Need something to look forward to? Browse our calendar of album release dates and get excited about the records due to drop in 2020. This year is a bit of a mad one for obvious reasons, with a lot of record release dates moving back but to the best of our knowledge these are the albums that will be released in 2020. From Katy Perry’s album, a new one from Foo Fighters and the return of Adele, there are a lot of huge records due this year. Will they materialise? This is everything we know so far.
| 10 January 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Circa Waves | Happy |
| Field Music | Making a New World |
| Georgia | Seeking Thrills |
| Poppy | I Disagree |
| Apocalyptica | Cell-0 |
| Craven Faults | Erratics & Unconformities |
| Easy Life | Junk Food |
| The Big Moon | Walking Like We Do |
| Sore Eros | Sore Eros |
| Beach Slang | The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City |
| Mick Jenkins | The Circus |
| Winona Oak | Closure |
| Echosmith | Lonely Generation |
| Selena Gomez | Rare |
| 17 January 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead | X: The Godless Void And Other Stories |
| Algiers | There Is No Year |
| Anti-Flag | 20/20 Vision |
| Bill Fay | Countless Branches |
| Bombay Bicycle Club | Everything Else Has Gone Wrong |
| Halsey | Manic |
| Holy Fuck | Deleter |
| Little Big Town | Nightfall |
| Mac Miller | Circles |
| Mura Masa | R.Y.C. (Raw Youth Collage) |
| Of Montreal | UR FUN |
| Blueface | Find the Beat |
| The Courteneers | More. Again. Forever. |
| Stunna 4 Vegas | Rich Youngin’ |
| Pinegrove | Marigold |
| 070 Shake | Modus Vivendi |
| 24 January 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Andy Shauf | The Neon Skyline |
| Black Lips | Sing In A World That’s Falling Apart |
| Breaking Benjamin | Aurora |
| Nicolas Godin | Concrete And Glass |
| Pet Shop Boys | Hotspot |
| Sarah Mary Chadwick | Please Daddy |
| Wire | Mind Hive |
| Wolf Parade | Thin Mind |
| Yorkston/Thorne/Khan | Navarasa : Nine Emotions |
| Σtella | The Break |
| 31 January 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Ben Watt | Storm Damage |
| Dan Deacon | Mystic Familiar |
| Destroyer | Have We Met |
| Drive-By Truckers | The Unraveling |
| Frances Quinlan | Likewise |
| Isobel Campbell | This Is No Other |
| Kesha | High Road |
| Louis Tomlinson | Walls |
| Meghan Trainor | Treat Myself |
| Poliça | When We Stay Alive |
| Squarepusher | Be Up A Hello |
| Theory of a Deadman | Say Nothing |
| Russ | Shake The Snow Globe |
| Yellow Claw | Never Dies |
| Toress | Silver Tongue |
| 07 February 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Envy | The Fallen Crimson |
| Green Day | Father of All… |
| La Roux | Supervision |
| Lisa Loeb | A Simple Trick To Happiness |
| Makaya McCraven | We’re New Again – A Reimagining By Makaya McCraven |
| Nada Surf | Never Not Together |
| Richard Marx | Limitless |
| Sepultura | Quadra |
| Shopping | All Or Nothing |
| Stone Temple Pilots | Perdida |
| The Cadillac Three | Country Fuzz |
| The Homesick | The Big Exercise |
| Wiley | Full Circle |
| Oh Wonder | No One Else Can Wear Your Crown |
| The Lone Bellow | Half Moon Light |
| 14 February 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Cindy Lee | What’s Tonight To Eternity |
| Huey Lewis & the News | Weather |
| Nathaniel Rateliff | And It’s Still Alright |
| Tame Impala | The Slow Rush |
| Suicide Silence | Become The Hunter |
| Suicideboys | Stop Staring at the Shadows |
| Carly Pearce | Carly Pearce |
| Monsta X | All About Luv |
| Kvelertak | Splid |
| Tennis | Swimmer |
| 21 February 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| BTS | Map of the Soul: 7 |
| Allie X | Fearmonger |
| Greg Dulli | Random Desire |
| Grimes | Miss_Anthrop0cene |
| Guided by Voices | Surrender Your Poppy Field |
| Lanterns on the Lake | Spook The Herd |
| Lee Ranaldo and Raül Refree | Names Of North End Women |
| Mondo Generator | Fuck It |
| Purr | Like New |
| Sarah Harmer | Are You Gone |
| Ozzy Osbourne | Ordinary Man |
| Rebecca Foon | Waxing Moon |
| 28 February 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Gigi Masin | Calypso |
| Mondo Generator | Shooters Bible |
| The Secret Sisters | Saturn Return |
| Wajatta | Don’t Let Get You Down |
| Five Finger Death Punch | F8 |
| Caribou | Suddenly |
| 06 March 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Body Count | Carnivore |
| CocoRosie | Put The Shine On |
| Cornershop | England Is A Garden |
| Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White | Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White 2 |
| Silverstein | A Beautiful Place To Drown |
| Caroline Rose | Superstar |
| Lauv | How I’m Feeling |
| Swamp Dogg | Sorry You Couldn’t Make It |
| 13 March 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Circa Waves | Sad Happy |
| Deap Lips | Deap Lips |
| Peter Bjorn and John | Endless Dream |
| The Districts | You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere |
| 20 March 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Baxter Dury | The Night Chancers |
| Conan Gray | Kid Krow |
| 27 March 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Basia Bulat | Are You In Love? |
| Brian Fallon | Local Honey |
| Oliver Tree | Ugly Is Beautiful |
| Chicago Underground Quartet | Good Days |
| Pearl Jam | Gigaton |
| The Orb | Abolition Of The Royal Familia |
| 03 April 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Mystery Jets | A Billion Heartbeats |
| M. Ward | Migration Stories |
| 10 April 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Laura Marling | Songs For Our Daughter |
| The Strokes | The New Abnormal |
| 17 April 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| DaBaby | Blame it on Baby |
| Fiona Apple | Fetch The Bolt Cutters |
| Rina Sawayama | Sawayama |
| 01 May 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Carseat Headrest | Making a Door Less Open |
| 08 May 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| The Airborne Toxic Event | Hollywood Park |
| Hayley Williams | Petals For Armor |
| Mark Lanegan | Straight Songs of Sorrow |
| 15 May 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Charli XCX | How I’m Feeling Now |
| Perfume Genius | Set My Heart |
| Moses Sumney | Græ |
| Weezer | Van Weezer |
| 22 May 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| The 1975 | Notes On A Conditional Form |
| KSI | Dissimulation |
| Young M.A. | Red Flu |
| 29 May 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Alex Lahey | Between The Kitchen And The Living Room |
| 5 June 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Hinds | The Prettiest Curse |
| 12 June 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Jehnny Beth | To Love Is To Live |
| 19 June 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher |
| 26 June 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Arca | KiCk i |
| Becca Mancari | The Greatest Part |
| Bo Ningen | Sudden Fictions |
| Haim | Women In Music Pt. III |
| Jessie Ware | What’s Your Pleasure |
| 3 July 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Denai Moore | Modern Dread |
| Dream Wife | So When You Gonna |
| 10 July 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Donna Missal | Lighter |
| Love Fame Tragedy | Wherever I Go, I Want To Leave |
| Margo Price | That’s How Rumors Get Started |
| 100 Gecs | 100 Gecs And The Tree Of Clues |
| The Streets | None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive |
| 17 July 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| JARV IS… | Beyond The Pale |
| The Chicks | Gaslighter |
| 24 July 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Jessy Lanza | All The Time |
| 31 July 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Alanis Morissette | Such Pretty Forks In The Road |
| Creeper | Sex, Death & The Infinite Void |
| Fontaine’s DC | A Hero’s Death |
| 7 August 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Aminé | Limbo |
| Glass Animals | Dreamland |
| Willy J Healey | Twin Heavy |
| Victoria Monét | Jaguar |
| 14 August 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Biffy Clyro | A Celebration Of Endings |
| Katy Perry | SMILE |
| 21 August 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Bright Eyes | Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was |
| Bully | Sugaregg |
| The Killers | Imploding The Mirage |
| The Lemon Twigs | Songs For The General Public |
| 28 August 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| HRVY | TBC |
| Pvris | Use Me |
| WACO | Hope Rituals |
| 4 September 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Sylvan Esso | TBC |
| 11 September 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Doves | The Universal Want |
| Flaming Lips | American Head |
| 18 September 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Napalm Death | Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism |
| Peter Katz | City Of Our Lives |
| 25 September 2020 | |
| Artist | Album |
| IDLES | Ultra Mono |
| Sufjan Stevens | The Ascension |