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The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Charmaine de Souza

Charmaine de Souza

album of the year

  1. Panic! At The Disco - Death Of A Bachelor
  2. Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love!
  3. Bruno Mars - 24K Magic
  4. Ball Park Music - Every Night The Same Dream
  5. Catfish & The Bottlemen - The Ride
  6. De La Soul - & The Anonymous Nobody
  7. Phantogram - Three
  8. Montaigne - Glorious Heights
  9. Zayn - Mind Of Mine

song of the year

  1. Childish Gambino - Me & Your Mama
  2. Beyonce - Formation
  3. Montaigne - In The Dark
  4. Bruno Mars - 24K Magic

artist of the year

  1. Childish Gambino
  2. Panic! At The Disco
  3. Sufjan Stevens
  4. Montaigne
  5. Troye Sivan

international artist performance

  1. Cold War Kids
  2. Sufjan Stevens
  3. Cute Is What We Aim For
  4. City & Colour

australian artist performance

  1. Verge Collection
  2. Calm Collected
  3. Bernard Fanning
  4. Troye Sivan
  5. Ngaiire

top tv show

  1. Stranger Things
  2. Black Mirror
  3. Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life

top movie

  1. The Conjuring 2
  2. 10 Cloverfield Lane
  3. The Girl On The Train

2016 highlight of the year

UberEATS - because who doesn't love fried chicken delivered directly into your face hole?

prediction for 2017

Brendan Dassey goes to Wrestlemania.