Year-End Lists

Cowboy Carter

• 1 Top 10 Albums of 2024: Jeff Nelson: People
• 1 The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Alan Light: Esquire
• 1 The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Mesfin Fekadu: Hollywood Reporter
• 1 The Best Albums of 2024: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
• 2 The Best Albums of 2024: Chris Willman: Variety
• 2 The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters
• 2 The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Entertainment Weekly
• 2 The 100 Best Albums of 2024: Rolling Stone
• 2 Best Albums of 2024: Billboard
• 2 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Boston Globe
• 3 The 35 Best Albums of 2024: Riff
• 3 The Best Albums of 2024: The Forty-Five
• 4 Best Pop Music Albums of 2024: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
• 4 Top 20 Albums of 2024: Rob Sheffield: Rolling Stone
• 5 The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Spencer Kornhaber: Atlantic
• 5 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Guardian
• 5 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Consequence
• 6 Top 10 Albums of 2024: Adrian Thrills: Daily Mail
• 6 The Best Albums of 2024: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
• 6 Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
• 7 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Complex
• 7 The Best Albums of 2024: Steven J. Horowitz: Variety
• 7 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NME
• 10 The 25 Best Albums of 2024: A.V. Club
• 10 Best Albums of 2024: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
• 11 The 20 Best Albums of 2024: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
• 11 The Best Albums of 2024: Independent
• 11 Best Albums of 2024: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
• 11 The 25 Best Albums of 2024: Sunday Times
• 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

• Best Albums of 2024: Maria Sherman: AP
• The Best Albums Of 2024: Essence
• Best Southern Albums of 2024: Bitter Southerner
• The Best Albums Of 2024: HuffPost
• The Best Albums of 2024: David Hajdu: The Nation Honorable mention
• The 36 Best Albums of 2024: Vogue
• Best Albums of 2024: Jon Pareles: New York Times And 15 more standouts, in alphabetical order
• The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NPR: NPR Music
• The Best Albums of 2024: Atwood Magazine
• The Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx
• Best Albums of 2024: AllMusic
• Top 100 Albums of 2024: Under the Radar Honorable mention

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 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 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 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
• 1 The Best Albums of 2022: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
• 1 The 30 Best Albums of 2022: A.V. Club
• 1 Top 20 Albums of 2022: Rob Sheffield: Rolling Stone
• 1 The 33 Best Albums of 2022: The Ringer
• 1 The 10 Best Albums of 2022: Spencer Kornhaber: Atlantic
• 2 Dean's List 2022: Robert Christgau
• 2 Top 50 Albums of 2022: Brooklyn Vegan
• 2 Best Albums of 2022: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
• 2 22 Best Albums of 2022: Okayplayer
• 2 Best Albums of 2022: Billboard
• 2 The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Slant
• 2 50 Best Albums of 2022: Exclaim
• 3 The 50 Best Albums of 2022: NME
• 3 The 10 Best Albums of 2022: Time
• 3 The Best Albums of 2022 Ranked: The Line of Best Fit
• 3 Top 50 Albums of 2022: Consequence
• 3 The 50 Best Albums Of 2022: Stereogum
• 3 Albums of the Year 2022: Dork
• 4 The 100 Best Albums of 2022: Albumism
• 4 The 10 Best Albums of 2022: USA Today
• 4 50 Best Albums of 2022: Complex
• 4 The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Our Culture
• 5 The 50 Best Albums of 2022: The Fader
• 5 Best Pop Music Albums of 2022: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
• 5 Best Albums of 2022: Jon Caramanica: New York Times
• 5 Best Southern Albums of 2022: Bitter Southerner
• 6 The Best Albums of 2022: Chris Willman: Variety
• 6 The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Treble
• 6 The Best Albums of 2022: The Forty-Five
• 7 Top 20 Albums of 2022: Spectrum Culture
• 8 Top 50 Albums of 2022: Beats Per Minute
• 8 The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Paste
• 9 The Best Albums of 2022: Flood
• 9 Top 50 Albums of 2022: Northern Transmissions
• 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
• 27 The Best Albums of 2022: No Ripcord
• 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

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

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 The 30 Best Albums of 2019: Vibe

Homecoming: The Live Album

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

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

Lemonade

• 1 60 Best Albums of 2016: Pretty Much Amazing
• 1 50 Best Albums of 2016: Complex
• 1 Top 50 Albums of 2016: Consequence
• 1 50 Best Albums of 2016: Entertainment Weekly
• 1 50 Best Albums of 2016: Stereogum
• 1 50 Best Albums of 2016: Rolling Stone
• 1 Top 100 Albums of the 2010s: Consequence
• 2 Top 100 Albums of 2016: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
• 2 Best 50 Albums of 2016: NPR: NPR Music
• 2 50 Best Albums of 2016: Paste
• 2 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Rolling Stone
• 2 The 50 Best Albums of the 2010s: A.V. Club
• 2 The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Paste
• 2 The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s: Refinery29
• 2 The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s: Billboard
• 3 25 Best Albums of 2016: Slant
• 3 Top Albums of 2016: Brooklyn Vegan
• 3 15 Best Albums of 2016: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
• 3 50 Best Albums of 2016: Pitchfork
• 4 Albums of the Year 2016: Clash
• 4 The Best Albums of the 2010s: Chris Willman: Variety
• 5 The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Vice: Noisey
• 5 The Best Albums of the 2010s: Uproxx
• 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 20 Best Albums of 2016: Uproxx
• 7 50 Best Albums of 2016: Pigeons & Planes
• 7 Favorite Albums of 2016: Jeremy D. Larson
• 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 40 Favorite Albums Of 2016: Hanif Abdurraqib
• 12 50 Best Albums of 2016: Mojo
• 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 2010s: NME
• 19 50 Best Albums of the 2010s: 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 2010s: Tiny Mix Tapes

• The Best Albums of 2016: Carl Wilson: Slate Top 10, in alphabetical order
• Top 10 Albums of 2016: Kitty Empire: Observer
• The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s: Time
• 16 Albums That Shaped 2016: DIY
• Top 20 Albums of 2016: Rob Sheffield: Rolling Stone
• 100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones exceptional
• Top Albums of 2016: Greg Kot: Chicago Tribune: Sound Opinions The next 10
• Best Albums of 2016: gal-dem
• The Best Albums of the 2010s: Atwood Magazine
• 48 Best Albums of 2016: AllMusic

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
• 14 Top 20 Albums of 2013: Rob Sheffield: Rolling Stone
• 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