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2019 Music Year End List Aggregate

These numbers are obtained from the 127 lists found at the end of this page.


Honorable Mention:
Clairo - Immunity (49), Caroline Polachek - Pang (48), Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center (48), The Highwomen - The Highwomen (48), Ari Lennox - Shea Butter Baby (46), JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs (46), Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury (46), Rapsody - Eve (45), Lingua Ignota - CALIGULA (44), Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life (44), Denzel Curry - ZUU (44), Beyoncé - HOMECOMING: THE LIVE ALBUM (42), Nilüfer Yanya - Miss Universe (42), Loraine James - For You and I (41), Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind (41), Summer Walker - Over It (41), billy woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places (40), Flying Lotus - Flamagra (40), Sampa the Great - The Return (39), Burna Boy - African Giant (39), Richard Dawson - 2020 (37), PUP - Morbid Stuff (37), Holly Herndon - PROTO (37), Mannequin Pussy - Patience (36), Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls (35), Young Thug - So Much Fun (35), Fat White Family - Serfs Up! (34), Sunn O))) - Life Metal (34), Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile (34), 75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real (32), Sleaford Mods - Eton Alive (32), King Princess - Cheap Queen (32), DaBaby - Baby On Baby (32), Wilco - Ode to Joy (31), The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears (31), Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee (31), DaBaby - KIRK (31), Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation (30), The Chemical Brothers - No Geography (30), Baroness - Gold & Grey (30), Faye Webster - Atlanta Millionaires Club (30), Vanishing Twin - The Age Of Immunology (28), Angel Bat Dawid - The Oracle (27), Octo Octa - Resonant Body (27), Anderson .Paak - Ventura (27), Sudan Archives - Athena (27), Mark Ronson - Late Night Feelings (27), Hot Chip - A Bath Full of Ecstasy (27), Rammstein - Rammstein (26), Gary Clark Jr. - This Land (26)
How Points are Measured

Ranked Lists
1st Place:
10 points
2nd Place:
8 points
3rd place:
6 points
Top 10:
5 points
Top 25:
3 points
Other:
1 point
Unranked Lists
10 Albums or Less:
5 points
25 Albums or Less:
3 points
More than 25 Albums:
1 point
Recent Additions
Jan 20
NBHAP
Jan 13
Magnet, The Key, Chorus.fm
Jan 06
MondoSonoro, Good Morning America, Idolator, Okayplayer
Jan 05
Norman Records
Jan 02
Obscure Sound, Passion of the Weiss, Spill Magazine, American Songwriter, Under the Radar
Dec 31
Kerrang!
Dec 30
The Young Folks, The Observer: Kitty Empire
Dec 28
XLR8R
Dec 27
Vinyl Me, Please, The Wild Honey Pie, GQ [UK], WIRED
Dec 26
Magnetic
Dec 25
The Music
Dec 24
Far Out Magazine, Esquire (UK), BrooklynVegan
Dec 23
Classic Rock Magazine, Vibe, Dummy
Dec 22
musicOMH, Spectrum Culture
Dec 21
The Needle Drop, Thrillist
Dec 20
Sputnikmusic, The Alternative, NOW Magazine, Gigwise, The Line of Best Fit, The Independent, The Guardian
Dec 19
MTV News, Yahoo Entertainment, FACT, The FADER, The A.V. Club
Dec 18
Mixmag, PAPER, Clash
Dec 17
The Vinyl Factory, Q Magazine, God Is In The TV, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, Hypebeast, USA Today, No Ripcord
Dec 16
Junkee, Northern Transmissions, NME, DJ Mag, Metal Hammer
Dec 15
Louder Than War, Gothamist, Gaffa (Denmark), Gaffa (Sweden)
Dec 13
Bandcamp Daily, PEOPLE, The Wall Street Journal: Mark Richardson, Us Weekly
Dec 12
Noisey, Slant Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, Esquire
Dec 11
The New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich, Los Angeles Times: Mikael Wood, Les Inrocks, Dazed, NPR Music
Dec 10
Resident Advisor , Billboard, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Slate, Loud and Quiet
Dec 09
Chicago Tribune: Greg Kot, Fresh Air: Ken Tucker, Associated Press, OOR, Radio X, The Washington Post: Chris Richards, Crack Magazine, PopMatters
Dec 05
AllMusic, Fopp, Rolling Stone, KCRW, The New York Times: Jon Caramanica, The New York Times: Jon Pareles
Dec 04
Vulture, FLOOD, The Wire
Dec 03
Gorilla vs. Bear, Double J, Complex, GQ, Stereogum, The Ringer, Treble
Dec 02
Consequence of Sound, Uproxx, Glide, Paste, The Quietus
Dec 01
Albumism
Nov 29
Bleep
Nov 27
Piccadilly Records, TIME
Nov 26
Drift, The Skinny
Nov 25
Alternative Press, Revolver, BBC Radio 6 Music
Nov 21
Uncut
Nov 16
MOJO
Nov 12
Decibel, Rough Trade
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2y
that's history
4y
Norman Records and Idolator are out
4y
Lana is truly winning last year, wow. We love to see it
4y
Please, consider adding Nialler9 Top 40 Albums of 2019, it’s a well known music blog from Ireland (2)
4y
GQ Russia (different from english version)
https://www.gq.ru/entertainment/best-albums-2019
4y
The Music (Australia) are out, sumbitted it x
4y
Can admin post the criteria needed for the lists to be included into the aggregate? Anyway, why did both NPR lists (Ken Tucker and general consensus) count but not for Rolling Stone?
4y
yikes list
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