A truly impressive debut!īritish-Japanese pop artist Rina Sawayama has been around a while now and already had some EPs to her name, but 2020 was the year that she treated the world to her debut LP Sawayama. They are all exceptionally well written songs with as many deep lyrics as banging choruses. Other than bops, he also excels at hiphop infused pop-rock (‘Checkmate’), heartbreaking singer-songwriter ballads (‘The Story’), contemporary pop anthems (‘Wish You Were Sober’) and understated anthems about unrequited love (‘Heather’). The whole album fulfilled his promise as he shows himself to be an excellent songwriter and versatile pop star. And if those lovey dovey moments are as strong as ‘Always Been You’ (which brings back the orchestral dramatics of the lead single), the sultry ‘Piece of You’ or the cute ‘Look Up At The Stars’, I ain’t complaining!Ĭonan Gray, who was A Bit of Pop Music’s most promising artist for 2020 thanks to the irresistible pop banger ‘Maniac’, finally released his debut record Kid Krow this year. Much of the record is dedicated to his girlfriend Camila Cabello and while this might get too gooey for some, there is some tunes about feeling homesick and missing hometown friends.
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The album offers potential hits like the swinging gospel inspired ‘Teach Me How To Love’ and the pop banger ‘Higher’. He introduced the era with the outstanding title track and Justin Bieber duet ‘Monster’ as the singles. Niall Horan became a truly worthy solo artist!Īfter having one of the biggest hits of the year in 2019 with ‘Señorita’ (a duet with his girlfriend Camila Cabello), Shawn Mendes returned this year with his fourth album Wonder, follow up to 2018’s self-titled record. There is heaps of radio friendly choruses (‘Arms Of A Stranger’, ‘Black And White’, ‘Small Talk’, let’s just say all of them), warm vocals and some vulnerable moments (‘Bend The Rules’, ‘San Francisco’) to be found here. The title track and album opener is such an undeniable ear worm and so was the lead single ‘Nice To Meet Ya’, that just screams to be played in arenas. There is a breezy and easy going quality to his brand of singer-songwriter pop. I remember streaming this record on repeat to distract myself from all things happening. Heartbreak Weather came out in March, just as the first Covid restrictions were put in place in The Netherlands. Niall Horan was the third member of One Direction to release his second album. Let me start with honorable mentions for Troye Sivan and Maria Mena, who both released outstanding EPs this year which were ineligible for this list, but worth a listen.
These are A Bit of Pop Music’s 20 favorite pop albums of 2020! We saw a big disco revival which was great as we could definitely use some upbeat albums to dance in our living rooms too and of course there was a certain artist writing and releasing not one but two albums during lockdown. When the Covid pandemic hit, many pop stars started to delay their releases, only to find out that this thing was not going to blow over anytime soon, so they might as well just go on and drop the records anyway. 2020 started out as an uncertain year for new albums.
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