Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The Best Albums of 2022
The Best Albums of 2021
The 50 Best Albums of 2020
The Best Albums of 2019
Best Albums of 2018
Best Albums of 2017

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2023 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Portal Balu Brigada
Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection Dril
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Girl with Basket of Fruit Xiu Xiu
This Is Happening LCD Soundsystem
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
10 Sault
Getting Killed Geese
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Hits of Ash African-American Sound Recordings
Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse Mariah Carey
What We Spend
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Crick Professor Matthew Cobb

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