The Billboard.com Critics’ Picks songs list is always difficult to cobble together — with thousands of great songs released this year to consider, how can a group responsibly highlight the best of the best with one 20-song list? Although there were dozens more we would have liked to include, the following 20 songs are the tracks that had us head-banging, contemplating, tearing up and twerking. Behold: the 20 indispensable songs of 2013.
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