Top Ten for 2016 (Summa Cum Laude)

But first, a couple of shout outs.

David Bowie Lazarus



Leonard Cohen Steer Your Way



#10 Sweven Brooke Waggoner




#9 Flowers In My Head Jessica Rotter




#8 Beautiful Lies Birdy



#7 Boomerang She is We



#6 I Remember Her Ingrid Michaelson



#5 Running With the Wolves Aurora


#4 Bird Set Free Sia



#3 Murder Song Aurora



#2 The Sun Keep Rising Lissie



#1 The Trapper and the Furrier Regina Spektor

2016 top songs, Magna Cum Laude

These are really good. Not ranked otherwise.


Rachel Curtis            We Are Fish



Oathbreaker               10:56/Second Son of R



Wilde Belle                Coyotes



Wilde Belle Throw Down Your Guns



Broods                        Freak Of Nature




Brooke Waggoner Fink



Joseph                         White Flag



Joseph                        SOS



Ingrid Michaelson    Can't Drink You Gone



High as A Kite        Someone Who'll Get It



High as a Kite My Name is Liar



Sia                             Unstoppable



Lissie                        Heros



Lissie                       Daughters

2016 top songs, Cum Laude

OK, these are not ranked.  But I will post a more "elite" set after this.
Oh, and as always, this list represents what I liked.  So there are surely better songs, so be it.

What are your favorites from this list?

Delain                        Suckerpunch



The Coathangers     Squeeki Tiki



Stitched up Heart        Monster




Sonia Rao                    Minneapolis



Mother Feather           Living Breathing



Mother Feather           Mother Feather




Tove Lo                      Don't Talk About It



The Glass Child         The Year I Disappeared



The Glass Child         Save Me



Garbage                       Amends



Gabrielle Aplin          Night Bus



BlondFire                  True Confessions



Against the Currentt    Running With The Wild Things



The Raign                  When It's Over



Lake Street Dive        Call Off Your Dogs



Broods                      Free



Broods                     Heartlines



The Pretty Reckless  Walls Closing In/Hangman



The Pretty Reckless  Take Me Down



Tonight Alive           Oxygen



Tonight Alive           Human Interaction



Tonight Alive           We Are



Adia Victoria           Dead Eyes



She Is We               War



Birdy                        Wild Horses



Jessica Rotter           Lost Found



Epica                        Universal Death Squad/Universal Love Squad
These are two songs, sort of




Joseph                      Canyon



Sia                             Move Your Body



Sia                            Cheap Thrills


Regina Spektor          Bleeding Heart



Lissie                       Wild Wild West



Aurora                  Conquerer



Aurora                   Winter Bird



Aurora                   I Went Too Far



Aurora                  Warrior