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Date of publication: December 2016
Spotify playlists latest update: 27th December 2016
(end-of-2016 playlist series)
TOP 100 SONGS
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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
TOP 50 ALBUMS
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1. Solange - A Seat At The Table
2. Beyoncé - Lemonade
3. David Bowie - Blackstar
4. Frank Ocean - Blonde
5. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
6. Barbara Hannigan/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons - let me tell you (Abrahamsen)
7. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
8. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
9. Miranda Lambert - The Weight Of These Wings
10. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
11. Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
12. Rihanna - Anti
13. Kaytranada - 99.9%
14. Drive-By Truckers - American Band
15. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
16. Carrie Rodriguez - Lola
17. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here...Thank You 4 Your service
18. Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
19. David T. Little - Dog Days
20. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
21. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
22. Noname - Telefone
23. A-WA - Habib Galbi
24. Young Thug - Jeffery
25. Angel Olsen - My Woman
26. Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
27. Jamila Woods - HEAVN
28. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
29. Mitski - Puberty 2
30. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
31. Big Thief - Masterpiece
32. ANOHNI - Hopelessness
33. Logan Richardson - Shift
34. Lori McKenna - The Bird & The Rifle
35. Pavel Kolesnikov - Chopin Mazurkas
36. Maren Morris - Hero
37. René Marie - Sound Of Red
38. Pinegrove - Cardinal
39. Tweet - Charlene
40. Aaron Lee Tasjan - Silver Tears
41. Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy - Darraje
42. Pure Disgust - Pure Disgust
43. Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day
44. New York Philharmonic/Alan Gilbert - Rouse: Symphonic Works
45. Mal Devisa - Kiid
46. Steven Julien - Fallen
47. Y La Bamba - Ojos del Sol
48. Domo Genesis - Genesis
49. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide To Earth
50. Catherine Russell - Harlem On My Mind