The 50 Best Britpop Albums (Pitchfork, 2017)

Info: «Born in London in the early 1990s, in grimy pubs and bare flats, the scene offered a thrilling new soundtrack for young British life. Bands like Suede, Blur, Oasis, Elastica, and (Jarvis) Cocker’s Pulp captured the charms and eccentricities of their country while also excising their frustrations with class and community, topping it all with a defiant, tongue-in-cheek glamour. Their guitar-heavy anthems drew from the rock of 1960s England along with the pulse of waning Madchester and alt-rock trends, exporting this exuberant sound to every corner of the globe» (from Pitchfork).

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1. Pulp - Different Class (1995)
2. Blur - Parklife (1994)
3. Radiohead - The Bends (1995)
4. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
5. Suede - Dog Man Star (1994)
6. Elastica - Elastica (1995)
7. Pulp - This is Hardcore (1998)
8. Blur - Blur (1997)
9. Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
10. The Verve - Urban Hymns (1997)
11. Pulp - His 'N' Hers (1993)
12. Supergrass - I Should Coco (1995)
13. Suede - Suede (1993)
14. The La's - The La's (1990)
15. Cornershop - When I Was Born for the 7th Time (1997)
16. Morrissey - Your Arsenal (1992)
17. Shampoo - We Are Shampoo (1994)
18. Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish (1993)
19. Lush - Lovelife (1996)
20. The Auteurs - New Wave (1993)
21. Gene - Olympian (1995)
22. Saint Etienne - So Tough (1993)
23. Kenickie - At the Club (1997)
24. Supergrass - In It for the Money (1997)
25. Hefner - Breaking God's Heart (1998)
26. The Verve - A Northern Soul (1995)
27. Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic (1996)
28. Morrissey - Vauxhall & I (1994)
29. The Charlatans - Tellin' Stories (1997)
30. Suede - Sci-Fi Lullabies (1997)
31. Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha (1991)
32. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go (1996)
33. Black Box Recorder - England Made Me (1998)
34. Ash - 1977 (1996)
35. Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah (1995)
36. Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix (1995)
37. Sleeper - The It Girl (1996)
38. McAlmont & Butler - The Sound of McAlmont & Butler (1995)
39. Super Furry Animals - Radiator (1997)
40. The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps (1993)
41. Space - Spiders (1996)
42. Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals (1996)
43. Catatonia - International Velvet (1998)
44. Edwyn Collins - Gorgeous George (1994)
45. Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern (1997)
46. The Divine Comedy - Casanova (1996)
47. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing (1998)
48. Echobelly - Everyone's Got One (1994)
49. James - Laid (1993)
50. Denim - Back in Denim (1992)

Les Inrockuptibles Top 100 Songs & Top 50 Albums of 2016

Info: Les Inrockuptibles is a French cultural magazine. It started as a monthly magazine in 1986 and it became weekly in 1995. Its main focuses are music, cinema, books, politics, society...

Source: Les Inrockuptibles (songs chart / albums chart)

Date of publication: December 2016

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1. Kanye West - Ultralight Beam
2. David Bowie - Blackstar
3. The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming
4. The xx - On Hold
5. PNL - Da
6. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
7. Rihanna feat. Drake - Work
8. The Lemon Twigs - As Long As We're Together
9. La Femme - Où va le monde?
10. Parcels - Gamesofluck
11. Beyoncé - Formation
12. Alex Cameron - Mongrel
13. The Strokes - Threat of Joy
14. Childish Gambino - Redbone
15. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
16. Frank Ocean - Nights
17. DIIV - Bent (Roi's Song)
18. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
19. Jessy Lanza - It Means I Love You
20. Agar Agar - Prettiest Virgin
21. Soft Hair – Lying Has To Stop
22. Cigarettes After Sex – Affection
23. Solange – Cranes in the Sky
24. Radiohead - Daydreaming
25. Kanye West - Fade
26. Weyes Blood – Do You Need My Love?
27. The Weekend feat. Daft Punk – Starboy
28. Jacques – Dans la radio
29. Bon Iver – 715 Creeks
30. Shura - Nothing's Real
31. Justice – Randy
32. ANOHNI – Drone Bomb Me
33. Schoolboy Q – Groovy Tony
34. Les Pirouettes – L’escalier
35. David Bowie – Lazarus
36. Princess Nokia – Tomboy
37. Drake Feat. Wizkid & Kyla – One Dance
38. The Last Shadow Puppets - Miracle Aligner
39. Thee Oh Sees - Plastic Plant
40. PJ Harvey - The Wheel
41. Blood Orange - Augustine
42. Young Thug - Digits
43. Agnes Obel - Familiar
44. Kendrick Lamar - untitled 05
45. Nicolas Jaar - No
46. Frank Ocean - Ivy
47. Nekfeu - Réalité augmentée
48. Ichon - Si l'on ride
49. Juliette Armanet - Cavalier seule
50. Jagwar Ma - OB1
51. Goat Girl - Country Sleaze
52. Chris Cohen - As If Apart
53. Chance the Rapper feat. 2 Chainz & Lil Wayne - No Problem
54. Kate Tempest - Ketamine for Breakfast
55. Rat Boy - Get Over It
56. Benjamin Biolay - Palermo Hollywood
57. Travis Scott feat. Kendrick Lamar - Goosebumps
58. Andy Shauf - The Magician
59. Drake - Fake Love
60. Frustration - Cause You Ran Away
61. The Lemon Twigs – These Words
62. Damso - Amnesie
63. Warpaint – New Song
64. PNL – J’suis QLF
65. La Femme – Tatiana
66. Shake 070 – Bass For My Thoughts
67. Paradis - Recto Verso
68. Kaytranada - Lite Spots
69. Calypso Valois - Le Jour
70. Oscar - Gone Forever
71. Batuk - Daniel
72. Kevin Morby - Dorothy
73. Grand Blanc - Tendresse
74. Iggy Pop - Gardenia
75. Booba - DKR
76. Let's Eat Grandma - Deep Six Textbook
77. Flavien Berger, Véronique Vincent et Aksak Maboul - Je pleure tout le temps
78. Vince Staples - Prima Donna
79. Deerhoof - Criminals of the Mind
80. Liss - Sorry
81. Alex Cameron - She's Mine
82. Lindstrom - Closing Shot
83. Parquet Courts - Berlin Got Blurry
84. Isaiah Rashad - 4r Da Squaw
85. Parcels - Myenemy
86. Abra - Crybaby
87. Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane - Black Beatles
88. DIIV - Dopamine
89. Rendez-Vous - Distance
90. Denzel Curry - Ult
91. James Blake feat. Bon Iver - I Need a Forest Fire
92. Corine - Pourquoi Pourquoi
93. Suuns - Instrument
94. Shame - The Lick
95. The Rolling Stones - Ride 'Em On Down
96. Calypso Rose - Calypso Queen
97. Le Vasco - Easy Online
98. Pi Ja Ma - Radio Girl
99. Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger
100. DJ Snake ft Justin Bieber - Let Me Love You


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1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. La Femme - Mystère
3. Frank Ocean - Blonde
4. The Lemon Twigs - Do Hollywood
5. PNL - Dans la légende
6. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
7. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
8. Drake - Views
9. Alex Cameron - Jumping the Shark
10. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
11. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
12. Bon Iver - 22, a Million
13. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
14. Ala.ni - You & I
15. Angel Olsen - My Woman
16. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
17. The Weeknd - Starboy
18. Grand Blanc - Mémoires vives
19. Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth
20. Soft Hair - Soft Hair
21. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
22. James Blake - The Colour in Anything
23. The Pirouettes - Carrément carrément
24. Benjamin Biolay - Palermo Hollywood
25. Young Thug - JEFFERY
26. Anohni - Hopelessness
27. Bayonne - Primitives
28. Jóhan Jóhansson - Orphée
29. Justice - Woman
30. Lescop - Echo
31. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
32. Cullen Omori - New Misery
33. Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
34. Solange - A Seat at the Table
35. El'Blaszczyk - The Quirky Lost Tapes, 1993-95
36. Field Music - Commontime
37. Schoolboy Q - Blank Face LP
38. Rihanna - Anti
39. Julien Doré - &
40. Fat White Family - Songs for Our Mothers
41. Wati Watia Zorey Band - Zanz in Lanfèr
42. Karl Blau - Introducing Karl Blau
43. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
44. M.I.A. - AIM
45. DIIV - Is the Is Are
46. Paradis - Recto verso
47. Céu - Tropix
48. Fatou Seidi Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni - Les Filles de Illighadad
49. Lost Under Heaven - Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing
50. Pone - Radiant

Pitchfork Top 100 Songs & Top 50 Albums of 2016

Info: Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber. It developed a reputation for its extensive focus on independent music, but it has since expanded with a variety of coverage on both indie and popular music artists.

Source: Pitchfork (songs chart / albums chart)
Date of publication: 12-13th December 2016
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1. Kanye West feat. Chance the Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price, and Kirk Franklin - Ultralight Beam
2. Beyoncé - Formation
3. Solange - Cranes in the Sky
4. Frank Ocean - Ivy
5. David Bowie - Lazarus
6. ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me
7. Rihanna feat. Drake - Work
8. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
9. Radiohead - True Love Waits
10. Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane - Black Beatles
11. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People...
12. Chance the Rapper feat. Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz - No Problem
13. Frank Ocean - Pink + White
14. Kanye West - Real Friends
15. Blood Orange feat. Empress Of - Best to You
16. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
17. Anderson .Paak - Am I Wrong
18. Bon Iver - 33 ‘GOD’
19. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
20. Car Seat Headrest - Fill in the Blank
21. Solange feat. Sampha - Don't Touch My Hair
22. Jenny Hval - Conceptual Romance
23. David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away
24. Radiohead - Daydreaming
25. Frank Ocean - Nikes
26. Danny Brown feat. Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Earl Sweatshirt - Really Doe
27. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - I Need You
28. Beyoncé - Hold Up
29. Bon Iver - 22 (OVER S∞∞N) [Bob Moose Extended Cab Version]
30. Drake feat. Wizkid and Kyla - One Dance
31. A Tribe Called Quest - Dis Generation
32. Kanye West feat. Kendrick Lanar - No More Parties in L.A.
33. D.R.A.M. feat. Lil Yachty - Broccoli
34. Chance the Rapper feat. Jeremih - Summer Friends
35. Kevin Gates - 2 Phones
36. Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 02
37. Noname - Yesterday
38. Weyes Blood - Do You Need My Love
39. Jessy Lanza - It Means I Love You
40. Young Thug - Kanye West
41. Beyoncé - Sorry
42. French Montana feat. Kodak Black - Lockjaw
43. Joey Purp feat. Chance the Rapper - Girls@
44. Anderson .Paak - Come Down
45. Kevin Morby - I Have Been to the Mountain
46. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - A 1000 Times
47. Chance the Rapper feat. Knox Fortune - All Night
48. Blood Orange - E.V.P.
49. Aphex Twin - CHEETAHT2 [Ld spectrum]
50. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
51. Esperanza Spalding - Earth to Heaven
52. YG - Who Shot Me?
53. Kaytranada feat. Anderson .Paak - Glowed Up
54. dvsn - Hallucinations
55. Gucci Mane - First Day Out tha Feds
56. Desiigner - Panda
57. Jamila Woods feat. Noname - VRY BLK
58. Young Thug - Digits
59. Whitney - No Woman
60. Maxwell - 1990x
61. Sampha - Blood on Me
62. Drake - Controlla
63. Cass McCombs - Bum Bum Bum
64. Porches - Be Apart
65. Savages - Adore
66. KING - The Greatest
67. Young M.A. - OOOUUU
68. Nao - Girlfriend
69. Vince Staples feat. A$AP Rocky - Prima Donna
70. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Existence in the Unfurling
71. Isaiah Rashad - Smile
72. Moses Sumney - Lonely World
73. Schoolboy Q - That Part
74. The 1975 - Somebody Else
75. Travis Scott feat. Young Thug - Pick Up the Phone
76. Ka - 30 Keys
77. Skepta - Man
78. serpentwithfeet - blisters
79. Mr. Fingers - Qwazars
80. PJ Harvey - The Wheel
81. Deakin - Golden Chords
82. Ariana Grande - Into You
83. Huerco S. - Promises of Fertility
84. G.L.O.S.S. - Give Violence a Chance
85. Angel Olsen - Sister
86. Bat For Lashes - Sunday Love
87. Alicia Keys - In Common
88. Rihanna - Needed Me
89. Frankie Cosmos - On the Lips
90. Pinegrove - Old Friends
91. 21 Savage / Metro Boomin - No Heart
92. Sheer Mag - Can't Stop Fighting
93. Danny Brown - When It Rain
94. Cate Le Bon - Wonderful
95. Kamaiyah - I'm On
96. Kodak Black feat. Gucci Mane - Vibin in This Bih
97. Olga Bell - Randomness
98. Moor Mother - Deadbeat Protest
99. Sturgill Simpson - Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)
100. Lil Peep - Kiss


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1. Solange - A Seat at the Table
2. Frank Ocean - Blonde
3. Beyoncé - Lemonade
4. David Bowie - Blackstar
5. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
6. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
7. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service
8. Anohni - Hopelessness
9. Angel Olsen - My Woman
10. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
11. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
12. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
13. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
14. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
15. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
16. Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered
17. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
18. Mitski - Puberty 2
19. Rihanna - Anti
20. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
21. Young Thug - JEFFERY
22. YG - Still Brazy
23. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
24. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
25. Kaytranada - 99.9%
26. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
27. Noname - Telefone
28. NxWorries - Yes Lawd!
29. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
30. Esperanza Spalding - Emily’s D+Evolution
31. Whitney - Light Upon the Lake
32. Elza Soares - A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (The Woman at the End of the World)
33. Maxwell - blackSUMMERS’night
34. Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
35. Hamilton LeithauserRostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
36. Jamila Woods - Heavn
37. King - We Are King
38. Schoolboy Q - Blank Face LP
39. Moodymann - DJ-Kicks
40. Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
41. Huerco S. - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
42. Vince Staples - Prima Donna
43. Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth
44. Kevin Gates - Islah
45. William Tyler - Modern Country
46. Pinegrove - Cardinal
47. Kamaiyah - A Good Night in the Ghetto
48. Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
49. Porches - Pool
50. 21 Savage / Metro Boomin - Savage Mode

Wire Top 50 Albums of 2016

Info: The Wire is "a British avant garde music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but branched out in the early 1990s to various types of experimental music. Since then it has covered hip hop, modern classical, free improvisation, post-rock, and various forms of electronic music. (from Wikipedia)

Source: The Wire 
Date of publication: The Wire January 2017 Issue (#395)
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1. David Bowie – Blackstar
2. Shirley Collins – Lodestar
3. Moor Mother – Fetish Bones
4.Autechre – elseq 1-5 (just elseq 1 available)
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
6. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
7. Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina
8. Yves Tumor – Serpent Music
9. Gaika – SECURITY
10. Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Yermande
11. Gate – Saturday Night Fever
12. Solange – A Seat at the Table
13. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
14. Oren Ambarchi – Hubris
15. Babyfather – “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow
16. 75 Dollar Bill – Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
17. Anna Meredith – Varmints
18. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS
19. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
20. Carla dal Forno – You Know What It’s Like
21. David Toop – Entities Inertias Faint Beings
22. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
23. Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered
24. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – We Be All Africans
25. Laura Cannell – Simultaneous Flight Movement
26. Ectoplasm Girls – New Feeling Come
27. Steve Gunn – Eyes on the Lines
28. Ian William Craig – Centres
29. Matmos – Ultimate Care II
30. Laraaji & Sun Araw – Professional Sunflow
31. Scott Walker – The Childhood of a Leader (OST)
32. Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
33. Elysia Crampton – Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City
34. Katie Gately – Color
35. Shackleton with Ernesto Tomasini – Devotional Songs
36. Anxiety – Anxiety
37. Skepta – Konnichiwa
38. Puce Mary – The Spiral
39. The Dwarfs of East Agouza – Bes
40. Catherine Christer Hennix – Live At Issue Project Room
41. Horse Lords – Interventions
42. Roy Montgomery – R M H Q: Headquarters
43. Frank Ocean – Blonde
44. Thalia Zedek – Eve
45. Charlemagne Palestine – Cathédrale De Strasbourg
46. Kepler Quartet – Ben Johnston: String Quartets Nos. 6, 7, & 8
47. Circuit Des Yeux – Jackie Lynn
48. Zomby – Ultra
49. Klara Lewis – Too
50. Peder Mannerfelt – Controlling Body

FACT Top 50 Songs & Top 50 Albums of 2016

Info: FACT is a music publication launched in the UK in 2003, with particular focus on electronic, pop, rap, and experimental artists.

Source: Fact (songs chart / albums chart)
Date of publication: 13-20th December 2016
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1. Popcaan - Ova Dweet
2. Rihanna - Work
3. Danny L Harle feat. Carly Rae Jepsen - Super Natural
4. Pangaea - Skips Desk
5. Beyonce - Formation
6. Equiknoxx - Bubble
7. D.R.A.M. feat. Lil Yachty - Broccoli
8. Fox - Vacio
9. Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles
10. Drake - One Dance
11. Dont DJ - Gammelan
12. Fat Joe and Remy Ma - All The Way Up
13. DJ Marfox - 2685
14. D∆WN - Honest
15. Lil Uzi Vert - Money Longer
16. Avalon Emerson - The Frontier
17. DJ Q - Sonic
18. Kanye West - Ultralight Beam
19. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
20. Sir Spyro feat. Killa P, Lady Chann & Teddy Bruckshot - Topper Top
21. Kevin Gates - 2 Phones
22. Floorplan - Mmm Hmm Hmm
23. Dave - Wanna Know
24. Demdike Stare - Hardnoise
25. Lindstrøm - Closing Shot
26. Abra - Crybaby
27. Radiohead - Burn The Witch
28. Mr. Fingers - Qwazars
29. Young M.A - OOOUUU
30. Willow - A2
31. Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 07
32. Alexandria - Problem
33. Quavius - Love The Way
34. Fifth Harmony - Work From Home
35. Soda Plains - Rodeo
36. Peder Mannerfelt - Public Images
37. AJ Tracey - Naila (Murlo Remix)
38. Tinashe - Ride of Your Life
39. Skepta - Man
40. Jubilee feat. HoodCelebrityy - Wine Up
41. Alicia Keys - In Common
42. Elysia Crampton feat. Why Be & Chino Amobi - Dummy Track
43. Young Thug - Harambe
44. Reckonwrong - The Passions of Pez
45. UMFANG - Force
46. Denzel Curry - Knotty Head
47. Justice - Safe and Sound
48. Machine Woman - I Can Mend Your Broken Heart
49. Gage - Talons Reach
50. Cousin Stizz - Every Season


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1. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
2. Equiknoxx - Bird Sound Power
3. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
4. Lorenzo Senni - Persona
5. Mitski - Puberty 2
6. Kamaiyah - A Good Night In The Ghetto
7. Steve Hauschildt - Strands
8. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
9. Pangaea - In Drum Play
10. Solange - A Seat at the Table
11. Jessy Lanza - Oh No
12. The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
13. Rihanna - ANTI
14. YG - Still Brazy
15. Beyoncé - Lemonade
16. The Outfit, TX - Green Lights: Everythang Goin
17. Konx-Om-Pax - Caramel
18. Bjarki - Б
19. Young Thug - JEFFERY
20. Peder Mannerfelt - Controlling Body
21. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
22. Demdike Stare - Wonderland
23. David Bowie - Blackstar
24. Negative Gemini - Body Work
25. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
26. Sophia Loizou - Singulacra
27. DVA [Hi:Emotions] - NOTU_URONLINEU
28. FIS - From Patterns To Details
29. Helena Celle - If I Can't Handle Me…
30. Powell - Sport
31. Angel Olsen - My Woman
32. Seekersinternational - Ragga Preservation Society
33. Ohal - Acid Park
34. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
35. Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein - Stranger Things Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
36. Jake Meginsky - Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes
37. Abra - Princess
38. Second Woman - Second Woman
39. Disasterpeace - Hyper Light Drifter
40. Botany - Deepak Verbera
41. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy
42. Will Long - Long Trax
43. Mozzy - Mandatory Check
44. Elon Katz - The Human Pet
45. Klara Lewis - Too
46. Cousin Stizz - MONDA
47. Chino Amobi - Airport Music For Black Folk
48. Good Willsmith - Things Our Bodies Used To Have
49. Serpentwithfeet - Blisters
50. Lil Uzi Vert - Lil Uzi Vert vs the World

American Songwriter Top 50 Songs & Top 50 Albums of 2016

Info: American Songwriter is a bimonthly magazine, established in 1984 and based in Nashville, covering every aspect of the craft and art of songwriting.

Source: American Songwriter (songs chart / albums chart)
Date of publication: 1-7th December 2016
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1. Lori McKenna - Humble & Kind
2. Margo Price - Hands of Time
3. Drive-By Truckers - Surrender Under Protest
4. Courtney Marie Andrews - How Quickly Your Heart Mends?
5. Car Seat Headrest - Fill in the Blank
6. Angel Olsen - Intern
7. Handsome Family - Gold
8. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Distant Sky
9. Brandy Clark - Homecoming Queen
10. Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like a Levee
11. Sturgill Simpson - Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)
12. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
13. Beyoncé - Daddy Lessons
14. David Bowie - I Can’t Give Everything Away
15. Miranda Lambert - Runnin' Just in Case
16. Shovels & Rope - The Last Hawk
17. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
18. Lambchop - The Hustle
18. Lydia Loveless - Heaven
20. Richmond Fontaine - I Got Off the Bus
21. William Bell - This Is Where I Live
22. Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam - A 1000 Times
23. Elizabeth Cook - Tabitha Tuders’ Mama
24. John Paul White - Black Leaf
25. Eric Bachman - Mercy
26. Sara Watkins - Young in All the Wrong Ways
27. Ryley Walker - The Halfwit in Me
28. Bob Weir - Only a River
29. Yola Carter - Orphan Country
30. Bon Iver - ___45___
31. Whitney - Golden Days
32. Wilco - We Aren’t the World (Safety Girl)
33. Paul Simon - The Werewolf
34. Radiohead - Burn the Witch
35. case/lang/veirs - Atomic Number
36. Kenny Chesney - Jesus & Elvis
37. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
38. Steve Gunn - Ancient Jules
39. Okkervil River - Okkervil River R.I.P.
40. Frankie Lee - High and Dry
41. Anohni - Drone Bomb Me
42. Charles Bradley - Good to Be Back Home
43. Mavis Staples - Take Us Back
44. Parquet Courts - Berlin Got Blurry
45. Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker - Nine Times Along
46. St. Paul & the Broken Bones - I’ll Be Your Woman
47. Joan Shelley - Cost of the Cold
48. Paul Cauthen - Marfa Lights
49. Felice Brothers - Jack at the Asylum
50. Big Thief - Masterpiece


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1. Angel Olsen - MY WOMAN
2. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
3. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
4. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
5. case/lang/veirs - case/lang/veirs
6. David Bowie - Blackstar
7. Drive-By Truckers - American Band
8. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
9. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here … Thank You 4 Your Service
10. Dori Freeman - Dori Freeman
11. Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day
12. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
13. Mudcrutch - 2
14. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
15. Lucinda Williams - The Ghosts Of Highway 20
16. William Bell - This Is Where I Live
17. Hayes Carll - Lovers And Leavers
18. Aaron Lee Tasjan - Silver Tears
19. Mitski - Puberty 2
20. Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger
21. Brandy Clark - Big Day In A Small Town
22. Robert Ellis - Robert Ellis
23. Beyoncé - Lemonade
24. Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like A Levee
25. Bonnie Raitt - Dig In Deep
26. Lydia Loveless - Real
27. Dawes - We’re All Gonna Die
28. Miranda Lambert - The Weight Of These Wings
29. Brian Fallon - Painkillers
30. Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me
31. Lambchop - FLOTUS
32. Kelsey Waldon - I’ve Got A Way
33. Cass McCombs - Mangy Love
34. Savages - Adore Life
35. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
36. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
37. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
38. Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life
39. Warpaint - Heads Up
40. Maren Morris - Hero
41. Lera Lynn - Resistor
42. Conor Oberst - Ruminations
43. Amanda Shires - My Piece Of Land
44. Pinegrove - Cardinal
45. Frank Ocean - Blonde
46. Felice Brothers - Life in the Dark
47. Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math
48. Brothers Osborne - Pawn Shop
49. Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
50. Twin Peaks - Down In Heaven

Rolling Stone Top 50 Songs & Top 50 Albums of 2016

Info: Rolling Stone is an American magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph J. Gleason.

Source: Rolling Stone (Songs chart / Albums chart)
Date of publication: 28-30th November 2016
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1. Beyonce - Formation
2. Frank Ocean - Ivy
3. Drake feat. Wizkid and Kyla - One Dance
4. David Bowie - No Plan
5. Kanye West - Ultralight Beam
6. Pwr Bttm - Projection
7. Solange - Cranes in the Sky
8. Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Work From Home
9. Lvl Up - Pain
10. Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane - Black Beatles
11. Young M.A - Ooouuu
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dark Necessities
13. Wilco - If I Ever Was a Child
14. Mannequin Pussy - Romantic
15. Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 05 | 09.21.2014.
16. Chance the Rapper feat. Saba - Angels
17. Lucy Dacus - I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore
18. The Monkees - Me & Magdalena
19. Danny Brown feat. Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Earl Sweatshirt - Really Doe
20. Bob Dylan - That Old Black Magic
21. 21 Savage & Metro Boomin feat. Future - X
22. Ariana Grande feat. Nicki Minaj - Side to Side
23. Little Big Town - Better Man
24. Courtney Barnett - Three Packs a Day
25. Leonard Cohen - Treaty
26. Vince Staples - War Ready
27. Angel Olsen - Sister
28. Lady Gaga - Perfect Illusion
29. Cobalt - Beast Whip
30. A Tribe Called Quest - The Space Program
31. Miranda Lambert - Vice
32. Kodak Black - Everything 1K
33. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
34. Britney Spears - Clumsy
35. Japanese Breakfast - Everybody Wants to Love You
36. Drive-By Truckers - Ever South
37. Tacocat - Night Swimming
38. Maren Morris - 80s Mercedes
39. Paul Simon - Cool Papa Bell
40. Lil Uzi Vert - Original Uzi (4 of Us)
41. Yohuna - The Moon Hangs in the Sky Like Nothing Hangs in the Sky
42. Bob Mould - Voices in My Head
43. Free Cake for Every Creature - All You Gotta Be When You're 23 Is Yourself
44. Desiigner - Tiimmy Turner
45. Car Seat Headrest - Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
46. Helado Negro - Runaround
47. D.R.A.M. feat. Lil Yachty - Broccoli
48. Sturgill Simpson - Keep It Between the Lines
49. Nicki Minaj - Black Barbies
50. Van Morrison - Going Down to Bangor


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1. Beyonce - Lemonade
2. David Bowie - Blackstar
3. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
4. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
5. Frank Ocean - Blond
6. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
7. The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome
8. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
9. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
10. Young Thug - Jeffery
11. Solange - A Seat at the Table
12. Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger
13. Maren Morris - Hero
14. Green Day - Revolution Radio
15. Lvl Up - Return to Love
16. Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings
17. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
18. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
19. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
20. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
21. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
22. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
23. Mitski - Puberty 2
24. Drive-By Truckers - American Band
25. Rihanna - Anti
26. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
27. Brandy Clark - Big Day in a Small Town
28. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
29. Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch 2
30. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
31. White Lung - Paradise
32. Alicia Keys - Here
33. Sting - 57th & 9th
34. Angel Olsen - My Woman
35. ANOHNI - Hopelessness
36. Metallica - Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
37. Bonnie Raitt - Dig In Deep
38. Tove Lo - Lady Wood
39. Elton John - Wonderful Crazy Night
40. Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night
41. Wilco - Schmilco
42. Drake - Views
43. Future - Evol
44. The Monkees - Good Times!
45. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
46. Norah Jones - Day Breaks
47. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things OST Volumes 1 and 2
48. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
49. Dawes - We're All Gonna Die
50. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

NPR Top 100 Songs & Top 50 Albums of 2016

Info:  NPR (National Public Radio) is "an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States" (from Wikipedia). 

Source: NPR
Date of publication: December 2016
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1. Beyoncé - Formation
2. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
3. Kanye West (feat. Chance the Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price and Kirk Franklin) - Ultralight Beam
4. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
5. Drive-By Truckers - What It Means
6. Chance the Rapper (feat. Anderson .Paak, BJ The Chicago Kid, Raury and Ty Dolla $ign) - Blessings (Reprise)
7. Rae Sremmurd (feat. Gucci Mane) - Black Beatles
8. Solange - Cranes in the Sky
9. Pinegrove - Old Friends
10. ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me
11. Fifth Harmony (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) - Work From Home
12. Frank Ocean - Pink + White
13. David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away
14. Maren Morris - Rich
15. Rihanna (feat. Drake) - Work
16. Car Seat Headrest - Vincent
17. Anderson .Paak - Come Down
18. Gregory Porter - Take Me to the Alley
19. Danny Brown (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Earl Sweatshirt) - Really Doe
20. Boris Giltburg - Étude-tableaux, Op. 39: No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)
21. Margaret Glaspy - You And I
22. Lizzo - Good As Hell
23. Robert Ellis - California
24. James Blake (feat. Bon Iver) - I Need A Forest Fire
25. Angel Olsen - Sister
26. Ty Dolla $ign (feat. Big TC) - No Justice
27. Lucy Dacus - I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore
28. Miranda Lambert - Vice
29. Paul Simon - Wristband
30. Xenia Rubinos - Mexican Chef
31. Desiigner - Panda
32. Bon Iver - 22 (OVER S∞∞N)
33. Maggie Rogers - Alaska
34. A Tribe Called Quest - We The People...
35. Parker Millsap - Heaven Sent
36. Leyla McCalla - A Day For The Hunter, A Day for the Prey
37. Blood Orange (feat. Empress Of) - Best To You
38. Pavel Kolesnikov - Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4 (Chopin)
39. Lindstrøm - Closing Shot
40. Radiohead - Daydreaming
41. Maxwell - Lake By the Ocean
42. Låpsley - Operator (DJ Koze's Disco Edit)
43. Allen Toussaint - Mardi Gras In New Orleans
44. Brandy Clark - Since You've Gone To Heaven
45. Bombino - Timtar (Memories)
46. Big Thief - Masterpiece
47. Riton (feat. Kah-Lo) - Rinse & Repeat
48. Jeff Parker - Get Dressed
49. Joyce DiDonato - Lascia ch'io pianga (Handel)
50. William Bell - The Three Of Me
51. Swet Shop Boys - T5
52. Shura - What’s It Gonna Be?
53. Julianna Barwick - Big Hollow
54. Yola Carter - Fly Away
55. Weezer - California Kids
56. The 1975 - A Change Of Heart
57. Savages - Adore
58. Daniel Wohl - Source
59. Lake Street Dive - Call Off Your Dogs
60. Angelica Garcia - Orange Flower
61. Joyce Manor - Fake I.D.
62. Fat Joe, Remy Ma & Jay Z (feat. French Montana and Infared) - All The Way Up (Remix)
63. Beyoncé (feat. Dixie Chicks) - Daddy Lessons (Remix)
64. Japanese Breakfast - In Heaven
65. case/lang/veirs - Atomic Number
66. Robbie Fulks - South Bend Soldiers On
67. Rolf Lislevand - Caprice de Chaconne (Corbetta)
68. Kelsey Waldon - All By Myself
69. La Yegros (feat. Lindigo) - Sueñitos
70. The xx - On Hold
71. Isaiah Rashad (feat. SZA) - Stuck in the Mud
72. Brent Cobb - Diggin' Holes
73. Angela Hunte - Mon Bon Ami
74. Miles Mosley - Abraham
75. Dae Dae - Wat U Mean (Aye, Aye, Aye)
76. William Tyler - Highway Anxiety
77. D.R.A.M. (feat. Lil Yachty) - Broccoli
78. Vektor - Charging The Void
79. Fea - Tragedias
80. Jambinai - They Keep Silence
81. Heron Oblivion - Beneath Fields
82. SubRosa - Troubled Cells
83. Noura Mint Seymali - Ghlana
84. Jon Bellion - All Time Low
85. Lubomyr Melnyk - Sunset
86. Calvin Harris (feat. Rihanna) - This Is What You Came For
87. Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - High Castle Rock
88. Jacob Collier - Hideaway
89. The Furrow Collective - Chuir M'Athair Mise dhan Taigh Charraideach
90. ¡Aparato! - Aire
91. Beth Orton - Dawnstar
92. Oathbreaker - 10:56 / Second Son of R.
93. ZAYN - PILLOWTALK
94. Adam Torres - Juniper Arms
95. Eighth Blackbird - Pulse (Robert Honstein)
96. Young Thug and Travis Scott (feat. Quavo) - Pick Up the Phone
97. John Paul White - Black Leaf
98. Los Cenzontles - Both Sides Now
99. William Michael Morgan - I Met a Girl
100. Drake (feat. WizKid and Kyla) - One Dance


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1. Solange - A Seat At The Table
2. Beyoncé - Lemonade
3. David Bowie - Blackstar
4. Frank Ocean - Blonde
5. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
6. Barbara Hannigan/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons - let me tell you (Abrahamsen)
7. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
8. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
9. Miranda Lambert - The Weight Of These Wings
10. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
11. Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
12. Rihanna - Anti
13. Kaytranada - 99.9%
14. Drive-By Truckers - American Band
15. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
16. Carrie Rodriguez - Lola
17. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here...Thank You 4 Your service
18. Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
19. David T. Little - Dog Days
20. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
21. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
22. Noname - Telefone
23. A-WA - Habib Galbi
24. Young Thug - Jeffery
25. Angel Olsen - My Woman
26. Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
27. Jamila Woods - HEAVN
28. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
29. Mitski - Puberty 2
30. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
31. Big Thief - Masterpiece
32. ANOHNI - Hopelessness
33. Logan Richardson - Shift
34. Lori McKenna - The Bird & The Rifle
35. Pavel Kolesnikov - Chopin Mazurkas
36. Maren Morris - Hero
37. René Marie - Sound Of Red
38. Pinegrove - Cardinal
39. Tweet - Charlene
40. Aaron Lee Tasjan - Silver Tears
41. Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy - Darraje
42. Pure Disgust - Pure Disgust
43. Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day
44. New York Philharmonic/Alan Gilbert - Rouse: Symphonic Works
45. Mal Devisa - Kiid
46. Steven Julien - Fallen
47. Y La Bamba - Ojos del Sol
48. Domo Genesis - Genesis
49. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide To Earth
50. Catherine Russell - Harlem On My Mind

NME Top 50 Songs & Top 50 Albums of 2016

Info: NME (New Musical Express) is a British music magazine published since 1952.
Source: NME (songs chart / albums chart)
Date of publication: 26/27th November 2016
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1. Rihanna – Work
2. The 1975 – Somebody Else
3. Chance The Rapper – All Night
4. Iggy Pop – Gardenia
5. Christine & The Queens – Tilted
6. Beyoncé – Formation
7. Kanye West – Ultralight Beam
8. Skepta – Man
9. Lady Leshurr – Where Are You Now?
10. Charli XCX – After The Afterparty
11. David Bowie – Lazarus
12. The 1975 – The Sound
13. Warpaint – New Song
14. Tove Lo – Cool Girl
15. Bastille – Good Grief
16. Kaytranada – Lite Spots
17. Drake – One Dance
18. Blossoms – Charlemagne
19. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – A 1000 Times
20. Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me
21. Kanye West - Famous
22. Stormzy - Scary
23. Christine and the Queens - iT
24. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
25. Lady Gaga - Perfect Illusion
26. Anderson .Paak - Come Down
27. Desiigner - Panda
28. Kate Tempest - Europe Is Lost
29. Beck - Wow
30. Parquet Courts - Dust
31. Kevin Morby - Dorothy
32. HMLTD - Stained
33. Black Honey - Hello Today
34. Father John Misty - Real Love Baby
35. Kanye West - Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1
36. Rihanna - Needed Me
37. Kano - 3 Wheel-ups (feat. Wiley & Giggs)
38. ANOHNI - Why Did You Separate Me from the Earth?
39. Metallica - Hardwired
40. Anderson .Paak - Heart Don't Stand a Chance
41. The Stone Roses - Beautiful Thing
42. Deap Vally - Royal Jelly
43. The Last Shadow Puppets - Miracle Aligner
44. Whitney - No Woman
45. Blood Orange - Best to You
46. Tegan and Sara - U-turn
47. Justice - Safe and Sound
48. Sunflower Bean - Easier Said
49. The Strokes - Drag Queen
50. Snakehips - Cruel (feat. ZAYN)


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1. The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
2. Kanye West – The Life Of Pablo
3. Christine And The Queens – Chaleur Humaine
4. Skepta – Konnichiwa
5. Kaytranada – 99.9%
6. David Bowie - Blackstar
7. DIIV – Is The Is Are
8. Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
9. Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book
10. Frank Ocean - Blond
11. Beyonce - Lemonade
12. Sunflower Bean – Human Ceremony
13. Angel Olsen - My Woman
14. Jamie T - Trick
15. Kano – Made In The Manor
16. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
17. Drake - Views
18. Tegan And Sara – Love You To Death
19. White Lung - Paradise
20. Lady Gaga - Joanne
21. Anderson. Paak – Malibu
22. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
23. Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate
24. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
25. Blossoms – Blossoms
26. Biffy Clyro – Ellipsis
27. Giggs - Landlord
28. Goat - Requiem
29. Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
30. Nao – For All We Know
31. Bastille – Wild World
32. Kings of Leon - Walls
33. Margo Price – Midwest Farmers Daughter
34. Let’s Eat Grandma – I, Gemini
35. Glass Animals – How To Be A Human Being
36. Swet Shop Boys – Cashmere
37. Soft Hair - Soft Hair
38. Slaves - Take Control
39. Green Day - Revolution Radio
40. Rihanna - Anti
41. Solange – A Seat At The Table
42. Whitney – Light Upon The Lake
43. ANOHNI - Hopelessness
44. The Lemon Twigs – Do Hollywood
45. Car Seat Headrest – Teens Of Denial
46. Savages - Adore Life
47. Wild Beasts - Boy King
48. Show Me The Body – Body War
49. Public Access TV – Never Enough
50. Bon Iver – 22, A Million

Rockit 50 Albums of 2015 (Italian albums)

Info: Launched in 1997, Rockit is likely the most important Italian webzine focused on the local music scene (rock, electronic, hip hop, mainly underground). This is a playlist based on its chart of best Italian songs of the year. On the Rockit website, each song comes with a short review (in italian). Source: Rockit

Date of publication: 16th december 2015
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1. Iosonouncane - Die
2. Verdena - Endkadenz vol.1 & vol.2
3. Colapesce - Egomostro
4. Nitro - Suicidol
5. Calcutta - Mainstream
6. Adriano Viterbini - Film IOI Sound
7. Go Dugong - A Love Explosion
8. Iacampo - Flores
9. Matilde Davoli - I'm Calling You From My Dreams
10. Albedo - Metropolis
11. Any Other - Silently. Quietly. Going Away
12. Sacri Cuori - Delone
13. Joe Victor - Blue Call Pink Riot
14. Noyz Narcos & Fritz Da Cat - Localz Only
15. Alessio Bondì - Sfardo
16. Dimartino - Un paese ci vuole
17. Paletti - Qui e ora
18. Celluloid Jam - Youth EP
19. C+C=Maxigross - Fluttarn
20. Il Teatro degli Orrori - Il Teatro degli Orrori
21. Cara - Non guardarmi
22. Alessandro Grazian - L'età più forte
23. Zu - Cortar Todo
24. Bachi da pietra - Necroide
25. Dargen D'Amico - D'iO
26. The Hacienda - The Hacienda EP
27. Baba Sissoko - Three Gees
28. Dumbo Gets Mad - Thank You Neil
29. Auden - Some Reckonings
30. Calibro 35 - S.P.A.C.E.
31. Aucan - Stelle fisse
32. Mellow Mood - 2 The World
33. Esterina - Dio ti salvi
34. Fabri Fibra - Squallor
35. Bee Bee Sea - Bee Bee Sea
36. Mezzosangue - Soul of a Supertramp
37. Three In One Gentlemen Suit - Notturno
38. Levante - Abbi cura di te
39. Giovanni Truppi - Giovanni Truppi
40. Egreen - Beats & Hate
41. The Leading Guy - Memorandum
42. Vaghe Stelle - Abstract Speed + Sound
43. Furtherset - No Logic No Death
44. Paolo Spaccamonti - Rumors
45. Yakamoto Kotzuga - Usually Nowhere
46. Guè Pequeno - Vero
47. Ministri - Cultura Generale
48. Futbolìn - Futbolìn
49. La Batteria - La Batteria
50. Erio - Für El

NME Best 50 Albums of 2015

Info: On the NME photo gallery, each album comes with a short review.
Source: NME
Date of publication: december 2015
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1. Grimes - Art Angels
2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
3. Jamie xx - In Colour
4. Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
5. Tame Impala - Currents
6. CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
7. Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
8. Foals - What Went Down
9. The Maccabees - Marks to Prove It
10. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
11. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin' Down...
12. A$AP Rocky – At. Long. Last. A$AP
13. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
14. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
15. Blur - The Magic Whip
16. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
17. Joanna Newsom - Divers
18. Swim Deep - Mothers
19. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
20. US Girls - Half Free
21. Shamir - Ratchet
22. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
23. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
24. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
25. Bjork - Vulnicura
26. Holly Herndon - Platform
27. Mac DeMarco - Another One
28. Laura Marling - Short Movie
29. The Libertines - Anthems for Doomed Youth
30. Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap
31. Slaves - Are You Satisfied?
32. Charli XCX - Sucker
33. LA Priest - Inji
34. Pond - Man it Feels Like Space Again
35. Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams
36. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
37. Future - DS2
38. Drenge - Undertow
39. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
40. Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
41. Muse - Drones
42. Miley Cyrus - Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz
43. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
44. Young Thung - Barter 6
45. Cribs - For All My Sisters
46. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
47. Bill Ryder Jones - West Kirby County Primary
48. New Order - Music Complete
49. Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
50. Ryan Adams - 1989

Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2015

Info:  "Records released this year and records that made their greatest impact in 2015 were eligible". On Pitchfork each album comes with a review. 

Source: Pitchfork
Date of publication: 16th december 2015
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1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Jamie xx - In Colour
3. Grimes - Art Angels
4. Vince Staples - Summertime '06
5. Tame Impala - Currents
6. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
7. D'Angelo / The Vanguard - Black Messiah
8. Miguel - Wildheart
9. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
10. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
11. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
12. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
13. Joanna Newsom - Divers
14. Young Thug - Barter 6
15. Björk - Vulnicura
16. FKA twigs - M3LL155X
17. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
18. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
19. Future - Dirty Sprite 2
20. Floating Points - Elaenia
21. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Surf
22. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
23. Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin down
24. Thundercat - The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
25. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
26. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
27. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
28. Beach House - Depression Cherry
29. Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
30. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
31. Kelela - Hallucinogen EP
32. Dr. Dre - Compton
33. Archy Marshall - A New Place 2 Drown
34. Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
35. Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School
36. Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
37. Empress Of - Me
38. Arca - Mutant
39. Holly Herndon - Platform
40. Jlin - Dark Energy
41. Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
42. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, girl
43. Destroyer - Poison Season
44. Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
45. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
46. Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
47. DJ Koze - DJ-Kicks
48. Shamir - Ratchet
49. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
50. Dawn Richard - Blackheart

Wire Top 50 Releases of 2015

Info: Wire is a British avant garde music magazine founded in 1982. It focuses on different styles of experimental and underground music, from electronic to hip hop, from modern classical to post-rock, from ambient to world music. 

Source: Wire Issue 283

Date of publication: Wire Issue 283 - January 2016

Spotify playlist latest update: 17th december 2015

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(end-of-2015 playlist series)

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1. JLin - Dark Energy
2. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
3. Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception
4. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
5. Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal
6. Holly Herndon - Platform
7. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
8. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
9. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
10. The Necks - Vertigo
11. Hieroglyphic Being & JITU Ahn-Sahm-Buhl - We Are Not The First
12. Vince Staples - Summertime 06
13. Björk - Vulnicura
14. Joanna Newsom - Divers
15. Graham Lambkin & Michael Pisaro - Schwarze Riesenfalter
16. Raphael Roginski - Plays John Coltrane And Langston Hughes: African Mystic Music
17. Laura Cannell - Beneath Swooping Talons
18. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete
19. Future - DS2
20. Helm - Olympic Mess
21. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
22. Hour House - Chiltern
23. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
24. Golden Teacher - Sauchiehall Enthrall
25. William Parker - For Those Who Are, Still
26. Domenique Dumont - Comme ça
27. Visionist - Safe
28. Six Organs Of Admittance - Hexadic
29. Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2
30. Nidia Minaj - Danger
31. King Midas Sound & Fennesz - Edition 1
32. Philip Jeck - Cardinal
33. Future & DJ Esco - 56 Nights
34. Gnod - Infinity Machines
35. Seymour Wright - Seymour Writes Back
36. Lnrdcroy - Much Less Normal
37. Jürg Frey - Grizzana And Other Pieces 2009-2014
38. Guttersnipe - Demo
39. Jerusalem In My Heart - If He Dies, If If If If If If
40. Alison Cameron/Contact - A Gossamer Bit
41. Carter Tutti Void - f(x)
42. Radu Malfatti - One Man And A Fly
43. Thundercat - The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam
44. Uwe Oberg - Work
45. Micachu & The Shapes - Good Sad Happy Bad
46. Floating Points - Elaenia
47. Keith Rowe & John Tilbury - Enough Still Not To Know
48. Jam City - Dream A Garden
49. Flying Saucer Attack - Instrumentals 2015
50. William Basinski - The Deluge