Compiled by PPL (the organisation that monitors all recorded music plays in the UK, not just on radio and TV, but in cinemas, clubs, pubs, restaurants, gyms and even karaoke bars), these songs ...

Spotify's music streaming rivals are due to release their end-of-year statistics in the coming week; and the Official Charts will reveal the UK's biggest songs of 2020 at the end of the year.

Taylor Swift was supposed to spend 2020 on tour. Instead she locked herself in a woodland cabin and dreamed up some of the most magical, tragi-romantic songs of her career. Folklore steps away ...