Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

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Decibel: Top 40 Albums of 2025
Hip Hop Golden Age: The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2020
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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- 2022 in Music: Sasha Frere-Jones
Something More Beautiful Than Perfection
- 2022 in Music: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Brendan Menapace · Esquire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 40 Albums of 2025 Decibel
Top 100 Albums of 2023 Under the Radar
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top Ten Films of 2025 Mike D’Angelo
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
The 50 Best Films of 2024 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2020 Hip Hop Golden Age
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Cranberry Hovvdy
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
A Brief Introduction To Unnatural Lightyears Olivia Wilde
Holy Ghost Modern Baseball
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Animated Violence Mild Blanck Mass
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
The Thread That Keeps Us Calexico
Music For People In Trouble Susanne Sundfør
Blackstar David Bowie
Infantilised Keith J. Hayward
All At Once Screaming Females
Street Worms Viagra Boys

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