Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s
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travelful 
This chart is all killer with no filler. Anything featured in here I consider fairly essential and recommend to everybody.
- Chart updated: 06/17/2025 18:45
- (Created: 07/06/2021 21:49).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Video Game Music, Classical Crossover, Cinematic Classical
2025 AOTY - 10
2025 AOTY - 10
Country, red dirt, americana
10 [First added to this chart: 05/07/2023]
10 [First added to this chart: 05/07/2023]
Country, americana, red dirt, singer/songwriter
2023 AOTY - 10 [First added to this chart: 08/28/2023]
2023 AOTY - 10 [First added to this chart: 08/28/2023]
Boom bap, conscious hip-hop, east coast
2022 AOTY - strong 9 [First added to this chart: 01/25/2023]
2022 AOTY - strong 9 [First added to this chart: 01/25/2023]
Dream pop, neo-psychedelia
decent - strong 9 [First added to this chart: 03/01/2022]
decent - strong 9 [First added to this chart: 03/01/2022]
Year of Release:
2022
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Rank Score:
1,521
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Conscious hip-hop, west coast hip-hop
decent - strong 9 [First added to this chart: 05/20/2022]
decent - strong 9 [First added to this chart: 05/20/2022]
Year of Release:
2022
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Rank Score:
2,615
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Red dirt, singer/songwriter, americana
2024 AOTY - decent 9 [First added to this chart: 07/06/2024]
2024 AOTY - decent 9 [First added to this chart: 07/06/2024]
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Indie Folk
2021 AOTY - decent 9 [First added to this chart: 10/14/2021]
2021 AOTY - decent 9 [First added to this chart: 10/14/2021]
Year of Release:
2021
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Rank Score:
858
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Contemporary folk, singer/songwriter
2020 AOTY - decent 9 [First added to this chart: 07/06/2021]
2020 AOTY - decent 9 [First added to this chart: 07/06/2021]
Year of Release:
2020
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Rank Score:
996
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Country, singer/songwriter, americana
decent 9 [First added to this chart: 08/11/2022]
decent 9 [First added to this chart: 08/11/2022]
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Zach Bryan | 7 | 7% | |
| 파란노을 [Parannoul] | 4 | 4% | |
| Westside Gunn | 3 | 3% | |
| Conway the Machine | 2 | 2% | |
| 49 Winchester | 2 | 2% | |
| DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ | 2 | 2% | |
| Natalia Lafourcade | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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62 | 62% | |
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9 | 9% | |
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8 | 8% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 1st to 2ndAll My Homies Hate Ticketmaster (Live From Red Rocks) by Zach Bryan |
| Down 1 from 2nd to 3rdZach Bryan by Zach Bryan |
| Down 1 from 3rd to 4thKing's Disease III by Nas |
| Leavers |
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| Church by Billy Woods |
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| 04/22/2023 07:12 | ThuramThugood | 106 | 90/100 | |
| 03/05/2023 11:30 |  LedZep | 1,103 | 84/100 |
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