This is a list of the albums ranked number one in the United States during 2020. The top-performing albums and EPs in the United States are ranked on the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of their individual tracks.
Starting on the issue dated January 18, 2020, Billboard updated the methodology to compile the chart by incorporating official video data from YouTube, along with visual plays from streaming services like Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and Vevo.
Folklore by Taylor Swift was the best-selling album of 2020, and the longest-running number-one album of the year, spending eight weeks atop the chart. Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) by Post Malone was the best-performing album on the Billboard 200 Year-End chart of 2020. In this year, three acts scored two number-one albums each: BTS with Map of the Soul: 7 and Be, YoungBoy Never Broke Again with 38 Baby 2 and Top, and Swift with Folklore and Evermore.
Chart history
+Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) by Post Malone was the best performing album on the 2020 Year-End list (December 2019 to November 2020), but its reign at number one on the Billboard 200 occurred in late 2019.
Issue date Album Artist(s) Album-equivalent units Fine Line Harry Styles 89,000 JackBoys JackBoys and Travis Scott 154,000 Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial Roddy Ricch 97,000 Rare Selena Gomez 112,000 Music to Be Murdered By Eminem 279,000 Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial Roddy Ricch 95,000 Funeral Lil Wayne 139,000 Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial Roddy Ricch 79,000 Changes Justin Bieber 231,000 Map of the Soul: 7 BTS 422,000 My Turn Lil Baby 197,000 Eternal Atake Lil Uzi Vert 288,000 247,000 After Hours The Weeknd 444,000 138,000 90,000 75,000 Blame It on Baby DaBaby 124,000 38 Baby 2 YoungBoy Never Broke Again 67,000 Here and Now Kenny Chesney 233,000 Good Intentions Nav 135,000 High Off Life Future 153,000 Wunna Gunna 111,000 Chromatica Lady Gaga 274,000 My Turn Lil Baby 65,000 72,000 70,000 70,000 Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon Pop Smoke 251,000 Legends Never Die Juice Wrld 497,000 162,000 Folklore Taylor Swift 846,000 135,000 136,000 101,000 98,000 90,000 Detroit 2 Big Sean 103,000 Top YoungBoy Never Broke Again 126,000 Folklore Taylor Swift 87,000 Tickets to My Downfall Machine Gun Kelly 126,000 Savage Mode II21 Savage and Metro Boomin 171,000 Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon Pop Smoke 67,000 Folklore Taylor Swift 77,000 What You See Is What You Get Luke Combs 109,000 Positions Ariana Grande 174,000 83,000 Power Up AC/DC 117,000 Be BTS 242,000 El Último Tour Del Mundo Bad Bunny 116,000 Wonder Shawn Mendes 89,000 Evermore Taylor Swift 329,000
Number-one artists + List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one Position Country Artist Weeks at No. 1 1 Taylor Swift 9 2 Lil Baby 5 3 The Weeknd 4 4 Roddy Ricch 3 5 Lil Uzi Vert 2 YoungBoy Never Broke Again Pop Smoke Juice Wrld Ariana Grande BTS 6 Harry Styles 1 Jackboys Travis Scott Selena Gomez Eminem Lil Wayne Justin Bieber DaBaby Kenny Chesney Nav Future Gunna Lady Gaga Big Sean Machine Gun Kelly 21 Savage Metro Boomin Luke Combs Bad Bunny Shawn Mendes
See also List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2020 List of Billboard Global 200 number ones of 2020 List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of the 2020s 2020 in American music
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