Pitchfork Top 100 Songs & Top 50 Albums of 2016

Info: Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber. It developed a reputation for its extensive focus on independent music, but it has since expanded with a variety of coverage on both indie and popular music artists.

Source: Pitchfork (songs chart / albums chart)
Date of publication: 12-13th December 2016
Spotify playlists latest update: 28th December 2016
(end-of-2016 playlist series)


TOP 100 SONGS

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1. Kanye West feat. Chance the Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price, and Kirk Franklin - Ultralight Beam
2. Beyoncé - Formation
3. Solange - Cranes in the Sky
4. Frank Ocean - Ivy
5. David Bowie - Lazarus
6. ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me
7. Rihanna feat. Drake - Work
8. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
9. Radiohead - True Love Waits
10. Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane - Black Beatles
11. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People...
12. Chance the Rapper feat. Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz - No Problem
13. Frank Ocean - Pink + White
14. Kanye West - Real Friends
15. Blood Orange feat. Empress Of - Best to You
16. Mitski - Your 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 feat. Sampha - Don't Touch My Hair
22. Jenny Hval - Conceptual Romance
23. David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away
24. Radiohead - Daydreaming
25. Frank Ocean - Nikes
26. Danny Brown feat. Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Earl Sweatshirt - Really Doe
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 feat. Wizkid and Kyla - One Dance
31. A Tribe Called Quest - Dis Generation
32. Kanye West feat. Kendrick Lanar - No More Parties in L.A.
33. D.R.A.M. feat. Lil Yachty - Broccoli
34. Chance the Rapper feat. Jeremih - Summer Friends
35. Kevin Gates - 2 Phones
36. Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 02
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 feat. Kodak Black - Lockjaw
43. Joey Purp feat. Chance the Rapper - Girls@
44. Anderson .Paak - Come Down
45. Kevin Morby - I Have Been to the Mountain
46. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - A 1000 Times
47. Chance the Rapper feat. Knox Fortune - All Night
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 feat. Anderson .Paak - Glowed Up
54. dvsn - Hallucinations
55. Gucci Mane - First Day Out tha Feds
56. Desiigner - Panda
57. Jamila Woods feat. Noname - VRY BLK
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 feat. A$AP Rocky - Prima Donna
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 feat. Young Thug - Pick Up the Phone
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 feat. Gucci Mane - Vibin in This Bih
97. Olga Bell - Randomness
98. Moor Mother - Deadbeat Protest
99. Sturgill Simpson - Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)
100. Lil Peep - Kiss


TOP 50 ALBUMS

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1. Solange - A Seat at the Table
2. Frank Ocean - Blonde
3. Beyoncé - Lemonade
4. David Bowie - Blackstar
5. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
6. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
7. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service
8. Anohni - Hopelessness
9. Angel Olsen - My Woman
10. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
11. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
12. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
13. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
14. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
15. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
16. Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered
17. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
18. Mitski - Puberty 2
19. Rihanna - Anti
20. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
21. Young Thug - JEFFERY
22. YG - Still Brazy
23. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
24. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
25. Kaytranada - 99.9%
26. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
27. Noname - Telefone
28. NxWorries - Yes Lawd!
29. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
30. Esperanza Spalding - Emily’s D+Evolution
31. Whitney - Light Upon the Lake
32. Elza Soares - A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (The Woman at the End of the World)
33. Maxwell - blackSUMMERS’night
34. Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
35. Hamilton LeithauserRostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
36. Jamila Woods - Heavn
37. King - We Are King
38. Schoolboy Q - Blank Face LP
39. Moodymann - DJ-Kicks
40. Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
41. Huerco S. - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
42. Vince Staples - Prima Donna
43. Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth
44. Kevin Gates - Islah
45. William Tyler - Modern Country
46. Pinegrove - Cardinal
47. Kamaiyah - A Good Night in the Ghetto
48. Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
49. Porches - Pool
50. 21 Savage / Metro Boomin - Savage Mode