What Are the Greatest 2,020 Songs Ever? Philadelphia Is Deciding
The Philly radio station WXPN polled its listeners and is revealing their choices in a marathon show. “I treasure the folly of it,” our critic writes.
From left: Edith Piaf, the Notorious B.I.G. and Paul McCartney are among the artists whose music made the WXPN list of the 2,020 greatest songs.Credit.From left: Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Raymond Boyd/Getty Images; Wood/Evening Standard, Hulton Arcvhie, via Getty Images
Dec. 14, 2020
Are you busy right now? And if not, are you up for another year-end list? Are you up for another list that’s also basically another election? You see, since Thursday, WXPN, a public radio station in Philadelphia, has been unfurling what its listeners chose as the 2,020 greatest-ever songs, based on a preferential balloting system that permitted voters to choose as many as 10 songs and as few as one, of any kind from any century. Late Sunday afternoon, the countdown passed the hal