Roddy Ricch — who is Variety’s Breakthrough Artist of the Year in our just-released 2020 Hitmakers issue — topped Apple Music’s 2020 year-end album and songs charts, according to statistics released by the company. For the first time, Apple Music will share the Top 100 2020: Most-Read Lyrics chart, and the first Shazamed locations of the Top 25 Songs.
Ricch has the top song and album with “The Box” and “Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial,” respectively, with the Top Lyrics being Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” and the Top Shazamed Song being Tones and I’s “Dance Monkey.”
While the statistics were not shared for each song, the announcement does note that Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” was surpassing 30 million weekly plays globally in addition to being Shazamed 1 million times in its first six weeks of release.
Also, while The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” had the second most streams this year, it actually had the most listeners, reaching the top 5 on the Apple Music Top 100 charts in 92 countries, including No. 1 in 62 countries, the song was one of the world’s most listened to tracks of the year. Also, from its very first Shazam in Paris, France it went on to be Shazamed 17.5 million times worldwide, the third highest total for any song this year.
Full Top 100 charts-playlists are available on Apple Music:
Top 100 Songs of 2020: Global – apple.co/WW2020
Top 100 2020: Most-Read Lyrics – apple.co/Lyrics2020
Top 100 2020: Shazam – apple.co/Shazam2020
| Top 25 Songs of 2020 | |
| 1 | “The Box” Roddy Ricch Song was first Shazamed in St. Cloud, MN, USA |
| 2 | “Blinding Lights” The Weeknd Paris, France |
| 3 | “Dance Monkey” Tones And I Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 4 | “ROCKSTAR” (feat. Roddy Ricch) DaBaby Cleveland, OH, USA |
| 5 | “Life Is Good” (feat. Drake) Future Houston, TX, USA |
| 6 | “Don’t Start Now” Dua Lipa Adana, Turkey |
| 7 | “Circles” Post Malone Sisak, Croatia |
| 8 | “everything i wanted” Billie Eilish Moscow, Russia |
| 9 | “Woah” Lil Baby Phoenix, AZ, USA |
| 10 | “Ballin’” Roddy Ricch & Mustard Houston, TX, USA |
| 11 | “ROXANNE” Arizona Zervas Lubbock, TX, USA |
| 12 | “HIGHEST IN THE ROOM” Travis Scott Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| 13 | “High Fashion” (feat. Mustard) Roddy Ricch Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 14 | “Roses” (Imanbek Remix) SAINt JHN Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| 15 | “Someone You Loved” Lewis Capaldi Chicago, IL, USA |
| 16 | “bad guy” Billie Eilish Shenzhen, China |
| 17 | “Toosie Slide” Drake Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| 18 | “BOP” DaBaby St. Louis, MO, USA |
| 19 | “Watermelon Sugar” Harry Styles New York, NY, USA |
| 20 | “WAP” (feat. Megan Thee Stallion) Cardi B Cascavel, Brazil |
| 21 | “Bandit” Juice WRLD & YoungBoy Never Broke Again Helsinki, Finland |
| 22 | “Memories” Maroon 5 Paris, France |
| 23 | “Intentions” (feat. Quavo) Justin Bieber Mexico City, Mexico |
| 24 | “Adore You” Harry Styles San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 25 | “Lose You to Love Me” Selena Gomez Goteborg, Sweden |
| Top 25 Albums of 2020 |
| Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial Roddy Ricch |
| My Turn Lil Baby |
| Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon Pop Smoke |
| Eternal Atake – LUV vs. The World 2 Lil Uzi Vert |
| Over It Summer Walker |
| Hollywood’s Bleeding Post Malone |
| AI YoungBoy 2 YoungBoy Never Broke Again |
| WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, … Billie Eilish |
| KIRK DaBaby |
| YHLQMDLG Bad Bunny |
| Fine Line Harry Styles |
| BLAME IT ON BABY DaBaby |
| Legends Never Die Juice WRLD |
| After Hours The Weeknd |
| Pray 4 Love Rod Wave |
| Dark Lane Demo Tapes Drake |
| ASTROWORLD Travis Scott |
| Scorpion Drake |
| WUNNA Gunna |
| Ghetto Gospel Rod Wave |
| Artist 2.0 A Boogie wit da Hoodie |
| Chilombo Jhené Aiko |
| Changes Justin Bieber |
| A Love Letter to You 4 Trippie Redd |
| What You See Is What You Get Luke Combs |
| Top 25 Lyrics of 2020 |
| WAP (feat. Megan Thee Stallion) Cardi B |
| Dance Monkey Tones And I |
| 夜に駆ける YOASOBI |
| The Box Roddy Ricch |
| Pretender Official HIGE DANdism |
| Blinding Lights The Weeknd |
| Savage Remix (feat. Beyoncé) Megan Thee Stallion |
| everything i wanted Billie Eilish |
| 香水 瑛人 |
| Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi |
| Godzilla (feat. Juice WRLD) Eminem |
| bad guy Billie Eilish |
| I LOVE… Official HIGE DANdism |
| 白日 King Gnu |
| Say So Doja Cat |
| Life Is Good (feat. Drake) Future |
| Don’t Start Now Dua Lipa |
| Before You Go Lewis Capaldi |
| ROCKSTAR (feat. Roddy Ricch) DaBaby |
| Circles Post Malone |
| Memories Maroon 5 |
| Lose You to Love Me Selena Gomez |
| 紅蓮華 LiSA |
| Toosie Slide Drake |
| Intentions (feat. Quavo) Justin Bieber |
| Top 25 Shazamed Songs |
| Dance Monkey Tones And I |
| Roses (Imanbek Remix) SAINt JHN |
| Blinding Lights The Weeknd |
| Breaking Me Topic & A7S |
| Ride It Regard |
| Don’t Start Now Dua Lipa |
| Memories Maroon 5 |
| Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat) Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo |
| Falling Trevor Daniel |
| Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi |
| RITMO (Bad Boys For Life) The Black Eyed Peas & J Balvin |
| death bed (feat. beabadoobee)… Powfu |
| Before You Go Lewis Capaldi |
| Say So Doja Cat |
| Jerusalema Master KG Feat. Nomcebo Zikode |
| Circles Post Malone |
| The Box Roddy Ricch |
| everything i wanted Billie Eilish |
| Lose Control Meduza, Becky Hill & Goodboys |
| ily (i love you baby [feat. Emilee]) Surf Mesa |
| Tusa KAROL G & Nicki Minaj |
| Supalonely BENEE Feat. Gus Dapperton |
| ROCKSTAR DaBaby Feat. Roddy Ricch |
| MAMACITA Black Eyed Peas, Ozuna & J. Rey Soul |
| Banana (DJ FLe – Minisiren Remix) Conkarah Feat. Shaggy |