# 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.
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 |
| January 4 | Fine Line | Harry Styles | 89,000 |
| January 11 | JackBoys | JackBoys and Travis Scott | 154,000 |
| January 18 | Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial | Roddy Ricch | 97,000 |
| January 25 | Rare | Selena Gomez | 112,000 |
| February 1 | Music to Be Murdered By | Eminem | 279,000 |
| February 8 | Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial | Roddy Ricch | 95,000 |
| February 15 | Funeral | Lil Wayne | 139,000 |
| February 22 | Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial | Roddy Ricch | 79,000 |
| February 29 | Changes | Justin Bieber | 231,000 |
| March 7 | Map of the Soul: 7 | BTS | 422,000 |
| March 14 | My Turn | Lil Baby | 197,000 |
| March 21 | Eternal Atake | Lil Uzi Vert | 288,000 |
| March 28 | Eternal Atake | Lil Uzi Vert | 247,000 |
| April 4 | After Hours | The Weeknd | 444,000 |
| April 11 | After Hours | The Weeknd | 138,000 |
| April 18 | After Hours | The Weeknd | 90,000 |
| April 25 | After Hours | The Weeknd | 75,000 |
| May 2 | Blame It on Baby | DaBaby | 124,000 |
| May 9 | 38 Baby 2 | YoungBoy Never Broke Again | 67,000 |
| May 16 | Here and Now | Kenny Chesney | 233,000 |
| May 23 | Good Intentions | Nav | 135,000 |
| May 30 | High Off Life | Future | 153,000 |
| June 6 | Wunna | Gunna | 111,000 |
| June 13 | Chromatica | Lady Gaga | 274,000 |
| June 20 | My Turn | Lil Baby | 65,000 |
| June 27 | My Turn | Lil Baby | 72,000 |
| July 4 | My Turn | Lil Baby | 70,000 |
| July 11 | My Turn | Lil Baby | 70,000 |
| July 18 | Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon | Pop Smoke | 251,000 |
| July 25 | Legends Never Die | Juice Wrld | 497,000 |
| August 1 | Legends Never Die | Juice Wrld | 162,000 |
| August 8 | Folklore | Taylor Swift | 846,000 |
| August 15 | Folklore | Taylor Swift | 135,000 |
| August 22 | Folklore | Taylor Swift | 136,000 |
| August 29 | Folklore | Taylor Swift | 101,000 |
| September 5 | Folklore | Taylor Swift | 98,000 |
| September 12 | Folklore | Taylor Swift | 90,000 |
| September 19 | Detroit 2 | Big Sean | 103,000 |
| September 26 | Top | YoungBoy Never Broke Again | 126,000 |
| October 3 | Folklore | Taylor Swift | 87,000 |
| October 10 | Tickets to My Downfall | Machine Gun Kelly | 126,000 |
| October 17 | Savage Mode II | 21 Savage and Metro Boomin | 171,000 |
| October 24 | Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon | Pop Smoke | 67,000 |
| October 31 | Folklore | Taylor Swift | 77,000 |
| November 7 | What You See Is What You Get | Luke Combs | 109,000 |
| November 14 | Positions | Ariana Grande | 174,000 |
| November 21 | Positions | Ariana Grande | 83,000 |
| November 28 | Power Up | AC/DC | 117,000 |
| December 5 | Be | BTS | 242,000 |
| December 12 | El Último Tour Del Mundo | Bad Bunny | 116,000 |
| December 19 | Wonder | Shawn Mendes | 89,000 |
| December 26 | 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 | 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 |
| 5 | USA | YoungBoy Never Broke Again | 2 |
| 5 | USA | Pop Smoke | 2 |
| 5 | USA | Juice Wrld | 2 |
| 5 | USA | Ariana Grande | 2 |
| 5 | South Korea | BTS | 2 |
| 6 | UK | Harry Styles | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Jackboys | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Travis Scott | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Selena Gomez | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Eminem | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Lil Wayne | 1 |
| 6 | Canada | Justin Bieber | 1 |
| 6 | USA | DaBaby | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Kenny Chesney | 1 |
| 6 | Canada | Nav | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Future | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Gunna | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Lady Gaga | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Big Sean | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Machine Gun Kelly | 1 |
| 6 | UK | 21 Savage | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Metro Boomin | 1 |
| 6 | USA | Luke Combs | 1 |
| 6 | Puerto Rico | Bad Bunny | 1 |
| 6 | Canada | Shawn Mendes | 1 |