Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
NPR: 50 Favorite Albums of 2011
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Off My Stars
- The 60 Best Albums of 2023: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2011 Fly
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Year in Film 2011 A.V. Club
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Movies of the 2010s Decade Matt Patches · Polygon
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 100 Albums of 2014 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
50 Favorite Albums of 2011 NPR · NPR Music
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
If Orange Was a Place Tems
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Billie Eilish
Cerulean Salt Waxahatchee
Collapse Aphex Twin
Devil Is Fine Zeal & Ardor
Tip of the Sphere Cass McCombs
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Into It with Sam Sanders
Blackstar David Bowie
Testing A$AP Rocky
Counter-Intelligence Robert Hannigan
Mura Masa Mura Masa
Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck

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