Best Albums of 2020
Explore the best albums of 2020, based on over 2 million album rankings across 60,000 charts.
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"One of the biggest surprises of the year. A very solid album by one of the mainstream pop artists that I didn't like at all before. Most of the lyrics are still trite and the songs are mixed too loudly (loudness war is never going to end it seems), but none of that matters when a pop record is ca..." [+] Reply
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LedZep | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (4 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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2020
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"Beautiful! Loved the singles and the album is great too. He's becoming a modern day "genius" of crafting wonderful, emotional and goose bump inducing inspiring music." Reply
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ExTeaSea | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (3 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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"You know, it's certainly a lot of album. And I'll even go so far as to say that none of it is bad or necessarily boring. At a certain point, though, it overstays its welcome. There are some tracks in the middle that you could cut without undermining the album as a whole. WITH THAT IN MIND, this i..." [+] Reply
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HoldenM | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Best thing Bobby D's released since Modern Times, easily. I Contain Multitudes and I've Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You are both excellent additions to the Dylan catalog, and Murder Most Foul just feels like classic Dylan. Of all the later-stage Dylan (when does that start? The 2000s?), thi..." [+] Reply
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RockyRaccoon | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (4 helpful | 2 unhelpful)
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"Yet again, Waxahatchee nails it. I'm super impressed with Saint Cloud. This is her most cleanly produced, and most emotionally satisfying album yet. How is it that an artist like her gets better and better with so many releases under their belt? If she keeps this up, the next one's bound to be a ..." [+] Reply
- HoldenM | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Spine-tingling. Intimate. Gorgeous. One of the best albums I've heard this year." Reply
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"Incredible return to the quality songwriting of Plastic Beach and Demon Days. 9/10 Best Tracks; Strange Timez, Pac-Man, The Pink Phantom, Aries, Désolé, Momentary Bliss. Worst Tracks: Friday 13th, I don't like Octavian's delivery on this song at all." Reply
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Puzzlr | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (6 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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"Circles is everything a posthumous album should be: fulfilling an artist's intended vision and completing the important final touches to a closing chapter when they're spiritually not with us." Reply
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"So much of this years music has been a struggle to listen to, not this one, difficult second album it is not, spilling confidently from one track to another. Sounding distinctly more Alternative than last years Dogrel, a more morose tone is struck. Grian’s vocals are once more an oasis of origina..." [+] Reply
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johnner | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"In the top 5 best albuns of 2020" Reply
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 2 of 100
Best Albums of 2020 composition
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| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | 4 | 0% | |
| Neil Young | 3 | 0% | |
| Nicolas Jaar | 3 | 0% | |
| Adrianne Lenker | 3 | 0% | |
| Navy Blue | 2 | 0% | |
| Kaatayra | 2 | 0% | |
| The Mountain Goats | 2 | 0% | |
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467 | 47% | |
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198 | 20% | |
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57 | 6% | |
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34 | 3% | |
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31 | 3% | |
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27 | 3% | |
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20 | 2% | |
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Best Albums of 2020 chart changes
| Biggest climbers Biggest climbers in top 100 since last month |
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Up 2 from 89th to 87th |
Up 2 from 76th to 74th |
Up 2 from 37th to 35th |
| Biggest fallers Biggest fallers in top 100 since last month |
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Down 2 from 28th to 30th |
Down 2 from 53rd to 55th |
Down 2 from 86th to 88th |
