According to Wikipedia, “Acclaimed Music is a website created by Henrik Franzon, a statistician from Stockholm Sweden in September 2001. Franz has statistically aggregated hundreds of published lists that rank songs and albums into aggregated rankings by year, decade, and all-time.” The lists include a ranking of the top 3000 albums, which was last updated 7/15/2018. There are also breakdowns of the top albums by year. The site does not appear to have been updated since 2019.
Check out other album of the year awards here.
- 2019: Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!
- 2018: Janelle Monáe Dirty Computer
- 2017: Kendrick Lamar Damn.
- 2016: David Bowie Blackstar
- 2015: Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
- 2014: The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream
- 2013: Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
- 2012: Frank Ocean Channel Orange
- 2011: PJ Harvey Let England Shake
- 2010: Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- 2009: Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
- 2008: Portishead Third
- 2007: Radiohead In Rainbows
- 2006: Amy Winehouse Back to Black
- 2005: Sufjan Stevens Illinois
- 2004: Arcade Fire Funeral
- 2003: The White Stripes Elephant
- 2002: Streets Original Pirate Material
- 2001: The Strokes Is This It
- 2000: Radiohead Kid A
- 1999: The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
- 1998: Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
- 1997: Radiohead OK Computer
- 1996: Beck Odelay
- 1995: Oasis (What’s the Story) Morning Glory
- 1994: Jeff Buckley Grace
- 1993: Nirvana In Utero
- 1992: R.E.M. Automatic for the People
- 1991: Nirvana Nevermind
- 1990: Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet
- 1989: The Pixies Doolittle
- 1988: Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- 1987: Prince Sign ‘O’ the Times
- 1986: The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
- 1985: Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy
- 1984: Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (soundtrack)
- 1983: R.E.M. Murmur
- 1982: Michael Jackson Thriller
- 1981: The Human League Dare!
- 1980: Talking Heads Remain in Light
- 1979: The Clash London Calling
- 1978: Elvis Costello & the Attractions This Year’s Model
- 1977: The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
- 1976: Ramones Ramones
- 1975: Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
- 1974: Bob Marley & The Wailers Natty Dread
- 1973: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
- 1972: The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
- 1971: Marvin Gaye What’s Going On
- 1970: Neil Young After the Gold Rush
- 1969: The Beatles Abbey Road
- 1968: The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”)
- 1967: The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- 1966: The Beatles Revolver
- 1965: Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
- 1964: The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night
- 1963: James Brown Live at the Apollo Volume 1 (live, recorded 1962; released 1963)
- 1962: Ray Charles Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
- 1961: Bill Evans Trio Sunday at the Village Vanguard
- 1960: John Coltrane Giant Steps (recorded 1959, released 1960)
- 1959: Miles Davis Kind of Blue
- 1958: Billie Holiday Lady in Satin
- 1957: Miles Davis Birth of the Cool (recorded 1950, released 1957)
- 1956: Elvis Presley Elvis Presley (aka Rock ‘N’ Roll)
1955: Frank Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours
- 1954: Clifford Brown and Max Roach Clifford Brown and Max Roach
- 1953: The Quintet (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, & Max Roach) Jazz at Massey Hall (live)
- 1952: Bud Powell The Amazing Bud Powell
- 1951: Thelonious Monk Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (recorded 1947, released 1951)
- 1950: Benny Goodman The Complete Legendary Carnegie Hall Concert (live, recorded 1938)
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