How the 2020s Hits bracket works
Rank 2020s songs without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Blinding Lights or As It Was? Levitating or drivers license? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. The awkward pairings are the point: they are the calls a drag-and-drop tier list quietly lets you avoid.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 tracks in the field. Seeding is random, which means a replay is a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Blinding Lights, As It Was, Levitating and drivers license.
Blinding Lights
The Weeknd
As It Was
Harry Styles
Levitating
Dua Lipa
drivers license
Olivia Rodrigo
Stay
The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
good 4 u
Olivia Rodrigo
Peaches
Justin Bieber
MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)
Lil Nas X
Heat Waves
Glass Animals
Save Your Tears
The Weeknd
Watermelon Sugar
Harry Styles
Bad Habit
Steve Lacy
About Damn Time
Lizzo
Anti-Hero
Taylor Swift
Flowers
Miley Cyrus
Kill Bill
SZA
vampire
Olivia Rodrigo
Cruel Summer
Taylor Swift
Paint the Town Red
Doja Cat
Last Night
Morgan Wallen
Unholy
Sam Smith & Kim Petras
Dynamite
BTS
Butter
BTS
Kiss Me More
Doja Cat ft. SZA
deja vu
Olivia Rodrigo
INDUSTRY BABY
Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow
Espresso
Sabrina Carpenter
Please Please Please
Sabrina Carpenter
APT.
Rose & Bruno Mars
Not Like Us
Kendrick Lamar
Greedy
Tate McRae
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Billie Eilish
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 9 completed 2020s Hits brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
As It Was
18W - 7L · won 1 bracket
72%
win rate
- 2
vampire
13W - 6L · won 2 brackets
68%
win rate
- 3
Blinding Lights
13W - 6L · won 1 bracket
68%
win rate
- 4
Not Like Us
13W - 6L · won 1 bracket
68%
win rate
- 5
Levitating
13W - 7L
65%
win rate
- 6
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
11W - 6L · won 1 bracket
65%
win rate
- 7
Espresso
12W - 7L · won 1 bracket
63%
win rate
- 8
Stay
12W - 8L
60%
win rate
- 9
MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)
12W - 8L
60%
win rate
- 10
APT.
9W - 7L · won 1 bracket
56%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Go with the track you would rather hear right now — instant reaction beats a considered take.
- 2The default run puts all 32 tracks in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
2020s Hits bracket FAQ
How many tracks are in the 2020s Hits bracket?
The pool holds 32 tracks. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which tracks are included?
Blinding Lights, As It Was, Levitating, drivers license, Stay, good 4 u, Peaches, MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name), Heat Waves, Save Your Tears, Watermelon Sugar and Bad Habit, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank 2020s songs take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and you can abandon a run at any point without losing anything.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other track grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two tracks that never met. If you would rather place the tracks into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the 2020s Hits community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a track I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own tracks, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.