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NPR Music's Top 14 Songs Of April

Beyoncé jumped on a Megan Thee Stallion remix, Fiona Apple dropped an album full of favorites (and we somehow picked one) and Jason Isbell offered a heartrending treat with the 400 Unit.
To bolster the fun and success of her already chart-climbing 2020 single "Savage," Megan Thee Stallion manifested a remix from Beyoncé.

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As the NPR Music staff continues to cover the pandemic and its effects on the music industry, we are still listening to new music. In fact, we started Press Pause and Hit Play, a new playlist updated daily, in an effort to catalog our favorites released during this time.

We did something different for April. Instead of long discussions over email and video chat to determine which

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