Year-End Lists

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

Music
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

Albums of the Year 2021 Clash

Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan

The 10 Best Albums of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mikael Wood

Home Video - Lucy Dacus

Top 10 Albums of 2021 NPR Music: Bob Boilen

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

Top 20 Albums of 2021 Spectrum Culture

Hey What - Low

Top 50 Albums of 2021 Beats Per Minute

The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers - Valerie June

Top 10 Albums of 2021 NPR Music: Ann Powers

Home Video - Lucy Dacus

Top 10 Albums of 2021 NPR Music: Marissa Lorusso

Glow On - Turnstile

The Best Albums of 2021 Flood

10 Best Albums of 2021 BBC Culture

Fire - The Bug

The Best Music of 2021 Quietus: Jennifer Lucy Allan

In Heaven - Strand of Oaks

Top 25 Albums of 2021 Magnet

Nurture - Porter Robinson

The 50 Best Albums of 2021 The Fader

Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan

The Best Albums of 2021 Vulture: Craig Jenkins

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

The Best Albums of 2021 Ranked The Line of Best Fit

Outside Child - Allison Russell

The 10 Best Country Albums Of 2021 Stereogum: Marissa R. Moss

Glow On - Turnstile

The 30 Best Albums Of 2021 Spin

When Smoke Rises - Mustafa

The Best Albums of 2021 Vinyl Me, Please

New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning

The 50 Best Albums of 2021 Far Out

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

Top Ten Albums of 2021 The Skinny

Afrique Victime - Mdou Moctar

The Best Albums of 2021 The Philadelphia Inquirer: Dan DeLuca

Promises - Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra

Our 50 Favourite Albums of 2021 Vinyl Factory

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

Top 10 Albums of 2021 BBC Radio 6 Music

Seventeen Going Under - Sam Fender

The 50 Best Albums of 2021 NME

Nurture - Porter Robinson

The 50 Best Albums of 2021 Our Culture