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The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2016 (Part One)

Todd in the Shadows | November 19, 2025

Was it really the worst year ever? …Yes. Yes, it was.
Part 2 here! https://youtu.be/PumpEpq88O0

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@moocowthepersom

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

4:52 MUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD????????
@arcticg7644

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Rewatching thia and the intro…. Just remember when we all thought 2016 was the worst year ever????? 😂
@boredaf4721

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

It’s crazy how these were the worst songs back then, we had no idea on what was to come.
@leticiadornelas4555

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

it's hilarious watching Todd complain about vine dances in 2016….. literally none of us knew the worst was yet to come
@BDESal

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Lost boy is 🗑️, giving a damn synopsis of Peter Pan lmao
@BDESal

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Todd face reveal when?
@BDESal

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Todd, I’ve been watching u a long time bro keep up the good work! ❤
@christianzombievampire

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

I was 13 in 2016 and I distinctly remember having a wattpad account where my bio was a list of my favorite bands (probably AT LEAST 100) and I wrote every single "o" as "ø"
@HexZero

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

that Ruth B song is so fucking garbage jfc
@runefaustblack

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

1:47 Hello Hbomberguy
@SemiIocon

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

2016, the worst year in history – watching this in 2025: lol, lmao even.
@notmomoayase

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

11:10 almost 10 years later todd would never covered an fastball episode on OHW
@Brayden1423

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

I’m most certainly late but I feel like expressing my perspective on Lost Boy, basically she’s singing about neverland before seeing all the flaws in it, finding solstice in the childish oasis as a way to combat the terrible childhood trauma
@JustWowNick

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

If Ruth B doesn't have a second hit, she might be a candidate for a future one-hit wonderland.
@derekrichardson9105

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

You think MSG was aweful, wait. You're awesome, Todd.
@austinfletchermusic

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

"Where are we going to get our tragically used samples from now?"

looks at the modern country scene
Uh. Don't think that's gonna be a problem.
@chaz9824

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

15:31 Toddstradamus finally got one right and a good thing too, almost 10 years later and the number 6 entry has yet to release another song.
@Jen_Masterson

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Kinda hot though
@aidanpeck5350

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

It wasn’t technically in the list, but I’ll never truly forgive Todd for including twenty one pilots in this video
@professionalsaltcube

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

I was actually 7 years old when 7 years came out, which only makes me hate it more
@janeokra

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

A lot went wrong in my life in 2015-18. I just hate all music from that era. I wonder if bias was the reason or if it was just objectively bad
@sallyhenneri7071

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Lost year by Ruth B. was sooo beautiful ! fav.
@adinarosenstein9586

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

“First star on the left, straight on till boring” is such a good quip that I’m willing to forgive you for misquoting Peter Pan (It’s the SECOND star on the RIGHT!)
@SlickGames2-gd5jw

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

10:29 talk tuah
@cee_ves

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

8 years later and all people want is to go back to 2016. i would say maybe one day they’ll want to go back to 2020 but let’s be fuckin for real the 2020’s will be kicked to the kerb as soon as they’re gone
@12100F

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

pretty sure Daya is gay
@betteryearentertainment4004

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

I blame this entire year, and "Jumpman" specifically, for what I refer to as "bore-pop."
@MrEmerald77

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Boy, in hindsight of the mid 2020's. The complaints of 2016 seem almost privileged
@zippermN

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

looking back at how many consider 2016 as the best year ever
@someoneontheinternet9617

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

I think "Sit still and look pretty" was popular due to trends on the Gacha Club community… I was 10 and watched a few videos back then, I could not avoid this song, it was in every mini movie, every singing battle or in their intros. Ugh, I have a personal vendetta with this song because of all the times I heard it.
@Gwyn1stborn

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Knuck if you Buck went hard
@nedcurfman3486

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

I love the honest disgust behind “Oh hell, this isn’t a metaphor, it’s a fanfic.”
@Thesmartestmanintheroom

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

It's weird going back to this video and remembering that MGK actually had noteable songs and wasn't just known as the guy who switched generes, because of his beef with Eminem
@Tyler108x

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

16:27 iconic way to end half of a two parter.
@Tyler108x

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

13:47 Ah, that one didnt age quite so well… Musicly and Tiktok are right around the corner.
@Tyler108x

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Lost Boy is just so on the nose, like nose is broken and bone has been shoved up through the skull into the brain, theres blood everywhere and yup youve died, thats what happens when a meteorite of bland lack of subtlety hits you in the nose at terminal velocity.
@dabolympics6782

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Hello, I'm from the future, just dropping in to say that Drake name dropping Mustard at 4:49 is hilarious now
@SEHipple

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Oh, man, 2016 Todd didn't even know what was coming for us. But, boy, is that Imagine dragons interlude amazing for Worst Hits.
@catloaff

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

BAD THINGS WAS AN MGK SONG???????????
@Robbie_Lugos

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

2 minutes and 53 seconds of this video is about Juju on That Beat. The actual song itself is only 2 minutes and 24 seconds, and it’s the only song that the group ever made or ever will make. There is an actual music group who made a top 5 billboard-charting hit, and you can listen to their entire discography without breathing.
@Robbie_Lugos

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Todd was right about the 10-second One Hit Wonderland.
@SolaireHighwind

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Tbh when I heard Lost Boy back then, I just assumed based on the somber tone that it was a metaphor for, like, escaping a painful reality through drugs or hikikomori'ing or something, or someone's dying thoughts. The concept that something so sad-sounding is genuinely saying being a "lost boy" is a good thing just seems wild to me.
@IsaacIsaacIsaacson

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

Its hilarious listening to people celebrate the end of Vine, not knowing that TikTok would revive exactly the same thing, only worse in every way
@NobelBailey-Taylor

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

I can't hate the song "Jumpman" to much, I got name dropped like 5 times
@thatguyfromak5190

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

I really thought "Peter Pan" had to have been a metaphor for like, child abuse or something in Ruth B's song. I mean why else would it be so dour and depressing… so what do you mean it really was just her singing about a book she read?! God the whole country was on Xanax in 2016.
@gabrielhicks8043

November 19, 2025 at 7:49 am

I forgot how awful Bad Things was, so glad this type of pop song died out

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