OTHERS’ TOP 10 LISTS
Other views on the year’s best music:
STEROGUM TOP 10 ALBUMS
1. Melodrama, Lorde
2. DAMN., Kendrick Lamar
3. Nothing Feels Natural, Priests
4. No Shape, Perfume Genius
5. Ctrl, SZA
6. A Deeper Understanding, The War on Drugs
7. Guppy, Charly Bliss
8. Out in the Storm, Waxahatchee
9. American Dream, LCD Soundsystem
10. A Crow Looked at Me, Mount Eerie
STEREOGUM BEST COUNTRY ALBUMS
1. The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone, Lee Ann Womack
2. All American Made, Margo Price
3. Poor David’s Almanack, David Rawlings
4. The Order of Time, Valerie June
5. Colter Wall, Colter Wall
6. From a Room, Vol. 1 and 2, Chris Stapleton
7. God’s Problem Child, Willie Nelson
8. Puxico, Natalie Hemby
9. The Nashville Sound, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
10. Wild Horse, Rae Lynn
JON PARELES THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 ALBUMS
1. Masseduction, St. Vincent
2. Residente, Residente
3. Aromanticism, Moses Sumney
4. Turn Out the Lights, Julien Baker
5. Utopia, Bjork
6. DAMN., Kendrick Lamar
7. Melodrama, Lorde
8. Ctrl, SZA
9. The Order of Time, Valerie June
10. Big Fish Theory, Vince Staples
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY TOP 10 ALBUMS
1. Melodrama, Lorde
2. DAMN., Kendrick Lamar
3. Ctrl, SZA
4. Masseduction, St. Vincent
5. All American Made, Margo Price
6. American Dream, LCD Soundsystem
7. Big Fish Theory, Vince Staples
8. What Now, Sylvan Esso
9. From a Room: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Chris Stapleton
10. Life Will See You Now, Jens Lekman
PASTE TOP 10 ALBUMS
1. Everybody Works, Jay Som
2. DAMN., Kendrick Lamar
3. Pure Comedy, Father
John Misty
4. RTJ3, Run the Jewels
5. Lotta Sea Lice, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
6. Need to Feel Your Love, Sheer Mag
7. Antisocialites, Alvvays
8. American Dream, LCD Soundsystem
9. A Crow Looked at Me, Mount Eerie
10. Process, Sampha
ROLLING STONE TOP 10 ALBUMS
1. DAMN., Kendrick Lamar
2. Melodrama, Lorde
3. Songs of Experience, U2
4. Rainbow, Kesha
5. American Dream, LCD Soundsystem
6. American Teen, Khalid
7. Reputation, Taylor Swift
8. Villains, Queens of the Stone Age
9. Culture, Migos
10. The Thrill of It All, Sam Smith
SPOTIFY’S MOST STREAMED ARTISTS
1. Ed Sheeran
2. Drake
3. The Weeknd
4. Kendrick Lamar
5. The Chainsmokers
SPOTIFY’S MOST STREAMED ALBUMS
1. Divide, Ed Sheeran 2. More Life, Drake 3. DAMN., Kendrick Lamar 4. Starboy, The Weeknd 5. Stoney, Post Malone
NO DEPRESSION TOP 10 MUSIC BOOKS
1. Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music by Ann Powers (Dey St.) 2. Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop From Elvis to Jay Z, edited by Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar (Library of America)
3. Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe (FSG) 4. Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God & Genius in the Music of Prince by Ben Greenman (Henry Holt)
5. Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of
My Other Favorite Things by Loudon Wainwright III (Blue Rider)
6. Michael Nesmith, Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff by Michael Nesmith (Crown Archetype)
7. Devotion by Patti Smith (Yale)
8. Every Night Is Saturday Night by Wanda Jackson (BMG)
9. Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives, edited by Holly Gleason (University of Texas)
10. Delbert McClinton: One of the Fortunate Few by Diana Finlay Hendricks (Texas A&M)