Year-End Lists

AllMusic: Best Albums of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• Power Up
  AC/DC
• There Is No Year
  Algiers
• Whole New Mess
  Angel Olsen
• Cha Cha Palace
  Angelica Garcia
• Howells: Missa Sabrinensis
  Bach Choir, David Hill, and BBC Concert Orchestra
• YHLQMDLG
  Bad Bunny
• Shortly After Takeoff
  BC Camplight
• Workaround
  Beatrice Dillon
• Rough and Rowdy Ways
  Bob Dylan
• Blue Hearts
  Bob Mould
• Manger on McNichols
  Boldy James / Sterling Toles
• B7
  Brandy
• Your Life Is a Record
  Brandy Clark
• Skeletons
  Brothers Osborne
• Mahler 4
  Carolyn Sampson, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska
• 3.15.20
  Childish Gambino
• Ungodly Hour
  Chloe x Halle
• Be Water
  Christian Sands
• Rose in the Dark
  Cleo Sol
• England Is a Garden
  Cornershop
• Sex, Death & the Infinite Void
  Creeper
• Ohms
  Deftones
• Future Nostalgia
  Dua Lipa
• Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 2 – Nos. 2 & 6 & Overtures in the Italian Style
  Edward Gardner and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
• Alive in the Wilderness
  Endless Field
• When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park
  The Epiphoni Consort and Tim Reader
• Fetch the Bolt Cutters
  Fiona Apple
• Shore
  Fleet Foxes
• Dialogues On Race, Vol. 1
  Gregg August
• Women in Music Pt. III
  Haim
• Petals for Armor
  Hayley Williams
• Edna
  Headie One
• Warnings
  I Break Horses
• Who Sent You?
  Irreversible Entanglements
• Big Conspiracy
  J Hus
• Reunions
  Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
• A Written Testimony
  Jay Electronica
• What's Your Pleasure?
  Jessie Ware
• Who Are You?
  Joel Ross
• Years
  John Anderson
• Healing Is a Miracle
  Julianna Barwick
• Descendants of Cain
  Ka
• Loom
  Katie Gately
• Mordechai
  Khruangbin
• Kidbug
  Kidbug
• Splid
  Kvelertak
• DISCO
  Kylie Minogue
• Chromatica
  Lady Gaga
• Song for Our Daughter
  Laura Marling
• Lianne La Havas
  Lianne La Havas
• Miss Colombia
  Lido Pimienta
• Walking Proof
  Lilly Hiatt
• Don't Shy Away
  LOMA
• Private Lives
  Low Cut Connie
• 2020
  Magik Markers
• That's How Rumors Get Started
  Margo Price
• Sibelius Symphonies No 4 & 6
  Hallé & Sir Mark Elder
• Silver Ladders
  Mary Lattimore
• Un Canto por México, Vol. 1
  Natalia Lafourcade
• Motherhood
  No Joy
• SOURCE
  Nubya Garcia
• Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
  Oneohtrix Point Never
• Tallis: Spem in Alium; MacMillan: The Forty Part Motet: Vidi Aquam
  ORA Singers
• Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
  Perfume Genius
• Punisher
  Phoebe Bridgers
• I Disagree
  Poppy
• Alter Ego
  Prince Royce
• Jancevskis: Aeternum
  The Mixed Choir of Riga Cathedral Choir School and Jurģis Cābulis
• Sawayama
  Rina Sawayama
• RTJ4
  Run the Jewels
• Feral
  RVG
• Róisín Machine
  Róisín Murphy
• Untitled (Rise)
  Sault
• Shabrang
  Sevdaliza
• We Are Sent Here by History
  Shabaka and the Ancestors
• Heart's Ease
  Shirley Collins
• color theory
  Soccer Mommy
• Ash Wednesday
  Andrew Nethsingha and The Choir of St. John's Cambridge
• Traditional Techniques
  Stephen Malkmus
• Wild Wild East
  Sunny Jain
• SODO Pop
  Supercrush
• The Slow Rush
  Tame Impala
• Folklore
  Taylor Swift
• The Album
  Teyana Taylor
• Imploding the Mirage
  The Killers
• Little Dominiques Nosebleed
  The Koreatown Oddity
• Microphones in 2020
  The Microphones
• Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
  The Soft Pink Truth
• The New Abnormal
  The Strokes
• After Hours
  The Weeknd
• Aranjuez
  Thibaut Garcia
• It Is What It Is
  Thundercat
• Rakka
  Vladislav Delay
• Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me
  Waylon Payne
• Endless Space (Between You & I)
  Winter
• Mind Hive
  Wire
• if You Feel
  Xavier Omär
• L'Ère du Verseau
  Yelle
• Heaven to a Tortured Mind
  Yves Tumor
• Listening To The Music
  Zephaniah OHora