Hvor både 2017 og (især) 2016 var domineret af sværvægtere som Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, Lorde, David Bowie, Beyoncé og Frank Ocean, har 2018 i højere grad – og på meget forfriskende vis – været præget af ikke små, men i hvert fald mindre etablerede navne.
Det har givet nogle lidt mindre oplagte lister end normalt, men der er alligevel en række navne, der går igen: Især Mitski, Cardi B, Kacey Musgraves, Pusha-T, Ariana Grande og Janelle Monáe er gennemgående højdespringere.
Se listerne herunder.
Pitchfork:
1. Mitski ’Be the Cowboy’
2. Kacey Musgraves ’Golden Hour’
3. DJ Koze ’Knock Knock’
4. Robyn ’Honey’
5. Snail Mail ’Lush’
6. Rosalía ’El Mal Querer’
7. Earl Sweatshirt ’Some Rap Songs’
8. Low ’Double Negative’
9. Tierra Whack ’Whack World’
10. Yves Tumor ’Safe in the Hands of Love’
11. Ariana Grande ’Sweetener’
12. cupcakKe ’Ephorize’
13. Tirzah ’Devotion’
14. Amen Dunes ’Freedom’
15. Noname ’Room 25’
16. Jon Hopkins ’Singularity’
17. Pusha T ’Daytona’
18. Sophie ’Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides’
19. Cardi B ’Invasion of Privacy’
20. Beach House ’7’
Consequence of Sound:
1. Mitski ’Be the Cowboy’
2. Janelle Monáe ’Dirty Computer’
3. Saba ’Care for Me’
4. Kamasi Washington ’Heaven and Earth’
5. Pusha T ’Daytona’
6. Christine and the Queens ’Chris’
7. boygenius ’boygenius’
8. Cardi B ’Invasion of Privacy’
9. Kacey Musgraves ’Golden Hour’
10. Spiritualized ’And Nothing Hurt’
11. Kali Uchis ’Isolation’
12. Robyn ’Honey’
13. YOB ’Our Raw Heart’
14. Blood Orange ’Negro Swan’
15. BROCKHAMPTON ’iridescence’
16. Kendrick Lamar ’Black Panther: The Album’
17. Lucy Dacus ’Historian’
18. Noname ’Room 25’
19. The 1975 ’A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships’
20. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies ’Halloween (Original 2018 Motion Picture Soundtrack’
Complex:
1. Pusha-T ‘Daytona’
2. Travis Scott ‘ASTROWORLD’
3. J. Cole ‘KOD’
4. Ariana Grande ‘Sweetener’
5. Jay Rock ‘Redemption’
6. Nipsey Hussle ‘Victory Lap’
7. The Carters ‘Everything Is Love’
8. Kendrick Lamar ‘Black Panther: The Album’
9. Blood Orange ‘Negro Swan’
10. Cardi B ‘Invasion of Privacy’
11. Mac Miller ‘Swimming’
12. Lil Baby & Gunna ‘Drip Harder’
13. Janelle Monáe ‘Dirty Computer’
14. Kids See Ghosts ‘Kids See Ghosts’
15. Saba ‘Care for Me’
16. Tierra Whack ‘Whack World’
17. Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist ‘Fetti’
18. Lil Wayne ‘Tha Carter V’
19. Noname ‘Room 25’
20. JID ‘DiCaprio 2’
Stereogum:
1. Kacey Musgraves ’Golden Hour’
2. Snail Mail ’Lush’
3. Ariana Grande ’Sweetener’
4. Cardi B ’Invasion of Privacy’
5. Beach House ’7’
6. Flasher ’Constant Image’
7. Soccer Mommy ’Clean’
8. Low ’Double Negative’
9. Father John Misty ’God’s Favorite Customer’
10. Mitski ’Be the Cowboy’
11. Pusha T ’Daytona’
12. Robyn ’Honey’
13. Lucy Dacus ’Historian’
14. Vince Staples ’FM!’
15. Spiritualized ’And Nothing Hurt’
16. BROCKHAMPTON ’iridescence’
17. Half Waif ’Lavender’
18. Hop Along ’Bark Your Head Off, Dog’
19. illuminati hotties ’Kiss Yr Frenemies’
20. Tomberlin ’At Weddings’
NPR:
1. Janelle Monáe ’Dirty Computer’
2. Mitski ’Be the Cowboy’
3. Kacey Musgraves ’Golden Hour’
4. Lucy Dacus ’Historian’
5. Noname ’Room 25’
6. Cardi B ’Invasion of Privacy’
7. Robyn ’Honey’
8. Rosalía ’El Mal Querer’
9. Kali Uchis ’Isolation’
10. Tierra Whack ’Whack World’
11. Hop Along ’Bark Your Head Off, Dog’
12. boygenius ’boygenius’
13. Pistol Annies ’Interstate Gospel’
14. Superorganism ’Superorganism’
15. Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider ’Dreamers’
16. Courtney Barnett ’Tell Me How You Really Feel’
17. Low ’Double Negative’
18. Kamasi Washington ’Heaven and Earth’
19. Brandi Carlile ’By The Way, I Forgive You’
20. Jeremy Dutcher ’Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa’
Rolling Stone:
1. Cardi B ’Invasion of Privacy’
2. Kacey Musgraves ’Golden Hour’
3. Camila Cabello ’Camila’
4. Pistol Annies ’Interstate Gospel’
5. Ariana Grande ’Sweetener’
6. Travis Scott ’ASTROWORLD’
7. Pusha T ’Daytona’
8. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper ’A Star Is Born Soundtrack’
9. Kurt Vile ’Bottle It In’
10. Drake ’Scorpion’
11. Paul McCartney ’Egypt Station’
12. Brandi Carlile ’By The Way, I Forgive You’
13. Janelle Monáe ’Dirty Computer’
14. Mitski ’Be the Cowboy’
15. J Balvin ’Vibras’
16. Soccer Mommy ’Clean’
17. Lucy Dacus ’Historian’
18. Vince Staples ’FM!’
19. Hop Along ’Bark Your Head Off, Dog’
20. The Beths ’Future Me Hates Me’
NME:
1. The 1975 ’A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships’
2. Arctic Monkeys ’Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’
3. Idles ’Joy as an Act of Resistance’
4. Sunflower Bean ’Twentytwo in Blue’
5. Pusha T ’Daytona’
6. Shame ’Songs of Praise’
7. Kali Uchis ’Isolation’
8. Cardi B ’Invasion of Privacy’
9. Mitski ’Be the Cowboy’
10. Christine and the Queens ’Chris’
11. Robyn ’Honey’
12. Blood Orange ’Negro Swan’
13. Dream Wife ’Dream Wife’
14. Snail Mail ’Lush’
15. Kids See Ghosts ’Kids See Ghosts’
16. BROCKHAMPTON ’iridescence’
17. Parquet Courts ’Wide Awake!’
18. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever ’Hope Downs’
19. Travis Scott ’ASTROWORLD’
20. Slaves ’Acts of Fear and Love’
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