Top 50 Music Albums of the 2020s
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The Best Albums of the Decade So Far... 2020-2024
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Best Short Releases 2020-2024
1. Mach-Hommy - Mach's Hard Lemonade (2020) [HT/US]
hip hop (n/a, 22:07) - 8/10
2. Marina Herlop - Pripyat (2022) [ES]
glitch pop • avant-folk (PAN, 29:30) - 8/10
3. Slauson Malone - Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak) (2020) [US]
neo-soul • sound collage (n/a, 24:14) - 8/10
4. bar italia - CDr (2022) [GB]
indie rock • slacker rock (n/a, 15:48) - 8/10
5. Asian glow - pt.2345678andstill (2021) [KR]
emo • lo-fi / slacker rock • noise pop • folktronica (Longinus, 16:00) - 8/10
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Retrospective/Archival
Meredith Monk / Theo Bleckmann / Katie Geissinger / Allison Sniffin / Bang on a Can All-Stars - Memory Game (Cantaloupe, 50:20) [US]
post-minimalism - 8.5/10
Black Country, New Road - Live at Bush Hall (Ninja Tune, 46:55)
progressive pop • art rock • chamber pop - 8/10
- Chart updated: 10/27/2025 11:45
- (Created: 10/24/2025 11:11).
- Chart size: 50 albums.
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experimental rock • neo-psychedelia
(Polyvinyl, 36:17)
7/10
"In everyone’s life
There is only one person
Whose name can be called out
At the moment of death
And for me that name is yours"
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experimental rock • neo-psychedelia
(Polyvinyl, 36:17)
7/10
"In everyone’s life
There is only one person
Whose name can be called out
At the moment of death
And for me that name is yours"
____________________________________________________________________________ [First added to this chart: 10/24/2025]
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Top 50 Music Albums of the 2020s composition
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| Nicolas Jaar | 1 | 2% | |
| Iglooghost | 1 | 2% | |
| Adrianne Lenker | 1 | 2% | |
| 青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba] | 1 | 2% | |
| Kevin Coleman | 1 | 2% | |
| Injury Reserve | 1 | 2% | |
| Eartheater | 1 | 2% | |
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27 | 54% | |
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8 | 16% | |
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4 | 8% | |
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2 | 4% | |
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Top 50 Music Albums of the 2020s chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 24th to 25th By The Time I Get To Phoenix by Injury Reserve |
| Down 1 from 25th to 26th Bright Green Field by Squid (2020s) |
| Down 1 from 26th to 27th Shrines by Armand Hammer |
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| Cenizas by Nicolas Jaar |
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