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.
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  1. Entertainment Weekly: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  2. Gorilla vs. Bear: 60 Favorite Albums of 2016
  3. NME: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  4. Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2016
  5. Clash: Albums of the Year 2016
  6. Pigeons & Planes: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  7. NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2016
  8. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  9. Uproxx: 20 Best Albums of 2016
  10. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2016
  11. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2016
  12. The Skinny: Top 50 Albums of 2016
  13. Pitchfork: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  14. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  15. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2016
  16. Crack Magazine: Albums of the Year 2016
  17. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  18. NME: Greatest Albums of the Decade
  19. Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s
  20. Paste: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
  21. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.