The best albums and songs of 2020: Fiona Apple, Cardi B, Bob Dylan and Dua Lipa

The urgent, rhythmically complex songs on the US singer-songwriter's first record in eight years topped a "poll of polls" compiled by BBC News.

Phoebe Bridgers' sombre and sardonic Punisher came second, with Taylor Swift's Folklore taking third place.

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's bass-heavy rap anthem WAP was named the year's best song.

The track, which topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, had the most Googled lyrics of the year thanks to its gleefully explicit (and creative) attitude to sexual liberation.

Megan Thee Stallion also scored the second most popular song of the year with her breakout track Savage. The song, which features fellow Houston native Beyoncé, has earned the rapper four nominations at January's Grammys.

Best singles of 2020. . .

The BBC's charts were compiled from 35 end-of-year lists published by the world's most influential music magazines, blogs, newspapers and broadcasters.

The include the NME (New Musical Express), Rolling Stone, BBC 6 Music, Australia's Double J and Denmark's Gaffa magazine.

Records were assigned points based on their position in each list, with the number one album getting 20 points, the number two album receiving 19 points and so on.