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2021 Best Of Lists

Tyler McCauley
Dec 7, 2021
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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

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