List of top 10 albums for 2020 in Australia
This is a list of albums that charted in the top ten of the ARIA Album Charts, an all-genre albums chart, in 2020.
Top-ten albums[]
The list is sorted chronologically by issue date with the date representing the first issue in which the album appeared in the top ten in 2020, regardless of whether an album charted in a previous year or not. Dates reached peak position are in 2020 unless otherwise noted.
An asterisk (*) represents that an album is still in the top-ten as of the issue dated 7 December 2020.
Issue Date | Album | Peak | Weeks in the top 10 | |||
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Title | Artist(s) | Position | Date | In 2020 | Overall | |
6 January[1] | Fine Line | Harry Styles | 1 | 23 December 2019 | 44* | 46* |
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | Billie Eilish | 1 | 8 April 2019 | 35 | 72 | |
Frozen II | Various artists | 2 | 9 December 2019 | 5 | 9 | |
No.6 Collaborations Project | Ed Sheeran | 1 | 22 July 2019 | 9 | 34 | |
JackBoys | JackBoys and Travis Scott | 5 | 6 January | 1 | 1 | |
Hollywood's Bleeding | Post Malone | 1 | 16 September 2019 | 21 | 35 | |
The Kids Are Coming | Tones and I | 3 | 9 September 2019 | 3 | 20 | |
Lover | Taylor Swift | 1 | 2 September 2019 | 6 | 21 | |
Diamonds | Elton John | 3 | 10 June 2019 | 16 | 33 | |
Songs from the South: 1985–2019 | Paul Kelly | 1 | 25 November 2019 | 1 | 7 | |
13 January[2] | Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent | Lewis Capaldi | 7 | 13 January | 2 | 3 |
What You See Is What You Get | Luke Combs | 1 | 18 November 2019 | 9 | 12 | |
20 January[3] | Rare | Selena Gomez | 1 | 20 January | 2 | 2 |
Live in Adelaide '19 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | 6 | 20 January | 1 | 1 | |
Live in Paris '19 | 9 | 20 January | 1 | 1 | ||
Blood Moon | Cold Chisel | 1 | 16 December 2019 | 1 | 4 | |
27 January[4] | Music to Be Murdered By | Eminem | 1 | 27 January | 8 | 8 |
Manic | Halsey | 2 | 27 January | 3 | 3 | |
Circles | Mac Miller | 3 | 27 January | 1 | 1 | |
3 February[5] | Hotspot | Pet Shop Boys | 8 | 3 February | 1 | 1 |
10 February[6] | Hurry Up and Wait | Dune Rats | 1 | 10 February | 1 | 1 |
The Octagon | Chillinit | 2 | 10 February | 1 | 1 | |
Walls | Louis Tomlinson | 6 | 10 February | 1 | 1 | |
17 February[7] | Father of All Motherfuckers | Green Day | 1 | 17 February | 1 | 1 |
Love | Michael Bublé | 2 | 19 November 2018 | 1 | 6 | |
Birds of Prey: The Album | Various artists | 9 | 17 February | 1 | 1 | |
24 February[8] | The Slow Rush | Tame Impala | 1 | 24 February | 4 | 4 |
Changes | Justin Bieber | 2 | 24 February | 7 | 7 | |
Bohemian Rhapsody | Queen | 1 | 7 January 2019 | 1 | 33 | |
2 March[9] | Map of the Soul: 7 | BTS | 1 | 2 March | 4 | 4 |
Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them | The Amity Affliction | 2 | 2 March | 1 | 1 | |
The Death of Me | Polaris | 3 | 2 March | 1 | 1 | |
Ordinary Man | Ozzy Osbourne | 4 | 2 March | 1 | 1 | |
Miss Anthropocene | Grimes | 10 | 2 March | 1 | 1 | |
9 March[10] | F8 | Five Finger Death Punch | 2 | 9 March | 1 | 1 |
Race Car Blues | Slowly Slowly | 7 | 9 March | 1 | 1 | |
16 March[11] | Eternal Atake | Lil Uzi Vert | 1 | 16 March | 2 | 2 |
How I'm Feeling | Lauv | 5 | 16 March | 1 | 1 | |
23 March[12] | Artists Unite For Fire Fight | Various artists | 1 | 23 March | 9 | 9 |
Heartbreak Weather | Niall Horan | 2 | 23 March | 2 | 2 | |
Speed Of Life | Adam Brand | 6 | 23 March | 1 | 1 | |
Flip Phone Fantasy | Ocean Grove | 8 | 23 March | 1 | 1 | |
Fallow | Fanny Lumsden | 10 | 23 March | 1 | 1 | |
30 March[13] | After Hours | The Weeknd | 1 | 30 March | 13 | 13 |
Live at the Triffid | The Smith Street Band | 4 | 30 March | 1 | 1 | |
Velvet | Adam Lambert | 8 | 30 March | 1 | 1 | |
All the Hits and All New Love Songs | Kenny Rogers | 10 | 30 March | 1 | 1 | |
6 April[14] | Calm | 5 Seconds of Summer | 1 | 6 April | 5 | 5 |
Future Nostalgia | Dua Lipa | 1 | 20 April | 13 | 13 | |
Gigaton | Pearl Jam | 3 | 6 April | 2 | 2 | |
High Risk Behaviour | The Chats | 5 | 6 April | 1 | 1 | |
ADHD | Joyner Lucas | 9 | 6 April | 1 | 1 | |
13 April[15] | Everything Is A-OK | Violent Soho | 1 | 13 April | 1 | 1 |
Roll the Dice | Kerser | 3 | 13 April | 1 | 1 | |
20 April[16] | Human. :II: Nature. | Nightwish | 7 | 20 April | 1 | 1 |
The New Toronto 3 | Tory Lanez | 10 | 20 April | 1 | 1 | |
27 April[17] | Don't Waste Your Anger | The Smith Street Band | 7 | 27 April | 1 | 1 |
Blame It on Baby | DaBaby | 7 | 27 April | 1 | 1 | |
4 May[18] | Human Design | Birds of Tokyo | 1 | 4 May | 3 | 3 |
What the Dead Men Say | Trivium | 7 | 4 May | 1 | 1 | |
Astroworld | Travis Scott | 1 | 13 August 2018 | 1 | 5 | |
11 May[19] | Dark Lane Demo Tapes | Drake | 1 | 11 May | 3 | 3 |
18 May[20] | Petals for Armor | Hayley Williams | 6 | 18 May | 1 | 1 |
6 to the World | HP Boyz | 7 | 18 May | 1 | 1 | |
25 May[21] | Live at the Forum | The Teskey Brothers | 1 | 25 May | 1 | 1 |
This One's for You | Luke Combs | 7 | 12 June 2017 | 1 | 2 | |
The Goat | Polo G | 10 | 25 May | 1 | 1 | |
1 June[22] | Notes on a Conditional Form | The 1975 | 1 | 1 June | 1 | 1 |
D-2 | Agust D | 2 | 1 June | 1 | 1 | |
Dissimulation | KSI | 4 | 1 June | 1 | 1 | |
8 June[23] | Chromatica | Lady Gaga | 1 | 8 June | 6 | 6 |
Wild World | Kip Moore | 4 | 8 June | 1 | 1 | |
East | Cold Chisel | 2 | 12 June 1980 | 1 | 5 | |
Golden Hour | Kygo | 8 | 8 June | 1 | 1 | |
15 June[24] | Sideways to New Italy | Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever | 4 | 15 June | 1 | 1 |
The Ghost Inside | The Ghost Inside | 5 | 15 June | 1 | 1 | |
22 June[25] | 'Akilotoa (Anthology 1994-2006) | Vika and Linda | 1 | 22 June | 2 | 2 |
Sunlight | Spacey Jane | 2 | 22 June | 2 | 2 | |
Mayhem to Madness | The McClymonts | 3 | 22 June | 1 | 1 | |
29 June[26] | Music from the Home Front | Various artists | 1 | 29 June | 7 | 7 |
Rough and Rowdy Ways | Bob Dylan | 2 | 29 June | 3 | 3 | |
Lonely Diamond | Ocean Alley | 3 | 29 June | 2 | 2 | |
Lamb of God | Lamb of God | 5 | 29 June | 1 | 1 | |
6 July[27] | Mordechai | Khruangbin | 4 | 6 July | 1 | 1 |
Women in Music Pt. III | HAIM | 7 | 6 July | 1 | 1 | |
13 July[28] | Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon | Pop Smoke | 1 | 13 July | 17 | 17 |
Chunky Shrapnel | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | 2 | 13 July | 1 | 1 | |
Hamilton - An American Musical | Cast of Hamilton | 6 | 20 July | 5 | 5 | |
20 July[29] | 14 Steps to a Better You | Lime Cordiale | 1 | 20 July | 2 | 2 |
The Glow | DMA's | 2 | 20 July | 2 | 2 | |
Legends Never Die | Juice Wrld | 1 | 27 July | 14 | 14 | |
27 July[30] | Gaslighter | The Chicks | 2 | 27 July | 2 | 2 |
Map of the Soul: 7 – The Journey | BTS | 9 | 27 July | 1 | 1 | |
3 August[31] | Folklore | Taylor Swift | 1 | 3 August | 15* | 15* |
Like Nirvana | Cub Sport | 2 | 3 August | 1 | 1 | |
F*ck Love | The Kid Laroi | 3 | 3 August | 8* | 8* | |
Twenty Twenty | Ronan Keating | 9 | 3 August | 2 | 2 | |
10 August[32] | Brain Candy | Hockey Dad | 2 | 10 August | 1 | 1 |
Please Leave Your Light On | Paul Kelly & Paul Grabowsky | 3 | 10 August | 2 | 2 | |
Wreck Me | Travis Collins | 8 | 10 August | 1 | 1 | |
Such Pretty Forks in the Road | Alanis Morissette | 10 | 10 August | 1 | 1 | |
17 August[33] | Born Here Live Here Die Here | Luke Bryan | 2 | 17 August | 1 | 1 |
Kaliyuga | In Hearts Wake | 3 | 17 August | 1 | 1 | |
Dreamland | Glass Animals | 6 | 17 August | 1 | 1 | |
24 August[34] | Blonde on the Tracks | Emma Swift | 9 | 24 August | 1 | 1 |
31 August[35] | Imploding the Mirage | The Killers | 1 | 31 August | 1 | 1 |
In a Dream | Troye Sivan | 3 | 31 August | 2* | 2* | |
Cannot Buy My Soul: The Songs of Kev Carmody | Various artists | 6 | 31 August | 1 | 1 | |
Living in Sin | Hooligan Hefs | 9 | 31 August | 1 | 1 | |
Here on Earth | Tim McGraw | 10 | 31 August | 1 | 1 | |
7 September[36] | S&M2 | Metallica & San Francisco Symphony | 1 | 7 September | 1 | 1 |
Smile | Katy Perry | 2 | 7 September | 4 | 4 | |
Rome | Josh Pyke | 8 | 7 September | 1 | 1 | |
Who's Line Is It Anyway? | 9 | 7 September | 1 | 1 | ||
Sunset Suburbia | Diesel | 10 | 7 September | 1 | 1 | |
14 September[37] | Odyssey Number Five | Powderfinger | 1 | 11 September, 2000 | 3 | 15 |
Between You and Me | San Cisco | 3 | 14 September | 1 | 1 | |
Slim and I | Slim Dusty | 8 | 14 September | 1 | 1 | |
Spiralling | Wil Wagner | 9 | 14 September | 1 | 1 | |
21 September[38] | We Are Chaos | Marilyn Manson | 1 | 21 September | 1 | 1 |
Sunday (The Gospel According to Iso) | Vika and Linda | 2 | 21 September | 1 | 1 | |
28 September[39] | The Speed of Now: Part 1 | Keith Urban | 1 | 28 September | 6 | 6 |
Heaven & Hell | Ava Max | 7 | 28 September | 1 | 1 | |
Automatic | Mildlife | 8 | 28 September | 1 | 1 | |
5 October[40] | Nectar | Joji | 1 | 5 October | 1 | 1 |
Tickets to My Downfall | Machine Gun Kelly | 2 | 5 October | 3 | 3 | |
Ohms | Deftones | 3 | 5 October | 1 | 1 | |
A Quiet Place to Die | Alpha Wolf | 6 | 5 October | 1 | 1 | |
Ultra Mono | Idles | 7 | 5 October | 1 | 1 | |
12 October[41] | Live Around the World | Queen & Adam Lambert | 1 | 12 October | 3 | 3 |
The Album | Blackpink | 2 | 12 October | 3 | 3 | |
2020 | Bon Jovi | 3 | 12 October | 1 | 1 | |
Savage Mode II | 21 Savage & Metro Boomin | 4 | 12 October | 1 | 1 | |
CMFT | Corey Taylor | 8 | 12 October | 1 | 1 | |
19 October[42] | Hybrid Theory | Linkin Park | 1 | 19 October | 1 | 9 |
Full Circle | Chillinit | 3 | 19 October | 1 | 1 | |
26 October[43] | T.R.U.T.H. | Guy Sebastian | 1 | 26 October | 7* | 7* |
50 Push Ups for a Dollar | Skegss | 4 | 26 October | 1 | 1 | |
Rumours | Fleetwood Mac | 1 | 4 February, 1977 | 1 | 46 | |
2 November[44] | Letter to You | Bruce Springsteen | 1 | 2 November | 4 | 4 |
Ball Park Music | Ball Park Music | 2 | 2 November | 1 | 1 | |
Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez | Gorillaz | 5 | 2 November | 1 | 1 | |
Moral Panic | Nothing but Thieves | 8 | 2 November | 1 | 1 | |
9 November[45] | The Makarrata Project | Midnight Oil | 1 | 9 November | 2 | 2 |
Positions | Ariana Grande | 2 | 9 November | 5* | 5* | |
Love Goes | Sam Smith | 3 | 9 November | 2 | 2 | |
The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo | Mr. Bungle | 6 | 9 November | 1 | 1 | |
Post Human: Survival Horror | Bring Me the Horizon | 7 | 9 November | 1 | 1 | |
Panic Force | Triple One | 8 | 9 November | 1 | 1 | |
Child in Reverse | Kate Miller-Heidke | 9 | 9 November | 1 | 1 | |
16 November[46] | Disco | Kylie Minogue | 1 | 16 November | 2 | 2 |
Confetti | Little Mix | 7 | 16 November | 1 | 1 | |
23 November[47] | Power Up | AC/DC | 1 | 23 November | 3* | 3* |
Only Santa Knows | Delta Goodrem | 5 | 23 November | 1 | 1 | |
Against All Odds | Onefour | 7 | 23 November | 1 | 1 | |
Push the Blues Away | Josh Teskey & Ash Grunwald | 8 | 23 November | 1 | 1 | |
Jolly Holiday | André Rieu | 10 | 23 November | 1 | 1 | |
30 November[48] | Be | BTS | 2 | 30 November | 2* | 2* |
Apart Together | Tim Minchin | 3 | 30 November | 1 | 1 | |
The Modern Medieval | Something For Kate | 4 | 30 November | 1 | 1 | |
Idiot Prayer | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | 5 | 30 November | 1 | 1 | |
7 December[49] | Unreleased (1998–2010) | Powderfinger | 2 | 7 December | 1* | 1* |
Plastic Hearts | Miley Cyrus | 3 | 7 December | 1* | 1* | |
Believe | Andrea Bocelli | 10 | 7 December | 1* | 1* |
Entries by artist[]
The following table shows artists who achieved two or more top 10 entries in 2020.
Entries | Artist | Country of origin | Weeks | Albums |
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3 | BTS | ![]() |
7 | "Map of the Soul: 7", "Map of the Soul: 7 - The Journey", "Be" |
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | ![]() |
3 | "Live in Adelaide '19", "Live in Paris '19", "Chunky Shrapnel" | |
2 | Taylor Swift | ![]() |
21 | "Lover", "Folklore" |
Luke Combs | 10 | "What You See Is What You Get", "This One's for You" | ||
Powderfinger | ![]() |
4 | "Odyssey Number Five", "Unreleased (1998–2010)" | |
Paul Kelly | 3 | "Songs from the South: 1985–2019", "Please Leave Your Light On" | ||
Vika and Linda | "'Akilotoa", "Sunday (The Gospel According to Iso)" | |||
Travis Scott | ![]() |
2 | "JackBoys", "Astroworld" | |
The Smith Street Band | ![]() |
"Live at the Triffid", "Don't Waste Your Anger" | ||
Cold Chisel | "Blood Moon", "East" | |||
Chillinit | "The Octagon", "Full Circle" |
See also[]
- 2020 in music
- ARIA Charts
- List of number-one albums of 2020 (Australia)
- List of top 10 singles in 2020 (Australia)
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