Brittany Howard's What Now should be on every list tbh. She different

• People — The Top 10 Albums of 2024 | #1. Beyoncé, 'Cowboy Carter'

1. Beyoncé, 'Cowboy Carter'
2. Charli xcx, 'Brat'
3. Sabrina Carpenter, 'Short n' Sweet'
4. Taylor Swift, 'The Tortured Poets Department'
5. Kacey Musgraves, 'Deeper Well'
6. Billie Eilish, 'Hit Me Hard and Soft'
7. Tinashe, 'Quantum Baby'
8. Ariana Grande, 'Eternal Sunshine'
9. Kelsea Ballerini, 'Patterns'
10. Anitta, 'Funk Generation'

I spoke too soon, we got one!

• Treble — The 100 Best Songs of 2024 | #1. Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us”

1. Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us”
2. Fontaines D.C. – “Starburster”
3. MJ Lenderman – “She’s Leaving You”
4. Waxahatchee – “Right Back to It” (feat. MJ Lenderman)
5. Charli XCX – “Von Dutch”
6. ELUCID – “The World Is Dog”
7. Mannequin P**** – “Sometimes”
8. Nilüfer Yanya – Like I Say (I runaway)”
9. Floating Points – “Ocotillo”
10. The Cure – “Alone”
11. Kim Gordon – “Bye Bye”
12. Beth Gibbons – “Floating on a Moment”
13. Jessica Pratt – “Life Is”
14. Beyoncé – “YA YA”
15. Thou – “I Feel Nothing When You Cry”
16. Kacey Musgraves – “Cardinal”
17. Kelly Lee Owens – “Love You Got”
18. Ka – “Such Devotion”
19. Sumac – “Yellow Dawn”
20. Jlin – “The Precision of Infinity” (feat. Philip Glass)
21. Chappell Roan – “Good Luck, Babe!”
22. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – “Empty Trainload of Sky”
23. Chat Pile – “Masc”
24. Charli XCX – “365”
25. Kim Gordon – “I’m a Man”
26. Arooj Aftab – “Aey Nehin”
27. Lord Spikeheart – “TYVM”
28. Faye Webster – “Lego Ring” (feat. Lil Yachty)
29. Fontaines D.C. – “Favourite”
30. Knocked Loose – “Suffocate” (feat. Poppy)
31. Mannequin P**** – “Loud Bark”
32. Mabe Fratti – “Enfrente”
33. Burial – “Dreamfear”
34. Mdou Moctar – “Funeral for Justice”
35. Mount Eerie – “I Walk”
36. Beyoncé – “Texas Hold ’em”
37. Geordie Greep – “Holy Holy”
38. Johnny Blue Skies – “Jupiter’s Faerie”
39. Jamie xx – “Baddy on the Floor” (ft. Honey Dijon)
40. MJ Lenderman – “Wristwatch”
41. Haley Heynderickx – “Foxglove”
42. Fabiana Palladino – “Stay With Me Through the Night”
43. The Cure – “A Fragile Thing”
44. Chelsea Wolfe – “House of Self-Undoing”
45. JPEGMAFIA – “Exmilitary”
46. Adrianne Lenker – “Real House”
47. Caribou – “Honey”
48. The Smile – “Don’t Get Me Started”
49. Bartees Strange – “Sober”
50. D*** Church – “Demolition Man”
51. Oranssi Pazuzu – “Muuntautuja”
52. Charli XCX – “B2B”
53. Spirit of the Beehive – “1/500”
54. Ravyn Lenae – “Genius”
55. DIIV – “Frog in Boiling Water”
56. Fred Thomas – “Embankment”
57. Fievel Is Glauque – “Love Weapon”
58. Pissed Jeans – “Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt”
59. Mach-Hommy – “Sonje”
60. Father John Misty – “I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All”
61. Gouge Away – “Dallas”
62. Uniform – “This is Not a Prayer”
63. Cassandra Jenkins – “Only One”
64. Broadcast – “March of the Fleas”
65. GEL – “Persona”
66. Baby Rose & BADBADNOTGOOD – “Weekness”
67. Mary Halvorson – “Desiderata”
68. Hurray for the Riff Raff – “Hawkmoon”
69. Shellac – “WSOD”
70. Yaya Bey – “the evidence”
71. Denzel Curry – “ULTRA SHXT”
72. Kali Uchis – “¿Como Así?”
73. Nourished By Time – “Hell of a Ride”
74. Houses of Heaven – “Within/Without”
75. Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, and Tyshawn Sorey – “Compassion”
76. Sabrina Carpenter – “Espresso”
77. Julia Holter – “Evening Mood”
78. Tierra Whack – “Shower Song”
79. SZA – “Saturn”
80. Half Waif – “Mother Tongue”
81. Dua Lipa – “Illusion”
82. Cloud Nothings – “Running Through the Campus”
83. Los Campesinos! – “0898 Heartache”
84. Tinashe – “Getting No Sleep”
85. High Vis – “Mob DLA”
86. Erika de Casier – “Home Alone”
87. Vince Staples – “Little Homies”
88. Touché Amoré – “Nobody’s”
89. Brittany Howard – “Samson”
90. Molchat Doma – “Ty Zhe Ne Znaesh Kto Ya”
91. mui zyu – “當娜喜歡寄生蟲 (donna likes parasites)”
92. Bright Eyes – “All Threes” (feat. Cat Power)
93. Future & Metro Boomin – “Like That” (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
94. Machinedrum – “Zoom” (feat. Tinashe)
95. Fabiano do Nascimento and Sam Gendel – “Astral Flowers”
96. NewJeans – “Supernatural”
97. Florist – “Riding Around in the Dark”
98. Helado Negro – “Best for You and Me”
99. Caroline Polachek – “Starburned and Unkissed”
100. The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis – “Fourth Wall”

• The Guardian — The 20 best songs of 2024 | #1: Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!

1. Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
2. Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
3. Charli xcx – The Girl, So Confusing Version With Lorde / Von Dutch / Guess (ft Billie Eilish) / 360
4. Jade – Angel of My Dreams
5. Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather / Lunch
6. Fontaines DC – Starburster / Favourite
7. Nilüfer Yanya – Like I Say (I Runaway)
8. Addison Rae – Diet Pepsi
9. Nick León and Erika de Casier – Bikini
10. Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
11. The Cure – Alone
12. Kim Gordon – Bye Bye
13. Waxahatchee – Right Back to It (ft MJ Lenderman)
14. Ariana Grande – We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)
15. Kassie Krut – Reckless
16. Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em
17. Yaeji – B***oo
18. Lady Gaga – Disease
19. Clairo – Sexy to Someone
20. MJ Lenderman – Wristwatch

4 different Charli songs at the same spot just pissed me off... Guardian is a serious publication lol.

Very happy to see chat pile in the top 25

Masc was my favorite single, just not favorite song on the album

If you like Deftones, try out chat piles new album

Edit: idk why I didn't mention chat pile has my aoty & live show of the year

uproxx.com/indie/steven-hydens-favorite-albums-of-2024

dead that mk.gee doesn't make the list because his album isn't on CD

• NME — The 50 Best Albums Of 2024 | #1. Charli XCX - BRAT

1. Charli XCX - BRAT
2. Fontaines D.C. - Romance
3. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
4. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud
5. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
6. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
7. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER
8. Mustafa - Dunya
9. Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
10. Rachel Chinouriri - What A Devastating Turn of Events
11. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
12. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
13. KNEECAP - Fine Art
14. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
15. Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police
16. RM - Right Place, Wrong Person
17. Clairo - Charm
18. Nemahsis - Verbathim
19. Tyla - TYLA
20. Confidence Man - 3AM (LA LA LA)
21. Ghetts - On Purpose, With Purpose
22. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
23. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy
24. Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine
25. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
26. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
27. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
28. ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS
29. Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
30. tripleS - ASSEMBLE24
31. Bashy - Being Poor is Expensive
32. FLO - Access All Areas
33. BERWYN - WHO AM I
34. SPRINTS - Letter To Self
35. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
36. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign
37. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor
38. Rema - HEIS
39. Halsey - The Great Impersonator
40. Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da
41. Tems - Born in the Wild
42. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet
43. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate
44. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA
45. NewDad - MADRA
46. IDLES - TANGK
47. Wunderhorse - Midas
48. Megan Thee Stallion - MEGAN
49. Bring Me The Horizon - POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
50. beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves

Yeah, BRAT cleaned the f*** up this year. Lol. Rightfully so.

Nemahsis and Mustafa holding it down for Toronto this year

that Nemahsis album is SO damn good. Mustafa too of course, wonderful music

This Cindy Lee album that’s not even on streaming

yeah it's been getting a lotta heat all year, even snagged a few #1s

Pitchfork's 27 Best Rap Albums, chosen by that writer KTT really likes

pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-rap-albums-2024/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null

• The Line of Best Fit — The Best Albums of 2024 | #1: Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer

1. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
2. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
3. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
4. Chanel Beads - Your Day Will Come
5. Mannequin P**** - I Got Heaven
6. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
7. Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police
8. Charli XCX - BRAT
9. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
10. Yung Lean & Bladee - Psykos
11. Fontaines D.C. - Romance
12. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
13. Nubya Garcia - ODYSSEY
14. Camila Cabello - C,XOXO
15. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
16. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
17. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign
18. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor
19. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA
20. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
21. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal
22. ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS
23. SPRINTS - Letter To Self
24. 1999 WRITE THE FUTURE - hella (˃̣̣̥╭╮˂̣̣̥) ✧ ♡ ‧º·˚
25. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat
26. Hana Vu - Romanticism
27. Keeley Forsyth - The Hollow
28. Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal
29. Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
30. IDLES - TANGK
31. SOPHIE - SOPHIE
32. Good Looks - Lived Here For a While
33. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
34. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland
35. Crack Cloud - Red Mile
36. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
37. Lip Critic - Hex Dealer
38. Ravyn Lenae - Bird's Eye
39. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo
40. Los Campesinos! - All Hell
41. Merce Lemon - Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild
42. Hinds - Viva Hinds
43. Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes
44. Mustafa - Dunya
45. Christian Lee Hutson - Paradise Pop. 10
46. KNEECAP - Fine Art
47. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
48. Body Meat - Starchris
49. Shygirl - Club Shy
50. Dummy - Free Energy

• Dazed — The 20 best albums of 2024 | #1: Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police

1. Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police
2. Charli XCX - BRAT & Brat and it's completely different but also still brat
3. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal
4. Clairo - Charm
5. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
6. Mustafa - Dunya
7. Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo
8. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA
9. Snow Strippers - Night Killaz Vol. 2
10. cumgirl8 - the 8th c*******> 11. Yung Lean & Bladee - Psykos
12. A. G. Cook - Britpop
13. Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
14. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER
15. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor
16. Jawnino - 40
17. Fontaines D.C. - Romance
18. Chief Keef - Almighty So 2
19. Tems - Born in the Wild
20. Two Shell - Two Shell

damn, didn't expect this many sites putting Cindy Lee on #1

also The Quietus list missing:
thequietus.com/tq-charts/albums-of-the-year/albums-of-the-year-best-albums-2024-norman-records

oops, the homie posted it in here pages ago but i forgot to put it in op. added now

• Uproxx — The Best Songs Of 2024 | Sorted A–Z

1010Benja — “Twin”
21 Savage — “Redrum”
Addison Rae — “Diet Pepsi”
Anycia — “Back Outside” Feat. Latto
Ariana Grande — “The Boy Is Mine”
Asake & Travis Scott — “Active”
Belinda and Natanael Cano — “300 Noches”
Ben Quad — “You’ll Get Nothing And Like It”
Beyoncé & Post Malone — “Levii’s Jeans”
Big Sean — “On Up”
Billie Eilish — “Birds Of A Feather”
Bon Iver — “SPEYSIDE”
Bossman Dlow — “Get In With Me”
Bryson Tiller — “Ciao”
Cash Cobain — “Fisherrr” Feat. Bay Swag
Chappell Roan — “Good Luck, Babe!”
Charli XCX — “Von Dutch”
Chlöe — “Temporarily Single”
The Dare — “Elevation”
DIIV — “Somber The Drums”
Doechii — “Nissan Altima”
Drake — “Family Matters”
Empress Of — “Femenine”
Flo Milli — “Never Lose Me”
Future & Metro Boomin — “Like That” Feat. Kendrick Lamar
Future Islands — “Glimpse”
GloRilla — “Yeah Glo!”
GloRilla — “TGIF”
Gracie Abrams — “That’s So True”
Hovvdy — “Meant”
Hozier — “Too Sweet”
Jamie xx & The Avalanches — “All You Children”
Jane Remover — “Magic I Want U”
Jordan Adetunji & Kehlani — “Kehlani”
Kendrick Lamar — “Not Like Us”
Kendrick Lamar — “Euphoria”
Knocked Loose — “Suffocate”
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars — “Die With A Smile”
Lay Bankz — “Tell Ur Girlfriend”
Latto — “Brokey”
Leon Thomas — “Yes It Is”
Maggie Rogers — “In The Living Room”
Mannequin P**** — “Loud Bark”
Manuel Turizo and Kapo – “Qué Pecao”
Matt Champion and Jennie — “Slow Motion”
Megan Thee Stallion — “Mamushi” Feat. Yuki Chiba
MJ Lenderman — “She’s Leaving You”
Mk.gee — “Alesis”
Muni Long — “Ruined Me”
Nilüfer Yanya — “Like I Say (I Runaway)”
PartyNextDoor — “No Chill”
Pest Control — “Time Bomb”
Petey — “The River”
Post Malone & Morgan Wallen — “I Had Some Help”
Rapsody — “3:AM” Feat. Erykah Badu
Rema — “Ozeba”
RM — “Come Back To Me”
Rosé — “APT.” Feat. Bruno Mars
Sabrina Carpenter — “Espresso”
Sabrina Carpenter — “Please Please Please”
Schoolboy Q — “Thank God 4 Me”
Sexyy Red — “Get It Sexyy”
Shaboozey — “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
SZA — “Saturn”
Tanner Adell — “Whiskey Blues”
Taylor Swift — “The Black Dog”
TiaCorine — “Bonnet”
Tierra Whack — “27 Club”
Tinashe — “Nasty”
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross — “Challengers”
Twice — “I Got You”
Tyler, The Creator — “Like Him”
Tyler, The Creator — “Sticky”
Vampire Weekend — “Gen-X Cops”
Vince Staples — “Étouffée”
Waxahatchee — “Right Back To It”
Wishy — “Persuasion”
Yard Act — “We Make Hits”
Zach Bryan — “Pink Skies”

what's the deal with "Alesis" being the one Mk.gee song on all these lists? is it a fan favorite or something? i remembered about him performing one song over and over on his tour, but that was DNM.

happy to see "Family Matters" and "3:AM"

xaviersobased #1

• Paste — The 100 Best Songs of 2024 | #1. Magdalena Bay: “Death & Romance”

1. Magdalena Bay: “Death & Romance”
2. ASAP Rocky ft. Jessica Pratt: “HIGHJACK”
3. Willi Carlisle: “Higher Lonesome”
4. Fabiana Palladino: “I Can’t Dream Anymore”
5. MJ Lenderman: “Wristwatch”
6. Nourished by Time: “Hell of a Ride”
7. Waxahatchee: “Much Ado About Nothing”
8. Sabrina Carpenter: “Please Please Please”
9. Being Dead: “Godzilla Rises”
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: “O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)”
11. Youth Lagoon: “Lucy Takes a Picture”
12. Moses Sumney: “Vintage”
13. Fontaines D.C.: “Favourite”
14. Merce Lemon: “Backyard Lover”
15. Chappell Roan: “Good Luck, Babe!”
16. Jane Remover: “Dream Sequence”
17. Allegra Krieger: “Never Arriving”
18. Armand Hammer ft. Benjamin Booker: “Doves”
19. This Is Lorelei: “Where’s Your Love Now”
20. Astrid Sonne: “Do you wanna”
21. JADE: “Angel of My Dreams”
22. Bon Iver: “S P E Y S I D E”
23. Jessica Pratt: “The Last Year”
24. Charli XCX ft. Lorde: “Girl so confusing version with lorde”
25. Adrianne Lenker: “Sadness As A Gift”
26. HiTech: “SPANK!”
27. Kassie Krut: “Reckless”
28. Still House Plants: “M M M”
29. more eaze: “waltz (in memoriam old ways of living)”
30. Kendrick Lamar: “reincarnated”
31. Addison Rae: “Diet Pepsi”
32. SML: “Three Over Steel”
33. Hannah Frances: “Keeper of the Shepherd”
34. Beyoncé: “16 CARRIAGES”
35. Half Waif: “The Museum”
36. Erika de Casier & Nick León: “Bikini”
37. Hovvdy: “Meant”
38. Girl Scout: “Honey”
39. Nala Sinephro: “Continuum 1”
40. Mannequin P****: “Loud Bark”
41. Johnny Blue Skies: “If the Sun Never Rises Again”
42. Chief Keef ft. Tierra Whack: “Banded Up”
43. L’Rain ft. Voices from the NYC Trans Oral History Project: “People Are Small / Rapture”
44. Mk.gee: “Alesis”
45. Bleachers: “Modern Girl”
46. Friko: “Where We’ve Been”
47. The Cure: “Alone”
48. Porter Robinson: “Knock Yourself Out XD”
49. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: “What We Had”
50. Clairo: “Sexy to Someone”
51. Agriculture: “Living is Easy”
52. Goat Girl: “words fell out”
53. Blunt Chunks: “High Hopes”
54. Cassandra Jenkins: “Clams Casino”
55. Nilufer Yanya: “Like I Say (I runaway)”
56. Chris Acker and the Growing Boys: “Shit Surprise”
57. ZORA: “hush”
58. Chanel Beads: “Police Scanner”
59. Billie Eilish: “BIRDS OF A FEATHER”
60. Uniform: “This is Not a Prayer”
61. Panda Bear ft. Cindy Lee: “Defense”
62. Mdou Moctar: “Funeral For Justice”
63. Hurray for the Riff Raff: “Hawkmoon”
64. Beth Gibbons: “Floating on a Moment”
65. Wild Pink: “Air Drumming Fix You”
66. Cindy Lee: “Kingdom Come”
67. Father John Misty: “Screamland”
68. Sharp Pins: “You Don’t Live Here Anymore”
69. Rapsody ft. Erykah Badu: “3:AM”
70. Kim Gordon: “BYE BYE”
71. Liquid Mike: “American Caveman”
72. Tinashe: “Nasty”
73. Fust: “Rolling Prairie”
74. FKA twigs: “EUSEXUA”
75. Ducks Ltd.: “Train Full of Gasoline”
76. Ezra Collective: “Shaking Body”
77. 1010Benja: “Twin”
78. Good Looks: “If It’s Gone”
79. Wishy: “Triple Seven”
80. Blue Ranger: “Step Line”
81. Fazerdaze: “A Thousand Years”
82. Doechii & JT: “Alter Ego”
83. Font: “Looking at Engines”
84. Charly Bliss: “Back There Now”
85. The Deslondes: “Take Me Back”
86. villagerrr ft. Merce Lemon: “Neverrr Everrr”
87. ROSÉ & Bruno Mars: “APT.”
88. Vince Staples: “Black&Blue”
89. Allie X: “Off With Her T***”
90. Florist: “Riding Around in the Dark”
91. Ravyn Lenae: “Love Me Not”
92. Peter Cat Recording Co.: “People Never Change”
93. Du Blonde: “TV Star”
94. Saba & No I.D. ft. Madison McFerrin, Ogi & Jordan Ward: “head.rap”
95. Hinds: “Superstar”
96. Kamasi Washington: “Prologue”
97. Backxwash: “WAKE UP”
98. Zach Bryan ft. Watchhouse: “Pink Skies”
99. Davidsson: “light in the dark”
100. Los Campesinos!: “Feast of Tongues”

Paste's list hard. real af for "Death & Romance" at #1, "I Can't Dream Anymore is f***ing incredible, "Hell of a Ride" is a blast every time it cuts on.