The best songs of 2020 were created in studios from Seoul to Johannesburg, Puerto Rico to Nashville. They strut, commiserate, titillate and disarm. Some of them are collaborations that showcase ...

There’s so much we’d like to erase about 2020 — but never, ever the elation, élan, empathy, harmony, rich social commentary and dumb fun that the year’s best music brought us. Yes, we do hope the door ...

The best rock songs of 2020 brought joy to a year that really needed it. It's pretty hard to imagine how the year could have gone worse for the the music industry as a whole, as the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The best songs of 2020 are more than just songs—they're the anthems that got us through an unprecedented year. Whether we turned to them for escape, for inspiration, or for a reflection of the times, ...

2020 saw rising artists fully come into their own, most notably Megan Thee Stallion, who tops our Best Songs list alongside Cardi B for the world-owning raunch of “WAP” and then appears again ...

Many of the best songs of 2020 can be found on December's list of the Top 40 country songs on the radio. New music from Chris Stapleton, Thomas Rhett and Little Big Town moved quickly up the charts ...

Whether your year was more “people, I’ve been sad,” “certified freak, seven days a week,” or “fetch the bolt cutters,” the best songs of 2020 provided a brief escape from the turmoil outside our ...

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Tracks responding to real-time events and a spectrum of moods captured the hodgepodge feelings of life in lockdown. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles No short list can sum ...

Welcome to a whopper of a mixtape. If you've been living under the rock 2020 dropped on all of us back in March and spent the last nine months finding comfort in the sounds of your childhood (hell, ...