This is the year Kanye became a sleazy televangelist while Lil Nas X challenged genre lines with “Old Town Road.” It's a lot to take in, and we wouldn't blame you for having a certain amount of panic when you stare at a blank search bar on Spotify.
Eilish herself has had such a massive debut in 2019, it’s easy to feel only a few months after her debut album that she’s been famous for years. 2019 has been a transformative year for music-one in which the established superstars kept relatively quiet, making space for promising newcomers like Lizzo, Billie Eilish, and DaBaby to command the charts. Since we’ve already considered the best music of the decade and the best albums of 2019, it’s time to narrow the scope a little bit and discuss the individual tracks that mattered this calendar year.