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Welcome! I’m your host, Christopher Verdesi and this is the Chartcrush Top Ten Countdown Show. Every week we unpack a year in Pop music and culture and count down the top ten hits based on our exclusive ranking of the weekly charts published at the time in Billboard, the music industry’s go-to trade mag.

This week on Chartcrush we’re rewinding to 2020, a year (and new decade) that began with Google searches for the term “unprecedented” more than quintupling between February and April, thanks (of course) to the Wuhan Covid-19 pandemic, or “China virus,” as President Trump preferred to call it, which brought the world to a screeching halt in early Spring.

And then what seemed like a reasonable “15 Days to Slow the Spread” in March morphed into a whole year of lockdowns, quarantines, nasal swabs, facemasks, social distancing and public scolding—with gyms, churches, theaters, bars, restaurants, concerts, sporting events, hair salons and almost all independently-owned retail establishments—not to mention schools, workplaces and even the beach—the beach!—now prohibited from operating normally (or at all) in most of the country.

Unprecedented indeed! Up to 2020, any one of those things suddenly gone from American life in any state would’ve been, like, “what?!,” but in 2020 they all were, simultaneously, in all 50. Some states were super-strict—New York, California, Hawaii; others adopted a version of Sweden’s strategy of doing very little—Florida, South Dakota, Arkansas. But wherever you were in 2020, you probably hunkered down, installed Zoom, worked from home, ordered DoorDash or HelloFresh and got your essentials curbside or delivered from Amazon.

And as if all that wasn’t enough, at the end of May—peak pandemic hysteria—a White Minneapolis Police Officer was caught on video kneeling on the neck of uncooperative Black suspect George Floyd, who died in custody despite repeatedly telling the officer “I can’t breathe,” and the video went viral, sparking nationwide protests that got violent and destructive in many places after Black Lives Matter, Antifa and other radical leftist groups mobilized. But protest, not subject to pandemic lockdowns (or shouldn’t be): “vital to the national public health,” in fact. That according to 1,200 public health officials in an open letter. “Suddenly, Social Justice Matters More Than Social Distance,” one headline read.

Protesting the lockdowns themselves, though? Eh, not so much. Michigan’s Operation Gridlock, and “Reopen the Beach” in California—ignored or widely mocked in the news.

Well that kind of messaging whiplash accelerated what became a defining feature of the 2020’s: collapsing trust in institutions and experts. By mid-decade according to Gallup, barely a third of Americans believed the media and only one in five trusted the Feds do what’s right most of the time. Back in the 1970s those numbers were around 70%—even post-Watergate. Google searches for “deep state” also quintupled in March of 2020.

So against that backdrop of Covid fear, lockdowns, mayhem on the streets and fading trust—not to mention no sports on TV, except baseball with cardboard fan cutouts and fake crowd noise—Americans retreated further into their digital bubbles, where streaming offered at least the illusion of connection.

Tiger King scratched the itch on Netflix—a bizarre True Crime docuseries about a shady Zookeeper that dropped just as the pandemic hit and became an instant viral smash—something people watched just to be part of the conversation online.

And music had those too. Spring 2020 saw five straight weeks of new #1s on the Hot 100. That hadn’t happened in 30 years. There was Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber’s rush-recorded lockdown Duet, “Stuck with U,” and Lady Gaga with Ariana again on “Rain on Me,” tapped by Billboard‘s staff as Song of the Year for nailing the pandemic mood.

But like Tiger King, those songs were viral, of-the-moment blips. In streaming video, the real story of 2020 was comfort viewing: millions binge-rewatching things like Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds and especially The Office. All those beat the most-watched original series of the year, Ozark (Tiger King was #4).

And same dynamic in Pop: songs that stayed on people’s playlists—and in the top ten or 20—all year: songs that soon got their own category in the music biz—”forever hits.” More a streaming phenomenon thanks to the charts factoring repeated listens in the streaming era, but Covid kicked it into overdrive, and by 2025 the top ten got so crowded with these “forever hits” that Billboard had to radically update its recurrency policy to keep things fresh.

#10 Future featuring Drake – Life Is Good

That’s a story for another episode, but we’re gonna kick things off at #10 on our 2020 Chartcrush countdown with the first of a pair of Hip-Hop smashes that were #1 and 2 late January to mid-March—right before the stay-at-home orders. So it almost feels less 2020, more 2019 when Pop got turned upside down by “Old Town Road,” Billie Eilish‘s whispered vocals, and Travis Scott’s three-part Hip-Hop suite, “Sicko Mode.”

This is a two-part Hip-Hop suite—literally two separate tracks with a random interview clip in the middle. Hmm. Critics were quick to notice the resemblance to “Sicko Mode.” Hard not to with the same Rapper going first on both tracks despite being billed second in the credits. Hmm again. At #10 it’s Future and (second billed but we’ll hear him first) Drake with “Life Is Good.”

“Life Is Good.” Ironic title for a song that hit right before Covid, right? But how about Future’s first top ten in 2017—”Mask Off!”

Atlanta Trap Rapper Future and polished, melodic, Canadian Superstar Drake—two very different Hip-Hop personalities, but in common? Extreme workaholism. Coming into 2020, Future, nearly 100 charted songs, and Drake, over 200—a dozen of those collabs between the two of them, plus a joint album in 2015. So when “Life Is Good” dropped just after New Years with its video of Drake and Future working blue-collar jobs—it was a sure thing.

It debuted at #2, where (again), it stayed eight weeks behind the other Hip-Hop smash that was #1 for all of the 11 weeks right before Covid. We’ll be hearing that one a little later in our Chartcrush Countdown of 2020’s top ten hits.

#9 Maroon 5 – Memories

But at #9 another song that made its chart debut and peaked at #2 pre-Covid, but with its lyrics about loss and remembrance, it kept its chart mojo once pandemic tickers started counting the casualties on the news. The spare production helped too, plus the somber melody borrowed from Pachelbel’s “Canon in D.”

Written in honor of the Band’s late Manager and friend Jordan Feldstein who’d died suddenly in 2017 of a pulmonary embolism, it was their first top10 in five years that didn’t have a guest Rapper on it, and it made them only the second Group in history to score a top2 in three different decades. Can you guess the first Group to do that? Answer after the song; at #9 it’s Maroon 5’s “Memories.”

Rolling Stones, the first Group to score top2 hits in three different decades when “Start Me Up” peaked at #2 in 1981. Maroon 5 became the second when “Memories,” peaked at #2 in 2020—though calling them a “Band” at this point? Kind of a stretch—ever since Frontman Adam Levine teamed up with his fellow Voice Coach Christina Aguilera in 2011 for “Moves like Jagger” (speaking of The Stones).

“Memories,” #9 on our Chartcrush ranking for 2020 but #1 on Billboard’s 2020 year-end Adult Contemporary chart.

By the way, no Group has ever scored #1’s in three different decades, only Solo Acts—a handful of them, from Stevie Wonder to Lady Gaga. Mariah Carey, the only one to have done it in four decades thanks to her holiday juggernaut “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

I should also mention here that despite “Memories” being the only Group effort in our countdown, Maroon 5 did not win Billboard‘s Top Duo or Group trophy for 2020. That went to Korean Boy Band BTS, who stole the show at the Grammys in January and then debuted at #1 in September with their first single in English, “Dynamite,” which notches in at #18 on our Chartcrush 2020 ranking we’re counting down the top ten from this hour.

#8 Harry Styles – Adore You

Now before we hear our #8 song, a reminder that labels, Artists and Producers don’t make hits; Fans do. That’s always been true, and in 2020 Fans launched 22 different songs to #1 chasing viral trends—the most #1s in a year since 1991.

But remember earlier from my intro: so-called “forever hits” in 2020 became a feature of streaming era Pop, no longer just an anomaly. Cut off from friends and routines, when folks got tired of doom scrolling they turned to their saved playlists, and that’s where the forever hits lived—passive listening, comfort songs: sounds that felt like home. And because year-end song rankings always reward chart longevity, that’s most of our top ten.

Our #8 song may’ve been conceived as an exercise in postmodern pastiche—echoing random snippets of the past—but it connected, to the tune of 50 weeks on the Hot100, and along with two other Retro-Pop “forever hits” still to come in the countdown, it completely altered the trajectory of Pop for the 2020’s. Here’s Harry Styles’ ’80s throwback—it even has a guitar solo!—”Adore You.”

Harry Styles did score one of 2020’s 22 #1s, but it wasn’t that one. With its 50 weeks on the chart, “Adore You” was his biggest hit of the year on points, but it only got as high as #6. No, Harry’s #1 in 2020 was “Watermelon Sugar,” which got one week on top in August thanks to label gimmicks like pushing out collector’s vinyl and cassette singles and cutting the download price to 69 cents.

Harry, of course, a graduate of early ’10s Boy Band One Direction, and not the first to top the Hot100 as a Solo Artist; that was Zayn Malik in 2016 with “Pillowtalk,” and Bandmates Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson scored hits too. But after 2020, Harry Styles was the only 1D alum to crack the top 40.

The lead single from his next album in 2022 wasn’t just a forever hit with 61 weeks on chart, 15 of those weeks were at #1: “As It Was,” our #1 song of 2022.

#7 Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now

So while Harry was striking platinum with throwback Funk, at the same time—January to March—another British Singer found her biggest hit of 2020 under a Disco ball. She’d arrived back in 2017, as Pop’s new “it” girl with “New Rules“—all Tropical House and EDM polish, but after Pop’s abrupt late ’10s detour into Trap, Emo Rap and creepy, downtempo vibes, about the last thing anyone expected on the lead single from her sophomore album was a bright retro bassline, handclaps and strings straight outta Studio 54.

The album was aptly titled Future Nostalgia, and critics loved it from the get-go, but its first couple months on the charts: just meh—until our unwelcome microscopic visitor from China, whereupon the song began a slow, steady climb: eight weeks to its peak of #2 in late March. And it stayed in the top 40 all the way to November—52 weeks total. She was already huge in the U.K.; at #7, here’s Dua Lipa’s great leap into American Pop royalty, “Don’t Start Now.”

Dua Lipa, “Don’t Start Now,” #7 on our Chartcrush Top Ten for 2020—her first top 5 hit in the U.S. And fans couldn’t get enough of that Nu-Disco sound. “Levitating,” also off Future Nostalgia, would go even further, setting a new record for weeks in the top ten by a Female Artist. That’s our #1 song of 2021. But “Don’t Start Now” in ’20 was the breakthrough.

Along with “Adore You,” that’s two polished, retro Dance-Pop nuggets in a row in our countdown that took off early in the pandemic as folks on lockdown turned away from the darker moodier sounds of the late ’10s to bust a move in the kitchen. Still to come, one more throwback smash that mirrored “Adore You” and “Don’t Start Now” on the charts.

#6 Chris Brown and Young Thug – Go Crazy

But first, we’re gonna fast-forward to the second half of the year, when daily White House Covid briefings yielded to protests over policing and race at the top of the news in the wake of George Floyd’s death May 25 in Minneapolis.

A study later showed that one in three Americans believed that over 1,000 unarmed Black Men were killed by cops in America in 2019. The actual number? 13. But in pop culture as in politics, perception is reality, and protests erupted—”fiery but mostly peaceful” as CNN and MSNBC correspondents infamously characterized them in clips that went viral, cars and buildings burning in the background.

In Seattle, Activists even occupied a section of downtown, called it CHAZ— short for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone—and banned the cops. Asked about it on TV, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan compared it to a “block party” and the “Summer of Love,” but fatal shootings in the zone made her walk that back eventually.

For a time though, even with a raging pandemic, protest and “Defund the Police” became the backdrop for the Summer, and the mood on the charts shifted too.

At #6, a song that came out the week before George Floyd but made its biggest move the week after, and like so many other hits in 2020, once it made the top 20, it just stayed there. From their collaborative mixtape album Slime ‘n B, at #6, veteran R&B Singer Chris Brown and eccentric Rapper Young Thug, “Go Crazy.”

Chris Brown and Young Thug’s “Go Crazy.” Just three weeks in the top 10 in calendar 2020—in August—but again, it stayed in the top 20 for the rest of the year, and as soon as the glut of Holiday hits cleared out, it surged back bigger than ever thanks to an all-star remix and got another ten weeks in the top 10—in 2021!

Now Billboard‘s year-end charts, of course, factor only weeks within its so-called “chart year,” which for 2020 ended November 14, so counting weeks only up to then, they’ve got it at #39 for 2020, and counting its action after the cutoff, it’s also #19 for 2021 in Billboard. At Chartcrush though, we rank every song’s full chart run in whichever year it scored the most points, so it’s our #6 song of 2020.

Soul Train for one also gave “Go Crazy” its due: Song of the Year, beating Beyonce and Usher, and Chris Brown also won Best Male R&B/Soul Artist at those awards—quite the vindication for the Singer whose explosive debut as a Teen Sensation in 2008 was tarnished by his conviction for assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna.

As for Young Thug, his legal woes were still ahead of him: two-and-a-half years for leading a Bloods-affiliated gang in Atlanta and other charges. Still riding high in 2020 though with “Go Crazy,” and also his feature along with anti-vaxxer and future Trump supporter M.I.A., on Travis Scott’s #1 McDonalds song “FRANCHISE.” That ad campaign—ubiquitous in 2020. All you had to do to order the Travis Scott meal was roll up to the drive-thru with “Sicko Mode” blaring—and it even came with a coupon to pre-order the song.

#5 Gabby Barrett featuring Charlie Puth – I Hope

Okay, next up on our Chartcrush Top Ten Countdown for 2020—yet another forever hit. Released independently July 2019, it took six months to make the Hot100, and then another four to crack the top 20—that thanks to a remix that also juiced it to the top of the Country chart. But even then, it didn’t peak ’til late November—another seven months, which set a new Hot100 record for weeks to crack the top5—45.

In 2019, Billie Eilish became the first Pop Star born in the 21st century; here now at #5, the first Country Star with the Duet remix version of the song she co-wrote with A-list Nashville songsmiths, Gabby Barrett featuring Charlie Puth, “I Hope.”

Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope,” 2020’s top Country crossover hit at #5 as we count down the top ten songs of 2020 here on the Chartcrush Top Ten Countdown Show.

Barrett, the third-place finisher on Season 16 of American Idol in 2016, so critics inevitably compared “I Hope” to the scathing breakup song “Before He Cheats” by Country’s last standout blonde Female Crossover Star—the winner of Idol Season Four, Carrie Underwood.

Weird to think of a Duet version of a “scathing breakup song,” but after Gabby’s original solo version made the Hot100 in January, Charlie Puth hit up Barrett on Instagram, and they made it happen.

#4 DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch – ROCKSTAR

And ya know what else is weird? Here we are more than halfway through our 2020 countdown, and we haven’t heard a #1 hit! So far all the songs have made our top ten through chart longevity—”forever hits” as I’ve been calling them, racking up those ranking points week after week. But now we’re down to #4, and from here on it’s only chart-toppers.

And if we were counting down the top ten from just the second half of 2020 when the news abruptly shifted from Covid to systemic racism, police brutality and social justice, this next one would be #1. It’s the record that finally ended that stretch of one-week #1s in late Spring, and but for a single week it held the top spot ’til August—Billboard’s official Song of Summer.

And it fits the throwback theme of 2020’s top hits too: a Rapper who exploded onto the charts in 2019 channeling the direct, high-energy flow of early ’00s Hip-Hop at a time when the atmospheric mumbled introspection of Emo and Soundcloud Rap was the default. He notched 22 entries on the Hot100 in ’19, but in ’20 he really cracked the code with his first (and only) #1 hit. At #4 it’s DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch, “ROCKSTAR.”

Same title as Post Malone’s 2017 chart-topper, completely different song. “ROCKSTAR,” DaBaby and Roddy Ricch at #4 on our 2020 edition of the Chartcrush Top Ten Countdown Show. Three weeks after George Floyd, DaBaby was out with his Black Lives Matter remix—new first verse about run-ins with cops. That helped get it to #1 for sure—but the original we just heard continued to dominate streaming and radio.

Now did you catch the line where DaBaby brags about his daughter seeing him kill a guy before she was two? True story. It happened at Walmart, and inside three months, DaBaby was signed to a major label. And the charge? Pled down to misdemeanor concealed carry. So in June 2019, his debut single “Suge” having just cracked the top ten, DaBaby walked out of court with 30 days suspended, a year probation, and some serious gangsta cred he could take right to the bank—and did!

He continued charting hits but in mid-’21, onstage homophobic banter got him banned from festivals and yanked off streaming platforms, prompting Comedian Dave Chapelle in his next Netflix special to wonder how a guy could get cancelled for hurting a Gay person’s feelings, but not for shooting and killing someone in Walmart.

#3 Roddy Ricch – The Box

Now Charlotte, North Carolina—not exactly a Hip-Hop Mecca (DaBaby’s the only Rapper from there ever to crack the top 10). But Compton, California certainly is. That’s Roddy Ricch’s hometown, and Ricch’s own 2020 smash was still in the top ten when “ROCKSTAR” topped the chart. It was the longest-running #1 of the year thanks to a sound effect that you’ll hear right away that got it shared far and wide on social media. Here again, Roddy Ricch: “The Box.”

Time was radio made the hits, but by 2020 it was chasing them. Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” shot to #1 on the Hot100 in January, before it was even a top 40 radio hit. It didn’t make the top 10 on Billboard‘s Airplay chart ’til mid-March. Virtually all its chart mojo: that ad-libbed “ee-er” sound—a last-minute addition that spawned endless TikTok skits with bedsprings, windshield wipers, sneakers on a gym floor, creaky doors—you get the idea.

Not only did it keep Future and Drake’s “Life Is Good” at #2 for eight weeks, it also held off Justin Bieber’s first new solo single in four years, “Yummy, ” and that despite a full-court press from Bieber’s extensive fan base, the “Beliebers,” to push it to #1.

But almost as quickly as Roddy Ricch was everywhere, he was nowhere. Asked on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show in 2025 what his first concert was, Comedian Will Ferrell said “Roddy Ricch.” But then, he had to explain who he was: “Hip-Hop guy, about five years ago.” “Would I know any of his stuff?” Colbert asked. “Nope.” Well there’s “the death of monoculture” in a nutshell, right? “Everywhere” in 2020—not what it used to be!

#2 Post Malone – Circles

And despite 11 weeks atop the Hot100 January to March, “The Box” was not 2020’s first #1. Our #2 song was. Bumped from the top spot after two weeks back in December by “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” it nevertheless weathered the glut of recurrent Christmas faves and stayed in the top 5 through the holidays—a rare feat in the streaming era. And then, it returned to #1 for a third week in January and from there, went on to set a new record for weeks in the top ten: 34—all the way to May.

Branching into a softer, more melodic lane than his earlier stuff, at #2 it’s Post Malone’s first chart-topper that didn’t have a Featured Artist on it: “Circles.”

61 weeks on the chart, Post Malone’s “forever hit,” “Circles” at #2 on our Chartcrush Top Ten Countdown for 2020—the third single from his third album Hollywood’s Bleeding, Billboard‘s #1 album of 2020. And with his first two still on the chart all year as well, he was Billboard‘s top Album Artist of 2020. And for the second straight year, Artist of the Year.

Posty caught a lot of shade, though, for not cancelling his sold-out March 12 arena gig in Denver right as pro and college sports and other Touring Acts were shutting down for Covid. And for the most part, he laid low for the rest of the pandemic, re-emerging in 2024 with a total genre pivot. Reborn a Country Singer, his collab with Morgan Wallen, “I Had Some Help” eclipsed even “Circles” as his biggest—and longest-running—hit: 64 weeks, our #3 song of 2024.

#1 The Weeknd – Blinding Lights

So “Circles” ranking #2 beating out an 11 week #1 (Roddy Ricch’s “The Box”) drives home a key point about Pop in the streaming era: the secret to scoring the biggest hits is not debuting at #1, going viral on TikTok or even topping the chart for multiple weeks; it’s getting on people’s playlists, staying there for months of repeated listening and becoming a “forever hit.”

And no song drives home that point better that our #1 song of 2020, which debuted at #11 at the end of 2019 then plummeted. Dubious release timing right before Christmas, but even after the Holiday hits cleared out, it was still just languishing in the lower half of the Hot100.

But remember back at numbers 7 and 8: Harry Styles’ and Dua Lipa’s retro throwbacks that also came out before Christmas—the even bigger throwback forever hit I teased that mirrored those on the charts? Well, come early February, it cracked the top 20, and just like “Adore You” and “Don’t Start Now,” scaled slowly up the chart, as the pandemic set in. All three songs peaked late March/early April as worldwide Covid cases were hitting a million and folks were really hunkering down.

Here it is: the foreverest of 2020’s forever hits at #1: The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.”

Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. The Weeknd, didn’t have anything to prove coming into 2020. Four #1s already under his belt including two among the top ten hits of 2015, “Can’t Feel My Face” and “The Hills.” But still, “Blinding Lights” may’ve been a dud as Tesfaye himself thought it would be, but for its debut in a Mercedes Benz commercial over the holidays in 2019 since recognized as a flawless pairing of music and advertising, and, number two: what made “Adore You” and “Don’t Start Now” forever hits: Covid-19 and folks on lockdown “longing for simpler times and a nostalgic escape,” as Cox Media’s Will Calder put it in an August Billboard piece.

“Blinding Lights” didn’t crack the top ten ’til the end of February, but once it did, it stayed in the top ten for the next 40 weeks, including four weeks at #1 in the Spring, and didn’t exit the chart ’til September of 2021. 91 weeks, a new record—whereupon Billboard declared it the new #1 Hot100 hit of all time, surpassing “The Twist,” Chubby Checker’s early ’60s smash that hit #1 in two separate chart runs.

Now you’d think that might’ve made an impression on The Grammys, but literally the day after that announcement, the 2020 nominations dropped, and no “Blinding Lights,” no Weeknd at all! prompting Tesfaye to Tweet that the Grammys are corrupt and he’d never have anything to do with them again. Which lasted ’til 2025, and it was a big deal when he came back.

Bonus

Okay, so that’s our top ten here on our 2020 edition of Chartcrush, calculated solely from positions on Billboard‘s weekly Hot100 charts and always factoring songs’ full chart runs. Again, Billboard‘s year-end rankings only factor weeks within their “chart year” no matter when songs entered or exited the chart, so two songs we heard this hour were not in the top ten on Billboard‘s year-end Hot100 chart for 2020.

Our #5 song, Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope,” was on the chart all year, but didn’t surge to its peak of #3 ’til literally the week after Billboard‘s cutoff for the 2020 chart year, so they have it at #12 for 2020 and #40 for 2021. And similarly, #6, Chris Brown and Young Thug’s “Go Crazy” was #39 for 2020 in Billboard and #19 for 2021 thanks to the remix in early ’21.

So those two coming in to our top ten means two from Billboard‘s were not in our countdown. To be thorough, let’s look at those.

First, Billboard had Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” at #10 for 2020. Since its three weeks at #1 were still in calendar 2019 but after Billboard‘s chart year cutoff, it’s our #4 song—of 2019, not 2020.

#14 Maren Morris – The Bones

But there was one legit 2020 hit in Billboard‘s year-end top ten that missed ours, and it’s their #9 song: a Country crossover like Gabby Barrett, which, again, made our top ten but not Billboard‘s, so, an even swap! It was also, like Gabby Barrett, the Singer’s first #1 on the Country chart, and surged into the top 20 on the Hot100 during the pandemic—only peaking at #12, but on the chart 52 weeks.

Most Pop fans first heard her featured on Zedd’s “The Middle” in 2018; here’s her first big hit as a Headliner. It’s Maren Morris, “The Bones.”

“The house don’t fall when the bones are good,” Texas-born Maren Morris, “The Bones,” #14 on our Chartcrush ranking for 2020, but Billboard’s #9 song of the year—the first time since Paula Cole’s “I Don’t Want to Wait” in 1998 that a song made Billboard‘s year-end top ten without ever cracking the top ten on the weekly Hot100—it’s message about how a strong foundation lasts through tough times resonating with millions upended by Covid.

And on that positive note, time to bring down the curtain on our 2020 edition of Chartcrush. I’ve been your host Christopher Verdesi, and I want to thank you for listening. Hey, if you like what you heard, head on over to our website, chartcrush.com, where you can stream episodes of the show, follow along with written transcripts, and check out steezy extras like our full top 100 charts and interactive line graphs of the actual chart runs of the top 10 songs. Which we do for every year—’40s to now—and it’s all on that website, again, chartcrush.com.

Meanwhile, don’t forget to tune in again next week, same station and time, for another year, and another edition of Chartcrush.

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