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2016 has been an outstanding year for music
2016 has in my opinion been a superb year for pop music. There have been some really landmark hits that will last the test of standing the endurance of time.
The young people consuming this year’s music will look back wistfully in decades to come, still listening to it on their oldies stations. This has been one of those years, in my opinion.
Here’s my quick list of some most significant pop tunes to chart this year (I'm sure I forgot some, and some of these could be displaced (eg DNCE's daftness)). No doubt other genres could produce notable ones, but pop is where I pay most attention. So, if your top weekly chart rundown attention-paying days are some decades behind you (and the cassette recorder to record from the television speaker has long been put away), letting slip one or two from this lot should make it seem like you still know your stuff:
Zara Larsson - Lush Life 
Major Lazer / Justin Bieber / MO - Cold Water 
Rihanna Ft Drake - Work 
Little Mix - 'Shout Out To My Ex' 
Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign - 'Work From Home' 
Meghan Trainor - 'NO' 
DNCE - 'Cake By The Ocean' 
Rae Sremmurd Featuring Gucci Mane - Black Beatles 
Ariana Grande Featuring Nicki Minaj - Side To Side 
Kideko & George Kwali - Crank It (Woah!) feat. Nadia Rose & Sweetie Irie 
Any you'd like to add, for us?
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Damn, in order to participate I have to acknowledge that I still like some of todays pop music....that puts me in a real.......
That's a pretty bold statement.
Thank you for putting this together, Ian. I don't listen to much pop because I don't enjoy most of it. Lately, I've been thinking about doing mashups -- putting the best bits from crappy pop together to make something good (to me, at least). I'll definitely give these a listen, and I'll probably put them in a playlist.
You forgot "Closer" despite that horrible lead sound.
I actually was going to put that in.
The alternative (of all types) scenes have been pretty good too
I'd rather eat my own legs than listen to the stuff above. I've enjoyed listening to experimental stuff on the Soundcloud though, my favourite new music is coming from unsigned artists.
I would pay good money to watch this. Perhaps on New Year's Ever. Pay per view. There are many of us out here.
Pop some examples in here, then.
Have to agree with @MonzoPro I'm afraid - those tracks are formulaic pop pap. The Lady Leshurr track you linked to earlier was much better. I think great pop is really under-rated.
This is one of the the standout 'pop' tracks (left-field) of the year
https://thegasman.bandcamp.com/track/alcatraz-disco
Huh, they still make pop music?
@u0421793 I can't help but feel your pulling our leg.
A 'pop' list from the dude who questioned those who tend to 'put notes that sound nice together' (paraphrased from memory).
Not a dig I promise, just wondering?
Bit of a mix and not really enough to show quite what I mean. The depth out there is vast.
Leaving out Taylor Swift must have been an accident, right? I don't think we've seen a female artist with equal virtuosity and natural knack for poetry since Madonna's "Who's that Girl"?
I found this selection of pop songs to be too repetitive and often on themes I have no interest in. None of them seemed to be songs that will have any sort of staying power. If people are looking back wistfully at these songs it'd be more by Pavlovian association with the music than any inherent qualities of the music itself in my opinion.
@Fruitbat1919 love that nick cave record. Actually think Nick Cave and Mr. Bowie put out there best records in at least a decade this year.
Thanks for reminding me I'm old.
But I'd bet that a 100 years from now, Cake By The Ocean will still be fucking yummy.
The same thought occurred to me, but that's anything he posts.
He still had to put the list and post together. That's a lot of effort just to out closeted pop fans. I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and play along.
Agreed. I love @u0421793 's humour and I'm sure he'd get a kick out of putting the effort into the ruse!
With a bit of a take on the the subject and no disrespect to the OP, and all agreement there's been great music this year
And though not quite qualifying as 2016, Steve Wilson's reMIXES of Yes's Tales from Topographic Oceans and Tull's Stand Up has damn near like hearing a new new album, imho....
Honestly despite some catchy tunes this year, my new favorite radio station is SoundCloud's "Song of the Month Club". It is a super-eclectic mix of great stuff without the 100% guaranteed extra shiny pop perfection that is all over various genres of radio.
I don't listen to much guitar based music, but when I do, I listen to Ned Flanders cover band Okilly Dokilly...
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I'm with @MonzoPro, where this selection is concerned. The surprise of the year, for me, has been Shakin' Stevens.
Now, for those who are rolling about laughing, have a listen first and see what I mean. No more are the days of the sub-Elvis banal chart ditty. Improbably, Stevens has turned out an album of blues oriented crackers, about the hard life of his mining ancestors. Really good stuff, IMHO. In particular 'Down in the Hole.'
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ET3pZ4JcFh8&list=PLEdj7Ix7kytb5WiR1Ocz-dl9XaODLKelE
Agreed - good stuff there.
Nice, he's got a good voice.
I lost touch with popular music charts around 20 years ago, and your selection of songs means nothing to me. I tried to listen to a couple, found them very generic and stopped listening after less than a minute. I'm comfortable that I'm not really missing anything. And before I get tagged a boring old fart, my children in their twenties tend not to listen to much (if any) modern pop music either.
I do listen to a lot of new music though, there is much more diverse and interesting music being made than ever sees the light of the pop charts.
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Absolutely right. While loving the vast array of sounds from the past, including those that I keep on discovering I'd missed, I'm always on the look out for new music, too. Just not the over produced one-style-fits-all 'hit' factory acts, or most things rap. Although, I do love the likes of Gil Scott-Heron, 'cause he has something to say that doesn't involved misogyny or killing policemen.
Not much for pop music, but I'll try to play along, first heard this in a Taco Bell, so probably counts as pop
But really, I just want to post this
And this
