Vampire Weekend's Father of the Bride won a close one for 2019. Let's see who wins 2020. Billboard chart-topping albums of 2020: Harry Styles - Fine Line (cont. from 2019) JackBoys - Jackboys (cont. from 2019) Roddy Rich - Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial (cont. from 2019) Selena Gomez - Rare Eminem - Music to be Murdered By Lil Wayne - Funeral Justin Bieber - Changes BTS - Map of the Soul: 7 Lil Baby - My Turn Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake The Weeknd - After Hours DaBaby - Blame it on Baby YoungBoy Never Broke Again - 38 Baby 2 Kenny Chesney - Here and Now Nav - Good Intentions Future - High Off Life Gunna - Wunna Lady Gaga - Chromatica Pop Smoke - Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon Juice Wrld - Legends Never Die Taylor Swift - Folklore Big Sean - Detroit 2 YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Top Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets to My Downfall 21 Savage - Savage Mode II Luke Combs - What You See is What You Get Ariana Grande - Positions AC/DC - Power Up BTS - Be Bad Bunny - El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo Shawn Mendes - Wonder Taylor Swift - Evermore Billboard chart-topping singles of 2020: Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You (cont. from 1994 lol) Post Malone - Circles (cont. from 2019) Roddy Rich - The Box (cont. from 2019) The Weeknd - Blinding Lights Drake - Toosie Slide The Scotts - The Scotts Doja Cat - Say So Ariana Grande - Stuck With You Megan Thee Stallion - Savage Lady Gaga - Rain on Me Dababy - Rockstar 6ix9ine - Trollz Taylor Swift - Cardigan Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar (cont. from 2019) Cardi B - WAP BTS - Dynamite Travis Scott - Franchise Jawsh 685 - Savage Love 24KGoldn - Mood Ariana Grande - Positions BTS - Life Goes On Taylor Swift - Willow What are your top three albums for 2020? We will keep a running tally and eventually have some sort of bracket. For me it would be: 1. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 2. Bartees Strange - Live Forever 3. Jason Isbell - Reunions What are some of the forgotten gems from the year? What is overrated? What did you discover at a young age and what did you discover later? YEARS IN MUSIC • forum.chorus.fm
remainder of the top 10: 4. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways 5. Hum - Inlet 6. Ruston Kelly - Shape and Destroy 7. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 8. The Weeknd - After Hours 9. Taylor Swift - Folklore 10. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today honorable mentions: Brian Fallon - Local Honey Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was Bully - Sugaregg Christian Lee Hutson - Beginners Clipping - Visions of Bodies Being Burned Cloud Nothings - The Black Hole Understands Code Orange - Underneath Dawes - Good Luck With Whatever Deep Sea Diver - Impossible Weight Deftones - Ohms Disheveled Cuss - Disheveled Cuss Dogleg - Melee Drive-By Truckers - The New OK Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling El Obo - Reach Into the Dark and Pull It Closer EOB - Earth Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters The Flaming Lips - American Head Fleet Foxes - Shore Fontaines DC - A Hero’s Death Haim - Women in Music III Hamilton Leithauser - The Loves of Your Life Idles - Ultra Mono Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions Jeff Tweedy - Love is the King Jonathan Wilson - Dixie Blur Khruangbin - Mordechai The Killers - Imploding the Mirage King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - KG Kvelertak - Splid Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter Mandy Moore - Silver Landings Margo Price - That’s How Rumors Get Started My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall II Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V & VI Nothing - The Great Dismal Old Man Gloom - Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning Pearl Jam - Gigaton Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Protest the Hero - Palimpsest Ratboys - Printers Devil Run the Jewels - RTJ4 Soccer Mommy - Color Theory The Strokes - The New Abnormal Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin Grass, Vol. 1 Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin Grass, Vol. 2 Taylor Swift - Evermore Thundercat - It Is What It Is Touche Amore - Lament Wolf Parade - Thin Mind stuff to check out: Alanis Morissette - Such Pretty Forks in the Road Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline Ariana Grande - Positions Biffy Clyro - A Celebration of Endings Bombay Bicycle Club - Everything Else Has Gone Wrong Bruce Springsteen - Letter to You Caribou - Suddenly Charli XCX - How I’m Feeling Now Chris Stapleton - Starting Over Colter Wall - Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream Lady Gaga - Chromatica Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels Maya Hawke - Blush Nada Surf - Never Not Together Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 2. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 3. Fleet Foxes - Shore 4. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions 5. Nothing - The Great Dismal 6. Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy 7. Taylor Swift - evermore 8. Taylor Swift - folklore 9. O'Brother - You and I 10. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1/2 11. Deftones - Ohms
Probably my favourite year for music of recent times. So much good stuff. Couch Slut - Take A Chance On Rock 'n' Roll Roly Porter - Kistvaen Code Orange - Underneath Honourable Mentions Nils Frahm - Empty Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas Deftones - Ohms Jonnine - Blue Hills Adeline Hotel - Solid Love Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters clipping. - Visions Of Bodies Being Burned Nation Of Language - Introduction, Presence Hum - Inlet Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Patchouli Blue DUMA - DUMA Tony Allen - Rejoice David Grubbs & Taku Unami - Comet Meta Bob Mould - American Crisis Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA Jeff Parker - Suite For Max Brown Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V: Together I generally try to limit my honourable mentions to just a few but there were lots of records I had an affection for this year so I just threw them all in.
1. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 2. Hum - Inlet 3. Haim - Women in Music pt. III HM: Empty Country - Empty Country Taylor Swift - Folklore, Evermore Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Bartees Strange - Live Forever Avalanches - We Will Always Love You Fleet Foxes - Shore Adrianne Lenker - songs and instrumentals Nick Lutsko - Songs on the Computer Frances Quinlan - Likewise Somewhat feel like the Taylor albums should count as 1 but I know that won’t fly
1. Brian Fallon - Local Honey 2. Taylor Swift - Folklore 3. Hot Mulligan - you'll be fine HM: Donovan Woods - Without People Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone The Front Bottoms - In Sickness & In Flames The Menzingers - From Exile Four Year Strong - Brain Pain
1. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 2. Hot Mulligan - You'll Be Fine 3. Touche Amore - Lament 4. Boston Manor - Glue 5. Off Road Minivan - Swan Dive 6. Envy - The Fallen Crimson 7. O'Brother - You and I 8. The Smith Street Band - Don't Waste Your Anger 9. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 10. Stormlight - Natoma
1. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 2. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now 3. Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA Poppy - I Disagree Ariana Grande - Positions Caspian - On Circles Melted Bodies - Enjoy Yourself Protest the Hero - Palimpsest tricot - 10 Holy Fawn - The Black Moon Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor Black Dresses - Peaceful as Hell tricot - 真っ黒 The Naked and Famous - Recover Bronson - Bronson Empress of - I'm Your Empress Of
Thank god for music that year. Bad times, but good tunes. 1. Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM 2. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Tough Cuts: Run the Jewels - RTJ4 Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon III: The Chosen Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You Deftones - Ohms King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - K.G. Mac Miller - Circles The Weeknd - After Hours Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo The Rest: Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now Soccer Mommy - color theory Touche Amore - Lament Taylor Swift - folklore All Time Low - Wake Up, Sunshine 21 Savage & Metro Boomin - SAVAGE MODE II Fleet Foxes - Shore Tame Impala - The Slow Rush Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets To My Downfall Jesse Ware - What's Your Pleasure? Four Year Strong - Brain Pain Bring Me the Horizon - POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - UNLOCKED Juice WRLD - Legends Never Die Seahaven - Halo of Hurt The Fall of Troy - Mukiltearth The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You Thundercat - It Is What It Is Hot Mulligan - you'll be fine Code Orange - Underneath Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately Dogleg - Melee Into It. Over It - Figure Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - Presto Phish - Sigma Oasis Tycho - Simulcast Future - High Off Life Gunna - WUNNA Nas - King's Disease Brian Fallon - Local Honey The 1975 - Notes On A Conditional Form
1. Mandancing - The Good Sweat 2. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 3. Run The Jewels - RTJ 4 4. Taylor Swift - Folklore 5. Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA 6. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form 7. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 8. Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM 9. Brian Fallon - Local Honey 10. Haim - Women in Music pt. III Top 3 are some of my faves of the decade
Shoutout to all the artists who still released albums this year. I feel like there was a pretty dry period from like April-June and then things picked up again. Leaving a lot of loosies off the list and just talking about the bigger albums so we're not here all day. 1. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia One of the best pop albums in a long time. A shot of fun that arrived just in time. 2. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Phoebe levels up in a lot of ways here and I love the more lush production. 3. Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA An incredible pop album that borrows from a dozen different genres to make something both cohesive and bombastic. Honorable Mentions Dance Gavin Dance - Afterburner The only album I like by these guys and even then they've burned all the goodwill away since. The Dangerous Summer - All That Is Left of the Blue Sky Some great songs on here, even if it is instantly more straightforward than any of their previous output. Seaway - Big Vibe Pop punk done right (emphasis on "pop"). The Chicks - Gaslighter The Chicks return with an excellent album that is 1-2 great songs away from a classic. Poppy - I Disagree Poppy's most realized project thus far. Hum - Inlet My first Hum album and it friggin' rocks. Brian Fallon - Local Honey For a long time, this was my post-wedding DJ album. Just a perfect break for the ears and I always appreciate aging musicians writing about their kids. Halsey - Manic Too long, but I kinda love this album, flaws and all. 070 Shake - Modus Vivendi From one of the worst live performances I've ever seen in 2016 to an incredible album in 2020. Others The Weeknd - After Hours I've always been surprised this came out in January, because to me it is perfect late summer music. Butch Walker - American Love Story Not sure wtf Butch was thinking here. Phantom Planet - Devastator Phantom Planet returns with half of an awesome album! Green Day - Father of All Motherfuckers Not sure wtf Green Day was thinking here. New Found Glory - Forever and Ever X Infinity Not sure wtf New Found Glory was thinking here. Pearl Jam - Gigaton The final "classic" Pearl Jam album, IMO. The Midnight - Monsters A lot more disjointed than their prior album, there are some good standouts on here. Partner - Never Give Up Very quirky classic rock from two Canadians! The Strokes - The New Abnormal The Strokes return with their best album in decade(s)? The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form The 1975 finally get a little too big for their own britches. Some good songs on here but wow do I hope their next release is shorter.
forever fuck this year, but what a deep release cycle. 1. aesop rock - spirit world field guide 2. phoebe bridgers - punisher 3. bright eyes - down in the weeds, where the world once was 4. carpool - erotic nightmare summer 5. christian lee hutson - beginners 6. hot mulligan - you'll be fine 7. stay inside - viewing 8. run the jewels - rtj 4 9. charmer - ivy 10. taylor swift - folklore 11. soccer mommy - color theory 12. mandancing - the good sweat 13. idles - ultra mono 14. 100 gecs - 1000 gecs and the tree of clues 15. charli xcx - how i'm feeling now 16. waxahatchee - saint cloud 17. code orange - underneath 18. seaway - big vibe 19. the weekend - after hours 20. loathe - i let it in and it took everything
1. Taylor Swift - folklore 2. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 3. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 2. Taylor Swift - folklore 3. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now 4. Gorillaz - Song Machine 5. Mac Miller - Circles 6. Haim - Women in Music Pt III 7. Jessie Reyez - Before Love Came to Kill Us 8. Stand Atlantic - Pink Elephant 9. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form 10. Halsey - Manic 11. Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor 12. Taylor Swift - evermore 13. Childish Gambino - 3.15.20 14. Beabadoobee - Fake it Flowers 15. Paul McCartney - McCartney III 16. Juice Wrld - Legends Never Die 17. Sara Bareilles - More Live 18. Knuckle Puck - 20/20 19. Justin Bieber - Changes 20. Hot Mulligan - You'll Be Fine 21. Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts 22. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 23. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon III: The Chosen 24. Katy Perry - Smile 25. The Strokes - The New Abnormal What an insanely stacked year.
1. Taylor Swift - folklore 2. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 3. Taylor Swift - evermore 4. The Front Bottoms - In Sickness & In Flames 5. Troye Sivan - In A Dream 6. The Weeknd - After Hours 7. Poppy - I Disagree 8. Banoffee - Look At Us Now Dad 9. The Chicks - Gaslighter 10. Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA 11. Kesha - High Road 12. Jack Garratt - Love, Death & Dancing 13. Neon Trees - I Can Feel You Forgetting Me 14. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush 15. Gorillaz - Song Machine: Season One - Strange Timez 16. Haim - Women In Music Pt. III 17. Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was 18. The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You 19. Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now 20. MisterWives - SUPERBLOOM
Top: The 1975 - Notes On A Conditional Form Taylor Swift – evermore Sea Girls – Open Up Your Head The Rest: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories Anti-Flag - 20/20 Vision Beach Bunny – Honeymoon Caribou – Suddenly COIN – Dreamland Cold War Kids - New Age Norms 2 Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia Eminem – Music To Be Murdered By Frail Hands – parted/departed/apart girlfriends – S/T Grimes – Miss Anthropocene Halsey – Manic The Hunna – I'd Rather Die Than Let You In I Prevail – TRAUMA Jack Harlow – Sweet Action Jason Mraz – Look For The Good Joyner Lucas – ADHD Lauv – how i'm feeling Mac Miller – Circles Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets To My Downfall Nightly - night, love you. Poppy – I Disagree Rascal Flatts – How They Remember You Recent Rumors - Heart Baby Selena Gomez – Rare Soccer Mommy – color theory Tate McRae – all the things i never said Taylor Swift – folklore Tiesto - The London Sessions The Weeknd - After Hours The Wldlfe - Waking Up Is Hard To Do, 2019-2020 The Wrecks – Infinitely Ordinary Singles I loved: “Heat Waves” – Glass Animals – This song will forever haunt me, till the day I die “August” & “The 1” – Taylor Swift “Hold Out” - Sam Fender “Broke Bitch” – 27Delly “Parking Lot View” – Almost Monday “Good Day” – Iann Dior “Sign” – Roosevelt “La Dificil” Bad Bunny “Body” - Megan Thee Stallion “Acting Like That” – Yungblud “What’s Poppin” – Jack Harlow