We’ve compiled, sorted, collated and counted. After much deliberation, and A LOT of math (but still no algebra, no one uses that in real life), we have figured out the 50 albums that you loved the most in 2015.
Thanks to all of you who participated in this year’s Tumblr music-lovers poll. These lists wouldn’t be the same without you.
GIF by @ilovecharts. Illustrations by @joshlafayette.
Keep reading for the full list!
We asked a group of ~100 bloggers, photographers and illustrators to tell us what they loved listening to this year. Here are their favorite albums.
But what about you?! You have until Thursday, Dec 17 to tell us. Please go here now and pick your favs in Tumblr’s 2015 Music Poll.
25. Oh wonder - Oh wonder
24. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats - Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
23. Bring Me The Horizon - That’s The Spirit
22. Ryan Adams - 1989
21. Kurt Vile - B’lieve I’m Goin Down
20. Turnover - Peripheral Vision
19. Citizen - Everybody is Going to Heaven
18. Joanna Newsom - Divers
17. Beach House - Depression Cherry
16. Beach Slang - The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
15. Future - Dirty Sprite 2
14. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf
13. Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface
12. Neck Deep - Life’s Not Out To Get You
11. Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION
10. Drake - If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
9. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
8. Empress Of - Me
7. The Wonder Years - No Closer To Heaven
6. Tame Impala - Currents
5. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Grimes - Art Angels
2. Jamie XX - In Colour
1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
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YOUR TOP ALBUMS OF 2014
We interrupt your four-week binge of holiday songs to recap what was awesome in your headphones this year, as selected by you, Earth.
In 1989, the album of the year was called, 2014. Maybe. My, how the tides have turned.
Thanks for participating in this year's Bloggers’ Poll. Happy holidays, y'all.
Chart by ilovecharts. Illustrations by joshlafayette.
1. Taylor Swift - 1989
2. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
3. Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour
4. Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint
5. Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear
6. FKA Twigs - LP1
7. Charli XCX - Sucker
8. St Vincent - St Vincent
9. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
10. Iggy Azalea - Reclassified
11. Tove Lo - Queen of the Clouds
12. Bleachers - Strange Desire
13. Azealia Banks - Broke with Expensive Taste
14. Jack White - Lazaretto
15. Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow
16. Banks - Goddess
17. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
18. Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
19. Royal Blood - Royal Blood
20. Beck - Morning Phase
21. Run the Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
22. Flying Lotus - You’re Dead!
23. Troye Sivan - TRXYE
24. Beartooth - Disgusting
25. Chet Faker - Built On Glass
26. Aphex Twin - Syro
27. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
28. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
29. Phantogram - Voices
30. Spoon - They Want My Soul
31. Future Islands - Singles
32. ODESZA - In Return
33. YG - My Krazy Life
34. 5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer
35. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
36. Wiz Khalifa - Blacc Hollywood
37. Ed Sheeran - X
38. Temples - Sun Structures
39. Swans - To Be Kind
40. Real Estate - Atlas
41. Chromeo - White Women
42. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
43. Caribou - Our Love
44. Porter Robinson - Worlds
45. Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband
46. Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
47. Broken Bells - After the Disco
48. Jungle - Jungle
49. Manchester Orchestra - Cope
50a (3-way tie). Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
50b. tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack
50c. Jessie Ware - Tough Love
THE MUSIC EDITORS’ TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2014
A group of esteemed bloggers have been posting about great music all year. We asked them to list their favs.
Do you agree with them? The Everybody-on-Tumblr Poll ends on Thursday. Do it here.
1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. St Vincent - St Vincent
3. Run the Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
4. Spoon - They Want My Soul
5. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
6. Iceage - Plowing Into the Field of Love
7. Caribou - Our Love
8. FKA Twigs - LP1
9. Taylor Swift - 1989
10. Future Islands - Singles
11. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
12. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker
13. Jungle - Jungle
14. Owen Pallet - In Conflict
15. Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
16. YG - My Krazy Life
17. Flying Lotus - You’re Dead!
18. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
19. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
20. Swans - To Be Kind
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YOUR TOP ALBUMS OF 2013
Our monkeys worked long hours through the weekend to tally your votes, and the results show that Beyoncé’s album came out just in time. Here are the top 50 albums of 2013, as selected by you.
Graphic courtesy of ilovecharts.
GIFs by Matthias Brown, wtf-albumcover, kinobeans, rxvi, palmplazathelover, hkcovers, beautifulalbumcovers, thesockcovers, pitchfork and shinmens.
1. Arctic Monkeys – AM
2. Beyoncé – Beyoncé
3. Lorde – Pure Heroine
4. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
5. Fall Out Boy – Save Rock & Roll
6. HAIM – Days Are Gone
7. One Direction – Midnight Memories
8. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
9. Paramore – Paramore
10. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
11. Kanye West – Yeezus
12. Lady Gaga – Artpop
13. Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience
14. Drake – Nothing Was The Same
15. Miley Cyrus – Bangerz
16. Phoenix – Bankrupt!
17. Disclosure – Settle
18. Tyler, The Creator – Wolf
19. Childish Gambino – Because the Internet
20. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
21. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
22. Foals – Holy Fire
23. Tegan & Sara – Heartthrob
24. Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
25. Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
26. A$AP Rocky – LONG.LIVE.A$AP
27. The Story So Far – What You Don’t See
28. Jay-Z – Magna Carta…Holy Grail
29. J. Cole – Born Sinner
30. The Wonder Years – The Greatest Generation
31. Janelle Monáe – The Electric Lady
32. James Blake – Retrograde
33. Local Natives – Hummingbird
34. Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle
35. Charli XCX – True Romance
36. The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
37. The Lone Bellow – The Lone Bellow
38. Atoms For Peace – Amok
39. Bob Dylan – Another self portrait
40. AlunaGeorge – Body Music
41. Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe
42. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines
43. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels
44. Deafheaven – Sunbather
45. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
46. Panic! At The Disco - Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die
47. Savages – Silence Yourself
48. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
49. Peace – In Love
50. Major Lazer – Free the Universe
Getting old sucks. We all know it, we all feel it and it helps if you have some great friends to get you through. To help Descendents frontman Milo Aukerman celebrate the big 5-0 this January, we asked some radical musicians to pay tribute to the Manhattan Beach punk band for an exclusive covers album.
We are proud to announce the release of FILTER Magazine Presents: Milo Turns 50.
The 13-song compilation features reinventions of quintessential Descendents tracks by artists like FIDLAR, Mike Watt, YACHT, Tijuana Panthers, Milo Greene and The Bronx.
Click the art to Download the entire album for FREE and check out all of the details below.
Happy Birthday Milo!
FILTER Magazine Presents: Milo Turns 50 track listing
1. FIDLAR (featuring Brian Rodriguez)
“Suburban Home”
2. Mike Watt + The Secondmissingmen
“Kabuki Girl”
3. The Henry Clay People
“Clean Sheets”
4. The Bronx
“Catalina”
5. Edsel
“Good Good Things”
6. Good Riddance
“Sour Grapes”
7. Tijuana Panthers
“Can’t Go Back”
8. Milo Greene
“Parents”
9. TEEN
“Ride the Wild”
10. Bobby Birdman
“I Don’t Want To Grow Up”
11. Thrillionaire
“Myage”
12. Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses
“Hope”
13. YACHT
“All”
Curated by FILTER Magazine, 2013.
Songs recorded November 2012-January 2013.
Mastered by Jason Powell.
Art by Chris Shary.
(Chart by Jason Oberholtzer, I Love Charts)
Hype Machine + Tumblr Music Blog Zeitgeist: Top Ten Albums of 2012
➊ Crystal Castles — (III)
➋ Lana Del Rey — Born To Die
➌ Grimes — Visions
➍ Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
➎ The xx — Coexist
➏ Kendrick Lamar — Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
➐ Purity Ring — Shrines
➑ Beach House — Bloom
➒ Two Door Cinema Club — Beacon
➓ Grizzly Bear — Shields
Together with the Top Artists & Tracks of 2012, the Zeitgeist is a record of the music that received the most attention this year. If you’ve missed out on any of it, listen now! It comes highly recommended.
