This 10-track set is J Balvin’s most ambitious album yet, musically and visually. The serene music and poetic-yet-powerful lyrics allow her to grow beyond the Nashville sweetheart turned pop goddess we’ve come to adore. Her penchant for penning did-she-really-say-that lyrics -- “I should've f--ked your friends / It would've been the best revenge,” she taunts in “Do You Love Her” -- vividly illustrates the album’s raw-yet-relatable discourse on romantic relationships. similarly finds the 20-year-old talking herself up, with both the catty attitude of a teenager and the posh confidence of a veteran rapper, adding up to an album that feels like a shot of pure caffeine and clocks in at a breezy 30 minutes. The Weeknd has the biggest Canadian artist album of the year with After Hours, finishing the year in 4th place. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart", "Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' Rules for Fourth Week at No. From beginning to end, Sawayama provides you with production, vocals and lyrics that will worm their way into your brain, refusing to "STFU!" -- MIA NAZARENO, 32. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart", "The Weeknd's 'After Hours' Debuts at No. (A duet by these two would be heaven. 2 on the Billboard 200 -- is home to old-school perreo, romantic reggaeton, and Latin trap bangers with a global appeal. From the R&B slow jam “3am” that lands itself smack-dab in the middle of the 16-song collection to the Joni Mitchell-influenced rebuke of male-driven music criticism on “Man From The Magazine,” Haim hit their stride through an exhibition of their expanding capabilities. On July 23, Taylor Swift came to save us from our socially distanced monotony -- announcing an eighth studio album that would drop the next day. Either way, their service was appreciated. Or maybe it's the would-be '80s dystopian soundtracker "Physical"? But his movement isn’t limited to settling down someplace new: On “Arkansas,”  his gruff vocals deliver the most jubilant geographic escape since Bob Seger’s “Katmandu.” Though Stapleton’s talent is anything but ordinary, he evinces the common man better than any singer/songwriter since Merle Haggard on songs like “When I’m With You,” which embraces his partner’s love, but admits, that at 40,  it “looks like the end of the rainbow is no pot of gold.” Maybe not, but Starting Over certainly is a musical treasure, and sometimes that’s enough. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart", "The Weeknd Makes It a Month at No. On their long-awaited full-length debut, the appropriately titled The Album, Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé offer up eight thrilling doses of grade-A K-pop perfection, from the hip-hop swagger of thunderous lead single “How You Like That” to the infectious shout-along dance-pop of “Lovesick Girls.” Add in a pair of high-profile collaborations with stateside superstars Selena Gomez (“Ice Cream”) and Cardi B (“Bet You Wanna”) and The Album not only builds on the foursome’s string of hits since their 2016 debut, it also provides the perfect entry point for soon-to-be Blinks to embrace the girls as they continue their meteoric rise. -- G.R. In a year when many pop stars tried to turn your living room into a discotheque, Gomez sounds at home making music perfect for being at home — just when we need it most. Today, Billboard staff released their picks for the top 10 K-Pop albums for 2020, with BoA's 'BETTER' topping the list. -- STEPHEN DAW, Dressed in a Depop-curated wardrobe, singer-songwriter beabadoobee pulls from 90's alt rock, a hint of Original Pinoy Music (OPM), and lots and lots of feelings. Yes, there are callbacks to bygone eras of dance-pop -- "Love Again" borrows from White Town's '90s one-off "Your Woman" (via Al Bowlly) and "Break My Heart" interpolates INXS' '80s chart-topper "Need You Tonight" -- but merging all these classic inspirations is far from derivative; in fact, it makes for something wholly fresh when paired with Dua's cheeky lyrics and confident vocals. The 2020 Billboard Music Awards nominees are finally here, ahead of the ceremony's rescheduled October 14th ceremony.. Released in March, Colores won best urban album at the 2020 Latin Grammys, and scored the Colombian superstar a No. This Leap Day, Bad Bunny surprised all of his fans with the release of his sophomore album YHLQMDLQ -- short and sweet for “Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana,” a.k.a. The pop superstar channeled the giddiness, vulnerability and hesitancy that come with a new romance into Positions, her third album in just over two years. 1 album on the Billboard 200 and, as mentioned, the second No. The trinity of "Cardigan," "August," and "Betty" also evokes the storytelling of Swift's youth -- this time with a more mature perspective on relationships, love and growing older. Selena Gomez never seemed to be in a rush to make her third solo album — since 2015's chart-conquering Revival, she's balanced her screen projects with one-off singles and collaborations. We needed it. 1 album on the Billboard 200 — and second of 2020 — as her surprise release Evermore arrives atop the … As a self-taught guitarist, who hails from Guanajuato, Mexico, Junior pours his heart out on Atrapado en un Sueño, including his infectious corridos tumbados, mesmerizing requintos, and lyrics about ambition, optimism, the street life, and more. Released nine days after its Jan. 8 announcement, Circles serves as a perfect example of just how much the late Mac Miller still had left to accomplish. For as vulnerable as Bridgers becomes on Punisher, no other indie artist sounded as confident in their work this year. More Pop Smoke music will be released in the future, no doubt, but as the high-powered final statement of his lifetime, Meet The Woo 2 will always be special. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart", "Future Flies 'High' With Seventh No. [1], Folklore by Taylor Swift is the best-selling album of 2020,[2] and the longest-running number-one album of the year, spending eight weeks atop the chart. Blackpink is the revolution, indeed. Fighting back against the often racially motivated betrayals and atrocities of the last four years requires action, and Run the Jewels' fourth album, which dropped just nine days after George Floyd’s May 25 death beneath the knee of a Minneapolis cop, served as an electrifying motivational soundtrack for the protests that erupted in the tragedy's wake. But more than just about any album released in 2020, Letter to You speaks to the heartbreaking losses of this endless year -- in the meditative “One Minute You’re Here,” the howling “Ghosts” or the elegiac “I’ll See You In My Dreams.” Still, grief is tempered here with sweet memories: “I run my fingers through your sun streaked hair,” he sings. But once the party’s over, The Weeknd feels alone again with his self-deprecating thoughts (“‘Cause I lost my faith/ So I cut away the pain/ Got it swimming in my veins/ Now my mind is outta place") echoed throughout moody introspective tracks like “Snowchild” and “Faith.” Sonically, After Hours hits the sweet spot between the soul-corroding decadence of his Trilogy mixtapes, the melancholic, garbled melodies of My Dear Melancholy and the futuristic frenetic pop rhythms of Starboy, projecting a gleefully basking The Weeknd directly into the bright luminescence of international superstardom. But whereas Taylor Swift's villainous alter ego sipped whisky at Lower East Side bars, Grimes' alter ego hits the rave circuit and goes LARP-ing -- while welcoming the impending climate change apocalypse -- all over a bubbling brew of nu metal, ambient electronica, industrial dance and, um, banjo. Meanwhile, the joyful “Búscame” with Carlos Vives is a delight, and the militant “Acompáñame” (alongside Goyo and Catalina García) is a call for universal equality set to a cumbia beat, one you can dance to while pumping your fists in support. As the man says, baby, that's the power of prayer -- and the power of Letter to You. B7 is the singer-songwriter’s manifesto of how she tended to her years-long pain with poise, as she confronts her past toxic relationships and mental health issues on “Borderline” and “Bye BiPolar,” while proudly reclaiming the title “Baby Mama” on her Chance the Rapper collaboration of the same name. You can hear that gleeful largesse throughout the LP, whether it's Savage quoting 50 Cent on "Many Men" and then letting the man's own hook see the track out, or the biggest artist in the world popping by for a quick guest verse with a very rude SZA namedrop, or Freeman getting a full track just to expound upon the key difference between snitches and rats. Jay Electronica, A Written Testimony, After surfacing with verbose mini-masterworks "Exhibit A (Transformations)" and "Exhibit C" in the late 2000s, fans penciled in Jay Electronica to become one of rap's most revered scribes of the next decade. -- FRANK DIGIACOMO, On his first album since 2017’s chart-topping From A Room: Volume 2, Stapleton leads an exhilarating physical and emotional journey through middle age that is all substance, no filler. Recently, Billboard released their list of the top country albums of 2020 which is based on physical sales, digital sales and streaming performance. It’s her second album of the year to debut at the top of the chart after this summer’s EP folklore, joining BTS and YoungBoy Never Broke Again in the two chart-topping albums in 2020 club. -- GAIL MITCHELL, Aussie Kevin Parker’s fourth studio album The Slow Rush certainly lived up to its name -- it took him approximately five years to create, but then fans flocked to it in its first week of release, giving Parker his highest-charting album in the U.S. to date, with a No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Tickets to My Downfall, "21 Savage & Metro Boomin's 'Savage Mode II' Debuts at No. The 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards brought amazing performances, outfits, and a sense of normalcy to the world Wednesday night. 1s later in the year -- tracks like the more reflective "Moon" and the edgier "Louder Than Bombs" delighted music critics and ARMY soldiers alike. The veteran singer-songwriter touches on his more self-sabotaging tendencies on album opener “What Have I Done to Help,” and grapples with the never-ending battle to stay sober on the supportive but realistic “It Gets Easier.” But Isbell has a thoughtful way of singing fraught lines with compassion, concluding Reunions with a hopeful note directed at his daughter: “It's easy to see that you'll get where you're going.” -- TAYLOR MIMS, 29. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart With Biggest Streaming Week Since 2018", "Lil Uzi Vert's 'Eternal Atake' Spends Second Week at No. (Who had Swift becoming one of the first artists to top Billboard's New Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Listing on their 2020 Bingo card?) Just 12 days passed between the Feb. 7 release of Pop Smoke’s breakthrough mixtape, Meet The Woo 2, and his tragic death on Feb. 19. 2020 is just about wrapping up and Billboard has published their top artists for the year. Check out other annual picks for album of the year here. Jessie Reyez, Before Love Came to Kill Us, After a pair of appetizing EP’s, Toronto singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez served a Michelin-rated main course this year with her debut album. -- M. Nazareno, Jason Isbell’s Southern drawl takes listeners on a long, hard journey of self-reflection on Reunions, as he contemplates fatherhood, childhood memories and losing friends to drugs. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart", "Pop Smoke's 'Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon' Debuts at No. The news blindsided the pop music world; Swift was on some new shit, and she was gonna make it count. We don't need to talk a lot about 2020 here, right? 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