List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2020

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.

Folklore by Taylor Swift scored the biggest sales week of 2020. It was the longest running number-one and the best-selling album of the year.

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.^[1]

Folklore by Taylor Swift was the best-selling album of 2020,^[2][3] and the longest-running number-one album of the year, spending eight weeks atop the chart.^[4] Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) by Post Malone was the best-performing album on the Billboard 200 Year-End chart of 2020.^[5] 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.^[6]

Chart history

My Turn (2020) by Lil Baby spent five weeks atop the chart as his first number-one album.

The Weeknd's After Hours spent four consecutive weeks atop the chart as his fourth number-one album.

Korean boy group BTS garnered two number-one albums—Map of the Soul: 7 and Be.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again had two number-one albums this year: 38 Baby 2 and Top.

El Último Tour Del Mundo by Bad Bunny became the first all Spanish-language album to top the chart.

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	Ref.
January 4	Fine Line	Harry Styles	89,000	[7][8]
January 11	JackBoys	JackBoys and Travis Scott	154,000	[9][10]
January 18	Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial	Roddy Ricch	97,000	[11][12]
January 25	Rare	Selena Gomez	112,000	[13][14]
February 1	Music to Be Murdered By	Eminem	279,000	[15][16]
February 8	Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial	Roddy Ricch	95,000	[17][18]
February 15	Funeral	Lil Wayne	139,000	[19][20]
February 22	Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial	Roddy Ricch	79,000	[21][22]
February 29	Changes	Justin Bieber	231,000	[23][24]
March 7	Map of the Soul: 7	BTS	422,000	[25][26]
March 14	My Turn	Lil Baby	197,000	[27][28]
March 21	Eternal Atake	Lil Uzi Vert	288,000	[29][30]
March 28			247,000	[31][32]
April 4	After Hours	The Weeknd	444,000	[33][34]
April 11			138,000	[35][36]
April 18			90,000	[37][38]
April 25			75,000	[39][40]
May 2	Blame It on Baby	DaBaby	124,000	[41][42]
May 9	38 Baby 2	YoungBoy Never Broke Again	67,000	[43][44]
May 16	Here and Now	Kenny Chesney	233,000	[45][46]
May 23	Good Intentions	Nav	135,000	[47][48]
May 30	High Off Life	Future	153,000	[49][50]
June 6	Wunna	Gunna	111,000	[51][52]
June 13	Chromatica	Lady Gaga	274,000	[53][54]
June 20	My Turn	Lil Baby	65,000	[55][56]
June 27			72,000	[57][58]
July 4			70,000	[59][60]
July 11			70,000	[61][62]
July 18	Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon	Pop Smoke	251,000	[63][64]
July 25	Legends Never Die	Juice Wrld	497,000	[65][66]
August 1			162,000	[67][68]
August 8	Folklore	Taylor Swift	846,000	[69][70]
August 15			135,000	[71][72]
August 22			136,000	[73][74]
August 29			101,000	[75][76]
September 5			98,000	[77][78]
September 12			90,000	[79][80]
September 19	Detroit 2	Big Sean	103,000	[81][82]
September 26	Top	YoungBoy Never Broke Again	126,000	[83][84]
October 3	Folklore	Taylor Swift	87,000	[85][86]
October 10	Tickets to My Downfall	Machine Gun Kelly	126,000	[87][88]
October 17	Savage Mode II	21 Savage and Metro Boomin	171,000	[89][90]
October 24	Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon	Pop Smoke	67,000	[91][92]
October 31	Folklore	Taylor Swift	77,000	[93][4]
November 7	What You See Is What You Get	Luke Combs	109,000	[94][95]
November 14	Positions	Ariana Grande	174,000	[96][97]
November 21			83,000	[98][99]
November 28	Power Up	AC/DC	117,000	[100][101]
December 5	Be	BTS	242,000	[102][103]
December 12	El Último Tour Del Mundo	Bad Bunny	116,000	[104][105]
December 19	Wonder	Shawn Mendes	89,000	[106][107]
December 26	Evermore	Taylor Swift	329,000	[108][109]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Country	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	USA	Taylor Swift	9
2	USA	Lil Baby	5
3	Canada	The Weeknd	4
4	USA	Roddy Ricch	3
5	USA	Lil Uzi Vert	2
	USA	YoungBoy Never Broke Again
	USA	Pop Smoke
	USA	Juice Wrld
	USA	Ariana Grande
	South Korea	BTS
6	UK	Harry Styles	1
	USA	Jackboys
	USA	Travis Scott
	USA	Selena Gomez
	USA	Eminem
	USA	Lil Wayne
	Canada	Justin Bieber
	USA	DaBaby
	USA	Kenny Chesney
	Canada	Nav
	USA	Future
	USA	Gunna
	USA	Lady Gaga
	USA	Big Sean
	USA	Machine Gun Kelly
	UK	21 Savage
	USA	Metro Boomin
	USA	Luke Combs
	Puerto Rico	Bad Bunny
	Canada	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