In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

Bands of America had hundreds, thousands, millions of high school kids pounding on drums or wailing on trumpets or tossing rifles in the air in its hands, and Schaumburg, Illinois, couldn’t hold them ...