Acclaimed Music Forums are not only a great source of individual end-of-year charts: every year a user called Harold compiles an aggregated ranking, based on hundreds of different charts (magazines, newspapers, websites). It gives you a general idea of critics' preferences worldwide. This playlist is made with the last update (31st December) and it declares the final winner of 2014. Ladies and gentlemen, they say we floated in the dream of The War on Drugs. Just a doubt: what if D'Angelo published Black Messiah just a month before?
Enjoy and have a great 2015!
P.S. As a bonus, you find a songs playlist, too. I didn't make it: it's embedded from the Spotify account of another Acclaimed Music user, based on a similar spreadsheet and regularly updated.
The complete end-of-2014 Spotirama series (playlists based on charts by Mojo, Pitchfork, Uncut, All Music, NPR...)
Enjoy and have a great 2015!
P.S. As a bonus, you find a songs playlist, too. I didn't make it: it's embedded from the Spotify account of another Acclaimed Music user, based on a similar spreadsheet and regularly updated.
The complete end-of-2014 Spotirama series (playlists based on charts by Mojo, Pitchfork, Uncut, All Music, NPR...)
ACCLAIMED MUSIC TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2014
(from #1 to #50, full albums)
(from #1 to #50, 3 tracks each album)
ACCLAIMED MUSIC TOP SONGS OF 2014
(external playlist)
Full list
Strikethrough albums (3/50) are not available on Spotify. Some albums may be not available in all countries.
1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. FKA twigs - LP1
3. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
4. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
5. Caribou - Our Love
6. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
7. Aphex Twin - Syro
8. Swans - To Be Kind
9. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
10. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
11. Future Islands - Singles
12. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
13. Beck - Morning Phase
14. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
15. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
16. Spoon - They Want My Soul
17. Perfume Genius - Too Bright
18. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
19. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
20. Taylor Swift - 1989
21. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
22. Real Estate - Atlas
23. alt-J - This Is All Yours
24. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
25. Ty Segall - Manipulator
26. Ariel Pink- pom pom
27. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
28. Metronomy - Love Letters
29. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
30. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
31. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
32. Grouper - Ruins
33. Jack White - Lazaretto
34. Lykke Li - I Never Learn
35. The Bug - Angels & Devils
36. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
37. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
38. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
39. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
40. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
41. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
42. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
43. Temples - Sun Structures
44. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
45. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
46. Warpaint - Warpaint
47. Ought - More Than Any Other Day
48. Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
49. tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack
50. Alvvays - Alvvays
1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. FKA twigs - LP1
3. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
4. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
5. Caribou - Our Love
6. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
7. Aphex Twin - Syro
8. Swans - To Be Kind
9. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
10. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
11. Future Islands - Singles
12. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
13. Beck - Morning Phase
14. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
15. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
16. Spoon - They Want My Soul
17. Perfume Genius - Too Bright
18. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
19. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
21. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
22. Real Estate - Atlas
23. alt-J - This Is All Yours
24. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
26. Ariel Pink- pom pom
27. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
28. Metronomy - Love Letters
29. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
30. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
31. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
32. Grouper - Ruins
33. Jack White - Lazaretto
34. Lykke Li - I Never Learn
35. The Bug - Angels & Devils
36. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
37. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
38. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
40. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
41. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
42. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
43. Temples - Sun Structures
44. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
45. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
46. Warpaint - Warpaint
47. Ought - More Than Any Other Day
48. Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
49. tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack
50. Alvvays - Alvvays
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