Year-End Lists

AllMusic: Best Albums of 2024

• 2nd Grade
  Scheduled Explosions
• Adrianne Lenker
  Bright Future
• Amaro Freitas
  Y'Y
• Amyl and The Sniffers
  Cartoon Darkness
• Andra Day
  CASSANDRA (cherith)
• Angélica Garcia
  Gemelo
• Anthony Branker & Imagine
  Songs My Mom Liked
• Ariana Grande
  Eternal Sunshine
• Arooj Aftab
  Night Reign
• Being Dead
  Eels
• Belong
  Realistic IX
• Beth Gibbons
  Lives Outgrown
• Beyoncé
  Cowboy Carter
• Billie Eilish
  Hit Me Hard and Soft
• Bladee
  Cold Visions
• Blood Incantation
  Absolute Elsewhere
• Cassandra Jenkins
  My Light, My Destroyer
• Charles Lloyd
  The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
• Charley Crockett
  $10 Cowboy
• Charli XCX
  Brat
• Charlotte Day Wilson
  Cyan Blue
• Chelsea Wolfe
  She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
• Christopher Owens
  I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair
• Clairo
  Charm
• Common & Pete Rock
  The Auditorium, Vol. 1
• Daniel Romano's Outfit
  Too Hot To Sleep
• Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn
  Quiet in a World Full of Noise
• Dina Ögon
  Orion
• Doechii
  Alligator Bites Never Heal
• Du Blonde
  Sniff More Gritty
• Dua Lipa
  Radical Optimism
• Dwight Yoakam
  Brighter Days
• Elephant9 & Terje Rypdal
  Catching Fire
• Elucid
  Revelator
• Fabiana Palladino
  Fabiana Palladino
• Fat Dog
  WOOF.
• Field Music
  Limits of Language
• Floating Points
  Cascade
• Hiatus Kaiyote
  Love Heart Cheat Code
• Hurray for the Riff Raff
  The Past Is Still Alive
• Immanuel Wilkins
  Blues Blood
• Jake Xerxes Fussell
  When I'm Called
• Jamie xx
  In Waves
• Jessica Pratt
  Here in the Pitch
• Joe Sanders
  Parallels
• John Grant
  The Art Of The Lie
• Johnny Blue Skies
  Passage du Desir
• Jonathan Fournel / Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg / Howard Griffiths
  Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18, KV 456 & 21, KV 467
• Renée Fleming / Kelli O'Hara / Joyce DiDonato
  Puts: The Hours
• JPEGMAFIA
  I Lay Down My Life for You
• Julia Holter
  Something in the Room She Moves
• Julian Prégardien / Les Epopées / Stéphane Fuget
  Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
• Kali Uchis
  Orquídeas
• Kim Deal
  Nobody Loves You More
• Lalah Hathaway
  Vantablack
• Lea Desandre & Thomas Dunford
  Idylle
• London Choral Sinfonia & Michael Waldron
  The French Album
• various artists
  Handel: Theodora, HWV 60
• Mannequin Pussy
  I Got Heaven
• Matthew Shipp Trio
  New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz
• Mdou Moctar
  Funeral for Justice
• Meridian Brothers
  Mi Latinoamérica Sufre
• Meshell Ndegeocello
  No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
• Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding
  Milton + Esperanza
• MJ Lenderman
  Manning Fireworks
• Mount Eerie
  Night Palace
• Nailah Hunter
  Lovegaze
• Nala Sinephro
  Endlessness
• Nduduzo Makhathini
  uNomkhubulwane
• Nia Archives
  Silence Is Loud
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
  Wild God
• O.
  WeirdOs
• Opeth
  The Last Will and Testament
• Osees
  Sorcs 80
• Paul Wee / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Michael Collins
  Henselt & Bronsart: Piano Concertos
• Peter Perrett
  The Cleansing
• Redd Kross
  Redd Kross
• Rosali
  Bite Down
• Ruthven
  Rough & Ready
• Sabrina Carpenter
  Short n' Sweet
• Samara Joy
  Portrait
• Schoolboy Q
  Blue Lips
• Shawn Mendes
  Shawn
• St. Vincent
  All Born Screaming
• Sy Smith
  Until We Meet Again
• Takács Quartet
  Schubert: String Quartets, D. 112 & 887
• The Cure
  Songs of a Lost World
• The Last Dinner Party
  Prelude to Ecstasy
• The Smashing Pumpkins
  Aghori Mhori Mei
• The Softies
  The Bed I Made
• Tierra Whack
  World Wide Whack
• Tim Reaper & Kloke
  In Full Effect
• Tyla
  Tyla
• Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
  Nell' ora blu
• Vampire Weekend
  Only God Was Above Us
• Yard Act
  Where's My Utopia?
• Yasmin Williams
  Acadia
• Yaya Bey
  Ten Fold
• Yunchan Lim
  Chopin: Études, Op. 10 & 25
• Yuuko Shiokawa & András Schiff
  Brahms – Schumann