Year-End Lists

Lists

1. Top 10 Albums of 2021: Bob Boilen: NPR: NPR Music
3. 50 Best Albums of 2021: NPR: NPR Music
4. 5 Best Albums of 2021: Melissa Ruggieri: USA Today
5. Top 20 Albums of 2021: Spectrum Culture
5. The 30 Best Albums Of 2021: Spin
5. 50 Best Albums of 2021: Rolling Stone
6. Best Albums of 2021: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
6. Top 50 Albums of 2021: Consequence
8. Top 100 Albums of 2021: Under the Radar
8. The Best Albums Of 2021: Coup De Main
9. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Far Out
9. The Best Albums of 2021: Flood
9. Best Albums of 2021: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
11. Favorite Albums of 2021: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
13. The Best Albums of 2021: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
13. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Slant
14. The 50 Best Albums Of 2021: Stereogum
15. Top 20 Albums of 2021: Northern Transmissions
18. The Best Albums of 2021: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
19. The 45 Best Albums of 2021: The Forty-Five
20. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Our Culture
21. 83 Favorite Albums Of 2021: Hanif Abdurraqib
27. 50 Best Albums of 2021: Exclaim
28. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Paste
32. Dean's List 2021: Robert Christgau
34. The Best Albums of 2021 Ranked: The Line of Best Fit
35. Top 50 Albums of 2021: Brooklyn Vegan
42. The 75 Best Albums of 2021: PopMatters
48. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Guardian
66. The 75 Best Albums of 2021: Mojo
66. The 100 Best Albums of 2021: Albumism
67. 75 Best Albums of 2021: Uncut

• Top 10 Albums of 2021: Carl Wilson: Slate
• The Best Albums Of 2021: Uproxx
• The 10 Best Albums of 2021: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
• Top 10 Albums of 2021: Marissa Lorusso: NPR: NPR Music
• Ten of the Best Albums Released by Queer and Trans Artists in 2021: Abeni Jones: Autostraddle
• The Best Albums of 2021: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Albums of 2021: Dork