Year-End Lists

Ultimate Classic Rock: Top 40 Rock Albums of 2021

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
   Raise The Roof
2. Lindsey Buckingham
   Lindsey Buckingham
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
   Barn
4. The Black Keys
   Delta Kream
5. David Crosby
   For Free
6. Foo Fighters
   Medicine at Midnight
7. Mammoth WVH
   Mammoth WVH
8. Iron Maiden
   Senjutsu
9. Paul McCartney
   McCartney III Imagined
10. Billy F Gibbons
    Hardware
11. Alice Cooper
    Detroit Stories
12. Cheap Trick
    In Another World
13. Duran Duran
    Future Past
14. Blackberry Smoke
    You Hear Georgia
15. Chrissie Hynde
    Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan
16. Greta Van Fleet
    The Battle at Garden's Gate
17. Elton John
    The Lockdown Sessions
18. Jackson Browne
    Downhill From Everywhere
19. Jerry Cantrell
    Brighten
20. Kings of Leon
    When You See Yourself
21. Sleater-Kinney
    Path of Wellness
22. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
    Georgia Blue
23. Peter Frampton
    Frampton Forgets the Words
24. Royal Blood
    Typhoons
25. Dirty Honey
    Dirty Honey
26. The Darkness
    Motorheart
27. Black Label Society
    Doom Crew Inc.
28. Weezer
    OK Human
29. KK's Priest
    Sermons of the Sinner
30. Mastodon
    Hushed and Grim
31. L.A. Guns
    Checkered Past
32. various artists
    I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico
33. Melvins
    Working With God
34. Monster Magnet
    A Better Dystopia
35. Weezer
    Van Weezer
36. various artists
    The Metallica Blacklist
37. Yes
    The Quest
38. Tomahawk
    Tonic Immobility
39. Ringo Starr
    Zoom In
40. Elvis Costello
    Spanish Model