2020 in Asian music

Events

 * 11 March – Ibrahim Gökçek and Helin Bölek, members of the Turkish band Grup Yorum, are taken to hospital for treatment in the course of their long-running hunger strike, but they are discharged a week later after refusing treatment.
 * Music album on ancient Tamil poetry, Sandham: Symphony Meets Classical Tamil by Composer Rajan Somasundaram featured in Amazon's Top#10 International Music albums in July 2020 -
 * 25 May – Kim Woo-seok releases his first solo single and mini-album.
 * 27 July – Mongolian band The Hu go to the top of the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart with their debut album The Gereg.

Albums

 * AGA – So Called Love Songs (September 28)
 * Sandham: Symphony Meets Classical Tamil by Composer Rajan Somasundaram and sung by Bombay Jayashri, Saindhavi, Karthik, Pragathi Guruprasad, Priyanka, William Henry Curry and others -
 * BTS – Map of the Soul: 7 (February 21)
 * Hiroko Moriguchi – Gundam Song Covers 2 (June 10)
 * Joji – Nectar (July 10)
 * Sugam Pokharel – Swyet Hanshini
 * Unique Salonga – PANGALAN: (March 27)
 * Hemant Sharma – Indra Daliye (May 21)
 * Winner – Remember (April 9)
 * SB19 – Get in the Zone (Album) (July 31)

Classical

 * Bechara El Khoury – Unfinished Journey
 * Jasdeep Singh Degun – Arya
 * Karen Tanaka – Techno Etudes II

Opera

 * Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang – M. Butterfly

Film and TV scores

 * Eishi Segawa – The Untold Tale of the Three Kingdoms
 * Gopi Sundar – Entha Manchivaadavuraa

Musical films

 * Chal Mera Putt 2 (India - Punjabi)
 * Kilometers and Kilometers (India - Malayalam), with score by Sushin Shyam and songs by Sooraj S. Kurup
 * King of Prism All Stars: Prism Show Best 10 (Japan)
 * Love Aaj Kal (India - Hindi)
 * Naan Sirithal (India - Tamil)
 * Sarileru Neekevvaru (India - Telugu)
 * Shahenshah (Bangladesh)
 * Street Dancer 3D (India - Hindi)

Deaths

 * January 1 – Katsura Shinnosuke, 67, Japanese rakugoka and musician (leukaemia)
 * January 4 – Junko Hirotani, 63, Japanese singer (breast cancer)
 * January 19 – Sunanda Patnaik, 85, Indian classical singer
 * February 14 – Sonam Sherpa, 48, Indian guitarist (cardiac arrest)
 * February 27 – Suthep Wongkamhaeng, 85, Thai luk krung singer
 * March 17
 * Hsiao Feng Hsien, 79, Taiwanese operatic singer and actress.
 * Thái Thanh, 85, Vietnamese-American singer.
 * March 29 – Paravai Muniyamma, 82, Indian folk singer and actress
 * April 2 – Nirmal Singh Khalsa, 67, Indian singer and priest (COVID-19)
 * April 3 – Helin Bölek, 28, Armenian/Turkish singer (hunger strike)
 * April 6 – M. K. Arjunan, 84, Indian composer.
 * April 8 – Glenn Fredly, 44, Indonesian R&B singer-songwriter (meningitis)
 * April 10 – Shanti Hiranand, 87, Indian classical singer
 * May 5 – Didi Kempot, 53, Indonesian campursari singer
 * May 7 – Ibrahim Gökçek, 39/40, Turkish folk musician (hunger strike)
 * May 16 – Azad Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi composer
 * May 29 – Yogesh, 77, Indian lyricist
 * June 1 – Wajid Khan (Sajid–Wajid), 43, Indian composer (complications from kidney infection and COVID-19)
 * July 30 – Sonam Tshering Lepcha, 92, Indian folk musician and composer
 * August 9 – Alauddin Ali, 67, Bangladeshi composer (lung complications)
 * August 17 – Pandit Jasraj, 90, Indian classical vocalist
 * September 9 – Yopie Latul, 65, Indonesian singer
 * September 16 – Alien Huang, 36, Taiwanese singer, actor and television presenter (aortic dissection)
 * September 25 – S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, 74, Indian playback singer (COVID-19)
 * October 8 – Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, 80, Iranian traditional vocalist master
 * October 9 – David Refael ben Ami, 70, Israeli singer
 * November 10 – Rahayu Supanggah, 71, Indonesian composer

By country

 * 2020 in Chinese music
 * 2020 in Japanese music
 * 2020 in Philippine music
 * 2020 in South Korean music