Year-End Lists

Essence: The Best Albums Of 2024

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2022]

• Doechii
  Alligator Bites Never Heal
• Rapsody
  Please Don't Cry
• Muni Long
  Revenge
• Leon Thomas
  Mutt
• GloRilla
  Glorious
• Normani
  Dopamine
• Future and Metro Boomin
  We Don't Trust You
• Kendrick Lamar
  GNX
• Rema
  HEIS
• Tems
  Born in the Wild
• Tyla
  Tyla
• Latto
  Sugar Honey Iced Tea
• Lucky Daye
  Algorithm
• Tyler, The Creator
  Chromakopia
• KAYTRANADA
  Timeless
• Bryson Tiller
  Bryson Tiller
• Beyoncé
  Cowboy Carter
• Shaboozey
  Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going
• Ambré
  i do this sh*t in my sleep
• Vince Staples
  Dark Times