Year-End Lists

Lists

1. Frontier Psychiatrist: Top 50 Albums of 2012
1. Slant: 25 Best Albums of 2012
1. Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: Top 10 Albums of 2012
1. musicOMH: Top 100 Albums of 2012
1. PopMatters: 75 Best Albums of 2012
1. Treble: Top 50 Albums of 2012
1. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2012
1. Guardian: Best Albums of 2012
1. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2012
1. A.V. Club: 25 Best Albums of 2012
1. MSN: 10 Best Albums of 2012
1. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2012
1. Billboard: 10 Best Albums of 2012
2. BBC Music: Top 25 Albums of 2012
2. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2012
2. Rolling Stone: Top 50 Albums of 2012
2. Sonic: 25 Best Albums of 2012
2. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2012
2. Stereogum: Top 50 Albums of 2012
2. Spinner: 50 Best Albums of 2012
2. WUOG: Top 50 Albums of 2012
2. Gigwise: 50 Albums of the 2012
2. Filter: Top 20 Albums of 2012
2. Mojo: 50 Best Albums of 2012
2. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2012
2. AllMusic: 50 Best Albums of 2012
3. Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis: Top 40 Albums of 2012
3. NME: 50 Best Albums of 2012
3. Fly: Top 50 Albums of 2012
3. Time: Douglas Wolk: Top 10 Albums of 2012
3. Clash: Top 40 Albums of 2012
3. Billboard: The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s
3. Esquire: The Best Albums of the 2010s
4. Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2012
4. Les Inrocks: Top 100 Albums of 2012
4. Idolator: 10 Best New Albums of 2012
5. Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2012
5. Paste: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
6. Crack Magazine: The Top 100 Albums of 2012
6. FasterLouder: Top 50 Albums of 2012
6. Consequence: Top 100 Albums of the 2010s
7. Slant: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
7. NME: Greatest Albums of the Decade
8. Refinery29: The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s
10. Mercury News: Jim Harrington: 50 Best Albums of the Decade
10. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
10. The Wild Honey Pie: Top 50 Albums of the 2010s
11. Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2012
12. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 50 Albums of 2012
13. Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s
13. Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s
16. Gorilla vs. Bear: 50 Best Albums of 2012
16. Fact: 50 Best Albums of 2012
19. American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2012
25. Cokemachineglow: Top 50 Albums of 2012
37. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
40. Barnes & Noble Review: Robert Christgau: Top 102 Albums of 2012
45. The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2012
48. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
71. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade

• NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2012
• Observer: Kitty Empire: 10 Best Pop Albums of 2012
• New Yorker: Sasha Frere-Jones: 40 Best Albums of 2012
• Q: 50 Best Albums of 2012
• Aquarium Drunkard: 2012 Year in Review
• Death and Taxes: 25 Best Albums of 2012
• Atwood Magazine: The Best Albums of the Decade