Year-End Lists

Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé

20. Sean Fennessey: Best Movies of 2023

• Jourdain Searles: Favorite Films of 2023

Break My Soul Remixes ("Break My Soul (Honey Dijon Remix)")

10. Artforum: Sasha Geffen: Best Music of 2022

Renaissance

1. Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2022
1. Observer: Kitty Empire: 10 Best Albums of 2022
1. Rolling Stone: Brittany Spanos: Best Music of 2022
1. Clash: Albums Of The Year 2022
1. Dazed: The 20 Best Albums of 2022
1. Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2022
1. Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
1. The Ringer: The 33 Best Albums of 2022
1. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
1. The Skinny: Top Ten Albums of 2022
1. Vulture: Craig Jenkins: The Best Albums of 2022
1. Atlantic: Spencer Kornhaber: The 10 Best Albums of 2022
1. NPR Music: Best Albums of 2022
1. Los Angeles Times: Mikael Wood: The 20 Best Albums of 2022
1. PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2022
1. Hollywood Reporter: Mesfin Fekadu: The Best Albums of 2022
1. New York Times: Jon Pareles: Best Albums of 2022
1. Entertainment Weekly: The 10 Best Albums of 2022
1. Wired: Jason Parham: The 12 Best Albums of 2022
1. Chron: Nina Hernandez: The Best Albums of 2022
2. Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2022
2. Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2022
2. Brooklyn Vegan: Top 50 Albums of 2022
2. New York Times: Lindsay Zoladz: Best Albums of 2022
2. Okayplayer: 22 Best Albums of 2022
2. Billboard: Best Albums of 2022
2. Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
3. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2022
3. The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2022 Ranked
3. Time: The 10 Best Albums of 2022
3. NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
3. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2022
4. Albumism: The 100 Best Albums of 2022
4. USA Today: The 10 Best Albums of 2022
4. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2022
4. Our Culture: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
5. The Fader: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
5. Bitter Southerner: Best Southern Albums of 2022
5. New York Times: Jon Caramanica: Best Albums of 2022
6. Treble: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
6. The Forty-Five: The Best Albums of 2022
6. Variety: Chris Willman: The Best Albums of 2022
7. Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2022
8. Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
8. Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2022
9. Flood: The Best Albums of 2022
9. Northern Transmissions: Top 50 Albums of 2022
11. Loud And Quiet: Albums of the Year 2022
13. KCRW: The 22 Best Albums of 2022
14. DIY: Albums of 2022
15. The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2022
16. Gigwise: 51 Best Albums of 2022
27. Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2022
37. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2022
53. Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2022
57. Hanif Abdurraqib: 100 Favorite Albums of 2022
66. Quietus: Albums of the Year 2022

• Uproxx: The Best Albums Of 2022
• Slate: Carl Wilson: The Best Albums of 2022
• Sasha Frere-Jones: 2022 in Music
• NPR Music: Sheldon Pearce: Top 20 Albums of 2022
• AP: Top Albums 2022
• Vinyl Me, Please: The Best Albums of 2022
• Texas Music: 22 Top Albums of 2022
• Boston Globe: The 50 Best Albums of 2022

Black is King

3. Cinema Etc.: Cole Duffy: Top 10 Films of 2020

• British Vogue: These Are the 12 Best Albums of 2020

The Lion King: The Gift

3. Vibe: The 30 Best Albums of 2019

Homecoming: The Live Album

4. Vibe: The 30 Best Albums of 2019
6. Washington Post: Chris Richards: Best Music of 2019
8. Fresh Air: Ken Tucker: Top 10 Albums of 2019
12. Billboard: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
14. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
26. The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2019

• Wired: Jason Parham: The 7 Best Albums of 2019

Lemonade

1. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2016
1. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2016
1. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2016
1. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2016
1. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2016
1. Entertainment Weekly: 50 Best Albums of 2016
1. Consequence: Top 100 Albums of the 2010s
2. NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2016
2. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2016
2. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2016
2. Refinery29: The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s
2. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
2. Billboard: The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s
2. A.V. Club: The 50 Best Albums of the 2010s
2. Paste: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
3. Vulture: Craig Jenkins: 15 Best Albums of 2016
3. Slant: 25 Best Albums of 2016
3. Pitchfork: 50 Best Albums of 2016
3. Brooklyn Vegan: Top Albums of 2016
4. Clash: Albums of the Year 2016
4. Variety: Chris Willman: The Best Albums of the 2010s
5. Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s
5. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
5. The Wild Honey Pie: Top 50 Albums of the 2010s
6. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2016
6. Treble: The Top 50 Albums of 2016
6. Esquire: The Best Albums of the 2010s
7. Pigeons & Planes: 50 Best Albums of 2016
7. Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2016
7. Uproxx: 20 Best Albums of 2016
10. Gorilla vs. Bear: 60 Favorite Albums of 2016
10. Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2016
10. The Skinny: Top 50 Albums of 2016
11. NME: 50 Best Albums of 2016
12. Drowned in Sound: 16 Favourite Albums of 2016
12. Crack Magazine: Albums of the Year 2016
12. Mojo: 50 Best Albums of 2016
12. Hanif Abdurraqib: 40 Favorite Albums Of 2016
13. Q: Top 50 Albums Of 2016
15. Fact: 50 Best Albums of 2016
15. Flood: The Best Records of 2016
17. NME: Greatest Albums of the Decade
19. Mercury News: Jim Harrington: 50 Best Albums of the Decade
21. Slant: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
23. American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2016
30. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2016
32. Tiny Mix Tapes: 51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016
33. Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s
41. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
53. Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2016
64. Spin: The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s
95. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade

• AllMusic: 48 Best Albums of 2016
• Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: Top Albums of 2016
• DIY: 16 Albums That Shaped 2016
• Observer: Kitty Empire: Top 10 Albums of 2016
• Sasha Frere-Jones: 100 Favorite Albums of 2016
• gal-dem: Best Albums of 2016
• Slate: Carl Wilson: The Best Albums of 2016
• Time: The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s
• Atwood Magazine: The Best Albums of the Decade

Beyoncé

1. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2014
1. Billboard: 15 Best Albums of 2013
3. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
4. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2013
4. Spin: The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s
7. Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s
8. Mercury News: Jim Harrington: 50 Best Albums of the Decade
11. Billboard: The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s
13. Treble: Top 50 Albums of 2014
18. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2014
24. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
26. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
33. Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s
35. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade
40. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014
40. Paste: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
53. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2014
55. NME: Greatest Albums of the Decade
79. Consequence: Top 100 Albums of the 2010s

• Atwood Magazine: The Best Albums of the Decade

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3. SFGate: 10 Best Albums of 2011
4. Guardian: Best Albums of 2011
5. Boston Globe: James Reed: Top Albums of 2011
6. Chicago Sun-Times: Thomas Conner: Top Albums of 2011
7. BBC: Top 25 Albums of 2011
10. New York Times: Jon Caramanica: Top 10 Albums of 2011
13. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2011
18. Stereogum: Top 50 Albums of 2011
25. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2011
26. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2011
27. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2011
31. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
34. Pretty Much Amazing: 40 Best Albums of 2011
39. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2011
48. Prefix: Top Albums of 2011

• Sasha Frere-Jones: Favorite Albums of 2011
• NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2011

Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé

9. Seventh Row Critics Survey: Jourdain Searles: Best Films of 2019
13. A.V. Club: Caroline Siede: The Best Films of 2019
15. A.V. Club: Charles Bramesco: The Best Films of 2019
18. ScreenCrush: Matt Singer: The Best Movies of 2019