Our No. 1 songs: 2019

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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We bury a friend, visit the School of Design, and gather around a crowded table to remember the songs that take us back to 2019.

Note: This is a recurring series in celebration of All Songs Considered’s 25th anniversary. A shorter version of this episode ran earlier in the year.

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0:00.0	This message comes from Bayer.
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0:18.1	A quick note before the show, this episode contains explicit language.
0:23.3	Stephen Thompson, as I live and breathe.
0:25.8	Hello, Robin.
0:26.8	Welcome. It's all songs considered. I'm Robin Hilton. This is our ongoing weekly look back
0:32.9	at the past 25 years of the show, remembering number one songs from a different year each week.
0:38.1	We're up to 2019.
0:39.5	And I don't know.
0:41.0	When I went through all of my picks for 2019, not a ton of really big, obvious stuff that I think everyone will immediately think of.
0:50.6	But I don't know.
0:51.9	What do you got?
0:52.6	Well, yeah, 2019 was the year of this.
0:55.0	Billy.
0:56.0	Huh.
0:57.0	That name sounded familiar.
1:00.0	What do you want for me?
1:04.0	Why don't you run for me?
1:06.0	What are you wondering?
1:08.0	What do you know?
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