Tag: 2020 Year in Review

FTW’s top 20 albums of 2020

Counting down our 20 favorite records of 2020, from artists like Waxahatchee, Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny, and more.

In a year when an entire globe was forced to be cooped up at home, music took on a new importance in many of our lives. Stuck in place, scared, with a global pandemic raging, many of us turned to music to comfort us, to give us a distraction, to give us something that we could turn all the way up and scream along to, if only, for a moment, to escape our own thoughts.

Below is a list of our 20 favorite albums of the year. Our rubric was laughably imprecise — we simply asked music fans on staff to share what albums meant a lot to them this year, and write a few sentences about what they meant. Cobbled together, we got our 20 for 2020. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did.