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Highest Rated Albums of 2019

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Source

Genre

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

2019

This is an ordered list of NME's highest rated albums of 2019. Check out NME's Year End List.

1. Wretch 32 - Upon Reflection

October 18, 2019

Score

100

2. Beabadoobee - Space Cadet

October 14, 2019

Indie Rock

Score

100

3. Summer Walker - Over It

October 4, 2019

R&B

Score

100

4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

October 4, 2019

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

5. Rex Orange County - Pony

October 25, 2019

Indie Pop

Score

100

6. Kojey Radical - Cashmere Tears

September 13, 2019

Hip Hop

Score

100

7. Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka

November 1, 2019

Psychedelic Soul

Score

100

8. JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs

September 13, 2019

Experimental Hip Hop

Score

100

9. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors

October 4, 2019

Art Pop

Score

100

10. Refused - War Music

October 18, 2019

Post-Hardcore

Score

100

11. Tool - Fear Inoculum

August 30, 2019

Progressive Metal

Score

100

12. Bon Iver - i,i

August 9, 2019

Art Pop

Score

100

13. Clairo - Immunity

August 2, 2019

Indie Pop

Score

100

14. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

August 9, 2019

Alternative Metal

Score

100

15. FKA twigs - MAGDALENE

November 8, 2019

Art Pop

Score

100

16. Flying Lotus - Flamagra

May 24, 2019

Nu Jazz

Score

100

17. Ohtis - Curve of Earth

March 29, 2019

Folk

Score

100

18. Baroness - Gold & Grey

June 14, 2019

Stoner Metal

Score

100

19. Dave - Psychodrama

March 8, 2019

Hip Hop

Score

100

20. Solange - When I Get Home

March 1, 2019

Neo-Soul

Score

100

21. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana

June 28, 2019

Hip Hop

Score

100

22. Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel

April 12, 2019

Post-Punk

Score

100

23. Marvin Gaye - You're The Man

March 29, 2019

Soul

Score

100

24. Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!

May 10, 2019

Alternative R&B

Score

100

25. Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

March 29, 2019

Electropop

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 2019.

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