What happened in 2020

“The Box”

Roddy Ricch · 11 weeks at #1 in 2020

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1. Jan 4All I Want For Christmas Is YouMariah Carey2 wks
2. Jan 11CirclesPost Malone1 wk
3. Jan 18The BoxRoddy Ricch11 wks
4. Apr 4Blinding LightsThe Weeknd4 wks
5. Apr 18Toosie SlideDrake1 wk
6. May 9The ScottsTHE SCOTTS, Travis Scott & Kid Cudi1 wk
7. May 16Say SoDoja Cat Featuring Nicki Minaj1 wk
8. May 23Stuck With UAriana Grande & Justin Bieber1 wk
9. May 30SavageMegan Thee Stallion1 wk
10. Jun 6Rain On MeLady Gaga & Ariana Grande1 wk
11. Jun 13RockstarDaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch7 wks
12. Jun 27Trollz6ix9ine & Nicki Minaj1 wk
13. Aug 8CardiganTaylor Swift1 wk
14. Aug 15Watermelon SugarHarry Styles1 wk
15. Aug 22WAPCardi B Featuring Megan Thee Stallion4 wks
16. Sep 5DynamiteBTS3 wks
17. Oct 10FranchiseTravis Scott Featuring Young Thug & M.I.A.1 wk
18. Oct 17Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo1 wk
19. Oct 24Mood24kGoldn Featuring iann dior6 wks
20. Nov 7PositionsAriana Grande1 wk
21. Dec 5Life Goes OnBTS1 wk
22. Dec 26WillowTaylor Swift1 wk

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 2020; weeks count only those in 2020.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 16The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA.
2. Jan 26A Sikorsky S-76 helicopter crashed in Calabasas, California, killing all nine people on board, including former basketball player Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna.
3. Mar 11The World Health Organization (WHO) officialy declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic.
4. Mar 12The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
5. Mar 13President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States.
6. Mar 23Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19.
7. Apr 2COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach one million.
8. Apr 8Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee.
9. May 25George Floyd, a black American man, was murdered during an arrest by a white police officer in Minneapolis, sparking protests in the U.S. and other countries.
10. May 26Protests following the murder of George Floyd erupted in Minneapolis–Saint Paul before spreading across the United States and internationally.
11. Sep 4Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903.
12. Sep 5California wildfires: A pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party ignited the El Dorado Fire, burning for 71 days and killing one firefighter.
13. Nov 3The 2020 United States presidential election takes place between Democratic Joe Biden and Republican incumbent President Donald Trump. On November 7, Biden was declared the winner.
14. Nov 12The PlayStation 5 is released.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Donald Trump

• UK Prime Minister

  Boris Johnson

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Justin Trudeau

• President of France

  Emmanuel Macron

• German Chancellor

  Angela Merkel

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Shinzō Abe → Yoshihide Suga

• President of Russia

  Vladimir Putin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 2020, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.