Year-End Lists

Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2021, a survey of "more than 200 music critics from across the industry"

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Jubilee
   Japanese Breakfast
2. Sour
   Olivia Rodrigo
3. Call Me If You Get Lost
   Tyler, The Creator
4. Glow On
   Turnstile
5. Heaux Tales
   Jazmine Sullivan
6. Home Video
   Lucy Dacus
7. I Don’t Live Here Anymore
   The War on Drugs
8. Promises
   Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
9. Hey What
   Low
10. New Long Leg
    Dry Cleaning
11. If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
    Halsey
12. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
    Little Simz
13. Happier Than Ever
    Billie Eilish
14. Valentine
    Snail Mail
15. Ignorance
    The Weather Station
16. An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
    Cassandra Jenkins
17. Donda
    Kanye West
18. I Know I'm Funny haha
    Faye Webster
19. An Evening with Silk Sonic
    Silk Sonic
20. Little Oblivions
    Julien Baker
21. Planet Her
    Doja Cat
22. 30
    Adele
23. Collapsed in Sunbeams
    Arlo Parks
24. A Billion Little Lights
    Wild Pink
25. Evermore
    Taylor Swift
26. The House Is Burning
    Isaiah Rashad
27. Nine
    Sault
28. Draw Down The Moon
    Foxing
29. Montero
    Lil Nas X
30. Nurture
    Porter Robinson
31. Screen Violence
    Chvrches
32. Death of a Cheerleader
    Pom Pom Squad
33. Any Shape You Take
    Indigo De Souza
34. Entertainment, Death
    The Spirit Of The Beehive
35. Chemtrails over the Country Club
    Lana Del Rey
36. Stand For Myself
    Yola
37. Vince Staples
    Vince Staples
38. Red (Taylor's Version)
    Taylor Swift
39. Daddy's Home
    St. Vincent
40. Haram
    Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
41. Certified Lover Boy
    Drake
42. Pray For Haiti
    Mach-Hommy
43. For the First Time
    Black Country, New Road
44. Things Take Time, Take Time
    Courtney Barnett
45. Outside Child
    Allison Russell
46. memoryland
    CFCF
47. Star-Crossed
    Kacey Musgraves
48. Fatigue
    L'Rain
49. Sound Ancestors
    Madlib
50. Afrique Victime
    Mdou Moctar