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Top 10 Songs

1. ‘Old Town Road’

Lil Nas X

“Old Town Road” contains many opposing truths. It’s both underdog and behemoth, eye-rollingly trivial and slyly progressive, radio-ready hit and oddball meme. It was this shape-shifting ability that made “Old Town Road” the ideal cultural artifact for 2019, in its many iterations and the conversations it inspired. Whether people went online to criticize it, dance to it or remix it, so many people interacted with the song

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