22 hours of wonderful music from a less than wonderful year for pretty much everything aside from great music. This is the 16th edition of this blogs 200 strong ‘end of the year list’ and as ever the quality is such that No.5 could be No.1 and No.99 could arguably be in the top 10… ask me on a different day and the order could be wildly different.
Apologies to The Cool Greenhouse for ruining the cover art (above) from their superb single, ‘Alexa’.

With zero touring, 2020 was a particularly difficult year for musicians, so if anything on this mammoth list rocks your world then please consider a download or something beyond the 0.0001p per play they’ll get from that big Swedish company. There’s a Buy Music Club version of this playlist with everything off the list that’s available to buy via Bandcamp.

Of course I realise playlists are bloody handy so click below for your streaming platform of choice.

PLAYLISTS:
(TOP 200 TRACKS OF 2020)

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100.
D Double E
‘Tell Me A Ting’ (feat. Kano) / ‘Fresh N Clean 2020’

This is very very very… unacceptable

99.
The Cravats / Anzahlung
‘Now the Magic Has Gone’ (feat. Jello Biafra)
‘I’ve Lost My Footing On The World’

98.
Space Afrika
‘Oh Baby’

97.
Benin City
‘Hold Them Close’

96.
Drake
‘Laugh Now Cry Later’ (feat. Lil Durk)

95.
Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Roy Ayers
‘Hey Lover’

94.
The Melting Ice Caps
‘Downtown’

93.
Charli XCX
‘forever’

92.
Buju Banton
‘Blessed’

91.
SOAK
‘I’m Alive’ (feat. Gemma Doherty)

90.
RMR
‘RASCAL’

89.
Fiona Apple
‘Under The Table’

I would beg to disagree, but begging disagrees with me

88.
Nat Birchall meets Al Breadwinner
‘Hornsman Rock’

87.
Jorja Smith
‘Rose Rouge’

86.
Viagra Boys
‘Ain’t Nice’

I’ll borrow your stuff and never put it back
I’m kinda hungry, can you get me a snack?

85.
clipping.
‘Chapter 319’ / ‘Say the Name’

You keep playing dumb but still be trusted with guns you must be defunded

84.
DDm
‘Boys Don’t Cry’

People say boys don’t cry
But it keeps getting harder to hide, harder to hide

83.
Greg Foat
‘Yonaguni’

82.
Lotek
‘This Is (The Rebirth of Rude)’ (feat. Daddy Speedo)

81.
Bill Callahan
‘The Mackenzies’

As Jack and I bonded over our love of Mel Tormé
And the early movies of Kid and Play

80.
Riz Ahmed
‘Once Kings’

79.
Karate Boogaloo
‘Slappy’

78.
Fabiana Palladino
‘Waiting’

77.
For Those I Love
‘I Have a Love’ / ‘Top Scheme’

Your drugs aren’t class, they’re upper middle class
You, teeth whitening, pay for designer dogs
Da crashed the banks but kept his job

76.
Daniel Avery
‘Lone Swordsman’

75.
Alabaster DePlume
‘Whisky Story Time’

74.
Taylor Swift
‘exile (feat. Bon Iver)’

I think I’ve seen this film before
And I didn’t like the ending

73.
Tesher
‘Young Shahrukh’

I got 500 dollars in cash in case they don’t take AMEX

72.
Caitlin Pasko
‘Horrible Person’

Please stop texting me on my birthday

71.
Leon Bridges
‘Sweeter (feat. Terrace Martin)’

Hoping for a life more sweeter
Instead I’m just a story repeating

70.
Jayda G
‘Both Of Us’

69.
Shungudzo
‘It’s a good day (to fight the system)’

The birds are in the trees
They’re singin’ me a melody
La-la-la-la, fuck the police

68.
Kes
‘Soca Take Over’

67.
Shire T
‘Hackney Birdwatch’

66.
Snoop Dogg
‘I Wanna Go Outside’

You can’t tell me this is how we supposed to be livin’

65.
THICK
‘Mansplain’

Thanks for explaining
How to do my job
All your suggestions
It really helped a lot

64.
Thee Oh Sees
‘Don’t Blow Experiment’

63.
Moodymann
‘Do Wrong’

62.
slowthai
‘nhs’ / ‘feel away’ (feat. James Blake & Mount Kimbie)

Rick without Morty? Lil Wayne without codeine?
A rapper without jewellery? Real person, surely

61.
Open Mike Eagle
‘Everything Ends Last Year’ / ‘Sweatpants Spiderman’

60.
ENNY
‘Peng Black Girls (feat. Amia Brave)’

Permed tings, braids, got minis afros
Thick lips got hips some of us don’t
Big nose contour some of us won’t
Never wanna put us in the media bro

59.
Jasiah
‘Rebel’

Put your middle fingers up to the world

58.
Gabriels
‘In Loving Memory’ / ‘Love and Hate in a Different Time’

Standing in the spot where the last tear fell
Your magnolia scent still lingers there

57.
Pale Blue
‘I Walk Alone with Acid’

56.
Avalon Emerson
‘Long-Forgotten Fairytale’

55.
Songhoy Blues
‘Badala’ / ‘Worry’

54.
Devon Morgan
‘Lightning God’ (feat. Daddy Freddy)

53.
Agent Sasco
‘Loco’

The guns coming in by the boatload
Juvenile dem a bun up road

52.
Overmono
‘Everything U Need’

51.
Speaker Music
‘African American Disillusionment With Northern Democracy Continues to Smoulder in Every Negro Who Has Settled Up North After Knowing Life in the South’

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