De fleste musikmedier med respekt for sig selv har nu offentliggjort deres lister over årets bedste album, og tendensen er klar:
Året tilhører Beyoncé og Rosalía, som er repræsenteret på langt de fleste lister – inklusive Soundvenues.
Begge kunstnere har sluppet ekstraordinært originale album – henholdsvis ‘Renaissance’ og ‘Motomami’ – som både rummer bangers og sange, der udfordrer grænserne for popmusikken.
Her nedenfor har vi samlet top 10-listerne fra en række af de mere toneangivende udenlandske medier.
Pitchfork
1. Beyoncé ‘Renaissance’
2. Sudan Archives ‘Natural Brown Prom Queen’
3. Alvvays ‘Blue Rev’
4. Special Interest ‘Endure’
5. Bad Bunny ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’
6. Rosalía ‘Motomami’
7. Big Thief ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You’
8. Lucrecia Dalt ‘¡Ay!’
9. Yaya Bey ‘Remember Your North Star’
10. Alex G ‘God Save the Animals’
Consequence of Sound
1. Pusha T ‘It’s Almost Dry’
2. Bad Bunny ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’
3. Beyonce ‘Renaissance’
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘Cool It Down’
5. Zach Bryan ‘American Heartbreak’
6. Soul Glo ‘Diaspora Problems’
7. Big Thief ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You’
8. Sudan Archives ‘Natural Brown Prom Queen’
9. Rosalia ‘Motomami’
10. Nilufer Yanya ‘Painless’
Complex
1. Kendrick Lamar ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’
2. Bad Bunny ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’
3. Pusha T ‘It’s Almost Dry’
4. Beyonce ‘Renaissance’
5. Vince Staples ‘Ramona Park Broke My Heart’
6. The Weeknd ‘Dawn FM’
7. Steve Lacy ‘Gemini Rights’
8. Drake & 21 Savage ‘Her Loss’
9. JID ‘The Forever Story’
10. Denzel Curry ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’
Stereogum
1. Alvvays ‘Blue Rev’
2. Rosalía ‘Motomami’
3. Beyoncé ‘Renaissance’
4. Soccer Mommy ‘Sometimes, Forever’
5. Billy Woods ‘Aethiopes’
6. Alex G ‘God Save the Animals’
7. The Beths ‘Expert in a Dying Field’
8. Big Thief ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You’
9. Soul Glo ‘Diaspora Problems’
10. The Weeknd ‘Dawn FM’
NME
1. Arctic Monkeys ‘The Car’
2. Wet Leg ‘Wet Leg’
3. Beyoncé ‘Renaissance’
4. Fontaines D.C. ‘Skinty Fia’
5. Kendrick Lamar ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’
6. Rina Sawayama ‘Hold the Girl’
7. Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul ‘Topical Dancer’
8. Nova Twins ‘Supernova’
9. Rosalía ‘Motomami’
10. The 1975 ‘Being Funny in a Foreign Language’
Rolling Stone
1. Beyoncé ‘Renaissance’
2. Bad Bunny ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’
3. Taylor Swift ‘Midnights’
4. Rosalía ‘Motomami’
5. Harry Styles ‘Harry’s House’
6. Pusha T ‘It’s Almost Dry’
7. King Princess ‘Hold on Baby’
8. FKA Twigs ‘Caprisongs’
9. J-Hope ‘Jack in the Box’
10. Wet Leg ‘Wet Leg’
Billboard
1. Bad Bunny ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’
2. Beyoncé ‘Renaissance’
3. Taylor Swift ‘Midnights’
4. Kendrick Lamar ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’
5. Rosalía ‘Motomami’
6. Harry Styles ‘Harry’s House’
7. Steve Lacy ‘Gemini Rights’
8. The Weeknd ‘Dawn FM’
9. Omar Apollo ‘Ivory’
10. Wet Leg ‘Wet Leg’
The Fader
1. Billy Woods ‘Aethiopes’
2. Alex G ‘God Save the Animals’
3. Rosalia ‘Motomami’
4. Sudan Archives ‘Natural Brown Prom Queen’
5. Beyoncé ‘Renaissance’
6. Brent Faiyaz ‘Wasteland’
7. Bad Bunny ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’
8. Cruel Santino ‘Subaru Boys: Final Heaven’
9. The Weeknd ‘Dawn FM’
10. Molly Nilsson ‘Extreme’