Year-End Lists

Jon Caramanica: Best Albums of 2020, as published by The New York Times

1. Sam Hunt
   Southside
2. Rina Sawayama
   Sawayama
3. Rod Wave
   Pray 4 Love
4. Jay Electronica
   A Written Testimony
5. Run the Jewels
   RTJ4
6. Fiona Apple
   Fetch the Bolt Cutters
7. Pop Smoke
   Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon
8. Flo Milli
   Ho, Why Is You Here?
9. Powfu
   Poems of the Past
10. Justin Bieber
    Changes
11. Chris Stapleton
    Starting Over
12. Bad Bunny
    YHLQMDLG
13. Beach Bunny
    Honeymoon

And 27 more for a chaotic year

• 21 Savage & Metro Boomin
  Savage Mode II
• Benny the Butcher
  Burden of Proof
• Natanael Cano
  Trap Tumbado
• The Chicks
  Gaslighter
• City Girls
  City on Lock
• Code Orange
  Underneath
• Conway the Machine
  From King to a God
• Drake
  Dark Lane Demo Tapes
• Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
  Alfredo
• Ariana Grande
  Positions
• Hardy
  A Rock
• Haux
  Violence in a Quiet Mind
• Ian Isiah
  Auntie
• Junior H
  Atrapado en un Sueño
• King Von
  Levon James
• Lil Durk
  Just Cause Y'all Waited 2
• Lauren Mascitti
  God Made a Woman
• John Moreland
  LP5
• Jessie Reyez
  Before Love Came to Kill Us
• Dua Saleh
  Rosetta
• Sunday Service Choir
  Jesus Is Born
• Myke Towers
  Easy Money Baby
• Jessie Ware
  What's Your Pleasure?
• Waxahatchee
  Saint Cloud
• The Weeknd
  After Hours
• Hailey Whitters
  The Dream
• YoungBoy Never Broke Again
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