Best Albums of the 2020s

Listed below are the best albums of the 2020s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 53,000 greatest album charts.

Best albums by year or decade
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2020s decade summary
YearAlbums The number of albums from each year featuring in the greatest album charts. Score Total rank score for each year (made up of the total rank score from all albums in that year) Top Ranked Album The top ranked album from each year and where it ranks in the overall chart.
20207,155104,377
20216,61295,966
20226,35889,860
20234,85556,274
20241,0864,414
Total26,066350,890

The best artists of the 2020s are Black Country, New Road, The Strokes, Taylor Swift, Little Simz, Fiona Apple, Phoebe Bridgers, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Black Midi, The Weeknd and Sufjan Stevens.
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2020
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Buy album United States
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64
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Best Albums of the 2020s composition

Year Albums %


2020 279 28%
2021 281 28%
2022 254 25%
2023 176 18%
2024 10 1%
Country Albums %


United States 507 51%
United Kingdom 210 21%
Canada 51 5%
Australia 39 4%
Mixed Nationality 33 3%
Sweden 14 1%
France 13 1%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 993 99%
Yes 7 1%
Live? Albums %
No 984 98%
Yes 16 2%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 997 100%
Yes 3 0%
Best Artists of the 1990s
1. Radiohead
2. Nirvana
3. Neutral Milk Hotel
4. The Smashing Pumpkins
5. My Bloody Valentine
6. Oasis
7. Pearl Jam
8. R.E.M.
9. Weezer
10. Richard David James
11. Nick Cave
12. Björk
13. Pavement
14. Jeff Buckley
15. Blur
16. Portishead
17. Elliott Smith
18. Nas
19. Sigur Rós
20. Massive Attack
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