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. Los Angeles Times: The 10 Best Albums of 2020
  2. Time: Best Albums of 2020
  3. Entertainment Weekly: The 15 Best Albums of 2020
  4. Billboard: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
  5. PopMatters: The 60 Best Albums of 2020
  6. Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2020
  7. Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
  8. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2020
  9. Hanif Abdurraqib: 93 Favorite Albums Of 2020
  10. Albumism: The 100 Best Albums of 2020

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