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Officially titled “JimmyTheGhost’s 2016 Playlist” on Spotify.
This is how it works
I listen to music all day, every day. I particularly enjoy searching for music I've never heard. When I hear a new song I like, I add it to one playlist. I do this from January 1st to New Year’s Eve. At the end of the year, I go through that playlist and choose one song to “represent” each artist. Then I cut out a few so the playlist is at an even number. Last year it was 125, this year it is a whopping 300 songs by 300 different artists. It's organized for "optimal flow," allowing you to listen from start to finish, or simply hit shuffle.
A couple things to note: Not every song was released during the 2016 calendar year. I’m guessing 25-40% of the tracks were released within the last 3-5 years. There’s also a few “classics” from the late 2000s to the early 1950s I just really enjoyed this year, for whatever reason. When narrowing down the playlist, I gave preferential treatment to songs released in 2016. All of this is to say, my yearly playlists are not “The Year in Music!” but “This is What Jimmy Was Listening to in 2016!” (which is better, anyway).
Use this list as a jumping off point. If you find an artist or song you like, go check out them out! If you do that for all 300 artists, you won't "run out of music" for at least a couple years.
Enjoy!!
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Some of my Favorites
My Favorite Music of 2016
My Favorite Albums of the Year
( All of these are gems, so I put them in alphabetical order so I didn't have to rank them. )
The Artwork
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The Whole Damn Thing
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In case Spotify, YouTube or even a goddamn downloadable .CSV file doesn't work for you, or if any of those sites go down or the songs get pulled (which happens regularly), here it is, in digital ink, for posterity and future reference.
Artist "Track" • Album
Kanye West "Famous" • The Life Of Pablo
Snow Tha Product "Not Tonight" • Half Way There...Pt. 1
Toybloïd "Yeah Yeah" • Toybloïd
Rob Zombie "Well, Everybody's Fucking In A U.F.O." • The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser
Kid Cudi / Pharrell Williams "Surfin'" • Surfin'
Five Knives "Rattatat" • Savages
Pom Poms "Betty" • Betty
Ladyhawke "Wonderland" • Wild Things
Sizzy Rocket "Bestie" • Bestie
Diana Vickers "Boy in Paris" • Music to Make Boys Cry
Tyga / Desiigner "Gucci Snakes" • Gucci Snakes
Green Day "Say Goodbye" • Revolution Radio
DJ Khaled / JAY Z / Future "I Got the Keys" • I Got the Keys
The Weeknd / Daft Punk "Starboy" • Starboy
Brazilian Girls "Pussy" • Brazilian Girls
Rowdy Rebel / Bobby Shmurda / French Montana "Right Now" • Shmoney Keeps Calling
Galantis / Hook N Sling "Love On Me" • Love On Me
Gwen Stefani "Baby Don't Lie" • Baby Don't Lie
The Chainsmokers / Phoebe Ryan "All We Know" • All We Know
Phantogram "You Don’t Get Me High Anymore" • You Don't Get Me High Anymore
Tove Lo "Cool Girl" • Cool Girl
Cruel Youth "Diamond Days" • +30mg
Dragonette "Let the Night Fall" • Royal Blues
Run The Jewels "Talk to Me" • Run the Jewels 3
Bobby Shmurda "Hot N*gga" • Hot N*gga
Seth Bogart / Kathleen Hannah "Eating Makeup" • Seth Bogart
Fea "Feminazi" • Fea
Bruno Mars "24K Magic" • 24K Magic
Big Sean "Bounce Back" • Bounce Back
Big Black Delta / Kimbra "Bitten by the Apple" • Trágame Tierra
Mercury Girls "Ariana" • Ariana
Felix Snow / Ro Ransom "Lamb" • Lamb
The Growlers "Graveyard's Full" • Hot Tropics
Richard Swift "Zombie Boogie" • Walt Wolfman
Nekromantix "Glow in the Dark" • Glow in the Dark
The Game "Sauce" • Sauce - Single
blink-182 "Cynical" • California
Jeff Beck "Live In The Dark" • Live In The Dark
B.o.B "Paper Route" • Underground Luxury
Rebel and a Basketcase "Oh Yeah" • Oh Yeah
Roar "Orange Peaches" • La-Di-Da
Spells "All Hail Getting Old" • Double Cassingle
E-40 "Choices (Yup)" • Sharp On All 4 Corners (Deluxe Edition)
KREAM / Clara Mae "Taped Up Heart" • Taped Up Heart
Raye "Shhh" • SECOND
Mr Little Jeans "Fevers" • F E V E R S
The Frightnrs "Trouble in Here" • Nothing More to Say
Slowdance "Boyfriend" • Boyfriend / Airports
Tegan and Sara "Stop Desire" • Love You to Death
Heartsrevolution "KISS" • Ride or Die
Kitten "Church" • Heaven or Somewhere in Between
Azealia Banks "The Big Big Beat" • The Big Big Beat
of Montreal "it's different for girls" • Innocence Reaches
American Culture "Just Driving Around" • Pure American Gum
Justice "Safe and Sound" • Safe and Sound
Oscar "Sometimes" • Cut and Paste
DNCE "Cake By The Ocean" • SWAAY
Wheelchair Sports Camp / Felix Fast4ward "Mary Had a Little Band" • No Big Deal
Desiigner "Panda" • New English
Pitbull "Freedom" • Freedom
Beck "Wow" • Wow
The Shins "Dead Alive" • Dead Alive
Gogol Bordello "John The Conqueror (Truth Is Always The Same)" • Pura Vida Conspiracy
The Dandy Warhols "The Last High Welcome" • To The Monkey House
Tech N9ne / Wrekonize / Snow Tha Product / Twisted Insane "So Dope (They Wanna)" • Something Else
Fre$hJay "T.G.I.F." • Winners Club
Dame D.O.L.L.A / Lil Wayne "Loyal to the Soil" • The Letter O
N.A.S.A. / Fatlip / Kate Boy "We Takin'Over" • We Takin' Over
Son Lux Lorde "Easy (Switch Screens)" • Alternate Worlds
The Cool Kids "Black Mags" • The Bake Sale
Drake / WizKid / Kyla "One Dance" • Views
Hive Riot "Kiss My Lips You Fool" • Kiss My Lips You Fool
Meghan Trainor "Me Too" • Thank You (Deluxe)
Moon Hooch "Red Sky" • Red Sky
Deap Vally "Post Funk" • Femejism
Ana Tijoux "1977" • 1977
Alright Alright "Swan Song" • Far Away
Neko Case / k.d. lang / Laura Veirs "Delirium" • case/lang/veirs
Charles Bradley / LaRose Jackson "Luv Jones" • Daptone Gold II
The Ronettes "Walking In the Rain" • Be My Baby: The Very Best of The Ronettes
Rich White Ladies "No Bad Vibez" • Rich White Ladies
Lady Wray "It's Been a Long Time" • Queen Alone
No Frills Twins "Cyclic Cowboy" • Cyclic Cowboy
Shakira "She Wolf" • She Wolf (Deluxe Version)
Selena Gomez "Hands To Myself" • Revival
Death Team "Kids" • Death Team Loves You
Anderson .Paak "Come Down" • Malibu
Santigold "Rendezvous Girl" • 99 Cents
Nytrix / Neon Hitch "When Will I See You Again?" • When Will I See You Again?
Eels "Love Of The Loveless" • Meet The EELS: Essential EELS 1996-2006 Vol. 1
Janelle Monáe / Big Boi "Tightrope" • The ArchAndroid
Falling In Reverse "Coming Home" • Coming Home
Shiftee / TT The Artist "Dope Girls" • Dope Girls
Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve "Iron Age" • The Soft Bounce
Toro y Moi "Empty Nesters" • What For?
Pearl and the Beard "You" • Beast
The Raveonettes "Won't You Leave Me Alone" • Won't You Leave Me Alone
Steele "Follow" • Follow
Saint HB "Holly" • Holly
Kera & the Lesbians "November" • Kera & the Lesbians
Tanerélle "Siren" • Siren
MAI LAN "Technique" • Technique • Single
RAYE "Like Nobody Else Like Nobody Else" • Single
RAC / Pink Feathers "Dangerous" • Fair Trade
Ralph "Trouble" • Trouble
Ducky "Work" • Work
Moons of Mars "Psycho Lover" • Psycho Lover
Tessa Rae "Dreamland" • Dreamland
Decorations "Girls" • Girls
Alessia Cara "Outlaws" • Know-It-All (Deluxe)
MØ "Final Song" • Final Song
Bryan Ferry "Avonmore" • Avonmore
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart "Heart in Your Heartbreak" • Belong
Adia Victoria "Head Rot" • Beyond The Bloodhounds
Those Dancing Days "Help Me Close My Eyes" • Daydreams and Nightmares
Wax Tailor "No Regret (feat. Shana Halligan)" • Dusty Rainbow From The Dark
Kate Tempest "Lonely Daze" • Everybody Down
The Still Tide "Closer Apart" • Half Empty Rooms
Javelin "Light Out" • Hi Beams
SHEL "You Could Be My Baby" • Just Crazy Enough
Haley Bonar "Kismet Kill" • Kismet Kill
Sleater-Kinney "No Cities To Love" • No Cities to Love
The Head and the Heart "Summertime" • Let's Be Still
The Belles "Melvin" • The Shangri-Las & The '60s Girl Group Garage Sound
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down "Meticulous Bird" • A Man Alive
Man Man "Loot My Body" • On Oni Pond
Animal Collective "Summertime Clothes" • Summertime Clothes
Calder's Revolvers "I Gotta Know" • Sunday Morning
Tinashe "Superlove" • Superlove
Clean Bandit / Anne-Marie / Sean Paul "Rockabye" • Rockabye
Noun "Loveblood" • Throw Your Body On The Gears And Stop The Machine With Your Blood
Clare Maguire "The Valley" • The Valley
Iska Dhaaf "Invisible Cities" • The Wanting Creature
Esmé Patterson "Feel Right" • We Were Wild
Prince Rama "Your Life In The End" • Your Life In The End
EMA "Active Shooter" • Active Shooter
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour "Around the Bend" • Around the Bend
Grimes "Flesh without Blood" • Art Angels
Skating Polly "Nothing More Than a Body" • The Big Fit
LEON "Chasing Demons" • Chasing Demons - Single
Iamamiwhoami "chasing kites - Live" • CONCERT IN BLUE
Cults "Go Outside" • Cults
Jessica Lowndes "Deja Vu (Remix)" • Deja Vu (Remix)
Margaret Glaspy "You And I" • Emotions And Math
Raven Felix "Girl" • Girl - Single
Good Graeff "I Want That" • I Want That
Miike Snow / Charli XCX "For U" • iii
Wolfside "Chaos" • Lobo II
Svrcina "No Matter What They Say" • Lover. Fighter
Tom Vek "Sherman (Animals in the Jungle)" • Luck
Clairy Browne "Vanity Fair" • Pool
Cardiknox "Supermodel" • Portrait
Lowell / Icona Pop "Ride" • Ride
Flint Eastwood "Monster" • Small Victories
Barf Troop "Garbage Pail Princess" • Summerslime
School Of Seven Bells "Ablaze" • SVIIB
Huxlee "Aftertaste" • Teammate
Baauer / M.I.A. / G-DRAGON "Temple" • Temple
The Go! Team "Bottle Rocket" • Thunder, Lightning, Strike
GIRLI "Too Much Fun" • Too Much Fun
SOPHIE "VYZEE" • VYZEE
The Knocks / Matthew Koma "I Wish (My Taylor Swift)" • 55
XYLØ "Bang Bang" • America EP
Willow "Wait a Minute!" • ARDIPITHECUS
The Boxer Rebellion "Big Ideas" • Big Ideas
Jay Reatard "Nightmares" • Blood Visions
The So So Glos "Diss Town" • Blowout
Phantoms / Nicholas Braun "Voyeur" • Broken Halo
MOTHXR "Stranger" • Centerfold
The Spectors "Clyde & Bonnie" • Clyde & Bonnie
Allie X "Prime" • COLLXTION I
The Kills "Doing It To Death" • Doing It To Death
Kylaido "Ebb + Flow" • Ebb + Flow - Single
Annie "Dadaday" • Endless Vacation
NEEDTOBREATHE / Shovels & Rope "GREAT NIGHT" • GREAT NIGHT
Qyeendom "I'm a Star" • I'm a Star
Eliot Sumner "Halfway To Hell" • Information
Terry Malts "Something About You" • Killing Time
Beware Of Darkness "Muthafucka" • Muthafucka
Treasure Fingers / BOSCO "MYNE" • MYNE
The Babies "Mess Me Around" • Our House on the Hill
Ryan Lott "The Detroitiest Part of Orlando" • Paper Towns
CLAIRE "Stay With You" • Raseiniai
Shiny Toy Guns "Ricochet!" • Season Of Poison
Metric "The Void" • SYNTHETICA DELUXE
Frances Cone "Wait Right Here" • Wait Right Here
The Wrecks "Favorite Liar" • We Are the Wrecks
Little Boots "Real Girl" • Working Girl
The Good Natured "Your Body Is A Machine - Original" • Your Body Is A Machine
Adele "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" • Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
Celestina "Boomtion" • Boomtion
Disclosure / Lorde "Magnets" • Caracal (Deluxe)
FRANKIE "Gold" • Dreamstate
Nova Rockafeller "Problem" • Problem
Madness and the Film "SAVIOUR" • Saviour
Mas Ysa / Love Thy Brother "Arrows - Love Thy Brother Remix" Arrows
Computer Magic "Secret" • Davos
Alexx Mack "Bad" • Like We're Famous
LIGHTS "Running With The Boys" • Little Machines
M.I.A. "Swords" • AIM
Class Actress "More Than You - Madeaux Remix" • Movies (Remixes)
Kate Boy "Midnight Sun" • One
Kill J "Propaganda" • Propaganda
Elohim "She Talks Too Much (Become Remix)" • She Talks Too Much
Nola Wren "Venom" • Venom
Sia "Cheap Thrills" • This Is Acting
DonMonique "Pilates" • Pilates
Hailee Steinfeld / DNCE "Rock Bottom" • HAIZ
Icona Pop "Someone Who Can Dance" • Someone Who Can Dance
Phoebe Ryan "Chronic" • Chronic
The Falcon "If Dave Did It" • Gather Up The Chaps
Iggy Azalea "Team" • Team
Mereki "Blue Lake" • Blue Lake
Vinyl Pinups "Boys + Girls" • Boys + Girls
Myzica "Ready or Not" • Myzica
The Derevolutions "Order and Progress" • Order and Progress
Anya Marina / Eric Hutchinson "Ordinary Dude" • Paper Plane
Blondfire "Pleasure" • Pleasure
Au Revoir Simone "Red Rabbit" • Red Rabbit
Femme "S.O.S" • S.O.S
Sam Bruno / Kazy Lambist "Search Party - Remix" • Search Party (Remixes)
Sharon Needles "Dead Dandelion" • Taxidermy
KLOE "Touch" • Touch
Mates of State "Staring Contest" • You're Going To Make It
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis / X-Perience "Brad Pitt's Cousin" • This Unruly Mess I've Made
Olivver the Kid "Lucy (Hurt People Hurt People)" • Freak
Foxes "Talking to Ghosts" • Glorious (Deluxe)
Imperial Mammoth "Little Earthquakes" • Gold Confetti
Colleen Green "Deeper Than Love" • I Want to Grow Up
Icky Blossoms "Sex to the Devil" • Icky Blossoms [Deluxe Edition]
Lenachka "Go Slow" • Lenachka
The Echo-Friendly "Same Mistakes" • Love Panic
Kreayshawn "Left Ey3" • Somethin 'Bout Kreay
Meg Myers "Make A Shadow" • Sorry
Lolawolf "Summertime" • Summertime
Strange Names "Ricochet" • Use Your Time Wisely
LIZ "When I Rule the World" • When I Rule the World
Wild Ones "Dim The Lights" • Dim The Lights
Lewis Del Mar "Malt Liquor" • EP
Kalle Mattson "Hotline Bling" • Hotline Bling
Florence + The Machine "What Kind Of Man" • How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (Deluxe)
Dear Rouge "Thinking About You" • Kids Wanna Know
Colours "Monster" • Monster
Night Beats "No Cops" • No Cops
Oliver North Boy Choir "You & Me Against the World" • Shadows
Hayley Kiyoko "Girls Like Girls" • This Side of Paradise - EP
Cage The Elephant "Trouble" • Trouble
VHS Collection "Lean" • VHS Collection
MUNA "Winterbreak" • Winterbreak
Faded Paper Figures "San Narciso" • The Matter
CRUISR "All Over" • All Over
Babes "ATMO" • Babes
Deluka "The Only Ones" • Bonds
Hesta Prynn "Recall" Can We Go Wrong? - EP
Viv and the Revival "I Want It" • The Introduction
Robert DeLong / Sean Glass "Long Way Down" • Long Way Down (Sean Glass Remix)
Lily Allen "L8 CMMR" • Sheezus
Tkay Maidza "U-Huh" • U-Huh
IAMX "Walk With The Noise" • The Unified Field
LOLO "Weapon For Saturday" • Weapon For Saturday
Rihanna "Love On The Brain" • ANTI (Deluxe)
Clairity "Velcro" • Alienation
The Hotdamns "Gimme Some of That" • The Hot Damns
ADHDS "Katy" • ADHDS
Claire Guerreso "Burning Like Fire" • Burning Like Fire
Cappa / Almighty Chief "Killin' it" • Cappa
The Ninjas "Cara Delevingne" • Cara Delevingne
Adham Shaikh "Water Prayer Rasta mix ( Matt the Alien Remix )" • Refractions Vol1
The Veronicas "Did You Miss Me (I'm a Veronica)" • The Veronicas
Sleep Machine "Wild for You" • Wild for You
David Guetta / Fetty Wap / Sia "Bang My Head (feat. Sia & Fetty Wap)" • Listen Again
Zara Larsson "Lush Life" • Lush Life
Keep Shelly In Athens "Recollection" • At Home
Austra "Beat And The Pulse" • Beat And The Pulse
Great Good Fine Ok "Not Going Home" • Body Diamond
Oh Land "Half Hero" • Earth Sick
Manila Luzon "Eternal Queen" • Eternal Queen
Demrick / Brevi "Runway Walk" • #HeadsUP
Holly Miranda "All I Want Is to Be Your Girl" • Holly Miranda
Is Tropical "Dancing Anymore" • I'm Leaving
Sohodolls "Mayday" • Mayday
Bad Royale / Dominique / Young Unique "POP" • Move Like
ZZ Ward / Paul Oakenfold "Move Like U Stole It" • Move Like U Stole It
Merely "Forever" • Nirvana
Dena Deadly "Raise Your Glass" • Raise Your Glass
Allison Weiss "Making It Up" • Say What You Mean
Jenny Lewis "Head Underwater" • The Voyager
Arum Rae "Something's Happening to Me" • Warranted Queen
Novi "Make a Scene" • Make a Scene
VASSY "Desire" • We Are Young
Tristen "No One's Gonna Know" • Caves
Janine the Machine "Animal" • Boys Boys Boys
Sunflower Bean "Easier Said" • Easier Said
Tiny Deaths "Let Me In" • Tiny Deaths
Lizzo Caroline Smith "Let 'em Say" • Let 'em Say
Diamond Rings "Runaway Love" • Free Dimensional
Farmdale "Get on Our Level" • Yeah Yeah Yeah
Skylar Grey "Wreak Havoc" • Suicide Squad: The Album
The Prettiots "10/10 Would Chill Again" • Funs Cool
Charli XCX / Lil Yachty "After The Afterparty" • After The Afterparty