy Dacus- I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore
  48. Angel Olsen- Shut Up Kiss Me
  49. Mitski- Your Best American Girl
  50. Beyonce- Formation
#6

Mister, your table is upside town.

#7

What do you mean?

EDIT: Maybe you’re talking about the Rolling Stone list.

#8

The overall song list is now live on the site

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/songs/best/2016/