Year-End Lists

The Life of a Showgirl

4. The Best Albums of 2025: Chris Willman: Variety
9. The Best 50 Albums of 2025: Billboard
11. Best Albums of 2025: Jon Caramanica: New York Times
15. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Rolling Stone

• Albums of the Year 2025: New Statesman

The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology

1. The Best Albums of 2024: Chris Willman: Variety
2. Top 20 Albums of 2024: Rob Sheffield: Rolling Stone

The Tortured Poets Department

2. The 20 Best Albums of 2024: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
2. The Best Albums Of 2024: Coup De Main
4. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
4. Top 10 Albums of 2024: Jeff Nelson: People
5. The Best Albums of 2024: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
8. Best Albums of 2024: Billboard
10. The 25 Best Albums of 2024: Sunday Times
16. Best Albums of 2024: Jon Caramanica: New York Times
19. The Best Albums of 2024: Independent
23. The 100 Best Albums of 2024: Rolling Stone
25. The Best Albums of 2024: Time Out
60. The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters
68. 80 Best Albums of 2024: Uncut

• The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Mesfin Fekadu: Hollywood Reporter
• The Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx

1989 (Taylor's Version)

9. Best Albums of 2023: Adrian Thrills: Daily Mail

Midnights (3am Edition)

5. 51 Best Albums of 2022: Gigwise
9. The Best Albums Of 2022: Coup De Main

Midnights

1. The 100 Best Albums of 2022: Albumism
1. The Best Albums of 2022: Chris Willman: Variety
2. Best Music of 2022: Brittany Spanos: Rolling Stone
3. Best Albums of 2022: Billboard
3. The 100 Best Albums of 2022: Rolling Stone
3. The 10 Best Albums of 2022: USA Today
4. The 20 Best Albums of 2022: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
5. The 80 Best Albums of 2022: PopMatters
8. Albums of the Year 2022: Dork
8. The Best Albums of 2022: The Forty-Five
11. Top Ten Albums of 2022: The Skinny
12. Best Albums of 2022: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
12. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: NME
16. Albums Of The Year 2022: Clash
17. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Guardian
18. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Slant
28. Top 50 Albums of 2022: Consequence
40. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Paste
48. Top 50 Albums of 2022: Brooklyn Vegan
48. The Best Albums of 2022 Ranked: The Line of Best Fit
50. Top 100 Albums of 2022: Under the Radar

• The Best Albums Of 2022: Uproxx
• The Best Albums of 2022: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
• The Best Music of 2022: Steve Erickson: GCN

Red (Taylor's Version)

4. Business Insider: Callie Ahlgrim: The Best Albums of 2021
7. Rolling Stone: Brittany Spanos: Top 10 Albums of 2021
12. Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2021
25. Billboard: The 50 Best Albums of 2021
26. The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2021 Ranked
31. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2021
38. Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2021

• Variety: Chris Willman: The Best Albums of 2021
• GCN: Steve Erickson: The Best Music of 2021
• New Statesman: The Best Albums of 2021

Evermore

1. The Best Albums of 2020: Chris Willman: Variety
1. The 10 Best Albums of 2020: Patrick Ryan: USA Today
2. Top 13 Albums of 2020: Chris Molanphy: Slate
4. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Our Culture
6. The Best Albums of 2020: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
20. Dean's List 2020: Robert Christgau
25. Best Albums of 2021: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll

• The Best Albums Of 2021: Uproxx

Folklore

1. Best Albums of 2020: Rolling Stone
1. The 20 Best Albums of 2020: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Billboard
1. The Best Albums Of 2020: Uproxx
1. The 10 Best Albums of 2020: Patrick Ryan: USA Today
1. The 10 Best Albums of 2020: Los Angeles Times
1. Top 13 Albums of 2020: Brittany Spanos: Slate
1. The Best Albums of 2020: Chris Willman: Variety
1. Best Albums of 2020: Time
2. The Best Albums Of 2020: Coup De Main
2. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: NME
2. Top 13 Albums of 2020: Chris Molanphy: Slate
3. Best Albums of 2020: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
3. 51 Best Albums of 2020: Gigwise
4. The Best Albums of 2020: Andrew Barker: Variety
4. The 45 Best Albums of 2020: The Forty-Five
4. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Our Culture
4. Best Albums of 2020: Jon Pareles: New York Times
4. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Slant
5. The 50 Best Albums Of 2020: Stereogum
5. The Best Albums of 2020: Ken Tucker: NPR: Fresh Air
5. The 15 Best Albums of 2020: Entertainment Weekly
5. The 100 Best Albums of 2020: Albumism
6. The Best Albums of 2020: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
6. The 20 Best Albums of 2020: A.V. Club
7. Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2020: No Depression
7. Albums of 2020: DIY
8. Albums of the Year 2020: Dork
9. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Guardian
11. Best Albums of 2020: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
11. The Best Albums of 2020: Carl Wilson: Slate
12. Top 20 Albums of 2020: Spectrum Culture
13. Albums of the Year 2020: Clash
13. The Best Albums of 2020: Complex
17. The 60 Best Albums of 2020: PopMatters
20. Top 30 Albums of 2020: The Wild Honey Pie
22. 50 Best Albums of 2020: Exclaim
23. Top 30 Albums of 2020: Northern Transmissions
27. Top 50 Albums of 2020: Consequence
29. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Pitchfork
31. 75 Best Albums of 2020: Mojo
32. The Best Albums of 2020 Ranked: The Line of Best Fit
45. Top 100 Albums of 2020: Under the Radar
97. The 100 Best Albums of 2020: Vice: Noisey

• The Best in 2020 Music: Steve Erickson: GCN
• The 16 Best Albums of 2020: Atlantic
• Top Albums of 2020: American Songwriter
• Best Albums of 2020: AllMusic
• The Best Music of 2020: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
• The Best Albums of 2020: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
• Best Albums of 2020: Nick Levine: BBC: BBC Culture

Lover (song)

• The Best Albums of 2019: Andrew Barker: Variety

Lover

1. The Best Albums of 2019: Chris Willman: Variety
3. The 50 Best Albums of 2019: Billboard
4. The 50 Best Albums of 2019: Rolling Stone
11. Best Albums of 2019: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
14. Best Albums of 2019: Jon Caramanica: New York Times
15. The Best Albums of 2019: Flood
25. The Best Albums Of 2019: Uproxx
27. The 50 Best Albums of 2019: Guardian
28. The 50 Best Albums of 2019: Albumism
35. Top 50 Albums of 2019: Q
41. The 50 Best Albums of 2019: NME
42. Dean's List 2019: Robert Christgau

• The Best Albums of 2019: Carl Wilson: Slate
• Favorite Albums of 2019: Tyler Andere
• Top 25 Albums of 2019: American Songwriter
• The Best Albums of 2019: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Speak Now

37. The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s: Spin
51. The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s: Billboard

reputation

5. New York Times: Jon Caramanica: 25 Best Albums of 2017
5. Mercury News: Jim Harrington: Best Albums of 2017
6. Billboard: 50 Best Albums of 2017
7. Rolling Stone: 51 Best Albums of 2017
9. Time: Raisa Bruner: Top 10 Albums of 2017
17. Slant: 25 Best Albums of 2017
26. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2017
31. NME: 50 Best Albums of 2017
48. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2017
71. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2017
88. Slant: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
101. Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Best Albums of 2017

1989

1. Billboard: 10 Best Albums of 2014
1. Variety: Chris Willman: The Best Albums of the 2010s
3. Drowned in Sound: 51 Favourite Albums of 2014
4. American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2014
4. A.V. Club: The 50 Best Albums of the 2010s
7. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2014
8. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2014
10. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2014
10. Refinery29: The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s
10. Slant: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
12. Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2014
15. Time Out London: 30 Best Albums of 2014
15. A.V. Club: 20 Best Albums of 2014
17. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2014
19. Billboard: The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s
19. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
22. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2014
24. Consequence: Top 100 Albums of the 2010s
31. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2014
31. NME: Greatest Albums of the Decade
34. Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s
50. Paste: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
69. Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s

• Slate: Carl Wilson: Top 14 Albums of 2014
• NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2014
• Albumism: The 110 Best Albums of the 2010s
• Atwood Magazine: The Best Albums of the 2010s

Red

2. 10 Best New Albums of 2012: Idolator
3. The Best Albums of the 2010s: Uproxx
4. The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s: Billboard
4. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Rolling Stone
5. 10 Best Albums of 2012: Billboard
9. 10 Best Albums of 2012: MSN
10. The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s: Stereogum
16. Best Albums of 2012: Guardian
17. Top 100 Albums of 2012: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
19. Top 50 Albums of 2012: Stereogum
21. 50 Best Albums of the Decade: Jim Harrington: Mercury News
23. Top 102 Albums of 2012: Robert Christgau: Barnes & Noble Review
23. 75 Best Albums of 2012: PopMatters
31. Top 50 Albums of 2012: Rolling Stone
38. 50 Best Albums of 2012: Spin
59. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s: Pitchfork

• 40 Best Albums of 2012: Sasha Frere-Jones: New Yorker