Top 50 Songs of 2020

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. DMDB Top 1%: Glass Animals “Heat Waves” Dua Lipa with DaBaby “Levitating” DMDB Top 2%: The Weeknd with Ariana Grande “Save Your Tears” 24K Goldn with Iann Dior “Mood” Cardi B with Megan Thee Stallion “WAP” BTS “Dynamite” DaBaby with Roddy Ricch “Rockstar” DMDB Top 5%: Chris Brown with Young Thug “Go Crazy” Jawsh 685 with Jason Derulo “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande “Rain on Me” Future with Drake “Life Is Good” Ariana Grande “Positions” Megan Thee Stallion with Beyoncé “Savage” Justin Bieber with Quavo “Intentions” Wizkid with Justin Bieber & Tems “Essence” The Kid Laroi with Miley Cyrus “Without You” Taylor Swift “Cardigan” Tate McRae “You Broke Me First” Billie Eilish “Therefore I Am” Taylor Swift “Willow” Ava Max “Kings & Queens” Ariana Grande with Justin Bieber “Stuck with U” Eminem with Juice Wrld “Godzilla” Twenty One Pilots “Level of Concern” Justin Bieber with Benny Blanco “Lonely” Juice Wrld with Marshmello “Come & Go” Gabby Barrett “The Good Ones” Ariana Grande “34+35” Dua Lipa “Break My Heart” Luke Combs “Forever After All” Drake “Toosie Slide” AJR “Bang!” DMDB Top 10%: Justin Bieber “Yummy” SZA “Good Days” Pop Smoke “What You Know Bout Love” Justin Bieber with Chance the Rapper “Holy” Drake with Lil Durk “Laugh Now Cry Later” The Scotts (Travis Scott & Kid Cudi) “The Scotts” BTS “Life Goes On” DJ Khaled with Drake “Popstar” Powfu with beabadoobee “Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)” 6ix9ine with Nicki Minaj “Trollz” Lady Gaga “Stupid Love” Giveon “Heartbreak Anniversary” Internet Money with Don Toliver & Nav “Lemonade” JP Saxe with Julia Michaels “If the World Was Ending” Jonas Brothers “What a Man Gotta Do” Beyoncé “Black Parade” The Killers “Caution” Chris Stapleton “Starting Over” Resources/Related Links: Dave’s Music Database: Top Songs and Albums by Year lists Dave’s Music Database: Songs of the Year lists First posted 12/26/2021; last updated 1/17/2023.

24K Goldn “Mood” hit #1

Mood 24K Goldn with Iann Dior

Writer(s): Golden Von Jones, Michael Olmo, Keegan Bach, Omer Fedi, Blake Slatkin (see lyrics here) Released: July 24, 2020 First Charted: September 5, 2020 Peak: 18 BB, 111 BA, 12 ST, 18 RR, 14 A40, 8 MR, 14 UK, 111 CN, 111 AU (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 7.0 US, 1.2 UK, 11.61 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 748.39 video, 1947.41 streaming

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About the Song: Rapper 24K Goldn was born Golden Landis Von Jones in 2000 in San Francisco, California. He released his first music video in 2017 and his first single, “Valentino,” in 2019. The song reached #92 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has been certified double platinum. That same year he released his debut EP and signed a record deal with Columbia Records. In 2020, the “genre-bending” “uptempo pop rap and rap rock song” WK “Mood” was released as the lead single from 24K Goldn’s debut studio album, El Dorado. The song featured rapper Iann Dior, who was born Michael Ian Olmo in 1999 in Puerto Rico. In 2019 and 2020, he released three singles which would reach platinum status. The two first worked together on Dior’s 2019 single “Gone Girl,” which 24K Golden co-wrote. SF The pair of rappers “sing-rap about their toxic relationships in which their lovers are always in a ‘mood.’” WK The song developed while they played the video game Call of Duty. At the same time, producers Omer Omer Fedi and KBeaZy were working on a beat and 24K Goldn idly started signing along with a guitar riff Fedi was playing. WK The producers saw the potential of the ad-lib and pleaded with the rapper to set the game aside and record the hook. SF Alexander Cole of Hot New Hip Hop’s called the song “perfect for summer” and said its title “fits the vibe as we get a very summer-inspired beat.” WK Billboard’s Andrew Unterberger called it an “impossibly fresh” “visceral banger.” WK Slate’s Chris Molanphy went so far as to say the song had “one of the most instantly infectious rap-rock refrains ever.” WK Resources: DMDB encyclopedia entry for 24K Goldn SF Songfacts WK Wikipedia First posted 2/18/2024; last updated 10/13/2024.