Best of 2020 Album Collections

Idolator's 70 Best Pop Albums Of 2020

We round up the 70 best pop albums of 2020, from Kylie Minogue’s ‘DISCO’ to Taylor Swift’s ‘folklore.’

Published: December 27, 2020 17:29 Source

Junkee's 25 Best Albums of 2020

We wrap up the best albums of 2020, including Fiona Apple, Jessie Ware, Spacey Jane, Phoebe Bridgers, and so, so many more.

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KCRW's Top 10 Albums of 2020

KCRW’s Best of 2020 Music showcases the best songs, best albums, and best artists picked by our DJs. And our Best New Artist represents a local, LA musician you oughta know.

Published: December 18, 2020 04:22 Source

Kerrang!'s 50 Greatest Albums of 2020

The only countdown that matters: Kerrang!’s 50 greatest albums of 2020.

Published: December 16, 2020 15:20 Source

Les Inrocks' Top 100 Albums of 2020

[Best of musique 2020] Si l’année a été, par la force des choses, pauvre en concerts, elle n’en a pas moins été riche en nouvelles prouesses discographiques. Voici le choix de la rédaction des Inrockuptibles.

Published: December 01, 2020 15:53 Source

Los Angeles Times' Best Albums of 2020

Five women take the top 3 spots, with Taylor Swift's quarantine album leading our year's best.

Published: December 09, 2020 13:00 Source

Loud and Quiet's Best Albums of 2020

There’s been something for every angle of 2020’s singular mood, Loud And Quiet's top 40 albums of the year as voted for by our contributors.

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Louder's 50 Best Albums of 2020

This year demanded one hell of a soundtrack – and these are the 50 albums that brought the noise

Published: December 16, 2020 17:03 Source

Louder Than War's Top 50 Albums of the Year 2020

| Louder Than War - the Top Fifty album releases of 2020 as chosen by contributors to and editors of Louder Than War.

Published: December 03, 2020 11:55 Source

Loudwire's 70 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2020

A truly wild year for us all, but one made so much better thanks to these albums.

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Magnetic's 30 Best Albums of 2020

In a year with incredible music, we tried to parse out 30 of the best albums out there from Sault, to Run The Jewels, Kelly Lee Owens, Arca, Actress, Krust, Caribou and many more.

Published: December 29, 2020 18:11 Source

Magnet's Top 25 Albums of 2020

Published: December 23, 2020 14:00 Source

MOJO's 75 Best Albums of 2020

The latest MOJO magazine features The White Stripes, the year’s 75 Best Albums, a covermount Best Of 2020 CD, and more!

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MondoSonoro's Best Albums of 2020

El álbum de Perfume Genius es el elegido en votación de nuestros colaboradores como número uno de los mejores discos internacionales de 2020.

Published: December 13, 2020 22:19 Source

musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2020

Lists: musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2020

Published: December 16, 2020 09:01 Source

NBHAP's 50 Best Albums Of 2020

Listen to the best albums of 2020 picked by NBHAP. Including Phoebe Bridgers, Tame Impala, Charli XCX, Run The Jewels, Porridge Radio and more

Published: December 03, 2020 16:30 Source

NME's 50 Best Albums of 2020

We’ve collated our writers’ ‘best of’ lists and crunched the numbers to arrive at NME's 50 best albums of 2020

Published: December 11, 2020 09:00 Source

Noisey's 100 Best Albums of 2020

2020 may have taken away live music, but it couldn't stop artists from putting out great albums. Here are the best records this year had to offer, handpicked by the Noisey staff.

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Norman Records' Best Albums of 2020

Our picks of the best new albums and reissues of 2020.

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Northern Transmissions Best Albums of 2020

Northern Transmissions top albums of 2020. The year was a great one featuring, releases by Phoebe Bridgers, Fiona Apple, Adrianne Lenker and more.

Published: December 25, 2020 07:32 Source

NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2020

2020 was so stuffed with urgent voices it could be hard to discern the melody from the noise. Here's our guide to the greatest albums that emerged from a year of cacophony.

Published: December 02, 2020 12:08 Source

Okayplayer’s Best Albums Of 2020

If you just listened to these albums you would never ask, “is the concept of the album dead?” Here are the 20 best albums of 2020.

Published: December 23, 2020 20:10 Source

OOR's Best Albums of 2020

Run The Jewels, Sault, Fiona Apple, Bob Dylan, Eefje de Visser... dit zijn de artiesten die het bewogen jaar 2020 kleur gaven. Met een historische nummer 1.

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Our Culture's 50 Best Albums of 2020

Published: December 14, 2020 20:32 Source

Passion of the Weiss's Best Albums of 2020

We made it. Some of us.

Published: December 29, 2020 09:13 Source

Paste's 25 Best Albums of 2020 (So Far)

Featuring Fiona Apple, Perfume Genius, Moses Sumney and more

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Paste's 50 Best Albums of 2020

It was a year of music unlike any other.

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People's Top 10 Albums of 2020

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a slew of stars managed to make it into the studio and record music that helped us make it through the year

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Piccadilly Records' Top 100 Albums of 2020

Born in 1978, Piccadilly Records is an independent record shop in the heart of Manchester city centre.

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Pitchfork's 16 Best Ambient Albums of 2020

Whether offering solace, transport, or simple numbness, these albums perfectly suited a year of lockdown.

Published: December 23, 2020 15:00 Source

Pitchfork's 35 Best Rock Albums of 2020

From Chubby and the Gang’s debut to Bob Dylan’s comeback, Bartees Strange’s genre-bending to Country Westerns’ classicism, these were the rock albums we loved most this year.

Published: December 15, 2020 16:24 Source

Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2020

The albums that got us through this chaotic year, featuring Fiona Apple, Bad Bunny, Lil Uzi Vert, Phoebe Bridgers, and more

Published: December 08, 2020 14:03 Source

Pitchfork's Best Electronic Music Releases of 2020

Featuring Beatrice Dillon, Yaeji, Loraine James, Róisín Murphy, Autechre, and more

Published: December 10, 2020 15:00 Source

PopMatters' 10 Best Indie Pop Albums of 2020

I need to say it: Making a year-end list feels irrelevant right now, at the end of a traumatic, tumultuous year that seems like it'll never really end.

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PopMatters' 10 Best Indie Rock Albums of 2020

With the meteoric rise of streaming platforms as the primary means of discovering and consuming music, the notion of

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PopMatters' 10 Best Progressive Rock / Metal Albums of 2020

The Ocean Collective - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic [Metal Blade] One of the pillars of modern German progressive metal, the Ocean Collective's...

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PopMatters' 10 Best World Music Albums of 2020

Chouk Bwa and the Ångströmers - Vodou Alé (Bongo Joe) In Haiti, mizik rasin, or roots music, serves important roles in many culturally engaged...

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PopMatters' 15 Best Experimental Albums of 2020

2020 was a year for the history books.

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PopMatters' 15 Best Pop Albums of 2020

Pop music can make you sweat. Pop music can sometimes make you shed tears

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PopMatters' 20 Best Electronic Albums of 2020

Lee Jones - Down Into Light [Independent] If One Grain saw Jones tinkering with a more subdued approach, Down Into Light takes things a step further...

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PopMatters' 20 Best Folk Albums of 2020

Folk music alone is not capable of dismantling the powerful or subverting the oppressive. Nor is it capable of healing the sick or mending the beaten

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PopMatters' 20 Best Metal Albums of 2020

Black Curse - Endless Wound (Sepulchral Voice) In 2015 members of acclaimed acts Primitive Man, Khemmis, and Blood Incantation discussed their love for...

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PopMatters' 25 Best Americana Albums of 2020

In 2020, Americana artists empathetically dealt with the things that bind us together and keep us apart. The albums on this list encourage hope for the future.

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PopMatters' 50 Best Albums of 2020 So Far

Ambrose Akinmusire - on the tender spot of every calloused moment [Blue Note]Ambrose Akinmusire seems particularly mature as an artist and particularly...

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PopMatters' 60 Best Albums of 2020

Thin Lear - Wooden Cave [EggHunt Records] Queens-based singer-songwriter Matt Longo, who records under the moniker Thin Lear, may only be in his...

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Punktastic's Top 25 Albums of 2020

The last thing we need to talk about is just how tragic 2020 has been. We get it, we really do. But it’s only by acknowledging the tragedies that have [...]

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Radio X's Best Albums of 2020

Radio X picks the best albums to be released in 2020: from the stadium filling sounds of Biffy Clyro and The Killers to great new music from Beabadoobee and DMA's.

Published: November 13, 2023 11:00 Source

Resident Advisor's Best Albums of 2020

RA staff and contributors pick their favourite albums of the year.

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