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Highest Rated Albums of 2018

Decade

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- All Time
- 2020s
- 2010s
- 2000s
- 1990s

Source

Genre

All
- All
- Alternative R&B
- Alternative Rock
- Art Pop
- Dance Pop
- Electronic
- Electropop
- Folk
- Hip Hop
- House
- Indie Pop
- Indie Rock
- Metal
- Neo-Psychedelia
- Pop
- Pop Rap
- Pop Rock
- Psychedelic
- R&B
- Rock
- Singer-Songwriter
- Soul
- Synthpop
- Trap Rap

2018

This is an ordered list of NME's highest rated albums of 2018. Check out NME's Year End List.

1. Gucci Mane - Evil Genius

December 7, 2018

Trap Rap

Score

100

2. Parcels - Parcels

October 12, 2018

Nu-Disco

Score

100

3. Architects - Holy Hell

November 9, 2018

Metalcore

Score

100

4. Noname - Room 25

September 14, 2018

Hip Hop

Score

100

5. boygenius - boygenius EP

October 26, 2018

Indie Folk

Score

100

6. Trophy Eyes - The American Dream

August 3, 2018

Pop Punk

Score

100

7. The Prodigy - No Tourists

November 2, 2018

Big Beat

Score

100

8. Blood Orange - Negro Swan

August 24, 2018

Alternative R&B

Score

100

9. Muncie Girls - Fixed Ideals

August 31, 2018

Pop Punk

Score

100

10. Christine and the Queens - Chris

September 21, 2018

Synthpop

Score

100

11. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance

August 31, 2018

Post-Punk

Score

100

12. Troye Sivan - Bloom

August 31, 2018

Electropop

Score

100

13. The Internet - Hive Mind

July 20, 2018

Neo-Soul

Score

100

14. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch

June 22, 2018

Experimental Rock

Score

100

15. Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD

August 3, 2018

Trap Rap

Score

100

16. Years & Years - Palo Santo

July 6, 2018

Electropop

Score

100

17. Kali Uchis - Isolation

April 6, 2018

Neo-Soul

Score

100

18. Jon Hopkins - Singularity

May 4, 2018

Microhouse

Score

100

19. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer

April 27, 2018

Art Pop

Score

100

20. Rejjie Snow - Dear Annie

February 16, 2018

Hip Hop

Score

100

21. Tove Styrke - Sway

May 4, 2018

Electropop

Score

100

22. Amen Dunes - Freedom

March 30, 2018

Neo-Psychedelia

Score

100

23. Sunflower Bean - Twentytwo in Blue

March 23, 2018

Pop Rock

Score

100

24. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

March 23, 2018

Blues Rock

Score

100

25. Shame - Songs of Praise

January 12, 2018

Post-Punk

Score

100

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NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings NME awarded albums throughout 2018.

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