What an amazing year for pop music! We say that every year, right? It's almost as if pop music is always amazing. Month in, month out, year after year. A solid, endless cavalcade of amaz­ing­ness.

This year's Top 45 is all over the place, in a quite brilliant way. There are guitars, there are synths. There are happy songs and there are sad songs. There are smashes and flops, bangers and bops. Some songs have over half a billion Spotify streams, one has just 89,000.

First off, and clicking the green button below will obviously lead to spoilers for anyone who revels in the arti­fi­cially engin­eered suspense of a countdown from 45 to one, there's a playlist.