Year-End Lists

Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2019

1. Billie Eilish
   When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
2. Todd Snider
   Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3
3. Chance the Rapper
   The Big Day
4. Purple Mountains
   Purple Mountains
5. Carsie Blanton
   Buck Up
6. Kim Gordon
   No Home Record
7. Danny Brown
   uknowhatimsayin¿
8. Sonic Youth
   Battery Park, NYC July 4th 2008
9. Kalie Shorr
   Open Book
10. The Paranoid Style
    A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life
11. Bruce Springsteen
    Springsteen on Broadway
12. Salif Keita
    Un Autre Blanc
13. Stella Donnelly
    Beware of the Dogs
14. Big Thief
    Two Hands
15. 75 Dollar Bill
    I Was Real
16. Harriet Tubman
    The Terror End of Beauty
17. Black Midi
    Schlagenheim
18. Tanya Tagaq
    Toothsayer
19. The Delines
    The Imperial
20. CHAI
    Punk
21. Lee "Scratch" Perry
    Rainford
22. The Ex
    27 passports
23. that dog
    Old LP
24. Tyler Childers
    Country Squire
25. Leyla McCalla
    Capitalist Blues
26. Sleater-Kinney
    The Center Won't Hold
27. Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage
    Bad Wiring
28. Alex Chilton
    From Memphis to New Orleans
29. Ezra Furman
    Twelve Nudes
30. Lizzo
    Cuz I Love You
31. Diabel Cissokho
    Rhythm of the Griot
32. Miranda Lambert
    Wildcard
33. Craig Finn
    I Need a New War
34. Charly Bliss
    Young Enough
35. Little Simz
    GREY Area
36. Ariana Grande
    Sweetener
37. Rapsody
    Eve
38. The National
    I Am Easy to Find
39. Guy Clark
    The Best of Dualtone Years
40. Youssou N'Dour
    History
41. Rachid Taha
    Je Suis Africain
42. Taylor Swift
    Lover
43. Hama Sankaré
    Ballébé
44. Pedro the Lion
    Phoenix
45. Malibu Ken, Aesop Rock & TOBACCO
    Malibu Ken
46. The Coathangers
    The Devil You Know
47. Chuck Cleaver
    Send Aid
48. Oumar Konaté
    I Love You Inna
49. Epic Beard Men
    This Was Supposed to Be Fun
50. Jamila Woods
    LEGACY! LEGACY!
51. Derek Senn
    How Could a Man
52. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
    Miri
53. Amber Mark
    Conexão
54. Nicki Minaj
    Queen
55. Big Thief
    U.F.O.F.
56. slowthai
    Nothing Great About Britain
57. Tyler Childers
    Live on Red Barn Radio I & II
58. 100 gecs
    1000 gecs
59. Sudan Archives
    Athena
60. Thiago Nassif
    Três
61. Priests
    The Seduction of Kansas
62. Saba
    Care for Me
63. Madonna
    Madame X
64. The Seeds
    Pushin Too Hard (Original Soundtrack)
65. Raphael Saadiq
    Jimmy Lee
66. Khalid
    Free Spirit
67. Quelle Chris
    Guns
68. Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts
    Milano
69. Lewis Capaldi
    Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
70. Jealous of the Birds
    Wisdom Teeth
71. Dua Saleh
    Nūr
72. Sneaks
    Highway Hypnosis
73. Sharon Van Etten
    Remind Me Tomorrow
74. Alex Chilton
    Ocean Club '77
75. Serengeti
    Dennis 6e
76. Bob Mould
    Sunshine Rock