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. Uproxx: 20 Best Albums of 2016
  2. Brooklyn Vegan: Top Albums of 2016
  3. Fact: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  4. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  5. Entertainment Weekly: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  6. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  7. A.V. Club: 21 Best Albums of 2016
  8. The Wild Honey Pie: Top 30 Albums of 2016
  9. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2016
  10. Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2016
  11. Vulture: Craig Jenkins: 15 Best Albums of 2016
  12. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  13. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2016
  14. The Skinny: Top 50 Albums of 2016
  15. Pitchfork: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  16. Jordan Cronk: 30 Favorite Albums of 2016
  17. Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2016
  18. American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2016
  19. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  20. Paste: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
  21. Hanif Abdurraqib: 40 Favorite Albums Of 2016
  22. A.V. Club: The 50 Best Albums of the 2010s
  23. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2016
  24. Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s
  25. NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2016
  26. Crack Magazine: Albums of the Year 2016
  27. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
  28. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2016
  29. Tiny Mix Tapes: 51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016
  30. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  31. Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s
  32. Spin: The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s

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