Brittany Spanos: Top 13 Albums of 2020, as published by Slate in their 2020 edition of The Music Club
- Taylor Swift — Folklore
- Jessie Ware — What's Your Pleasure?
- City Girls — City on Lock
- Rina Sawayama — Sawayama
- Fiona Apple — Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- Lady Gaga — Chromatica
- Halsey — Manic
- Dua Lipa — Future Nostalgia
- Bad Bunny — YHLQMDLG
- Miley Cyrus — Plastic Hearts
- Haim — Women in Music Pt. III
- Flo Milli — Ho, Why Is You Here?
- Charli XCX — how I'm feeling now