Best Albums of the 2020s (so far)
Listed below are the best albums of the 2020s (so far) as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 4 hours ago).
"It’s a golden era for women in music 2018 saw incredible albums from Mitski and Boygenius feat Phoebe Bridgers 2019 was even better with Lana Del Rey , Uboa , Big Theif and Sharon Van Etten smashing it out of the park And in 2020 we’ve already had Fiona Apple , Waxahatche, Phoebe Bridgers and Bea..." [+] Reply
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Brad1770 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2020
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"Beyonce's follow-up to Renaissance has been characterized as Queen Bey's "country album." Not outside the realm of possibility as she's flirted with it on early records--not to mention she's from Texas; Beynoce is for sure familiar with country. Though she typically dabbles in contemporary trends..." [+] Reply
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HoldenM | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (5 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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2024
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619
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"I've put off listening to 'Guts' for a while, purely just because of how much an album like this inevitably gets overhyped by the media, and by friends raving on about how I should listen to it. Once the dust has settled, I like to try and form my own opinion... and it's pretty much as I expected..." [+] Reply
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2023
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617
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"A real interesting switch up in mood and sound from last year’s ‘Laurel Hell’ and dare I say it punches just as much as an overall piece of work…" Reply
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2023
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614
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"Easily his best since the White Stripes ended, and maybe his best since Elephant." Reply
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2024
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612
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"The Quietus don’t like IDLES, so eager were the noise-drone-loving-blur-hating online UK equivalent of Pitchfork that they published their review of the new record a month early. They hated it. The most exciting band in the UK and they were found with their pants round their ankles. It seems the ..." [+] Reply
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johnner | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2020
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"This wants to be something more than it is. It's steeped in aesthetic suggestion of something dark, something sinister, something lying beneath the surface under the white lace. Alas and alack if there's in fact some deeper truth or horror or horror-truth hidden under there, Cain hasn't the faint..." [+] Reply
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Arthurknight | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (5 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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2022
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603
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"Another masterclass in mood, tension, orchestration and drama from the great Canadian band - and a fantastic title for the victims of genocide in Gaza. Free Palestine." Reply
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2024
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603
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"If there exists a person who simultaneously has heard the term "5th Wave of Emo" and thinks it's not arrived, they surely do now. "Dream-pop" never went out of style per se, but it has become an increasingly amorphous definition. A term coined by one of Shoegaze's few POC artists has come to cove..." [+] Reply
- Arthurknight | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (3 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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2023
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"Like a lot of great recent albums from Radiohead (A Moon Shaped Pool) and Bon Iver (i,i), American Head combines a number of elements from some of the bands best works. Yoshimi and At War With the Mystics are probably the most identifiable, with a side of Soft Bulletin. This is the album I was ho..." [+] Reply
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2020
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 13 of 100
Best Albums of the 2020s (so far) composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2020 | 197 | 20% | |
| 2021 | 200 | 20% | |
| 2022 | 194 | 19% | |
| 2023 | 169 | 17% | |
| 2024 | 143 | 14% | |
| 2025 | 97 | 10% | |
| 2026 | 2 | 0% |
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| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | 12 | 1% | |
| Taylor Swift | 7 | 1% | |
| Charli XCX | 4 | 0% | |
| Bad Bunny | 4 | 0% | |
| Nas | 4 | 0% | |
| Black Country, New Road | 4 | 0% | |
| 파란노을 [Parannoul] | 4 | 0% | |
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516 | 51% | |
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234 | 23% | |
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45 | 4% | |
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39 | 4% | |
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29 | 3% | |
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19 | 2% | |
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15 | 1% | |
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