The Best Songs of 2020

100-81 / 80-61 / 60-41 / 40-21 / 20-1 Big Hit Entertainment / YouTube 100. BTS "Dynamite" Or listen on the streaming platform of your choice . For its first-ever all-English-language song, BTS got outside songwriters to craft a relentless, chart-topping, "Uptown Funk"-style banger. The lyrics forgo the K-pop juggernaut's notes of hopeful reflection in favor of hashtag-ready exclamations of joy, as well as truly sublime couplets like "Shoes on, get up in the morn / Cup of milk, let's rock and roll." Damned if it doesn't work wonders. Cup of milk, let's rock and roll! —Stephen Thompson High Top Mountain / YouTube 99. Sturgill Simpson "Living The Dream" Or listen on the streaming platform of your choice . Kentucky's country music desperado sounds completely at home singing with Nashville's A-Team of bluegrass musicians on Cuttin' Grass , his first string band album. The album reinterprets 20 songs from h...