[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- AC/DC — Power Up
- Algiers — There Is No Year
- Angel Olsen — Whole New Mess
- Angelica Garcia — Cha Cha Palace
- Bach Choir, David Hill, and BBC Concert Orchestra — Howells: Missa Sabrinensis
- Bad Bunny — YHLQMDLG
- BC Camplight — Shortly After Takeoff
- Beatrice Dillon — Workaround
- Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways
- Bob Mould — Blue Hearts
- Boldy James / Sterling Toles — Manger on McNichols
- Brandy — B7
- Brandy Clark — Your Life Is a Record
- Brothers Osborne — Skeletons
- Carolyn Sampson, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska — Mahler 4
- Childish Gambino — 3.15.20
- Chloe x Halle — Ungodly Hour
- Christian Sands — Be Water
- Cleo Sol — Rose in the Dark
- Cornershop — England Is a Garden
- Creeper — Sex, Death & the Infinite Void
- Deftones — Ohms
- Dua Lipa — Future Nostalgia
- Edward Gardner and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra — Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 2 – Nos. 2 & 6 & Overtures in the Italian Style
- Endless Field — Alive in the Wilderness
- The Epiphoni Consort and Tim Reader — When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park
- Fiona Apple — Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- Fleet Foxes — Shore
- Gregg August — Dialogues On Race, Vol. 1
- Haim — Women in Music Pt. III
- Hayley Williams — Petals for Armor
- Headie One — Edna
- I Break Horses — Warnings
- Irreversible Entanglements — Who Sent You?
- J Hus — Big Conspiracy
- Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit — Reunions
- Jay Electronica — A Written Testimony
- Jessie Ware — What's Your Pleasure?
- Joel Ross — Who Are You?
- John Anderson — Years
- Julianna Barwick — Healing Is a Miracle
- Ka — Descendants of Cain
- Katie Gately — Loom
- Khruangbin — Mordechai
- Kidbug — Kidbug
- Kvelertak — Splid
- Kylie Minogue — DISCO
- Lady Gaga — Chromatica
- Laura Marling — Song for Our Daughter
- Lianne La Havas — Lianne La Havas
- Lido Pimienta — Miss Colombia
- Lilly Hiatt — Walking Proof
- LOMA — Don't Shy Away
- Low Cut Connie — Private Lives
- Magik Markers — 2020
- Margo Price — That's How Rumors Get Started
- Hallé & Sir Mark Elder — Sibelius Symphonies No 4 & 6
- Mary Lattimore — Silver Ladders
- Natalia Lafourcade — Un Canto por México, Vol. 1
- No Joy — Motherhood
- Nubya Garcia — SOURCE
- Oneohtrix Point Never — Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
- ORA Singers — Tallis: Spem in Alium; MacMillan: The Forty Part Motet: Vidi Aquam
- Perfume Genius — Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
- Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher
- Poppy — I Disagree
- Prince Royce — Alter Ego
- The Mixed Choir of Riga Cathedral Choir School and Jurģis Cābulis — Jancevskis: Aeternum
- Rina Sawayama — Sawayama
- Run the Jewels — RTJ4
- RVG — Feral
- Róisín Murphy — Róisín Machine
- Sault — Untitled (Rise)
- Sevdaliza — Shabrang
- Shabaka and the Ancestors — We Are Sent Here by History
- Shirley Collins — Heart's Ease
- Soccer Mommy — color theory
- Andrew Nethsingha and The Choir of St. John's Cambridge — Ash Wednesday
- Stephen Malkmus — Traditional Techniques
- Sunny Jain — Wild Wild East
- Supercrush — SODO Pop
- Tame Impala — The Slow Rush
- Taylor Swift — Folklore
- Teyana Taylor — The Album
- The Killers — Imploding the Mirage
- The Koreatown Oddity — Little Dominiques Nosebleed
- The Microphones — Microphones in 2020
- The Soft Pink Truth — Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
- The Strokes — The New Abnormal
- The Weeknd — After Hours
- Thibaut Garcia — Aranjuez
- Thundercat — It Is What It Is
- Vladislav Delay — Rakka
- Waylon Payne — Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me
- Winter — Endless Space (Between You & I)
- Wire — Mind Hive
- Xavier Omär — if You Feel
- Yelle — L'Ère du Verseau
- Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind
- Zephaniah OHora — Listening To The Music