YEAR IN REVIEW: My favorite songs of 2016

by Nicholas Cicale (@nickcicale)

Here are my 25 favorite Alternative, Hip-hop, and Pop songs from 2016. Full playlists can be found on Spotify and are updated frequently. Thanks for listening!

Alternative/Rock Songs

1. The Ballad of the Costa Concordia – Car Seat Headrest
2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief – Radiohead
3. All That Heaven Allows – Mercury Girls
4. 33 “GOD” – Bon Iver
5. Burn The Witch – Radiohead
6. True Love Waits – Radiohead
7. Wow – Beck
8. Vincent – Car Seat Headrest
9. Drone Bomb Me – ANOHNI
10. Fill in the Blank – Car Seat Headrest
11. Your American Girl – Mitski
12. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales – Car Seat Headrest
13. Ariana – Mercury Girls
14. Daydreaming – Radiohead
15. Kick Jump Twist – Sylvan Esso
16. I Need A Forest Fire – James Blake, Bon Iver
17. Romantic – Mannequin Pussy
18. Stranger to Stranger – Paul Simon
19. Pain – LVL UP
20. Roma Fade – Andrew Bird
21. In Heaven – Japanese Breakfast
22. Destroyed By Hippie Powers – Car Seat Headrest
23. Apple Cider, I Don’t Mind – Modern Baseball
24. Degraded – Preoccupations
25. I Can’t Give Everything Away – David Bowie

Hip-Hop/R&B Songs

1. Nights – Frank Ocean
2. Ultralight Beam – Kanye West, Chance The Rapper
3. All We Got – Chance The Rapper, Kanye West
4. We The People… – A Tribe Called Quest
5. THat Pat – ScHoolboy Q, Kanye West
6. Real Friends – Kanye West
7. Nobody Speak – DJ Shadow, Run The Jewels
8. Really Doe – Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Earl Sweatshirt
9. Groovy Tony/Eddie Kane – ScHoolboy Q, Jadakiss
10. War Ready – Vince Staples
11. Parking Lot – Anderson .Paak
12. Wat’s Wrong – Isaiah Rashad, Zacari, Kendrick Lamar
13. Space Program – A Tribe Called Quest
14. Devastated – Joey Bada$$
15. Good As Hell – Lizzo
16. Call Ticketron – Run The Jewels
17. Untitled 02 – Kendrick Lamar
18. What The Fuck Right Now – Tyler, The Creator
19. Frankie Sinatra – The Avalanches, Danny Brown, MF Doom
20. Weston Road Flows – Drake
21. Wrist – Logic, Pusha T
22. Overtime – ScHoolboy Q, Miguel, Justine Skye
23. Two Birds, One Stone – Drake
24. Come Down – Anderson .Paak
25. Black Beatles – Rae Sremmurd, Gucci Mane

Pop Songs

1. Go! – M83, MAI LAN
2. Best To You – Blood Orange, Empress Of
3. All Night – Beyonce
4. Choose Me – James Blake
5. Cranes in the Sky – Solange
6. Work – Rihanna, Drake
7. My Willing Heart – James Blake
8. Diagram Girl – Beyond The Wizards Sleeve
9. Augustine – Blood Orange
10. One Dance – Drake, WizKid, Kyla
11. Do It, Try It – M83
12. Love Me Like That – The Knock, Carly Rae Jepsen
13. New Song – Warpaint
14. Never Be Like You – Flume, kai
15. Freedom – Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar
16. 24K Magic – Bruno Mars
17. Subways – The Avalanches
18. Move – Saint Motel
19. Middle – DJ Snake, Bipolar Sunshine
20. Into You – Ariana Grande
21. Put That away And Talk To Me – James Blake
22. Let Me Love You – DJ snake, Justin Bieber
23. BOSS – Disclosure
24. Tell Me the Truth – Lapsley
25. Starboy – The Weeknd, Daft Punk