Rolling Stone: Top 50 Albums of 2012
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]
- Bruce Springsteen — Wrecking Ball
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Jack White — Blunderbuss
- Bob Dylan — Tempest
- Fiona Apple — The Idler Wheel…
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes — Here
- Green Day — !Uno!
- Japandroids — Celebration Rock
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Psychedelic Pill
- Mumford & Sons — Babel
- Jimmy Cliff — Rebirth
- Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas
- Best Coast — The Only Place
- Dr. John — Locked Down
- Cat Power — Sun
- John Mayer — Born and Raised
- Nas — Life Is Good
- Band Of Horses — Mirage Rock
- Killer Mike — R.A.P. Music
- Cloud Nothings — Attack on Memory
- Bonnie Raitt — Slipstream
- Divine Fits — A Thing Called Divine Fits
- G.O.O.D. Music — Cruel Summer
- Donald Fagen — Sunken Condos
- Django Django — Django Django
- Gary Clark Jr. — Blak and Blu
- Beach House — Bloom
- Dave Matthews Band — Away From the World
- Azealia Banks — 1991
- Taylor Swift — Red
- Hospitality — Hospitality
- Grimes — Visions
- Alabama Shakes — Boys & Girls
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Bobby Womack — The Bravest Man in the Universe
- Justin Townes Earle — Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
- Titus Andronicus — Local Business
- Passion Pit — Gossamer
- Escort — Escort
- Avett Brothers — The Carpenter
- Allo Darlin’ — Europe
- fun. — Some Nights
- Garbage — Not Your Kind of People
- Rick Ross — Rich Forever
- Muse — The 2nd Law
- Todd Snider — Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
- Smashing Pumpkins — Oceania
- Amadou & Mariam — Folila
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan