Best Albums of the 2020s

Listed below are the best albums of the 2020s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 56,000 greatest album charts.

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summaryThe best artists of the 2020s are Black Country, New Road, The Strokes, Charli XCX, Little Simz, Taylor Swift, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Kendrick Lamar, Phoebe Bridgers, Fiona Apple and Fontaines D.C..
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2023
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2021
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Buy album United States
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2021
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Buy album United States
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2022
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81
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2024
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Best Albums of the 2020s composition

Year Albums %


2020 213 21%
2021 224 22%
2022 219 22%
2023 180 18%
2024 144 14%
2025 20 2%
Country Albums %


United States 513 51%
United Kingdom 233 23%
Canada 46 5%
Australia 37 4%
Mixed Nationality 32 3%
Sweden 16 2%
Ireland 14 1%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 993 99%
Yes 7 1%
Live? Albums %
No 984 98%
Yes 16 2%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 998 100%
Yes 2 0%
Best Albums of 2000
1. Kid A by Radiohead
2. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3. The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse
4. Since I Left You by The Avalanches
5. Parachutes by Coldplay
6. The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem
7. Stankonia by OutKast
8. Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea by PJ Harvey
9. White Pony by Deftones
10. Relationship Of Command by At The Drive-In
11. Voodoo by D'Angelo
12. Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
13. Rated R by Queens Of The Stone Age
14. Figure 8 by Elliott Smith
15. Dopethrone by Electric Wizard
16. All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2
17. The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy
18. De Stijl by The White Stripes
19. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out by Yo La Tengo
20. Deltron 3030 by Deltron 3030
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