EOY 2016 - NPR (USA)

[JohnnyBGoode]

http://apps.npr.org/best-music-2016/

[Sweepstakes Ron]

But wait, there's more! The NPR Music team will publish genre-based lists throughout the month of December. Check back frequently for deeper dives.

[Nick]

Songs-

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

[Nick]

Albums-


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

[Bruno]

Thanks JohnnyBGoode and Nick!

[Harold]

Wow, they actually ranked the albums this year! I don't think they've ever done that before. Thanks for posting!

[JohnnyBGoode]

Thanks Nick I was just about to leave work when I spotted the lists.