Sheldon Pearce: My Thirty Favorite Albums of 2020, as published by The New Yorker
- The Microphones — Microphones in 2020
- Fiona Apple — Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher
- Moses Sumney — Græ
- Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways
- Jay Electronica — Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn)
- Bad Bunny — YHLQMDLG
- Jyoti — Mama, You Can Bet!
- Perfume Genius — Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
- Adrianne Lenker — songs
- Adrianne Lenker — instrumentals
- Soccer Mommy — color theory
- Rina Sawayama — Sawayama
- Drakeo the Ruler — Thank You for Using GTL
- Fleet Foxes — Shore
- Open Mike Eagle — Anime, Trauma and Divorce
- yaeji — What We Drew
- Grimes — Miss Anthropocene
- Blake Mills — Mutable Set
- Run the Jewels — RTJ4
- Fireboy DML — Apollo
- (Liv).e — Couldn't Wait To Tell You...
- Bartees Strange — Live Forever
- Flo Milli — Ho, Why Is You Here?
- Sault — Untitled (Black Is)
- Porridge Radio — Every Bad
- Ka — Descendants of Cain