Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2016
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2021
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2016 Music
Q: Top 50 Albums Of 2016
21 December 2016
Q Magazine
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Top 50 Albums Of 2016
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Blackstar
David Bowie
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
The Hope Six Demolition Project
PJ Harvey
We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
A Tribe Called Quest
Skeleton Tree
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
A Moon Shaped Pool
Radiohead
Mangy Love
Cass McCombs
My Woman
Angel Olsen
I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
The 1975
Chaleur Humaine
Christine and the Queens
Konnichiwa
Skepta
Requiem
Goat
Lemonade
Beyoncé
Love & Hate
Michael Kiwanuka
Let the Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul
Dexys
Crab Day
Cate Le Bon
Blond
Frank Ocean
Wildflower
The Avalanches
Human Performance
Parquet Courts
Hopelessness
ANOHNI
Post Pop Depression
Iggy Pop
Meet the Humans
Steve Mason
Super
Pet Shop Boys
Don’t Let the Kids Win
Julia Jacklin
Boy King
Wild Beasts
Do Hollywood
The Lemon Twigs
Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
Underworld
Varmints
Anna Meredith
I, Gemini
Let’s Eat Grandma
Trick
Jamie T
Let Them Eat Chaos
Kate Tempest
The Bride
Bat for Lashes
Untitled Unmastered
Kendrick Lamar
Joanne
Lady Gaga
Adore Life
Savages
Ellipsis
Biffy Clyro
The Ship
Brian Eno
Songs for Our Mothers
The Fat White Family
A Weird Exits
Thee Oh Sees
Wild World
Bastille
Singing Saw
Kevin Morby
A Seat at the Table
Solange
Distance Inbetween
The Coral
Everything You’ve Come To Expect
The Last Shadow Puppets
The Life of Pablo
Kanye West
Hamburg Demonstrations
Peter Doherty
Blossoms
Blossoms
Views
Drake
These People
Richard Ashcroft
Chaosmosis
Primal Scream