The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2020
1 |  | XOXO by: The Jayhawks   | Label: SHAM Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:    |
2 |  | Work Hard and Be Nice by: Michael Franti & Spearhead | Label: Boo Boo Wax Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:  |
3 |  | Daylight by: Grace Potter | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
4 |  | III by: The Lumineers | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
5 |  | Broken at the Break of Day by: Fruition | Label: Fruition Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
6 |  | Hyperspace by: Beck | Label: Capital Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:  |
7 |  | Bitter Better by: Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards | Label: Compass Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
8 |  | Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent by: Lewis Capaldi | Label: Vertigo Berlin Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
9 |  | "Let's Rock" by: The Black Keys | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
10 |  | Texas Sun by: Khruangbin | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
11 |  | Self Made Man by: Larkin Poe | Label: Trick-Woo Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
12 |  | The Juice by: G. Love & Special Sauce | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
13 |  | Black Hole Rainbow by: Devon Gilfillian | Label: Capitol Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
14 |  | Color Theory by: Soccer Mommy | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
15 |  | The Slow Rush by: Tame Impala | Label: Island Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
16 |  | Everyday Life by: Coldplay | Label: Atlantic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
17 |  | Social Cues by: Cage the Elephant | Label: RCA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
18 |  | Monovision by: Ray LaMontagne | Label: RCA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
19 |  | Good Luck with Whatever by: Dawes | Label: HUB Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
20 |  | New Age Norms 1 by: Cold War Kids | Label: AWAL Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
21 |  | 20/20 by: The Walk-a-Bout | Label: Shred The Evidence Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
22 |  | Jaime by: Brittany Howard | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
23 |  | Rearrange Us by: Mt. Joy | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
24 |  | Holiday by: Jennah Barry | Label: Forward Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
25 |  | You Deserve Love by: White Reaper | Label: Elektra Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
26 |  | Black Pumas (Deluxe) by: Black Pumas | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
27 |  | The Waterfall II by: My Morning Jacket | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
28 |  | Free Yourself Up by: Lake Street Dive | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
29 |  | Imploding the Mirage by: The Killers | Label: Island Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
30 |  | FEVER DREAM by: Of Monsters and Men | Label: Republic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
31 |  | The Unseen in Between by: Steve Gunn | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
32 |  | Best of Luck by: Christopher Paul Stelling | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
33 |  | Fetch the Bolt Cutters by: Fiona Apple | Label: Epic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
34 |  | The Modern Lives Vol. 2 by: Jackie Greene | Label: Blue Rose Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
35 |  | Living Mirage by: The Head and The Heart | Label: Warner Brothers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
36 |  | Love is the King by: Jeff Tweedy | Label: dBpm Records Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
37 |  | Father of the Bride by: Vampire Weekend | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
38 |  | The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Pt. 1 by: Saint Motel | Label: Elektra Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
39 |  | Song for Our Daughter by: Laura Marling | Label: Chrysalis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
40 |  | In the Morse Code of Brake Lights by: The New Pornographers | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
41 |  | Gigaton by: Pearl Jam | Label: Monkey Wrench Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
42 |  | The New Abnormal by: The Strokes | Label: RCA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
43 |  | Chorus by: The Mother Hips | Label: Blue Rose Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
44 |  | Free Love by: Sylvan Esso | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
45 |  | Carrie & Lowell by: Sufjan Stevens | Label: Asthmatic Kitty Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
46 |  | SOUND & FURY by: Sturgill Simpson | Label: Elektra Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
47 |  | Fuzzybrain by: Dayglow | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
48 |  | Without Fear by: Dermot Kennedy | Label: UMG Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
49 |  | Are You in Love? by: Basia Bulat | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
50 |  | Mordechai by: Khruangbin | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
51 |  | Sister by: Puss N Boots | Label: UMG Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
52 |  | Saint Cloud by: Waxahatchee | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
53 |  | All That Emotion by: Hannah Georgas | Label: Brassland Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
54 |  | Help Us Stranger by: The Raconteurs | Label: Third Man Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
55 |  | All Mirrors by: Angel Olsen | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
56 |  | Women in Music Pt. III by: Haim | Label: Sony Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
57 |  | Anybody out There? by: Sadler Vaden | Label: Dirty Mag Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
58 |  | Dixie Blur by: Jonathan Wilson | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
59 |  | Deep Down Happy by: Sports Team | Label: Bright Antenna Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
60 |  | Busyhead by: Noah Kahan | Label: Republic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
61 |  | Beginners by: Christian Lee Hutson | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
62 |  | Caretakers by: Pete Yorn | Label: Shelly Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
63 |  | Father of All... by: Green Day | Label: Reprise Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
64 |  | Invisible People by: Chicano Batman | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
65 |  | The Main Thing by: Real Estate | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
66 |  | Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? by: Fantastic Negrito | Label: Cooking Vinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
67 |  | Earth by: EOB | Label: Capitol Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
68 |  | In Isolation by: Elle King | Label: RCA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
69 |  | Made of Rain by: The Psychedelic Furs | Label: Cooking Vinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
70 |  | Bury the Moon by: Ásgeir | Label: One Little Indian Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:  |
71 |  | Aloha by: Son Little | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
72 |  | Babel by: Mumford & Sons | Label: Universal Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
73 |  | Punisher by: Phoebe Bridgers | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
74 |  | There is No Other… by: Isobel Campbell | Label: Cooking Vinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
75 |  | Devotion by: Margaret Glaspy | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
76 |  | Making a Door Less Open by: Car Seat Headrest | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
77 |  | Wasteland, Baby! by: Hozier | Label: Rubyworks Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
78 |  | Thrilled to Be Here by: Bailen | Label: Fantasy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
79 |  | All Your Favorite Bands by: Dawes | Label: HUB Records Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
80 |  | What is There by: Delta Spirit | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
81 |  | Bon Iver by: Bon Iver | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
82 |  | Sigh No More by: Mumford & Sons | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
83 |  | Part of the Light by: Ray LaMontagne | Label: Sony Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
84 |  | True Care by: James Vincent McMorrow | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
85 |  | Take Good Care by: The Revivalists | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
86 |  | The Loves of Your Life by: Hamilton Leithauser | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
87 |  | Foreigner by: Jordan Mackampa | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
88 |  | LEMONS by: Nick Leng | Label: SOTA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
89 |  | Indistinct Conversations by: Land of Talk | Label: Saddle Creek Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
90 |  | Sugaregg by: Bully | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
91 |  | Getting into Knives by: The Mountain Goats | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
92 |  | How To: Friend, Love, Freefall by: Rainbow Kitten Surprise | Label: Elektra Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
93 |  | New Medicine by: Mondo Cozmo | Label: Last Gang Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
94 |  | Happy Birthday by: Sneaks | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
95 |  | Set My Heart on Fire Immediately by: Perfume Genius | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
96 |  | Building Balance by: Allen Stone | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
97 |  | Marigold by: Pinegrove | Label: Rough Trade Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
98 |  | Witness by: Benjamin Booker | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
99 |  | Myopia by: Agnes Obel | Label: Strange Harvest Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
100 |  | Dreamland by: Glass Animals | Label: Polydor Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
101 |  | En Garde by: Ethan Gruska | Label: Warner Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
102 |  | Oh Alright by: Lily Vakili Band | Label: SoundKlaxon Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
103 |  | Our Two Skins by: Gordi | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
104 |  | Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was by: Bright Eyes | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
105 |  | Vagabon by: Vagabon | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
106 |  | Non-Secure Connection by: Bruce Hornsby | Label: Zappo Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
107 |  | The Neon Skyline by: Andy Shauf | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
108 |  | Gold by: Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
109 |  | Critical Equation by: Dr. Dog | Label: We Buy Gold Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
110 |  | Moments by: Hollow Coves | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
111 |  | Someone New by: Helena Deland | Label: Luminelle Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
112 |  | Still Flying by: Bridget Kearney & Benjamin Lazar Davis | Label: Verve Forecast Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
113 |  | The Big Exercise by: The Homesick | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
114 |  | Random Desire by: Greg Dulli | Label: Royal Cream Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
115 |  | Waiting on a Song by: Dan Auerbach | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
116 |  | Earth to Dora by: Eels | Label: E Works Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
117 |  | Through a Dark Wood by: Sea Wolf | Label: Dangerbird Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
118 |  | Hot Thoughts by: Spoon | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
119 |  | Silver Tongue by: Torres | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
120 |  | The New Sounds of Late Capitalism by: Star Parks | Label: Modern Outsider Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
121 |  | You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere by: The Districts | Label: Fat Possum Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
122 |  | WITH by: Sylvan Esso | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
123 |  | Half the City by: St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Label: Single Lock Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
124 |  | For Their Love by: Other Lives | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
125 |  | Scripting the Flip by: Jon Stickley Trio | Label: Organic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
126 |  | High Water Line by: Mark Oblinger  | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
127 |  | Misfits' Jubilee by: Jim White | Label: Fluff & Gravy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
128 |  | Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between by: Man Man | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
129 |  | Karaoke Angel by: Molly Sarle | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
130 |  | My Finest Work Yet by: Andrew Bird | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
131 |  | Out of My Province by: Nadia Reid | Label: Spacebomb Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
132 |  | Uncle, Duke & the Chief by: Born Ruffians | Label: Yep Roc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
133 |  | I Am Easy to Find by: The National | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
134 |  | Anak Ko by: Jay Som | Label: Polyvinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
135 |  | Like So Much Desire by: Flock Of Dimes | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
136 |  | Black Lipstick by: Chicano Batman | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
137 |  | Silver Tears by: Aaron Lee Tasjan | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
138 |  | Doom Days (This Got out of Hand Edition) by: Bastille | Label: Virgin Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
139 |  | Jade Bird by: Jade Bird | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
140 |  | Cause and Effect by: Keane | Label: Island Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
141 |  | Violet Street by: Local Natives | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
142 |  | A Wave of Golden Things by: Tall Tall Trees | Label: Joyful Noise Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
143 |  | Out of Body by: NEEDTOBREATHE | Label: Elektra Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
144 |  | I,i by: Bon Iver | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
145 |  | Do No Harm by: The Deer | Label: Keeled Scales Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
146 |  | Young Sick Camellia by: St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Label: Columbia Red Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
147 |  | Ghosteen by: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
148 |  | Ordinary Man by: Ozzy Osbourne | Label: Epic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
149 |  | Power by: Seratones | Label: Nine West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
150 |  | Shade is on the Other Side by: Girl Skin | Label: Jullian Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
151 |  | AWake by: Jayme Stone | Label: Borealis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
152 |  | Busted Jukebox, Vol. 2 by: Shovels & Rope | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
153 |  | Junior by: Corridor | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
154 |  | Nick Waterhouse by: Nick Waterhouse | Label: Innovative Leisure Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
155 |  | Remind Me Tomorrow by: Sharon Van Etten | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
156 |  | American Utopia by: David Byrne | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
157 |  | Loner by: Caroline Rose | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
158 |  | A Blemish in the Great Light by: Half Moon Run | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
159 |  | Wave by: Patrick Watson | Label: Secret City Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
160 |  | The Magic by: Deerhoof | Label: Polyvinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
161 |  | Wild Wild East by: Sunny Jain | Label: Smithsonian Folkways Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
162 |  | Delta by: Mumford & Sons | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
163 |  | So when You Gonna... by: Dream Wife | Label: Lucky Number Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
164 |  | The Archer by: Alexandra Savior | Label: 30th Century Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
165 |  | Benjamin Booker by: Benjamin Booker | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
166 |  | Outer Peace by: Toro Y Moi | Label: Carpark Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
167 |  | Away is Mine by: Gord Downie | Label: Arts & Crafts Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
168 |  | Everything Hits at Once: the Best of Spoon by: Spoon | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
169 |  | Automatic Changer by: Dead Ghosts | Label: Burger Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
170 |  | South of Reality by: The Claypool Lennon Delirium | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
171 |  | Sweet Unknown by: Erika Wennerstrom | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
172 |  | This Night Falls Forever by: DeVotchKa | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
173 |  | Natural Disguise by: HalfNoise | Label: Congrats Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
174 |  | Changes by: Neal Francis | Label: Karma Chief Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
175 |  | Signal by: Automatic | Label: Stones Throw Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
176 |  | The Fight by: Overcoats | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
177 |  | Case/lang/veirs by: case/lang/veirs | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
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