The Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2020

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With well over a decade of success under their belt, You Me At Six have become one of the most reliable bands in the pop-punk; their stadium-sized choruses and relatable lyrics have earned the Surrey band a global fanbase.

Pop Smoke's Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon is officially Ireland's biggest debut album released in 2020.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorUnofficial reports began trickling out a few days ago, but now it’s official: Drake has become the first artist ever to surpass 50 billion combined streams on Spotify, a rep for the streaming service confirmed to Variety.Drake himself didn’t wait for official confirmation, posting the news on his Instagram Story over the long holiday weekend.Drake via his IG story pic.twitter.com/olaTZqwCHh— Drake Direct (@DrakeDirect_) January 18, 2021The feat is impressive but not

Barry Gibb's new album, a collection of country reinterpretations of Bee Gees' biggest hits titled Greenfields, is the latest chapter in the brothers' hugely successful career that spans over 50 years and 31 Top 40 singles.

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Despite the closure of physical stores through lockdown and delays to the manufacturing process because of the COVID-19 pandemic, albums consumption increased overall in Ireland in 2020, with Dermot Kennedy claiming the biggest album of the year.

Bruce Springsteen claims Ireland’s best-selling new vinyl release of the year with Letter To You.

Despite the unprecedented challenges of 2020, overall consumption of recorded music in Ireland rose year-on-year, the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) can confirm today.

10. Rina Sawayama: SAWAYAMA — Ecstatic, eclectic, and chaotic in all the right ways, Rina Sawayama’s debut album is the mash-up of pop and nu-metal nobody knew they needed this year.

2020 was Lil Baby’s big year.

best albums of 2020 proves – but if these ten already promised are anything to go by then we’ve little need to worry. The wait might be a little longer for some than others, but there are pre-orders live, singles already released and plenty of reasons to get excited.

Sales of vinyl records climbed for a 13th consecutive year in the UK in 2020, with new as well as classic albums enjoying success on the revived format.

Cassette sales almost doubled in 2020 to their highest level in 17 years.

Pop Smoke claimed the UK's biggest debut album of 2020 with Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon, OfficialCharts.com can confirm.

The UK’s biggest song of 2020 is The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights, the Official Charts Company can confirm.

Lewis Capaldi and The Weeknd have been named among the best-selling artists of 2020 in the UK.New data published by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) today (January 4) sheds light on what the UK listened to and bought in 2020, with the findings also revealing that recorded music consumption in the UK rose by 8.2% last year.There were 139 billion audio streams in the UK in 2020 (up by over a fifth compared to 2019) as nearly 200 artists had their music streamed over 100 million times.

BAGHDAD — A mock funeral procession marked the anniversary of the assassination of Iran’s top general and a senior Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike that heightened fears of a military escalation in the region.

President Trump and anyone else linked to the U.S. strike one year ago that killed a notorious Iranian general "will not be safe on Earth," a top official in Tehran warned Friday, according to a report.

We don’t have the words yet to explain the year 2020.