Year-End Lists

Lindsay Zoladz: Best Albums of 2024, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Manning Fireworks
   MJ Lenderman
2. The Past Is Still Alive
   Hurray for the Riff Raff
3. Brat
   Charli XCX
4. Diamond Jubilee
   Cindy Lee
5. Patterns in Repeat
   Laura Marling
6. Night Palace
   Mount Eerie
7. Phasor
   Helado Negro
8. The Collective
   Kim Gordon
9. Tigers Blood
   Waxahatchee
10. Cowboy Carter
    Beyoncé

And 10 honorable mentions, in alphabetical order

• Nobody Loves You More
  Kim Deal
• Eternal Sunshine
  Ariana Grande
• Something in the Room She Moves
  Julia Holter
• Dunya
  Mustafa
• Funeral for Justice
  Mdou Moctar
• Deeper Well
  Kacey Musgraves
• Chromakopia
  Tyler, The Creator
• Only God Was Above Us
  Vampire Weekend
• My Method Actor
  Nilüfer Yanya