The 2020 Playlist

I listen to a couple of hours of music every day. I particularly enjoy searching for music I've never heard. When I hear a new song I like, I add it to one playlist, all year long. At the end of the year, I go through that playlist and choose one song for each artist and then cut out a bunch more so the playlist is at an even number. I started doing this five or six years ago when I really needed to find some new music for inspiration. Well, it has worked better than I ever could’ve imagined. I put out two albums and recorded a new one just this year!

While the majority of the tracks were released in the 2020 calendar year, this is not "A Year in Music" playlist but a playlist documenting the music I enjoyed and “discovered” in 2020, new or old.

2020 was a bizarre year for music and this playlist for multiple reasons. The year started off AMAZING with one major release after another. Then the Pandemic hit, record labels and artists began delaying or shelving releases altogether while other artists (*cough* Charli XCX *cough*) recorded an album the first month of quarantine. Shit was just wild. There were no rules or precedents so I took inspiration from Charli, checked out for a bit and spent most of the year in the studio working on my own stuff. Hopefully, next year will be more standard with me working and listening to music every day and hopefully there won’t be a raging pandemic.

As always, please use this list as a starting point. If you find an artist or song you like, go check them out! There are 200 artists with entire discographies just waiting for you to enjoy! Get saved like I did!

Favorite Albums of 2020