(NOTE ABOUT FORMAT: I’ve restricted this list to singles, and one entry per artist, purely because making a list like this is difficult enough and I wanted to narrow the field a little bit. What constitutes a ‘single’ in 2016 is up for discussion and therefore I have tried to be as inclusive as possible.)
1. Chance the Rapper – ‘Blessings’
2. Pup – ‘DVP’
3. Bastille – Good Grief
4. Skepta – ‘Man’
5. Parquet Courts – ‘Human Performance’
6. Nick Cave – ‘I Need You’
7. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘We the People’
8. The 1975 – ‘The Sound’
9. Car Seat Headrest – ‘Fill in the Blanks’
10. Kanye West – ‘No More Parties in LA’
11. The Stone Roses – ‘A Beauitiful Thing’
12. Iggy Pop – ‘Gardenia’
13. The Last Shadow Puppets – ‘The Dream Synopsis’
14. Shura – ‘What’s it gonna Be’
15. Justin Timberlake – ‘Can’t Stop the Feeling’
16. Hinds – ‘Garden’
17. Angel Olsen – ‘Shut up, Kiss Me’
18. Radiohead – ‘Daydreaming’
19. Dmas – ‘Delete’
20. Beyoncé – ‘Hold Up’
21. Loyle Carner – ‘No Cd’
22. Cabbage – ‘Free Steven Avery’
23. Father – ‘Please Stop Wearing Fake Versace’
24. Modern Baseball – ‘The Wedding Singer’
25. Whitney – ‘Golden Days’
26. Lucy Dacus – ‘I Don’t Want to be Funny Anymore’
27. Bon Iver – ‘8 (Circle)’
28. Joyce Manor – ‘Fake I.D’
29. James Arthur – ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’
30. Dj Shadow – ‘Nobody Speak’
31. Touché Amore – ‘Palm Dreams’
32. How to Dress Well – ‘Lost You/Lost You’
33. Joey Purp – ‘Girls’
34. Bruno Mars – ‘Versace on the Floor’
35. Mystery Jets – ‘Bubblegum’
36. Fhin – ‘but now a warm feel is running’
37. Cats Eyes – ‘Drag/Chameleon Queen’
38. Frankie Cosmos – ‘On the Lips’
39. Blossoms – ‘Charlemagne’
40. Hannah Diamond – ‘Fade Away’
41. Weyes Blood – ‘Do You Need My Love’
42. Dark0 – ‘Forever’
43. Sneaks – ‘True Killer’
44. Moses Sumney – ‘Lonely World’
45. Get Inuit – ‘Teriyaki’
46. Crx – ‘Ways to Fake It’
47. Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve – ‘Diagram Girl’
48. Taylor Swift and Zayn – ‘I Don’t Want to Live Forever’
49. Mitski – ‘Your Best American Girl’
50. -The Magic Gang – ‘No Fun’
Pop goes the Weasel 