Looking back on 2020, many sounds will come to mind. The 19:00 cheer for frontline workers, Patti Labelle and Gladys Knight’s voices mingling, the deafening silence of existential unraveling. But maybe it’s above all ‘Eeh-uhrr’.
‘The Box’, Roddy Ricch’s incessantly popular, incessantly squeaky outburst hit, takes first place on the Rolling Stone’s Top 100 songs at the end of the year, catching up to 866 million audio streams on demand in 2020. meaning the words like the way they squeak, like a cat toy or an old door, ‘The Box’ in 2020 rocked another song with more than 750,000 units and 210 million streams.
While the song reached its peak early in the first week of the year and reached number one on the weekly RS 100 and spent ten non-consecutive weeks there, it was hard to beat because the months were over: none song could obscure it by the end of the year. (The only one that came close was ‘Rockstar’ by DaBaby, starring Roddy Ricch; the single managed to tie ‘The Box’ at number one by 10 weeks.)
The second place at the end of the RS 100 is the “Blinding Lights” from Weeknd, which achieved 5.7 million units in 2020. “Rockstar” and Drake and Future’s “Life Is Good” follows Numbers Three and Four. The top five is Kentucky-born rapper Jack Harlow, who was one of the biggest breakthrough artists of 2020. Its piano fall outbreak “Whats Poppin” pulled in 4.6 million units in 2020.
The Rolling clip Top 100 hits featuring the most popular songs of the week in the United States. Songs are arranged by song units, a number that combines audio streams and sales of songs using a personal weight system. The graph does not include passive listening such as terrestrial radio or digital radio. The Rolling stonee Top 100 map covers flows and sales from 3 January 2020 to 31 December 2020.
The Top 10 is, as usual, hip-hop heavy, including two Megan Thee Stallion songs in a row: ‘Savage’ on Number Six and her Cardi B collaboration ‘WAP’ on Number Seven. Four years after the first release, Brooklyn rapper Saint JHN’s “Roses” Number Nine is taking thanks to producer Imanbek’s sticky remix, while Post Malone’s “Circles”, released in September 2019, is at number 10.
But a newcomer to the country manages to break through the top 10 as Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope” reaches number eight with 3.6 million units. In general, as at the year-end RS 200, country delivers a stronger performance on this year’s RS 100 compared to 2019. Overall, 14 country songs hit this year’s chart, compared to last year’s 11. The established streaming star Luke Combs has two songs on the chart, with ‘Beautiful Crazy’ and ‘Beer Never Broke My Heart’ taking 61 and 78. And the upcoming Morgan Wallen introduces three songs on the year-end count with ‘Chasin You’ (number 29), ‘ Whiskey ‘Glasses’ (number 48) and “more than my hometown” (number 71). Overall, the country had a 19 percent increase in audio streams on demand in 2020, more than the overall increase of 16 percent.
And 43 years after its release, Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” is driving a spate of Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice to the year-end RS 100. After appearing in a viral TikTok video, the Rumors hit reached number 64 on the RS 100 this summer. By all accounts, ‘Dreams’ saw 1.9 million song units in 2020.
Lil Baby, Pop Smoke, Juice WRLD and Post Malone tie the most songs on the RS 100 year-end, with four each. Post Malone’s biggest song of the year was “Circles” at number 10. Pop Smoke’s “For the Night” is number 17, while Lil Baby’s “Sum 2 Prove” ends at number 31 and Juice WRLD’s Marshmello collaboration “Come & Go ”participates. 51st.
See the full year-end RS 100 here.