Bob Boilen's Top 10 Albums Of 2016
The All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk host shares his favorite recordings of the year.
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Robin Hilton's Top 10 Albums Of 2016
The All Songs Considered host's list includes many records that felt particularly appropriate for such a turbulent year.
The Best Music Of 2016
NPR Music ranked the 50 best albums and top 100 songs of the year. You'll find Beyoncé and Bowie, but there's so much to explore as we recount the ones we kept close in 2016.
Heavy Rotation: The Songs Public Radio Couldn't Stop Playing In 2016
Every month, we ask public radio's music curators to share the songs they're loving right now. Here's everything they loved in 2016.
The Best 50 Albums Of 2016
These are the records NPR Music couldn't stop playing this year — ones that speak to a moment and a lifetime, ones that party, ones that exist in their own worlds.
The Top 100 Songs Of 2016
These are the pop anthems, rallying cries, party jams, riff rockers, perfumed piano pieces and emotional exorcisms that we loved to share this year.
Weekend LISTening: The Rolling Stones' Blues Covers, Before And After
Compare the songs on the Stones' new covers album, Blue & Lonesome, to the original recordings.
Recommended Dose: Our Favorite Dance Tracks Of November
We've got ambient atmospherics for a time of tension. Hear new music from Dedekind Cut, Visible Cloaks, Tycho, Yussef Kamaal, MJ Guider and Burial.
Old-School, New-School: World Cafe's 2016 Jams
Ease into the season of "best-of" lists with a handful of standout tracks from 2016: five retro-sounding, five cutting-edge.
Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing
Public-radio hosts share the songs you need to hear now — including new music from Obongjayar, Jim James, Mandolin Orange and more.