Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2022
Time: Top 10 Best Albums of 2015
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Lists

The Best Albums of 2025 Variety
The Best Albums of 2024 Variety
The Best Albums of 2023 Variety
The Best Albums of 2022 Variety
The Best Albums of 2021 Variety
The Best Albums of 2020 Variety
The Best Albums of the 2010s Variety
The Best Albums of 2019 Variety
20 Best Albums of 2018 Variety

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
25 Best Films of 2025 A.V. Club
Top 10 Best Albums of 2015 Time
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024 Guardian
Top 100 Albums of 2025 Under the Radar
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

The Woman Next Door Yewande Omotoso
Beau Is Afraid Ari Aster
Everything Makes Me Sick Sex Scenes
End Explosions in the Sky
The Endless Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
Sorry to Bother You The Coup
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Steve James
Ty Segall Ty Segall
Ernest & Celestine Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier
Guilty of Everything Nothing
Holy Motors Leos Carax
Electric Pet Shop Boys
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
All That Glitters Orlando Whitfield

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