| 1 | Alexx Mack | "Bad" | Like We're Famous 4 | Do you want to be a pop star YES YES? |
| 2 | Ignea | "Alga" | single | Ukrainian progressive melodic symphonic metal. |
| 3 | Blackthorn | "Witch Cult Ternion" | Witch Cult Ternion (Extended Version) | Epic symphonic Russian monumental black death epicness. |
| 4 | Anna Meredith | "Taken" | single | Abstruse, redemptive-repetitive experimental fugue-pop. |
| 5 | St. Lucia | "Help Me Run Away" | single | Indietronic singalong uplift. |
| 6 | Primal Fear | "Angels of Mercy" | single | Sinewy, reverent neo-trad HEAVY metal. |
| 7 | Sia | "Unstoppable" | single | In her secret lab, Sia has finally succeded in cross-breeding "Chandelier" with "Firework" and "Fight Song". |
| 8 | Borknagar | "The Rhymes of the Mountain" | Winter Thrice | Norwegian black folk metal without so much Norwegian, black or folk in it. |
| 9 | Abbath | "To War" | Abbath | Norwegian black metal with as much Norwegian and black as technically and posthumanly possible. |
| 10 | Ulver | "Moody Stix" | ATGCLVLSSCAP | What the world sounds like after Norwegian black metal scrambles your brain but doesn't kill you. |
| 11 | Anette Olzon | "Vintersjäl" | Vintersjäl / Cold Outside 2 | The good thing about having your desire to make Nightwish into a pop-metal band temporarily quashed is that it's easier to make a new pop-metal solo band than it is to make another Nightwish. |
| 12 | L'endeví | "Sleeping in the Cage" | Don't Go Back | Gritty Spanish gothic not-so-symphonic metal. |
| 13 | JMR | "Closer" | single | Twitchy astral soul. |
| 14 | Eric Prydz | "Generate" | single | Progressive uplifting transformative melodic trance pop. |
| 15 | Kleidosty | "After the Math" | Strange Skin | EDM in which the D is Drift. |
| 16 | Margaret Berger | "Apologize" | single | Beepy, melancholic dream-pop. |
| 17 | Marit Larsen | "Please Don't Fall For Me" | single | Rich, fragile folk-pop. |
| 18 | Monica Naranjo | "Perdida" | single | Balletic opera-metal-pop. |
| 19 | Perturbazione | "Dipende da te" | Le storie che ci raccontiamo | Big, twittery Italian indie-pop-rock. |
| 20 | Álfheimr | "Void Synth" | The End of Greatness | Icelandic-sounding Australian Norse mythological electro-abstractica. |
| 21 | Muncie Girls | "Balloon" | single | Magnificently unglossy twee punk. |
| 22 | Caroline Kole | "Ready, Set, Run" | Caroline Kole | Can you be a former child star if you're still only 18? |
| 23 | Latitudes | "Ordalian" | Old Sunlight | Chewy, textural instrumental-post-rock surges. |
| 24 | Maj Karma | "Sotaa ei tule" | single | Dense Finnish dark rock. |
| 25 | Girugamesh | "slip out" | chimera | Florid, shouty J-kei-core. |
| 26 | Infernal Tenebra | "The Seventh Seal" | As Nations Fall | Croatian progressive melodic death metal. |
| 27 | Renate | "Imma wieda du" | Du bist mei Herz | Not the Estonian dubstep-dance-pop singer, but sweet German pop-schlager is good, too. |
| 28 | Peoplemover | "When This Feeling Fades" | Peoplemover | Swoony, fuzzy LA indie-pop. |
| 29 | Royal Tusk | "Fever" | single | Soaring Alberta indie guitar-rock. Apparently there was one "Royal ____" name left after all. |
| 30 | Sleeping At Last | "Atlas: Smell" | single | Lullaby for the bearded. |
| 31 | Xuso Jones | "Victorious" | single | Spanish viral-pop heartthrob. |
| 32 | Fjørt | "In Balance" | Kontakt | Barky German semi-post-screamo. |
| 33 | Simon Patterson | "Now I Can Breathe Again" | Now I Can Breathe Again +1 | Progressive uplifting epic giant-hook trance pop. |
| 34 | Hannah | "Jasmine" | Love May Find Us 6 | Understated dreamy California indie band understating themselves a little too much by picking a nearly search-proof name. |
| 35 | Belako | "Fire Alarm" | Hamen | Neo-UK-post-punk. But actually from Spain. |
| 36 | K. Michelle | "Not A Little Bit" | single | Ultrasmooth trap&r&b. |
| 37 | Ayse Hatun Onal | "Şeytan Tüyü" | single | Fluttery Turkish dance-pop. |
| 38 | Fallulah | "Perfect Tense" | single | Grand, swoopy metropop. |
| 39 | Timoteij | "Never Gonna Be the Same Without You" | single | Airy Swedish synth-dance-pop. |
| 40 | TENDER | "Lost" | single | Distracted, simmery, halting indietronica. |
| 41 | WTCHCRFT | "HIDE & SEEK" | single | Evasive post-vaporwave synth chatter. |
| 42 | Claudia De Breij | "Ik Zie Jou" | Alles Is Goed | Twangy Dutch country-pop. |
| 43 | BiSH | "Spark '16" | Fake Metal Jacket | It wasn't a genre with just BABYMETAL, but it definitely is now. |
| 44 | Daniel Haaksman | "Rename the Streets" | Rename the Streets +3 | Spare, lilting post-world idiophonics. |
| 45 | Kianush | "Szenario" | Szenario | Stentorian German epicore/hip-hop. |
| 46 | Savages | "The Answer" | Adore Life | Pummeling post-rock post-punk. |
| 47 | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis | "White Privilege II (feat. Jamila Woods)" | single | A long song, but a short essay. There are many ways to be brave, but this is one. |
| 48 | Eric Prydz | "Liberate" | single | Unhurried anthemic trance pop. |
| 49 | Eric Prydz | "Breathe" | single | You only have to take a little trance out of the EDM to get back to New Wave. |
| 50 | La Ley | "Ya no estás" | single | Earnest Chilean pop-rock. |
| 51 | Annika Aakjær | "Alt Hvad Jeg Vil Sige" | single | The Dutch Frida Sundemo? |
| 52 | Cheap Trick | "No Direction Home" | single | Celebrate Hall of Fame induction with a song that could easily be a museum exhibit for "Rock and Roll Music". |
| 53 | The Jezabels | "Pleasure Drive" | single | Measured, meditative Australian indie rock. |
| 54 | Rose Noire | "Sins" | Structure to Your Heaven 5 | Surreal Japanese crossover-as-evasion baroque chamber-metal. |
| 55 | 麥振鴻 | "上古之時" | 古劍奇譚 | Chinese TV-drama epicore. |
| 56 | Fruitcake | "Stick Drawbridge" | single | Too Much Joy as a British neo-post-punk band? |
| 57 | Roly Porter | "4101" | Third Law | Ambient epicore universe-unbounding noise-catharsis. |
| 58 | John Cale | "Changes Made - M:FANS" | Music For a New Society/M:FANS | 34 years later, Cale confronts Music for a New Society and tries again. |
| 59 | Shearwater | "Pale Kings" | Jet Plane and Oxbow | The band from which I now retroactively re-survey the significance and extent of "indie rock". |