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"Blinding Lights" by the Weeknd (pictured) was the best-performing single of 2020, spending a total of four nonconsecutive weeks at the top position of the Billboard Hot 100, as well as breaking Billboard records for both the most time ever spent in the Top 5, and the most spent in the Top 10. [1]
- Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, “Rain on Me” It’s common practice for music fans to dub different songs “the anthem” of a specific year. But in 2020 — a year defined (and constantly redefined) by how preternaturally awful things can actually get — one song in particular served as its saving grace.
- The Weeknd, “Blinding Lights” The numbers speak for themselves, don’t they? In addition to “Blinding Lights” ending up the No. 1 Hot 100 song of the year, the longstanding megahit has enjoyed record-setting stays in the chart’s top 5 and top 10 regions, as well as atop Billboard’s all-format Radio Songs airplay chart and Hot R&B Songs.
- Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyoncé, “Savage” (Remix) “Savage” was a smash even before Megan Thee Stallion recruited hip-hop royalty for a remix. The song, which became a national obsession thanks to a raunchy dance challenge on TikTok, featured Meg at her most confident, clever and magnetic, layering sharp rhymes about her body, finances and game over a club-ready hook.
- Harry Styles, “Adore You” Harry Styles’ “Adore You” is one of those perfect pop gems that only arrives so often, and has to be played on repeat until someone in the household complains.
- Fleetwood Mac, ‘Dreams’ Apparently lightning can strike twice. Out of all the craziness this year, no one saw in their crystal visions that “Dreams” would get a second life: a smash hit 43 years after Rumours was released.
- Caroline Rose, ‘Feel the Way I Want’ A highlight off formerly rootsy songwriter Rose’s synth-y fourth album, Superstar, riding a Prince groove wherever she wants it to take her, “Feel the Way I Want” sounds like a sweaty dance club well past midnight.
- Sam Hunt, ‘Hard to Forget’ The latest earworm from Nashville’s pop provocateur began with a sonic concept as daring as it was irreverent: Hunt transformed a Fifties honky-tonk chorus from Webb Pierce’s classic song “There Stands the Glass” into a convincing hip-hop sample that anchored this playful ode to being in the throes of romantic rejection.
- Jarv Is, ‘House Music All Night Long’ Heavy-breathing Brit-pop sex poet and fashion icon Jarvis Cocker returns, 25 years after he became a legend yelping the Pulp classic “Common People.”
THE YEAR'S MOST POPULAR CURRENT SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY FROM DIGITAL MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS PROVIDED BY LUMINATE...
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- “Long Road Home,” Oneohtrix Point Never
- “Uwrongo,” Prince Kaybee, Shimza, Black Motion, Ami Faku
- “Back Door,” Stray Kids
- “7 Summers,” Morgan Wallen
- “Think About Things,” Daoi Freyr
- “Good News,” Mac Miller
- “Little Nokia,” Bree Runway
- “Yo Perreo Sola” Remix, Bad Bunny, Ivy Queen and Nesi
- “Wap,” Cardi B Feat. Megan Thee Stallion
- “People I’ve Been sad,” Christine and The Queens
The strings that kick off “Long Road Home” are so urgent they transport listeners straight into a concert hall. Then they settle into a sparkling song that’s a constant surprise until its final note. The tension of that journey is echoed in the lyrics: “I don’t know why I don’t wanna transform/ Taking the long way home.” Daniel Lopatin, the masterm...
Prince Kaybee and Shimza, two of the brightest stars of South Africa’s flourishing house music scene, had afalling out two years ago after the former accused the latter of failing to credit him on songs. Luckily, they reconciled to create this low-burning triumph of exquisitely picked guitars and splashy cymbal work. Their immersive textures are a ...
Contemporary pop out of Korea is almost impossible to classify today. “Back Door,” from Stray Kids, is a prime example: there’s not a single musical style it doesn’t exuberantly co-opt, in an artful Frankenstein that’s as catchy as it is complex. There are dramatic airhorns, slinky R&B breaks, jazz interludes, a trap chorus, electronic beats that w...
For many across the world this year, the pandemic erased the best aspects of summer: the cookouts, tailgates, block parties, vacations and family reunions. So it makes sense that one of this summer’s foremost anthems was a morose journal entry of a song that turned its gaze onto some edenic past of lazy, stressless afternoons. For three minutes, yo...
At once funky and futuristic, “Think About Things” is the ultimate earworm: a warm, loving slice of electropop, with a slinky synth line, catchy chorus and groovy bass. Released by the Icelandic singer Daði Freyr Pétursson and his group—which consists of his sister, wife and friends—it was initially destined for the stages of the annual Eurovision ...
“Good news, good news, that’s all they wanna hear,” rapper Mac Miller complains, resigned but almost content with his self-imposed burden: to document the modern condition and all its uncertainties. The first single released after his death in 2018, the song is a meditation and a lament. “So tired of being so tired,” he sings, “Why I gotta build so...
One of the most arresting breakout stars of 2020 has been Bree Runway, a multi-hyphenate Brit who can rap like Missy, dance like Janet and snarl like Joan Jett. Her debut mixtape, 2000and4Eva, runs the gamut from punk rap to hyperpop to Madonna tributes; she squeezes attitude and enormous hooks into every stretch. The most peculiar of the lot is “L...
“Yo Perreo Sola” has virtually no musical components, but it doesn’t need any: Bad Bunny’s voice is so husky, it fills up all the space above resonant reggaeton drums. Not since “When Doves Cry” has the lack of a bassline sounded so good. Meanwhile, the song’s video—which features the Puerto Rican star in drag—elevates the song into a transgressive...
Few rappers today have the cultural cache of Cardi B, New York’s resident firebrand and hitmaker, and Megan Thee Stallion, Houston’s ebullient star. Together on “WAP,” they released a song that shook up the charts and, with its celebratory, explicit and uproariously creative lyrics, drummed up both controversy and conversation around sexuality and ...
There’s a good chance that your favorite artist took a stab at writing a quarantine song this year. That song was probably an anthemic ballad, and it probably attempted to convey loss and alienation before gesturing toward uplift and perseverance. Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber tried their hand (“Stuck With U”); so did Luke Combs (“Six Feet Apart”...
Jan 4, 2021 · The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2020. Huge hits by The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, DaBaby and Harry Styles feature in the UK's biggest tracks of 2020. By Rob Copsey | 04 January 2021. share: The...
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Jun 10, 2020 · The 50 Best Songs of 2020 (So Far): Staff Picks. Here are Billboard's 50 favorite songs of the year so far, with a Spotify playlist featuring all 50 of them at the bottom.
