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The Music 2020 Writers' Poll: Pat Boxall

Pat Boxall

Here's what The Music's writers rated in 2020…

Album Of The Year

  1. Run The Jewels - RTJ4
  2. Taylor Swift - Folklore
  3. Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music
  4. clipping. - Visions Of Bodies Being Burned
  5. Miiesha - Nyaaringu
  6. Gordi - Our Two Skins
  7. Cosmos Midnight - Yesteryear



Song Of The Year

  1. Run The Jewels - A Few Words For The Firing Squad (Radiation)
  2. Gretta Ray & Japanese Wallflower - Better
  3. Taylor Swift - Invisible Strings
  4. Mia Wray - Work For Me
  5. Ziggy Ramo - April 25th



Artist Of The Year

  1. Run The Jewels
  2. Ziggy Ramo
  3. Jack The Fox


International Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. Dermot Kennedy
  2. Ezra Collective
  3. Pixies


Australian Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. Sampa The Great
  2. Electric Fields
  3. Gang Of Youths


TV Show Of The Year

  1. Normal People
  2. Cheer
  3. The Undoing


Movie Of The Year

  1. I'm Thinking Of Ending Things
  2. The Trial Of The Chicago 7
  3. On The Rocks



Highlight Of The Year

Golden Plains - it was probably best that we didn't realise it would mark the end of the world as we know it, or things would've gotten a lot weirder.

Prediction For Next Year

Some very, very rusty dance moves.