"Don't let nobody tell you can't do whatever the f**k you put your mind too," this tweet read. This is always a difficult question to answer, but in 2020, it’s even more challenging. "Lifeline," A.G. Cook A.G. Cook had a big year… 's EP I Used to Know Her: Part 2, which dropped last November via RCA Records. Albums. She took to her Twitter bright and early, not long after the news went live to share the big mood. Though the night had an unexpected dark cloud overhead with the recent news of basketball legend Kobe Bryant's passing, host Alicia Keys and the night's many performers came through with both respectful tributes and still-celebratory vibes. I'm a fan of so much music and art and artists and stuff, and I grew up with their sort of mindset, and now, I'm seeing it from the other side, but also, being on the other side, it's weird. LOVE YOU ALL," he wrote on Instagram. YoungBoy Never Broke Again released a staggering amount of music in 2020. What song defined your year? the acknowledgement is truly enough on its own for me and my heart. This piano-laden gem from "A Star Is Born" (and its soundtrack of the same name) was famously performed by the film's star Lady Gaga. Originally released in September 2017, "Truth Hurts" (written by Lizzo, Jesse Saint John, Tele and Ricky Reed) found new life in 2019 after going viral on TikTok. Singer/songwriter and actress Camila Cabello, who, in 2019, was the first Latina woman to open the GRAMMYs, wore a pink gown as she sang "First Man," which she wrote about her father Ajelandro. ahhhhhhhhh! Her prior two albums, 2014's My Everything and 2016's Dangerous Woman, were also nominated for the same pop award. Del Rey has four GRAMMY noms under her belt, the most recent being Best Pop Vocal Album for Lust For Life at the 60th GRAMMY Awards. Talk about a sibling power duo! PREVIOUS WINNERS. ", To be be nominated for four @RecordingAcad #GRAMMYs in the 10th month of my debut year is beyond a dream come true.Thank you to my incredible team and everyone who has supported and believed in me along the way.I’m truly honoured to be in the category with every artist nominated pic.twitter.com/4D4kTBAx5u, Country/trap king Lil Nas X also joined the first-time nominee rodeo with six nods, including for Best New Artist, Album Of The Year—for his debut EP, 7—and Record Of The Year for "Old Town Road.". Dimash Kudaibergen performed at the “Song of the Year 2020” with three compositions December 7, 2020 1977 Fans from different cities came to see the performance of the Kazakh artist. Billboard Hot 100 and famously ended the record-breaking 19-week run of "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus. Standing in the Staples Center, home to the GRAMMYs and Los Angeles Lakers, Keys referred to the center as "the house that Kobe built" as a photo of Kobe was displayed on an overhead screen. With the full 62nd GRAMMY Award nominations dropping bright and early this morning, the music industry is now wide awake and celebrating on social media. Eilish, seated on a stool and dressed in sparkly Gucci pajamas with matching sneakers, kept her eyes closed throughout her anguished and mesmerizing performance as Finneas accompanied her on piano. He also tweeted a video of himself from just two years ago, prophesizing more was on the horizon ("This is just the beginning…give me two years"). He joined in the conversation, retweeting a plethora of fan congrats, as well as his own post, which simply read, "African Giant #GRAMMYs @RecordingAcad!! Related: Record Of The Year Nominees Revealed | 2020 GRAMMY Awards. THATS CRAZY!!!! Piano ballad "Someone You Loved" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi. 1 in the Billboard 200 album charts an additional two times since its release in March, earning Billie more than 15 billion combined streams worldwide to date. The rich history of the GRAMMYs, Music's Biggest Night, is at your fingertips. As for Ari, she won Best Pop Vocal Album for Sweetener last year and is in the running for this award again for her follow up, thank u, next. The Grammy Award for Song of the Year is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" is the No. It was produced by Ariel Rechtshaid and lead singer Ezra Koenig, and features tons of high-profile collaborators, including Danielle Haim, Steve Lacy, Dave Macklovitch of Chromeo, DJ Dahi, Sam Gendel, BloodPop, Mark Ronson and former Vampire Weekend member Rostam Batmanglij. COMPLEX participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means COMPLEX gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. For 60 years the Song Of The Year category has rewarded songs that have become part of our aural history. The 2020 GRAMMY Awards were a sight to behold on Sunday, Jan. 26, opening with a brilliant performance from Lizzo and Sasha Flute and closing out with multiple wins from 18-year-old pop wunderkind Billie Eilish, who swept the major categories (Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Album Of The Year, respectively). Eligible music was released between Oct. 1, 2018 and Aug. 31, 2019. Billie Eilish Wins Song Of The Year | 2020 GRAMMYs - YouTube. He shares three with her (Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year and Song Of The Year) and also is in the running for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical. ", Read More: Alicia Keys & Boyz II Men Give A Moving Tribute To Kobe Bryant At The 2020 GRAMMY Awards. In one of her excited tweets this morning she wrote, "thank u for acknowledging this music my beautiful best friends and i created in just a few weeks together. Content on this site does not reflect an endorsement or recommendation of any artist or music by the Recording Academy. 2020 GRAMMYs By The Numbers: Who Made History? Billie Eilish is another first-time nominee who's also up for Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year Best New Artist and more. The Best Songs of 2020 Brought Light Into a Dark Year Artists like BTS, Bad Bunny, and Fiona Apple provided hope, escape, and cathartic dance parties. (There was special non-promoted song for fans "Miss U" with MV filmed in Mongolia. "All I can say about that is I just don't even get it," Eilish told the Recording Academy of her rising success last year at Lollapalooza. FINNEAS, Eilish's older brother and producer, is also being nominated for the first time, and earned five nods. "Boy with Luv" has two versions, the original one and the one featuring the American singer Halsey. ", // B E S T R O C K S O N G - N O M I N A T I O N // @RecordingAcad L O V E #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/z4TCNnZEPg, Nigerian Afro-fusion artist Burna Boy also received his first GRAMMY nomination this year, as his major 2019 album, African Giant, is up for Best World Music Album. "THIS HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE YEAR FOR MUSIC AND IM JUST SO THANKFUL TO EVEN BE PART OF IT," she beamed in her second tweet, followed by "WE ARE ALL WINNERS." National Public Radio (NPR), which is subsidized by American taxpayers, listed Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's raunchy hit song "WAP" ("Wet Ass Pu**y") as one of the "best" songs of 2020, including it in part of its "silver linings playlist" released this month. The song went viral on the app as users like Michael Pelchat, a.k.a. a href="https://twitter.com/RecordingAcad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RecordingAcad #GRAMMYs2020 #GrammyNominations #GRAMMYs https://t.co/m83sHcxOQB, — Cage The Elephant (@CageTheElephant) November 20, 2019, First-time nominees and Brit-rock experimenters The 1975 are celebrating their Best Rock Song nomination, sharing, "// B E S T R O C K S O N G - N O M I N A T I O N // @RecordingAcad L O V E #GRAMMYs," along with a picture featuring lyrics from the nominated song, "Give Yourself A Try. ", GRAMMY host Alicia Keys, with her hair tightly pulled back into a bun and dressed in a silver gown, adopted an appropriately somber tone when she opened the show and addressed the audience, paying her deepest respect to the tragic loss of basketball star Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna in a helicopter crash earlier in the day. Ariana Grande first broke into the Top 10 with "The Way," featuring Mac Miller, from her chart-topping debut album, Yours Truly, in 2013. ", 5 NOMINATIONS!!!! Some years, you can take the easy way out and just pick the song that you heard at every club and party you went to. and FINNEAS. BETWEEN ME & MY BROTHER ITS 11 NOMINATIONS thank u grammyyys this is an honor, A post shared by BILLIE EILISH (@billieeilish) on Nov 20, 2019 at 8:56am PST. "Joyful about today's 3 Grammy @RecordingAcad nominations for Best Dance/Electronic Album (No Geography), Best Dance Recording (Got To Keep On) & Best Music Video (We've Got To Try)! And don't forget to tune in on Jan. 26, 2020 to catch the Biggest Night In Music to find out who takes home the golden gramophones! 1 on its 100 Best Songs of 2020 list. © Complex Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Released on June 21, 2019, via Columbia Records, 7 was preceded by the ubiquitous chart-topper "Old Town Road" and its remix featuring country icon Billy Ray Cyrus. Taylor Swift's heartfelt "Lover" appears on her seventh studio album of the same name, which she produced with superproducer Jack Antonoff. Her debut album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, debuted at No. He shared his excitement with a tearful video of gratitude on his IG stories, as well as several tweets, one of which read, "Bro my DEBUT album got nominated for BEST RAP ALBUM..... this sh*t crazy.". GOD IS GREAT. 50. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. The perma-shaded singer famously cleaned up at the 61st GRAMMY Awards last year, winning Best R&B Performance for "Best Part" and Best R&B Album for H.E.R. Cassper Nyovest celebrates winning Song Of The Year at #SAHHA2020. Song of the Year recognizes Jared Sharff for excellence in musicianship and songwriting. the rising Queen of Country Soul first wrote on Twitter this morning. Together, these 50 songs represent the various ways that music guided us through a historically challenging year. Read More: Meet The First-Time GRAMMY Nominee: FINNEAS On Billie Eilish & "Doing Production That No One's Ever Done Before". WE ARE ALL WINNERS https://t.co/sfc4aARZ5D, — Feelin Good As Hell (@lizzo) November 20, 2019. She also won Best R&B Album for her compilation album H.E.R., as well as Best R&B Performance for "Best Part.". The band wrote, "Such a blessing and honor to wake up this morning and see we're nominated for a GRAMMY!!! "Running Over" is the eighth track on "Changes," released on February 14, 2020. So this year, more than ever, the value of a list like this comes from its totality more than any single song. L.A.-born rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was shot and killed last year at just 33 years old, won two posthumous GRAMMYs—Best Rap Performance for "Racks In The Middle" and Best Rap/Sung Performance for "Higher." Whether you scream this song from the mountain tops , blasted loud in your car . "Vulnerability and strength is what this album is all about," she recently told the Recording Academy in an Up Close & Personal interview.