2016 Was Mid 

does this video feature anthony fantano? Yes. is he asking himself questions and answering them? yes. does he sometimes switch it up and ask two questions in a row before answering? is it impossible to ignore now that I've noticed it? Yes to both of those

Anthony hating Closer but legit liking Don't Let Me Down is an absolutely insane plot twist.

It’s kind of amazing how 2016 was such a great year for albums but a mid year for top 10 songs

Disgusting how the avant-garde metal/psychedelic pop/jazz fusion/mongolian throat singing masterpiece "Sorry" by Justin Bieber didn't get the rare yet deserved S tier. You've fallen off, melon man. Resubscribed.

The top 10 might have been mid but overall the whole year of music was pretty great.

I am terrible with connecting Songs to their Names. Your singing of Adele helped significantly. Can you do that with all the songs?

After the 2010s are over, we need a version with the 2000s top 10s

It’s hard to remember the mainstream hits being this mid because it was an absolute BANGER of a year for albums. Blackstar, Atrocity Exhibition, Blonde, Worry, Nonagon Infinity, Moon Shaped Pool, Lemonade, Bonito Generation, Bottomless Pit, Honor Killed the Samurai, etc etc etc. Definitely one of the best years of the 2010s for music for those who dive deeper than the mainstream.

I did not expect Melon to say “sorry for not liking Sorry” then dancing to it for 20 minutes straight

Melon needs to revisit the 2000s after this.

I'm honestly impressed with how many of these songs I just absolutely loathe. Like, I can distinctly remember each of these songs and how much every single one seemed to make me uncomfortable in their own exclusive circumstance; what a bad year.

Putting Hello in the B row next to Panda is absolutely insane

you should do a tier list of the years once you've finished the decade

The Chainsmokers unjustifiably DOMINATED this year holy shit

Panda was pretty fun when it came out, I actually remember being kind of hyped for his debut back at the time Bc he had a couple of cool freestyles with a crazy fast flow, but then I remember listening to the debut tape when it dropped front to back and it being just AWFUL

I really like this series. If you ever decide to include bonus tracks, I would like to see you include songs from the year-end top 100 you thought were great but didn't land in the top 10. Any of the songs from 100-11 that you thought were S or A tier.

but anthony, 2016 is one of the best years in music

Stressed out in the same tier as can’t stop this feeling is insane

He really hit that note in hello tho

"Sorry" should have been S-tier. It's the definitive insincere apology song. If you ever need to apologize, but don't want to because you're an asshole, Justin Bieber's "Sorry" is going to be the soundtrack to your apology. Show the man some respect!

2016 did have two legendary albums though, and those are Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown, and Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 the Core

In the year of scary clown sightings, not even Clown Core made an album so you know the year was mid.

Panda is such a banger of a song

Sorry but 'Sorry' still slaps sonically

My thoughts on Sorry and Love Yourself are the exact opposite to yours. I think Love Yourself is corny and boring, but Sorry goes hard as hell i still listen to it now.

2016 had some mid singles but undeniably had many amazing albums: We Got It … by Tribe, ASATT by Solange, Flowerboy, Atrocity Exhibition, Blond & Endless, Blank Face. I could go on, it was a great year as well as 2017.

But 2016 XXL Freshman Cypher was da 🐐 no 🧢

these top 10's from Billboard are always so absurd in retrospect. "Closer" always felt more prevalent than "Don't Let Me Down," even at the time. one thing I like about Adele is that her music always feels like it's existed far longer than it actually has. "Hello" does not feel like it came out between 6 and 7 years ago, but it's also implacable. could've dropped yesterday, could've dropped in 2012; and it would've felt right regardless (without necessarily feeling of these times, of course).

Putting a sex song in the E row (ero) was a big brained move

2016 was a great year for music I think when he sais “mid” he’s talking bout this top 10

Ahh 2016... I still remember that year like it was last month.

I don’t particularly enjoy any of these songs, but I do have a special place in my heart for when I heard them on the school bus in my freshman year of high school.

The moment I saw “The Chainsmokers” I was taken back to a time in history I don’t feel like reliving😐

The Chainsmokers set EDM back at least a decade

I have the most nostalgia for 2016

The fact youre completely roasting the tracks Todd in the Shadows put in his top 10 is so funny to me

You should do a tier list decade version like just ranking the number 1 songs of their respective years

Stressed Out is more about the depressing aspect of nostalgia

I was not expecting you to actually like the drop on Don’t Let Me Down. I don’t hate the Chainsmokers like a lot of people seem to, and I actually like the rest of that song, but the drop genuinely causes me severe pain

Don't let me down - The Beatles vs. Don't let me down - The Chainsmokers, which song is better?

It felt like every station in 2016 was playing the chain smokers any chance they could get

Melon, you can’t just give S tier to all 22 songs from Angelic 2 The Core by Corey Feldman just because you find him “strikingly beautiful”.

While I truly think the Chainsmokers have possibly the most mid music of all time I gotta give it up to them for one thing, on one of their international tours in Singapore, they inspired a Japanese game designer to make a whole musical game franchise around DJ performance units, called D4DJ 😅

I can’t believe one dance was more popular than hotline bling

I was in middle school in 2016 and Can't Stop Feeling plagued most school assemblies ... I can't listen to the song without thinking about corny anti-vaping / su*cide prevention plays.

Sometimes I really question why I'm subscribed to this man, with how different our opinions and tastes are when it comes to music

LOCKED UP LIKE DOBBY

Y’all are wilding Sorry is an insane song

one dance getting D row next to that chainsmokers track is crazyyyyyy

I don't think Tyler Joseph is putting the point across that we shouldn't push through times of feeling stressed out but more expressing that feeling of wishing things could be simpler when we feel stressed out, which everyone can relate to. He has many other songs expressing feelings of pushing through tougher emotions (like suicidal thoughts). I get not liking the song but acting like twenty one pilots are trying to push a peter pan syndrome solution to this feeling is a bit stupid to say.

Anthony Will Go crazy when he sees Closer again in the 2017 list

The Chainsmokers and Drake being as huge as they were in 2016 really shows how that year was the beginning of the end.

You’re right Anthony! Closer is the best song of the last decade. I never knew how much you loved the Chainsmokers!!!

Probably the most outlandish and bold take he's had since he said segregation should have been legal

2017 gave me the most nostalgia among the recent years so hopefully Fantano’s tier list will show the same 😂

We gotta get a redux of these tier lists, but with his top ten of that given year. It'd be interesting to see which years have the best top songs from his perspective

i kept pretty good tabs on pop radio in the 2010's and......the Summer of 2016 was probably the best of the 2010's Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna (written by Taylor Swift - this is what you came for. Chainsmokers feat. Daya - don't let me down Sia feat. Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills Arianna Grande - into you Shawn Mendes - treat you better Rihanna - needed me Twenty - One Pilots - heathens Fifth Harmony feat. Fetty Wap - all in my head Selena Gomez - kill 'em with kindness Zara Larrson, MNEK - never forget you Meghan Trainor - me too (yes, I keep a pretty good list of the 2010's pop hits...but...I'm sometimes caught off guard when a couple have slipped my awareness when I hear them again)

Hey Anthony, have you considered doing the 2000s the closer to the present you get?

The note Melon hit was actually quite nice, with nice slight vibrato. And from his "longest shish" video, I would mind Melon dropping some tunes. Could be Interesting.

I got into music in 2016 while I was in eighth grade and i have so much nostalgia for this year. Such as closer…it slaps

billboard really forgot about legendary song redbone smh

2016 was my favorite year for music, I think it was the year I started to evolve the most. I was 16 years old and I was obsessed with BlankFace LP and Birds in the trap sing McKnight. now I'm 21 and stressed 😒

2016-2017 is maybe the greatest 2 year run ever in my life. Unreal music and great nostalgia. Those two years were my last 2 years of high school being a free teenage person. Really loved those times, but understand the mid comparisons

And Closer actually made the top 10 on two different year ends lol

Anthony out the gate with the HOT takes

Stressed out is an easy F from me. In a perfect world i would never hear that one again

S - A - Love Yourself, Hello B - Stressed Out, Sorry C - Don't Let Me Down, One Dance D - Can't Stop the Feeling E - Work, Closer F - Panda

Melon I do agree 2016 was overall mid, but did you really mean it when you said 'My House' by Flo Rida is a top 10 song of all time?

"I mess with panda !" Animaly Pandano

Please do this for every decade until the 60s - great concept

- Hello too low - Work too low - (wtf why is that Drake song even here) - Sorry is a banger - I fell asleep listening to love yourself again E or F tier 100% Step it up melon

you know anthony is a self assured truly qualified and free thinking music critic when he doesnt take every opportunity to lambast the chainsmokers. respect

I totally get not liking closer, but personally I have a lot of amazing and nostalgic memories associated with that song. Idk. I love it tbh

Fantano hitting them Adelle notes Bravo 👏 Melon Bravo 👏

Tegan and Sara’s Love You To Death came out in 2016, easily won the entire year for me

I am ver surprised goosebumps wasn’t in the top 10 of that year but now that I think about it, it did come out late that year

You can't be unbiased about Drake after that vegan cookies recipe situation.

Nah, man. Pop music was great in 2016, and lowkey had a renaissance at the time if you ask me. So many new artists that gained mainstream appeal that are a mainstay to this day. I never would have found those artists like Twenty One Pilots if they didn't release the bangers that blew them up that year. 2016 music will always hold a special place for me.

Menace deserves ALL the credit for Panda being in the top ten. That beat is haunting and epic. Sounds like the theme music for slasher movie about Krampus.

It would be nice if you would include a snippet of each song because a lot of these I have a hard time remembering

Love your videos going through the decade, Anthony - any chance of doing the noughties?

Even if the songs are super generic many of these songs were the soundtrack to a special part of my childhood especially the summer I can remember vividly hearing that Cant stop the feeling song at the pool

I was actually hype for this bc 2016 was probably my fav year of music releases ever. Idk how I expected that to be reflected in the top 10 now tho. Was expecting "Into You" to be up there for some reason and it blew my mind to look it up and see it was only 51st

Panda was the perfect storm - everything came together to just make the most fun trap song ever. I wish we got more hype trap bangers like it.

I’d really like to see a 2010’s year tier list. I’d be interested to see what was the best year for music

Hella suprised the weeknd wasn’t there at all, at least for me the only songs I heard on the radio in 2016 were star boy and I feel it coming with hello and hotline bling coming up every now and then

Closer - D Can't Stop The Feeling - C Don't Let Me Down - D Hello - A Panda - B Stressed Out - A Work - A One Dance - S Sorry - A Love Yourself - S

Somewhere in Kettering, James Acaster is smashing up a laptop...

Yet 2016 gave us some of the best albums BlackStar R.I.P Bowie! A Moon Shaped Pool Radiohead Dangerous Woman Ariana

Fantano da 🐐 no 🧢. HAPPY BDAY BROSEPH🎂🎂🎂

I never thought i would see The Chainsmokers above Twenty One Pilots in a tier list, but here we are.

I don't why or how, but I just never got tired of Closer. Something about it just seems so nostalgic to me, and always screams summer anthem. I could never bring myself to dislike it back then or to this day.

Take a shot every time melon answers his own question.

Can’t stop the feeling, Hello and Love yourself are the only songs I would probably consider above C tier. Everything else is C tier or below

One Dance was more Afrobeat than dancehall and is still one of his strongest hooks imo

I've been saying to myself for song long that 2010-2013 was dark but upbeat and just full of bangers. Everything felt modern while the past hadn't let us wander forward. 2014-2017 felt so moody and washed out and disaffected to me as a kid. It was a peaceful time but another person would say that's boring. Everything just was. 2017-2019 felt like a possible Renaissance that brought new sounds new ideas but didn't go as far is could've.

Got to raise an eyebrow at One Dance making it to D when Anthony put it on his top 15 worst songs of 2016 list

Idk if it’s the music or the time of my life but 2016 was such a great year for me and the music kinda has a special place

Closer - F Can’t stop the feeling - C Don’t let me down - E Hello - C Panda - D Stressed out - D Work - C One dance - D Sorry - E Love yourself - B

I graduated high school in 2016. Summer 16 will always remind me of Lil Uzi Vert, Kodak Black, and MadeinTYO while playing Pokemon GO. It was a hell of a time to be alive and party!