The Radio 1 DJs reveal what sucked most about 2016

It's safe to say that 2016 wasn't a great year. Too much drama. Too much sadness.

So we'll all be glad when the year is over and we can hope for a better 2017.

Perhaps it's a little bit gloomy (Merry Christmas etc!) but we asked the Radio 1 DJs what sucked most about the past 12 months. Here's what they had to say.

"Losing Prince and David Bowie. They're the two people I’ve consistently liked all my life and I’m quite fickle and I think you should be quite fickle with music. They are the two who I have listened and loved to consistently who I noticed were freaks and thought 'They're fun'.

"A few years ago, when I’d just started doing Radio 1 Breakfast and Bowie brought a song out. Someone who worked with Bowie called me and said he listened to me on the radio and wanted me to play his song, I was out on a date when I got the call and I was screaming. I absolutely lost it.

"His was definitely the first moment in my life where the death of a celebrity or someone I didn't know affected me. I cried. It really resonated with me. He was never past it, he was always creating stuff and he's the true sense of an artist.

"With Prince as well, they were both so out there in what they were doing in their vision and creativity. It definitely feels weird to lose that creative energy and to lose both of them this year."

"Losing Alan Rickman. I really felt that one. When he died, I felt there was a big out-pouring from our audience here.

A lot of people are willing 2017 to come in and start anew
Chris Stark

"He was so relevant to so many people of different ages, because of Harry Potter. It does feel like there's a lot of negativity around as we get to the end of the year and I think that's what's been sad about 2016.

"A lot of people are willing 2017 to come in and start anew."

"Where to begin? Where do we start? There are very few things that haven't sucked this year. It's hard not to give a serious answer, but the fact that the world seems more fractured and more divided than ever, that is genuinely frightening.

"We all need to be a bit kinder. I think everyone has forgotten to give other people a break, a little bit. It's got a bit too much."

"I can't comment on politics, so musically, just losing some of our absolute favourites. Prince and David Bowie, I genuinely shed tears for both of them. They were just fundamental in everything that I love.

There are some artists who are blueprint artists, that everybody else you see who is popular now, you can trace back to them
Clara Amfo

"David Bowie is the epitome of an individual and a trendsetter. There are some artists who are blueprint artists, that everybody else you see who is popular now, you can trace back to them. I'd say Madonna, Bowie, Kate Bush, Michael Jackson, Prince and Stevie Wonder - they are the blueprint artists you can see in every person in popular music. It always goes back to that holy group.

"I was genuinely gutted to lose Prince and Bowie. Just the year before I'd seen Prince three times in one year on his Hit And Run tour. I queued up for six hours. I was on 1Xtra at the time. I'd finished my morning show and I went straight to Koko and didn't get in until six or seven pm and he brought Lianne La Havas out and it was incredible."

"So many famous people dying. I know everyone is saying it but so many iconic people, that's a bit depressing. David Bowie was a real shock. There's been loads."