Year-End Lists

AllMusic: Best Albums of 2024

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• Scheduled Explosions
  2nd Grade
• Bright Future
  Adrianne Lenker
• Y'Y
  Amaro Freitas
• Cartoon Darkness
  Amyl and The Sniffers
• CASSANDRA (cherith)
  Andra Day
• Gemelo
  Angélica Garcia
• Songs My Mom Liked
  Anthony Branker & Imagine
• Eternal Sunshine
  Ariana Grande
• Night Reign
  Arooj Aftab
• Eels
  Being Dead
• Realistic IX
  Belong
• Lives Outgrown
  Beth Gibbons
• Cowboy Carter
  Beyoncé
• Hit Me Hard and Soft
  Billie Eilish
• Cold Visions
  Bladee
• Absolute Elsewhere
  Blood Incantation
• My Light, My Destroyer
  Cassandra Jenkins
• The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
  Charles Lloyd
• $10 Cowboy
  Charley Crockett
• Brat
  Charli XCX
• Cyan Blue
  Charlotte Day Wilson
• She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
  Chelsea Wolfe
• I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair
  Christopher Owens
• Charm
  Clairo
• The Auditorium, Vol. 1
  Common & Pete Rock
• Too Hot To Sleep
  Daniel Romano's Outfit
• Quiet in a World Full of Noise
  Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn
• Orion
  Dina Ögon
• Alligator Bites Never Heal
  Doechii
• Sniff More Gritty
  Du Blonde
• Radical Optimism
  Dua Lipa
• Brighter Days
  Dwight Yoakam
• Catching Fire
  Elephant9 & Terje Rypdal
• Revelator
  Elucid
• Fabiana Palladino
  Fabiana Palladino
• WOOF.
  Fat Dog
• Limits of Language
  Field Music
• Cascade
  Floating Points
• Love Heart Cheat Code
  Hiatus Kaiyote
• The Past Is Still Alive
  Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Blues Blood
  Immanuel Wilkins
• When I'm Called
  Jake Xerxes Fussell
• In Waves
  Jamie xx
• Here in the Pitch
  Jessica Pratt
• Parallels
  Joe Sanders
• The Art Of The Lie
  John Grant
• Passage du Desir
  Johnny Blue Skies
• Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18, KV 456 & 21, KV 467
  Jonathan Fournel / Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg / Howard Griffiths
• Puts: The Hours
  Renée Fleming / Kelli O'Hara / Joyce DiDonato
• I Lay Down My Life for You
  JPEGMAFIA
• Something in the Room She Moves
  Julia Holter
• Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
  Julian Prégardien / Les Epopées / Stéphane Fuget
• Orquídeas
  Kali Uchis
• Nobody Loves You More
  Kim Deal
• Vantablack
  Lalah Hathaway
• Idylle
  Lea Desandre & Thomas Dunford
• The French Album
  London Choral Sinfonia & Michael Waldron
• Handel: Theodora, HWV 60
  various artists
• I Got Heaven
  Mannequin Pussy
• New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz
  Matthew Shipp Trio
• Funeral for Justice
  Mdou Moctar
• Mi Latinoamérica Sufre
  Meridian Brothers
• No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
  Meshell Ndegeocello
• Milton + Esperanza
  Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding
• Manning Fireworks
  MJ Lenderman
• Night Palace
  Mount Eerie
• Lovegaze
  Nailah Hunter
• Endlessness
  Nala Sinephro
• uNomkhubulwane
  Nduduzo Makhathini
• Silence Is Loud
  Nia Archives
• Wild God
  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• WeirdOs
  O.
• The Last Will and Testament
  Opeth
• Sorcs 80
  Osees
• Henselt & Bronsart: Piano Concertos
  Paul Wee / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Michael Collins
• The Cleansing
  Peter Perrett
• Redd Kross
  Redd Kross
• Bite Down
  Rosali
• Rough & Ready
  Ruthven
• Short n' Sweet
  Sabrina Carpenter
• Portrait
  Samara Joy
• Blue Lips
  Schoolboy Q
• Shawn
  Shawn Mendes
• All Born Screaming
  St. Vincent
• Until We Meet Again
  Sy Smith
• Schubert: String Quartets, D. 112 & 887
  Takács Quartet
• Songs of a Lost World
  The Cure
• Prelude to Ecstasy
  The Last Dinner Party
• Aghori Mhori Mei
  The Smashing Pumpkins
• The Bed I Made
  The Softies
• World Wide Whack
  Tierra Whack
• In Full Effect
  Tim Reaper & Kloke
• Tyla
  Tyla
• Nell' ora blu
  Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
• Only God Was Above Us
  Vampire Weekend
• Where's My Utopia?
  Yard Act
• Acadia
  Yasmin Williams
• Ten Fold
  Yaya Bey
• Chopin: Études, Op. 10 & 25
  Yunchan Lim
• Brahms – Schumann
  Yuuko Shiokawa & András Schiff