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🎵 The Dream Team: Taylor Swift, Justin Vernon & Aaron Dessner

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Click here for a Spotify playlist with the songs mentioned in this email.

The 50 Best Songs of 2021 (So Far)

Since we’re officially halfway through 2021, we’ve put together a list of the top 50 songs from the first part of the year. The complete list can be found on Spotify, but here’s a handful of the selections.

  1. Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic, Leave the Door Open

  1. Japanese Breakfast, Be Sweet

  1. Big Red Machine, Taylor Swift, Renegade

  1. Freddie Gibbs, Big Boss Rabbit

Check out the full list here.

BIGGEST Songs of the Week 📈

The dream team is back! Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, The National’s Aaron Dessner and Taylor Swift have reunited on a Big Red Machine track, the side project of Vernon and Dessner. The trio had previously collaborated on Swift’s 2020 albums folklore and evermore. The song was released alongside two other singles, Latter Days and The Ghost of Cincinnati, which will be featured on Big Red Machine’s sophomore album How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?, out next month.

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