Best albums of the 2020s
It opened with nobody able to tour, so records got finished in bedrooms and discovery moved to a feed. Drill turned up in every city with a postcode, and Afrobeats and Latin pop went mainstream worldwide without waiting to be translated.
According to Riffiter listeners, the best album of the 2020s is Humble as the Sun by Bob Vylan, rated 4.5/5 by 20 listeners.
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Build a list or tier of your ownThe 2020s, year by year
Ten years, three records each. Every heading opens that year in full.
Best albums of 2020
12,553 albums
Best albums of 2021
11,818 albums
Best albums of 2022
11,428 albums
Best albums of 2023
13,056 albums
Best albums of 2024
13,852 albums
Best albums of 2025
14,003 albums
Best albums of 2026
12,916 albums
Best albums of the 2020s by genre
The genres that carried the period here, each with what listeners rate highest inside it.
Best Hip-Hop albums of the 2020s
9,223 albums from the 2020s
Best Rock albums of the 2020s
5,679 albums from the 2020s
Best Pop albums of the 2020s
5,193 albums from the 2020s
Best Electronic albums of the 2020s
5,108 albums from the 2020s
Best Jazz albums of the 2020s
4,640 albums from the 2020s
The artists of the 2020s
Everyone who put a record out then, ordered by how listeners rate their catalog rather than by that one release.
