THE BEST MUSIC OF 2016

1.

Beyoncé
Formation

2.

Mitski
Your Best American Girl

3.

Kanye West (feat. Chance the Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price and Kirk Franklin)
Ultralight Beam

4.

Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker

5.

Drive-By Truckers
What It Means

6.

Chance the Rapper (feat. Anderson .Paak, BJ The Chicago Kid, Raury and Ty Dolla $ign)
Blessings (Reprise)

7.

Rae Sremmurd (feat. Gucci Mane)
Black Beatles

8.

Solange
Cranes In The Sky

9.

Pinegrove
Old Friends

10.

ANOHNI
Drone Bomb Me

11.

Fifth Harmony (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)
Work From Home

12.

Frank Ocean
Pink + White

13.

David Bowie
I Can't Give Everything Away

14.

Maren Morris
Rich

15.

Rihanna (feat. Drake)
Work

16.

Car Seat Headrest
Vincent

17.

Anderson .Paak
Come Down

18.

Gregory Porter
Take Me To The Alley

19.

Danny Brown (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Earl Sweatshirt)
Really Doe

20.

Boris Giltburg
Étude-tableaux, Op. 39: No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)

21.

Margaret Glaspy
You And I

22.

Lizzo
Good As Hell

23.

Robert Ellis
California

24.

James Blake (feat. Bon Iver)
I Need A Forest Fire

25.

Angel Olsen
Sister

26.

Ty Dolla $ign (feat. Big TC)
No Justice

27.

Lucy Dacus
I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore

28.

Miranda Lambert
Vice

29.

Paul Simon
Wristband

30.

Xenia Rubinos
Mexican Chef

31.

Desiigner
Panda

32.

Bon Iver
22 (OVER S∞∞N)

33.

Maggie Rogers
Alaska

34.

A Tribe Called Quest
We The People...

35.

Parker Millsap
Heaven Sent

36.

Leyla McCalla
A Day For The Hunter, A Day for the Prey

37.

Blood Orange (feat. Empress Of)
Best To You

38.

Pavel Kolesnikov
Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4 (Chopin)

39.

Lindstrøm
Closing Shot

40.

Radiohead
Daydreaming

41.

Maxwell
Lake By The Ocean

42.

Låpsley
Operator (DJ Koze's Disco Edit)

43.

Allen Toussaint
Mardi Gras In New Orleans

44.

Brandy Clark
Since You've Gone To Heaven

45.

Bombino
Timtar (Memories)

46.

Big Thief
Masterpiece

47.

Riton (feat. Kah-Lo)
Rinse & Repeat

48.

Jeff Parker
Get Dressed

49.

Joyce DiDonato
Lascia ch'io pianga (Handel)

50.

William Bell
The Three Of Me

51.

Swet Shop Boys
T5

52.

Shura
What’s It Gonna Be?

53.

Julianna Barwick
Big Hollow

54.

Yola Carter
Fly Away

55.

Weezer
California Kids

56.

The 1975
A Change Of Heart

57.

Savages
Adore

58.

Daniel Wohl
Source

59.

Lake Street Dive
Call Off Your Dogs

60.

Angelica Garcia
Orange Flower

61.

Joyce Manor
Fake I.D.

62.

Fat Joe, Remy Ma & Jay Z (feat. French Montana and Infared)
All The Way Up (Remix)

63.

Beyoncé (feat. Dixie Chicks)
Daddy Lessons (Remix)

64.

Japanese Breakfast
In Heaven

65.

case/lang/veirs
Atomic Number

66.

Robbie Fulks
South Bend Soldiers On

67.

Rolf Lislevand
Caprice de Chaconne (Corbetta)

68.

Kelsey Waldon
All By Myself

69.

La Yegros (feat. Lindigo)
Sueñitos

70.

The xx
On Hold

71.

Isaiah Rashad (feat. SZA)
Stuck In The Mud

72.

Brent Cobb
Diggin' Holes

73.

Angela Hunte
Mon Bon Ami

74.

Miles Mosley
Abraham

75.

Dae Dae
Wat U Mean (Aye, Aye, Aye)

76.

William Tyler
Highway Anxiety

77.

D.R.A.M. (feat. Lil Yachty)
Broccoli

78.

Vektor
Charging The Void

79.

Fea
Tragedias

80.

Jambinai
They Keep Silence

81.

Heron Oblivion
Beneath Fields

82.

SubRosa
Troubled Cells

83.

Noura Mint Seymali
Ghlana

84.

Jon Bellion
All Time Low

85.

Lubomyr Melnyk
Sunset

86.

Calvin Harris (feat. Rihanna)
This Is What You Came For

87.

Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band
High Castle Rock

88.

Jacob Collier
Hideaway

89.

The Furrow Collective
Chuir M'Athair Mise dhan Taigh Charraideach

90.

¡Aparato!
Aire

91.

Beth Orton
Dawnstar

92.

Oathbreaker
10:56 / Second Son of R.

93.

ZAYN
PILLOWTALK

94.

Adam Torres
Juniper Arms

95.

Eighth Blackbird
Pulse (Robert Honstein)

96.

Young Thug and Travis Scott (feat. Quavo)
Pick Up the Phone

97.

John Paul White
Black Leaf

98.

Los Cenzontles
Both Sides Now

99.

William Michael Morgan
I Met a Girl

100.

Drake (feat. WizKid and Kyla)
One Dance

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