The best songs of 2020

Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz
New York Times·
19 mins to read
The best songs of 2020
Music has managed to capture the hodgepodge feelings of 2020. Photos / Getty Images

Tracks responding to real-time events and a spectrum of moods captured the hodgepodge feelings of life in lockdown.

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No short list can sum up the plenitude of remarkable songs that appear every year, from commercial bangers to standout album tracks to one-time digital apparitions.

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