OnRadioNow BBC ARCHIVE · SINCE 2006

Years / 2016

◦ THE YEAR IN MUSIC

2016

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368,571 plays logged across the four stations in 2016.

Radio 1 101,808 plays in 2016

TOP SONGS

1

One Dance (feat. Wizkid & Kyla) Drake

×371

2

Can't Stop The Feeling Justin Timberlake

×310

3

Stressed Out Twenty One Pilots

×285

4

Lush Life Zara Larsson

×279

5

Cake by the Ocean DNCE

×272

6

This Is What You Came For Calvin Harris & Rihanna

×271

7

I'm in Control (feat. Popcaan) AlunaGeorge

×269

8

Faded (feat. Iselin Solheim) Alan Walker

×258

9

7 Years Lukas Graham

×258

10

Cheap Thrills (feat. Sean Paul) Sia

×256

TOP ARTISTS

01

996

02

735

03

Twenty One Pilots

682

04

642

05

627

06

597

07

596

08

584

Radio 2 75,718 plays in 2016

TOP SONGS

1

Can't Stop The Feeling Justin Timberlake

×133

2

7 Years Lukas Graham

×119

3

Cake by the Ocean DNCE

×117

4

×95

5

3 Miles High Travis

×94

6

When The Love Is Gone Shaun Escoffery

×93

7

Cold in Ohio Jamie Lawson

×93

8

Cry (feat. Take That) Sigma

×91

9

Make Me Like You Gwen Stefani

×91

10

Magnetised Tom Odell

×90

TOP ARTISTS

01

455

02

446

03

403

04

397

05

352

06

339

07

The Rolling Stones

337

08

316

1Xtra 107,566 plays in 2016

TOP SONGS

1

Panda Desiigner

×399

2

One Dance (feat. Wizkid & Kyla) Drake

×273

3

Down In The DM (Remix) (feat. Nicki Minaj) Yo Gotti

×272

4

Work (feat. Drake) Rihanna

×248

5

Don't Mind Kent Jones

×246

6

Room In Here (feat. The Game & Sonyae Elise) Anderson .Paak

×233

7

All My Friends (feat. Tinashe & Chance the Rapper) Snakehips

×220

8

×218

9

Don't Bryson Tiller

×212

10

3 Wheel-ups (feat. Wiley & Giggs) Kano

×210

TOP ARTISTS

01

1172

02

933

03

829

04

767

05

703

06

688

07

674

08

632

6 Music 83,479 plays in 2016

TOP SONGS

1

Black Man In A White World Michael Kiwanuka

×99

2

Old Skool Metronomy

×98

3

The Wheel PJ Harvey

×97

4

I Can't Give Everything Away David Bowie

×94

5

Gardenia Iggy Pop

×93

6

Doing It To Death The Kills

×93

7

Disappointed Field Music

×91

8

I Exhale Underworld

×89

9

Planet Sizes Steve Mason

×87

10

Miss Fortune The Coral

×87

TOP ARTISTS

01

720

02

425

03

388

04

318

05

299

06

276

07

The Rolling Stones

269

08

268