Acclaimed Music Best 50 Albums and Best 50 Songs of 2013 (based on dozens of critics' charts worldwide)

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Acclaimed Music community is one of the most reliable, continuous and powerful sources of Spotirama. AM users collect an incredible amount of critics' lists, that they use to compile a wonderful series of charts (Top 3000 all-time songs and albums, year-by-year, decade-by-decade... also available as Spotify playlists). In december, they also start collecting dozens of end-of-year charts. These make the basis of two spreadsheets: one for songs, one for albums. Mathematically combining all the individual lists (XX points to #1 album, YY points to #2 album, so on...), spreadsheets give you two final 2013 charts. I think they work as perfect end-of-2013 critics-friendly summaries. Right now, spreadsheets are not closed: they will be in the next days and maybe AM will make complete Spotify playlists out of them. So, take the following playlists - last of Spotirama end-of-year series - as a partial and essential collection of most-acclaimed songs and albums of 2013 (good thing: all 50 songs are available on Spotify). 

Enjoy.

Complete series of Spotirama end-of-2013 playlists (charts by Amazon, BuzzFeed, Decibel, Gilles Peterson, Guardian, Ibero 90.9, Indiewire, Jazzwise, Kerrang!, Les Inrockuptibles, Me Hace Ruido, Metal Hammer, Mixmag, Mojo, NPR, Panamérika, Paste, Pitchfork, PopMatters, Pretty Much Amazing, Q, The Quietus, Renowned for Sound, Revolver, Rolling Stone, Rough Trade, Spin, Stereogum, Uncut, The Wire, XLR8R, Zane Lowe...)

ACCLAIMED MUSIC BEST 50 ALBUMS OF 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #50)

(3 songs each album, from #1 to #50)

ACCLAIMED MUSIC BEST 50 SONGS OF 2013

(from #1 to #50)

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Full lists

Strikethrough albums (5/50) are not available on Spotify. Some songs and some albums may be not available in all countries.

BEST 50 ALBUMS OF 2013 (25th december update)

1. Kanye West - Yeezus
2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
3. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
4. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
5. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
6. Arctic Monkeys - AM
7. My Bloody Valentine - m b v
8. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
9. David Bowie - The Next Day
10. James Blake - Overgrown
11. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
12. Haim - Days Are Gone
13. Disclosure - Settle
14. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
15. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
16. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
17. Savages - Silence Yourself
18. Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork
19. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
20. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
21. Bill Callahan - Dream River
22. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
23. Deafheaven - Sunbather
24. Foals - Holy Fire
25. These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
26. Danny Brown - Old
27. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
28. Deerhunter - Monomania
29. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
30. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
31. Lorde - Pure Heroine
32. King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
33. Darkside - Psychic
34. Factory Floor - Factory Floor
35. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
36. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
37. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold [released in 2012]
38. Tim Hecker - Virgins
39. Run the Jewels [El-P & Killer Mike] - Run the Jewels
40. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
41. Rhye - Woman
42. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
43. Jagwar Ma - Howlin
44. Atoms for Peace - Amok
45. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic
46. Holden - The Inheritors
47. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
48. Drake - Nothing Was the Same
49. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
50. Mikal Cronin - MCII


BEST 50 SONGS (20th december update)

1. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)
2. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
3. Lorde - Royals
4. Disclosure - White Noise (feat. AlunaGeorge)
5. James Blake - Retrograde
6. Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
7. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
8. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
9. Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
10. Kanye West - New Slaves
11. HAIM - Falling
12. HAIM - The Wire
13. Justin Timberlake - Mirrors
14. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street
15. Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home
16. Vampire Weekend - Step
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
18. The Knife - Full of Fire
19. Autre Ne Veut - Play by Play
20. Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell - Blurred Lines
21. David Bowie - Where Are We Now?
22. Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey
23. Chvrches - Recover
24. Chvrches - The Mother We Share [released in 2012]
25. Pusha T - Numbers On the Boards
26. Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal
27. Ciara - Body Party
28. Foals - My Number
29. Moderat - Bad Kingdom
30. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Day
31. Neko Case - Man
32. Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt
33. Janelle Monáe – Q.U.E.E.N. (feat. Erykah Badu)
34. AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies
35. Savages - Shut Up
36. Phoenix - Entertainment!
37. Janelle Monáe - Dance Apocalyptic
38. John Grant – GMF ( feat. Sinéad O'Connor)
39. Tegan & Sara - Closer [released in 2012]
40. Todd Terje - Strandbar
41. Rhye - Open
42. Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
43. Big Sean – Control (feat. Kendrick Lamar & Jay Electronica)
44. Deafheaven - Dream House
45. Parquet Courts - Stoned and Starving [released in 2012]
46. Sophie - Bipp
47. Foxygen - San Francisco
48. FKA Twigs - Water Me
49. Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
50. Savages - She Will