Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 by 
babyBlueSedan 
Another year, another year chart. Are year charts a way to track the best music of a given year? Or are they a signpost of another year that has passed, a substitute for more traditional anniversaries brought on by our incessant need to rate and rank? As time passes, we will grow weaker. Leaders will rise and fall, fads will begin and end. Entire civilizations may be destroyed. But year charts will remain, every year, appearing like clockwork. When did they start? What is their purpose? There is only one thing we can be sure of: they will never end.
(everything i've heard is here, high scores are better than low ones, my comments suck, blah blah blah)
(This has been a really weird year for me musically. For the past few years I've listened to ~100 new albums and typically between 25-30 of those end up crossing the 70 plateau. This year I've already got nearly 20 of those and the year isn't even half over. But despite that, only two albums have crossed the 80 threshold. So I guess this year has had a lot of consistent quality but no real standout releases. It's possible a lot of the current 70s and 75s starts to inch up as I listen to them more, so I guess we'll see what happens as the year goes on.)
(I'm still short on albums I love but the year seems to have evened out as the quality has dipped as the year's gone on. Either that or I've finally hit the age where I don't like new music.)
- Chart updated: 03/17/2021 22:45
- (Created: 01/29/2020 02:29).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Political hip hop
Calling this "political" is such an understatement given the world it was dropped into. I guess Run the Jewels haven't really changed what they were doing, perhaps now the rest of the world has just finally caught up. So while "Walking in the Snow" hits incredibly hard and is one of the best songs they've done, I think this is still my least favorite of theirs. If for no other reason it's because they really haven't changed their sound and at some point it was bound to hit diminishing returns. But I also liked RT3 more than their first two, which isn't a popular opinion I know, but i thought the more straightforward production helped highlight their rapping better. This one switches things up and is perhaps their least conventional album production wise, with some truly bonkers beats. However, I think that makes it harder to focus on the rapping, which is pretty much exactly the same quality as always. This album shows that Gang of Four's "Ether" makes a fantastic rap beat, but it's a double edged sword because that "Ether" riff is so great I complete ignore the MCs on that song.
Might come back to this but probably not. I don't disagree it's a fitting album that captures this year, but so are their other three albums so *shrug*. [First added to this chart: 06/10/2020]
Political hip hop
Calling this "political" is such an understatement given the world it was dropped into. I guess Run the Jewels haven't really changed what they were doing, perhaps now the rest of the world has just finally caught up. So while "Walking in the Snow" hits incredibly hard and is one of the best songs they've done, I think this is still my least favorite of theirs. If for no other reason it's because they really haven't changed their sound and at some point it was bound to hit diminishing returns. But I also liked RT3 more than their first two, which isn't a popular opinion I know, but i thought the more straightforward production helped highlight their rapping better. This one switches things up and is perhaps their least conventional album production wise, with some truly bonkers beats. However, I think that makes it harder to focus on the rapping, which is pretty much exactly the same quality as always. This album shows that Gang of Four's "Ether" makes a fantastic rap beat, but it's a double edged sword because that "Ether" riff is so great I complete ignore the MCs on that song.
Might come back to this but probably not. I don't disagree it's a fitting album that captures this year, but so are their other three albums so *shrug*. [First added to this chart: 06/10/2020]
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 composition
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| Charli XCX | 1 | 1% | |
| Neil Young | 1 | 1% | |
| Beach Bunny | 1 | 1% | |
| Protomartyr | 1 | 1% | |
| Barely Civil | 1 | 1% | |
| The Weeknd | 1 | 1% | |
| Cloud Nothings | 1 | 1% | |
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62 | 62% | |
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14 | 14% | |
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7 | 7% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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 Up 1 from 30th to 29thDaughter by Lydia Loveless |
| Up 1 from 29th to 28th Shrines by Armand Hammer |
| Up 1 from 4th to 3rd Purple Moonlight Pages by R.A.P. Ferreira |
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| Down 2 from 2nd to 4th Keleketla! by Keleketla! |
| Down 2 from 28th to 30th Miss Anthropocene by Grimes |
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 100/100  | 01/12/2021 11:16 |  Larcx13 | | 86/100 |
| 90/100 | 12/17/2020 10:39 |  Arthurknight | | 89/100 |
| 85/100 | 11/16/2020 23:17 |  sssvnnn | | 83/100 |
| 100/100 | 11/12/2020 10:41 |  Purplepash | | 88/100 |
| 95/100 | 07/13/2020 16:05 | AledJames | | 98/100 |
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From Larcx13 01/12/2021 11:16
Larcx13 01/12/2021 11:16
perfect note for the work put in
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From sssvnnn 11/16/2020 23:14
sssvnnn 11/16/2020 23:14
Good chart, even better genre comments.
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From Purplepash 11/12/2020 11:32
Purplepash 11/12/2020 11:32
I'm giving this chart a rating of 100 for the insightful and thoughtful comments (I wish I could work out and verbalise why I do or don't like an album as much as you seem to be able to) even though you diss a lot of my favourite albums of the year :-)
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ledaero 05/31/2020 07:24
ledaero 05/31/2020 07:24
Really appreciate your writing on the albums! Don't always agree with your perspectives, but I love the thought and work that you put into your criticism. Look forward to checking out your lists more.
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