Best Albums of the 2020s

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

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Year	Albums 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.
2020	7,123	104,030	The New Abnormal (452nd)by The Strokes
2021	6,577	95,364	Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (614th)by Little Simz
2022	6,326	88,837	Ants From Up There (334th)by Black Country, New Road
2023	4,810	54,964	Javelin (1,369th)by Sufjan Stevens
2024	948	3,370	Wall Of Eyes (5,996th)by The Smile
Total	25,784	346,565

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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531.

Fuse

Everything But The Girl

Year of Release:

2023

Appears in:

51 charts

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106

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532.

Searching In Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert
Live

Mal Waldron

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

4 charts

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106

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This Be Her Verse

Golda Schultz & Jonathan Ware

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

4 charts

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106

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The Line Is A Curve

Kae Tempest

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

44 charts

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106

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Somewhere Else

Julio Baca

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

3 charts

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105

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Never Let Me Go

Placebo

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

38 charts

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105

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View With A Room

Julian Lage

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

18 charts

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105

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Into The Blue

Broken Bells

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

34 charts

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105

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I'm Green

Mali Velasquez

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2023

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3 charts

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105

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Tracey Denim

Bar Italia

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2023

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47 charts

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105

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Best Albums of the 2020s composition

Year	Albums	%

2020	279	28%
2021	282	28%
2022	256	26%
2023	175	18%
2024	8	1%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	10	1%
Taylor Swift	7	1%
Nas	6	1%
Sault	3	0%
Nation Of Language	3	0%
Idles	3	0%
Carly Rae Jepsen	3	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	507	51%
	214	21%
	49	5%
	37	4%
	32	3%
	14	1%
	13	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	992	99%
Yes	8	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	985	99%
Yes	15	2%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	997	100%
Yes	3	0%

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Recognised Decade Charts (2020s)
1. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Staff Picks by Billboard (2019)
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5. NME's Greatest Albums of The Decade: The 2010s by New Music Express (2019)
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10. All The Best Albums Of The 2010s, Ranked by Uproxx (2019)
11. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s by Rolling Stone (2019)
12. Top 100 Albums of the Decade by Crack Magazine (2019)
13. The 101 Best Albums of the 2010s by Spin (2020)
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