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  1. Despite clubs being closed for much of the year, disco-influenced music ruled 2020. The artists and producers of some of the year’s biggest dance records talk about what the music meant to...

  2. Mar 12, 2020 · But managers, agents and promoters say EDM — the most lucrative and prominent segment of contemporary dance music — is finally retrenching after reaching its commercial and cultural peaks in ...

    • 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...

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    • Bicep, “Apricots” In an often haunting year, Bicep released a song that was commensurately eerie — and no less compelling for it. Colliding cultures via samples of traditional Malawian singing and a 1950s performance by The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir, “Apricots” is spare and urgent, building into near cacophony before releasing into warmth.
    • Disclosure, “My High” The Lawrence brothers outfit an undeniable slice of U.K. garage with serious swagger, via crisp vocals from Oregon hip-hop artist Aminé and a rapid-fire feature from British rapper slowthai.
    • Jessie Ware, “Soul Control” Disco fanatics know dance music and electronic music aren’t always synonymous. Four tracks into the resplendent What’s Your Pleasure?
    • Jayda G, “Both of Us” The arrival of Jayda G’s “Both of Us” in May was both thrilling and bittersweet. In a normal year, the house jam would’ve had a very busy summer, emerging any time a festival or club dancefloor needed a shot of sunshine.
  4. Dec 8, 2020 · In 2020, there were many ways to understand the year in music; this week, we're considering four. Dance music is a communal and carnal act, a collective catharsis charged by pulsing beats and ...

  5. Dec 21, 2020 · The 160 end of jungle has been rampant with rave sounds for a while now, as has the 140 end of breakbeat; artists like Mani Festo, Special Request, Yazzus, Local Group, Dead Man’s Chest and Coco Bryce are now filling the void in between.

  6. Top Dance Songs of 2020. See also: 2020 Music Industry News. SAINt JHN - Roses (Imanbek Remix) Black Eyed Peas - RITMO (Bad Boys For Life) Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me. Marshmello & Bastille - Happier. DJ Regard - Ride It. Lady Gaga - Stupid Love.

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