Year-End Lists

NPR Music: 25 Best Albums of 2019. If it seems odd that some of NPR's favorite artists of the year aren't on this list, it's because of this rule: "no lead artist was allowed to appear on both this list and our list of the 25 Best Songs of 2019."

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1. Jaime
   Brittany Howard
2. All Mirrors
   Angel Olsen
3. Jimmy Lee
   Raphael Saadiq
4. When I Get Home
   Solange
5. Designer
   Aldous Harding
6. Remind Me Tomorrow
   Sharon Van Etten
7. Orange
   Caroline Shaw / Attacca Quartet
8. The Livelong Day
   Lankum
9. Hiding Places
   Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
10. The Practice of Love
    Jenny Hval
11. Vagabon
    Vagabon
12. Shea Butter Baby
    Ari Lennox
13. Songs Of Our Native Daughters
    Our Native Daughters
14. Titanic Rising
    Weyes Blood
15. Ancestral Recall
    Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
16. African Giant
    Burna Boy
17. PROTO
    Holly Herndon
18. Almadura
    iLe
19. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    Lana Del Rey
20. 5
    Sault
21. John Luther Adams: Become Desert
    Seattle Symphony
22. Oasis
    J Balvin & Bad Bunny
23. Diatom Ribbons
    Kris Davis
24. While I'm Livin'
    Tanya Tucker
25. IGOR
    Tyler, The Creator