| 1 | Markéta Irglová | "Among the Living" | single | The winter is still beginning, even as other seasons line up to start to end. |
| 2 | Tori Amos | "Circle of Seasons" | Christmastide 4 | This will not be the last pandemic fed by ignorance, |
| 3 | Rave The Reqviem | "Colossvs" | Stigmata Itch | or the last narcissist fed by obsequities, |
| 4 | Souls Of Diotima | "The Black Mask" | single | or the last time we defeat them |
| 5 | A Swift Farewell | "Save Yourself" | single | or survive. |
| 6 | Dark Princess | "Феникс" | single | Love expands, infuses, animates, multiplies. |
| 7 | As Everything Unfolds | "Stranger in the Mirror" | Stranger in the Mirror +2 | Hatred clenches, divides, flees into isolated shadows. |
| 8 | Ann My Guard | "Nyx" | Furia | Good inspires, evil commands, |
| 9 | Dark Horse White Horse | "Judgement Day" | single | and this is why fascism's obscene parody of populism |
| 10 | Elyose | "Mille silences" | single | relies on misinformation and conjured enemies and festering fear, |
| 11 | Seas on the Moon | "Opium" | Sanctuary 5 | and authority as a moral abscess. |
| 12 | Die So Fluid | "Walk With Me" | single | We are flawed deeply, |
| 13 | Phantom Elite | "The Race" | single | but never all the way down. |
| 14 | The Dead Deads | "Hey Girlfriend" | single | If you want to save someone, look into their eyes. |
| 15 | Cyan Kicks | "The Flood" | single | At the bottom of their drowned world, |
| 16 | Rivals | "Fake Rich (feat. Elijah Witt)" | Fake Rich (feat. Elijah Witt) +1 | there is a soul, |
| 17 | We=MUKASHIBANASHI | "Craftsman" | Craftsman +1 | circled maybe by parasitic fish |
| 18 | BAND-MAID | "Different" | Different +2 | in the sodden costumes of loyal also-drowning wolves, |
| 19 | Nanawoakari | "七転七起" | single | but if you pull it out of the water, |
| 20 | majiko | "23:59" | 世界一幸せなひとりぼっち | the fish will not follow. |
| 21 | milet | "One Touch" | Who I Am 5 | This is, ultimately, the only way to be sure which wolves are fish, |
| 22 | AIRFLIP | "New Coaster" | single | and which are humans who have found a way to temporarily profit from drowning, |
| 23 | aint | "Winter Rain Dancer" | single | and thus confused misery for determination. |
| 24 | THE SIXTH LIE | "ラストページ" | 融雪 2 | No empires of loathing have ever been built on the proposition that |
| 25 | [Alexandros] | "風になって - 1 Half ver." | single | abundant joy should be hoarded. |
| 26 | Ken | "“S”" | IN PHYSICAL | Thus all liberation and freedom |
| 27 | MOTHER | "Madara" | single | begins with knowing what joy looks like, |
| 28 | Silhouette from the Skylit | "Hundred Lies" | Get New Airs On 5 | and then seeing it far in the distance, |
| 29 | Armed Cloud | "Big Bang Theory" | Torque | and then realizing it is everywhere around us. |
| 30 | Nemoreus | "Bring the Demons to the Hall" | single | We had a vaccine before we had a pandemic. |
| 31 | Felo De Se | "Shattered Sky" | Essence of Illusions | The race was never between virus and RNA, |
| 32 | Orden Ogan | "Heart of the Android" | single | always between conscientiousness and complacency. |
| 33 | Evergrey | "Forever Outsider" | single | All morality tales are scarecrows made of |
| 34 | Iron Savior | "Skycrest" | Skycrest | difficult rewarding truths stuffed into compellingly worthless evasions, |
| 35 | Labyrinth | "Live Today" | single | topped with shitty hats. |
| 36 | Genus Ordinis Dei | "Torture" | Glare of Deliverance | An administration of humans raised on consequence could have faced this challenge with more courage or more compassion, |
| 37 | Hyrgal | "Colère Noire" | Fin De Règne | but if you have 74 million people willing to believe in imaginary enemies but not existential ones, |
| 38 | Knogjärn | "Älskar ingen" | Stora och farliga | that's a lot of bad hats. |
| 39 | Mägo de Oz | "El Cervezo - El árbol de la birra" | single | Less systemically-dysfunctional countries than ours |
| 40 | Saurom | "Mi Gente" | Música | failed this challenge in their own ways, too. |
| 41 | Waltari | "Fire Dance - Single Edit" | single | In terms of practical human qualities, this was bad year |
| 42 | Tvinna | "Kreiz" | single | for most of them other than being from New Zealand. |
| 43 | Kwoon | "Last Paradise" | single | Whatever you thought you were going to accomplish this year, |
| 44 | Rave The Reqviem | "Aerial" | Stigmata Itch | try again in 2021, |
| 45 | Bloody Hammers | "Hands Of The Ripper" | single | and take sufficient comfort |
| 46 | Leprous | "Castaway Angels" | single | if you didn't do your job so badly that the people who aren't going to start doing it until next year |
| 47 | Sun-El Musician | "Kwalula" | To the World & Beyond | are this year's People of the Year in sheer anticipation. |
| 48 | Ligabue | "Mi ci pulisco il cuore" | 7 | And yet, for all asterisks we will mark next to aspects of 2020 |
| 49 | Gian Marco | "No Va a Ser Fácil" | single | before we let Elon Musk fire them into the Sun |
| 50 | David Bisbal | "Tears Of Gold" | single | as long as he agrees to shut up about everything other than exploding rockets, |
| 51 | Die Heuwels Fantasties | "Hardloop Weg" | single | we kept singing. |
| 52 | EME | "Mis Vísceras" | single | Measured by music, |
| 53 | MELIFLUO | "Me Faltas Mucho" | single | we are always perfect: |
| 54 | Hitsujibungaku | "mother" | single | ecstatically blurry |
| 55 | Charlotte is Mine | "群青" | SOMEDAY IN THE BREAKFAST | and indefatiguably chiming, |
| 56 | Fol Chen | "I Walked" | single | willing to start over an infinite number of times. |
| 57 | Asunojokei | "Unripe orange" | Wishes | Count us in. |
| 58 | Sun-El Musician | "Ithemba" | To the World & Beyond | Sanele Sithole will lead us, |
| 59 | Cmten | "I LOVE GLITCHCORE (feat. XIX)" | single | and where we pass, there will be stardust and chaos and power and peace. |
| 60 | Perto | "Sympathy (feat. Yayoyanoh)" | single | Our desperation runs quiet-loud-quiet-loud, |
| 61 | Yandere | "in my heart final" | single | like our heartbeats. |
| 62 | SEBii | "do u care, if i stare?" | single | Where did you think we got the idea? |
| 63 | recovery girl | "ftfoi" | single | All our images come from love, |
| 64 | kmoe | "all the time (ft. polearm)" | single | even the refracted effigies |
| 65 | Siouxxie | "butterfly" | single | from seeing love pass us by |
| 66 | Ryan Oakes | "GHOST" | single | in a reflection in a broken window. |
| 67 | yung van | "Sunshine Hotel" | single | Take the rest of this fleeing year to savor failure and limbo. |
| 68 | boyband | "ken doll" | alone in a boyband | Take a few more fleeting days to be alone |
| 69 | bülow | "Lost" | single | or feel alone, |
| 70 | 6XT7 | "Kuchibiru Red" | single | or let go of wanting to be left alone. |
| 71 | Boh Doran | "Superstar" | single | Get ready to be great again, |
| 72 | Maggie Lindemann | "Loner" | single | not alone or in retreat |
| 73 | Vivienne Chi | "Arcades" | Arcades +3 | or slouched in shitty hats, |
| 74 | Taylor Edwards | "Catch Myself" | single | but blinking in unfamiliar clarity, |
| 75 | Freezepop | "Memory Disappears" | Memory Disappears (The Maxi-Single) | rediscovering how bright-enough light reaches your skin directly. |
| 76 | Creux Lies | "Blue" | Blue / The Veil 2 | We're going to feel things again, |
| 77 | The Ninth Wave | "Everything Will Be Fine" | Everything Will Be Fine +1 | and it's going to be a little bit weird at first, |
| 78 | The Dangerous Summer | "LA in a Cop Car" | All That Is Left of the Blue Sky 6 | like coming back to where you're from not exactly in triumph, |
| 79 | Dogleg | "Road Trip" | Ganon Main / Road Trip 2 | but even coming home is just part of a longer journey. |
| 80 | The Young Hearts | "Easy Life" | Easy Life 5 | The world won't burn forever, and at least we've been reminded that we don't make it by ourselves. |
| 81 | Sun-El Musician | "Time Wasted" | To the World & Beyond | What this year will have been worth, we will determine by how we act next, |
| 82 | Flavour | "Umuigbo" | Flavour of Africa | by which beyonds we go, |
| 83 | Siboniso Shozi | "Ntombi Zakudala" | single | by our ability to love things not because we understand them but in order to. |
| 84 | Madalitso Band | "Ndalakwanji" | single | There won't be snow in Malawi this Christmas. |
| 85 | IZINGANE ZOMA | "iPhenti Lami" | iPhenti Lami | The greatest gift they'll have is not relying on colonialist condescension for validation. |
| 86 | Khuzani | "Nizoguqa La" | Ispoki Esingafi | All of our wish lists should begin that way, just to be safe. |
| 87 | Udlubheke | "Nonka" | Amashiqe | If they ask you what genre you are, say "I sit on a shiny barstool with a footrest, |
| 88 | Inkos'yamagcokama | "Munt'omnyama" | Ride or Die | wearing shiny shoes, |
| 89 | Sun-El Musician | "Buyisa" | To the World & Beyond | and wait for Sun-El to call. |
| 90 | Ligabue | "Si dice che" | 7 | We are going to walk to Italy, |
| 91 | Kodes | "Fatality" | single | I think, or one of those funny European places with an 'eeeeee' name, |
| 92 | Spatial Manufacture Ltd. | "窓の光" | single | and the longer you need to travel, |
| 93 | Dotzd | "Alba" | Tempo | the shinier your shoes need to be, |
| 94 | Tove Styrke | "Bara du och jag" | single | I think. Right?" |
| 95 | Temperance | "Start Another Round - Acoustic Version" | single | Right. |
| 96 | Gunship | "Black Blood Red Kiss - Choir Noir Remix" | Black Blood Red Kiss 2 | The journey ahead will be long. |
| 97 | Sun-El Musician | "Love is Blind" | To the World & Beyond | Put on your shiniest shoes, and sit on your shiniest barstool, and take a picture. |
| 98 | Rachel Wammack | "A Million Dreams" | single | This is how we were. Now get down, take them off. We can live in a world that we design, but we won't get there in those shoes. |
| 99 | First to Eleven | "Disturbia" | single | We have a vaccine for the disease that grabs onto spike proteins, but not the ones that grab onto minds. |
| 100 | Underline The Sky | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" | single | Sooner or later, though, the fever ends. |
| 101 | SADBOii | "A Thousand Miles" | single | Here we are, a thousand miles from each other, |
| 102 | Kiesza | "Eleanor Rigby" | single | wearing masks we keep on hooks by the door. |
| 103 | Helene Fischer | "Never Enough" | single | Let this moment end. |
| 104 | The HU | "Sad But True" | single | Open your eyes. |
| 105 | Iconic Eye | "Jane" | Back from Behind the Sun 5 | Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about. |
| 106 | The XCERTS | "We Built This City" | single | Marconi plays the mamba, police have got the choke hold. It's been a bad year. But we built these cities once. We'll start again. |