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Highest Rated Albums of 2018

Decade

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- All Time
- 2010s
- 2000s
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Genre

All
- - All
  - Alternative R&B
  - Alternative Rock
  - Art Pop
  - Dance Pop
  - Electronic
  - Electropop
  - Folk
  - Hip Hop
  - House
  - Indie Folk
  - Indie Pop
  - Indie Rock
- - Metal
  - Neo-Psychedelia
  - Pop
  - Pop Rap
  - Pop Rock
  - Post-Punk
  - 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. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

November 30, 2018

Art Pop

Score

100

2. Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus

February 9, 2018

Indie Rock

Score

100

3. Dream Wife - Dream Wife

January 26, 2018

Alternative Rock

Score

100

4. Hookworms - Microshift

February 2, 2018

Neo-Psychedelia

Score

100

5. Shame - Songs of Praise

January 12, 2018

Post-Punk

Score

100

6. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

March 23, 2018

Blues Rock

Score

100

7. Sunflower Bean - Twentytwo in Blue

March 23, 2018

Pop Rock

Score

100

8. Amen Dunes - Freedom

March 30, 2018

Neo-Psychedelia

Score

100

9. Tove Styrke - Sway

May 4, 2018

Electropop

Score

100

10. Rejjie Snow - Dear Annie

February 16, 2018

Hip Hop

Score

100

11. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer

April 27, 2018

Art Pop

Score

100

12. Jon Hopkins - Singularity

May 4, 2018

Microhouse

Score

100

13. Kali Uchis - Isolation

April 6, 2018

Neo-Soul

Score

100

14. Years & Years - Palo Santo

July 6, 2018

Electropop

Score

100

15. Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD

August 3, 2018

Trap Rap

Score

100

16. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch

June 22, 2018

Experimental Rock

Score

100

17. The Internet - Hive Mind

July 20, 2018

Neo-Soul

Score

100

18. Troye Sivan - Bloom

August 31, 2018

Electropop

Score

100

19. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance

August 31, 2018

Post-Punk

Score

100

20. Christine and the Queens - Chris

September 21, 2018

Synthpop

Score

100

21. Muncie Girls - Fixed Ideals

August 31, 2018

Pop Punk

Score

100

22. Blood Orange - Negro Swan

August 24, 2018

Alternative R&B

Score

100

23. The Prodigy - No Tourists

November 2, 2018

Big Beat

Score

100

24. Trophy Eyes - The American Dream

August 3, 2018

Pop Punk

Score

100

25. boygenius - boygenius EP

October 26, 2018

Indie Folk

Score

100

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

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