Billboard magazine has released its year-end charts. For 2020, the magazine teamed up with Google to debut a new chart that tracked the most popular songs searched for in Google’s “Hum to Search” feature on its new app. Among the 100 entries making the list of the Top Hummed Songs in the U.S. in 2020 were three from musical shows. Ranking at #28 was “Let It Go” from the animated Disney film Frozen (2013) sung by Idina Menzel as Elsa, #60 was “Someone Gets Hurt” from the Broadway musical Mean Girls (2018) sung by Taylor Louderman as Regina, and #91 was “Kion’s Lament” from the animated Disney TV series The Lion Guard (2015) sung by Max Charles as Kion.
Topping the Cast Albums chart once again this year is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton (2015), which peaked at #2 this July on the Top 200 album chart. That cast album is followed by Stephen Schwartz’s Wicked (which peaked at #66 on the Top 200 in 2003), Pasek & Paul’s Dear Evan Hansen (#8, 2017), Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown (#49, 2019), Eddie Perfect’s Beetlejuice (2019), David Byrne’s American Utopia (2019), Six by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (2018 studio cast), Moulin Rouge! (#115, 2019), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera (1987 London cast), and Come from Away by Irene Sankoff and David Hein (#82, 2017).
The Billboard year-end list of Soundtracks is topped by Disney’s Frozen II (2019), which spent one week atop the Top 200 album chart. That soundtrack is followed by Pasek & Paul’s The Greatest Showman (which peaked at #3 on the Top 200 in 2017), Disney’s Moana (#2, 2016), A Star Is Born (4 weeks at #1 in 2018), Kanye West’s Jesus Is King (one week at #1 in 2019), Disney’s Frozen (13 weeks at #1 in 2013), Trolls World Tour (#15, 2020), K-12 by Melanie Martinez (#3, 2019), Purple Rain by Prince (24 weeks at #1 in 1984), and Bohemian Rhapsody (#2, 2018).