Year-End Lists

Mayhem

2. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Rolling Stone
3. The Best 50 Albums of 2025: Billboard
4. The Best Albums of 2025: Steven J. Horowitz: Variety
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Guardian
5. The 10 Best Albums of 2025: Entertainment Weekly
8. The Best Albums of 2025: Chris Willman: Variety
11. The Best Albums of 2025: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
14. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
16. The 45 Best Albums of 2025: The Forty-Five
19. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: NME
22. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: Time Out
27. Top 55 Albums of 2025: Brooklyn Vegan
28. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
31. 50 Best Albums of 2025: The Alternative
32. Albums of the Year 2025: Clash
33. The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters
35. Best Albums of 2025: Stephen Thomas Erlewine

• The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine
• Best Albums of 2025: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
• The 45 Best Albums of 2025: Vogue

Chromatica

5. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Billboard
6. Top 13 Albums of 2020: Brittany Spanos: Slate
8. Top 50 Albums of 2020: Consequence
11. Best Albums of 2020: Rolling Stone
13. Top 13 Albums of 2020: Chris Molanphy: Slate
14. Albums of 2020: DIY
14. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: NME
15. Albums of the Year 2020: Clash
16. The 45 Best Albums of 2020: The Forty-Five
19. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Guardian
24. Best Albums of 2020: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
28. Albums of the Year 2020: Dork
47. The Best Albums of 2020 Ranked: The Line of Best Fit
51. The 100 Best Albums of 2020: Albumism
64. The 100 Best Albums of 2020: Vice: Noisey

• Best Albums of 2020: AllMusic

The Fame Monster

151. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s: Pitchfork

Joanne

20. 50 Best Albums of 2016: NME
34. Top 50 Albums Of 2016: Q
43. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Complex
49. 60 Best Albums of 2016: Pretty Much Amazing
66. Top 100 Albums of the 2010s: Consequence
95. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop

ARTPOP

14. 15 Best Albums of 2013: Billboard
78. Top 100 Albums of 2013: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop

Born This Way

3. 25 Best Albums of 2011: Slant
6. 50 Best Albums of 2011: Rolling Stone
14. Top 30 Albums of 2011: Hot Press
14. 40 Best Albums of 2011: Pretty Much Amazing
20. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Slant
21. The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s: Billboard
29. 50 Best Albums of 2011: Spin
30. Top 100 Albums of 2011: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
30. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Q
31. Best Albums of 2011: Guardian
49. Favourite Albums of 2011: Drowned in Sound
72. The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s: Spin
78. Greatest Albums of the Decade: NME
92. The Best Albums of the 2010s: Uproxx

• The 110 Best Albums of the 2010s: Albumism
• The Best Albums of the 2010s: Atwood Magazine