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.

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.[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

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