AROUSE's Top 50 Albums Of 2020

As voted by our DJs and members!

As voted by AROUSE members in our end-of-year survey, here they are: AROUSE's 50 favorite records of the year 2020.

Data was collected by combining Top 10 lists from all 50 respondents, on a squared scale -- for example, a ranking of #1 of 10 was scored at 100 points, while a ranking of #2 of 10 was scored at 81, #5 of 10 as 36, and so forth.








#1: Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
989pts












#2: Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
814pts












#3: Mac Miller - Circles
809pts












#4: The Strokes - The New Abnormal
720pts












#5: Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
571pts












#6: The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
567pts












#7: Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
562pts












#8: Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
559pts












#9: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - K.G.
533pts












#10: Taylor Swift - folklore
489pts












#11: Denzel Curry + Kenny Beats - UNLOCKED
475pts












#12: King Krule - Man Alive!
441pts












#13: Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now
437pts












#14: Khruangbin - Mordechai
420pts












#15: Glass Animals - Dreamland
388pts












#16: Adrianne Lenker - songs
367pts












#17: Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
365pts












#18: Gorillaz - Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
361pts












#19: HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III
333pts












#20: Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts
332pts












#21: The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
321pts












#22: Run the Jewels - RTJ4
305pts












#23: 100 gecs - 1000 gecs and The Tree of Clues
279pts












#24: Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
275pts












#25: clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
254pts





#26-50


#26: Joji - Nectar (252pts)
#27: Kevin Krauter - Full Hand (249pts)
#28: Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake (Deluxe) - LUV vs. The World 2 (243pts)
#29: Samia - The Baby (242pts)
#30: COIN - Dreamland (234pts)
#31: Childish Gambino - 3.15.20 (219pts)
#32: Thundercat - It Is What It Is (211pts)
#33: Amine - Limbo (207pts)
#34: Taylor Swift - evermore (206pts)
#35: Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas (204pts)
#36: Cut Worms - Nobody Lives Here Anymore (199pts)
#37: Dehd - Flower of Devotion (174pts)
#38: IDLES - Ultra Mono (172pts)
#39: Sylvan Esso - Free Love (164pts)
#40: The Flaming Lips - American Head (152pts)
#41: Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud (149pts)
#42: Knuckle Puck - 20/20 (145pts)
#43: Soccer Mommy - color theory (141pts)
#44: Ryan Beatty - Dreaming of David (140pts)
#45: Tennis - Swimmer (136pts)
#T-46: Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 3 (134pts)
#T-46: BTS - Map of the Soul: 7 (134pts)
#T-48: Dominic Fike - What Could Possibly Go Wrong (129pts)
#T-48: Hannah - Lomelda (129pts)
#50: Dorian Electra - My Agenda (125 pts)

Bonus

#51: Ricky Eat Acid - When they align just so, memories of another life bleed into my own (117 pts)
#52: Hinds - The Prettiest Curse (116 pts)
#53*: The Beatles - Revolver (109 pts)
#54: Spillage Village - Spilligion (101 pts)

Honorable mentions for earning only one total vote, as a #1 AOTY submission (each artist earning 100 points on one vote) to: Your Arms Are My Cocoon, Viagra Boys, Pink Siifu, Kid Cudi, Halsey, Moses Sumney, Mapache, Porridge Radio, Jessie Reyez, AWOLNATION, The Weeknd, and AC/DC.

Honorable mentions for scoring under 90 points with more than one vote to: A.G. Cook, duckwrth, BTS, EDEN, Grouplove, Kevin Morby, Perfume Genius, The Mountain Goats, Chloe x Halle, Fleet Foxes, Playboi Carti, R.A.P. Ferreira, Neil Young, My Morning Jacket, Peach Pit, Of Montreal, and Zack Villere.

*Revolver came out in 1966, not 2020.