Pitchfork’s Top 100 Songs of 2016

1. Kanye West – “Ultralight Beam” [ft. Chance the Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price, and Kirk Franklin]
2. Beyoncé – “Formation”
3. Solange – “Cranes in the Sky”
4. Frank Ocean – “Ivy”
5. David Bowie – “Lazarus”
6. ANOHNI – “Drone Bomb Me”
7. Rihanna – “Work” [ft. Drake]
8. Angel Olsen – “Shut Up Kiss Me”
9. Radiohead – “True Love Waits”
10. Rae Sremmurd – “Black Beatles” [ft. Gucci Mane]
11. A Tribe Called Quest – “We the People…”
12. Chance the Rapper – “No Problem” [Ft. Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz]
13. Frank Ocean – “Pink + White”
14. Kanye West – “Real Friends”
15. Blood Orange – “Best to You” [ft. Empress Of]
16. Mitski – “You Best American Girl”
17. Anderson .Paak – “Am I Wrong”
18. Bon Iver – “33 ‘GOD’”
19. Leonard Cohen – “You Want It Darker”
20. Car Seat Headrest – “Fill in the Blank”
21. Solange – “Don’t Touch My Hair” [ft. Sampha]
22. Jenny Hval – “Conceptual Romance”
23. David Bowie – “I Can’t Give Everything Away”
24. Radiohead – “Daydreaming”
25. Frank Ocean – “Nikes”
26. Danny Brown – “Really Doe” [ft. Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, and Earl Sweatshirt]
27. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – “I Need You”
28. Beyoncé – “Hold Up”
29. Bon Iver – “22 (OVER S∞∞N) [Bob Moose Extended Cab Version]”
30. Drake – “One Dance” [ft. Wizkid and Kyla]
31. A Tribe Called Quest – “Dis Generation”
32. Kanye West – “No More Parties in L.A.” [ft. Kendrick Lamar]
33. D.R.A.M. – “Broccoli” [ft. Lil Yachty]
34. Chance the Rapper – “Summer Friends” [ft. Jeremih]
35. Kevin Gates – “2 Phones”
36. Kendrick Lamar – “Untitled 2”
37. Noname – “Yesterday”
38. Weyes Blood – “Do You Need My Love”
39. Jessy Lanza – “It Means I Love You”
40. Young Thug – “Kanye West”
41. Beyoncé – “Sorry”
42. French Montana – “Lockjaw” [ft. Kodak Black]
43. Joey Purp – “Girls @” [ft. Chance the Rapper]
44. Anderson .Paak – “Come Down”
45. Kevin Morby – “I Have Been to the Mountain”
46. Hamilton LeithauserRostam – “A 1000 Times”
47. Chance the Rapper – “All Night” [ft. Knox Fortune]
48. Blood Orange – “E.V.P.”
49. Aphex Twin – “CHEETAHT2 [Ld spectrum]”
50. Parquet Courts – “Human Performance”
51. Esperanza Spalding – “Earth to Heaven”
52. YG – “Who Shot Me?”
53. Kaytranada – “Glowed Up” [ft. Anderson .Paak]
54. dvsn – “Hallucinations”
55. Gucci Mane – “First Day Out tha Feds”
56. Desiigner – “Panda”
57. Jamila Woods – “VRY BLK” [ft. Noname]
58. Young Thug – “Digits”
59. Whitney – “No Woman”
60. Maxwell – “1990x”
61. Sampha – “Blood on Me”
62. Drake – “Controlla”
63. Cass McCombs – “Bum Bum Bum”
64. Porches – “Be Apart”
65. Savages – “Adore”
66. KING – “The Greatest”
67. Young M.A. – “OOOUUU”
68. Nao – “Girlfriend”
69. Vince Staples – “Prima Donna” [ft. A$AP Rocky]
70. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – “Existence in the Unfurling”
71. Isaiah Rashad – “Smile”
72. Moses Sumney – “Lonely World”
73. Schoolboy Q – “That Part”
74. The 1975 – “Somebody Else”
75. Travis Scott – “Pick Up the Phone” [ft. Young Thug]
76. Ka – “30 Keys”
77. Skepta – “Man”
78. serpentwithfeet – “blisters”
79. Mr. Fingers – “Qwazars”
80. PJ Harvey – “The Wheel”
81. Deakin – “Golden Chords”
82. Ariana Grande – “Into You”
83. Huerco S. – “Promises of Fertility”
84. G.L.O.S.S. – “Give Violence a Chance”
85. Angel Olsen – “Sister”
86. Bat for Lashes – “Sunday Love”
87. Alicia Keys – “In Common”
88. Rihanna – “Needed Me”
89. Frankie Cosmos – “On the Lips”
90. Pinegrove – “Old Friends”
91. 21 Savage / Metro Boomin – “No Heart”
92. Sheer Mag – “Can’t Stop Fighting”
93. Danny Brown – “When It Rain”
94. Cate Le Bon – “Wonderful”
95. Kamaiyah – “I’m On”
96. Kodak Black – “Vibin in This Bih” [ft. Gucci Mane]
97. Olga Bell – “Randomness”
98. Moor Mother – “Deadbeat Protest”
99. Sturgill Simpson – “Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)”
100. Lil Peep – “Kiss”

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