Best Albums of the 2020s (so far)

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31.

Renaissance 

 Beyoncé

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"It's no Lemonade but it's pretty cool, especially the back half. It all flows together nicely like an endless dance club night out haha. Have been to a few haha, dancing in public isn't for me but I can see the appeal. They could literally just play this entire album and it'd be about the same as...""It's no Lemonade but it's pretty cool, especially the back half. It all flows together nicely like an endless dance club night out haha. Have been to a few haha, dancing in public isn't for me but I can see the appeal. They could literally just play this entire album and it'd be about the same as the nonstop dance music in your average club haha. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

291 charts

Rank Score:

1,722

Rank in 2022:

9

Rank in 2020s:

31

Overall Rank:

1,011

Average Rating:

 73 (227 votes)

Comments:

16

32.

Future Nostalgia 

 Dua Lipa

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"So is disco back? Not a huge fan of the genre but I do love this and some of the other big pop albums from 2020 like this (most notably After Hours). I finally got around to listening to this and it was well worth the hype. Even though I already heard half of the songs there was still a lot to un...""So is disco back? Not a huge fan of the genre but I do love this and some of the other big pop albums from 2020 like this (most notably After Hours). I finally got around to listening to this and it was well worth the hype. Even though I already heard half of the songs there was still a lot to unpack here. The bass in these songs are incredible. I have always loved Levitating but I admit DaBaby's verse in the remix makes the remix a little bit better. I think Good In Bed is very underrated too. Boys Will Be Boys has an obnoxiously low score even though it's an okay song. The "if you need it mansplained" lyric made me cringe and the "if you're offended by this song" lyrics sounds like something Tom McDonald would say. Just a lot of bangers from this album besides that though. Great pop record. Best: Levitating, Physical, Don't Start Now, Hallucinate, Break My Heart & Love Again Worst: Boys Will Be Boys...it doesn't deserve the low score it has though."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

351 charts

Rank Score:

1,645

Rank in 2020:

11

Rank in 2020s:

32

Overall Rank:

1,066

Average Rating:

 75 (385 votes)

Comments:

26

33.

Cavalcade 

 Black Midi

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"Well what I thought was going to be one of my favorite post punk albums of the year turned out to be some of the greatest progressive rock in a long time."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

296 charts

Rank Score:

1,640

Rank in 2021:

7

Rank in 2020s:

33

Overall Rank:

1,072

Average Rating:

 79 (333 votes)

Comments:

19

34.

Romance 

 Fontaines D.C.

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"Such a great band, surely the best band to emerge over the last 10 years and not even close. Four great albums out of four now. Favourite and Starburster are great of course, but it's a consistent album with a few little gems in there. Some really beautiful calm songs in a row in the middle there...""Such a great band, surely the best band to emerge over the last 10 years and not even close. Four great albums out of four now. Favourite and Starburster are great of course, but it's a consistent album with a few little gems in there. Some really beautiful calm songs in a row in the middle there with Bug, Motorcycle Boy and Sundowner. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

272 charts

Rank Score:

1,636

Rank in 2024:

5

Rank in 2020s:

34

Overall Rank:

1,075

Average Rating:

 78 (219 votes)

Comments:

4

35.

Getting Killed 

 Geese

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"The negative reviews are funny. Try listening to the album more than once before embarrassing yourselves next time. At the beginning of my first listen, all I could hear was Thom Yorke doing a Mick Jagger impression as well. Eventually, and it shouldn't take long, you'll be able to appreciate the...""The negative reviews are funny. Try listening to the album more than once before embarrassing yourselves next time. At the beginning of my first listen, all I could hear was Thom Yorke doing a Mick Jagger impression as well. Eventually, and it shouldn't take long, you'll be able to appreciate the singer for his own self. It isn't as musically powerful as it is emotionally powerful, even though the music is still top notch. That's not an insult to the music, just a compliment to the vocalist, whom everyone's talking about. It's not often that such great musicians are overshadowed by a lead singer with a presence like this, but when that is the case, you know it's special and they're destined for greatness. I haven't felt so emotionally drained and strained upon listening to a record since BCNR's first couple. It must be really hard to be this emotionally charged without getting cringey. I don't know if my tolerance for it is raising, but it took me less time to accept this than it took for other overly erratic, angsty, panicky, and/or desperate sounding vocalists."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2025

Appears in:

243 charts

Rank Score:

1,628

Rank in 2025:

1

Rank in 2020s:

35

Overall Rank:

1,081

Average Rating:

 80 (249 votes)

Comments:

12

36.

Scaring The Hoes 

 JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown

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"This is going to be the year of Danny Brown"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2023

Appears in:

255 charts

Rank Score:

1,619

Rank in 2023:

3

Rank in 2020s:

36

Overall Rank:

1,084

Average Rating:

 80 (262 votes)

Comments:

17

37.

Hey What 

 Low

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"(Total masterpiece. Genres to describe this I guess would be post-industrial, Noise, with some kind of gospel spirituality mixed in. Anyway, that doesn’t really describe this album. Not very well, anyway.) What can I possibly say that will do this album justice? I don’t think I am capable. This a...""(Total masterpiece. Genres to describe this I guess would be post-industrial, Noise, with some kind of gospel spirituality mixed in. Anyway, that doesn’t really describe this album. Not very well, anyway.) What can I possibly say that will do this album justice? I don’t think I am capable. This album is special. When I listen to HEY WHAT, it is an out-of-body experience. The detail contained within the “noise”, the way the sheer volume of the album rolls over me like waves, I feel like I am thrown into a storm in the middle of the ocean, and for a few seconds I fight it and I panic and I start to scream and cry. But then a voice reassures me that these tidal waves won’t cause me harm – not truly and not truly me -, and I am told to breathe and embrace the immensity of this place and this experience. I relax and I breathe and … I am fine, I am calm, I am free. The rest of the album is like a massive, Pacific-sized epic about modern life and spirituality. And unlike so many other unapologetically gloomy, bitter, and hopeless epics that seem to tackle this struggle, with HEY WHAT I feel love and I feel hope and I glimpse a way through this mess I find myself in. Musically, production-wise, this album makes me laugh lovingly and in awe, because I just can’t understand how humans being of flesh and blood can go and create this. Like, how? This could be called “Noisy” and “Staticy” and “Loud” but I can’t really say that those words fit to describe even the most inhuman and loud and most intense moments in this album. These scratchy, buzzing, sonically overwhelming sounds never sound harsh or hard to listen to. Again, like I said at the beginning, I have no clue how to express what this sounds like to me. The machines present on this album are simply communicating, meshing, corresponding with the human voices and harmonies. When the harmonies and the machine sounds come together, in these artist’s genius hands, what you get is transcendent music of the highest caliber. Just yesterday I was trading comments with the excellent fellow-BEA user buzzdainer. Buzzdainer mentioned about Chris Stapleton’s 2020 album Starting Over: “…for me it's the quintessential album for coping with the cruel realities of our current decade.” This description was excellent and I can see how Starting Over would have that effect. However, when I took a look and thought about what album for ME truly had such a significance in this current decade… I couldn’t think of one. The music I have loved from this decade thus far has been mostly powerful and cathartic in very different ways or, in some cases, very escapist. But no album as of yesterday had I heard that really uplifted me and helped me cope and find meaning and stabilized me in this current crazy world we live in. Then just a couple hours later I pushed play on Low’s latest. By the time I finished listening the very first time I felt emotionally satiated, understood, fulfilled. And I felt spiritually uplifted and enlightened. This is probably the most uplifting piece of music I have heard this decade so far. It for sure is. To list the specific tracks on here that I love or want to shout out seems like a silly activity. It is only silly for me because the whole album, start to finish, is the perfect example of a cohesive album experience. For example, I can point out (and – lol - I am about to) that the back-to-back majesty of the track “Hey” followed by “Days Like These” makes me legitimately weep with joy and some emotional mixing I still don’t understand. And that is true, I think Hey/Days Like These is some of the greatest music I have ever heard full stop. BUT I had heard “Days Like These” as a single and when I heard it in that out-of-context way, I thought it was a pretty song and it made me excited for the new album… and that is all I thought of it. But when I hear it now on the heals of “Hey” and also after the absolutely stunning build up to this middle portion of the album, it is cathartic, life-changing, inspiring and perfect. Every song here is special on its own but transcendent as part of the entire sweep of the album. This album expresses to me; Humanity, Human Goodness, True Affection and Love and Unity winning and triumphing in the face of inhumanity, materialism, and the bleak ubiquity of the utterly unfeeling. This album is a treasure. I actually feel a deep appreciation and an immeasurable respect for and to Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk and BJ Burton for creating this album. It’s just what I needed to hear in days like these. Now I know I have not really said much of anything in this “review”/rambling comment – I haven’t touched much upon the songs and the lyrics and the harmonies and the industrial manipulations and genres and all that. Well, sorry. But this album, more than any other this year (outside of perhaps By the Time I Get To Phoenix), really transcends words and clear description. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

284 charts

Rank Score:

1,609

Rank in 2021:

8

Rank in 2020s:

37

Overall Rank:

1,088

Average Rating:

 78 (204 votes)

Comments:

8

38.

OK Human 

 Weezer

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"Now THIS is a record! Very well executed. A lot of strings and has a pop feel, but the kind of pop that I can enjoy. Their best record since Pinkerton maybe (though I did enjoy Everything Will Be Alright in the End), but I can compare this sound maybe to a much better version of the Green Album. ...""Now THIS is a record! Very well executed. A lot of strings and has a pop feel, but the kind of pop that I can enjoy. Their best record since Pinkerton maybe (though I did enjoy Everything Will Be Alright in the End), but I can compare this sound maybe to a much better version of the Green Album. Mirror Image and Playing My Piano might have done better for me as 1 song and maybe even tying Dead Roses and Everything Happens For A Reason together as well. That being said all the other songs have great catchy melodies and I need to give this a few more listens while reading lyrics. Top Songs (90+): All My Favorite Songs (100), Grapes of Wrath (100), Bird With A Broken Wing (95), La Brea Tar Pits (95), Dead Roses (90), Here Comes The Rain (90), Screens (90), Aloo Gobi (90)"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

262 charts

Rank Score:

1,540

Rank in 2021:

9

Rank in 2020s:

38

Overall Rank:

1,135

Average Rating:

 75 (373 votes)

Comments:

52

39.

Desire, I Want To Turn Into You 

 Caroline Polachek

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"“Desire, I Want to Turn Into You” is a full embracement of feelings. Polachek devotes herself completely with vivid mythological lyricism. Her emotional range is exquisite with impassioned delivery. In particular, the bridge on “Welcome to my Island” expertly moves from deadpan to desperate to ec...""“Desire, I Want to Turn Into You” is a full embracement of feelings. Polachek devotes herself completely with vivid mythological lyricism. Her emotional range is exquisite with impassioned delivery. In particular, the bridge on “Welcome to my Island” expertly moves from deadpan to desperate to ecstatic. In between this fantastic vocal performance, there are production errors. At times, Polachek’s voice is a bit over produced. It can come off as digital in emotional moments. Beyond the vocals, the production is hit or miss. At times, the echoic sound can reinforce the tone or add a vivid new age flavor. Alternatively, it creates a sparseness that makes it feel less dynamic. Even with its flaws, it’s a serene dive into human sentiment."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2023

Appears in:

304 charts

Rank Score:

1,528

Rank in 2023:

4

Rank in 2020s:

39

Overall Rank:

1,142

Average Rating:

 76 (248 votes)

Comments:

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40.

And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow 

 Weyes Blood

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"Another beautiful collection of songs from Weyes Blood that definitely rivals the quality of her previous masterpiece Titanic Rising but it will take me a few more listens before I can determine if it surpasses it. To start with her voice is just as strong as ever with it being both delicate and ...""Another beautiful collection of songs from Weyes Blood that definitely rivals the quality of her previous masterpiece Titanic Rising but it will take me a few more listens before I can determine if it surpasses it. To start with her voice is just as strong as ever with it being both delicate and powerful and it absolutely commands this album from beginning to end. Her voice is like an instrument in itself as it adds such a unique dynamic to every track which takes them to the next level. The instrumentation backs her vocal up brilliantly on the majority of tracks and with it being so diverse as well it keeps every song entertaining and encourages us to revisit the music often so we can discover everything. Furthermore, the production is stellar with the release sounding so smooth and elegant the whole way through. Overall, a very consistent album from an artist who is proving that she is an elite level musician and deserves a lot more credit for her work. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

306 charts

Rank Score:

1,481

Rank in 2022:

10

Rank in 2020s:

40

Overall Rank:

1,177

Average Rating:

 79 (243 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of the 2020s (so far) composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Year	Albums	%
2020	199	20%
2021	204	20%
2022	190	19%
2023	148	15%
2024	148	15%
2025	101	10%
2026	14	1%

Artist	Albums	%
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	11	1%
Taylor Swift	7	1%
Nas	5	0%
파란노을 [Parannoul]	4	0%
Maruja	4	0%
Bad Bunny	4	0%
Charli XCX	4	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	503	50%
	244	24%
	45	4%
	39	4%
	33	3%
	19	2%
	15	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	999	100%
Yes	5	0%

Live?	Albums	%
No	991	99%
Yes	13	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	1,000	100%
Yes	4	0%