Нью-йоркский сайт AllMusic неплохо обозревает новинки музыки, с учётом местной специфики, которая интересно только местным, но в целом взгляд вполне компетентный. Начнём с их списка AllMusic Best of 2020. Позиции без указания мест, просто список, который сам уже для удобства сделал в алфавитном порядке. Топ достаточно интересный, ибо не всё прослушано в нормальной человечьей музыке, а этот список годный гид по релизам ушедшего года. Наших артистов тут почему-то нет. Порядок тут такой ― артист - альбом - лейбл - стиль.

AC/DC – Power Up / Columbia – Album Rock

Algiers – There Is No Year / Matador – Indie Rock

Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess / Jagjaguwar – Alternative Singer/Songwriter

Angelica Garcia – Cha Cha Palace / Spacebomb – Alternative/Indie Rock

Bach Choir – Howells: Missa Sabrinensis / Hyperion – Choral

Bad Bunny – YHLQMDLG / Rimas – Latin Pop

BC Camplight – Shortly After Takeoff / Bella Union – Indie Pop

Beatrice Dillon – Workaround / Pan – Experimental Techno

Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways / Columbia – Contemporary Pop/Rock

Bob Mould – Blue Hearts / Merge – Alternative/Indie Rock

Boldy James – Manger on McNichols / Sector 7-G – Underground Rap

Brandy – B7 / Brand Nu, Inc. – Contemporary R&B

Brandy Clark – Your Life Is a Record / Warner Bros. – Contemporary Country

Brothers Osborne – Skeletons / Snakefarm Records – Contemporary Country

Carolyn Sampson – Mahler 4 / BIS – Symphony

Childish Gambino – 3.15.2020 / mcDJ Recording – Alternative R&B

Chloe x Halle – Ungodly Hour / Parkwood Entertainment – Contemporary R&B

Christian Sands – Be Water / Mack Avenue – Contemporary Jazz

Cleo Sol – Rose in the Dark / Forever Living Originals – Alternative R&B

Cornershop – England Is a Garden / Ample Play – Alternative/Indie Rock

Creeper – Sex, Death & the Infinite Void / Roadrunner – Alternative/Indie Rock

Deftones – Ohms / Reprise – Alternative Metal

Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia / Warner Records – Dance-Pop

Edward Gardner – Schubert, Vol. 2: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6; Overtures in the Italian Style / Chandos – Symphony

Endless Field – Alive in the Wilderness / Biophilia – Modern Creative

Epiphoni Consort – When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park / Delphian – Choral

Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters / Epic – Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

Gregg August – Dialogues On Race, Vol. 1 / Gregg August – Modern Big Band

HAIM – Women in Music, Pt. 3 / Columbia / Sony Music – Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

Hayley Williams – Petals for Armor / Atlantic – Alternative/Indie Rock

Headie One – EDNA / Relentless – British Rap

I Break Horses – Warnings / Bella Union – Dream Pop

Irreversible Entanglements – Who Sent You? / International Anthem – Free Jazz

J Hus – Big Conspiracy / Black Butter – British Rap

Jason Isbell – Reunions / Southeastern Records – Alternative Country-Rock

Jay Electronica – A Written Testimony / Roc Nation – East Coast Rap

Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? / Virgin EMI – Alternative Dance

Joel Ross – Who Are You? / Blue Note – Post-Bop

John Anderson – Years / BMG – Contemporary Country

Julianna Barwick – Healing Is a Miracle / Ninja Tune – Ambient

Ka – Descendants of Cain / Iron Works Records – Underground Rap

Katie Gately – Loom / Houndstooth – Experimental Electronic

Khruangbin – Mordechai / Dead Oceans – Neo-Psychedelia

Kidbug – Kidbug / Joyful Noise – Alternative/Indie Rock

Kvelertak – Splid / Rise Records – Heavy Metal

Kylie Minogue – DISCO / BMG – Dance-Pop

Lady Gaga – Chromatica / Interscope / Polydor – Dance-Pop

Laura Marling – Song for Our Daughter / Chrysalis Records – Alternative Singer/Songwriter

Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas / Warner Records – Contemporary Singer/Songwriter

Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia / Anti- – Afro-Colombian

Lilly Hiatt – Walking Proof / New West – Contemporary Singer/Songwriter

Loma – Don't Shy Away / Sub Pop – Alternative/Indie Rock

Low Cut Connie – Private Lives / – Alternative/Indie Rock

Magik Markers – 2020 / Drag City – Alternative/Indie Rock

Margo Price – That's How Rumors Get Started / Loma Vista – Americana

Mark Elder – Sibelius: Symphony No. 4; Symphony No. 6 / Hallé – Symphony

Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders / Ghostly International / Secretly Canadian – Experimental Ambient

Natalia Lafourcade – Un Canto por Mexico, Vol. 1 / – Mexican Traditions

No Joy – Motherhood / Joyful Noise – Noise Pop

Nubya Garcia – Source / Concord – Contemporary Jazz

Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never / Warp – Ambient

ORA – Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium; James Macmillan: Vidi Aquam / Harmonia Mundi – Choral

Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately / Matador – Alternative Singer/Songwriter

Poppy – I Disagree / Sumerian Records – Pop-Metal

Prince Royce – Alter Ego / Sony Music – Bachata [латиноамериканская музыка]

Punisher – Phoebe Bridgers / Dead Oceans – Alternative Singer/Songwriter

Riga Cathedral Choir School Mixed Choir – Jančevskis: Aeternum / Hyperion – Choral

Rina Sawayama – Sawayama / Dirty Hit – Pop

Róisín Murphy – Róisín Machine / Skint Records – Club/Dance

RTJ4 – Run the Jewels / BMG – Hardcore Rap

RVG – Feral / Fire Records – Indie Rock

Sault – Untitled (Rise) / Forever Living Originals – Alternative R&B

Sevdaliza – Shabrang / Butler Records – Alternative Singer/Songwriter

Shabaka & the Ancestors – We Are Sent Here by History / Impulse! – Avant-Garde Jazz

Shirley Collins – Heart's Ease / Domino – British Folk

Shore – Fleet Foxes / Anti- – Alternative/Indie Rock

Soccer Mommy – color theory / Loma Vista – Alternative/Indie Rock

St. John's College Choir, Cambridge – Ash Wednesday / Signum Classics – Choral

Stephen Malkmus – Traditional Techniques / Matador – Indie Rock

Sunny Jain – Wild Wild East / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings – International Fusion

Supercrush – SODO Pop / Don Giovanni – Alternative/Indie Rock

Tame Impala – The Slow Rush / Interscope – Alternative/Indie Rock

Taylor Swift – folklore / Republic / Revolver Records – Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

Teyana Taylor – The Album / Def Jam / Getting Out Our Dreams – Contemporary R&B

The Killers – Imploding the Mirage / Island / Virgin EMI – Alternative/Indie Rock

The Koreatown Oddity – Little Dominiques Nosebleed / Stones Throw – Left-Field Rap

The Microphones – Microphones in 2020 / P.W. Elverum & Sun – Alternative/Indie Rock

The Soft Pink Truth – Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase? / Thrill Jockey – House

The Strokes – The New Abnormal / RCA – Alternative/Indie Rock

The Weeknd – After Hours / Republic – Alternative R&B

Thibaut Garcia – Aranjuez / Erato – Concerto

Thundercat – It Is What It Is / Brainfeeder – Alternative R&B

Vladislav Delay – Rakka / Cosmo Rhythmatic – Experimental Electronic

Waylon Payne – Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me / Carnival Recording Co. – Americana

Winter – Endless Space (Between You & I) / Bar/None Records – Dream Pop

Wire – Mind Hive / Pink Flag – Alternative/Indie Rock

Xavier Omär – If You Feel / RCA – Alternative R&B

Yelle – L' Ère du Verseau / Recreation Center – Pop

Yves Tumor – Heaven to a Tortured Mind / Warp – Alternative R&B

Zephaniah OHora – Listening to the Music / Last Roundup Records – Alternative Country-Rock

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Помимо общего списка со всеми стилями, на сайте AllMusic делают и отдельные топы со всеми основными музстилями, например есть такой ― The Allmusic 2020 Favorite Metal Albums:

All Them Witches ― Nothing as the Ideal

Boris ― No

Bring Me the Horizon ― Post Human: Survival Horror

Bury Tomorrow ― Cannibal

Deftones ― Ohms

Emma Ruth Rundle / Thou ― May Our Chambers Be Full

Enter Shikari ― Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible

Eye Flys ― Tub of Lard

Fit for a King ― The Path

Haken ― Virus

Hatari ― Neyslutrans

Heaven Shall Burn ― Of Truth and Sacrifice

Katatonia ― City Burials [Deluxe Edition]

Kvelertak ― Splid

Lamb of God ― Lamb of God

Magnum ― The Serpent Rings

Metallica / San Francisco Symphony ― S&M2

Motorpsycho ― The All Is One

Mr. Bungle ― The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo

My Dying Bride ― The Ghost of Orion

Napalm Death ― Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism [Limited Edition]

Nothing ― Great Dismal

Ozzy Osbourne ― Ordinary Man

Pallbearer ― Forgotten Days

Paradise Lost ― Obsidian

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs ― Viscerals

Poppy ― I Disagree

Sepultura ― Quadra

Stabbing Westward ― Dead and Gone

Static-X ― Project Regeneration, Vol. 1

Testament ― Titans of Creation

The Black Dahlia Murder ― Verminous

The Ghost Inside ― The Ghost Inside

The Ocean ― Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic/Cenozoic

Trivium ― What the Dead Men Say

То, что из всего великолепия, которым был богат 2020-й год, выбрано всего навсего 35 альбомов, явно намекает либо на чересчур серьёзный подход, либо на обычный бардак, и отсутствие увлечённого стилем специалиста, ибо релизов было достаточно для большого топа под 250 бестов.

Поскольку самое время подводить итоги, то впереди будут ещё разные подобные материалы про музыку ушедшего 2020-го года. Ещё похожие статьи: Личная статистика Last.fm за 2020-й год. Другая реальность топов 2020-го года Яндекс Музыки