Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
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2025 Albums of the Year
Albums of the Year 2024
Albums of the Year 2023
Albums of 2022
Best Albums of 2021
Albums of 2020
16 Albums That Shaped 2016
Albums of 2011

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014 Tiny Mix Tapes
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Favorite 50 Albums of 2013 Tiny Mix Tapes
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016 Tiny Mix Tapes
50 Favorite Music Releases of 2017 Tiny Mix Tapes
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Favorite 50 Albums of 2012 Tiny Mix Tapes

Trending Works

To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
Hijack
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
Dan's Boogie Destroyer
On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
Le Kov Gwenno
John & Paul Ian Leslie
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Eno Gary Hustwit
Catherine Called Birdy Lena Dunham
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee

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