Best Albums of the 2020s

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Listed below are the best albums of the 2020s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 53,000 greatest album charts.

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2020s decade summary

Year	Albums The number of albums from each year featuring in the greatest album charts.	Score Total rank score for each year (made up of the total rank score from all albums in that year)	Top Ranked Album The top ranked album from each year and where it ranks in the overall chart.
2020	7,159	104,349	The New Abnormal (446th)by The Strokes
2021	6,616	95,987	Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (613th)by Little Simz
2022	6,363	90,129	Ants From Up There (322nd)by Black Country, New Road
2023	4,860	56,332	Javelin (1,334th)by Sufjan Stevens
2024	1,134	4,690	Wall Of Eyes (5,083rd)by The Smile
Total	26,132	351,486

The best artists of the 2020s are Black Country, New Road, The Strokes, Taylor Swift, Little Simz, Fiona Apple, Phoebe Bridgers, Black Midi, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, The Weeknd and Sufjan Stevens.

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Flower Of Devotion

Dehd

Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

33 charts

Rank Score:

117

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482.

Space 1.8

Nala Sinephro

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

43 charts

Rank Score:

116

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483.

We Are Chaos

Marilyn Manson

Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

22 charts

Rank Score:

116

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484.

Space Heavy

King Krule

Year of Release:

2023

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

116

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484

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10,114

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72 (63 votes)

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485.

Tako Tsubo

L'Impératrice

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

17 charts

Rank Score:

115

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486.

Folkesange

Myrkur

Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

30 charts

Rank Score:

115

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487.

Say Laura

Eric Chenaux

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

13 charts

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115

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488.

Deep Down Happy

Sports Team

Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

36 charts

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115

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Utekočinjeni Prestol Preprostih (The Liquified Throne Of Simplicity)

Širom

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

31 charts

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114

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490.

The Symbol Remains

Blue Öyster Cult

Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

26 charts

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114

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Best Albums of the 2020s composition

Year	Albums	%

2020	278	28%
2021	283	28%
2022	253	25%
2023	176	18%
2024	11	1%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	10	1%
Taylor Swift	7	1%
Nas	6	1%
Animal Collective	3	0%
青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba]	3	0%
Nation Of Language	3	0%
Black Country, New Road	3	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	507	51%
	210	21%
	51	5%
	40	4%
	33	3%
	14	1%
	13	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	995	99%
Yes	6	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	985	98%
Yes	16	2%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	998	100%
Yes	3	0%

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