Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Highlights

All 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2010s 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Music

Favorite Albums of 2017 Sasha Frere-Jones

50 Best Albums of 2017 Fact

Favorite Albums of 2017 Jordan Cronk

Albums of the Year 2017 Clash

Best Albums of 2017 Les Inrocks

50 Favorite Music Releases of 2017 Tiny Mix Tapes

50 Best Albums of 2017 Spin

100 Best Albums of 2017 Earbuddy

Top 20 Albums of 2017 405

Top 25 Albums of 2017 Diffuser

10 Favorite Albums of 2017 Sound Opinions: Greg Kot

Top 10 Underheard Albums of 2017 NPR Music: Ann Powers

Top 21 Albums of 2017 NPR Music: Nate Chinen

Top 10 Albums of 2017 NPR Music: Stephen Thompson

Top 10 Albums of 2017 NPR Music: Robin Hilton

Top 12 Albums of 2017 NPR Music: Bob Boilen

The 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2017 Pitchfork: Sasha Geffen

Top 50 Albums of 2017 Austin Town Hall

60 Best Albums of 2017 PopMatters

50 Best Albums of 2017 Billboard

10 Best Albums of 2017 Atlantic: Spencer Kornhaber

10 Best Albums of 2017 New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich

50 Best Albums of 2017 Albumism

Best Albums of 2017 Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Recent Lists

By Year

By Category

Trending Works

Archive

About

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.