Today's Top Stories. Quavo, "Intentions". The Japanese House feat. The fact that it came seemingly out of nowhere well, okay, TikTok with the perfect subject matter for a global pandemic -- basically, struggling to get your emotions under control while being all alone and feeling down about yourself -- also made it an apt surprise hit for the year. Perfume Genius, "On the Floor".

Hip-hop's billion dollar Babies ruled the summer with open-hearted hits that reflected unthinkably turbulent times while still sounding massive blaring out of car stereos. And as with all other things , there's one descriptor for the year in pop that, for better and worse, absolutely no one would argue with: unforgettable. Here are the songs we hope to remember it most by. Songs were eligible if they either were released or peaked on the Billboard charts in -- unless, like "Watermelon Sugar" or "Don't Start Now," they already made our list.

The under-the-radar comeback story of was that of '00s pop-rap radio conquerors Black Eyed Peas, who decided the rising trend of Latin stars pilfering pop hooks from a generation earlier was their best way back into top 40's good graces. Slightly grating at first, its goofy hybrid charms both borrowed and new won you over with radio overplay -- just like so many BEPs jams had decades earlier -- and by the time the group was closing the VMAs with light-up crotches and UFOs hovering overhead , it was clear you'd missed them more than you realized.

Little Mix, "Sweet Melody". The track starts off with a hymn-like intro and it simply gets better from there, as Perrie, Jesy, Leigh-Anne and Jade deliver an absolutely sizzling takedown of Some Dude in a Band who "would lie, he would cheat, over syncopated beats. Jayda G, "Both of Us". The relentless piano hook in this sunny electronic bop from Canadian DJ-producer Jayda G sounds like it could go on forever, and it should.

Thankfully, the now Grammy-nominated! The song's twinkling synth riff and cloudy sung-rapped vocals might ultimately be a little too lo-fi to get the young group onto any modern-day TRL equivalent, but the energy and hooks are infectious enough to inspire plenty of their own acolytes. She wrote it in September But don't be so surprised: Whether it's across the room at a club or across continents on KM Air , the pop legend's biggest and best songs have always been about the magic of seeking connection — even if it turns out you can't find it right now.

Ozuna feat. It helps, of course, that Ozuna has an uncanny knack for penning highly melodic tracks with immediately catchy choruses. Kane Brown feat. Typically, failed relationships lead to somber breakup anthems, but in the case of Kane Brown's "Be Like That," he's in an upbeat mood when chalking up his losses. By enlisting Khalid and Swae Lee, the country superstar creates a hybrid superteam eager to bounce back and secure true love the next time around.

Brown's summery vibe resonated with down-but-not-out lovers, as it became a top 20 success on the Hot Saweetie, "Tap In". Hinds, "Good Bad Times". Lewis Capaldi, "Before You Go". Slowly but surely, it rose to No. Love Regenerator, "Peace Love Happiness". A lot of things about were unpredictable, including the acid house project we got from Calvin Harris.

Under his Love Regenerator alias, the mainstage mainstay went underground, making the same kind of squelchy four-to-the-floor scorchers that inspired him to make dance music in the first place.

The best of this output was "Peace Love Happiness" a swirling peak-time anthem with a hard-hitting, deceptively simple hook that we'd have certainly heard in heavy rotation at the club, if, well Soccer Mommy, "Circle the Drain".

Sada Baby feat. Detroit cult favorite MC Sada Baby finally went overground in with the limber Tag Team vibes of "Whole Lotta Choppas," featuring the rapper teasing, threatening and shimmying in his thousand-dollar pants over an irresistible electro-thumping beat. The song snuck onto the Hot on its own, but was catapulted into the top 40 thanks to a remix featuring the always-game Nicki Minaj, rhyming "erotic" with "Giannis" and picking up steam over her verse until you have no choice but to start breaking out the shaka-laka, shaka-laka s.

Kississippi, "Around Your Room". Maroon 5, "Memories". Eslabon Armado, "Con Tus Besos". Good thing, since it ended up being the trio's third top 20 hit on the Hot Latin Songs chart. Perfume Genius, "On the Floor". It's slippery pop on the surface, but a closer look reveals an impressive high-wire act.

The effortlessness is intoxicating -- sometimes braggadocio is most effective when it comes off more as a shrug than a chest-puff. Sam Hunt, "Hard to Forget". Bob Dylan, "Murder Most Foul". Bob Dylan can still startle us. Six decades into a career as a songwriter without peer, this March, Dylan tweeted -- yes, tweeted! K-pop girl group Blackpink landed their first top 20 hit on the Hot with this Gomez-assisted delight. Justin Bieber feat. Quavo, "Intentions".

A loved-up Justin Bieber has a simple list of "Intentions" in this sweet Changes highlight: to adore his wife Hailey, and to shower her with all his attention. Gospel songs are essentially fervent expressions of belief in something intangible.

Shamir, "On My Own". Splitting the difference between his alt-disco breakout effort Rachet and subsequent lo-fi indie releases -- a compromise not altogether easily reached -- Shamir's "On My Own" sounds big and hooky enough to compete on pop's highest levels, while still feeling intimate and thoughtful enough for Bandcamp audiences.

Appropriately enough, the song deals with the singer-songwriter's hard-earned independence, as he claims "I don't mind to live all on my own I don't care to feel like I belong. There have been so many breakup songs in country music that it could be its own subgenre. All the more impressive, then, that Ingrid Andress was able to tread new lyrical ground with her breakout single "More Hearts Than Mine. This novel and mournful spin on a classic country trope, set against a fittingly spare piano-and-slide-guitar-forward production, just helped Andress become the only Nashville representative to score a nod in the Big Four categories at the Grammys.

The JoBros go retro on this hand-clapping stomper that celebrates full-time commitment -- no half-measures here. Add in a Bo Diddley beat halfway through and just try to sit still during this irrepressibly upbeat tune, co-written by hitmeister Ryan Tedder.

Arlo Parks, "Eugene". Demi Lovato, "I Love Me". As fans patiently await the follow-up to 's Tell Me You Love Me , the pop singer has been teasing Lovatics with strong one-offs starting with "Anyone," which she debuted at the Grammys in January.

The music video sees Lovato play multiple parts -- the Zen side of her personality is represented just as much as the fighter is -- and is full of Easter eggs referring to her past. Lil Baby, "Emotionally Scarred". This My Turn standout displays an unusually holistic take on the frustrations of fame and an awareness of what others might see as your failures and faults.

For all its anguish, "Emotionally Scarred" is emotionally mature, too — emo rap that doesn't hide behind anger or wallow in the maudlin. The Japanese House feat. Bon Iver, "Dionne". It didn't get as much attention as Bon Iver's other collab this year with an acclaimed female singer-songwriter, but Japanese House's "Dionne" was even more affecting in its crystalline beauty and devastating in its lyrical implications than that Hot top 10 hit.

Brockhampton, "Sugar". Four years after their debut album, Brockhampton notched their first Hot entry with Ginger 's "Sugar," a No. Not to mention that NSFW, alien-infested video that created quite a buzz, and provided a stark contrast to the track's soothing nature. Conan Gray, "Heather". Doja Cat, "Boss Bitch". A buckle-up-and-enjoy-the-ride sonic rollercoaster, Doja Cat's "Boss Bitch" is a future house banger masquerading as a rap rager, with the L.

Unlike her No. One thing is for sure: With his rich, romantic baritone and the wistful lyrics, Peck brings true grit to this sumptuous Technicolor love story. Machine Gun Kelly feat. Halsey, "Forget Me Too". If a song could attend high school, this Machine Gun Kelly and Halsey collab surely was a student in the early s. A throwback to the pop-punk heights of those times, "Forget Me Too" recreates the angry and lovelorn sounds of teenage angst that might have been played out 20 years ago, but feels exciting and new now.

MGK's melodramatic foray into a new genre with Tickets to My Downfall proved fruitful, and the Halsey addition on "Forget" has us hoping we get more emo rock on her next album too. Haim, "The Steps".

Shawn Mendes, "Wonder". The drums! The crescendo! The choir! But the creeping "For The Night" helped prove his versatility, as he held court between the twin hurricanes that are all-stars Lil Baby and DaBaby, each of whom delivers succinct displays of just what make them such singular characters in the current hip-hop scene.

The Weeknd, "In Your Eyes". Phoebe Bridgers, "Kyoto". This heartbreaking rocker, which acclaimed singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers has said is based on her complicated relationship with her father, has such cinematic lyrics that it could be adapted into a dreamily melancholy Sofia Coppola movie.

Ariana Grande, "pov". In her Positions album closer, Ariana Grande begins to smash the walls she built up throughout Sweetener and Thank U, Next , revealing her most beautifully defenseless side yet. The sentiment quickly struck a chord on TikTok, with users building up their own self-esteem with selfies soundtracked by the "for all of my pretty, for all of my ugly too" juxtaposition in the heartwarming chorus.

While everyone else was freaking out about lockdown, Twenty One Pilots did something productive with their quaranxiety. The duo served up this dance-y lockdown banger in early April, along with a socially distanced video, in which they build the distanced track by mailing a zip drive back and forth between their adjacent homes. In under three minutes, the duo deliver a near-perfect ode to heartbreak that pays homage to the sumptuous orchestral pop created by the Beach Boys and Electric Light Orchestra.

Troye Sivan, "Easy". With pillowy synths providing a bed for Troye Sivan's alluring, echoed crooning not to mention the most adorable 'WOO!

Thankfully, this sweetly bewitching highlight from Sivan's In a Dream EP gives us a glimpse into a world where the poetry of this nascent romance "Would you look at the space just next to your feet? Tame Impala, "Breathe Deeper". Released as a single concurrently with its Feb. Also, very much here for Lil Durk getting his long-overdue mainstream look, even if just for a short cameo. The are likely too experimental and ambitious to ever release an album of wall-to-wall top 40 confections, but they certainly know how to lock in their pop brilliance for at least one song per set.

Mac Miller, "Good News". When Mac Miller died of an accidental overdose in , the Pittsburgh rapper-singer seemed to be at a new peak of creativity. Bad Bunny, J Balvin and Tainy have already proven to be an effective formula -- so what do you get when you add pop darling Dua Lipa to the mix? Oh yeah. Chance the Rapper, "Holy". After all, by September he had already released his fifth No. Such clever narration is exactly what helped year-old Beatrice Laus breakthrough this year, paired with her blissful blend of fuzzy '90s alt-rock and glistening s pop.

The spare, folky tale of IRL uber-WASP Rebekah Harkness -- previous owner of the luxe Rhode Island mansion that Swift now calls home — was the perfect escape into a Great Gatsby -esque fantasy world, at a time when our own homes often felt like gilded prisons. A swirl of trap beats, flutes and brass, the production evokes the song's titular procession, as Bey delivers an ode to the beauty and strength of Black culture.

In a moment of the most severe racial conflict many of us have seen in our lifetimes, "Parade" dually uplifted proponents of social justice and reminded us all what we're fighting for. Grimes, "Delete Forever".

A sonic outlier on an already eclectic album, "Delete Forever" finds Grimes going Tracy Chapman with some banjo flair and a few gently elegiac horns at the end. It's a downbeat, deeply felt meditation on creative souls racked by mental health issues leaving the world far too soon. Miss Anthropocene mostly finds Grimes purposely playing the bad guy, but here, we get a glimpse into the pain that has hardened the villain's heart.

Future feat. Drake, "Life Is Good". It only took ten days into for Future and Drake to run amuck on the rap game.

Their plush lifestyles, steely bravado, and disregard for the IRS fuels this electric collaboration. After Drake's opening salvo, a swift beat-switch allows Future to truck through his street experiences "I done been down bad in them trenches". Sam Smith shines bright like a diamond in their striking hit from 's Love Goes , And like the toughest of gemstones, Smith's voice cuts through to the core.

Despite the song's bitter message, the pulsing beat still makes you long for the sweaty dance floors of bygone days. It was added validation for a song that managed to capture the universal feelings of loss and spite, and mesh them with the fleeting yet permanent trappings of a digital era.

Billie Eilish, "My Future". Chris Stapleton, "Starting Over". Of course, the accompanying low-budget music vid makes the song even more intimate as she dances around her home wearing gloriously long red nails.

It hits on systemic oppression and ends with a hopeful call to action. The remix is even more incredible than the OG song. Who knew that was possible?? From coronavirus woes to lyrics about the widespread BLM protests, this song tackles everything. To completely feel its impact, watch the music video until the very end.

Here we have yet another song proven to be perfect for TikTok dances. Bonus: The music video is basically a little movie featuring DaBaby and Roddy Ricch fighting off zombies. This song focuses on protests and the militarization of police, so it captures in a nutshell.

It has been one hell of a year already that will change the world, so it feels right that it would influence music too. Who my enemy? As part of his latest album Shake the Snow Globe , Russ opens with this song, in which he reflects on his growth.

In this track from his latest album The Allegory , Royce da 5'9" hits us with some killer lyricism. You get a little bit of Drake and a little bit of Future, plus they throw out some relatable lines.

Eminem raps extremely fast in this one—like, words syllables at 7. Yes, Nicki, give us more! With an electronic touch, this song continues to show how the late Mac Miller was always unequivocally himself.

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