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 59,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 4 hours ago).
"Honestly I was underwhelmed by Chemtrails, it's not bad but any means. Starts off great and sadly falls into the uninspiring/kinda boring realm for me.. Blue Banisters is a vast improvement! I really enjoyed this one. It's beautifully crafted and more interesting to my ears and her vocals are won..." [+] Reply
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ExTeaSea | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2021
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"Beautifully written, sung and performed. Abigail Morris is one the finest vocalists in modern music. A buffet for the ears" Reply
"Hot take, but this is the better album between this and Folklore. Dessner's production and writing grounds the album, lots of fantastic collaborators, and just more fulfilling. The final track, Evermore, is Swift at her all-time best." Reply
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ledaero | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2020
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"This is a perfectly okay album, but Olsen has lost any x-factor I thought she once had. I'd rather listen to 70s country classics than this project – because that's literally what this album is emulating, just with gay themes and ill-fittingly clean production. Olsen is able to make the genre shi..." [+] Reply
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Arthurknight | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2022
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"wow, this would've smashed the charts in the 90s and maybe early 2000s. lyrically sophie takes us to the strange mess of her mind, and it's not easy to swallow, to be honest. sometimes it hurts, how true it is and how one can relate. but somehow it's not a fully depressing album, because you hear..." [+] Reply
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2020
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"Pretty sure this is the most I've enjoyed Destroyer. Loved the singles and the album has a great flow. Has like a similarity to early Brian Eno which includes Another Green World and like a hint of Talking Heads so like that Eno/Byrne album or something? I dunno it's super cool and exciting music..." [+] Reply
- ExTeaSea | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2022
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516
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"Why is it that the best rock albums always comes from England? Pretty good." Reply
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lleon79 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2024
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"I thought I'd like this when I first heard about it but I just found a lot of the album to sound too silly at times and the vocals in my opinion are annoying. Didn't work for me sadly" Reply
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2022
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"I know this album has left a bad taste for a lot of long time fans and it’s by no means his best album I personally really enjoy the new direction. I love the jazzy roaring 20s kind of vibe. I feel like this album had a lot of potential but came out half baked. Not great but an interesting new so..." [+] Reply
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2022
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"Suppose you're bored one morning so you decide to time travel back to 1996. When you get there, you happen to run into Beck, Ween, and The Magnetic Fields. So you roofie them all (cuz you're gangsta like that). Then you drag them home and throw them into a blender (cuz you're Dahmer like that). T..." [+] Reply
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Best Albums of the 2020s (so far) composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2020 | 199 | 20% | |
| 2021 | 204 | 20% | |
| 2022 | 192 | 19% | |
| 2023 | 158 | 16% | |
| 2024 | 147 | 15% | |
| 2025 | 97 | 10% | |
| 2026 | 3 | 0% |
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| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | 12 | 1% | |
| Taylor Swift | 7 | 1% | |
| Nas | 5 | 1% | |
| Charli XCX | 4 | 0% | |
| Black Country, New Road | 4 | 0% | |
| 파란노을 [Parannoul] | 4 | 0% | |
| Maruja | 4 | 0% | |
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240 | 24% | |
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46 | 5% | |
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40 | 4% | |
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31 | 3% | |
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19 | 2% | |
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