What was the world like in 2016?
The biggest Hindi film of the year was Dangal, and everyone was singing Dangal.
What things cost in 2016.
Gold: yearly average, 24K, approx. Petrol: Delhi pump price around mid-year, approx. Sensex: BSE year-end close. Today's figures as of late Oct 2026. For curiosity, not advice.
The world's number ones.
Every song that hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016.
Hello · Adele
Sorry · Justin Bieber
Love Yourself · Justin Bieber
Pillowtalk · Zayn
Work · Rihanna Featuring Drake
Panda · Desiigner
One Dance · Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla
Can't Stop The Feeling! · Justin Timberlake
Cheap Thrills · Sia Featuring Sean Paul
Closer · The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey
Black Beatles · Rae Sremmurd Featuring Gucci Mane
It happened in 2016.
UPI is launched
Jio launches and data gets cheap
If you were born in 2016, none of this existed.
Neeraj Chopra wins Olympic gold in javelin
ChatGPT is released
Naatu Naatu wins the Oscar for Best Original Song
Chandrayaan-3 lands near the Moon's south pole
India wins the T20 World Cup in Barbados
The year is the trailer. Your day is the film.
The Moon and your nakshatra, the weather in your city, the front page and who shares your birthday.
Take me back to my day