UK No 2s of 2016

refusing to vote for anything with the word "Beatles" in it makes this pretty easy

my dilemma is that while the drakeless bits of "work" are better than "black beatles" (and most other pop in 2016) the drakey bits of work are worse than most other pop in 2016

i don't have the gene that makes other people's ears get upset with Drake so he doesn't even ruin "Work" for me, he's just the less-brilliant bit of it

"i spilled all my emotions tonight" is so punchable

a friend of mine did say that "if i had a twin i would still choose you" is such an abyss of terrible that it is actually quite realistic, in the sense of something a straight man would actually say to her

this whole list is so much better than the number 1s, ridiculously so

they're still horrid twats but I came around to Black Beatles a bit recently. before voting for Rihanna I'll have to hear a few more of these (a few I've already encountered on the traxpoll nominations shuffle) but it seems unlikely she'll be beaten

I heard 'Starboy' again yesterday and didn't hate it, so I voted for that. 'Work' is another pointless Drake performance that makes me wish someone would superglue his mouth shut, and the "work work work work work work" bit is lazy lazy Rihanna.

Oh come on that is so clearly the enduring pop hook of 2016 and its sense of casual spontaneity is the big reason for that.

Gonna sling a vote to Work From Home anyway.

shout out zara larsson for interpolating sasha's "dat sexy body" albeit hamfistedly (odd that it's her highest-charting single of the year - would've unhesitatingly voted for any of her other ones)

Work wins this for me by being the catchiest even in spite of Drakes car air freshener presence.

Justin > Zara > the rest

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Impressive how the no. 2s are miles better than the no. 1s. There's a couple of songs I love in here and none I actively hate.

"work from home" and "cheap thrills" are both solid if vacuous jams i enjoyed that totally could have been hits 8 or 9 years ago

They were pretty big in mexico according to spotify. Top 20 hits in 2016. Only Rihanna, Drake are the english hits besides those on the top 20z

plenty of ghastly songs here - "human", the wretched covers of "fast car" and "dancing on my own", daya and her dreadful whine. Voted "Work" though which nudges out Rae Sremm and Fifth Harmony.

i can't believe "i would like" was a bigger hit than "lush life" lmao

chart placing isn't really indicative of how big a hit is, right? i mean that's why this year's #1s and #2s polls are so purgatorial even though pop in 2016 is not, as the elderly '80s nostalgists would have it, actually that bad

def feel like "work from home" is worthy of being thrown a bone but ultimately it's just solid rather than great. "big bad wolf", the japan-only bonus track off their album that's apparently been scrubbed off the internet, was my fifth harmony keeper of the year

entirely wrong criteria but 'work from home' the only one i can stand to ever hear again so that

I work for a commercial UK radio station which plays appx half of these about 6 times a day each. If I have to hear Cheap Thrills again, I'll scream. I quite like the Kungs song but I've been exposed to it so much now it barely registers as music. So Black Beatles it is again.

Never understood why people say 'Work' is 'lazy'.. the delivery/repetition is the best bit! It's what makes it remarkable.

I have a love hate relationship with Work. I love that beat for the first 20 seconds then the whole thing gets as tedious as actual work.

I've been exposed to 'Work' so many times while at, erm, work, that I'm starting to put it in the same category as 'Livin' La Vida Loca' and 'Mambo Number 5'.

def feel like "work from home" is worthy of being thrown a bone but ultimately it's just solid rather than great. "big bad wolf", the japan-only bonus track off their album that's apparently been scrubbed off the internet, was my fifth harmony keeper of the year

― lex pretend, Friday, January 6, 2017 6:27 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

entirely wrong criteria but 'work from home' the only one i can stand to ever hear again so that

― r|t|c, Friday, January 6, 2017 8:04 AM (five hours ago)

there's something so 2009 about "work from home" -- it could be an electrik red b-side or something.

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