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. Dummy: 30 Best Albums of 2015
  2. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  3. Pigeons & Planes: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  4. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  5. Time Out London: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  6. Billboard: 25 Best Albums of 2015
  7. Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2015
  8. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015
  9. Entertainment Weekly: 40 Best Albums of 2015
  10. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2015
  11. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2015
  12. NME: Top 50 Albums of 2015
  13. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  14. Crack Magazine: Albums of the Year 2015
  15. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  16. American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2015
  17. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2015
  18. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
  19. FasterLouder: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  20. Les Inrocks: 100 Best Albums of 2015
  21. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade
  22. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
  23. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
  24. Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2015

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