Pitchfork: Best Songs of 2016

Ultralight Beam

Kanye West (2016)

Formation

Beyoncé (2016)

Cranes in the Sky

Solange (2016)

Ivy

Frank Ocean (2016)

Lazarus

David Bowie (2016)

Drone Bomb Me

ANOHNI (2016)

Work (feat. Drake)

Rihanna (2016)

Shut Up Kiss Me

Angel Olsen (2016)

True Love Waits

Radiohead (2016)

Black Beatles (feat. Gucci Mane)

Rae Sremmurd (2016)

We the People....

A Tribe Called Quest (2016)

No Problem (feat. Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz)

Chance the Rapper (2016)

Pink + White

Frank Ocean (2016)

Real Friends

Kanye West (2016)

Best to You (feat. Empress Of)

Blood Orange (2016)

Your Best American Girl

Mitski (2016)

Am I Wrong (feat. ScHoolboy Q)

Anderson .Paak (2016)

33 “GOD”

Bon Iver (2016)

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen (1967)

Fill in the Blank

Car Seat Headrest (2016)

Don't Touch My Hair (feat. Sampha)

Solange (2016)

Conceptual Romance

Jenny Hval (2016)

I Can't Give Everything Away

David Bowie (2016)

Daydreaming

Radiohead (2016)

Nikes

Frank Ocean (2016)

Really Doe (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul & Earl Sweatshirt)

Danny Brown (2016)

I Need You

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (2016)

Hold Up

Beyoncé (2016)

22 (OVER S∞∞N)

Bon Iver (2016)

One Dance (feat. Wizkid & Kyla)

Drake (2016)

Dis Generation

A Tribe Called Quest (2016)

No More Parties in LA

Kanye West (2016)

Summer Friends (feat. Jeremih & Francis & The Lights)

Chance the Rapper (2016)

2 Phones

Kevin Gates (2015)

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Kendrick Lamar (2016)

Yesterday

Noname (2016)

Do You Need My Love

Weyes Blood (2016)

It Means I Love You

Jessy Lanza (2016)

Kanye West (feat. Wyclef Jean)

Young Thug (2016)

Sorry

Beyoncé (2016)

Lockjaw (feat. Kodak Black)

French Montana (2019)

Girls @ (feat. Chance the Rapper)

Joey Purp (2017)

GOT IT GOOD (feat. Craig David)

KAYTRANADA (2016)

Come Down

Anderson .Paak (2016)

I Have Been to the Mountain

Kevin Morby (2016)

All Night (feat. Knox Fortune)

Chance the Rapper (2016)

E.V.P. (feat. Debbie Harry & BEA1991)

Blood Orange (2016)

CHEETAHT2 [Ld spectrum]

Aphex Twin (2016)

Human Performance

Parquet Courts (2016)

Earth to Heaven

Esperanza Spalding (2016)

Who Shot Me?

YG (2016)

GLOWED UP (feat. Anderson .Paak)

KAYTRANADA (2016)

Hallucinations

dvsn (2016)

First Day Out

Gucci Mane (2009)

Panda

Desiigner (2016)

VRY BLK (feat. Noname)

Jamila Woods (2017)

Digits

Young Thug (2016)

No Woman

Whitney (2016)

1990X

Maxwell (2009)

Blood On Me

Sampha (2017)

Controlla

Drake (2016)

Bum Bum Bum

Cass McCombs (2016)

Be Apart

Porches (2016)

Adore

Savages (2016)

The Greatest

We Are KING (2016)

Ooouuu

Young M.A (2016)

Girlfriend

Nao (2016)

Prima Donna (feat. A$AP Rocky)

Vince Staples (2016)

Existence in the Unfurling

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (2016)

Lonely World

Moses Sumney (2017)

THat Part (feat. Kanye West)

ScHoolboy Q (2016)

Somebody Else

The 1975 (2016)

Pick Up the Phone (feat. Quavo)

Young Thug & Travis Scott (2016)

30 Keys

KA (2016)

Man

Skepta (2016)

blisters

serpentwithfeet (2016)

Qwazars

Mr. Fingers (2018)

The Wheel

PJ Harvey (2016)

Golden Chords

Deakin (2016)

Into You

Ariana Grande (2016)

Promises of Fertility

Huerco S. (2016)

Sister

Angel Olsen (2016)

Sunday Love

Bat for Lashes (2016)

In Common (Apple Music Live)

Alicia Keys (2022)

Needed Me

Rihanna (2016)

On the Lips

Frankie Cosmos (2016)

Old Friends

Pinegrove (2016)

No Heart

21 Savage & Metro Boomin (2017)

CAN'T STOP FIGHTING

Sheer Mag (2016)

When It Rain

Danny Brown (2016)

Wonderful

Cate Le Bon (2016)

I'm On

Kamaiyah (2016)

Vibin in This Bih (feat. Gucci Mane)

Kodak Black (2016)

Randomness

Olga Bell (2016)

Deadbeat Protest

Moor Mother (2016)

Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)

Sturgill Simpson (2016)