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!!
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
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!!
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
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