Pitchfork Readers’ Poll Results 2016

Featuring your picks for the best (and worst) in the world of music

December 19, 2016

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We’ve already picked our faves of 2016, so now here are your picks for Top Albums and Top Tracks, along with Most Underrated and Overrated Albums, Best New Artists, Best Live Acts, and Best Social Media Presences, plus your answers to some burning either/or questions.

Top 50 Albums

Frank Ocean: Blonde/Endless
Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
Kanye West: The Life of Pablo
Bon Iver: 22, A Million
David Bowie: Blackstar
Chance the Rapper: Coloring Book
A Tribe Called Quest: We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service
Beyoncé: Lemonade
Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial
Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition
Anderson .Paak: Malibu
Solange: A Seat at the Table
Angel Olsen: My Woman
Kendrick Lamar: untitled unmastered.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
Blood Orange: Freetown Sound
Mitski: Puberty 2
The Avalanches: Wildflower
James Blake: The Colour in Anything
Whitney: Light Upon the Lake
ANOHNI: HOPELESSNESS
Kaytranada: 99.9%
Rihanna: ANTI
Death Grips: Bottomless Pit
Parquet Courts: Human Performance
Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker
Young Thug: JEFFERY
Nicolas Jaar: Sirens
Pinegrove: Cardinal
Hamilton Leithauser/Rostam: I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
Schoolboy Q: Blank Face LP
Frankie Cosmos: Next Thing
Drake: VIEWS
Weezer: Weezer (White Album)
Noname: Telefone
Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Kevin Morby: Singing Saw
Zayn: Mind of Mine
NxWorries: Yes Lawd!
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Nonagon Infinity
DIIV: Is the Is Are
Swans: The Glowing Man
Porches: Pool
Isaiah Rashad: The Sun’s Tirade
Preoccupations: Preoccupations
Jeff Rosenstock: WORRY.
Deakin: Sleep Cycle
Travis Scott: Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight
The Hotelier: Goodness
Jenny Hval: Blood Bitch

Top 50 Songs

Kanye West: “Ultralight Beam” [ft. Chance the Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price, and Kirk Franklin]
Frank Ocean: “Ivy”
Radiohead: "Burn the Witch"
Radiohead: "Daydreaming"
Beyoncé: "Formation"
Bon Iver: “33 ‘GOD’”
Chance the Rapper: "No Problem" [Ft. Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz]
A Tribe Called Quest: “We the People...”
Mitski: "Your Best American Girl"
Solange: “Cranes in the Sky”
Angel Olsen: “Shut Up Kiss Me”
Danny Brown: “Really Doe” [ft. Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, and Earl Sweatshirt]
Kanye West: "Real Friends"
Radiohead: “True Love Waits”
ANOHNI: "Drone Bomb Me"
Kanye West: "No More Parties in L.A." [ft. Kendrick Lamar]
Bon Iver: “22 (OVER S∞∞N) [Bob Moose Extended Cab Version]”
Car Seat Headrest: "Fill in the Blank"
Angel Olsen: “Sister”
Blood Orange: “Best to You” [ft. Empress Of]
Anderson .Paak: "Come Down"
Beyoncé: "Hold Up"
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: “I Need You”
David Bowie: "Dollar Days"
Childish Gambino: “Redbone”
Chance the Rapper: "Blessings"
Beyoncé: "Freedom" [ft. Kendrick Lamar]
Solange: “Don't Touch My Hair” [ft. Sampha]
Kaytranada: "Glowed Up" [ft. Anderson .Paak]
Kendrick Lamar: "Untitled 2"
Rihanna: "Work" [ft. Drake]
James Blake: "Radio Silence"
Leonard Cohen: “You Want It Darker”
Hamilton Leithauser / Rostam: “A 1000 Times”
Whitney: "No Woman"
Rae Sremmurd: “Black Beatles” [ft. Gucci Mane]
A Tribe Called Quest: “Dis Generation”
D.R.A.M.: "Broccoli" [ft. Lil Yachty]
Danny Brown: “When It Rain”
Car Seat Headrest: "Vincent"
Drake: "One Dance" [ft. Wizkid and Kyla]
David Bowie: "Lazarus"
Frank Ocean: "Nights"
Kendrick Lamar: "untitled 05 | 09.21.2014"
Blood Orange: “Augustine”
Chance the Rapper: “All Night” [ft. Knox Fortune]
The xx: "On Hold"
Whitney: "Golden Days"
Pinegrove: "Old Friends"
The Avalanches: “Colours”