— Year-End Charts —
The Best-Selling Albums and Songs of 2020
Touring stopped entirely and the charts barely noticed — the first year-end list decided purely by streams.
Artists of the Year
Top ArtistPost MaloneCombined albums + singles performance
Top Albums ArtistPost Malone
Top Singles ArtistThe Weeknd
Top 10 Albums of 2020 Billboard 200
- 1Hollywood’s BleedingPost Malone
- 2My TurnLil Baby
- 3Please Excuse Me for Being AntisocialRoddy Ricch
- 4Fine LineHarry Styles
- 5FolkloreTaylor Swift
- 6Eternal AtakeLil Uzi Vert
- 7Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the MoonPop Smoke
- 8After HoursThe Weeknd
- 9Legends Never DieJuice WRLD
- 10What You See Is What You GetLuke Combs
Top 10 Songs of 2020 Hot 100
- 1Blinding LightsThe Weeknd
- 2CirclesPost Malone
- 3The BoxRoddy Ricch
- 4Don’t Start NowDua Lipa
- 5RockstarDaBaby ft. Roddy Ricch
- 6Adore YouHarry Styles
- 7Life Is GoodFuture ft. Drake
- 8MemoriesMaroon 5
- 9The BonesMaren Morris
- 10Someone You LovedLewis Capaldi
What the 2020 Charts Show
- The year split: Post Malone led on albums while The Weeknd led on singles.
- Hollywood’s Bleeding placed in the year-end top 10 for a second straight year, having also charted in 2019.
How the 2020 charts were compiled
Every position here is a chart placement — measured sales, radio airplay and streaming across Billboard’s tracking year — not an editorial ranking. Albums come from the year-end Billboard 200, songs from the year-end Hot 100.
Billboard’s tracking year runs from roughly late October to mid-October rather than January to December, which is why a late-autumn release can win the following year and why a song can appear on two consecutive year-end lists.
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