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 | Canada:Songs of the Year, 1967-2024 |
These are the biggest hits for Canada each year from 1967 to present. 1967 to 1999 are based on Year-End RPM charts. 2008 onward are based on Billboard Canadian Hot 100 year-end charts. Other years are determined by selecting the song which spent the most weeks at #1 that year. Check out other “songs of the year” lists here.
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First posted 4/24/2020; last updated 2/5/2025. |
 | Dave’s Music Database:Top 50 Songs of 2020 |
These are the top 50 songs of 2020 based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from year-end lists. Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.
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First posted 12/26/2021; last updated 1/17/2023. |
 | LevitatingDua Lipa with DaBaby |
Writer(s): Dua Lipa, Clarence Coffee Jr., Sarah Hudson, Stephen Kozmeniuk, DaBaby (see lyrics here) Released: October 1, 2020 First Charted: October 17, 2020 Peak: 2 US, 17 BA, 11 DG, 13 RR, 114 AC, 17 A40, 5 UK, 13 CN, 4 AU, 12 DF (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 10.0 US, 2.4 UK, 14.84 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 1361.61 video, 3163.00 streaming |
Awards:Click on award for more details. 
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About the Song:Dua Lipa released her self-titled debut album in 2017. It produced a top-10 hit in the UK with “Be the One” as well as the #1 song “New Rules,” which was also a top-10 hit in the U.S. Her sophomore album, Future Nostalgia, followed in 2020. It produced three more top-10 hits in the UK, including “Don’t Start Now,” which reached #2 in America. The biggest song, however, was “Levitating,” which gave Dua Lipa her fourth top-10 hit from the album in the UK and another #2 hit in the U.S. The song spent 41 weeks in the top 10 and become one of the longest-charting songs in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. It was named Billboard magazine’s song of the year in 2021. The ”electro-disco” WK song “incorporates elements of dance-pop, pop-funk, power pop, and space rock, as well as 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s pop and R&B styles.” WK Stephen Kozmeniuk, the producer, thought it would be cool to craft a “slinky disco track” WK and he and Lupa settled in on the idea of using old instruments, such as a Roland VP-330 snythesizer. WK When the songwriting team was crafting lyrics, they took inspiration from an Austin Powers movie, imagining Mike Myers dancing to the song. WK Lupa said the writers danced all the way through the making of the song. WK Lyrically, the title describes the idea of levitating when falling in love, using “an exaggerated metaphor of love as a spaceship to transmit radiant euphoria and happiness.” WK She said, “It’s about having fun and meeting someone and falling in love.” SF The single is actually the second remix of the song. The first was done with Madonna and Missy Elliott while the second was with DaBaby. Lipa had already added what she called her “British version of Blondie’s rapping” SF on the original to emphasize her British accent because some people didn’t realize she was from England. While some, such as Jamie Parmenter of Vinyl Chapters, expressed the “pleasure of hearing the singer’s English accent” WK there were others, such as Under the Radar’s Conrad Duncan which called it a “bafflingly unnecessary misfire.” WK DaBaby contributed a new pop-rap verse and intro over the original’s production. WK Resources:First posted 3/15/2022; last updated 10/12/2024. |
 | RockstarDaBaby with Roddy Ricch |
Writer(s): Jonathan Kirk, Rodrick Moore Jr., Ross Portaro IV (see lyrics here) Released: April 17, 2020 First Charted: May 2, 2020 Peak: 17 BB, 110 ST, 19 RB, 16 UK, 11 CN, 16 AU (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 5.0 US, 1.8 UK, 9.74 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 933.13 video, 1669.06 streaming |
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About the Song:Jonathan Lyndale Kirk (stage name DaBaby) was born in 1991 in Cleveland, Ohio. The Rapper released several mixtapes between 2014 and 2017 before signing to Interscope Records. He released two albums in 2019 followed by Blame It on Baby in 2020. It was his third platinum release and second chart-topper. The album featured “Rockstar,” his second single from the album and his first #1 in the U.S. It also reached the pinnacle in nine other countries. The single featured Rodrick Wayne Moore Jr. (aka “Roddy Ricch”), a rapper born in 1998 in Compton, California. He also released some mixtapes before his album debut in 2019. However, he had already reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 a few months earlier than “Rockstar” with his own hit, “The Box.” On the original, the two rappers “draw a parallel between their hip-hop gangster lifestyles and those of rock stars.” SF DaBaby also used firearms to stand in for guitars. He also rapped about an incident in which he was with his two-year-old daughter at Walmart and fatally shot a would-be robber. SF In June 2020, DaBaby released the BLM (Black Lives Matter) remix of the song. It substituted an extra verse for the original intro. It concerned the George Floyd protests that started in May 2020 and DaBaby’s personal experience with police abuse. WK Resources:
First posted 4/10/2024; last updated 10/14/2024. |
