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Shawn Mendes song features in Billboard's list of 2016's top tracks

Shawn Mendes' 'Treat You Better' has landed in the top 50 of Billboard's list of the best pop songs released this year.

The music publication placed the tune at No.42 and wrote: "Former Vine star Shawn Mendes was determined to make an early jump into singer-songwriter maturity with second album 'Illuminate' - and its chart-busting lead single, the tightly coiled ode to romantic frustration 'Treat You Better', certainly did the trick.

"Still, despite all Mendes' claims to being the 'gentleman' his intended deserves, he doesn't try to hide the adolescent petulance the situation has him reduced to, sounding like a 12-year-old fighting with his brother as he shouts: 'I know I can treat you better / Better than he can!'."

At No.1 on the list is Rae Sremmurd's 'Black Beatles', with Beyoncé's 'Sorry' and D.R.A.M.'s 'Broccoli' following. Other highly placed tracks include The Weeknd's 'Starboy' and Kanye West's 'Ultralight Beam'.

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