The Guardian's 10 Best Albums of 2014 (so far)
Readers have been voting for their top releases of the last six months. Here's the pick of the bunch<br>
Published: July 03, 2014

Complex's Best Albums of 2014 (So Far)
Halfway through the year we rank our favorite albums of 2014, including Lana Del Rey 'Ultraviolence', YG 'My Krazy Life', Sam Smith 'In the Lonely Hour', &amp; more
Published: June 23, 2014

Stereogum's 50 Best Albums of 2014 So Far
Great music has come from just about every corner of the musical map this year, and on this list of our favorites of the year’s first half, there’s no real connecting thread. An ambitious all-over-the-place album from a big-money Nashville country mainstay is just as likely to rule as, say, a mixtape from a pair […]
Published: June 17, 2014

Variety's Best Albums of 2013
Variety's Andrew Barker picks his Top 10 Albums of 2013....
Published: December 26, 2013

The Daily Beast's 13 Best Albums of 2013
From Kanye West’s ‘Yeezus’ to Lorde’s ‘Pure Heroine,’ there were many fine music albums released this year. See our picks for the best of ’13.
Published: December 17, 2013

Clash's Top Albums of 2013
Clash's Top Albums Of 2013: 10-1... with the very best of the year that's been, LPs from Earl Sweatshirt, Lorde, Moderat, Vampire Weekend, James Holden...
Published: December 13, 2013

Consequence of Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2013
We took many, many trips to the record store this year.
Published: December 13, 2013

Dazed's Top Ten Albums of 2013
Sky Ferreira, Atoms For Peace and Kelela make the list – with “an unqualified success” at number one
Published: December 12, 2013

Slant Magazine's 25 Best Albums of 2013
As our list attests, if album-as-format is dead, it’s enjoying one hell of an afterlife.
Published: December 12, 2013

NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums of 2013
These albums might be strange bedfellows, but that's how we listen. This is the music that shook us up, sucked us in, commanded our respect and kept us dancing this year. Get in there.
Published: December 10, 2013

Obscure Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2013
Obscure Sound's annual 'Best Albums' feature kicks off with the first ten releases. Audio streams and write-ups are included with each listed album.
Published: December 09, 2013

Complex's 50 Best Albums of 2013
From rappers like Juicy J and A$AP Rocky to indie acts like Haim and Toro Y Moi, these are the albums we rocked all year long.
Published: December 09, 2013

musicOMH's Top 100 Albums of 2013
Lists: musicOMH's Top 100 Albums Of 2013: Full List and Playlist
Published: December 09, 2013

MAGNET's Top 25 Albums of 2013

Published: December 06, 2013

Idolator Editors' 10 Favorite Albums of 2013
Pop made a major resurgence in the latter half of the previous decade, and brought us bright new stars like Rihanna, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha…
Published: December 06, 2013

A.V. Club's 23 Best Albums of 2013
Every year, The A.V. Club invites our regular music writers and staff to pick their favorite albums of the past 12 months. While in previous years we asked contributors to allot weighted points on up to 15 records, this year we went a more straightforward route. Writers were asked to pick their top 10 records and rank…
Published: December 05, 2013

Stereogum's 50 Best Albums of 2013
Earlier this year, New York Times pop critic Jon Caramanica wrote a piece about pop’s Summer Of Smooth, about how many of this year’s big warm-weather crossover hits were soft and breezy and immaculately produced and comforting pieces of throwbacky, slick pseudo-R&B. Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” drove the narrative, but it also encompassed Bruno Mars […]
Published: December 03, 2013

Spin's 50 Best Albums of 2013
Here's what happens when Tomorrow's Harvest becomes yesterday's news. To complement our Top 50 Songs of 2013, it's time to count down the year's best
Published: December 02, 2013

NME's 50 Best Albums of 2013

Published: November 26, 2013

Stereogum's Top 25 Albums of 2013 So Far
2013 isn’t technically half over yet, but we’re deep into the part of the year where you start sweating the instant you leave your door, and that means it’s a good time to take stock of all the disco robots, frantic rap nerds, and metal boundary-crushers who have thus far delighted us. It’s impossible to […]
Published: June 04, 2013

Uncut's Top 75 Albums of 2014
Kubrick's first film - a low budget treatise on war that compliments his later triumphs...
Published: January 15, 2013

HipHopDX's Top 25 Albums of 2012
From Kendrick Lamar to Roc Marciano, Big Boi to Rapsody, Lupe Fiasco to ScHoolboy Q, HipHopDX presents our annual list of must-haves from the closing year.
Published: December 26, 2012

NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums of 2012
The albums that sum up our year span genres and borders. From Astro to Wadada Leo Smith, Fiona Apple to Frank Ocean, here are 50 albums that made 2012 great.
Published: December 22, 2012

Complex's 50 Best Albums of 2012
As the year comes to a close, we look back at the full-length projects that defined it.
Published: December 18, 2012

Consequence of Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2012
Our 2012 annual report comes to a striking end.
Published: December 14, 2012

Beats Per Minute's Top 50 Albums of 2012

Published: December 14, 2012

Slant Magazine's 25 Best Albums of 2012
Whatever the future holds, 2012 showed that the album remains a viable method of expression.
Published: December 13, 2012

A.V. Club's Best Music of 2012
Every year, The A.V. Club invites its music writers to pick their favorite albums of the past 12 months, dispersing 100 points over a maximum of 20 albums, awarding no more than 15 points to a single album. We then tally up those points and arrive at our annual best-of list. (In the event two albums tie for points,…
Published: December 11, 2012

Beats Per Minute's Top EPs of 2012

Published: December 10, 2012

Glide's Top Albums of 2012
2012 wasn't a very flashy year for new music, but what it did spawn were well-wrought, thoughtful and multi-layered releases that balanced introspection with muscle, unafraid to maybe make a few missteps but unabashed in their verve for making good, solid music.
Published: December 10, 2012

Treble's Top 50 Albums of 2012

Published: December 09, 2012

MAGNET's Top 25 Albums of 2012

Published: December 07, 2012

Idolator's 10 Favorite Albums of 2012
Here at Idolator, the editors have been continuously sifting through 2012's releases and poring over tracks to suss out the best of the best. Of course, let'
Published: December 06, 2012

Clash's Top 40 Albums of 2012
ClashMusic: Discover Clash magazine's Top 40 Albums Of 2012 with Bobby Womack, Grimes, Edward Sharpe, Flying Lotus, Django Django, Beth Jeans Houghton, Grizzly Bear and more.
Published: December 06, 2012

Stereogum's Top 50 Albums of 2012
This year, the three albums at the top of Stereogum’s 50 favorite albums of the year are all, in one way or another, Californian studio-pop singer-songwriter opuses. Admittedly, the makers of two of the three aren’t originally from California (they’re from New York and New Orleans) and even though the maker of the other one […]
Published: December 05, 2012

Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2012
Year with Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange'; when Dylan drenched us in blood; as well as pop-punk vets, disco orchestras, Scottish oddballs.
Published: December 05, 2012

Obscure Sound's Best Albums of 2012

Published: December 05, 2012

SPIN's 50 Best Albums of 2012
In 2012, R&B crooned underwater, metal went not-metal, and hip-hop fell into a K-hole, and these were just a few of the ways to make a big bang this
Published: December 03, 2012

Stereogum's Top 25 Albums of 2012 So Far
The year isn’t half over yet. We know that. But since everyone starts unveiling their year-end lists in November, we figured we wouldn’t be too far out of pocket if we unveiled our favorites of the 2012 calendar year the week before Memorial Day. Our favorite album of the year (so far) is the one […]
Published: May 23, 2012

The Best Fit Fifty: Albums of 2011
This list is a selection of some of the records we’ve come to love over the course of the last twelve months.We hope there’s something here you love. Either way, we look forward to the flurry of tweets telling us how irredeemably shit our taste is, and…
Published: December 22, 2011

Complex's 25 Best Albums of 2011
We listened to everything, argued a lot, and came back with these, the albums we just can't live without.
Published: December 19, 2011

Consequence of Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2011
Lived any good albums lately?
Published: December 16, 2011

Slant Magazine's 25 Best Albums of 2011
The ladies truly dominate the upper reaches of our 2011 albums list in a way they haven’t ever before.
Published: December 14, 2011

SPIN's 50 Best Albums of 2011
Everywhere you looked this year there was an absurd or chaotic or turbulent situation that made absolutely no sense whatsoever — people all over the world
Published: December 12, 2011

Treble's Top 50 Albums of 2011

Published: December 11, 2011

A.V. Club's Best Music of 2011
Every year, The A.V. Club invites its music writers to pick their favorite albums of the past 12 months. (Since we vote in mid-November, this takes us back to December 2010. That means late 2011 albums like The Roots Undun will be eligible next year.) Then we ask that they disperse 100 points over no more than 15 of…
Published: December 06, 2011

Stereogum's Top 50 Albums of 2011
2011 was the year music learned to float. Actually, that’s not true at all; music has been reaching for feelings of tidal drift since the first Gregorian monks figured out how to chant, or maybe since the first caveman licked a frog and figured out that his grunts got extra-spacey. But surveying our 2011 top […]
Published: December 05, 2011

NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2011
The complete collection of NPR's recommendations for the best music of 2011.
Published: December 05, 2011

Idolator's Favorite 10 Albums of 2011
Since January, our ears have reveled in hearing new LPs from several bona fide superstars and promising debuts from up-and-coming artists. Of course…
Published: November 29, 2011

Stereogum's Top 20 Albums Of 2011 So Far
We still have plenty of time and music left in 2011, but since we’re at the halfway (or so) mark, we thought it made sense to pause and take stock of the best albums of the year so far. There was some science behind the final tally: Each one of us made a list and […]
Published: June 21, 2011