List of top 10 albums for 2020 in Australia explained

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.

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Album	Peak		Weeks in the top 10
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		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
		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		2	19 November 2018	1	6
		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]		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]		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
		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?	Private Function	9	7 September	1	1
	Sunset Suburbia	Diesel	10	7 September	1	1
14 September[37]	Odyssey Number Five		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		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		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		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		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
		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
		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
3	BTS		7	"", "", "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	"", "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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21. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 25/5/20 . . 23 May 2020 . 1 August 2020.
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23. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 8/6/20 . . 6 June 2020 . 1 August 2020.
24. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 15/6/20 . . 13 June 2020. 1 August 2020.
25. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 22/6/20 . . 20 June 2020 . 1 August 2020.
26. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 29/6/20 . . 27 June 2020 . 1 August 2020.
27. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 6/7/20 . . 5 July 2020 . 2 August 2020.
28. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 13/7/20 . . 11 July 2020 . 2 August 2020.
29. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 20/7/20 . . 18 July 2020 . 2 August 2020.
30. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 27/7/20 . . 25 July 2020 . 2 August 2020.
31. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 3/8/20 . . 1 August 2020 . 2 August 2020.
32. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 10/8/20 . . 8 August 2020 . 8 August 2020.
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34. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 24/8/20 . . 22 August 2020 . 22 August 2020.
35. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 31/8/20 . . 29 August 2020 . 29 August 2020.
36. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 7/9/20 . . 5 September 2020 . 5 September 2020.
37. Web site: Australian Albums Chart 14/9/20 . . 12 September 2020 . 12 September 2020.
38. Web site: We Are Chaos lands Marilyn Manson second ARIA Albums Chart #1 . . 19 September 2020 . 19 September 2020.
39. Web site: Keith Urban scores fourth #1 on ARIA Albums Chart. . 26 September 2020 . 26 September 2020.
40. Web site: Nectar lands Joji debut ARIA Albums Chart #1. . 5 October 2020 . 5 October 2020.
41. Web site: Queen and Adam Lambert debut at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. . 12 October 2020 . 12 October 2020.
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