[Shaun]

TiBB'S TOP SONG OF 2016

Welcome to the Top Song of 2016. If you're not sure of what this whole thing is, here are a few links to competitions of previous years:

2016: "Into You" by Ariana Grande
2015: "Run Away With Me" by Carly Rae Jepsen
2014: "Chandelier" by Sia
2013: "Work" by Iggy Azalea
2012: "Pyramids" by Frank Ocean
2011: "Midnight City" by M83
2010: "What's My Name (feat. Drake)" by Rihanna
2009: "Sweet Disposition" by the Temper Trap
2008: "Womanizer" by Britney Spears

RULES
- For the early rounds, you may only vote for a maximum of two songs per artist. This game gets quite boring when dominated by stans. This'll become defunct in the later rounds when there most likely will only be one per artist remaining in the game.
- You must have 100 posts to participate. I'm not allowing multis
- Most rounds are just to vote for your favourites, but some will require 'negative' votes. These should be approached voluntarily rather than as mandatory, and members should only vote for songs they actively dislike rather than ones they don't like/might pick tactically.
- The final will consist of ten songs that're ranked by everyone on the basis of "10pts for the 1st place", "1pt for the 10th place" and so on.

We'll begin with a Top 200 of the year, hand-picked through the following methods:

- Any song that has appeared in the Top 15 of the UK single charts at any point from January 1 2016 to December 30 2016 (the last chart date of the year).
- Because streaming has effectively strangled the idea of anything new hitting the charts for a brief fling, I've had to also include anything that made the top 5 in Australia's ARIA 50 and top 10 in the Billboard Hot 100, but then this isn't just a site for Britons so that's not a problem really.
- Even then, that only leaves 98 songs
- Of those, songs originally released prior to January 1 - either as a single, or on an album released before July 2015 - have been removed.
- Also, songs that have appeared in previous editions of this game cannot count.
- And finally, re-releases of songs don't count (sorry, Mariah Carey).
- I've shoved in a handful of songs that did well in critics' "end of the year" lists from the likes of the Guardian, NME, Rolling Stone, Popjustice and Pitchfork too. I have bolded these. Within reason, mind, I mean Popjustice are going to try and make things like 'Christie and the Dream Beats' happen and that's just silly because no one on here has heard of them.
- To save the list from becoming too repetitive, artists are restricted to just their 3 highest-charting songs. In the event of songs charting at the same place, only the song that charted first chronologically was included. This rule has only affected Little Mix, Shawn Mendes, Drake and Ariana Grande.

So here's how it will work..

PRELIMINARY ROUND I've compiled a list of 125 songs below, picked from singles that made the top 15 of the UK charts / other charts this year and songs that did well in critics' end-of-year lists (bolded)
QUALIFYING ROUND 75 songs are required to be voted into the game by the forum. EVERYONE can submit 5 songs to be supported by other members, and every member has 10 support votes. This'll be kept tally of in the OP, and will be edited into the main list in blue
Round 1: Out of the top 200, each member can choose their favourite TWENTY songs. The songs that get any votes will move onto Round 2. You cannot choose all 3 songs by an artist; a maximum of 2 per artist is enforced in the early rounds to keep it free from the pop stans
Round 2: Out of the top 121, each member can choose their favourite FIFTEEN songs. The songs that get more than 1 vote will move onto Round 3. You cannot choose all 3 songs by an artist, and please keep them in alphabetical order. THANX.
Round 3: Out of the top 99, each member can choose their favourite TWELVE songs. NEW RULE PART HOPE YOU'RE READING X: You can also choose THREE songs you dislike and want eliminated from the competition. REMEMBER: only pick songs you actively dislike. Don't go trying to pick the faves of people you want to annoy, or any songs you haven't even bothered to listen to ONLY songs you dislike. Each "fave" vote is a positive point, each "purple" vote means that song loses a point. All songs with an end-of-round positive score of 2 or more will proceed.
Round 4: Out of the top 62, each member can choose their favourite TEN songs. The songs that get more than 1 vote will move onto Round 5.
Round 5: Out of the top 53, each member can choose their favourite TEN songs AND their THREE LEAST favourite songs. As with round 3, any song with a score of lower than positive one shall be eliminated. Please only vote for songs you actually dislike rather than ones you've not heard.
Round 6: Out of the top 40, each member can choose their favourite EIGHT songs. Songs that get more than 3 votes will move onto Round 7.
Round 7: Out of the top 24, each member can choose their favourite FIVE songs.
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Final (10 Songs Ranked)

Ariana Grande - Into You - 1st
Beyoncé - Formation - 3rd
Birdy - Keeping Your Head Up - 4th
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cry - 8th
Christine and the Queens - Tilted - 5th
Dua Lipa - Blow Your Mind (Mwah) - 2nd
Flume - Never Be Like You (feat. Kai) - 9th
The 1975 - Somebody Else - 7th
The xx - On Hold - 10th
Zara Larsson - I Would Like - 6th

Round 7 (14 Songs Eliminated)

Britney Spears - Make Me (Oooh) [feat. G-Eazy]
Clean Bandit - Tears (feat. Louisa Johnson)
Dami Im - Sound of Silence
Demi Lovato - Body Say
Dua Lipa - Hotter Than Hell
Emeli Sande - HURTS
Lady GaGa - John Wayne
Little Mix - Hair (feat. Sean Paul)
Louisa Johnson - So Good
MØ - Final Song
The 1975 - The Sound
P!nk - Just Like Fire
Rihanna - Kiss It Better
Rihanna - Needed Me
Saint Motel - Move
Sia - The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

Round 6 (14 Songs Eliminated)

Alex Newell - This Ain't Over
Anne-Marie - Alarm
The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra
Beyoncé - Hold Up
CupcaKKe - LGBT
Empire of the Sun - High and Low
Florrie - Real Love
Gwen Stefani - Make Me Like You
Jonas Blue - Perfect Strangers (feat. JP Cooper)
Kaytranada - Glowed Up (feat. Anderson .Paak)
Kungs vs. Cookin' on 3 Burners - This Girl
Miike Snow - My Trigger
Petite Meller - The Flute
Radiohead - Burn the Witch
The Veronicas - In My Blood
Zara Larsson - Ain't My Fault

Round 5 (13 Songs Eliminated)

Alan Walker - Faded
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
Azealia Banks - The Big Big Beat
David Bowie - Lazarus
Desiigner - Panda
Drake - One Dance
Fifth Harmony - Work From Home
Kanye West - Ultralight Beam
Leona Lewis - (We Are All) Looking for Home
NEIKID - Sensual
Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles
Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better
Viola Beach - Swings and Waterslides

Round 4 (9 Songs Eliminated)

Adele - Water Under the Bridge
All Saints - One Strike
ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me
Frank Ocean - Pink + White
Glass Animals - Youth
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - I Need You
OneRepublic - Kids
Roosevelt - Fever
Troye Sivan - Talk Me Down

Round 3 (37 Songs Eliminated)

Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
AlunaGeorge - I'm In Control (feat. Popcaan)
AlunaGeorge - Mean What I Mean (feat. Leikeli47 & Dreezy)
Ariana Grande - Side to Side (feat. Nicki Minaj)
Britney Spears - Do You Wanna Come Over?
Calvin Harris - This is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna)
Charlie Puth - We Don't Talk Anymore (feat. Selena Gomez)
Christine and the Queens - Saint Claude
Clean Bandit - Rockabye (feat. Anne-Marie & Sean Paul)
Coldplay - Hymn for the Weekend (feat. Beyonce)
DNCE - Cake by the Ocean
Drake - Too Good (feat. Rihanna)
Ellie Goulding - Army
Fifth Harmony - All in my Head (Flex) [feat. Fetty Wap]
Fifth Harmony - That's My Girl
James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go
Lady GaGa - Dancin' In Circles
Lady GaGa - Perfect Illusion
Little Mix - Shout Out to My Ex
Lukas Graham - 7 Years
Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha - In the Name of Love
Matoma & The Vamps - All Night
Meghan Trainor - No
Mitski - Your Best American Girl
MK - Piece of Me (feat. Becky Hill)
M83 - Go
Olly Murs - You Don't Know Love
Rihanna - Work (feat. Drake)
Selena Gomez - Hands to Myself
Sigala - Find Me (feat. Birdy)
Sigala - Say You Do (feat. Imani & DJ Fresh)
twenty øne piløts - Heathens
twenty øne piløts - Ride
twenty øne piløts - Stressed Out
The Weeknd - I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)
The Weeknd - Starboy (feat. Daft Punk)
ZAYN - Pillowtalk

Round 2 (22 Songs Eliminated)

Alicia Keys - In Common
Britney Spears - Slumber Party (feat. Tinashe)
Chance the Rapper - No Problem (feat. 2 Chainz & Lil Wayne)
Charli XCX - After the Afterparty (feat. Lil Yachty)
DJ Snake - Let Me Love You (feat. Justin Bieber)
Emeli Sande - Breathing Underwater
Erika Jayne - How Many F••ks
Flume - Say It (feat. Tove Lo)
Gwen Stefani - Where Would I Be?
Hayley Kiyoko - Gravel to Tempo
Katy B - I Wanna Be (feat. Chris Lorenzo)
KDA - Just Say (feat. Tinashe)
Lana del Rey - Freak
Major Lazer - Cold Water (feat. Justin Bieber & MØ)
Matoma & Becky Hill - False Alarm
M.O - Not in Love (feat. Kent Jones)
Selena Gomez - Same Old Love
Shawn Mendes - Stitches
Shura - What's It Gonna Be?
Sia - Cheap Thrills (feat. Sean Paul)
Sia - Unstoppable
Solange - Cranes in the Sky

Round 1: 79 Songs Eliminated

Alessia Cara - Scars to Your Beautiful
Amine - Caroline
Anderson .Paak - Come Down
Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
Bastille - Good Grief
Beyoncé - Don't Hurt Yourself (feat. Jack White)
Blood Orange - Best to You (feat. Empress Of)
Bruno Mars - 24K Magic
Calum Scott - Dancing On My Own
Calvin Harris - My Way
The Chainsmokers - Closer (feat. Halsey)
The Chainsmokers - Don't Let Me Down (feat. Daya)
The Chainsmokers - Roses (feat. Rozes)
Chance the Rapper - All Night (feat. Knox Fortune)
Cheat Codes x Kriss Kross Amsterdam - Sex
Craig David x Big Narstie - When the Bassline Drops
Dawn Richard - Not Above That
DJ Snake - Middle (feat. Bipolar Sunshine)
DNCE - Body Moves
D.R.A.M. - Broccoli (feat. Lil Yachty)
Drake - Summer Sixteen
Dua Lipa - Last Dance
Elbow - Magnificent
Ellie Goulding - Still Falling for You
Era Istrefi - Bonbon
5 Seconds of Summer - Girls Talk Boys
Frank Ocean - Ivy
G-Eazy x Bebe Rexha - Me, Myself & I
Galantis - No Money
gnash - i hate u, i love u (feat. Olivia O'Brien)
Hailee Steinfeld & Grey - Starving (feat. Zedd)
Hey Violet - Guys My Age
Iggy Azalea - Team
Iggy Pop - Gardenia
Jax Jones - You Don't Know Me (feat. RAYE)
JoJo - Fab (feat. Remy Ma)
Jonas Blue - By Your Side (feat. RAYE)
Jonas Blue - Fast Car (feat. Dakota)
Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop the Feeling
Kanye West - Famous
Kanye West - Real Friends
Katy Perry - Rise
Kent Jones - Don't Mind
Lady Leshurr - Where Are You Now?
Lana del Rey - Freak
Lil Wayne - Sucker for Pain (feat. Wiz Khalifa, Imagine Dragons, X Ambassadors, Ty Dolla $ign & Logic)
Little Mix - Secret Love Song (feat. Jason Derulo)
Louis Tomlinson & Steve Aoki - Just Hold On
Machine Gun Kelly & Camila Cabello - Bad Things
Maggie Lindemann - Pretty Girl
Major Lazer - Light It Up (feat. Fuse ODG & Nyla)
Maroon 5 - Don't Wanna Know (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha - In the Name of Love
Matt Terry - When Christmas Comes Around
Mike Posner - I Took a Pill in Ibiza
MNEK - At Night (I Think About You)
M.O - Who do You Think Of?
Nevada - The Mack (feat. Mark Morrison & Fetty Wap)
Niall Horan - This Town
Radiohead - True Love Waits
Rag 'N' Bone Man - Human
Riton - Rinse & Repeat (feat. Kah-Lo)
Sean Paul - No Lie (feat. Dua Lipa)
Selena Gomez - Same Old Love
Shakira - Chantaje
Shawn Mendes - Mercy
Sigala - Give Me Your Love (feat. John Newman & Nile Rodgers)
Skepta - Man
The Stone Roses - All for One
TIEKS - Sunshine (feat. Dan Harkna)
Tinie Tempah - Girls Like (feat. Zara Larsson)
A Tribe Called Quest - We The People...
The Weeknd - Party Monster
Whitney - No Woman
will.i.am. - Boys & Girls (feat. Pia Mia)
Zay Hilfigerrr & Zayion McCall - Juju on that Beat (TZ Anthem)
ZAYN - Befour
Zayn & Taylor Swift - I Don't Wanna Live Forever
Zedd - True Colours (feat. Ke$ha)