Gold Derby Readers’ Best Songs of 2020 (So Far)

[Marcus Snowden (The Artist Formerly Known as msnowden1) Joined: Nov 18th, 2012 Topics: 170 Posts: 6349 View Predictions]

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Gosh, I hope that starting this topic doesn’t piss off smurty11. I guess the same rules that apply to their Best Albums of 2020 (So Far) list apply to to this one as well.

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[Boz Joined: Jan 19th, 2020 Topics: 10 Posts: 1734 View Predictions]

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I’ll keep it one song per artist.

1. Kiana Ledé feat. Lucky Daye – Forfeit.
2. Conan Gray – The Story
3. Dua Lipa – Levitating
4. Lady Gaga – 911
5. Joji – Run
6. The 1975 – Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America
7. Tame Impala – Breathe Deeper
8. Rina Sawayama – XS
9. H.E.R feat. YG – Slide
10. Bad Bunny – 25/8

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[fortheculture Joined: Nov 12th, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 586 View Predictions]

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1. Mall Grab: Sunflower
2. Lil Uzi: Venetia
3. James Ruskin: Consumer Patterns
4. Playboi Carti: @ MEHH
5. The Weeknd: After Hours
6. Waxahatchee: Fire
7. Arca: Time
8. Recondite: Tunnel
9. Disclosure: Tondo
10. Bicep: Atlas
11. The Weeknd: Snowchild
12. Lil Baby: The Bigger Picture
13. Grimes: Delete Forever
14. StaySolidRocky: Party Girl
15. Lil Uzi: Myron
16. Jamie XX: I Don’t Know
17. Gunna: Skybox
18. Caribou: Never Come Back
19. Halsey: You Should Be Sad
20. Lady Gaga ft. Ariana Grande: Rain on Me
21. Kygo ft. Kim Petras: Broken Glass
22. Perfume Genius: Describe
23. The Soft Pink Truth: We
24. Ekali ft. Reo Cragan: Runaway
25. Mac Miller: Good News
26. Tame Impala: Breathe Deeper

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[5 Joined: Feb 10th, 2019 Topics: 4 Posts: 552 View Predictions]

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Doing the same thing as Boz (one song per artist)

1. Dua Lipa – “Love Again”
2. Rina Sawayama – “Bad Friend”
3. The 1975 – “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)”
4. The Weeknd – “After Hours”
5. Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande – “Rain On Me”
6. Fiona Apple – “Shameika”
7. LÉON – “In a Stranger’s Arms”
8. Kelsea Ballerini – “needy”
9. Dixie Chicks – “Gaslighter”
10. Chloe x Halle – “Ungodly Hour”

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[Bassett Joined: Dec 21st, 2016 Topics: 9 Posts: 4461 View Predictions]

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One per artist here too

1. Leon – Theophilius London
2. Alone Again – The Weeknd
3. I Love Louis Cole – Thundercat
4. I Want War – Kali Uchis
5. Savage Remix – Megan Thee Stallion ft Beyoncé
6. Is It True – Tame Impala
7. Tape – Starchild ft Toro Y Moi
8. Split Decision – PARTYNEXTDOOR
9. Do You – Knxwledge
10. Lowkey – Teyana Taylor ft Erykah Badu

FYC :

Best Actress - Viola Davis, Frances McDormand
Best Actor - Delroy Lindo, Chadwick Boseman
Best Supporting Actor - Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman
Best Picture - Nomadland
Best Director - Chloé Zhao
SAG Ensemble - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Cinematography - Nomadland

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[Marcus Snowden (The Artist Formerly Known as msnowden1) Joined: Nov 18th, 2012 Topics: 170 Posts: 6349 View Predictions]

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1. Halsey, 929
2. Conan Gray, Heather
3. Lil Baby, Emotionally Scarred
4. Run the Jewels, walking in the snow
5. Perfume Genius, Jason
6. Joji, Run
7. Dua Lipa, Love Again
8. Kiana Lede ft. Lucky Daye, Forefeit
9. Fiona Apple, I Want You to Love Me
10. The Weeknd, Nothing Compares
11. Lil Baby, The Bigger Picture
12. Don Toliver, After Party
13. Halsey, More
14. Jojo, Think About You
15. Fiona Apple, Shameika
16. The 1975, The Birthday Party
17. Lady Gaga, 911
18. Westside Gunn ft. Freddis Gibbs and Roc Maricano, $500 Ounces
19. Lady Gaga ft. Elton John, Sine from Above
20. Jay Electronica and Jay-Z, A.P.I.D.T.A.

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[Andy Hoglund Joined: Sep 1st, 2011 Topics: 1 Posts: 4 View Predictions]

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Top ten (in progress)

1. Mother of Muses (Bob Dylan)
2. Sine From Above (Lady Gaga and Elton John)
3. Something to Rap About (Freddie Gibbs, Alchemist, Tyler the Creator)
4. Don’t Wanna (Haim)
5. Golden Oldies (RA The Rugged Man, Atmosphere)
6. Under the Table (Fiona Apple)
7. Selfless (The Strokes)
8. Universal Solider (Jay Electronica)
9. 35.31 (Childish Gambino)
10. The Steps (Haim)

alt: Time (Childish Gambino), COFFIN (Jessie Reyez), Godzilla (Eminem), First Rose of Spring (Willie Nelson)

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[rue Joined: Oct 31st, 2019 Topics: 6 Posts: 4092 View Predictions]

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• Heather Conan Gray
• Bad Friend Rina Sawayama
• Under The Table Fiona Apple
• 3 AM Halsey
• Now I Don’t Hate California After All Carly Rae Jepsen
• Cornelia Street- Live From Paris Taylor Swift
• Levitating Dua Lipa
• 911 Lady Gaga
• Julianna Calm Down Dixie Chicks
• Black And White Niall Horan

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[mariahisonfire Joined: Dec 4th, 2012 Topics: 0 Posts: 41 View Predictions]

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No Particular Order:

Stupid Love- Lady gaga
Alice- Lady gaga
Babylon- Lady gaga
Cool- Dua Lipa
Everything I wanted- Billie Eilish
Save Your Tears- The Weeknd
Blinding Lights- The Weeknd
To Die For- Sam Smith
Watermelon Sugar- Harry Styles
Do It- Toni Braxton

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[ELIAS🍂 Joined: Nov 29th, 2017 Topics: 25 Posts: 4916 View Predictions]

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*songs are chosen by if they were released this year, song added towards an album released in 2020 that has been released prior to oct. 19th 2019, as well as songs that have gain traction on the charts recently*

1. Posthumous Forgiveness (Tame Impala)
2. For Her (Fiona Apple)
3. walking in the snow (Run The Jewels)
4. Don’t Start Now (Dua Lipa)
5. Forever (Charli XCX)
6. Blinding Lights (The Weeknd)
7. Me & You Together Song (The 1975)
8. STFU (Rina Sawayama)
9. Savage REMIX (Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyoncé)
10. Describe/On The Floor (Perfume Genius$

I add some more songs you should check out though:

• Funny Thing ~ Thundercat
• Safaaera ~ Bad Bunny
• Guilty Conscience ~ 070 Shake
• Complicated ~ Mac Miller
• BLOODMONEY ~ Poppy
• Delete Forever ~ Grimes
• People I’ve Been Sad ~  Christine & The Queens
• Run ~ Joji
• 4 American Dollars ~ US Girls
• Cut Me ~ Moses Sumney
• Thos Moser ~ Gupi & Fraxon
• WHATS POPPIN ~ Jack Harlow
• If You Can’t Do It Good, Do It Hard ~ Against All Logic
• Gospel For A New Country ~  Yves Tumor
• Need Your Love ~ Tenis
• Anyone ~ Demi Lovato
• Futsal Shuffle 2020 ~ Lil Uzi Vert
• Held Down ~ Laura Marling
• 1000 Doves ~ Lady Gaga
• Loaded ~ HMLTD
• Dealer  ~ RMR
• Bottle Black Power Buy The Businesses ~ Quelle Chris & Chris Keys
• Like I Loved You ~ Caribou

Folklore AOTY

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[BICTH Joined: Nov 3rd, 2016 Topics: 3 Posts: 3077 View Predictions]

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Run the Jewels – a few words for the firing squad
Lucinda Williams – Man Without A Soul
Lady Gaga – Rain On Me
Fiona Apple – Shameika
Hinds – Good Bad Times
HAIM – Los Angeles
Charli XCX – Forever
Jessie Ware – Spotlight
Dua Lipa – Levitating
Rina Sawayama – Tokyo Love Hotel

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[John Berchmans Joined: Jan 22nd, 2018 Topics: 6 Posts: 4558 View Predictions]

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I haven’t listened to everything yet but here’s my Top 10 for now. As before, I’m only including one song per artist and only songs released after 2020 unless they released in 2019 but had their main promotional push in 2020 (like Say So)

1: In Your Eyes (Remix)-The Weeknd ft. Doja Cat (2nd Version)

2: Love Again-Dua Lipa

3: X-Jonas Brothers ft. KAROL G

4: Godzilla-Eminem ft. Juice Wrld

5: Rain On Me-Lady Gaga ft. Ariana Grande

6: Say So-Doja Cat

7: 3AM-Halsey

8: BFF-Kesha ft. Wrabel

Honorable mentions: Level of Concern-Twenty One Pilots, Gaslighter-Dixie Chicks, Intentions-Justin Bieber ft. Quavo, Kill My Mind-Louis Tomlinson, Checkmate-Conan Grey

John's Best of 2020

Best Picture: Soul
Best Direction: The Midnight Sky
Best Actor: Chadwick Boseman
Best Actress: Viola Davis
Best Supporting Actor: Delroy Lindo
Best Supporting Actress: Amanda Seyfried
Best Screenplay: Soul

John's Best of 2021

Best Picture: Nomadland
Best Direction: Nomadland
Best Actor: Lakeith Stanfield
Best Actress: Frances McDormand
Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya
Best Supporting Actress: Dominique Fishback
Best Screenplay: Judas and the Black Messiah

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[John Berchmans Joined: Jan 22nd, 2018 Topics: 6 Posts: 4558 View Predictions]

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I haven’t listened to everything yet but here’s my Top 8 for now. As before, I’m only including one song per artist and only songs released after 2020 unless they released in 2019 but had their main promotional push in 2020 (like Say So)

1: In Your Eyes (Remix)-The Weeknd ft. Doja Cat (2nd Version)

2: Love Again-Dua Lipa

3: X-Jonas Brothers ft. KAROL G

4: Godzilla-Eminem ft. Juice Wrld

5: Rain On Me-Lady Gaga ft. Ariana Grande

6: Say So-Doja Cat

7: 3AM-Halsey

8: BFF-Kesha ft. Wrabel

Honorable mentions: Level of Concern-Twenty One Pilots, Gaslighter-Dixie Chicks, Intentions-Justin Bieber ft. Quavo, Kill My Mind-Louis Tomlinson, Checkmate-Conan Grey

John's Best of 2020

Best Picture: Soul
Best Direction: The Midnight Sky
Best Actor: Chadwick Boseman
Best Actress: Viola Davis
Best Supporting Actor: Delroy Lindo
Best Supporting Actress: Amanda Seyfried
Best Screenplay: Soul

John's Best of 2021

Best Picture: Nomadland
Best Direction: Nomadland
Best Actor: Lakeith Stanfield
Best Actress: Frances McDormand
Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya
Best Supporting Actress: Dominique Fishback
Best Screenplay: Judas and the Black Messiah

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[MisterScones Joined: May 15th, 2018 Topics: 1 Posts: 90 View Predictions]

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One per artist:

• 070 Shake – “Morrow”
• BC Camplight – “I Only Drink When I’m Drunk”
• Beyoncé – “Black Parade”
• Fiona Apple – “Relay”
• Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist – “Baby $hit”
• Mac Miller – “Blue World”
• Megan Thee Stallion – “Savage Remix” (feat. Beyoncé)
• Moses Sumney – “In Bloom”
• Run the Jewels – “JU$T” (feat. Pharrell Williams & Zack de la Rocha)
• Thundercat – “Black Qualls” (feat. Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington & Childish Gambino)

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[Daniel Bauer Joined: Jan 2nd, 2019 Topics: 1 Posts: 50 View Predictions]

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Best Songs (so far):

1. Blinding Lights – The Weekend

2. The Birthday Party – The 1975

3. Say So – Doja Cat

4. Physical – Dua Lipa

5. Borderline – Tame Impala

6. Kyoto – Phoebe Bridgers

7. Lying on the Floor – Violent Soho

8. The Box – Roddy Ricch

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