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Billboard's 100 Best Songs of 2017: Critics' Picks

If albums had something of a soft landing on the pop landscape in 2017, then songs more than picked up the headline-grabbing slack. It was a year of Cardi B replacing Taylor Swift atop the Billboard Hot 100, of Rihanna and Justin Bieber dominating the calendar without so much as a solo lead single from either, of Camila Cabello and Harry Styles striking out of their own, and of DJ Khaled and Calvin Harris going pop-star crowd-sourcing. It was a year of "Despacito" and BTS making international chart history, while Portugal. The Man and Sam Hunt did so domestically.

And even with all this, it was still a year where the very best singles might not have been the very biggest. From "Paris" to "Malibu," "North East South West" and everywhere in between, here are Billboard's 100 favorite songs of 2017.