Year-End Lists

Certified Lover Boy

12. Complex: The Best Albums of 2021
18. Billboard: The 50 Best Albums of 2021
41. Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2021
48. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2021

• Los Angeles Times: Mikael Wood: The 10 Best Albums of 2021
• New Statesman: The Best Albums of 2021
• New York Times: Jon Caramanica: Best Albums of 2021

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28. Complex: The Best Albums of 2020

• New York Times: Jon Caramanica: Best Albums of 2020
• XXL: Best Hip-Hop Projects of 2020

Take Care

1. New York Times: Jon Caramanica: Top 10 Albums of 2011
2. Stereogum: Top 50 Albums of 2011
3. Complex: 25 Best Albums of 2011
4. Slate: Jonah Weiner: 10 Favorite Albums of 2011
5. Billboard: 10 Best Albums of 2011
5. Washington Post: Chris Richards: Best Pop Albums of 2011
5. New York Times: Nate Chinen: Top 10 Albums of 2011
6. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
6. New York Times: Jon Pareles: Top 10 Albums of 2011
7. Fact: 50 Best Albums of 2011
8. NPR Music: Ann Powers: 10 Favorite Albums of 2011
8. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2011
8. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2011
9. Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s
9. AwkwardSound: 25 Best Albums of 2011
10. Consequence of Sound: Top 50 Albums of 2011
10. I Guess I’m Floating: 30 Best Albums of 2011
10. Prefix: Top Albums of 2011
13. A.V. Club: Best Music of 2011
13. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
14. Slant: 25 Best Albums of 2011
16. Billboard: The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s
19. Guardian: Best Albums of 2011
19. Pretty Much Amazing: 40 Best Albums of 2011
22. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2011
22. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2011
26. NME: Greatest Albums of the Decade
32. Les Inrocks: 100 Best Albums of 2011
33. Treble: Top 50 Albums of 2011
35. Cokemachineglow: Top 50 Albums of 2011
38. A.V. Club: The 50 Best Albums of the 2010s
38. Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s
39. Obscure Sound: Best Albums of 2011
48. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2011
54. Slant: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
74. Consequence of Sound: Top 100 Albums of the 2010s
100. Paste: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
101. Spin: The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s

• Sasha Frere-Jones: Favorite Albums of 2011

Nothing Was the Same

2. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2013
5. Billboard: 15 Best Albums of 2013
9. Slant: 25 Best Albums of 2013
14. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2013
18. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2013
19. Consequence of Sound: Top 50 Albums of 2013
25. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2013
28. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2013
30. Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s
31. Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2013
42. Fact: 50 Best Albums of 2013
45. Billboard: The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s
48. The Wild Honey Pie: Top 50 Albums of the 2010s

• New Yorker: Sasha Frere-Jones: 42 Best Albums of 2013

If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late

3. Dummy: 30 Best Albums of 2015
3. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2015
8. Pigeons & Planes: 50 Best Albums of 2015
9. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2015
12. Time Out London: 50 Best Albums of 2015
12. Billboard: 25 Best Albums of 2015
14. Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2015
14. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015
16. Entertainment Weekly: 40 Best Albums of 2015
17. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2015
18. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2015
23. NME: Top 50 Albums of 2015
23. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2015
25. Crack Magazine: Albums of the Year 2015
25. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2015
26. American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2015
28. Consequence of Sound: Top 50 Albums of 2015
46. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
50. FasterLouder: 50 Best Albums of 2015
52. Les Inrocks: 100 Best Albums of 2015
55. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade
69. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
70. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
84. Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2015

• Sasha Frere-Jones: 89 Favorite Albums of 2015

Scorpion

4. New York Times: Jon Caramanica: 18 Best Albums of 2018
6. Vibe: 30 Best Albums of 2018
10. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2018
15. Billboard: 50 Best Albums of 2018
34. Complex: Best Albums of 2018
43. Uproxx: 50 Best Albums Of 2018
82. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2018

More Life

10. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2017
13. New York Times: Jon Caramanica: 25 Best Albums of 2017
17. Guardian: Best Albums of 2017
21. Billboard: 50 Best Albums of 2017
25. Uproxx: 50 Best Albums of 2017
27. Rolling Stone: 51 Best Albums of 2017
38. Pitchfork: 50 Best Albums of 2017
45. Pigeons & Planes: Best Albums of 2017
49. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2017
54. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2017
65. Les Inrocks: Best Albums of 2017

• Vibe: 25 Best Albums of 2017
• Houston Chronicle: Joey Guerra: 10 Best Albums of 2017

Views

8. Les Inrocks: 50 Best Albums of 2016
12. The Wild Honey Pie: Top 30 Albums of 2016
15. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2016
17. NME: 50 Best Albums of 2016
40. Crack Magazine: Albums of the Year 2016
42. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2016
48. Q: Top 50 Albums Of 2016