The 2024 End of Year music lists thread

So the first 2024 Best Albums list has been published,

Uncut Magazine - The Top 80 Albums of 2024

via
https://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15608&sid=5e7daf9406683dd0ec3889fab59fdb06

80. Leyla McCalla - Sun Without the Heat
79. Yasmin Williams - Acadia
78. Wadada Leo Smith / Amina Claudine Myers - Centers Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens
77. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas
76. Personal Trainer - Still Willing
75. Pye Corner Audio - The Endless Echo
74. Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore - TexiCali
73. Nick Lowe - Indoor Safari
72. Laurie Anderson - Amelia
71. Beachwood Sparks - Across the River of Stars
70. Arab Strap - I'm Totally Fine with It Don't Give a Fuck Anymore
69. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
68. Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department
67. John Canning Yates - The Quiet Portraits
66. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
65. Tindersticks - Soft Tissue
64. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
63. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes
62. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement
61. Idles - Tangk
60. Nadine Shah - Filthy Underneath
59. Charli XCX - Brat
58. Linda Thompson - Proxy Music
57. Jlin - Akoma
56. Fievel Is Glauque - Rong Weicknes
55. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor
54. Kaia Kater - Strange Medicine
53. Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free
52. Basic - This Is Basic
51. Chuck Johnson - Sun Glories
50. Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werlin - Ghosted II
49. Still House Plants - If I Don't Make It, I Love U
48. David Gilmour - Luck and Strange
47. Sarah Davachi - The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir
46. Charles Lloyd - The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
45. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat
44. Christopher Owens - I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair
43. Richard Thompson - Ship to Shore
42. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
41. Paul Weller - 66
40. Grandaddy - Blu Wav
39. Brown Horse - Reservoir
38. Dirty Three - Love Changes Everything
37. Shellac - To All Trains
36. Myriam Gendron - Mayday
35. Brittany Howard - What Now
34. Rosali - Bite Down
33. Willie Nelson - The Border
32. Beak> - >>>>
31. Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes
30. Kim Gordon - The Collective
29. Oisin Leech - Cold Sea
28. Jake Xerxes Fussell - When I'm Called
27. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
26. Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band - Loophole
25. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
24. Phosphorescent - Revelator
23. High Llamas - Hey Panda
22. Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
21. John Cale - POPtical Illusion
20. Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive
19. Peter Perrett - The Cleansing
18. Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
17. Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir
16. Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da
15. Jack White - No Name
14. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice
13. Fontaines DC - Romance
12. Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves
11. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
10. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
9. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
8. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
7. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
6. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
5. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
4. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign
3. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
2. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland
1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God

Fucking hell I hate this bullshit

Flip the switch, for something more esoteric. From music ratings database Sputnikmusic (similar concept to RYM)

current rankings

Sputnikmusic.com - Best Albums of 2024
https://www.sputnikmusic.com/best/albums/2024/
(Top 200 albums)

3. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
2. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland
1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God

lads, it's Uncut Magazine

coiutnerpoint, nice to see these so high:

6. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
5. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
4. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign

2025 Grammy Nominees: Charli XCX, Fontaines D.C., Chappell Roan, Nick Cave, Kim Gordon, more
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-the-2025-grammy-nomination-livestream/

Rolling Stone: 2025 Grammy Nominations
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/grammy-nominations-2025-list-1235156923/

Album of the Year

André 3000 – New Blue Sun
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft
Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Charli XCX – Brat
Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 4
Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department

Record of the Year

The Beatles – Now and Then
Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em
Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
Charli XCX – 360
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone – Fortnight

See Above Links for More Category Nominations

more Grammy

Song of the Year

Shaboozey – “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
Billie Eilish – “Birds of a Feather”
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – “Die With a Smile”
Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone – “Fortnight”
Chappell Roan – “Good Luck, Babe!”
Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us”
Sabrina Carpenter – “Please Please Please”
Beyoncé – “Texas Hold ‘Em”

André 3000 – New Blue Sun
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter

i'm sorry, i guess i'm just noticing these accent marks.

are we supposed to be saying "An-DRAY" 3000 and "Be-yon-SAY" ?

wait, what's the difference between record of the year and song of the year? Is there also a track of the year?

Although "record" often refers to any recording of music, Record of the Year differs from Song of the Year or Album of the Year:

Record of the Year is awarded for a single or for one track from an album. This award goes to the performing artist, the producer, recording engineer and/or mixer for that song. In this sense, "record" means a particular recorded song, not i

ts composition or an album of songs.

Song of the Year is also awarded for a single or individual track, but the recipient of this award is the songwriter who actually wrote the lyrics and/or melodies to the song. "Song" in this context means the song as composed, not its recording.


source: Wikipedia

which band name is worse, English Teacher or Personal Trainer?

Oh I've heard the Personal Trainer! It isn't very good

the most grammys thing possible is for collier to win aoty

guys guys guys you really going to not comment on

Record of the Year

The Beatles – Now and Then
Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em
Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
Charli XCX – 360
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone – Fortnight

lmao hell yeah

I love that djmartian started this years thread.

Now these are coming before Thanksgiving?

chappell roan grammy sweep

i'm sorry, i guess i'm just noticing these accent marks.

are we supposed to be saying "An-DRAY" 3000 and "Be-yon-SAY" ?

In both cases, the accent marks signal pronunciation rather than emphasis.

André is a common French name, which uses an acute accent to denote that the letter is pronounced as "ay" instead of dropped or swallowed (as in "cadre"). Because the name is so common, nobody would actually be confused if the accent mark weren't there, but it is often retained nonetheless.

Similarly, the name Beyoncé uses an accent mark to indicate that it does not rhyme with "sconce."

OK! Thanks jaymc.

Mojo EOY Albums 2024

via
https://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15659

Top 80 listed

Top 10

01 Jack White : No Name
02 Nick Cave & The bad Seed : Wild God
03 Beth Gibbons : Lives Outgrow
04 Gillian Welsh & David Rawlings : Woodlands
05 Bill Ryder-Jones : Iechyd Da
06 Kim Deal : Nobody Loves you anymore
07 Fontaines DC : Romance
08 The Lemon Twigs : A dream all we know
09 Jane Weaver : Love constant Spectacle
10 Kim Gordon : The Collective

the rest of the lists consists of images, so unable to copy and paste.

correction that's top 75 not 80.

Uncut ignored it and Mojo has it pretty low so looks like the oldies don't like The Last Dinner Party

Mojo 2024 in Album of The Year Format
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2292-mojos-75-best-albums-of-2024/

and current AOTY Aggregated Summary

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2024/

It always seems too early.

Bleep.com Top 10 Albums of The Year
https://bleep.com/top-10-albums-of-the-year-2024

1 Squarepusher – Dostrotime
2 Monolake – Studio
3 Iglooghost -Tidal Memory Exo
4 Still House Plants – If I don't make it, I love u
5 Jlin – Akoma
6 Kim Gordon – The Collective
7 KMRU, Kevin Richard Martin – Disconnect
8 Hainbach – Breve
9 Nala Sinephro – Endlessness
10 SOPHIE – SOPHIE

like that list

Even the electronic lists have old timers at the top.

Maybe all writers are old now

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/11/12/spoiler-here-are-decibels-top-40-albums-of-2024/

What is the SOPHIE album like? 6 music played a couple of tracks and they sounded a bit unadventurous, don't know if they were representative.

xpost even Decibel has Judas Priest at #4. Olds rule!

are there kids making end of year lists via tiktok or whatever? or is just that no-one under the age of like 35 has any interest in this kind of thing any more?

there's loads of under 35s on RYM. Fare more than over 35s. Swifties favour metacritic apparently (they take that score very seriously)

Dunno about anyone else though

Magdalena Bay has been #1 on RYM pretty much since it came out.

Stereogum - Best New Artists
https://www.stereogum.com/2286447/best-new-artists-2024/lists/best-new-artists/

Best New Bands” of the preceding 12 months, Stereogum has evolved. Today, it is my unique honor to present the first edition of our Best New Artists list. It is exactly the same thing as the Best New Bands lists you know and love, just with a more accurate title.

For this project, the Stereogum staff evaluated our listening histories and the news and features we published since last fall to determine who we think are the best bands, singers, producers, rappers, and musicians to have emerged this year. As always, “new” is subjective; we prioritized artists who put out their debut full-length album this year, but that’s not a hard cutoff for eligibility. Maybe the artist has been around for a while but just signed to a label this year. Maybe they have a hefty Bandcamp catalog but their most recent project was a significant level up. Either way, we’re acknowledging artists who’ve made considerable strides and earned bigger spots on our radar over the past 12 months — sometimes it really all just comes down to vibes.

If you’re an avid Stereogum reader — first of all, thank you — a lot of these names should already ring a bell. We might’ve named them a Band To Watch. They might’ve earned themselves an Album Of The Week accolade. Stereogum might’ve even presented one of their concerts this year. The Best New Bands Artists list is not a year-end list. But our 2024 In Review package is just around the corner, so you’ll probably be seeing some of these names again soon enough.

And now we present you with Stereogum’s 40 Best New Artists Of 2024, listed in alphabetical order. Below that you’ll find playlists on Spotify and Apple Music highlighting the honorees. —Abby Jones

haha I guess new bands have given up on that "make the name easy to find in the search engine" thing:

Ain't
Doubt
julie
Rocket
World News
Shower Curtain
knitting
Grumpy
Combat
Font

Brooklynvegan have provided a summary of the Mojo Top 75 Albums of 2024 list

via
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/mojos-top-75-albums-of-2024/

MOJO’s Top 75 Albums of 2024
75. Field Music – Limits of Language
74. Pom Poko – Champion
73. Tindersticks – Soft Tissue
72. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flight b741
71. The Bevis Frond – Focus on Nature
70. Kelly Finnigan – A Lover Was Born
69. The Harlem Gospel Travelers – Rhapsody
68. Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves
67. Ghost Dubs – Damaged
66. Khruangbin – A LA SALA
65. Cassie Kinoshi’s Seed – Gratitude
64. Hamish Hawk – A Firmer Hand
63. Floating Points – Cascade
62. Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cósmico
61. Oisin Leech – Cold Sea
60. The Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet
59. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – Ghosted II
58. Naima Bock – Below a Massive Dark Land
57. Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir
56. Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath
55. The Bug – Machine
54. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks
53. Public Service Broadcasting – The Last Flight
52. Richard Hawley – In This City They Call You Love
51. IDLES – TANGK
50. Lee “Scratch” Perry – Spaceship to Mars
49. Joan As Police Woman – Lemons, Limes And Orchids
48. Nick Lowe – Indoor Safari
47. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes
46. The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy
45. Nubya Garcia – ODYSSEY
44. Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
43. The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards
42. Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes
41. Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat
40. Brittany Howard – What Now
39. Arooj Aftab – Night Reign
38. Leyla McCalla – Sun Without the Heat
37. Common – The Auditorium Vol. 1
36. Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch
35. Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future
34. Amyl and The Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness
33. Ezra Collective – Dance, No One’s Watching
32. Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless
31. The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
30. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
29. Charles Lloyd – The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
28. John Cale – POPtical Illusion
27. The The – Ensoulment
26. Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
25. St. Vincent – All Born Screaming
24. Mercury Rev – Born Horses
23. Richard Thompson – Ship To Shore
22. Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice
21. Gruff Rhys – Sadness Sets Me Free
20. Lady Blackbird – Slang Spirituals
19. Peter Perrett – The Cleansing
18. David Gilmour – Luck and Strange
17. Paul Weller – 66
16. Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Loophole
15. English Teacher – This Could Be Texas
14. Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer
13. The Smile – Wall of Eyes
12. Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
11. John Grant – The Art of the Lie
10. Kim Gordon – The Collective
9. Jane Weaver – Love In Constant Spectacle
8. The Lemon Twigs – A Dream Is All We Know
7. Fontaines D.C. – Romance
6. Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More
5. Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da
4. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland
3. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God
1. Jack White – No Name

albumoftheyear has it's 2024 banner green because I suspect they expect BRAT to win AOTY but it's funny how none of the list counted so far have helped pushed it anywhere near the top 50.

From what I can gather it's going to be a fight to the top between The Cure and Charli XCX.

Charli XCX and Chapel Roan releasing the most beloved pop albums in such a stacked year for pop releases was not in my bingo card.

Wasn’t the Roan album from last year?

yeah but "year of impact"

A few ILM pop elite were definitely in on it last year and it made it to #56 on the top 77 albums list which disqualifies it from appearing this year but it would have very likely made it way higher if nommed this year. I still expect some songs to make it to the tracks poll this year.

But you're right, allow me to rephrase:

Charli XCX and Chapel Roan becoming the most beloved pop acts in such a stacked year for pop releases was not in my bingo card.

The monster this year is Short n' Sweet, especially with ILM.

Wait, really? Espresso felt huge but I haven’t really heard or read many people talking about the album.

It also has "Taste," "Please Please Please" and "Bed Chem."

The Independent- Best Songs 2024
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/best-songs-2024-charli-xcx-chappell-roan-b2647140.html

via: https://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15685&sid=70911d331dc36f614d1268472bd2dcef

20. "How Did It End?", Taylor Swift
19. ‘Who Knows What You’ll Find?’ – Confidence Man,
18. ‘Speyside’ – Bon Iver
17. ‘Someone to Dance With’ – Robby Hecht
16. "Aquamarine", Addison Rae
15. ‘Joy’ – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
14. "Sexy to Someone", Clairo
13. "Starburned and Unkissed", Caroline Polachek
12. ‘Never Need Me’ – Rachel Chinouriri
11. ‘Crown’ – Billie Marten
10. ‘Lone Star Lake’ – Waxahatchee
09. ‘Starburster’ – Fontaines DC
08. "Bed Chem", Sabrina Carpenter
07. "Angel Of My Dreams", JADE
06. ‘Alone’ – The Cure
05. ‘Free Treasure’ – Adrianne Lenker
04. "BODYGUARD", Beyoncé
03. "Not Like Us", Kendrick Lamar
02. "Good Luck, Babe!", Chappell Roan
01. "Girl, so confusing featuring Lorde", Charli xcx & Lorde

DJ Mag Best of British awards 2024: voting is now open
https://djmag.com/news/dj-mag-best-of-british-awards-2024-voting-now-open

loads of categories, including:

Best Album

Ezra Collective ‘Dance, No One’s Watching’ [Partisan Records]
Gorgon City ‘Reverie’ [Positiva]
I.JORDAN ‘I AM JORDAN’ [Ninja Tune]
Midland ‘Fragments of Us’ [Graded]

Best Compilation

V/A ‘20 Years Of Phonica’ [Phonica Records]
V/A ‘Club Moss’ [Wisdom Teeth]
Shygirl ‘fabric presents Shygirl’ [fabric Records]
V/A ‘Obligated Records: Vol​.​1’ [Obligated Records]
V/A ‘Optimo 25’ [Above Board Projects]

Best Track

Cromby ‘House Flava’ [Big Saldo's Chunkers]
Joy Orbison ‘flight fm’ [Hinge Finger / XL Recordings]
Oppidan ‘Mr. Sandman’ [Promised Land Recordings]
Shanti Celeste ‘Ice Cream Dream Boy’ [Method 808 x Peach Discs]
TSHA ‘Girls (feat. Rose Gray)’ [Ninja Tune]
Nia Archives ‘Silence Is Loud’ [HIJINXX / Island Records]

Best Rap Album / Mixtape

Bashy ‘Being Poor is Expensive’ [Bish Bash Bosh Music]
Jawnino ‘40’ [True Panther Records]
Lex Amor ‘Forward Ever’ [Modern Oak]
Meekz ‘TRU’ [Self-released]
Nines ‘Quit While You're Ahead’ [Zino Records]

Best Rap Track

Chy Cartier ‘BOSSED UP’ [Self-released]
Cristale ‘Antisocial’ [4ZA Music / Black Butter]
K-Trap ‘Heaven or Hell’ [Thousand8 / EGA]
Pa Salieu ‘Belly’ [Warner Music UK]
SL ‘Tracey Beaker’ [Mic Cheque]

The 2024 AllMusic Readers' Poll
https://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/the-2024-allmusic-readers-poll

Our 2024 year in review coverage ends with the top 10 albums of the year as voted on by the AllMusic community. Respondents from all around the world made their choices, and we're excited to share the top 10 results as voted by you, the AllMusic reader.

Music Blogger, Burning Flame - Best of 2024 - The Singles
https://burningflameblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/best-of-2024-singles.html

01. Georgia Gets By - Madeline (Also EP of the year, Split Up)
02. Holy Wire - I Still Feel Alone All The Time
03. Bon Iver - Things Behind Things Behind Things
04. Nick Cave & Wild Seeds - Wild God
05. Allie X - Bon Voyage
06. The Cure - Alone
07. Depeche Mode - Before Dawn
08. Magdalena Bay - Death & Romance
09. The The - Cognitive Dissident
10. Billie Eilish - Birds of Feather
11. Ride - Monaco
12. Jamie XX fr Robyn - Life
13. Suki Waterhouse - OMG
14. Telenova - Power
15. Nadine Shah - Greatest Dancer
16. Geneva Jacuzzi - Scene Ballerina
17. Fountains D.C. - Starbuster
18. MGMT - Nothing to Declare
19. Fat White Family - What's That You Say
20. Pet Shop Boys - Dancing Star
21. FKA twigs - Perfect Stranger
22. Allie X - Off With Her Tits
23. Kim Wilde - Trail of Destruction
24. Sharon van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Afterlife
25. James Blake - Like The End
26. Empire of the Sun - Changes
27. Sade - Young Lion
28. Ronnie Stone - The Diamond
29. Manic Street Preachers - Hiding in Plain Sight
30. Cool Heat - Not My Fault
31. Nightbus - Average Boy
32. The Horrors - The Silence That Remains
33. The Last Dinner Party - Feminine Urge
34. Fountains D.C. - Here's The Thing
35. The Wombats - Blood On The Hospital Floor
36. MGMT ft. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon
37. Male Tears - S.O.D.
38. Ride - Peace Sign
39. Rose Gray - Free
40. The Smile - Friend of a Friend
41. Holy Wire - The Ending of an Age
42. Primal Scream - Love Insurrection
43. Future Islands - Say Goodbye
44. Beth Gibbons - Reaching Out
45. Houses of Heaven - Deserve
46. John Cale - How We See the Light
47. SG Lewis ft Tove Lo - Busy Girl
48. Bryan Ferry ft Amelia - Star
49. TR/ST - Performance
50. Kirin J. Callinan - It's The Truth

Passion of the Weiss presents The POW Best Albums of 2024
https://www.passionweiss.com/2024/12/31/the-pow-best-albums-of-2024/

The POW Best Albums of 2024 - Top 50

includes album reviews

1. Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee (Superior Viaduct / W.25TH)

Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024
https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-50-best-metal-albums-of-2024

now with album blurbs

Far Out Magazine The 50 best songs of 2024
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-50-best-songs-of-2024/

1:
‘Starburster’ – Fontaines DC

One thing I've seemed to run across even more than usual this list season is just how many times I've clicked on something that piqued my interest and saw it was completely sold out in all physical versions. I get that things are weird out there for physical media in general and I don't blame the bands or artists for it, but such a bummer when runs are so small that the supplies are exhausted before the year even ends.

Sure, I can and frequently do, pony up for a digital version, but I was just struck by how many things I would normally be willing to pay for physical versions but it isn't even possible.

Far Out Magazine The 50 best songs of 2024
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-50-best-songs-of-2024/

1:
‘Starburster’ – Fontaines DC

― djmartian

I still dont get it

Jon, this has been a big frustration of mine for a couple years. You kinda have to be on things IMMEDIATELY or you’re out of luck for six or nine months, when a repress happens (unless you miss that)

All those Bandcamp email notifications can be annoying but sometimes they help you get in on stuff early

Oh, for sure, Bandcamp emails have helped out quite a bit! Though when you're trawling year-end lists for new to you stuff, you don't even have that benefit.

Must be frustrating as an artist to see your record pop up on some year-end lists but knowing you've got nothing ready to sell.

The 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll

Complete missed the Patricia Brennan album, and I saw her at the Jazz Gallery in September playing in a group led by Dave Douglas for the Festival of New Trumpet Music.

Not yet seeing Google Search results for 2024 Pazz & Jop Rip-off results, but those of us who sent ballots via gmail got screenshot w attached spreadsheet, very thorough, but a bit tricky so far, guess it will be on their Facebook presently---meanwhile, from screenshot in body of their gmail, here's Top Ten:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=b057aec5cb&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1820955389297679843&th=194555475aebdde3&view=fimg&fur=ip&permmsgid=msg-f:1820955389297679843&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ-PAhuqOezYivWyrzk4Ei1q_GGS0jaFeUXcrLhIWmu8x4mfuH4UMHctLE3YGIT2FN_u0x5fTlg_ZNVSTGSEjdhWYj83PlKVkfBenZI9-CPJTuFe1-SgvB5VPO0&disp=emb&realattid=ii_m5s5t5zk0&zw

crap.

1. Waxahatchee: Tiger's Blood points:763 votes:71 average:10.7

2. MJ Lenderman: Manning Fireworks points:755 votes:65 average:11.6

3. The Cure: Songs For A Lost World points:699 votes:62 average:11.3

4. Adrianne Lenker: Bright Future points: 587 votes:48 average 12.2

5. Hurray For The Riff Raff: The Past Is Still Alive points:478 votes:41 average:11.7

6. Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee points:483 votes:42 average:11.0

7. Jessica Pratt: Here In The Pitch points:424 votes:41 average:10.3

8. The Paranoid Style: The Interrogator points:350 votes:30 average:11.7

9. Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More points:344 votes:35 average:9.8

10. Rosali: Bite Down points:341 votes:34 average: 10.0

Something For The Weekend? Andy Read - editor and writer DPRP.net selects: The Top 20 Heavy-Prog and Progressive-Metal albums of 2024
https://weekendprog.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-top-20-heavy-prog-and-progressive.html

The 50 best metal songs of 2024 as selected by Metal Hammer readers
https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-50-best-metal-songs-of-2024

Sputnikmusic Community’s Top 50 Albums of 2024: with album reviews

Community’s Top 50 of 2024: 50 – 31
https://www.sputnikmusic.com/blog/2025/01/09/communitys-top-50-of-2024-50-31/

Community’s Top 50 of 2024: 30 – 11
https://www.sputnikmusic.com/blog/2025/01/10/communitys-top-50-of-2024-30-11/

Community’s Top 50 of 2024: 10 - 1
https://www.sputnikmusic.com/blog/2025/01/12/communitys-top-50-of-2024-10-1/

1. State Faults – Children of the Moon

x-post - Yea, Pazz & Jop Ripoff poll is on Facebook. I whined last year to the guy running the Pazz & Jop Ripoff poll that the results were well so, white, and he responded that I was welcome to find other contributors who were interested in music by artists of color in genres the poll results didn't credit much. But alas, that's hard to do - there are folks out there obviously writing about (and knowledgeable fans too re) rap, afropop, north African guitar music, jazz, amapiano, southern soul, Asian, Caribbean, Latin, zydeco etc. but finding contact addresses for em all and trying to convince them to submit to a poll that just runs on Facebook wouldn't be easy.

popmatters The 30 Best Polish Albums of 2024
https://www.popmatters.com/best-polish-albums-of-2024

By
Jarosław Kowal

The best Polish albums featured intriguing new projects, greater stylistic diversity, along with superb post-punk and diffusion jazz.

Contents
30. Porosty – Dungeon Crawler (Smashing Tape)
29. Lutownica – How About Twelve and Fourteen (Independent)
28. Ostatnia Klatka – Ostatnia Klatka (Independent)
27. Królestwo – Patho Jazz (Independent)
26. Jantar – Turnus (Thin Man)
25. Königreichssaal – Psalmen’o’delirium (Godz Ov War)
24. Tonfa – Trzecia szyna (Big Tonga Energy)
23. Faraway – Faraway (Antena Krzyku)
22. ||Ala|Meda|| – Spectra 02 (Brutality Garden)
21. Hatti Vatti – Zeit (R&S)
20. EABS – Reflections of Purple Sun (Astigmatic)
19. Rafał Zapała / Hashtag Ensemble – Futility (Kairos)
18. Allarme – Allarme (Awaria)
17. Lulu Suicide – Hi Im Ready to Die (Independent)
16. Lumbago – Lumbago (U Jazz Me)
15. Zamilska – United Kingdom of Anxiety (Untuned)
14. Filip Żółtowski Quartet – Bibi (Alpaka)
13. Kosmonauci – Sorry, nie tu (U Jazz Me)
12. Thaw – Fading Backwards (Agonia)
11. Synthezaur – Birth of the Synthezaur (Kxntrst)
10. Javva – Picaros (Mystic Production)
9. Koza x Kuba Więcek – Noc żywych trupów (Kxntrst)
8. Antonina Car & Niczos – Toń (Coastline Northern Cuts)
7. Bled – Terra Incognita (Alpaka)
6. Dola – Tabernakulum (Piranha Music)
5. Błoto – Grzybnia (Astigmatic)
4. Calamaze – Calamaze (Wytwórnia Tematy)
3. Dead Tahiti – Fala (Bat-Cave Productions / Pasażer / Iskra Cassettes)
2. Coals – Sanatorium (PIAS Recordings)
1. Marek Pospieszalski Octet & Zoh Amba – Now! (Instant Classic)

xxpost Pazz and Jop Rip-Off also accepted ballots via gmail, as mentioned above, but dunno how many people know about that. Yep, overall results are white on rice (except Hurray For The Riff Raff's Latina leader, and maybe at least some of her and other solo Top Tenners' recording cohorts).-Can't remember if individual ballots have been available in previous years, and haven't tried the spreadsheet, but here's Chuck Eddy's very cosmopolitan ballot:

1. Takkak Takkak Takkak Takkak (Nyege Nyege Tapes Uganda) 14
2. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Open Me, A Higher Consciousness Of Sound And Spirit (Spiritmuse UK) 13
3. Andreas Gerth & Carl Oesterhelt Music For Unknown Rituals (Umor Rex Mexico) 13
4. Avalanche Kaito Talitakum (Glitterbeat Germany) 13
5. Sisso & Maiko Singeli Ya Maajabu (Nyege Nyege Tapes Uganda) 10
6. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few The World is on Fire (Division 81) 10
7. Funk.Br Sao Pãulo (NTS UK) 9
8. Praktika Balani Factory (Blanc Manioc Mali/France) 6
9. Confidence Man 3 AM – La La La (Polydor/Chaos/I Oh You Europe) 6
10. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp Ventre Unique (Les Disques Bongo Joe/Red Wig Switzerland) 6

Here's Frank Kogan's:

DJ Wesley Gonzaga - EP Antidepressivo - 14
XG - XG Tape #4 - 13
Glorygirl2950 - Queen Of The Land - 12
MTS No Beat - Carnaval 2K24 - 12
DJ Jeffdepl - CD Forrozinho Raiz DJ Jeffdepl - 12
Various Artists - BACaRDi Fest EP - 11
Various Artists - Merci Yaya Bongo: Les Groupes d'Animation Féminins du Gabon 1982-1989 - 11
Goldmax & Blacks Jnr - Play At Your Own Risk - 5
The Various Artists - Toy Machine Music - 5
Tropa do Bruxo - Brazilian Midnight - 5

Notes: "Various Artists" means a variety of different artists. In contrast, "The Various Artists" is only one artist, my online friend Jel Bugle. DJ Wesley Gonzaga's EP Antidepressivo was released Nov. 30, 2023, had its impact on me this year. I've included EPs in the "albums" category.

and here's mine

10 points each:

1.Adrianne Lenker/Bright Future

2.Arooj Aftab/Night Reign

3.Brittany Howard/What Now

4.Jlin/Akoma

5.Meshell Ndegeocello/No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

6.Unholy Modal Rounders/Unholier Than Thou: 7/7/77

7.Various Artists/funk.BR - São Paulo (NTS)

8.Various Artists/Super Disco Pirata - De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965-1980

9.Wildernauts/ s/t

10.Willie Nelson/Last Leaf On The Tree

The Prog Mind presents Top Albums 2024
https://theprogmind.com/2025/01/10/tpm-top-albums-2024/

the writer has forgotten to insert Number 45

50. Ylisia – Underneath

49. Cephid– Sparks in the Darkness

48. Midas Fall – Cold Waves Divide Us

47. Mono – Oath

46. Steve Hackett– The Circus and the Nightwhale

44. Amarok – Hope

43. Charlotte Wessels – The Obsession

42. Kristoffer Gildenlöw – Empty

41. Swallow the Sun – Shining

40. Ghostheart Nebula – Blackshift

39. Simone Simons – Vermillion

38. Snakes of Byzantium – The Making

37. Fragment Soul – Galois Paradox

36. Mother of Millions – Magna Mater

35. Caligula’s Horse – Charcoal Grace

34. Sunburst – Manifesto

33. Pallbearer – Mind Burns Alive

32. Aythis – Lost Lighthouse

31. DGM – Endless

30. Willow Smith – Empathogen

29. Colin Masson – Echoes of Albion

28. Mushroomhead – Call the Devil

27. Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches out to She Reaches Out to She

26. Elvellon – Ascending in Synergy

25. Leprous – Melodies of Atonement

24. David Gilmour – Luck and Strange

23. Iress – Sleep Now, In Reverse

22. TVINNA – Wings of Ember

21. Orion – The Lightbringers

20. Wintersun – Time II

19. Big Big Train – The Likes of Us

18. Kingcrow – Hopium

17. Alcest – Les Chants de l’Aurore

16. Eivør – Enn

15. Wasaya – Curtain Falls

14. Marjana Semkina – SIRIN

13. Bent Knee – Twenty Pills Without Water

12. Kalandra – A Frame of Mind

11. Weather Systems – Ocean Without a Shore

10. Oddleaf – Where Ideal and Denial Collide

9. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere

8. Myrath – Karma

7. Lo Moon – I Wish You Way More Than Luck

6. BleakHeart – Silver Pulse

5. Oceans of Slumber – Where Gods Fear to Speak

4. Iterum Nata – From the Infinite Light

3. Diane Arkenstone – Aquaria II: Ascension

2. Evergrey – Theories of Emptiness

1. MEER – Wheels Within Wheels

The Prog Mind Top 50 Songs of 2024
https://theprogmind.com/2025/01/10/tpm-top-songs-2024/

provides youtube links and mini reviews

50. 49 Burning Condors – Black Waters

49. The Radicant – Stowaway

48. Mountains of Jura – Oracle

47. KÎND – Philosopher’s Wish

46. Cephid – Terminus

45. Chelsea Wolfe – Unseen World

44. Ylisia – Underneath

43. Whispering Void – Vinden Vier

42. Sunburst – The Flood

41. Midas Fall – In The Morning We’ll Be Someone Else

40. Magnum – Here Comes the Rain

39. Fragment Soul – Eternal Night in Death

38. Iress – Lovely (Forget Me Not)

37. Yenisei – This Place Was a Shelter

36. The Exies – Closure

35. David Gilmour – Between Two Points

34. Simone Simons – In Love We Rust

33. Pallbearer – Where the Light Fades

32. Swallow the Sun – Innocence Was Long Forgotten

31. Mushroomhead – Grand Gesture

30. Myrath – Words Are Failing

29. Wasaya – Curtain Falls

28. Amarok – Hope Is

27. Elvellon – Into the Vortex

26. Lo Moon – Waiting a Lifetime

25. Wintersun – Silver Leaves

24. DGM – My Wake

23. Marjana Semkina – Anything But Sleep

22. Oddleaf – Ethereal Melodies

21. Kingcrow – Nightdrive

20. Orion – The Lightbringers

19. Caligula’s Horse – The World Breathes With Me

18. BleakHeart – Weeping Willow

17. Leprous – Faceless

16. Weather Systems – Ocean Without a Shore

15. Mother of Millions – Irae

14. TVINNA – Wings of Ember

13. Oceans of Slumber – I Will Break the Pride of Your Will

12. Iterum Nata – Something Truly Almighty

11. Cemetery Skyline – Violent Storm

10. Blood Incantation – The Stargate

9. Diane Arkenstone – Goddessea

8. Bent Knee – Big Bagel Manifesto

7. Kalandra – The State of the World

6. Remina – Erebus

5. Primrose Path – Hex

4. Evergrey – Cold Dreams

3. Big Big Train – Love is the Light

2. Exploring Birdsong – Turntail

1. MEER – Today Tonight Tomorrow

Best Art Vinyl - 2024
https://artvinyl.com/lp-records-displayed-as-artwork-prize/

The Best Art Vinyl Award is the annual search for the most creative and well-designed record cover of the year. These pages include an archive of past winners and all 50 nominations from each year.

1st – Artwork by Rajni Perera for ‘Love Heart Cheat Code’ by Haitus Kaiyote

Creative Direction by Hiatus Kaiyote & Grey Ghost
Symbol art by Chloe Biocca
Product Design by Sean Preston

2nd – Artwork by Lulu Lin for ‘Romance’ by Fontaines D.C.

Design & Art Direction by Texas Maragh & Carlos O’Connell
Photography by Theo Cottle

3rd – Photography by Louis Browne for ‘Sentimental’ by Carlita

A big thank you goes out to our judging panel for another outstanding shortlist this year and three iconic winning covers.

Best Art Vinyl 2024 - 50 Albums
https://artvinyl.com/award-year/2024/

additional info:

The Best Art Vinyl Awards, now in its 20th year, continues to highlight the importance of vinyl cover art in music culture. All nominated artworks are currently on display at The Hari in London until February 1, 2025, forming part of a powerful installation that showcases the diversity and beauty of album art.

alerted via:
Here Are The 50 Best Album Covers of 2024
https://happymag.tv/best-album-covers-2024/

provides visuals for all selected albums

more info:
Art Vinyl names Record Cover Artwork of the Year
https://www.creativeboom.com/news/art-vinyl-names-record-cover-artwork-of-the-year/

2024’s best record sleeves – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/jan/10/year-best-record-sleeves-lady-gaga-fontaines-dc-hiatus-kaiyote-in-pictures

Everything Is Noise’s Top 85: The Best Albums of 2024
https://everythingisnoise.net/features/everything-is-noises-top-85-the-best-albums-of-2024/

highly recommended read lots of leftfield choices on this list including jazz, metal, hardcore, hip-hop, electronic and experimental albums.

The 20 best metal albums of 2024 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer
https://www.loudersound.com/features/readers-poll-best-metal-albums-of-2024

1. Opeth - The Last Will And Testament (Reigning Phoenix)

Peter Margasak, (staff writer at Chicago Reader)

jazz / experimental

My 40 Favorite Albums of 2024, part 1
https://petermargasak.substack.com/p/my-40-favorite-albums-of-2023-part

My 40 Favorite Albums of 2024, part 2
https://petermargasak.substack.com/p/my-40-favorite-albums-of-2024-part

My 40 Favorite Albums of 2024, part 3
https://petermargasak.substack.com/p/my-40-favorite-albums-of-2024-part-329

The Elite Extremophile’s Top 50 Prog Albums of 2024

highly recommended read, many leftfield / esoteric selections:

Best of 2024: Top 50 Prog Albums Part 1: 50-26
https://theeliteextremophile.com/2025/01/08/best-of-2024-top-50-prog-albums-part-1-50-26/

including

#45: Lowen – Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran | Progressive doom metal |

#37: Plantoid – Terrapath | Psychedelic rock, Progressive rock |

#29: Present – This Is NOT the End | RIO, Avant-prog |

Best of 2024: Top 50 Prog Albums Part 2: 25-1
https://theeliteextremophile.com/2025/01/09/best-of-2024-top-50-prog-albums-part-2-25-1/

including:

#24: Five the Hierophant – Apeiron | Progressive metal |

#12: Hail Spirit Noir – Fossil Gardens | Psychedelic black metal |

#10: Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja | Psychedelic black metal |

#3: Papangu – Lampi​ã​o Rei | Progressive rock

and the number 1, completely new to me:

#1: Perilymph – Progressions Imaginaires | Progressive rock

The Elite Extremophile’s

Best of 2024: Top Prog EPs
https://theeliteextremophile.com/2025/01/07/best-of-2024-top-prog-eps/

darkfloor 50 favourite releases – 2024
https://darkfloor.co.uk/50-favourite-releases-2024/

Al Wootton – River Songs [TRULE]
esoteric rhythm dub

Allie X – Girl with No Face [Twin Music]
avant-pop bangers

Ben Frost – Scope Neglect [Mute]
loud, power ambient

Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere [Century Media]
experimental death metal meets Kosmische

Brendon Moeller – Signal [Constellation Tatsu]
dub-ambient

The Bug – Machine [Relapse Records]
industrial dub destruction par excellence

Carmen Villain – Nutrition [Smalltown Supersound]
rhythmic field recordings

Carrier – In Spectra [Carrier]
deep tech, dub n bass

Christoph de Babalon – Ach, Mensch [Midnight Shift]
mean darkside drum & bass

claire rousay – The Bloody Lady [VIERNULVIER Records]
electroacoustic dreams of an imagined score about Elisabeth Bathory

Craven Faults – Bounds [The Leaf Label]
droned travels through Northern England

Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything [Bella Union]
raw emotional beauty

DJ Scotch Bonnet – Kicking Speakers [Small But Hard Recordings]
soundsystem crunch n bass

DJ Trace & HLZ – Raptor [Metalheadz]
heavy techstep perfection

Dominik Eulberg, Hannes Kretzer – Frost [Blue Marble]
widescreen hi def ambient

Einstürzende Neubauten – Rampen [Potomak]
moor-ish German industrial songs

Elkhorn – The Red Valley [VHF Records]
fuzzy ritualistic psych folk

Ellen Reid – Big Majestic [New Amsterdam]
bright modern classical sonic art

EMZYG – 52 Blue [Hummus Records]
lo-fi psych rock

Ex-Easter Island Head – Norther [Rocket Recordings]
propulsive textured minimalism

Firnis DC – Firnis der Civilisation [Felt]
diverse imaginary immersive spaces

Fjaak – FJAAK THE SYSTEM [SPANDAU20]
bass rich breakbeats, jungle, 2-step, techno

Förfallet – VE [self released]
mesmerising atmospheric black metal

Fracture – SLOW860 [Astrophonica]
an ambient drift love letter to pirate radio culture

FYEAR – FYEAR [Constellation]
unique spoken word abstract “out” jazz, captivatingly paranoid

Ghost Dubs – Damaged [Pressure]
experimental dub w/ a nod to Chain Reaction

GIFT – Illuminator [Captured Tracks]
poppy shoegaze rock

gyrofield – These Heavens [XL]
bewitching outsider drum & bass

Heriot – Devoured by the Mouth of Hell [Century Media]
intensely fierce, dark thrashing riffs

Holy Tongue & Shackleton – The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now [AD 93]
abstract, esoteric dub from contemporary British masters

Jamie xx – In Waves [Young]
vibe rich, housey mixtape that really resonated

KULK – It Gets Worse [Human Worth]
sludge n dirge doom

Les Amazones d’Afrique – Musow Danse [Real World Records Ltd.]
all-female West African supergroup serve strong

Low End Activist – Municipal Dreams [Sneaker Social Club]
narrative driven weightless bass bin flexes

Marika Hackman – Big Sigh [Chrysalis]
lyrically sharp poignant folk rock

Mildlife – Chorus [Heavenly Recordings]
late 70s space rock bought to the now

Monolake – Studio [Imbalance Computer Music]
melodically IDM infected techno precision

The Necks – Bleed [Northern Spy Records]
beautiful decay over a single 40 minute piece

Objekt – Chicken Garaage [Kapsela]
breaksteppin’ grime n UKG

Pinkcourtesyphone – Arise in Sinking Feelings [Room40]
doom riddled, feel good Lynchian ambient

Poppy – negative spaces [Sumerian Records]
metalcore slamming pop bombs

Raw Village Hall – Not Even Close [Acre Recordings]
grim breakcore infested jungle filth

SHXCXCHCXSH – ……t [Northern Electronics]
supreme level industrial techno abstractions

Skee Mask – Resort [Ilian Tape]
heady percussive ambience from the ever reliable German

Strange Boy – Love Remains [Groenland Records]
beautiful experimental pop duo deliver deeply resonating record

Sumac – The Healer [Thrill Jockey]
dank riffs from the underside of Hell

Sunroof – Electronic Music Improvisations Vol. 3 [Mute]
Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones’s modular noodling

Torn – Immortal [Samurai Music]
brooding dark resplendence over searing drum breaks

Uniform – American Standard [Sacred Bones Records]
uneasy intense ferocity

The Obelisk - The Best of 2024 Year-End Poll — RESULTS!
https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025/01/08/the-best-of-2024-year-end-poll-results/

readers poll

Top 20 of 2024 — Weighted Results
1. Slomosa, Tundra Rock (404 points)
2. Greenleaf, The Head and the Habit (360)
3. Lowrider & Elephant Tree, The Long Forever (350)
4. Fu Manchu, The Return of Tomorrow (263)
5. Psychlona, Warped Vision (256)
6. Slift, Ilion (244)
7. High on Fire, Cometh the Storm (241)
8. Blue Heron, Everything Fades (208)
9. Rezn, Burden (195)
10. Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere (194)
11. High Desert Queen, Palm Reader (190)
12. 1000mods, Cheat Death (169)
13. Gnome, Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome (167)
14. Sergeant Thunderhoof, The Ghost of Badon Hill (159)
15. Orange Goblin, Science, Not Fiction (137)
16. Valley of the Sun, Quintessence (136)
17. Black Pyramid, The Paths of Time Are Vast (126)
18. Monkey3, Welcome to the Machine (117)
18. Sundrifter, An Earlier Time (117)
19. Heavy Temple, Garden of Heathens (114)
20. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Nell’ Ora Blu (103)

Honorable Mention:

The next 10, in order: Abrams, Sacri Monti, Chat Pile, Delving, The Obsessed, Opeth, Brant Bjork Trio, Lord Buffalo, Mammoth Volume, Thou and Free Ride. That’s more than 10, but there was a tie.

Under the Radar presents 100 Albums of 2024 Playlist

The Best Songs from the Best Albums of the Last Year
https://www.undertheradarmag.com/blog/listen_to_under_the_radars_epic_10_hour_top_100_albums_of_2024_playlist

We have put together a Spotify playlist for our Top 100 Albums of 2024 list and it’s 10 hours long. It features at least one song from each of our Top 100 in the order the albums appear on the list, from our #1 album to our #100. Some albums are represented by multiple songs filtered throughout the list, especially albums from our Top 10, and there are also a few songs from some of the honorable mentions, 2024 albums some of our writers liked that didn’t quite make the Top 100.

Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6lISFgT7f8cBVXIX01DNnz?si=UIw7HGSATYm0KaJx6wwuGQ

The Prog Mind - Top EPs 2024
https://theprogmind.com/2025/01/07/tpm-top-eps-2024/

10. Argovia – Who We Are

9. Sol Levita – Prevalece

8. Manes – Pathei Mathos

7. Johan Niemann – Anhedonia

6. Sylvaine – Eg Er Framand

5. Revis – Bottles of Lightning

4. Persefone – Lingua Ignota: Part I

3. The Radicant – We Ascend

2. Remina – Erebus

1. The Exies – Closure

many many xps
thanks for posting Eddy's and Kogan's top tens. so many intriguing choices. I would love to read those guys writing about that stuff somewhere. sigh

Atwood Magazine 2024’s Best Albums of the Year
https://atwoodmagazine.com/2024-albums-of-the-year/

albums from these artists:

Abby Holliday Amanda Bergman Ariana Grande Being Dead Beyoncé Billie Eilish Blind Pilot BLK ODYSSY Brigitte Calls Me Baby Camila Cabello Cementation Anxiety Chandler Leighton Charli XCX Childish Gambino Clairo COIN daysormay Doechii Dua Lipa Faye Webster Fie Eike Fontaines DC Geordie Greep Glass Animals Hakushi Hasegawa Halsey Hovvdy Jessica Pratt Jodie Nicholson KAGAMI Smile Kamasi Washington Kelsea Ballerini Kendrick Lamar Laci Kaye Booth Lainey Wilson Laura Marling Leif Vollebekk Lola Young Magdelena Bay Mannequin Pussy Matt Champion Medium Build MJ Lenderman Mk.gee Pillow Queens Sabrina Carpenter Sam Barber Samara Cyn Sheer Mag Sly Jr. St. Vincent State Faults Suki Waterhouse The Last Dinner Party The Marías The Smile The Staves The Warning total tommy Valley Vampire Weekend wave to earth Wilderado Wishy

Atwood Magazine The 25 Best EPs of 2024
https://atwoodmagazine.com/2024-eps-of-the-year/

eps from these artists:

Alex Banin, ANT ENOCH, Caroline Kingsbury, deary, DIME, Gel, Girl Scout, Gore., Hans Williams, Her New Knife, Isaac Dunbar, Kaitlyn Olson, Lee Lewis, mary in the junkyard, Medium Build, Moody Joody, Nathan Ball, Night Tapes, NOEL, sacha , Stevie Bill, Talia Raye, TEE, The Brook & The Bluff, The Volunteers

Chorus.fm’s Top 30 Albums of 2024
https://chorus.fm/features/articles/chorus-fms-top-30-albums-of-2024/

AOTY - format
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2450-chorusfms-top-30-albums-of-2024/

1. Kelsea Ballerini – Patterns

Choice Music Prize 2024 – here are the 10 nominated Irish albums
https://nialler9.com/choice-music-prize-albums-2024-shortlist/

RTÉ Choice Music Prize

The 10 nominees for the 20th RTÉ Choice Music Prize

The 10 albums selected by a panel of 12 judges (including myself) to go forward to the live show at Vicar Street on Thursday March 6th, where a winner will be announced for this main prize of the Choice are:

A Lazarus Soul – No Flowers Grow In Cement Gardens
Curtisy – What Was The Question?
Fontaines D.C. – Romance
Orla Gartland – Everybody Needs A Hero
Kneecap – Fine Art
NewDad – MADRA
Niamh Regan – Come As You Are
Róis – Mo Léan
Silverbacks – Easy Being A Winner
Sprints – Letter To Self

TEETH OF THE DIVINE - STAFF PICKS FOR 2024
https://www.teethofthedivine.com/featured/teeth-of-the-divine-staff-picks-for-2024/

metal, various lists

https://bradluen.substack.com/p/the-14th-annual-expert-witness-poll-66f

A lot of words on the year in country music, with best-of lists of 40 albums and 40 singles.

Australian Radio Station - Triple J's annual listeners "Hottest 100" poll

Chappell Roan’s Good Luck, Babe! wins Triple J’s Hottest 100
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/25/chappell-roans-good-luck-babe-wins-triple-j-hottest-100

Billie Eilish and Charli XCX dominate 2024 countdown as Royel Otis’s cover of Murder on the Dancefloor comes in second

Full List 1-100
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/countdown/hottest100/1-100

including:

1: Good Luck, Babe!
Chappell Roan

20: Apple
Charli xcx

26: The girl, so confusing version with lorde
Charli xcx & Lorde

35: 360
Charli XCX

36: Von dutch
Charli xcx

67: A Little Closer
Diffrent

99: iluv
Effy & Mall Grab

Something for the Weekend presents:
That was the year that was : Our all-in-one guide to the 21 albums recommended by this site in 2024
https://weekendprog.blogspot.com/2025/01/that-was-year-that-was-our-all-in-one.html

covering progressive rock / progressive metal

QUANTUM - Down the Mountainside

UNIVERSE EFFECTS - The Distance

WASAYA - Curtain Falls

THE CYBERIAM - Unobtainium

MADDER MORTEM - Old Eyes, New Heart

BALANCE OF POWER - Fresh From The Abyss

VOLA - Friend of a Phantom

QUINTANA - The Traveler

ANUBIS - The Unforgivable

KALANDRA - A Frame Of Mind

THE ECHO VEILS - The Calm Beneath The Noise

MOTHER OF MILLIONS - Magna Mater

SUNBURST - Manifesto

WITHERFALL - Sounds of the Forgotten

GHOST ON MARS - Out of Time and Space

TURBULENCE - Binary Dream

SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM - Of The Last Human Being

TERAMAZE - Eli : A Wonderful Fall From Grace

MYRATH - Karma

RENDEZVOUS POINT - Dream Chaser

HOURGLASS - Voids and Visions

Heavy Blog is Heavy present Heavy Blog's Superlatives List For 2024
https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/01/21/heavy-blogs-superlatives-list-for-2024/

Well hello there! As has become our wont, we will kick off our Album of the Year of 2024 posting with our Superlatives List!

reminder of the aggregated top 50 albums and singles ranking at AOTY

AOTY 2024 Music Year End List Aggregate: Albums
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2024/

These numbers are obtained from the 121 lists found at the end of this page.

1: BRAT
Charli xcx

The Best Songs of 2024 Aggregate
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/songs/best/2024/

including the top 5:

1: Kendrick Lamar
Not Like Us

2: Chappell Roan
Good Luck, Babe!

3: Lorde, Charli xcx
Girl, so confusing featuring lorde

4: Sabrina Carpenter
Espresso

5: Waxahatchee
Right Back to It
feat. MJ Lenderman

Acclaimed Music Forum aggregated Top 100 Songs of 2024

updated: Fri Jan 24

List of sources added in this update:
USA & Canada: Spectrum Culture, Atwood Magazine, Fader, Entertainment Weekly, La canal auditif, TheNeedleDrop, Complex, Albumism, PopMatters, Coup de Main Mag
UK & Ireland: Hot Press, Rock Sound, DJ Mag, Mixmag, The Times, Complex, Dork, Clash, The Irish Times
Rest of the World: Jenesaispop, Conteo Reactor 105.7, Laut, Zündfunk, Muzikalia, Indiestyle, Revista O Grito, Radionica, 1Live, Rockdelux, Mindies, Mowno, Plattentests, Les Inrockuptibles, Aftonbladet
National Lists: Rolling Stone en Espanol, Rockdelux (Natl), CBC Music (Natl), The Irish Times (Natl), APCA (Natl)

Top 100 Songs:
1 | Chappell Roan | Good Luck, Babe!
2 | Kendrick Lamar | Not Like Us
3 | Charli XCX feat. Lorde | The Girl, So Confusing Version With Lorde
4 | Fontaines D.C. | Starburster
5 | Waxahatchee feat. MJ Lenderman | Right Back to It
6 | Sabrina Carpenter | Espresso
7 | Billie Eilish | Birds of a Feather
8 | The Cure | Alone
9 | Adrianne Lenker | Sadness as a Gift
10 | Kim Gordon | Bye Bye
11 | Nilüfer Yanya | Like I Say (I Runaway)
12 | Tinashe | Nasty
13 | Fontaines D.C. | Favourite
14 | FKA twigs | Eusexua
15 | JADE | Angel of My Dreams
16 | Geordie Greep | Holy, Holy
17 | Addison Rae | Diet Pepsi
18 | MJ Lenderman | She’s Leaving You
19 | Beth Gibbons | Floating on a Moment
20 | Charli XCX | 360
21 | MJ Lenderman | Wristwatch
22 | Clairo | Sexy to Someone
23 | Beyoncé | Texas Hold ‘Em
24 | Nick León & Erika de Casier | Bikini
25 | Charli XCX | Von Dutch
26 | Jamie xx feat. Honey Dijon | Baddy on the Floor
27 | Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish | Guess
28 | Nourished by Time | Hell of a Ride
29 | Sabrina Carpenter | Please Please Please
30 | Knocked Loose feat. Poppy | Suffocate
31 | Jessica Pratt | Life Is
32 | Shaboozey | A Bar Song (Tipsy)
33 | Magdalena Bay | Image
34 | Ariana Grande | we can’t be friends (wait for your love)
35 | Mk.gee | Alesis
36 | SZA | Saturn
37 | Magdalena Bay | Death & Romance
38 | Amyl and the Sniffers | U Should Not Be Doing That
39 | Charli XCX | 365
40 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Wild God
41 | Billie Eilish | LUNCH
42 | Bon Iver | S P E Y S I D E
43 | St. Vincent | Broken Man
44 | Joy Orbison | Flight FM
45 | Jack White | That’s How I’m Feeling
46 | Cash Cobain with Bay Swag | Fisherrr
47 | ROSÉ & Bruno Mars | APT.
48 | Mannequin Pussy | Loud Bark
49 | Hozier | Too Sweet
50 | Megan Thee Stallion | Hiss
51 | GloRilla | TGIF
52 | Doechii | Nissan Altima
53 | Tems | Love Me JeJe
54 | Tommy Richman | MILLION DOLLAR BABY
55 | Clairo | Juna
56 | Karol G | Si antes te hubiera conocido
57 | Kali Uchis feat. Peso Pluma | Igual Que un Ángel
58 | Charli XCX | Apple
59 | Doechii | Denial Is a River
60 | Yard Act | We Make Hits
61 | Beyoncé | BODYGUARD
62 | Blondshell feat. Bully | Docket
63 | Olivia Rodrigo | Obsessed
64 | The Last Dinner Party | Nothing Matters
65 | IDLES | Gift Horse
66 | Future & Metro Boomin feat. Kendrick Lamar | Like That
67 | Remi Wolf | Cinderella
68 | Kendrick Lamar | Euphoria
69 | Nia Archives | Crowded Roomz
70 | Vampire Weekend | Classical
71 | Vampire Weekend | Capricorn
72 | Sexyy Red | Get It Sexyy
73 | The Last Dinner Party | The Feminine Urge
74 | Fontaines D.C. | In the Modern World
75 | Pearl Jam | Dark Matter
76 | Zach Bryan | Pink Skies
77 | Charli XCX | Sympathy Is a Knife
78 | Sabrina Carpenter | Taste
79 | Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen | I Had Some Help
80 | Tyler, the Creator feat. GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne | Sticky
81 | HiTech | SPANK!
82 | Kacey Musgraves | Deeper Well
83 | This Is Lorelei | I'm All Fucked Up
84 | Khruangbin | May Ninth
85 | Kendrick Lamar | reincarnated
86 | Willi Carlisle | Higher Lonesome
87 | Beyoncé | 16 Carriages
88 | Kassie Krut | Reckless
89 | Little Simz | Mood Swings
90 | The Lemon Twigs | My Golden Years
91 | Dua Lipa | Training Season
92 | Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars | Die With A Smile
93 | Still House Plants | M M M
94 | Jordan Adetunji | Kehlani
95 | Magdalena Bay | Cry for Me
96 | Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone | Fortnight
97 | Alizzz & María Arnal | Despertar
98 | Mica Levi | slob air
99 | Brittany Howard | Prove It to You
100 | St. Vincent | Big Time Nothing

If you're curious, I played with that AOTY aggregate data a little, and put it up in a form where you can poke at it yourself. Blog post with a link at the end:

https://www.furia.com/log/503

https://uproxx.com/critic-polls/uproxx-music-critics-poll-2024-albums/

Expert Witness is in, and Brad seems happy:

While the results aren’t statistically representative of the opinions of anybody other than the people who voted in it, once you scroll down a bit they do give a sense of the breadth of good music in the world: South African gqom or is it 3-step; K-pop from the margins and right down the middle; all manner of sacred and profane Brazilian music; Nordijazz weird and weirder; and Slut SZN. The one clear weakness relative to American consumption is the lack of Spanish-language music (Hinds notwithstanding); I’ll think about what gerrymandering I can do to remedy this (let a year of Bzrp Sessions count as an EP maybe.)

Maybe the most surprising fact about this year’s top ten albums was not that they were by acts led by women or non-binary artists, it’s that I didn’t notice this until voter Boris Palameta pointed it out to me...Okay, one more reason this poll is good. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess being near or at the top of a bumper crop of albums by pop women (depending on how you split credit between Charli and her marketing team) was one of the stories of the music year. (Others: folkies are back and some of them are good; you can often make out the lyrics of songs again, and some people are even listening to them...

https://bradluen.substack.com/p/the-14th-annual-expert-witness-poll-66f

folkies are back and some of them are good; you can often make out the lyrics of songs again, and some people are even listening to them...

*full-body shudder*

todd in the shadows does his top ten songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkXpvScL94Q

tl;dr- he likes kendrick, sabrina, and chappell.

https://brazilbeatblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/favorite-albums-of-2024/

Best of 2024 Brazil albums just posted