Billboard’s Top 100 Artists of 2020 Include Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Kane Brown, Maren Morris & More

by Jim Casey | @TheJimCasey | December 3, 2020

Billboard revealed its all-genre Top 100 Artists of 2020—and the country music industry is represented with more than a dozen artists/acts.

Luke Combs (No. 13), Morgan Wallen (No. 24), Kane Brown (No. 31), Maren Morris (No. 34) and Gabby Barret (No. 43) tallied Top 50 rankings.

The list ranks the best-performing overall acts of the year based on activity on the Billboard 200 albums tally, the Billboard Hot 100 songs list, as well as Billboard Boxscore (touring) and the Social 50 chart for the 2020 tracking period (Nov. 23, 2019, through Nov. 14, 2020).

Post Malone (No. 1), The Weeknd (No. 2), Roddy Ricch (No. 3), DaBaby (No. 4) and Drake (No. 5) secured the Top 5 spots on the list.

Check out the country music artists represented on Billboard‘s Top 100 Artists of 2020.

No. 13: Luke Combs
No. 24: Morgan Wallen
No. 31: Kane Brown
No. 34: Maren Morris
No. 43: Gabby Barrett
No. 51: Jason Aldean
No. 53: Blake Shelton
No. 58: Dan + Shay
No. 60: Sam Hunt
No. 73: Old Dominion
No. 74: Luke Bryan
No. 77: Thomas Rhett
No. 84: Lee Brice
No. 91: Jon Pardi
No. 92: Miranda Lambert
No. 93: Chris Stapleton
No. 99: Kenny Chesney
No. 100: Maddie & Tae

photo by Tammie Arroyo, AFF-USA.com

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