In a year marked by COVID-19 and social unrest, music stars such as Fiona Apple, Killer Mike, Bad Bunny and Bob Dylan have risen to the occasion.
Beyoncé, Drake, Lil Baby and Megan Thee Stallion are among the artists with tunes contending to be 2020’s song of summer.: only the second artist in history to sweep the four major categories and the youngest ever, at age 18, to take the prizes for album and record of the year.
Recovering this lost knowledge the other day led us to wonder who else in music could be described as victors in this wretched year, when the only thing competing with COVID-19 for your attention is the scourge of systemic racism. So with the first half of 2020 mercifully behind us, behold our rundown of the biggest winners — and losers — of the year so far.Just a few months ago, the 25-year-old rapper from Atlanta was telling interviewers that he wasn’t especially interested in stardom. Now, his “My Turn” is 2020’s most-streamed album, with hundreds of millions of plays of tracks that layer his blurry yet melodic flow over throbbing trap beats.
,” which like Dylan’s album seems to have inadvertently captured the fevered emotional spirit of quarantine.First they propelled the latest album from BTS to the biggest sales week of the year. Then they disrupted a white-supremacist social-media campaign by flooding a hashtag with video clips of their favorite acts. Yet the pièce de résistance for super-organized K-pop fans had to be the widespread credit they earned for wrecking President Trump’s rally last month in Tulsa, Okla.
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