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Coming up on Forum, the music you were listening to in 2020.

We asked Forum listeners back in August for the songs that were keeping them going this

year.

So in this hour, we'll feature some of the beats, ballads, the sonic escapes that listeners

turn to time and time again and get NPR Music Correspondent and Powers take on the role music played in a year like this.

Join us. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

Until you me Pitchava.

Before you me pitchabba. Nikim. Whether it was streaming your favorite artists like Bad Bunny, the most streamed artist in the world this year, or tuning into a live DJ set online, or even picking up an instrument, music took on new meaning in 2020.

It was a companion in the isolation, an emotional release, a reason to get up and move.

So this is a segment inspired by you, our listeners, who really came through when we asked back in August for the songs getting you through 2020

that we could play weekly until the end of the year.

Joining me now is NPR Music Critic and Correspondent, Ann Powers.

Welcome to Forum, Ann Powers.

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