Best Albums

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Highest Rated Albums of 2020

Decade

2020s
- All Time
- 2020s
- 2010s
- 2000s
- 1990s

Source

Genre

All
- All
- Alternative Metal
- Alternative Rock
- Art Pop
- Art Rock
- Country
- Dance Pop
- Electronic
- Electropop
- Folk
- Folk Pop
- Hip Hop
- Indie Pop
- Indie Rock
- Metal
- Pop
- Pop Rap
- Pop Rock
- Post-Punk
- Psychedelic
- R&B
- Rock
- Singer-Songwriter
- Synthpop

2020s

2020

2021

This is an ordered list of The Independent's highest rated albums of 2020. Check out The Independent's Year End List.

1. Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You

October 23, 2020

Heartland Rock

Score

100

2. Adrianne Lenker - songs

October 23, 2020

Folk

Score

100

3. Chris Stapleton - Starting Over

November 13, 2020

Country

Score

100

4. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension

September 25, 2020

Indietronica

Score

100

5. Bill Callahan - Gold Record

September 4, 2020

Americana

Score

100

6. Everything Everything - Re-Animator

September 11, 2020

Progressive Pop

Score

100

7. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter

April 10, 2020

Folk

Score

100

8. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

April 17, 2020

Art Pop

Score

100

9. Empress Of - I'm Your Empress Of

April 3, 2020

Electropop

Score

100

10. HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III

June 26, 2020

Indie Pop

Score

100

11. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately

May 15, 2020

Art Pop

Score

100

12. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud

March 27, 2020

Alt-Country

Score

100

13. Mac Miller - Circles

January 17, 2020

Neo-Soul

Score

100

14. Alanis Morissette - Such Pretty Forks in the Road

July 31, 2020

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

15. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia

March 27, 2020

Dance Pop

Score

100

16. The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You

December 11, 2020

Neo-Psychedelia

Score

100

17. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene

February 21, 2020

Art Pop

Score

100

18. Taylor Swift - evermore

December 11, 2020

Score

19. Tori Amos - Christmastide

December 4, 2020

Score

20. Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts

November 27, 2020

Score

21. Paul McCartney - McCartney III

December 18, 2020

Score

22. Che Lingo - The Worst Generation

October 23, 2020

Score

23. Benee - Hey u x

November 13, 2020

Score

24. Bring Me The Horizon - POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR

October 30, 2020

Score

25. AC/DC - Power Up

November 13, 2020

Score

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NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings The Independent awarded albums throughout 2020.

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