NPR Music: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- Sault — Untitled (Black Is)
- Fiona Apple — Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- Lido Pimienta — Miss Colombia
- Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher
- Spillage Village — Spilligion
- Boston Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Adès & Kirill Gerstein & Christianne Stotijn & Mark Stone — Adès Conducts Adès
- Bad Bunny — YHLQMDLG
- Nubya Garcia — SOURCE
- Lil Uzi Vert — Eternal Atake
- Waylon Payne — Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me
- Haim — Women in Music Pt. III
- Lianne La Havas — Lianne La Havas
- Flo Milli — Ho, Why Is You Here?
- Dua Lipa — Future Nostalgia
- Run the Jewels — RTJ4
- Katie Pruitt — Expectations
- Maria Schneider Orchestra — Data Lords
- Code Orange — Underneath
- Ambrose Akinmusire — On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment
- Victoria Monét — Jaguar
- Buscabulla — Regresa
- ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra — Negro Folk Symphony
- Chloe x Halle — Ungodly Hour
- Tame Impala — The Slow Rush
- Samantha Crain — A Small Death
- Ashley Ray — Pauline
- Jyoti — Mama, You Can Bet!
- Siti Muharam — Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution On Zanzibar)
- Adrianne Lenker — songs
- Lil Baby — My Turn
- Thundercat — It Is What It Is
- Bartees Strange — Live Forever
- Jake Blount — Spider Tales
- Mary Lattimore — Silver Ladders
- Perfume Genius — Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
- Brent Faiyaz — Fuck The World
- Vikingur Ólafsson — Debussy - Rameau
- Bbymutha — Muthaland
- Rina Sawayama — Sawayama
- The Mavericks — En Español
- Drakeo the Ruler — Thank You for Using GTL
- Clarice Jensen — The experience of repetition as death
- X Alfonso — Inside
- Kathleen Edwards — Total Freedom
- 21 Savage & Metro Boomin — Savage Mode II
- Ólafur Arnalds — Some Kind of Peace
- Waxahatchee — Saint Cloud
- Anjimile — Giver Taker
- Homeboy Sandman — Don't Feed The Monster
- Charli XCX — how I'm feeling now