This is a list of singles that charted in the top ten of the ARIA Charts in 2016. In 2016 forty-six acts reached the top ten for the first time. Justin Bieber had the most top-ten singles in 2016 with five, while The Chainsmokers had four.
| Symbol | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Indicates single's top 10 entry was also its ARIA top 50 debut | ||
| (#) | 2016 Year-end top 10 single position and rank [1] |
| Weeks in top ten | References | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singles from 2015 | ||||||
| 28 December | "Fast Car" ◁ | Jonas Blue featuring Dakota | 1 | 1 February | 9 | [2] |
| Singles from 2016 | ||||||
| 4 January | "All My Friends" | Snakehips featuring Tinashe and Chance the Rapper | 3 | 18 January | 7 | [3] |
| 11 January | "Ex's & Oh's" | Elle King | 5 | 25 January | 4 | [4] |
| 18 January | "Lush Life" | Zara Larsson | 4 | 25 January | 5 | |
| 25 January | "Never Be like You" (#4) ◁ | Flume featuring Kai | 1 | 15 February | 10 | [5] |
| 1 February | "One Call Away" | Charlie Puth | 3 | 8 February | 10 | [6] |
| "Hoops" | The Rubens | 9 | 8 February | 2 | ||
| 8 February | "Pillowtalk" ◁ | Zayn | 1 | 8 February | 5 | |
| "Gold" | Kiiara | 5 | 15 February | 6 | ||
| "Work" ◁ | Rihanna featuring Drake | 5 | 7 March | 3 | [7] | |
| 14 February | "Stressed Out" (#9) | Twenty One Pilots | 2 | 14 March | 9 | [8] |
| "Roses" | The Chainsmokers featuring Rozes | 5 | 29 February | 4 | [9] | |
| 22 February | "7 Years" (#3) | Lukas Graham | 1 | 22 February | 12 | [10] |
| "My House" | Flo Rida | 6 | 7 March | 7 | ||
| "1955" | Hilltop Hoods featuring Montaigne and Tom Thum | 2 | 7 March | 8 | ||
| 14 March | "Hide Away" | Daya | 6 | 28 March | 4 | [11] |
| "Cheap Thrills" (#8) | Sia | 6 | 4 April | 5 | [12] | |
| 21 March | "Faded" | Alan Walker | 2 | 21 March | 6 | [13] |
| "Work from Home" | Fifth Harmony featuring Ty Dolla Sign | 3 | 28 March | 8 | ||
| 28 March | "Dance Off" | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Anderson .Paak | 7 | 28 March | 1 | |
| 4 April | "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" | Mike Posner | 5 | 4 April | 7 | |
| 11 April | "The Sound of Silence" | Disturbed | 4 | 11 April | 3 | [14] |
| "I Hate U, I Love U" | Gnash featuring Olivia O'Brien | 1 | 18 April | 8 | [15] | |
| "Don't Let Me Down" (#5) | The Chainsmokers featuring Daya | 3 | 18 April | 15 | ||
| "No" | Meghan Trainor | 9 | 11 April | 2 | ||
| 25 April | "Just Like Fire" ◁ | Pink | 1 | 2 May | 11 | [16] |
| "Be the One" | Dua Lipa | 6 | 2 May | 4 | ||
| "One Dance" (#2) | Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla | 1 | 9 May | 17 | [17] | |
| 2 May | "Purple Rain" ◁ | Prince and The Revolution | 3 | 2 May | 1 | |
| "Say It" ◁ | Flume featuring Tove Lo | 5 | 6 June | 9 | [18] | |
| 9 May | "This Is What You Came For" (#6) ◁ | Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna | 1 | 6 June | 16 | |
| 16 May | "Dear Life" ◁ | Delta Goodrem | 3 | 16 May | 1 | [19] |
| "Can't Stop the Feeling!" (#7) ◁ | Justin Timberlake | 3 | 23 May | 14 | [20] | |
| 23 May | "Sound of Silence" ◁ | Dami Im | 5 | 23 May | 1 | |
| "No Money" | Galantis | 6 | 23 May | 4 | ||
| "Panda" | Desiigner | 7 | 27 June | 8 | [21] | |
| 30 May | "Cake by the Ocean" | DNCE | 8 | 6 June | 5 | |
| 6 June | "Me Too" | Meghan Trainor | 4 | 20 June | 7 | [22] |
| 20 June | "Too Good" | Drake featuring Rihanna | 3 | 27 June | 8 | |
| 4 July | "In My Blood" | The Veronicas | 1 | 11 July | 5 | [23] |
| "Treat You Better" | Shawn Mendes | 4 | 18 July | 9 | [24] | |
| 10 July | "Don't Be So Shy" | Imany | 9 | 10 July | 4 | |
| 18 July | "We Don't Talk Anymore" | Charlie Puth featuring Selena Gomez | 10 | 18 July | 1 | |
| 25 July | "Rise" ◁ | Katy Perry | 1 | 25 July | 1 | [25] |
| "Papercuts" | Illy featuring Vera Blue | 2 | 1 August | 10 | [26] | |
| "Hair" | Little Mix featuring Sean Paul | 10 | 25 July | 1 | ||
| 1 August | "Cold Water" ◁ | Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber and MØ | 1 | 1 August | 10 | |
| "Alarm" | Anne-Marie | 7 | 8 August | 5 | [27] | |
| 8 August | "Closer" (#1) ◁ | The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey | 1 | 15 August | 23 | [28] |
| "Crash" | Usher | 10 | 8 August | 1 | ||
| 15 August | "Let Me Love You" ◁ | DJ Snake featuring Justin Bieber | 2 | 22 August | 11 | [29] |
| "Heathens" | Twenty One Pilots | 3 | 5 September | 8 | [30] | |
| "Perfect Strangers" | Jonas Blue featuring JP Cooper | 6 | 22 August | 4 | ||
| 22 August | "I Love You Always Forever" ◁ | Betty Who | 6 | 29 August | 3 | [31] |
| 29 August | "Sucker for Pain" | Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa and Imagine Dragons featuring Logic, Ty Dolla Sign and X Ambassadors | 7 | 5 September | 5 | |
| 5 September | "In The Name of Love" | Martin Garrix and Bebe Rexha | 8 | 5 September | 2 | |
| "Dancing on My Own" | Calum Scott | 2 | 26 September | 15 | [32] | |
| 12 September | "Side to Side" | Ariana Grande featuring Nicki Minaj | 3 | 26 September | 9 | |
| "Starving" | Hailee Steinfeld and Grey featuring Zedd | 5 | 26 September | 10 | ||
| 19 September | "The Greatest" | Sia featuring Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 19 September | 8 | [33] |
| 3 October | "Say You Won't Let Go" | James Arthur | 1 | 17 October | 15 | [34] |
| "Starboy" ◁ | The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk | 2 | 17 October | 18 | ||
| 10 October | "This Town" ◁ | Niall Horan | 5 | 10 October | 1 | [35] |
| "My Way" | Calvin Harris | 9 | 17 October | 2 | ||
| 17 October | "All We Know" | The Chainsmokers featuring Phoebe Ryan | 8 | 24 October | 3 | [36] |
| 24 October | "24K Magic" | Bruno Mars | 3 | 26 December | 13 | [37] |
| 31 October | "Shout Out to My Ex" | Little Mix | 4 | 31 October | 6 | [38] |
| 7 November | "Don't Wanna Know" | Maroon 5 featuring Kendrick Lamar | 6 | 14 November | 6 | [39] |
| 14 November | "Sexual" | Neiked featuring Dyo | 4 | 21 November | 8 | [40] |
| "The Mack" | Nevada featuring Mark Morrison and Fetty Wap | 9 | 14 November | 2 | ||
| 21 November | "Black Beatles" | Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane | 3 | 28 November | 7 | [41] |
| 28 November | "Rockabye" | Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie | 1 | 5 December | 13 | [42] |
| 19 December | "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" ◁ | Zayn and Taylor Swift | 3 | 19 December | 12 | [43] |
| "Scars to Your Beautiful" | Alessia Cara | 8 | 19 December | 2 | ||
See main article: List of top 10 singles in 2015 (Australia).
| Weeks in top ten | References | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September | "What Do You Mean?" ◁ | Justin Bieber | 1 | 7 September | 19 | [44] |
| 2 November | "Hello" ◁ | Adele | 1 | 2 November | 13 | |
| "Sorry" ◁ | Justin Bieber | 2 | 2 November | 14 | ||
| "Never Forget You" | 3 | 16 November | 10 | |||
| 23 November | "Love Yourself" (#10) ◁ | Justin Bieber | 1 | 14 December | 14 | |
| "Stitches" | Shawn Mendes | 4 | 7 December | 10 | ||
| 14 December | "Middle" | DJ Snake featuring Bipolar Sunshine | 5 | 21 December | 8 | |
| 28 December | "In2" | WSTRN | 10 | 28 December | 4 | |
See main article: List of top 10 singles in 2017 (Australia).
| Weeks in top ten | References | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 December | "Stranger" | 5 | 9 January | 6 | [45] | |
The following table shows artists who achieved two or more top 10 entries in 2016, including songs that reached their peak in 2015 and 2017. The figures include both main artists and featured artists. The total number of weeks an artist spent in the top ten in 2016 is also shown.
| Entries | Artist | Weeks | Songs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Justin Bieber | 21 | "Cold Water", "Let Me Love You", "Love Yourself", "Sorry", "What Do You Mean?" |
| 4 | The Chainsmokers | 40 | "All We Know", "Closer", "Don't Let Me Down", "Roses" |
| 3 | Drake | 20 | "One Dance", "Too Good", "Work" |
| Rihanna | 19 | "This Is What You Came For", "Too Good", "Work" | |
| 2 | Anne-Marie | 10 | "Alarm", "Rockabye" |
| Calvin Harris | 18 | "My Way", "This Is What You Came For" | |
| Charlie Puth | 11 | "One Call Away", "We Don't Talk Anymore" | |
| Daya | 19 | "Don't Let Me Down", "Hide Away" | |
| DJ Snake | 16 | "Let Me Love You", "Middle" | |
| Flume | 19 | "Never Be Like You", "Say It" | |
| Jonas Blue | 12 | "Fast Car", "Perfect Strangers" | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 13 | "Don't Wanna Know", "The Greatest" | |
| Little Mix | 7 | "Hair", "Shout Out to My Ex" | |
| Meghan Trainor | 9 | "Me Too", "No" | |
| Sean Paul | 6 | "Hair", "Rockabye" | |
| Shawn Mendes | 13 | "Stitches", "Treat You Better" | |
| Sia | 13 | "Cheap Thrills", "The Greatest" | |
| Twenty One Pilots | 17 | "Heathens", "Stressed Out" | |
| Ty Dolla Sign | 13 | "Sucker for Pain", "Work from Home" | |
| Zara Larsson | 6 | "Lush Life", "Never Forget You" | |
| Zayn | 7 | "I Don't Wanna Live Forever", "Pillowtalk" |