Every Lip Sync From ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 16, Ranked

After 16 episodes, 11 eliminations and plenty of plot twists, RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 closed out with a bang. (Spoilers ahead of the season 16 finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race).

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On the season 16 finale (aired Friday, April 19), all 14 queens reunited to crown their Miss Congeniality, while the final three contestants — Nymphia Wind, Plane Jane and Sapphira Cristál — duked it out for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar and a cash prize of $200,000. As with every finale since season 9, the winner of season 16 was determined in a final Lip Sync for the Crown, where the top two contestants battled it out in front of Ru and the rest of the world.

After a series of solo lip sync performances, Plane Jane got the chop, sending her out of the running for the top prize. Meanwhile, season 15’s Miss Congeniality Malaysia Babydoll Foxx returned to announce a history-making tie for the coveted title, revealing the queens of season 16 had voted for both Xunami Muse and Sapphira Cristál as their Miss Congenialities. Finally, in the face-off for the crown set to Kylie Minogue’s “Padam Padam,” Nymphia Wind earned her place in Drag Race history, becoming the first Taiwanese-American winner in the franchise’s history.

It’s fitting that the show ended with a high-octane lip sync, especially when you look back on the lip sync performances throughout this competition. Over the course of two dozen numbers, every queen showed off their abilities as entertainers by dancing, dipping and serving face up and down the main stage. Breastplates were bounced, wigs were snatched, outfits were revealed and, perhaps most importantly, legendary performers emerged.

So, the question remains — which of this season’s lip syncs stood head and shoulders above the rest? Below, Billboard takes a look back at all 24 lip sync showdowns featured on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 and ranks them from worst to best. Find out where your favorites landed on our list below:

Stephen Daw

Billboard