Best Albums of the 2020s (so far)
Explore the best albums of the 2020s (so far), based on over 2 million album rankings across 60,000 charts.
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"When I started listening to this album and was midway through Chaos Space Marine I thought to myself there is no way they can keep this level of quality up for an hour and they really proved me wrong. They have decided to change their style up from the first album and create a more grandeur sound..." [+] Reply
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2022
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8,052
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"When I look back at the craziness of 2020 when I'm much older and think of where we are now, this album will be the soundtrack. A beautiful, bright, incredibly crisp album on the surface, with hidden elements of real world experiences and pain buried in the center. Though Rick Rubin's production ..." [+] Reply
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2020
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5,785
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"I'm calling it right now, this will go down as a classic, the best hip hop album I've heard since "To Pimp A Butterfly"" Reply
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2021
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3,978
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""If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I've chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it. Most things you can get with a button nowadays. So if I was trying for a certain drum sound, my engineer would say, 'Oh, for Christ's sake, why are we wasting our time? Let's just hit this little ..." [+] Reply
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2020
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"A very ambitious project from Big Thief that shows a huge amount of potential but I don't think they have reached their absolute peak yet. You can see the group growing in quality through their albums and they just keep going up and up with this new release. This is primarily due to them being mo..." [+] Reply
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2022
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3,948
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"Stranger in the Alps is a good album that lost a bit of luster as time went on. But here, Phoebe Bridgers builds upon her ability to sell unfettered melancholy with a believability that is hard to pull off. The added dimensionality in her sound, with a deepened mood and wider instrumental palette..." [+] Reply
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HoldenM | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2020
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3,932
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"“For The First Time” feels like a heavy conversation in the back of a jazz club. The sound is a hybrid of frantic jazz and post rock based guitar soundscapes cut with saxophone. The vocals are these half spoken half sung anxiety trips very similar to the style of The The’s Matt Johnson. Each trac..." [+] Reply
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2021
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3,854
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"Did not expect the album to blow me this out of the park. The amount of amazing tracks on the album is unbelievable. When you think the cannot surprise you anymore, the next incredible track arrives. Cried like three times during my first listen." Reply
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2024
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3,199
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"Perhaps the greatest artist of his century and/or genre, Kendrick delivers another masterpiece that once again sounds like nothing he did before. In doing so, he made arguably his least commercial and least accessible album coming after his most accessible one. Took a few listens for it to click ..." [+] Reply
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Sean | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (11 helpful | 2 unhelpful)
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2022
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"A wonderful record. Very surprised by it's high ranking here on this site. So many better ones not getting any attention at all. This is the 'spiritual' side of Jazz, and if you like this one. Check out Alice Coltranes 'Ptah, the el Daoud' or Sun Ra's majestic 'Lanquidity', and of course Pharoah'..." [+] Reply
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2021
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Best Albums of the 2020s (so far) composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2020 | 199 | 20% | |
| 2021 | 201 | 20% | |
| 2022 | 190 | 19% | |
| 2023 | 144 | 14% | |
| 2024 | 148 | 15% | |
| 2025 | 102 | 10% | |
| 2026 | 16 | 2% |
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| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | 11 | 1% | |
| Taylor Swift | 7 | 1% | |
| Nas | 5 | 1% | |
| Black Country, New Road | 4 | 0% | |
| 파란노을 [Parannoul] | 4 | 0% | |
| Bad Bunny | 4 | 0% | |
| Maruja | 4 | 0% | |
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245 | 25% | |
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47 | 5% | |
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41 | 4% | |
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34 | 3% | |
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Best Albums of the 2020s (so far) chart changes
| Biggest climbers Biggest climbers in top 100 since last month |
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Up 7 from 76th to 69th |
Up 3 from 98th to 95th |
Up 3 from 22nd to 19th |
| Biggest fallers Biggest fallers in top 100 since last month |
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Down 3 from 85th to 88th |
Down 2 from 19th to 21st |
Down 2 from 28th to 30th |
