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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4HCZe-tew
Major Lazer / Justin Bieber / MO - Cold Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a59gmGkq_pw
Rihanna Ft Drake - Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL1UzIK-flA
Little Mix - 'Shout Out To My Ex' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFDzhKdrN9M
Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign - 'Work From Home' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GL9JoH4Sws
Meghan Trainor - 'NO' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMTAUr3Nm6I
DNCE - 'Cake By The Ocean' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaRiD5ym74
Rae Sremmurd Featuring Gucci Mane - Black Beatles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8m9zhNAgKs
Ariana Grande Featuring Nicki Minaj - Side To Side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXiSVQZLje8
Kideko & George Kwali - Crank It (Woah!) feat. Nadia Rose & Sweetie Irie https://youtu.be/U61Mye7h3bA
Any you'd like to add, for us?