Most overplayed songs of 2016

Greetings, from Adele. Her third studio album, "25," was released on November 20, 2015, but the lead single from her latest album continued to ring for months and months to come. "Hello" played on the radio multiple times in one day, and that's a large part of its omnipresence, but maybe the biggest reason "Hello" leads off this list is the bazillion memes or spoof videos it inspired—an example of some, here.

"One Dance" turned into another dance, and then another, until eventually the entire world couldn't escape dancing to Drake's hit single, holding the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 consecutive weeks.

If not for the viral "Hotline Bling" music video, which was uploaded from Drake's official VEVO page to YouTube in October 2015 and has been viewed over one billion times to date, "Hotline Bling" might have stayed in 2015. Especially considering that Drake seems to release new songs every week. But Drake's peculiar dancing reignited the song's relevance and its pop culture appeal has arguably superseded the song's place in music.

Even if you don't know the names of Fifth Harmony's members, you have to know by now with conviction that they like to work from home. The song topped out at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in its 13th week on the charts, and is notable for being the first single from a girl group to crack the top five since The Pussycat Dolls did so in 2006.

Any time a song is viewed over 2 billion times on YouTube, in only a little over one year, it is going to make this list. Justin Bieber has performed his Purpose World Tour over 100 times through North America and Europe in 2016. And at the end of each of those shows, rain pours down on him as he sings "Sorry." The song has become the popular way to apologize, while dancing. "Sorry" peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 throughout 2016, along with Bieber's other hit singles "Love Yourself" and "What Do You Mean?"

"Dangerous Woman" has become Ariana Grande. So much so that her Twitter bio simply says, "dangerous woman." The lead single of her album of the same name, "Dangerous Woman" peaked at No. 8 in its eleventh week on the Billboard Hot 100. 

Justin Timberlake knew what he was doing when he titled his contribution to the "Trolls" soundtrack "Can't Stop The Feeling!" I'm not sure how many people who can't stop listening to Timberlake's song have actually seen the movie "Trolls," but the movie's promotional campaign was top-notch. Fun fact: "Can't Stop The Feeling!" is Timberlake's first No. 1 single since 2007.

This song will be stuck in our heads until we're 60 years old. A smash hit in the band's native Denmark and also throughout Europe, "7 Years" was released in September 2015 but caught fire in the United States in February, topping out No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Rihanna left a massive musical footprint in 2016, thanks to her eighth studio album "Anti," released in January, and to her features on Drake's album "Views," though none bigger than her lead single "Work." The single is the longest-charting of Rihanna's career, having been on Billboard's Hot 100 for 36 weeks and peaking at No. 1. 

Flo Rida's "My House" topped out at No. 4 on Billboard's Hot 100. The song quickly found popularity after a Flo Rida performance on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," and would later become a staple of commercials and movies, as well as be chosen as the theme for WWE's WrestleMania 32.

We can thank Swedish producers for "Cake By The Ocean" says DNCE frontman Joe Jonas to MTV. The song has spent 46 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100. 

Good for Mike Posner for rebuilding his music career, as the Detroit native hadn't released a hit single since his 2010 debut. But even after hearing this song countless times throughout this year, I still don't understand why Posner wanted to take a pill in Ibiza and show Avicii, of all people, he was cool. 

According to Genius, "'Panda' is inspired by the white BMW X6—Desiigner notes the luxury car’s resemblance to the previously endangered animal." Note: previously endangered. Did Desiigner single-handedly save the panda bears with this song? Possibly. Probably not. But he did create an infectious beat that has propelled him from anonymity. "Panda" hit No. 1 on Billboard Top 100, no doubt assisted by its heavy sampling on Kanye West's "Pt. 2."

Once mainstream radio caught wind of The Chainsmokers—the EDM duo of Alex Pall and Drew Taggert—it really fell in love with them...

...like really, really fell in love with them. Both "Don't Let Me Down" and "Closer" are certified platinum, topping out at No. 3 and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. "Closer" dominated the charts, holding the top spot for 12 consecutive weeks.

Learned so many new languages from listening to Kent Jones's "Don't Mind" this year. The Tallahassee-based Jones features lyrics in French, Spanish, Japanese and Haitian creole in "Don't Mind," his debut single, which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Every boyfriend or husband, every man, really, in the world hates Thomas Rhett for making women melt to this song. Rhett raised the bar for men everywhere when he publicly admitted that he wrote "Die A Happy Man" for his wife, though it was pretty obvious even unsaid. The song topped Billboard's Country Airplay chart for five consecutive weeks.

The most literal song of 2016—scratch that: actually an oral history of the human dating behaviors in the year 2016. Thank you, social media. And thank Nicki Minaj for helping get this song as high as No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 after the song was remixed.

"Uptown Funk" has been stuck in our collective heads since its initial release in November 2014. Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars and Co. won Record of the Year at the 58th Grammy Awards this February. Mars collaborated with Beyonce (and Ronson in the background) to perform "Uptown Funk" at the Super Bowl 50 half time show, also in February. It seems the only solution to reflexively playing "Uptown Funk" was for Bruno Mars to release a new solo album, "24k Magic," which he did in November.