2020 Top Fifty Songs
1 Annie – In Heaven
2 Ben Wise – Sans Bouchon
3 Kleerup - TRU
4 Carly Rae Jepsen – Heartbeat
5 Kari Faux – Look At That
6 Rina Sawayama – Bad Friend
7 Dua Lipa - Hallucinate
8 The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
9 Jessie Ware – Save a Kiss
10 Fiona Apple – I Want You To Love Me
11 Romy – Pyaar Tenu Karda Gabru
12 Pet Shop Boys – Will-O-The-Wisp
13 Megan Thee Stallion and Beyonce – Savage (Remix)
14 Lady Gaga – Stupid Love
15 Troye Sivan – Easy
16 Bfb Da Packman and Sawa Baby – Free Joe Exotic
17 HAIM – Summer Girl (Solomonophonic Bouncey House Mix)
18 Chromeo – Clorox Wipe
19 Charli XCX – Forever
20 The Killers – Caution
21 Sam Vance-Law – Stat. Rap.
22 Nina - Unnoticed
23 Kylie Minogue – Say Something
24 My Marianne – Husavik
25 Nadia Rose – Bad N Boujee
26 Duke Dumont featuring Boy Matthews – Ocean Drive
27 Blackbear – I Felt That
28 Taylor Swift – cardigan (Russ Rich and Andy Allder Remix)
29 Netta – Ricki Lake
30 Jon The Dentist – A Clockwork Orange
31 Scott Matthew – The Wish
32 Ariana Grande and Doja Cat – Motive
33 Gorilla Twins – Married To The Game
34 Jonsi and Robyn – Salt Licorice
35 keiyaA – Forreal???
36 Sofia Kourtesis – Home Is Where I Can Dance
37 Josef Salvat – Modern Anxiety
38 Cut Copy – Like Breaking Glass (Jacques LuCont Remix)
39 The Chicks – Gaslighter
40 Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion – WAP
41 Lyrica Anderson – Plot Twist
42 BT – Atari’s Lantern
43 Frida Sundemo – Backbone
44 Anne Clark – Abuse
45 Sam The Astronaut – Blue and Pink
46 Sparks – Sainthood Is Not In Your Future
47 Aly & AJ – Don’t Go Changing
48 Eelke Kleijn - Woodstock
49 Perfume Genius – Your Body Changes Everything
50 Victor Tellagio – X Files
The TV What Has Helped During This Year
1 Letterkenny
2 Star Trek: Lower Decks
3 I’ll Be Gone In the Dark
4 Schitt’s Creek
5 What We Do In The Shadows
6 I Am Not Okay With This/Harley Quinn
7 Devs
8 Lovecraft Country
9 We Are Who We Are
10 At Home With Amy Sedaris/Animaniacs
As well as previous years/seasons of TV which have proved a useful respite against the waves of despair and malaise prominently amplified by the pandemic: Community, Happy Endings, Harper’s Island, Letterkenny, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Nightflyers, Now Apocalypse, Schitt’s Creek, and Talk Show The Game Show. Also, I literally don’t remember when Legion Season 3 and The Terror: Infamy actually finished their run, but they were both bouncing around in my mind as well.
TOP 40 ALBUMS of 2020
1 Kleerup/2
2 Carly Rae Jepsen/Dedicated Side B
3 Ben Wise/In The Stars Tonight
4 Kari Faux/Low-Key Superstar
5 Rina Sawayama/Sawayama
6 Dua Lipa/Future Nostalgia and Club Future Nostalgia
7 Lady Gaga/Chromatica
8 The Weeknd/After Hours
9 Annie/Dark Hearts
10 Frida Sundemo/Sounds in my Head
11 Troye Sivan/Inside a Dream
12 Megan Thee Stallion/Good News
13 Destroyer/Have We Met
14 Sam Vance-Law/Homotopia
15 Fiona Apple/Fetch the Bolt Cutters
16 Pet Shop Boys/Hotspot
17 Chromeo/Quarantine Casanova
18 Perfume Genius/Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
19 Nadia Rose/First Class
20 Haim/Women in Music Part III
21 Kyle Kinane/Trampoline in a Ditch
22 Kylie Minogue/Disco
23 Sufjan Stevens/The Ascension
24 Ariana Grande/Positions
25 Jonsi/Shiver
26 Nina/Synthian
27 Blackbear/Everything Means Nothing Part I
28 Cut Copy/Freeze Melt and Freeze Melt Remixes
29 Diamanda Galas/De Formation Piano Variations
30 Sparks/A Steady Drip Drip Drip
31 The Killers/Imploding The Mirage
32 Gorilla Twins
33 Rufus Wainwright/Unfollow The Rules
34 Josef Salvat/Modern Anxiety
35 Rose McGowan/Planet 9
36 Hurts/Faith
37 The Irrepressibles/Superheroes
38 Lyrica Anderson/Bad Hair Day
39 Magnetic Fields/Quickies
40 Scott Matthew/Adorned
