Top Albums of 2018





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
1
406
IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance Post-Hardcore, Post-Punk
2
453
Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour Country Pop, Singer/Songwriter
3
546
Janelle Monáe Dirty Computer Art Pop, Contemporary R&B
4
602
Low Double Negative Ambient Pop, Glitch Pop, Noise Pop
5
624
Mitski Be the Cowboy Art Pop, Indie Rock
6
626
Pusha T Daytona Hardcore Hip Hop, Southern Hip Hop
7
635
Rosalía El mal querer Art Pop, Flamenco Nuevo, Flamenco Pop
8
778
SOPHIE Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides Bubblegum Bass, Deconstructed Club
9
835
Cardi B Invasion of Privacy Trap
10
962
Robyn Honey Dance-Pop, Electropop
11
1114
Noname Room 25 Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
12
1354
U.S. Girls In a Poem Unlimited Art Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Psychedelic Pop
13
1489
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want Industrial Rock, Noise Rock
14
1500
Kali Uchis Isolation Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul
15
1518
Kamasi Washington Heaven & Earth Spiritual Jazz
16
1668
Jon Hopkins Singularity Microhouse, Tech House
17
1694
Blood Orange Negro Swan Alternative R&B, Sophisti-Pop
18
1721
Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino Art Rock, Psychedelic Pop
19
1726
Beach House 7 Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
20
1736
Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
21
1856
Parquet Courts Wide Awake! Art Punk, Indie Rock
22
1879
Christine and The Queens Chris Art Pop, Synthpop
23
2006
Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
24
2053
Snail Mail Lush Indie Pop, Indie Rock
25
2069
Shame Songs of Praise Indie Rock, Post-Punk
26
2092
Tirzah Devotion Alternative R&B, Art Pop
27
2115
DJ Koze Knock Knock House
28
2175
Yves Tumor Safe in the Hands of Love Art Pop, Industrial, Neo-Psychedelia
29
2225
Spiritualized And Nothing Hurt Art Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
30
2268
Sons of Kemet Your Queen is a Reptile Afro-Jazz
31
2294
Julia Holter Aviary Ambient Pop, Art Pop, Experimental, Progressive Pop
32
2513
Amen Dunes Freedom Neo-Psychedelia, Singer/Songwriter
33
2525
Ariana Grande Sweetener Contemporary R&B, Electropop
34
2736
Travis Scott Astroworld Pop Rap, Southern Hip Hop, Trap
35
2765
Iceage Beyondless Art Punk, Post-Punk
36
2769
Young Fathers Cocoa Sugar Indietronica, Neo-Soul
37
2852
The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships Art Pop
38
2916
The Internet Hive Mind Neo-Soul
39
2961
Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
40
2963
Tierra Whack Whack World Alternative R&B, Pop Rap

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) Indie Rock
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Hope Downs Indie Rock, Jangle Pop
Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts Alternative R&B, Experimental Hip Hop, Pop Rap
Cat Power Wanderer Americana, Singer/Songwriter
Lucy Dacus Historian Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears Art Pop, Electropop, Synthpop
J Balvin Vibras Latin Pop, Reggaeton
Khruangbin Con Todo El Mundo Psychedelic Rock
MGMT Little Dark Age Neo-Psychedelia, Psychedelic Pop, Synthpop
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Blackgaze, Post-Metal
Anna Calvi Hunter Art Rock
serpentwithfeet soil Alternative R&B, Art Pop
Neko Case Hell-On Alt-Country, Singer/Songwriter
Saba Care for Me Conscious Hip Hop
Nils Frahm All Melody Electronic, Post-Minimalism
Kurt Vile Bottle It In Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Tim Hecker Konoyo Ambient, Drone, Electroacoustic
Oneohtrix Point Never Age Of Progressive Electronic
Ghost Prequelle Hard Rock
Soccer Mommy Clean Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You Americana, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Bad Bunny X 100pre Pop Rap, Trap
Sleep The Sciences Doom Metal, Stoner Metal
Against All Logic 2012-2017 Deep House
Elvis Costello & The Imposters Look Now Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Sophisti-Pop
Skee Mask Compro Ambient Techno, Breakbeat
Neneh Cherry Broken Politics Art Pop
Tocotronic Die Unendlichkeit Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic Neoclassical Darkwave
Mount Eerie Now Only Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
boygenius boygenius EP Indie Folk, Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Brockhampton Iridescence Experimental Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks Sparkle Hard Indie Rock
Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch Experimental Rock, Industrial Rock
Mac Miller Swimming Alternative R&B, Pop Rap
Vince Staples FM! Trap
JPEGMAFIA Veteran Glitch Hop, Industrial Hip Hop
Jorja Smith Lost & Found Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul
Denzel Curry TA13OO Southern Hip Hop, Trap
Thou Magus Doom Metal, Sludge Metal
Marianne Faithfull Negative Capability Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
International Music Die besten Jahre Indie Rock
Beak> >>> Electronic, Experimental Rock
The Good, the Bad & the Queen Merrie Land Art Rock
Suede The Blue Hour Art Rock, Britpop
Pistol Annies Interstate Gospel Contemporary Country
Ezra Furman Transangelic Exodus Indie Rock
Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog Indie Rock
Troye Sivan Bloom Electropop
The Beths Future Me Hates Me Indie Rock, Power Pop
Viagra Boys Street Worms Post-Punk
Marie Davidson Working Class Woman Minimal Synth, Tech House
Ty Segall Freedom's Goblin Garage Rock, Glam Rock
Jeff Rosenstock POST- Indie Rock, Power Pop
Superorganism Superorganism Glitch Pop, Indietronica, Neo-Psychedelia
Flavien Berger Contre-Temps French Pop, Synthpop
Superchunk What a Time to Be Alive Indie Rock
Various Artists Black Panther: The Album [OST] Film Soundtrack, Hip Hop
Oh Sees Smote Reverser Psychedelic Rock
Fucked Up Dose Your Dreams Art Punk, Post-Hardcore
David Byrne American Utopia Art Pop
Marlon Williams Make Way for Love Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Natalie Prass The Future and the Past Pop Soul, Sophisti-Pop
Deena Abdelwahed Khonnar UK Bass
The Breeders All Nerve Indie Rock
The Carters Everything is Love Contemporary R&B, Pop Rap
Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace Art Punk, Noise Rock, Punk Blues
Autechre NTS Sessions 1-4 IDM
John Prine The Tree of Forgiveness Americana, Singer/Songwriter
Judas Priest Firepower Heavy Metal
Yo La Tengo There's a Riot Going On Ambient Pop, Indie Rock
CupcakKe Ephorize Trap
Camp Cope How to Socialise & Make Friends Indie Rock
Tracey Thorn Record Alternative Dance, New Wave, Synthpop
Daniel Blumberg Minus Indie Rock
Playboi Carti Die Lit Cloud Rap, Southern Hip Hop, Trap
Phosphorescent C'Est La Vie Americana
Lonnie Holley MITH Soul Jazz
Jeff Tweedy Warm Alt-Country, Singer/Songwriter
Thom Yorke Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film) Ambient, Film Score
Helena Hauff Qualm Electro, Industrial Techno
Turnstile Time & Space Hardcore Punk
Grouper Grid of Points Ambient Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Ought Room Inside the World Post-Punk
Fatouma Tadiawara Fenfo Wassoulou
Florence + The Machine High as Hope Art Pop
Unknown Mortal Orchestra Sex & Food Neo-Psychedelia, Psychedelic Pop
Melody's Echo Chamber Bon Voyage Neo-Psychedelia, Progressive Pop
Mariah Carey Caution Contemporary R&B
Adrianne Lenker Abysskiss Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
YOB Our Raw Heart Doom Metal
Gwenno Le Kov Art Pop, Indie Pop, Indietronica
Jack White Boarding House Reach Blues Rock, Experimental Rock
Amnesia Scanner Another Life Deconstructed Club, Electro-Industrial
Damien Jurado The Horizon Just Laughed Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
The Goon Sax We're Not Talking Indie Pop
Makaya McCraven Universal Beings Nu Jazz
Kikagaku Moyo Masana Temples Psychedelic Rock
Parcels Parcels Nu-Disco
Caroline Rose Loner Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Villagers The Art of Pretending to Swim Indie Folk, Indie Pop
Tribulation Down Below Gothic Metal, Heavy Metal
Amanda Shires To the Sunset Alt-Country, Americana, Singer/Songwriter
Architects Holy Hell Metalcore
Interpol Marauder Post-Punk Revival
Kanye West Ye Pop Rap
Lykke Li So Sad So Sexy Alternative R&B, Art Pop
Hookworms Microshift Neo-Psychedelia
Courtney Marie Andrews May Your Kindness Remain Americana, Singer/Songwriter
Ry Cooder The Prodigal Son Americana
Field Music Open Here Chamber Pop, Progressive Pop
Gruff Rhys Babelsberg Baroque Pop, Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Objekt Cocoon Crush IDM, UK Bass
Dream Wife Dream Wife Alternative Rock, Riot Grrrl
Lotic Power Deconstructed Club
Anderson .Paak Oxnard Contemporary R&B, Funk, Hip Hop, Neo-Soul
Leon Vynehall Nothing is Still Ambient, Ambient House
Screaming Females All at Once Garage Rock, Indie Rock
Drake Scorpion Contemporary R&B, Pop Rap
Goat Girl Goat Girl Punk Blues
Daniel Avery Song For Alpha Ambient Techno
Gaz Coombes World's Strongest Man Art Rock, Indie Rock
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant Alternative Rock
Nipsey Hussle Victory Lap Gangsta Rap
Kelly Moran Ultraviolet Post-Minimalism
Kadhja Bonet Childqueen Neo-Soul, Psychedelic Soul
Nao Saturn Alternative R&B
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It Mathcore, Post-Hardcore
DJ Healer Nothing 2 Loose Ambient House, Deep House
Gazelle Twin Pastoral Art Pop, Industrial
Hot Snakes Jericho Sirens Garage Punk, Post-Hardcore
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris Everything's Fine Abstract Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop
Confidence Man Confident Music for Confident People Alternative Dance, Nu-Disco
Teyana Taylor K.T.S.E. Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul
Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest Black Metal, Death Metal
Paul Weller True Meanings Chamber Folk, Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Connan Mockasin Jassbusters Neo-Psychedelia, Soft Rock
Paul McCartney Egypt Station Pop Rock
Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit Avant-Garde Metal, Spirituals
Niño de Elche Antologia del cante flamenco heterodoxo Avant-Folk, Flamenco Nuevo
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet Landfall Chamber Music, Modern Classical
LUMP LUMP Art Pop, Folktronica, Indie Folk
Death Grips Year of the Snitch Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
Jay Rock Redemption Trap
Gas Rausch Ambient, Ambient Techno
Aphex Twin Collapse EP IDM
Rico Nasty Nasty Trap
Dirty Projectors Lamp Lit Prose Art Pop, Indie Pop
Vein Errorzone Mathcore
First Aid Kit Ruins Americana, Indie Folk
La Estrella de David Consagracion Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Post Malone Beerbongs & Bentleys Alternative R&B, Pop Rap
tUnE-yArDs I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life Alternative Dance, Art Pop
J. Cole KOD Conscious Hip Hop
Greta Van Fleet Anthem of the Peaceful Army Blues Rock, Hard Rock
Lil Wayne Tha Carter V Pop Rap, Southern Hip Hop, Trap
Voivod The Wake Progressive Metal