Pitchfork's 20 Best Electronic Albums of 2017
Including form-busting records by Jlin, Fever Ray, Yaeji, Mount Kimbie, and more
Published: December 18, 2017

The Line of Best Fit's Best Albums of 2017
We rank the fifty most outstanding records of the year.
Published: December 17, 2017

Variety's Best Albums of 2017
Variety's music staff selects the 20 best albums of 2017.
Published: December 15, 2017

Complex UK's Best Albums of 2017
Relive all the amazing music we've been spoilt rotten with this year.
Published: December 15, 2017

Newsweek's Best Albums of 2017
These were the albums that provided clarity and comfort in a profoundly turbulent year.
Published: December 15, 2017

Pitchfork's 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2017
From Arca’s operatic insanity to Klein’s thrashed R&B, these are the year’s most urgent experimental records.
Published: December 15, 2017

Bandcamp Daily's Best Albums of 2017
The wait is over! See which albums made our Top 20 of 2017.
Published: December 15, 2017

The Sydney Morning Herald's Top 20 Albums of 2017
From proven international artists to new ARIA stars, here's our top picks of 2017.
Published: December 14, 2017

Pitchfork's 20 Best Rap Albums of 2017
From Playboi Carti’s mumbling opus to Vince Staples’ raved-up deconstruction of fame, these are the year’s most vital rap records.
Published: December 14, 2017

XLR8R's Best Releases of 2017
We run through our top albums and EPs of the year.
Published: December 13, 2017

NZ Herald's Best Albums of 2017
TimeOut critics Joanna Hunkin (JH), Chris Schulz (CS), Karl Puschmann (KP), Siena Yates (SY) and George Fenwick (GF) pick their best albums of 2017. On first...
Published: December 13, 2017

Cosmopolitan's 10 Best Albums of 2017
A roundup of the best albums of 2017.
Published: December 13, 2017

Rolling Stone's 20 Best EDM and Electronic Albums of 2017
Jlin, Arca, Vince Staples and more of the year in beats.
Published: December 13, 2017

Dazed's 20 Best Albums of 2017
From King Krule’s hazy return to Fever Ray’s celebration of queer desire, here are the albums that defined the past 12 months
Published: December 13, 2017

Classic Rock Magazine's 50 Albums of 2017
Queens Of The Stone Age beat off stiff competition from Black Country Communion, Foo Fighters, Robert Plant and Anathema to be proclaimed Album Of The Year for 2017
Published: December 13, 2017

Pitchfork's 20 Best Rock Albums of 2017
Featuring the National, Jay Som, Broken Social Scene, Waxahatchee, and more
Published: December 13, 2017

Stereogum's 40 Best Metal Albums of 2017
Before we begin our discussion of the fantastic year for underground metal that was 2017, a few orders of business: First, 2018 will see some adjustments to the Black Market, the monthly metal column whose contributors assembled this list. Put simply, future editions of the column will be shorter than the current format has been. […]
Published: December 12, 2017

The Atlantic's Top 10 Albums of 2017
Top picks from a year of personal stories, protest songs, and escapism
Published: December 12, 2017

Billboard's 50 Best Albums of 2017
Here are the Billboard staff's 50 favorite albums of 2017.
Published: December 12, 2017

Rolling Stone's 20 Best Pop Albums of 2017
The 20 best pop albums of 2017, including Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Kesha and more
Published: December 12, 2017

The New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich's Ten Best Albums of 2017
Amanda Petrusich revisits her top-ten full-length albums of 2017, including “DAMN.,” by Kendrick Lamar, “Reputation,” by Taylor Swift, and more.
Published: December 12, 2017

NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2017
Consensus wasn't easy to come by in 2017, but the best albums of the year were bolts of clarity, sonic companions for joy, grief and redemption, for battles hard won and for reckonings still to come.
Published: December 12, 2017

Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2017
From Fever Ray to Kendrick to King Krule, the album as an art form took on new resonance this year. These are the best of the best.
Published: December 12, 2017

Stereogum's 40 Best Rap Albums of 2017
Streaming changed things. 2017 was the year that rap once again reaffirmed its stranglehold on the collective imagination of America’s youth. Like the moment when Billboard first started using Soundscan and inadvertently proved the massive popularity of N.W.A, the streaming services of the world showed just how powerful this music remains. Rap dominated streaming charts. […]
Published: December 11, 2017

The Observer: Kitty Empire's Top 10 Albums of 2017
From Jay-Z to Taylor Swift, it’s been a year of high political and personal drama in the worlds of rap, pop and rock
Published: December 10, 2017

The Independent's Top 20 Rock & Metal Albums of 2017
2017 has been an extraordinary year for rock, metal and alternative music. Here we count down our favourite albums of the past 12 months
Published: December 08, 2017

Mashable's 10 Favorite Albums of 2017
Everyone from Lorde to Kendrick Lamar shined this year.
Published: December 08, 2017

The Independent's 30 Best Albums of 2017
From Lorde's unconventional pop to Rapsody's outstanding second album – here are our favourite releases from a busy year in music
Published: December 08, 2017

Treble's Top 50 Albums of 2017

Published: December 08, 2017

Esquire's (UK) 50 Best Albums of 2017
The best new albums released across the last month from grime to pop to hip-hop to rock.
Published: December 07, 2017

Rolling Stone's 40 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2017
The 40 best country and Americana albums of 2017, including records by Willie Nelson, Kip Moore and Margo Price.
Published: December 07, 2017

The A.V. Club's 20 Best Albums of 2017
There was too much to listen to in 2017—not just albums, of which there were once again thousands, a barrage of releases from major-label veterans and SoundCloud up-and-comers alike, all vying for your attention. There was just too much of everything: a persistent, buzzing storm of push notifications and free-floating…
Published: December 07, 2017

The New York Times: Jon Pareles' Best Albums of 2017
Our critics picked St. Vincent and Lorde, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole, Julien Baker and Taylor Swift, Nicole Mitchell and Tyshawn Sorey — and many more.
Published: December 06, 2017

The Vinyl Factory's 50 Favorite Albums of 2017
These are our 50 favourite records of the last twelve months to be released on vinyl, and worthy additions to every record collection.
Published: December 06, 2017

Rolling Stone's 20 Best Metal Albums of 2017
Hardcore trailblazers, longform doom and genre-bending savagery: 'Rolling Stone' recaps the year in heavy metal.
Published: December 06, 2017

Stereogum's 25 Great EPs of 2017
Over the last couple years, we’ve seen the rise of the “mini-album,” an inexplicable term that is, I guess, supposed to signify some kind of intentionality and artistic vision that an EP simply cannot capture. It’s a designation that’s been rightfully met with ribbing derision, but it’s an interesting development that speaks to some larger […]
Published: December 06, 2017

Complex's Best Albums of 2017 (So Far)
From Kendrick to Lil Pump, or Jay-Z to Lorde, these are Complex's picks for the 50 best albums of the year.
Published: December 06, 2017

The Ringer's Best Albums of 2017
Feist, Vince Staples, Margo Price, and more—these are the albums that stayed with us
Published: December 06, 2017

Slant Magazine's 25 Best Albums of 2017
The best albums of 2017 were made by artists ready to lay the groundwork for a counter-cultural movement.
Published: December 06, 2017

Exclaim!'s Top 10 Dance and Electronic Albums of 2017
We're nearing the end of the rollout of our annual genre-specific album lists for the Best of 2017. So far, we've published our Top 20 Pop &...
Published: December 06, 2017

Uproxx's Best Rock Albums of 2017
From rock legends putting their past behind them to indie bands with one foot still in the DIY scene, here are the best rock albums of 2017.
Published: December 05, 2017

Stereogum's 50 Best Albums of 2017
We made it! Well, we mostly made it. The world could well end in the next 25 days. But we’ve made it through 11 months of this godless year, and for that, we deserve to congratulate each other. It’s been rough. Every morning, we’ve woken up to some new, terrible surprise: Another brazen violation of justice by the people in charge of our country, another indication of our government descending into irreparable chaos, another powerful man accused of sexual abuse, another beloved icon dead. If we didn’t have music to help us get through this, I don’t know what we would’ve done.
Published: December 05, 2017

Revolver's 20 Best Albums of 2017
Power Trip, Mastodon, Full of Hell and more
Published: December 05, 2017

Exclaim!'s Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of 2017
Last week, we began the annual rollout of our genre-specific album lists for the Best of 2017, including the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, our T...
Published: December 05, 2017

The Guardian's Best Albums of 2017
St Vincent tops our countdown of this year’s most outstanding sounds, from complex rap to moody rock, alt-R&B, inventive grime and more
Published: December 05, 2017

Northern Transmissions' Top 10 Albums of 2017
2017 Albums of the Year and Songs. Here's our list of the Best songs and albums of the year for 2017. What a great year for music 2017 has been!
Published: December 04, 2017

Uproxx's Best Albums of 2017
From searing country underground records, to the biggest pop stars in the world, here's our picks for the best albums of 2017.
Published: December 04, 2017

American Songwriter's Top 25 Albums of 2017

Published: December 04, 2017

Vulture's 10 Best Albums of 2017
Kendrick Lamar, Slowdive, Kelela, Mavis Staples, Broken Social Scene, and more: These are the best albums of 2017.
Published: December 04, 2017

Exclaim!'s Top 10 Folk and Country Albums of 2017
Last week, we began the annual rollout of our genre-specific album lists for the Best of 2017, including the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, our T...
Published: December 04, 2017