Pazz & Jop: The Top 100 Albums of 2018

For the 45th (or 46th) time since 1971, America’s critical establishment has spoken, with Kacey Musgraves’s Golden Hour narrowly beating out Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer for the number one spot. All told, this year’s Pazz & Jop Music Critics Poll featured nearly 400 voters and over 1,200 albums, with all five top spots taken by female artists for the first time ever. Check out the year’s top 50 singles HERE.

Rank		Album	Artist	Points
1		Golden Hour	Kacey Musgraves	1155
2		Dirty Computer	Janelle Monáe	1046
3 (tie)		Invasion of Privacy	Cardi B	654
3 (tie)		Be the Cowboy	Mitski	654
5		Honey	Robyn	537
6		Daytona	Pusha T	533
7		Room 25	Noname	487
8		Double Negative	Low	481
9		Wide Awaaaaaake!	Parquet Courts	452
10		Historian	Lucy Dacus	438
11		What a Time to Be Alive	Superchunk	353
12		Hell-On	Neko Case	330
13		Clean	Soccer Mommy	320
14		A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships	The 1975	313
15		Interstate Gospel	Pistol Annies	312
16		Tell Me How You Really Feel	Courtney Barnett	298
17		El Mal Querer	Rosalía	297
18		The Tree of Forgiveness	John Prine	295
19 (tie)		Chris	Christine and the Queens	269
19 (tie)		Lush	Snail Mail	269
21		Heaven and Earth	Kamasi Washington	264
22		Universal Beings	Makaya McCraven	262
23 (tie)		Future Me Hates Me	The Beths	258
23 (tie)		Isolation	Kali Uchis	258
25		In a Poem Unlimited	U.S. Girls	245
26		Boygenius	Boygenius	243
27		Black Panther: The Album, Music From and Inspired By	Various Artists	240
28		7	Beach House	239
29		Whack World	Tierra Whack	237
30		Record	Tracey Thorn	233
31		Sweetener	Ariana Grande	228
32		Some Rap Songs	Earl Sweatshirt	226
33 (tie)		By the Way, I Forgive You	Brandi Carlile	222
33 (tie)		Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides	Sophie	222
35		Joy as an Act of Resistance	Idles	196
36		Your Queen Is a Reptile	Sons of Kemet	179
37		Ventriloquism	Meshell Ndegeocello	174
38		Knock Knock	DJ Koze	173
39		Con Todo El Mundo	Khruangbin	164
40		God’s Favorite Customer	Father John Misty	160
41		Astroworld	Travis Scott	155
42		The Sciences	Sleep	152
43		Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino	Arctic Monkeys	141
44		Hope Downs	Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever	140
45		Look Now	Elvis Costello & the Imposters	136
46		Freedom	Amen Dunes	134
47		Bottle It In	Kurt Vile	129
48		Aviary	Julia Holter	125
49		Safe in the Hands of Love	Yves Tumor	122
50 (tie)		Negro Swan	Blood Orange	121
50 (tie)		Ephorize	CupcakKe	121
50 (tie)		Things Have Changed	Bettye LaVette	121
53 (tie)		2012–2017	A.A.L. (Against All Logic)	118
53 (tie)		There’s a Riot Going On	Yo La Tengo	118
55		Care for Me	Saba	116
56		Bark Your Head Off, Dog	Hop Along	115
57 (tie)		Sparkle Hard	Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks	114
57 (tie)		Loner	Caroline Rose	114
59		Ordinary Corrupt Human Love	Deafheaven	113
60		Hive Mind	The Internet	112
61		The Terror End of Beauty	Harriet Tubman	110
62 (tie)		Girl Going Nowhere	Ashley McBryde	107
62 (tie)		Superorganism	Superorganism	107
64		Nearer My God	Foxing	103
65		And Nothing Hurt	Spiritualized	100
66 (tie)		Singularity	Jon Hopkins	98
66 (tie)		Cocoa Sugar	Young Fathers	98
68		Age Of	Oneohtrix Point Never	95
69 (tie)		American Utopia	David Byrne	92
69 (tie)		Constant Image	Flasher	92
71		Broken Politics	Neneh Cherry	91
72 (tie)		May Your Kindness Remain	Courtney Marie Andrews	90
72 (tie)		Love Is Dead	Chvrches	90
72 (tie)		Kids See Ghosts	Kids See Ghosts	90
75 (tie)		Twin Fantasy	Car Seat Headrest	89
75 (tie)		Negative Capability	Marianne Faithfull	89
75 (tie)		The Future and the Past	Natalie Prass	89
75 (tie)		Songs of Praise	Shame	89
79		The Old Guys	Amy Rigby	88
80		Post-	Jeff Rosenstock	87
81		The Horizon Just Laughed	Damien Jurado	86
82		Scorpion	Drake	85
83		Now Only	Mount Eerie	84
84		Warm	Jeff Tweedy	83
85		Caution	Mariah Carey	81
86		I’m All Ears	Let’s Eat Grandma	80
87 (tie)		Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa	Jeremy Dutcher	78
87 (tie)		Emanon	Wayne Shorter	78
89 (tie)		To the Sunset	Amanda Shires	77
89 (tie)		FM!	Vince Staples	77
91 (tie)		Love Yourself: Tear	BTS	75
91 (tie)		Wanderer	Cat Power	75
91 (tie)		Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album	John Coltrane	75
91 (tie)		Rebound	Eleanor Friedberger	75
95 (tie)		Rifles & Rosary Beads	Mary Gauthier	74
95 (tie)		Soil	serpentwithfeet	74
95 (tie)		Boarding House Reach	Jack White	74
98		Lost & Found	Jorja Smith	73
99 (tie)		How to Socialise & Make Friends	Camp Cope	70
99 (tie)		Prequelle	Ghost	70
99 (tie)		I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life	Tune-Yards	70