Year-End Lists

Cowboy Carter

1. The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Alan Light: Esquire
1. The Best Albums of 2024: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
1. Top 10 Albums of 2024: Jeff Nelson: People
1. The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Mesfin Fekadu: Hollywood Reporter
2. Best Albums of 2024: Billboard
2. The 100 Best Albums of 2024: Rolling Stone
2. The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters
2. The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Entertainment Weekly
2. The Best Albums of 2024: Chris Willman: Variety
3. The Best Albums of 2024: The Forty-Five
3. The 35 Best Albums of 2024: Riff
4. Best Pop Music Albums of 2024: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
4. Top 20 Albums of 2024: Rob Sheffield: Rolling Stone
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Consequence
5. The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Spencer Kornhaber: Atlantic
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Guardian
6. Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
6. The Best Albums of 2024: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
6. Top 10 Albums of 2024: Adrian Thrills: Daily Mail
7. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NME
7. The Best Albums of 2024: Steven J. Horowitz: Variety
7. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Complex
10. Best Albums of 2024: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
10. The 25 Best Albums of 2024: A.V. Club
11. The Best Albums of 2024: Independent
11. The 20 Best Albums of 2024: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
11. The 25 Best Albums of 2024: Sunday Times
11. Best Albums of 2024: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
11. The Best Country Music Albums of 2024: Holler
12. Top 50 Albums of 2024: Beats Per Minute
13. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
13. The Best Albums of 2024: Time Out
14. The 20 Best Albums of 2024: Dazed
15. Best Albums of 2024: Jon Caramanica: New York Times
16. Dean's List 2024: Robert Christgau
18. 30 Best Albums of 2024: The Ringer
20. The Best Albums of 2024: Flood
22. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Yardbarker
23. Albums of the Year 2024: Clash
25. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Slant
26. Top 50 Albums of 2024: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
40. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Treble
41. Best Albums of 2024: Les Inrocks
56. The 100 Best Albums of 2024: Paste

• The Best Albums of 2024: Atwood Magazine
• The Best Albums Of 2024: Essence
• The Best Albums Of 2024: HuffPost
• The 36 Best Albums of 2024: Vogue
• The Best Albums of 2024: David Hajdu: The Nation
• The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NPR: NPR Music
• The Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx
• Best Albums of 2024: Jon Pareles: New York Times
• Best Albums of 2024: Maria Sherman: AP
• Top 100 Albums of 2024: Under the Radar
• Best Albums of 2024: AllMusic
• Best Southern Albums of 2024: Bitter Southerner

Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé

20. Best Movies of 2023: Sean Fennessey

• Favorite Films of 2023: Jourdain Searles

Break My Soul Remixes ("Break My Soul (Honey Dijon Remix)")

10. Best Music of 2022: Sasha Geffen: Artforum

Renaissance

1. The Best Albums of 2022: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
1. The 5 Best Albums Of 2022: Essence
1. The Best Albums of 2022: Mesfin Fekadu: Hollywood Reporter
1. The 20 Best Albums of 2022: Dazed
1. The 10 Best Albums of 2022: Spencer Kornhaber: Atlantic
1. Best Albums of 2022: NPR: NPR Music
1. The 80 Best Albums of 2022: PopMatters
1. The 10 Best Albums of 2022: Entertainment Weekly
1. The Best Albums of 2022: Nina Hernandez: Chron
1. Best Albums of 2022: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
1. 10 Best Albums of 2022: Kitty Empire: Observer
1. Albums Of The Year 2022: Clash
1. Best Music of 2022: Brittany Spanos: Rolling Stone
1. The 12 Best Albums of 2022: Jason Parham: Wired
1. Best Albums of 2022: Jon Pareles: New York Times
1. The 20 Best Albums of 2022: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Pitchfork
1. The 33 Best Albums of 2022: The Ringer
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Guardian
1. The 100 Best Albums of 2022: Rolling Stone
1. The Best Albums of 2022: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
1. Top Ten Albums of 2022: The Skinny
2. Best Albums of 2022: Billboard
2. Top 50 Albums of 2022: Brooklyn Vegan
2. Dean's List 2022: Robert Christgau
2. Best Albums of 2022: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
2. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Slant
2. 50 Best Albums of 2022: Exclaim
2. 22 Best Albums of 2022: Okayplayer
3. The 50 Best Albums Of 2022: Stereogum
3. The Best Albums of 2022 Ranked: The Line of Best Fit
3. Albums of the Year 2022: Dork
3. The 10 Best Albums of 2022: Time
3. Top 50 Albums of 2022: Consequence
3. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: NME
4. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Our Culture
4. The 100 Best Albums of 2022: Albumism
4. The 10 Best Albums of 2022: USA Today
4. 50 Best Albums of 2022: Complex
5. Best Albums of 2022: Jon Caramanica: New York Times
5. Best Pop Music Albums of 2022: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: The Fader
5. Best Southern Albums of 2022: Bitter Southerner
6. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Treble
6. The Best Albums of 2022: The Forty-Five
6. The Best Albums of 2022: Chris Willman: Variety
7. Top 20 Albums of 2022: Spectrum Culture
8. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Paste
8. Top 50 Albums of 2022: Beats Per Minute
9. Top 50 Albums of 2022: Northern Transmissions
9. The Best Albums of 2022: Flood
11. Albums of the Year 2022: Loud And Quiet
13. The 22 Best Albums of 2022: KCRW
14. Albums of 2022: DIY
15. Top 50 Albums of 2022: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
16. 51 Best Albums of 2022: Gigwise
27. 75 Best Albums of 2022: Mojo
37. Top 100 Albums of 2022: Under the Radar
53. 75 Best Albums of 2022: Uncut
57. 100 Favorite Albums of 2022: Hanif Abdurraqib
66. Albums of the Year 2022: Quietus

• The Best Albums Of 2022: Uproxx
• The Best Albums of 2022: Carl Wilson: Slate
• 2022 in Music: Sasha Frere-Jones
• Top 20 Albums of 2022: Sheldon Pearce: NPR: NPR Music
• Top Albums 2022: AP
• The Best Albums of 2022: Vinyl Me, Please
• 22 Top Albums of 2022: Texas Music
• The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Boston Globe
• The 25 Best Albums of 2022: Esquire
• 10 Favorite New Albums of 2022: Hazel Cills

Black is King

3. Top 10 Films of 2020: Cole Duffy: Cinema Etc.

• These Are the 12 Best Albums of 2020: British Vogue

The Lion King: The Gift

3. Vibe: The 30 Best Albums of 2019

Homecoming: The Live Album

4. Vibe: The 30 Best Albums of 2019
6. Washington Post: Chris Richards: Best Music of 2019
8. Fresh Air: Ken Tucker: Top 10 Albums of 2019
12. Billboard: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
14. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
26. The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2019

• Wired: Jason Parham: The 7 Best Albums of 2019

Lemonade

1. 60 Best Albums of 2016: Pretty Much Amazing
1. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Complex
1. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Rolling Stone
1. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Stereogum
1. Top 50 Albums of 2016: Consequence
1. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Entertainment Weekly
1. Top 100 Albums of the 2010s: Consequence
2. Best 50 Albums of 2016: NPR: NPR Music
2. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Paste
2. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
2. The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s: Refinery29
2. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Rolling Stone
2. The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s: Billboard
2. The 50 Best Albums of the 2010s: A.V. Club
2. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Paste
3. 15 Best Albums of 2016: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
3. 25 Best Albums of 2016: Slant
3. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Pitchfork
3. Top Albums of 2016: Brooklyn Vegan
4. Albums of the Year 2016: Clash
4. The Best Albums of the 2010s: Chris Willman: Variety
5. The Best Albums of the 2010s: Uproxx
5. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Vice: Noisey
5. Top 50 Albums of the 2010s: The Wild Honey Pie
6. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Spin
6. The Top 50 Albums of 2016: Treble
6. The Best Albums of the 2010s: Esquire
7. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Pigeons & Planes
7. Favorite Albums of 2016: Jeremy D. Larson
7. 20 Best Albums of 2016: Uproxx
10. 60 Favorite Albums of 2016: Gorilla vs. Bear
10. 75 Best Albums of 2016: Uncut
10. Top 50 Albums of 2016: The Skinny
11. 50 Best Albums of 2016: NME
12. 16 Favourite Albums of 2016: Drowned in Sound
12. Albums of the Year 2016: Crack Magazine
12. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Mojo
12. 40 Favorite Albums Of 2016: Hanif Abdurraqib
13. Top 50 Albums Of 2016: Q
15. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Fact
15. The Best Records of 2016: Flood
17. Greatest Albums of the Decade: NME
19. 50 Best Albums of the Decade: Jim Harrington: Mercury News
21. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Slant
23. Top 50 Albums of 2016: American Songwriter
30. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Under the Radar
32. 51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016: Tiny Mix Tapes
33. The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s: Stereogum
41. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s: Pitchfork
53. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Quietus
64. The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s: Spin
95. Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade: Tiny Mix Tapes

• 48 Best Albums of 2016: AllMusic
• Top Albums of 2016: Greg Kot: Chicago Tribune: Sound Opinions
• 16 Albums That Shaped 2016: DIY
• Top 10 Albums of 2016: Kitty Empire: Observer
• 100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones
• Best Albums of 2016: gal-dem
• The Best Albums of 2016: Carl Wilson: Slate
• The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s: Time
• The Best Albums of the 2010s: Atwood Magazine

Beyoncé

1. 60 Best Albums of 2014: Pretty Much Amazing
1. 15 Best Albums of 2013: Billboard
3. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s: Pitchfork
4. Top 100 Albums of 2013: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
4. The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s: Spin
7. The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s: Stereogum
8. 50 Best Albums of the 2010s: Jim Harrington: Mercury News
11. The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s: Billboard
13. Top 50 Albums of 2014: Treble
18. Top 50 Albums of 2014: Consequence
24. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Vice: Noisey
26. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Rolling Stone
33. The Best Albums of the 2010s: Uproxx
35. Favorite 100 Music Releases of the 2010s: Tiny Mix Tapes
40. Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014: Tiny Mix Tapes
40. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Paste
53. Top 100 Albums of 2014: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
55. Greatest Albums of the 2010s: NME
79. Top 100 Albums of the 2010s: Consequence

• The Best Albums of the 2010s: Atwood Magazine

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3. 10 Best Albums of 2011: SFGate
4. Best Albums of 2011: Guardian
5. Top Albums of 2011: James Reed: Boston Globe
6. Top Albums of 2011: Thomas Conner: Chicago Sun-Times
7. Top 25 Albums of 2011: BBC
10. Top 10 Albums of 2011: Jon Caramanica: New York Times
13. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Consequence
18. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Stereogum
25. 50 Best Albums of 2011: Rolling Stone
26. Top 100 Albums of 2011: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
27. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Pitchfork
31. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s: Pitchfork
34. 40 Best Albums of 2011: Pretty Much Amazing
39. 50 Best Albums of 2011: Spin
48. Top Albums of 2011: Prefix

• Favorite Albums of 2011: Sasha Frere-Jones
• 50 Favorite Albums of 2011: NPR: NPR Music

Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé

9. Best Films of 2019: Jourdain Searles: Seventh Row: Seventh Row Critics Survey
13. The Best Films of 2019: Caroline Siede: A.V. Club
15. The Best Films of 2019: Charles Bramesco: A.V. Club
18. The Best Movies of 2019: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush