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This is America: theories behind Childish Gambino's satirical masterpiece
Guardian music writers have picked their favourite songs of the year — from UK drill breakthroughs to pure pop anthems — and put them all on a giant playlist. Mon 3 Dec K icking off our roundups of the best music of , polled from votes by more than 50 Guardian music writers, we count down our favourite tracks of the year — topped by a man who managed to unpick US racial politics, launch a thousand thinkpieces and reach No 1 in the US charts, all with a single track.
1. Childish Gambino – This Is America
Since July it has also incorporated streaming data, and from 10 July has been based on a Friday to Thursday week. The chart was founded in by Percy Dickins of New Musical Express NME , who telephoned 20 record stores to ask what their top 10 highest-selling singles were. Dickins aggregated the results into a top 12 hit parade , which was topped by " Here in My Heart " by Al Martino. NME ' s chart was published each week in its eponymous magazine. The act that has achieved the most number ones is American entertainer Elvis Presley , who has topped the chart 21 times — Presley's second number one, " Jailhouse Rock " was the first single ever to debut at the top of the chart. In the s the required number of sales needed to top the chart was roughly , Eventually, streaming was incorporated into the sales chart.
The track, which spent eight weeks at Number 1 between April and June, takes the top spot on the chart of the year with a combined sales figure of 1. The song, which trailed his fifth album Scorpion, spent nine weeks at the helm between February and April. Drake may have just missed out on the top spot, but he bags two more spots in the Top fellow chart-toppers Nice For What and In My Feelings place at 7 and