Top Songs of 2020: UK

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Top Songs of 2020: UK

The year 2020 was unlike any other, to say the least—so it makes sense that newer faces had an unusually outsized impact in music in the UK and across the world. Compton’s latest star Roddy Ricch emerged seemingly out of nowhere as a dominant force, with his single “The Box” picking up over 455 million streams worldwide. On the other side of the globe, a similar success story was launching with Tones and I, the Australian pop singer-songwriter behind the ubiquitous “Dance Monkey,” which was Shazamed by music fans an eye-popping 24.6 million times worldwide in 2020. That’s not to say that home-grown talent didn’t make a huge dent as well, with Dua Lipa, Stormzy, and Lewis Capaldi (who has five tracks on the Top 100: UK chart) amassing astonishing numbers, while Joel Corry helped lead a chart resurgence of dance music with “Head & Heart” and “Lonely.” You can revisit these hits and the other most popular songs on Apple Music in the UK in 2020 right here.

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