Year-End Lists

NPR: The 50 Best Albums of 2024, presented chronologically and unranked, although they've marked "the best of the best" with a crown. Click through to see which 13 get that designation.

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

• Orquídeas
  Kali Uchis
• Compassion
  Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
• Two Star & The Dream Police
  Mk.gee
• Weird Faith
  Madi Diaz
• The Past Is Still Alive
  Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Blue Lips
  Schoolboy Q
• American Counterpoints
  Experiential Orchestra
• The Collective
  Kim Gordon
• Tigers Blood
  Waxahatchee
• Tyla
  Tyla
• Utopia Now!
  Rosie Tucker
• Mientras vivas brilla
  Amaia Miranda
• Cowboy Carter
  Beyoncé
• Fabiana Palladino
  Fabiana Palladino
• In C
  Maya Beiser x Terry Riley
• Pink Balloons
  Ekko Astral
• Sentiment
  claire rousay
• Prece
  Luiza Brina
• Here in the Pitch
  Jessica Pratt
• Lives Outgrown
  Beth Gibbons
• Gemelo
  Angélica Garcia
• Timeless
  KAYTRANADA
• Brat
  Charli XCX
• Born in the Wild
  Tems
• Revolución diamantina
  Gabriela Ortiz
• HEIS
  Rema
• My Light, My Destroyer
  Cassandra Jenkins
• Big Ideas
  Remi Wolf
• I Lay Down My Life for You
  JPEGMAFIA
• No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
  Meshell Ndegeocello
• CRYBABY
  Rae Khalil
• Woodland
  Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
• Short n' Sweet
  Sabrina Carpenter
• Alligator Bites Never Heal
  Doechii
• Freezing
  Emily D'Angelo
• Breaking Stretch
  Patricia Brennan
• Endlessness
  Nala Sinephro
• Manning Fireworks
  MJ Lenderman
• My Method Actor
  Nilüfer Yanya
• Dunya
  Mustafa
• Acadia
  Yasmin Williams
• Absolute Elsewhere
  Blood Incantation
• Blues Blood
  Immanuel Wilkins
• Take Care
  BigXthaPlug
• Glorious
  GloRilla
• Grande-Terre
  Roy Hargrove's Crisol
• Latin Mafia
  Latin Mafia
• Chromakopia
  Tyler, The Creator
• Songs of a Lost World
  The Cure
• GNX
  Kendrick Lamar