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. Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2020
  2. Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
  3. Rough Trade: Albums of the Year 2020
  4. Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: The Best Albums of 2020
  5. Jordan Cronk: The Top 30 Albums of 2020
  6. DIY: Albums of 2020
  7. Brooklyn Vegan: Top 55 Albums of 2020
  8. Northern Transmissions: Top 30 Albums of 2020
  9. NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
  10. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
  11. Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
  12. PopMatters: The 60 Best Albums of 2020
  13. Clash: Albums of the Year 2020
  14. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2020
  15. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2020
  16. Gigwise: 51 Best Albums of 2020
  17. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of 2020
  18. Hanif Abdurraqib: 93 Favorite Albums Of 2020

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