Letter to You by Bruce Springsteen

Letter to You, Bruce Springsteen's twentieth studio album, came out on Columbia on October 23, 2020, and it brought the E Street Band back into the studio with him for the first time since 2014's High Hopes. Springsteen produced it with Ron Aniello, and it sounds like a band that knows what it's for: heartland rock with the amps wide open and the whole band surging behind him like a congregation on its feet.

The songs look hard at getting older and at the people who are gone, and "Ghosts" and the title track carry that weight without ever sagging. Critics loved it, it topped several international charts, and it made him the first artist with a top-five album in six decades running. With the pandemic keeping everyone off the road, it was sold through an online radio station, music videos and even a custom Twitter emoji.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.