Tony Fantano: 50 Best Albums of 2020, as aired on The Needle Drop
- Jessie Ware — What's Your Pleasure?
- clipping. — Visions of Bodies Being Burned
- Black Dresses — Peaceful as Hell
- Blu & Exile — Miles
- Ichiko Aoba — Windswept Adan
- Laura Marling — Song for Our Daughter
- Moor Jewelry — True Opera
- Matmos — The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form
- Natalia Lafourcade — Un Canto por México, Vol. 1
- Code Orange — Underneath
- The Koreatown Oddity — Little Dominiques Nosebleed
- Gorillaz — Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
- Chris Stapleton — Starting Over
- Mac Miller — Circles
- Backxwash — God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
- Sevdaliza — Shabrang
- The Flaming Lips — American Head
- Charli XCX — how I'm feeling now
- Lianne La Havas — Lianne La Havas
- R.A.P. Ferreira — purple moonlight pages
- Lido Pimienta — Miss Colombia
- HMLTD — West of Eden
- Imperial Triumphant — Alphaville
- Run the Jewels — RTJ4
- Rina Sawayama — Sawayama
- Against All Logic — 2017 - 2019
- Meridian Brothers — Cumbia Siglo XXI
- Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher
- Boris — NO
- Perfume Genius — Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
- Quelle Chris & Chris Keys — Innocent Country 2
- Jeff Rosenstock — No Dream
- Adrianne Lenker — songs
- Liturgy — Origin of the Alimonies
- The Strokes — The New Abnormal
- Conway the Machine — From King to a God
- Dorian Electra — My Agenda
- Idles — Ultra Mono
- Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist — Alfredo
- Haim — Women in Music Pt. III
- Undeath — Lesions Of A Different Kind
- Poppy — I Disagree
- Horse Lords — The Common Task
- Deerhoof — Future Teenage Cave Artists
- Chloe x Halle — Ungodly Hour
- Dan Deacon — Mystic Familiar
- Boldy James / Sterling Toles — Manger on McNichols
- King Krule — Man Alive!
- Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats — Unlocked
- Dope Body — Home Body