Year-End Lists

Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2012]

1. Anime, Trauma and Divorce
   Open Mike Eagle
2. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
   Perfume Genius
3. The Price of Tea in China
   Boldy James & The Alchemist
4. The Caretaker
   Half Waif
5. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
   Fiona Apple
6. Microphones in 2020
   The Microphones
7. Island
   Owen Pallett
8. Shore
   Fleet Foxes
9. Take Me Away From Tokyo
   Zombie-Chang
10. Græ
    Moses Sumney
11. songs
    Adrianne Lenker
11. instrumentals
    Adrianne Lenker
12. Room for the Moon
    Kate NV
13. Heaven to a Tortured Mind
    Yves Tumor
14. Ohms
    Deftones
15. Tumbling Towards a Wall
    Ulla
16. Welcome to Conceptual Beach
    Young Jesus
17. Pain Olympics
    Crack Cloud
18. Windswept Adan
    Ichiko Aoba
19. Ultimate Success Today
    Protomartyr
20. Bloom*Iz
    Iz*One
21. Punisher
    Phoebe Bridgers
22. Song for Our Daughter
    Laura Marling
23. Lianne La Havas
    Lianne La Havas
24. Anyways
    Young Nudy
25. Man Alive!
    King Krule
26. Winterreise
    Jerskin Fendrix
27. Union Suit XL
    Them Airs
28. What's Your Pleasure?
    Jessie Ware
29. Empty Country
    Empty Country
30. Mirror
    Leafar Legov
31. No Dream
    Jeff Rosenstock
32. La vita nuova
    Christine and the Queens
33. What's Tonight To Eternity
    Cindy Lee
34. Philadelphia
    Shabason, Krgovich & Harris
35. Little Dominiques Nosebleed
    The Koreatown Oddity
36. Saint Cloud
    Waxahatchee
37. Ashioto
    Tatsuhisa Yamamoto
38. Live Forever
    Bartees Strange
39. Regresa
    Buscabulla
40. Lament
    Touché Amoré
41. Hannah
    Lomelda
42. acts of rebellion
    ela minus
43. Manger on McNichols
    Boldy James / Sterling Toles
44. Face Down In Meta
    Pet Shimmers
44. Trash Earthers
    Pet Shimmers
45. Eyes Wide Open
    Twice
46. Descendants of Cain
    Ka
47. Origin of the Alimonies
    Liturgy
48. Pray for Paris
    Westside Gunn
49. Fountain
    Lyra Pramuk
50. Debris
    Keeley Forsyth