Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2018 (an annual poll of hundreds of critics, published, perhaps for the last time, by The Village Voice)
[see also 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]
Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2018 (an annual poll of hundreds of critics, published, perhaps for the last time, by The Village Voice)
[see also 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]
Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2018, a survey of nearly 200 music critics
[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]
Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2018, as aired on The Needle Drop
[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017]
No Depression: Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2018, as selected by staffers, columnists, and reviewers
Jordan Cronk: Albums 2018, as posted to Twitter
[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]