Our no. 1 songs: 2020

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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We make some bad moves, start over, and take a day off in Kyoto as we look back at the songs we loved most from 2020.

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	It's All Songs Considered. I'm Robin Hilton, Stephen Thompson. Welcome, as always.
0:03.8	Hello, Robin. Somehow we've made it to 2020 in this long haul through all of these years.
0:08.9	We're in the home stretch. Yeah, I'm glad, Robin, that we have finally gotten to a nice, quiet, uneventful year.
0:16.5	Just not a lot happened in 2020. You know, actually, joking aside, I really struggled trying to come up with what my number one song of 2020 would be.
0:27.2	I kind of thought it would get easier once we got to the more recent stuff because we're in the final five years.
0:33.5	But it's not gotten any easier.
0:35.4	Actually, harder.
0:36.0	It's going to get harder.
0:37.4	But what do you got?
0:38.4	What do you think of when you think of 2020?
0:41.0	Well, what do you think of?
0:45.7	I think of just like out adventuring in the world.
0:50.8	What do you think of with music at 2020?
0:55.0	I mean, tempted as I am to force you to create a radio edit for WAP by Cardi B featuring Megan the Stallion.
1:04.3	I'm going to go with this song right here.
1:20.4	Day off and kids. with this song right here. So we've been playing name that tune, and this is Phoebe Bridgers, right?
1:24.7	Yes.
1:25.3	And this is Kyoto, which I think she says, that's like the first word she says in the song.
1:28.6	It's like in the first line.
1:29.9	Yeah, I got it.
1:30.9	They still got pay phones.
1:32.8	It cost a dollar a minute to tell me you're getting sober and you wrote me a letter.
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