Year-End Lists

The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2020 Ranked

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Sawayama
   Rina Sawayama
2. The Baby
   Samia
3. how I'm feeling now
   Charli XCX
4. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
5. Græ
   Moses Sumney
6. Rough and Rowdy Ways
   Bob Dylan
7. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
   Perfume Genius
8. Heaven to a Tortured Mind
   Yves Tumor
9. Ungodly Hour
   Chloe x Halle
10. RTJ4
    Run the Jewels
11. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
    Fiona Apple
12. Saint Cloud
    Waxahatchee
13. The Worst Generation
    Che Lingo
14. Healing Is a Miracle
    Julianna Barwick
15. Big Conspiracy
    J Hus
16. I'm Your Empress Of
    Empress Of
17. We’re New Again: A Reimagining
    Gil Scott-Heron (posthumously) & Makaya McCraven
18. Visions of Bodies Being Burned
    clipping.
19. Anime, Trauma and Divorce
    Open Mike Eagle
20. Beginners
    Christian Lee Hutson
21. Good News
    Megan Thee Stallion
22. Show Pony
    Orville Peck
23. The Angel You Don't Know
    Amaarae
24. Inner Song
    Kelly Lee Owens
25. A Hero's Death
    Fontaines D.C.
26. The Amanda Tape
    THEY.
27. songs
    Adrianne Lenker
28. Jaguar
    Victoria Monét
29. Shore
    Fleet Foxes
30. Someone New
    Helena Deland
31. Blackstarkids
    Whatever, Man
32. Folklore
    Taylor Swift
33. SOURCE
    Nubya Garcia
34. Without People
    Donovan Woods
35. What's Your Pleasure?
    Jessie Ware
36. Petals for Armor
    Hayley Williams
37. Debris
    Keeley Forsyth
38. Warnings
    I Break Horses
39. So When You Gonna...
    Dream Wife
40. Future Nostalgia
    Dua Lipa
41. Twice as Tall
    Burna Boy
42. Now or Never
    Giggs
43. Sister
    Mina Tindle
44. Circles
    Mac Miller
45. Mordechai
    Khruangbin
46. The Prettiest Curse
    Hinds
47. Chromatica
    Lady Gaga
48. Women in Music Pt. III
    Haim
49. Edna
    Headie One
50. Dark Hearts
    Annie