2021 Best Of Lists

I’m keeping track of these so you don’t have to - it’s BEST OF season, baby!!!

Flagging the interesting ones up top. I’m biased!!

• Noz’s YouTube playlist of his best rap of the year

• Deep Voices’ 100 Best Songs + Trends (good and thoughtful!)

• Washington Post’s 10 Best Albums of the Year (Chris Richards’ writing is consistently the most human take on listening to music, IMO)

• New York Times Best Jazz Albums of the Year - so far the most rewarding list for stuff I missed this year

And the rest! These top 10s did not make my top 10.

• Aquarium Drunkard’s Year In Review

• The Atlantic’s Best Albums of 2021

• BBC’s Best Songs And Albums of 2021

• Billboard’s The Year In Charts

• Complex’s Top 100 Albums of the Year

• The Economist’s Best Albums of 2021

• EW’s Best Songs of 2021 - surprisingly high ranking for Sharon Van Etten/Angel Olson? I’m in!

• The FADER’s 50 Best Albums of 2021

• First Floor/Shawn Reynaldo’s Favorites of 2021

• Gorilla Vs Bear’s Best Songs of 2021

• New York Times Best Pop Albums

• The New Yorker’s Best Music of 2021

• NME’s Top Albums - weird #1!!

• NPR’s Top 50 Albums of the Year

• Pitchfork’s Best 100 Tracks of the Year with EASILY the year’s wildest choice for #1 single

• Pitchfork’s Best 50 Albums of the Year

• The Ringer’s Best Songs of 2021

• The Ringer’s Best Albums of 2021 - so far the most egregious placement for DONDA I’ve seen. #6???

• The Ringer’s Best K-Pop Songs of 2021

• Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Songs of the Year

• Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of the Year

• SPIN’s 30 Best Songs of 2021

• Spotify What The World Streamed Most in 2021

• Stereogum’s Top 50 Albums of the Year

• Stereogum’s Top 70 Songs of the Year

• TIME’s 10 Best Songs of the Year

• UPROXX’s Best Songs of 2021

• Vogue editors pick their Best Songs of the Year

• The Wall Street Journal’s Best Albums of 2021