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Dec 3, 2020 · The great songs of 2020 were as abundant as the rest of the year was a drag. Think of these 100 jams as a silver linings playlist for the worst year of our collective lives.
This year has been really good because so many artists are being forced to get creative with album releases and content. In what year other than 2020 would you expect Taylor to drop one of the year’s biggest albums by surprise, Charli to plan out songs with her fans through Zoom, or Katy Perry to go full-on augmented reality to deliver a performance?
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- Deborah Dugan Placed on Administrative Leave as Recording Academy President/CEO
- Pop Smoke Murdered at Age 20
- South by Southwest Canceled For 2020
- Timbaland and Swizz Beatz Launch Verzuz
- Blackout Tuesday
- Taylor Swift Releases Surprise Folklore Album
- BTS’ “Dynamite” Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
- Tiktok User Doggface208 Goes Viral For “Dreams” Video
- Bob Dylan Sells His Catalog to UMG For Nine Figures
- Bad Bunny Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 with El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo Album
In January 2020, less than five months after Deborah Dugan had been hired as the Recording Academy’s first woman CEO/president, the Academy placed her on administrative leave, following allegations of workplace bullying. Dugan filed an Equal Employment Opportunity discrimination complaint, alleging the real reason she was placed on leave was she ha...
One of hip-hop’s rising stars of the early decade, 20-year-old Bashar Barakah Jackson (better known as Brooklyn drill rapper Pop Smoke) was murdered during a home invasion and alleged robbery in February of 2020. Though the tragedy cut short one of the most promising careers of the ’20s — breakthrough mixtape Meet the Woo 2 had been released just w...
Concerns around the rise of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. had been growing for some time by early March of 2020, but most people still believed that life would continue on largely as usual. But when Austin Mayor Steve Adler declared a local disaster, canceling the SXSW festival just a week before it was due to start, that illusion started to shatter. ...
It was spawned from humble beginnings: two of the most storied hip-hop producers of the turn of the 21st century going back and forth “battling” with their hits over an Instagram Live feed, one from his studio, the other from his car. Within months, Verzuz had become both a sought-after brand and a cultural sensation — one capable of creating count...
On Tuesday, June 2, 2020, two young Black mavericks ground the music business to a halt when their impromptu movement #TheShowMustBePaused went viral and became a worldwide rallying cry to end systemic racial bias within the multibillion-dollar industry. Conceived by Brianna Agyemang, senior artist campaign manager at Platoon, and Jamila Thomas, vp...
Taylor Swift, named Billboard’s Woman of the Decade in 2019, ended the 2010s on a strong note – she released another multi-hit pop album with Lover, with plans for stadium-set “Lover Fests” the following year. Yet the coronavirus pandemic upended those plans, and also set Swift down a different artistic path: Folklore, the first surprise album of S...
After years of inching ever closer to the top of the Hot 100 chart, BTS finally secured peak position with the English-language “Dynamite,” an undeniable bit of bubblegum primed for U.S. top 40 radio and wedding receptions alike. “Dynamite” broke the dam for BTS as chart-toppers – the group has since scored five more No. 1s – but more importantly, ...
It didn’t seem like a world-shaking clip: just a guy out on his longboard, taking intermittent swigs of Ocean Spray cranberry juice and vibing to Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 pop/rock perennial “Dreams.” But the power of Nathan Apodaca’s (username Doggface208) viral TikTok clip proved mighty, as the video not only quickly took over the internet, but it spu...
Bob Dylan cashed in on booming catalog valuations at the perfect time. Selling his entire catalog of songs to Universal Music Publishing Group for an estimated $375 million, he took advantage of investors’ explosive interest in what they deemed a relatively stable asset of music rights during the pandemic, and led the way for a wave of other high p...
Though much has been said and written about Latin music dominance and a new Latin explosion in late 2010s pop after “Despacito” topped the Hot 100 in 2017, no album in Spanish had matched the feat on the Billboard 200. It took a shift to streaming and a bad Bunny who only raps in Spanish to achieve global rule. El Ultimo Tour debuted at No. 1 on th...
- The Weeknd, “Blinding Lights” Sometimes the best songs are ones you think you’ve heard before — but from a different artist and a different time. “Blinding Lights” is like that.
- Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyoncé, “Savage (Remix)” Houston, we got a problem! When the city’s noblest daughters in Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé joined forces on the “Savage” remix, some considered it an anointment, crowning Meg as the premier female rapper in hip-hop.
- Harry Styles, “Adore You” Though released in December 2019, Harry Styles’ Fine Line grew roots in 2020 thanks to undeniably catchy singles “Adore You” and “Watermelon Sugar.”
- Doja Cat, “Say So” Even in a year where top 40 has been absolutely swarming with disco retro, there’s an ease to the throwback elements of Doja Cat’s “Say So” that makes it feel the least consciously backwards-looking of the year’s best floor-fillers.
Dec 1, 2020 · His music was streamed 8.3 billion times by Spotify's 320 million users this year. His most popular song, Safaera, has been played a staggering 407 million times alone.
2019 was the most popular year overall - but only because current chart hits account for a fifth (21.1%) of all streaming activity. Here are the top 10 songs from each of those eras, revealed ...
Dec 23, 2020 · 2020 was hard (we're saying "was" like it's over, but at the time of this post, there are still a few days left). But at least we had some great music to keep us company while we tried to stay ...
