Top 20 Albums Worldwide
Week 14'26 · Apr 3 – Apr 10, 2026
Welcome to the TOP. This is a weekly countdown of twenty independent albums, and this is the first edition. The twenty records that arrived in the opening week stretch from a Tipperary button accordion player to eighty minutes of drone metal on Sub Pop, from a Griselda rapper in Buffalo to a psychedelic electronic duo back from fifteen years of silence. Two artists hold two positions each. The US dominates the buying on most entries, but when another country takes the lead, it does so decisively — and the exceptions are where this chart gets interesting. We start at twenty.
This Week's Story
That is the first TOP. A Tipperary accordion debut and eighty minutes of drone metal. A shed full of demos and a fifteen-year silence. Twenty records that have nothing in common except that someone, somewhere, this week, reached for a wallet and said yes. Next week some of these will hold. Some will not. The ones that stay will tell us something the first week cannot. Come back.