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Rolling Stone End Of Year Critics & Readers Poll

Selected years & entries only - Thanks to Gordon Stephen , Dominique  Durand & Rod Taylor.

1977 | 1978 | 1979
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1977 Critics

Albums:

• Never mind the bollocks: Sex pistols
• Hotel California; Eagles
• Rumours: Fleetwood Mac
• JT: James Taylor
• My aim is true: Elvis Costello
• Hard again: Muddy Waters

Single:

• Night Moves: Bob Seger

Runners-up:

• Handy man: James Taylor
• Go your own way: Fleetwood mac
• Blinded by the light: manfred mann
• Life in the fast line: Eagles
• Got to give up: marvin Gaye
• Best of my love: Emotions
• Sheena is a punk rockers: Ramones

1977 Readers

Album:

• Rumours: Fleetwood Mac

Singles:

• Dreams: Fleetwood Mac

Runners-up:

• Hotel California: Eagles
• Night Moves: Bob Seger
• Year of the cat: Al Stewart
• God save the queen: Sex Pistols

(RS of 25/01/79)

Album:

• Some Girls: Rolling Stones

Single:

• Stayin alive: Bee Gees

1978 Readers (RS of 25/01/79)

Album:

• Some Girls: Rolling Stones

Runners-up:

• Darkness on the edge of town: Bruce Springsteen
• Running on empty: Jackson Browne
• Who are you: Who
• The Stranger: Billy Joel

Singles:

• Miss you: Rolling Stones

Runners-up:

• Because the night: Patti Smith
• Baker Street: Gerry Rafferty
• Who are you: Who
• Running on empty: Jackson Browne

The 1979 Critics Album

1980 - CRITICS:

Best Album - London Calling - The Clash

Best Single - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

READERS

Best Album - The River - Bruce Springsteen

Best Single -Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen

1981 Rolling Stone Critics

Album:

• Tatoo You: Rolling Stones

Runners-up:

• Wild gift: X
• East side story: Squeeze
• Sandinista: Clash
• Fiyo on the bayou: Neville Brothers
• Pirates: Riclie Lee Jones
• Catherine Wheel: David Byrne
• Ghost in the machine: Police
• Strenght through oi!: various Artist
• Freeze-Frame: J.Geils Band
• Dreatime: Tom Verlaine

Singles:

• Start me up: Rolling Stones

Runners-up:

• O Superman: Laurie Anderson
• Urgent: Foreigner
• Walking on thin ice: Yoko Ono
• Tempted: Squeeze
• Every little thing she does is magic: Police

1981 Readers

Album:

• Tatoo You: Rolling Stones

Runners-up:

• Sandinista: Clash
• Hi Infidelity: REO Speedwagon
• Bella donna: Stevie Nicks
• Double Fantasy: John Lennon & Yoko Ono
• Singles: Start me up: Rolling Stones
• Runners-up: Stop draggin' my heart around: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty
• Bette Davis Eyes: Kim Carnes

1982 Critics

Album:

• Nebraska: Bruce Springsteen & Shoot out the lights: R. & L. Thompson

Runners-up:

• Imperial bedroom: Elvis Costello
• 1999: Prince
• The blue Mask: Lou Reed
• Marshall Crenshaw: Marshall Crenshaw

Single:

• The Message: Grand Master Flash

1982 Readers:

1985 - Critics

Album of the Year

Singles of the Year

Critics' Picks Albums

Singles

Singles

 Critics’ Picks - 2001

1. Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
2. Alicia Keys - Songs in A minor
3. Mick Jagger - Goddess in the Doorway
4. Bjork - Vespertine
5. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
6. Garbage - Beautiful Garbage
7. Manu Chao - Prîxima Estaciîn: Esperanza
8. The Strokes - Is This It
9. Various Artists - O Brother, Where Art Thou? Original Soundtrack
10. Radiohead - Amnesiac

1. Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On
2. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
3. U2 - Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
4. Eve featuring Gwen Stefani - Let Me Blow Ya Mind
5. Jay-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
6. Alicia Keys - Fallin'
7. Craig David - Fill Me In
8. Mary J. Blige - Family Affair
9. Bubba Sparxxx - Ugly
10. Sum 41 - Fat Lip

• U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind

• Sum 41 – All Killer No Filler

• ‘N Sync - Celebrity

• Sum 41 – Fat Lip

• U2 – Beautiful Day

• U2 – Walk On

1. Beck – Sea Change
2. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
4. Bright Eyes – Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
5. Missy Elliott – Under Construction
6. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
7. Eminem – The Eminem Show
8. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
9. Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
10. Bruce Springsteen – The Rising

1. Missy Elliott – Work It
2. Eminem – Lose Yourself
3. The White Stripes – Fell in Love With a Girl
4. Eminem – Without Me
5. Nelly – Hot in Herre
6. Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out of My Head
7. The Strokes – Someday
8. The Hives – Hate to Say I Told You So
9. Avril Lavigne – Complicated
10. The Vines – Get Free

1. Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
2. Eminem – The Eminem Show
3. Elvis Presley – Elvis: 30 #1 Hits
4. Dave Matthews Band – Busted Stuff
5. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
6. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
8. Weezer – Maladroit
9. No Doubt – Rock Steady
10. Avril Lavigne – Let Go

Singles

1. Elvis Presley – A Little Less Conversation
2. Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
3. Eminem – Without Me
4. Alanis Morissette – Hands Clean
5. The Vines – Get Free
6. Avril Lavigne – Complicated
7. Mariah Carey – Through the Rain
8. John Mayer – No Such Thing
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
10. Eminem – Cleanin Out My Closet

Critics’ Picks - 2003

Albums

1. OutKast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
2. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
3. The White Stripes – Elephant
4. The Strokes – Room on Fire
5. Rufus Wainwright – Want One
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
7. Fountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers
8. The Postal Service – Give Up
9. Cafe Tacuba – Cuatro Caminos
10. Kings of Leon – Youth and Young Manhood

Singles

1. OutKast – Hey Ya!
2. Beyoncé with Jay-Z – Crazy In Love
3. Kelis – Milkshake
4. The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
5. 50 Cent – In Da Club
6. The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
7. Justin Timberlake – Rock Your Body
8. Johnny Cash – Hurt
9. Alicia Keys – You Don’t Know My Name
9. Electric Six – Danger! High Voltage
9. R. Kelly – Ignition-Remix

Readers Picks

Albums

1. Justin Timberlake – Justified
2. The White Stripes – Elephant
3. OutKast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
4. John Mayer – Heavier Things
5. Linkin Park – Meteora
6. 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
7. Dave Matthews – Some Devil
8. Evanescence - Fallen
9. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
10. Beyoncé – Dangerously In Love

Singles

1. OutKast – Hey Ya!
2. Christina Aguilera – Beautiful
3. Evanescence – Bring Me to Life
4. Coldplay – The Scientist
5. Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow - Picture
6. The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
7. Justin Timberlake – Rock Your Body
8. 50 Cent – In Da Club
9. The Black Eyed Peas – Where Is the Love?
10. Fountains of Wayne – Stacy’s Mom

Writers’ Top 10 - 2004

ALBUMS:

1. Kanye West – The College Dropout
2. Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose
3. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
4. Brian Wilson – Smile
5. Arcade Fire – Funeral
6. Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
7. U2 – How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
8. Rilo Kiley – More Adventureous
9. Green Day – American Idiot
10. Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Like Bad News 

SINGLES:

1. “99 Problems” – Jay-Z
2. “Yeah” – Usher feat. Lil’ John & Ludacris
3. “Take Me Out” – Franz Ferdinand
4. “Jesus Walks” – Kanye West
5. “Mosh” – Eminem
6. “Toxic” – Britney Spears
7. “Float On” - Modest Mouse
8. “Vertigo” – U2
9. “Somebody Told Me” – The Killers
10. "Galang“ – M.I.A.

Readers’ Top 10


ALBUMS:

1. U2 – How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
2. Green Day – American Idiot
3. Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Like Bad News
4. Usher – Confessions
5. Brian Wilson – Smile
6. Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
7. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
8. Eminem – Encore
9. Beastie Boys – To The 5 Boroughs
10.Elliott Smith – Form A Basement On The Hill


SINGLES:

1. “Vertigo” – U2
2. “Take Me Out” – Franz Ferdinand
3. “This Love” – Maroon 5
4. “Yeah” – Usher feat. Ludacris & Lil’ John
5. “My Immortal” – Evanescence
6. “99 Problems” – Jay-Z
7. “Roses” – OutKast
8. “If I Ain’t Got You” – Alicia Keys
9. “Just Lose It” – Eminem
10.“Jesus Walks” – Kanye West

Rolling Stone Critics Albums Of 2005

1. Kanye West, Late Registration
2. The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang
3. White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan
4. Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
5. Bruce Springsteen, Devils and Dust
6. My Morning Jacket, Z
7. Beck, Guero
8. Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
9. Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
10. 50 Cent, The Massacre
11. M.I.A., Arular
12. Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
13. Various Artists, Run the Road
14. Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane, At Carnegie Hall
15. Gorillaz, Demon Days
16. John Legend, Get Lifted
17. Van Morrison, Magic Time
18. Kings of Leon, Aha Shake Heartbreak
19. The Magic Numbers, The Magic Numbers
20. System of a Down, Mezmerize/Hypnotize
21. Common, Be
22. Madonna, Confessions on a Dance Floor
23. Paul McCartney, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
24. The Mars Volta, Frances the Mute
25. Young Jeezy, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
26. Queens of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze
27. Stevie Wonder, A Time to Love
28. The Hold Steady, Separation Sunday
29. Franz Ferdinand, You Could Have It So Much Better
30. Foo Fighters, In Your Honor
31. Amadou and Mariam, Dimanche a Bamako
32. The Go! Team, Thunder, Lightening, Strike
33. Antony and the Johnsons, I Am a Bird Now
34. Paul Wall, The Peoples Champ
35. LCD Soundsystem, LCD Soundsystem
36. The Perceptionists, Black Dialogue
37. Missy Elliott, The Cookbook
38. Dungen, Ta Det Lugnt
39. Annie, Anniemal
40. Neil Young, Prairie Wind
41. Keyshia Cole, The Way It Is
42. Living Things, Ahead of the Lions
43. Mariah Carey, The Emancipation of Mimi
44. Daddy Yankee, Barrio Fino
45. The Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara
46. The Willowz, Talk In Circles
47. Wide Right, Sleeping on the Couch
48. Kaiser Chiefs, Employment
49. Damian Marley, Welcome to Jamrock
50. Stars, Set Yourself on Fire


 

Rolling Stone End of Year Lists: 2006

Albums
 

1. Bob Dylan- Modern Times
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
3. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
4. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
5. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
6. Cat Power - Greatest
7. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
8. Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
9. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
10. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
11. John Mayer - Continuum
12. New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
13. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
14. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
15. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
16. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
17. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
18. Roots - Game Theory
19. Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
20. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
21. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
22. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
23. Decemberists - Crane Wife
24. Beck - Information
25. Rhymefest - Blue Collar
26. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
27. Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
28. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
29. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: Seeger Sessions
30. Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
31. Birdman & Lil’ Wayne - Like Father, Like Son
32. Goldfrapp - Supernature
33. Todd Snider - Devil You Know
34. Thom Yorke - Eraser
35. John Legend - Once Again
36. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
37. Fats Domino - Alive and Kickin’
38. Tool - 10,000 Days
39. Gothic Arches - Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events
40. Thunderbirds Are Now! - Make History
41. Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire
42. Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin
43. Various Artists - Tropicália: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound
44. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
45. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
46. Willie Nelson - You Don’t Know Me: Songs of Cindy Walker
47. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light
48. Lady Sovereign - Public Warning
49. Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon
50. Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That

Singles

1. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
2. Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes
3. Chamillionaire - Ridin’
4. TI - What You Know
5. The Pack - Vans
6. Bob Dylan - Thunder on the Mountain
7. Lily Allen - Smile
8. Clipse with Slim Thug - Wamp Wamp (What It Do)
9. Wolfmother - Dimension
10. Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
11. Pearl Jam - World Wide Suicide
12. Killers - Read My Mind
13. Flaming Lips - Free Radicals
14. Cham - Ghetto Story
15. AFI - Miss Murder
16. Strokes - You Only Live Once
17. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
18. Christina Aguilera - Ain’t No Other Man
19. Rapture - Get Myself Into It
20. Dixie Chicks - Long Way Around
21. Justin Timberlake - SexyBack
22. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
23. Regina Spektor - Fidelity
24. Bruce Springsteen - How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
25. Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down
26. TV On the Radio - Province
27. Mastodon - Capillarian Crest
28. Raconteurs - Level
29. Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces
30. Hot Chip - Over & Over
31. Thom Yorke - The Clock
32. Cherish - Do It to It
33. Hold Steady - Chillout Tent
34. Killers - When You Were Young
35. Decemberists - Summersong
36. Rihanna - SOS
37. Beck - Strange Apparition
38. Dirty Pretty Things - Gin & Milk
39. Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance
40. Sonic Youth - Incinerate
41. Cassie - Me & U
42. Chris Smither - Origin of Species
43 “Tony the Beat” [Song]
44. Rick Ross - Hustlin’
45. Chris Brown - Yo (Excuse Me Miss)
46. Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up to Dry
47. Tokyo Police Club - Cheer It On
48. Shawnna with Ludacris - He Said, She Said
49. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
50. Justin Timberlake - My Love
51. Prince - Black Sweat
52. Taking Back Sunday - Makedamnsure
53. Decemberists - O Valencia!
54. Ghostface Killah - Kilo
55. Beck - Nausea
56. Nelly Furtado with Timbaland - Promiscuous
57. Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate Me
58. OutKast - Idlewild Blues
59. Kelis with Too $hort - Bossy
60. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Phenomena
61. CSS - Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
62. Rakes - Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep)
63. Band of Horses - Funeral
64. Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On
65. Ben Kweller - Penny on the Train Track
66. Eef Barzelay - Ballad of Bitter Honey
67. Beyoncé with Jay-Z – Déjà Vu
68. Arctic Monkeys - Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts
69. Jay-Z - Trouble
70. Lupe Fiasco - I Gotcha
71. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Let Me Know
72. Walkmen - Louisiana
73. Long Winters - Pushover
74. Tapes ‘N Tapes - Just Drums
75. Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats
76. Be Your Own Pet - Fire Department
77. Weird Al” Yankovic - Trapped in the Drive-Thru
78. Solomon Burke - That’s How I Got To Memphis
79. Yung Joc with Nitti - It’s Going Down
80. Pimp C - I’m Free
81. Sean Paul - Temperature
82. Fergie - London Bridge
83. Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint - Who’s Gonna Help Brother Get Further
84. Panic! At the Disco - Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage
85. Silversun Pickups - Well Thought Out Twinkles
86. Green Day and U2 - Saints are Coming
87. Pink - U +Ur Hand
88. Cat Power - The Greatest
89. John Legend - Show Me
90. James Kochalka Superstar - Britney’s Silver Can
91. Pussycat Dolls - Buttons
92. Dropkick Murphys - I’m Shipping Up to Boston
93. Tom Petty - Saving Grace
94. Lil’ Wayne and Birdman - Stuntin’ Like My Daddy
95. Roots - Don’t Feel Right
96. Oakley Hall - If I Was in El Dorado
97. Teddybears - Automatic Lover
98. Amerie - Take Control
99. Coup with Silk E - Baby Let’s Have a Baby Before Bush Do Somethin’ Crazy”
100. Amy Millan - Skinny Boy
 

Rolling Stone End of Year Lists: 2007

Albums

1. MIA - Kala
2. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
3. Jay-Z - American Gangster
4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
5. kanYe West - Graduation
6. Radiohead - In Rainbows
7. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
8. Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
9. Against Me! - New Wave
10. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
11. John Fogerty - Revival
12. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
13. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
14. Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
15. Common - Finding Forever
16. Les Savy Fav - Let’s Stay Friends
17. White Stripes - Icky Thump
18. Lucinda Williams - West
19. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
20. Melissa Etheridge - Awakening
21. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
22. Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
23. 1990s - Cookies
24. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
25. Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight
26. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
27. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
28. Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
29. Mary J Blige - Growing Pains
30. Youssou N’Dour - Rokku mi Rokka (Give & Take)
31. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
32. Maroon 5 - It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
33. Willie Nelson with Merle Haggard & Ray Price - Last of the Breed
34. Chris Brown - Exclusive
35. Feist - Reminder
36. Alicia Keys - As I Am
37. Down - III: Over the Under
38. Imperial Teen - Hair the TV the Baby & the Band
39. Dr Dog - We All Belong
40. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
41. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna - Are You the Destroyer?
42. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
43. Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
44. Peter, Bjorn & John - Writer’s Block
45. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
46. Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
47. Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
48. Mavis Staples - We’ll Never Turn Back
49. Dropkick Murphys - Meanest of Times
50. Britney Spears - Blackout

Singles

1. Jay-Z - Roc Boys
2. Randy Newman - A Few Words In Defense of Our Country
3. Rihanna - Umbrella
4. Justice - Dance
5. Bright Eyes - Four Winds
6. Lil Wayne - Dough Is What I Got
7. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
8. Bruce Springsteen - Long Walk Home
9. MIA - Boys
10. UGK - International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)
11. kanYe West - Stronger
12. John Fogerty - Gunslinger
13. Of Montreal - Past Is a Grotesque Animal
14. 50 Cent - I Get Money
15. Britney Spears - Piece of Me
16. Spoon - You Got Yr Cherry Bomb
17. Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
18. White Stripes - Icky Thump
19. Feist - 1-2-3-4
20. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
21. Soulja Boy - Crank That
22. Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
23. Alicia Keys - Teenage Love Affair
24. Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around... Comes Around (Interlude)
25. My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
26. R Kelly & Usher - Same Girl
27. Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
28. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
29. Common - People
30. Lily Allen - LDN
31. Akon - Don’t Matter
32. PJ Harvey - When Under Ether
33. Kevin Drew - Backed Out On the...
34. Lucinda Williams - Are You Alright
35. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
36. 1990s - Situation
37. Rich Boy - Throw Some D’s
38. Kid Rock - So Hott
39. Prince - Guitar
40. Dr Dog - Old News
41. Mary J Blige - Just Fine
42. Fall Out Boy - This Ain’t a Scene, It’s An Arms Race
43. CRS - Us Placers
44. Linkin Park - Bleed It Out
45. Ryan Adams - Halloweenhead
46. Anthony Hamilton - Do You Feel Me
47. Foo Fighters - Pretender
48. Chris Brown featuring T-Pain - Kiss Kiss
49. Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
50. Wu-Tang Clan - Heart Gently Weeps
51. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Killing the Blues
52. John Doe - Pressing On
53. Cool Kids - Black Mags
54. Fountains of Wayne - I-95
55. KT Tunstall - Hold On
56. Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
57. Cribs - Men’s Need
58. Go! Team - Grip Like a Vice
59. Keyshia Cole - Let It Go
60. Queens of the Stone Age - Make It Wit Chu
61. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy
62. Velvet Revolver - Last Fight
63. T-Pain - Buy U a Drank
64. Patrick Wolf - Magic Position
65. Against Me! - White People for Peace
66. TI - Big Shit Poppin’
67. Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
68. Eve - Tambourine
69. Devendra Banhart - Seahorse
70. J Holiday - Bed
71. Wilco - Impossible Germany
72. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
73. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
74. Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica
75. Shins - Phantom Limb
76. Young Jeezy - Go Getta
77. Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
78. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Songs That We Sing
79. New Pornographers - Myriad Harbor
80. Mark Ronson - Stop Me
81. Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie Or Maybe
82. Gogol Bordello - Ultimate
83. Dropkick Murphys - State of Massachusetts
84. Dan Deacon - Crystal Cat
85. Swizz Beatz - It’s Me, Bitches
86. Iron & Wine - Pagan Angel & a Borrowed Car
87. Modest Mouse - Dashboard
88. Datarock - Computer Camp Love
89. Herman Dune - I Wish That I Could See You Soon
90. Black Francis - Threshold Apprehension
91. Liars - Freak Out
92. National - Mistaken for Strangers
93. Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost
94. Kylie Minogue - 2 Hearts
95. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Satan Said Dance
96. Fergie - Big Girls Don’t Cry
97. Grinderman - Honey Bee (Let’s Fly To Mars)
98. Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
99. Kelly Clarkson - Never Again
100. Nickelback - Rockstar
 

Rolling Stone

End of Year Albums List: 2008

1. TV On the Radio - Dear Science
2. Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: Bootleg Series Vol 8
3. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
4. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
5. John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love & Freedom
6. Santogold - Santogold
7. Coldplay - Viva la Vida
8. Beck - Modern Guilt
9. Metallica - Death Magnetic
10. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
11. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
12. Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy
13. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
14. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cardinology
15. Black Keys - Attack & Release
16. Randy Newman - Harps & Angels
17. BB King - One Kind Favor
18. Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
19. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt 1: 4th World War
20. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
21. Kaiser Chiefs - Off with Their Heads
22. Jackson Browne - Time the Conqueror
23. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
24. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
25. Magnetic Fields - Distortion
26. Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch
27. Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
28. Knux - Remind Me In Three Days
29. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
30. Duffy - Rockferry
31. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
32. Jamey Johnson - Lonesome Song
33. Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman
34. Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
35. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
36. Hold Steady - Stay Positive
37. Nine Inch Nails - Slip
38. Ra Ra Riot - Rhumb Line
39. Taylor Swift - Fearless
40. Jonas Brothers - A Little Bit Longer
41. AC/DC - Black Ice
42. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
43. Nas - Nas [aka Untitled]
44. Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
45. Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
46. Academy Is - Fast Times at Barrington High
47. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
48. Raphael Saadiq - Way I See It
49. Hot Chip - Made In the Dark
50. No Age - Nouns

Rolling Stone (US)

End of Year Singles List: 2008

1. Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
2. Santogold - LES Artistes
3. MGMT - Time To Pretend
4. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
5. Lil Wayne - Lollipop
6. Beck - Gamma Ray
7. Estelle featuring kanYe West - American Boy
8. My Morning Jacket - I’m Amazed
9. Coldplay - Viva la Vida
10. TI - No Matter What
11. Rihanna - Disturbia
12. TV On the Radio - Golden Age
13. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Magick
14. BPA featuring David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal - Toe Jam
15. Al Green - Lay It Down
16. Young Jeezy - My President
17. Killers - Spaceman
18. Kid Rock - All Summer Long
19. Guns N’ Roses - Better
20. Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
21. Vampire Weekend - One (Blake’s Got a New Face)
22. Jay-Z & TI featuring kanYe West & Lil Wayne - Swagga Like Us
23. Black Keys - I Got Mine
24. Lykke Li - I’m Good, I’m Gone
25. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Heart
26. Rapture - No Sex for Ben
27. Ting Tings - Shut Up & Let Me Go
28. Kevin Rudolf featuring Lil Wayne - Let It Rock
29. Pink - So What
30. Weezer - Pork & Beans
31. Conor Oberst - Moab
32. N*E*R*D - Everyone Nose!
33. Raveonettes - Aly, Walk with Me
34. Gnarls Barkley - Run
35. Kaiser Chiefs - Addicted To Drugs
36. Usher featuring Beyoncé & Lil Wayne - Love In This Club (Part 2)
37. Bob Dylan - Someday Baby
38. Jamey Johnson - High Cost of Living
39. Academy Is - About a Girl
40. Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
41. Duffy - Warwick Avenue
42. Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution
43. Erykah Badu - The Healer
44. Panic At the Disco - Nine in the Afternoon
45. Foals - Cassius
46. Taylor Swift - Fifteen
47. Janelle Monáe - Many Moons
48. John Mellencamp - Troubled Land
49. Jonas Brothers - Video Girl
50. Jackson Browne - Time the Conqueror
51. Ashlee Simpson - Rule Breaker
52. Lee Ann Womack - Last Call
53. AC/DC - Big Jack
54. Cat Power - I Believe In You
55. Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook
56. Hold Steady - Constructive Summer
57. Charles Hamilton - Brooklyn Girls
58. Jazmine Sullivan - Bust Your Windows
59. Low vs Diamond - Don’t Forget Sister
60. Ne-Yo - Closer
61. Robyn - Cobrastyle
62. Gaslight Anthem - ‘59 Sound
63. LCD Soundsystem - Big Ideas
64. She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
65. Virgins - Rich Girls
66. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
67. MIA - Shells
68. Fall Out Boy - I Don’t Care
69. Missy Elliott - Ching-a-Ling
70. Busy Signal - Tic Toc
71. Phantom Planet - Do the Panic
72. Sam Sparro - Black & Gold
73. Ciara featuring Ludacris - High Price
74. Ra Ra Riot - Dying Is Fine
75. Flo Rida featuring T-Pain - Low
76. Roots - Rising Down
77. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
78. Love As Laughter - Holy
79. KiD CuDi - Day N Nite
80. Mudcrutch - Crystal River
81. Knux - Cappuccino
82. Diplo & Santogold - Icarus
83. Get ‘Em Mamis - Cold Summer
84. Lil Wayne - A Milli
85. M83 - Kim & Jessie
86. Rumble Strips - Cowboy
87. Friendly Fires - Jump In the Pool
88. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
89. Old Crow Medicine Show - Alabama High-Test
90. Busta Rhymes - Don’t Touch Me (Throw da Water On ‘Em)
91. O’Neal McKnight featuring Greg Nice - Check Your Coat
92. White Denim - Shake Shake Shake
93. Madonna - Candy Shop
94. Campesinos! - Miserabilia
95. Lucinda Williams - Real Love
96. Little Joy - Brand New Start
97. Sheryl Crow - Now That You’re Gone
98. Teyana Taylor - Google Me
99. Enemy - You’re Not Alone
100. Will.I.Am - Yes We Can