Based on a combination of year-end lists (see sources at bottom of page) and overall status in Dave’s Music Database, these are the top 25 albums of 2012:
- Frank Ocean Channel Orange
(Grammy nominee for album of the year, #1:
AlbumOfTheYear.org,
Billboard – critics’ picks,
DMDB,
Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian,
Paste,
Pop Matters,
Spin)
- Kendrick Lamar Good Kid m.A.A.d. City
(#1: Consequence of Sound, Pitchfork)
- Taylor Swift Red
(#1: best seller of the year,
Squidoo)
- Mumford & Sons Babel
(Grammy nominee for album of the year, #1:
NPR)
- Lana Del Rey Born to Die
- Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
(#1: Spinner, Time Magazine)
- Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox
- Imagine Dragons Night Visions
- Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball
(#1: Rolling Stone, my favorite of the year)
- Jack White Blunderbuss
(Grammy nominee for album of the year, #1: Mojo)
- Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
- Emeli Sandé Our Version of Events
- Pink The Truth About Love
- Tame Impala Lonerism
(#1: Obscure Sound)
- Fun. Some Nights
(Grammy nominee for album of the year)
- The Weeknd Trilogy
- Rihanna Unapologetic
- The Lumineers The Lumineers
- Florida Georgia Line Here’s to the Good Times
- Zac Brown Band Uncaged
- Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls
- One Direction Take Me Home
- Justin Bieber Believe
- Bob Dylan Tempest
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis The Heist
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