AllMusic's 100 Favorite Albums of 2020

AllMusic has assembled our Best of 2020. Browse through and check out what music our editors have been listening to this year.

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# 1

POWER UP by AC/DC

Album • Nov 13 / 2020 Hard Rock

# 2

There Is No Year by Algiers

Album • Jan 17 / 2020 Post-Punk Art Rock

# 3

Whole New Mess by Angel Olsen

Album • Aug 28 / 2020 Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 4

Cha Cha Palace by Angélica Garcia

Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Art Pop Alt-Pop

# 5

Howells: Missa Sabrinensis & Michael Fanfare by The Bach Choir + BBC Concert Orchestra + David Hill

Album • May 01 / 2020

# 6

YHLQMDLG by Bad Bunny

Album • Feb 29 / 2020

# 7

Shortly After Takeoff by BC Camplight

Album • Apr 24 / 2020

# 8

Workaround by Beatrice Dillon

Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Electroacoustic IDM

# 9

Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 10

Blue Hearts by Bob Mould

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Alternative Rock

# 11

Manger on McNichols by Boldy James + Sterling Toles

Album • Jul 22 / 2020 Jazz Rap Gangsta Rap Conscious Hip Hop

# 12

b7 by Brandy

Album • Jul 31 / 2020 Alternative R&B Contemporary R&B

# 13

Your Life is a Record by Brandy Clark

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 Contemporary Country Singer-Songwriter Country Pop

# 14

Skeletons by Brothers Osborne

Album • Oct 09 / 2020 Country Rock Contemporary Country

# 15

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major by Leonard Bernstein + New York Philharmonic + Reri Grist

Album • Dec 06 / 2019

# 16

3.15.20 by Childish Gambino

Album • Mar 22 / 2020 Neo-Soul Contemporary R&B

# 17

Ungodly Hour by Chloe x Halle

Album • Jun 12 / 2020 Contemporary R&B

# 18

Ash Wednesday by Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge + Andrew Nethsingha

Album • Feb 21 / 2020 Choral Christian Liturgical Music

# 19

Be Water by Christian Sands

Album • Jul 17 / 2020 Jazz

# 20

Rose in the Dark by Cleo Sol

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Neo-Soul

# 21

England is a Garden by Cornershop

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 Indie Pop Psychedelic Pop

# 22

Sex, Death & The Infinite Void by Creeper

Album • Jul 31 / 2020 Pop Rock

# 23

Ohms by Deftones

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Alternative Metal

# 24

Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Dance-Pop Nu-Disco

# 25

Symphonies, Vol. 2: Nos. 2 and 6; Overtures in the Italian Style by Edward Gardner + City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Romanticism Orchestral

# 26

Alive in the Wilderness by Endless Field

Album • Jun 12 / 2020

# 27

When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park by The Epiphoni Consort + Tim Reader

Album • Jun 26 / 2020

# 28

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

Album • Apr 17 / 2020 Art Pop Singer-Songwriter Progressive Pop

# 29

Shore by Fleet Foxes

Album • Mar 19 / 2021 Indie Folk Chamber Pop

# 30

Dialogues on Race by Gregg August

Album • Aug 21 / 2020

# 31

Women In Music Pt. III by HAIM

Album • Feb 19 / 2021 Indie Pop Soft Rock

# 32

Petals For Armor by Hayley Williams

Album • May 08 / 2020 Art Pop Alternative Dance

# 33

EDNA by Headie One

Album • Oct 09 / 2020 UK Drill UK Hip Hop Trap

# 34

Warnings by I Break Horses

Album • May 08 / 2020 Dream Pop Neo-Psychedelia

# 35

Who Sent You? by Irreversible Entanglements

Album • Mar 20 / 2020 Jazz Poetry Avant-Garde Jazz

# 36

Big Conspiracy by J Hus

Album • Jan 24 / 2020 UK Hip Hop

# 37

Reunions by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Album • May 15 / 2020 Americana Contemporary Country

# 38

A Written Testimony by Jay Electronica

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Conscious Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop

# 39

What's Your Pleasure? by Jessie Ware

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Dance-Pop Disco

# 40

Who Are You? by Joel Ross

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Post-Bop

# 41

Years by John Anderson

Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Contemporary Country Singer-Songwriter

# 42

Healing Is A Miracle by Julianna Barwick

Album • Jul 10 / 2020 Ambient

# 43

Descendants of Cain by KA

Album • May 07 / 2020 East Coast Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop Drumless

# 44

Loom by Katie Gately

Album • Feb 14 / 2020 Art Pop Electroacoustic

# 45

Mordechai by Khruangbin

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Psychedelic Rock

# 46

Kidbug by Kidbug

Album • May 22 / 2020 Alternative Rock Grunge

# 47

Splid by Kvelertak

Album • Feb 14 / 2020 Hardcore Punk Black 'n' Roll Hard Rock

# 48

DISCO by Kylie Minogue

Album • Nov 06 / 2020 Dance-Pop Disco

# 49

Chromatica by Lady Gaga

Album • May 29 / 2020 Dance-Pop Euro House

# 50

Song For Our Daughter by Laura Marling

Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter