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]

Pop music blogger, Lee Bennett at Teases & Dares’ Top 100 Non-LP Tracks of 2024
https://teasesanddares.wordpress.com/2024/12/07/teases-dares-top-100-non-lp-tracks-of-2024/

Track I am most Surprised the didn't make the top 100, considering I discovered the track at Teases & Dares:

this was also my favourite synth pop track of 2024:

Anniee - Let Her Hair Down (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B2ih_RpqKs

1 Kim Wilde, Midnight Train

2 Pensacola Mist, Gloria

3 Blusher, Rave Angel

4 Margaret Berger, Oblivion

5 Kim Wilde, Trail Of Destruction

6 NINA & Radio Wolf, My Dark

7 Amber Mark, Won’t Cry

8 They/Live, For The Pleasure

9 BITTERS, Peppermint

10 Your Mate’s Ex, All Now All Night

11 Tove Lo/SG Lewis, Heat

12 Alice Chater, Don’t Let My Boyfriend Get In Your Way

13 Blusher, Accelerator

14 Cassie Henderson, Seconds To Midnight (11:59)

15 Flight Facilities/Owl Eyes, Trouble

16 Mereba, Counterfeit

17 Teilz/Channel Tres, Type Of Girl Part 2

18 Italoconnection/Bunny X/Alex Rossi, L’Hacienda

19 METTE, Muscle

20 Kesha, Joyride

21 Blusher, Somebody New

22 Lauren Flax/Pale Blue, I’d Risk It All To Be With You

23 Bambina, If I Can’t Have Love (God Then Please Just Give Me Money)

24 NINA & Radio Wolf, Tokyo Cowboy

25 Escape To Life/Ullah, Daniel – Alone

26 Tig, Arrival

27 Tom Aspaul, Cabin Fever

28 Flight Facilities/DRAMA, Dancing On My Own

29 Sophie Powers/Ashley Sienna, Obsessed

30 Caroline Kingsbury, Take My Phone Away

31 Chloe Qisha, I Lied I’m Sorry

32 Margaret Berger, Libra Girl

33 Tove Lo/SG Lewis, Busy Girl

34 JADE, Angel Of My Dreams

35 Jacket/Bunny X/Jenny Bates, Any Day And Every Night

36 Dee Diggs, Go Deep

37 I Am Boleyn, Meet Me In The Clouds

38 Bea & Her Business, Safety Net

39 Joan & The Giants, Feels Like Heartache

40 Brigitte Bardini, Petals

41 Midnight Prisms, Spin Me Again

42 Michaela May, Beautiful Thing

43 Darin, Electric

44 Rose Gray, Wet & Wild

45 Annie, The Sky Is Blue

46 Clio, Golden Glow

47 Visti’s Vinyl Collective/Emma Sehested Hoeg, Sunshine In Atalaya

48 Maraschino, Rosy Boas

49 They/Live, The Remedy The Rhythm

50 Lemaitre/RebMoe, Died At The Party

51 Future Analog/Bunny X, Only Have Eyes For You

52 Bentley Robles, Chaotic Erotica

53 Marie Davidson, Y.A.A.M

54 Dizzy Days, Holding On

55 Nyassa, Electric Woman

56 Nicolaas/MOTHERMARY, F/T Lover

57 Ivory Layne, Razor Burn

58 Diamond Field/Jenny BatesNathan Haines, Belinda

59 Tamta, Autapati (High In The Afterparty)

60 EMELINE, 99 Boys

61 Yota/Johan Agebjorn/Douze, Universe In Flames

62 Georgie & Joe, Student

63 POOLCLVB/Allday, Dancer

64 Jem Cassar-Daley, Space Between

65 Salty, Hollywood Baby

66 EMEREE, Slow It Down

67 ALANA, Motherless Money

68 BEA1991, Remina Two

69 Grace Lightman, Permanent Vacation

70 NERIAH, Driving Weather

71 Mantaraybryn, No Economy

72 The Itch, Ursula

73 The Midnight, Chariot

74 Everything We Do, Every Night In Vegas

75 Velvet Bloom/Brennan Hamilton-Smith, Best In You

76 PYN/Initial Talk, Weekend Love

77 Haute & Fredy, Anti-Superstar

78 Ruby Huntington, Chaos In The Carpark

79 Vanity Fairy, Top Of The Pops

80 Margaret, Catch Me If You Can

81 Jayda G, Feeling Alive

82 Druzy, Star-Crossed

83 Malu Pierini, Souvenir

84 Sam Quealy, Someone I Don’t Know

85 Will Clift, Sublime

86 Kaleen, We Will Rave

87 Liz Mann, Heartbreak Disco

88 Yasmin, Real High

89 Mashd N Kutcher, The Dance

90 Rikky Disco, L.O.V.E (Love Is Basic)

91 ASDIS, Touch Me

92 r.em.edy, High As Hell (In The Lobby)

93 Micah McLaurin, Don’t Give Up On Love

94 Aurora Shields, Pretty Baby Boy

95 Smerz/Alina, My Producer

96 Otha, Club 20

97 Alke, Can’t Be Alone

98 Rainlights, Your Records

99 Julian Perretta, Save The Night

100 Maytra, Killing Me At Day

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1JYXABSxMODHeslrbTbaOC?si=65d4f64c247b410d

Alternative Press 50 Best Albums of 2024
https://www.altpress.com/best-albums-2024/

A-Z list

The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2024
https://thequietus.com/tq-charts/tracks-of-the-year/the-quietus-tracks-of-the-year-2024/

50 tracks

1.
Mica Levi
‘Slob Air’

https://www.stereogum.com/2290987/the-best-jazz-albums-of-2024/columns/ugly-beauty/

I didn't do a typical jazz list for Stereogum; instead, I listed 10 categories as follows:

Archival Discoveries
Leaders of the New School
New Age Spiritualists
The New Complexity
The Nordics
The Old-School Avant-Garde
The Pianists
The South Africans
The Traditionalists
What Do You Even Call That?

And within each category I cited five really good albums, then chose an "If I Had To Pick Just One" winner. The winners are:

Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert
Nubya Garcia, Odyssey
Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Patricia Brennan, Breaking Stretch
Lisa Ullén, Heirloom
Wadada Leo Smith/Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park’s Mosaics Of Reservoir, Lake, Paths And Gardens
Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts In Piano Trio Jazz
Thembi Dunjana, God Bless iKapa. God Bless Mzantsi.
The Black Art Jazz Collective, Truth To Power
Nala Sinephro, Endlessness

Club Stoic (aka my) Top 100 Tracks Of 2024
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ngfguqwNwv1WtSFQfzzyg?si=6c09127341fb4964

1. Atki2 - Night Walking
2. Les Amazones D'Afrique - Flaws
3. Impérieux - All The Land
4. Iyanii ft. Mwanaa & Cedo - Kifo Cha Mende
5. DJ Lag ft. Thobeka - Yebo
6. Joy Orbison - flight fm
7. Loma - Pink Sky
8. Chrissy - EMERGENCY LOOP (0060)
9. Self Esteem & Moonchild Sanelly - Big Man
10. Rema - OZEBA
11. Vinka ft. K&K - Tompa
12. Şenol Evgi ft. Gizo - Çakalların Sofrası
13. Geordie Greep - Holy, Holy
14. Crowded House - Oh Hi
15. Carpainter - Flame Theme
16. Kabin Crew - The Spark
17. Art School Girlfriend - The Weeks (Cameo Blush Remix)
18. Bullion ft. Charlotte Adigery - World_train
19. Marioo ft. Fathermoo, Ssaru & Motif - Statue
20. Tshegue - Shuffle
21. LL Cool J ft. Saweetie - Proclivities
22. Bunji Garlin ft. Keshav, Jonny Blaze - No!
23. Boulderhead x Overnite Oates - I Need Space
24. Mudra D Viral - Hoozambe
25. TeeZandos - Come From
26. MOMO ft. Jessica Lauren - Para
27. Damian Wilson & Adam Wakeman - The Battle Of The Bare Knuckle Fighter
28. Dungen - Out Of Romfjørd
29. Jerskin Fendrix - Portuguese Dance II
30. Shallipopi & ODUMODUBLVCK - Cast
31. Kalash - SO COMAN
32. Tzompantli - Tetzahuitl
33. MonoNeon - The President
34. MIRACALI - Pa Encima
35. Alice Russell - I See You (Sworn Virgins Remix)
36. Mystery Tiime & The Maghreban - Thank you Deeply (House Mix)
37. ZEMAN & Tipsy Gee - Miss Phatty
38. Jamie XX, Kelsey Lu, John Glacier, Panda Bear - Dafodil
39. SAMBATA - Gangster Shit 1st
40. Jabu - Gently Fade
41. Motorist - Obelisk
42. Rukus ft. Killa P - Fallen
43. Soft Play - Punk's Dead
44. 4am ft. Papa Levi - Ribena
45. Asake ft. Central Cee - Wave
46. Opeth - 2
47. Alakazam - Underground Rain Dance
48. PIGMNT - Jumbo
49. Nile - Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes
50. Charli XCX - I Think About It All The Time

― Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Thursday, 12 December 2024 18:52 (five days ago) link

This Carpainter song fucking rules.

Will have to check those out. Come to think of it, Carpainter remixed one of my tracks this year -
https://chants.bandcamp.com/track/dance-dance-resurrection-carpainter-remix

On Bluesky, there is a collective 2024 playlist of 2024 tracks

https://bsky.app/profile/otherdavemoore.com/post/3ldhaghqrgk2u

Update: 1200 tracks, 140 songs with more than one vote, a top 40 with 3+ votes. Tight at the top with same #1 but a new tie at #2. Went through the playlist and cleaned up a bit for duplicates and a few missing tracks.

#Top24of24

playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/129CppNnu25m6IqEH9a7VP?si=7830e3dd615f41fd

A-Z sorted by song/track title

AllMusic Loves 2024
https://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/allmusic-loves-2024

staff list including Andy Kellman

DJ Mag’s top albums of 2024
https://djmag.com/features/dj-mags-top-albums-of-2024

In 2024, electronic artists explored the intricacies of identity and cultural history via club-focused LPs, while others stepped away from the dancefloor’s hard and fast hedonism in favour of hazier soundscapes influenced by downtempo, dub and ambient music. Visionary rap, jazz and pop musicians and niche genre pioneers alike reached aspirational new heights on a global scale, while grime, drum & bass and jungle thrived thanks to albums from longstanding figureheads and contemporary torchbearers. Here, DJ Mag offers its unranked overview of the albums that made the past 12 months so memorable for dance and electronic music in all its forms

Treble The 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2024
https://www.treblezine.com/the-20-best-experimental-albums-of-2024/

Treble The 20 Best Electronic Albums of 2024
https://www.treblezine.com/the-20-best-electronic-albums-of-2024/

Heavy Music HQ 2024 Best Heavy Metal Albums
https://heavymusichq.com/2024-best-heavy-metal-albums/

1. Opeth – The Last Will and Testament (Reigning Phoenix)

Notion THE 100 BEST TRACKS OF 2024
https://notion.online/the-100-best-tracks-of-2024/

Featuring kwn, Amyl and The Sniffers, Charli xcx, Skepta, John Glacier, Doechii, MJ Lenderman, Katie Gavin and more.

You’d think it would be easy whittling down the best tracks of the year into a list of 100, but as the NOTION team found out last week, it’s actually incredibly difficult. In this playlist, we’ve rounded up our favourites from emerging stars and pop mainstays, acknowledging jungle’s resurgence, Amapiano’s impact on the mainstream and reflecting on a new class of British rap, indie and underground music. Oh, and we haven’t forgotten about the record that completely reconfigured the pop culture landscape – you know, that bright green one?

Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MbVpleaPFbzmTXia7NpwY?si=jSDJ-1-LRrSHNKDmaOttTQ

The Fader The 50 best albums of 2024
https://www.thefader.com/2024/12/17/the-50-best-albums-of-2024

From Brat to Bird’s Eye and Cold Visions to Queridão, these are the albums we couldn’t ignore this year.

note: 5. Clarissa Connelly, World of Work

1. skaiwater, #gigi

Stereogum - The Best Shoegaze Songs Of 2024
https://www.stereogum.com/2291066/the-best-shoegaze-songs-of-2024/lists/

really enjoying these stereogum genre lists

The Line of Best Fit - Staff Picks 2024
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/staff-picks-best-albums-2024

Best Fit editors and writers reveal their lesser-known personal favourite records of the year, from Basque to Computer Science and more.

24 albums

The Conversation - The ten best albums of 2024 – according to music experts
https://theconversation.com/the-ten-best-albums-of-2024-according-to-music-experts-245196

1. GNX by Kendrick Lamar
Recommended by Julia Toppin, lecturer in music business, University of Westminster.1. GNX by Kendrick Lamar

2. Gravity Stairs by Crowded House
Recommended by Glenn Fosbraey, associate dean of humanities and social sciences, University of Winchester.

3. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis LP by The Messthetics
Recommended by Alastair Gordon, senior lecturer in media and communications, De Montfort University.

4. Songs of a Lost World by The Cure
Recommended by Neil Cocks, associate professor in the department of English literature, University of Reading.

5. Brat by Charli XCX
Recommended by Lillian Hingley, postdoctoral researcher in English literature, University of Oxford.

6. Imaginal Disk by Magdalena Bay
Recommended by George Reid, lecturer in music, Kingston University.

7. Chain of Light by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Recommended by Katherine Schofield, professor of south Asian music and history, King’s College London.

8. No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Recommended by Steve Ryan, course director, MA in songwriting, University of Limerick.

9. Shadowbox by Mavi
Recommended by Paul Adey, lecturer in music performance, Nottingham Trent University.

10. Black Rainbows by Corinne Bailey Rae
Recommended by Mykaell Riley, principal investigator of the Black Music Research Unit, University of Westminster.

- note this was 2023 album, failed the assignment, didn't investigate the year of release. Please resubmit your selection !

really enjoying these stereogum genre lists

― nxd, Tuesday, December 17, 2024 3:49 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, Stereogum kind of being the last blog standing has been really good for letting Phil do his jazz list by theme or Marissa/Natalie to do their country list unranked or letting me do an experimental list at all. Kind of the one place the lawlessness of the blog era still lives

Electronic Sound Not online as far as I know.

10. Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman - Ash Grey and the Gull Glides On
9. Bolis Pupil - Letter to Yu
8. Xeno & Oaklander - Via Negativa (In the Doorway Light)
7. Holy Tongue Meets Shackleton - The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now
6. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
5. Gaudi Kosmisches Trio - Torpedo Forward
4. Gagarin - Komorebi
3. The Galaxy Electric and Droog Mulholland - Muzak from the Korova Milkbar
2. Loula Yorke - Volta
1. Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God

Bleep - Top 100 Albums of the Year
https://bleep.com/top-100-albums-of-the-year-2024

Hand-picked music for your ears and your feet, we have expanded our top 10 list to highlight 100 of our favourite releases from 2024

on The Wire list:

2. Spectral Evolution, Rafael Toral

is a very trippy and enjoyable record, worth hearing at least once

― Dan S, Tuesday, December 10, 2024 8:21 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Too low

https://www.stereogum.com/2290265/the-10-best-experimental-albums-of-2024/lists/album-list/

― *The Anime＼(*^β^*)/ Ring (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, December 11, 2024 12:44 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just slowly going through this thread so a week behind, but this Rafael Toral album is amazing

Phonica Best of 2024 (albums, tracks, reissues, artists’ picks, etc…)

https://www.phonicarecords.com/best-of-2024

Stereogum The Top 40 Pop Songs Of 2024
https://www.stereogum.com/2291117/best-pop-songs/lists/

article By k4th3rin3 st. 4s4ph (a previous Ilxor)

Number 1: JADE - "Angel Of My Dreams" (RCA)

Spotify Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6l7WpJs4cXzen4gy12OyDh?si=684dc9b281324e37

how many of these 40 tracks will end up on ILM Top 77 countdown?

The Kerrang! staff’s top albums of 2024
https://www.kerrang.com/staff-albums-of-2024-bring-me-the-horizon-knocked-loose-poppy-amyl-sniffers-blood-incantation

You’ve seen the Kerrang! albums of 2024. Now check out what the staff were all listening to this year…

https://accidentalevolution.wordpress.com/2024/12/14/20-24-best-country-singles-of-2024/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHQYt5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcbjd2itTAyFhH33D_QXjwzTg3RYZwm1k_k3foUL8Vm3W3DlVIqRU4incA_aem_7kzI2aTTeHmgeWYimLnrSQ

Chuck Eddy essay on country music 2024 and his fave 2024 country songs

https://racketmn.com/the-25-best-non-local-albums-of-2024

Former ilxor Keith Harris list for his Minnesota site

Can someone post Ted Gioia's top 100 of the year? He usually has a lot of good recommendations.

― ArchCarrier, Sunday, December 15, 2024 10:15 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i subscribed last year so that i could post the list in the 2023 thread. was hoping somebody else might be able to do it this year!

Bleep - Top Singles & EPs of the year 2024
https://bleep.com/top-singles-eps-of-the-year-2024

Boomkat via email have just announced their album of the year.

Our Album Of The Year, 2024 - Milan W’s ‘Leave Another Day’ 🥀 ✨

https://boomkat.com/products/leave-another-day

Milan W. is an old head on young shoulders; and ‘Leave Another Day’ is his magnum opus, gilding and binding aspects of dusky country, folk-rock, blues, chamber-like jazz noir, spangled kosmische and indie-pop, all rendered with flushes of synthetic warmth perfectly suspended in-the-mix, floating moodily above it all. Its dozen songs carry a modest, lowkey vitality and slowness of thought we’ve come to associate with that strange, gently undulating sliver of Europe where things occur at their own time, out-of-joint.

Simply put, we've played it more than any other album this year - its magnificently swooning collection of earworms, melancholy hooks, and nostalgic references to so many formative records by Felt, HTRK, early The Verve, classic Les Disques Du Crépuscule, aspects of early The The, Enno Velthuys, and the most crushed Joanne Robertson & Dean Blunt jams - all fleetingly come to mind - but in the end it's just very much it's own, special thing.

The album has been sold out pretty much since the week it came out, but we've managed to get a special, limited haul of copies in celebration of it hitting our AOTY spot.

Enjoy.

Bandcamp link:

Leave Another Day
by Milan W.
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/leave-another-day

it has been selling for 125 dollars on discogs.

Milan W • Leave Another Day @stroomtv

Elusive no longer. AOTY? Top 5?

I can’t believe a local shop had three copies of the first pressing which is sold out everywhere and sells for $120+ on Discogs. Repress due in Dec pic.twitter.com/ypV38iiscb

— oldirtybatcher (@oldirtybatcher) November 10, 2024

Boomkat End of Year Charts 2024
https://boomkat.com/charts/boomkat-end-of-year-charts-2024

As usual loads of EOY lists.

Including:

Boomkat - Albums Of The Year 2024
https://boomkat.com/charts/boomkat-end-of-year-charts-2024/2689

From Ireland Nialler9 presents The 50 best albums of 2024
by Niall Byrne
https://nialler9.com/the-50-best-albums-of-2024/

1.
Cindy Lee
Diamond Jubilee
(Realistik Studios)

BrooklynVegan's Top 50 Albums of 2024
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/brooklynvegans-top-50-albums-of-2024/

1: Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

Clash - Albums Of The Year 2024
https://www.clashmusic.com/general/albums-of-the-year-2024/

1. Mk.gee – Two Star & The Dream Police

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2024
https://www.musicomh.com/features/spotlights/musicomhs-top-50-albums-of-2024-brat-charli-cure-nick-cave

1 Charli XCX – Brat

x-post---I only get the free version of Ted Ted Gioia's substack too (that doesn't include his year-end lengthy list)

DJ Mag’s top compilations of 2024
https://djmag.com/features/dj-mags-top-compilations-of-2024

From mix releases courtesy of dance music royalty, through archival deep dives and explorations into global scenes, to sprawling collections raising funds for crucial causes, here is DJ Mag’s unranked overview of the compilations that made the past 12 months so memorable for electronic music in all its forms

The Fader The 50 best songs of 2024
https://www.thefader.com/2024/12/19/best-songs-2024

From “Not Like Us” to “Nasty” and “Slut Me Out 2” to “You a Stepper,” these are the songs we had on repeat this year.

1. Nick León & Erika de Casier, “Bikini“

Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7yOfZnpFfsNjBnAuDU9a3I?si=9cffbbcb68b94e9f

more on context of The Fader list

There is a great run of four songs in the middle of this list. It comprises a blissful track from Japanese experimentalist Hakushi Hasegawa, a burst of blown-out fury from OsamaSon, a breathtaking seven-minute Urdu-Hindi epic by Sheherazaad, and an inescapable pop smash from Sabrina Carpenter. It's a neat encapsulation of this publication's genre-blurring ethos, an idea established a quarter of a century ago and carried forward today by the sharpest group of music journalists out there. This list, like everything we’ve run this year, whiplashes between sounds and ideas and languages. It is chaotic, and we hope you love that as much as we do. — Alex Robert Ross

Yeah, Stereogum kind of being the last blog standing has been really good for letting Phil do his jazz list by theme or Marissa/Natalie to do their country list unranked or letting me do an experimental list at all. Kind of the one place the lawlessness of the blog era still lives

Yeah, I definitely dig these columns. Not sure if you'd know, but are they going to have someone else take over the metal column? Or are they just letting that one go?

It's going to continue under a different name. I forget who's going to be writing it. Someone who likes power metal more than black metal, I hope...

Brad Sanders is taking over

The good news is that Brad Sanders is launching a new monthly metal column at Stereogum next year called Breaking The Oath. First edition drops at the end of January. Get stoked!

— Chris DeVille (@chrisdeville) December 10, 2024

was doing Monthly Metal Roundups at Bandcamp

https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-metal/the-best-metal-on-bandcamp-november-2024

Its interesting to see how little consensus there is these days. Strong "death of the monoculture" vibes

thanks!

SZA is dropping Lana today, right? SOS was also in December.

Maybe she hates end-of-year lists?

I like that Fader tracks list.

Enjoying Actress' artist picks already, incl. "12 Hours of Brown Noise Sleep (Spotify Playlist)" and the Frozen OST, ha: https://boomkat.com/charts/boomkat-end-of-year-charts-2024

Tbf I listen to that brown noise playlist more than anything else. The true hero of 2024

Right on schedule, list fatigue sets in and there's more focus on the non-herd picks. Of the many Lucky 13 genre lists, these might help some.

Ambient, New Age & Post-Rock,
https://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-24/#ambient

A few years ago I took a deep dive into the rabbithole of current post-rock, and quickly overdosed. There’s so much of it, I can’t even comprehend how so many of them exist. And yet, bands like Japan’s MONO, who have been at it for a quarter century, have become kind of the gold standard. The albums have often exuded a Zen spirituality, which feels even more pronounced on Oath. This was underscored by their current triumphant 25th anniversary tour, where a 12 piece orchestra helped them sound more magisterial than ever. A recent show at Chicago’s Thalia Hall reportedly had dozens of hardened metalheads openly weeping. Drummer Dahm Majuri Cipolla a Breeders t-shirt in tribute to Steve Albini, who recorded the album.

Bubbling under: Acid Rooster, Rafael Toral, Suss, Midwife, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Held By Trees & Martin Smith, Seawind Battery, Tashi Wada, Jeffrey Silverstein, Belong, Moon Wiring Club, Cowboy Sadness, Chuck Johnson, Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, Robin Guthrie, Maya Ongaku, Ephilexia, Porta d’Oro, Lifted, Powers/Rolin Duo, Total Blue, Astrid Sonne, claire rousay, Black Decelerant, Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice, Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin, Max Richter, The Balloonist. | More.

1. MONO – Oath
2. Avalanche Kaito – Talitakum
3. Memorials – Memorial Waterslides
4. Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
5. Alcest – Les Chants de l’Aurore
6. God Is An Astronaut – Embers
7. King Hannah – Big Swimmer
8. Moin – You Never End
9. Infinite River – Tabula Rasa
10. Still House Plants – If I Don’t Make It, I Love U
11. Rich Ruth – Water Still Flows
12. African Imperial Wizard – Mbuya Nehanda
13. Crippled Black Phoenix – The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature

Experimental, Modern Classical, Drone
https://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-24/#experimental

Bubbling under: Extra Life, Tashi Wada, Fat White Family, Writhing Squares, Horse Lords, Yellow Swans, White Canyon & The 5th Dimension, Public Service Broadcasting, Sólstafir, Caxtrinho, Beak>, Buñuel.

1. Bent Knee – Twenty Pills Without Water
2. Oneida – Expensive Air
3. Avalanche Kaito – Talitakum
4. Mamaleek – Vida Blue
5. Nightshift – Homosapien
6. The Janitors – An Error Has Occurred
7. Elephant9 – Mythical River
8. Kim Gordon – The Collective
9. Water Damage – In E
10. Bingo Fury – Bats Feet for a Widow
11. Senyawa – Vajranala
12. Einstürzende Neubauten – Rampen (apm: alien pop music)
13. Kelly Moran – Moves in the Field

chuck eddy's 30 best singles:

https://accidentalevolution.wordpress.com/2024/12/21/30-best-singles-of-2024/

1. Kabin Krew & Lisdoonvarna Krew “The Spark“

Love that