Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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by Kamasi Washington

Lists

  1. gal-dem: Top 20 Albums of 2015
  2. Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2015
  3. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2015
  4. The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2015
  5. Slant: 25 Best Albums of 2015
  6. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2015
  7. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  8. Sputnikmusic: Top 50 Albums of 2015
  9. Time Out London: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  10. Pretty Much Amazing: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  11. Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2015
  12. Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2015
  13. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  14. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  15. Mojo: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  16. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
  17. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
  18. Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s
  19. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2015
  20. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
  21. Slant: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

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