100 Greatest Albums of 2011

  1. 21 - Adele
  2. Take Care - Drake
  3. Born This Way - Lady Gaga
  4. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
  5. House of Balloons ** - The Weeknd
  6. 4 - Beyoncé
  7. Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
  8. Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - M83
  9. Watch the Throne - Jay-Z and Kanye West
10. Talk That Talk - Rihanna
11. Ceremonials - Florence + The Machine
12. Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
13. James Blake - James Blake
14. Making Mirrors - Gotye
15. + - Ed Sheeran
16. W H O K I L L - tUnE-yArDs
17. Goblin - Tyler, the Creator
18. Strange Mercy - St. Vincent
19. Nostalgia, Ultra ** - Frank Ocean
20. Kaputt - Destroyer
21. Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
22. Smoke Ring for My Halo - Kurt Vile
23. Black Up - Shabazz Palaces
24. Chief ** - Eric Church
25. El Camino - The Black Keys
26. Past Life Martyred Saints - EMA
27. LiveLoveA$AP ** - A$AP Rocky
28. Father, Son, Holy Ghost - Girls
29. Bad as Me - Tom Waits
30. XXX - Danny Brown
31. David Comes to Life - Fucked Up
32. 50 Words for Snow - Kate Bush
33. Section.80 - Kendrick Lamar
34. Christmas ** - Michael Buble
35. Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars
36. Undun - The Roots
37. Nine Types of Light - TV on the Radio
38. Torches - Foster the People
39. Biophilia - Björk
40. The King of Limbs - Radiohead
41. Blue Slide Park - Mac Miller
42. Collapse into Now - R.E.M.
43. Hot Sauce Committee Part Two - Beastie Boys
44. Tomboy - Panda Bear
45. Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay
46. Civilian - Wye Oak
47. The King is Dead - The Decemberists
48. Underneath the Pine - Toro y Moi
49. Days - Real Estate
50. Gloss Drop - Battles
51. Suck It And See - Arctic Monkeys
52. Tha Carter IV - Lil Wayne
53. Wounded Rhymes - Lykke Li
54. Metals - Feist
55. Slave Ambient - The War on Drugs
56. Replica ** - Oneohtrix Point Never
57. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
58. Cults - Cults
59. Ravedeath, 1972 ** - Tim Hecker
60. The Whole Love - Wilco
61. Cole World: The Sideline Story - J. Cole
62. A Creature I Don't Know - Laura Marling
63. Skying - The Horrors
64. Codes and Keys - Death Cab for Cutie
65. The Light of the Sun - Jill Scott
66. Up All Night - One Direction
67. Noel Gallagher's Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
68. Echoes of Silence ** - The Weeknd
69. The Big Roar - The Joy Formidable
70. Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings
71. The English Riviera - Metronomy
72. Vows - Kimbra
73. So Beautiful or So What - Paul Simon
74. Apocalypse ** - Bill Callahan
75. Yuck - Yuck
76. My Head is an Animal - Of Monsters and Men
77. Zonoscope - Cut Copy
78. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
79. Wit's End - Cass McCombs
80. Belong - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
81. Femme Fatale - Britney Spears
82. Camp - Childish Gambino
83. C'mon ** - Low
84. What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? - The Vaccines
85. Kiss Each Other Clean - Iron & Wine
86. Blood Pressures - The Kills
87. Far Side Virtual ** - James Ferraro
88. We're New Here ** - Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx
89. Exmilitary ** - Death Grips
90. Thursday ** - The Weeknd
91. Go-Go Boots - Drive-By Truckers
92. All Eternals Deck - The Mountain Goats
93. Coastal Grooves - Blood Orange
94. Only in Dreams - Dum Dum Girls
95. Never Trust a Happy Song - Grouplove
96. Hell on Heels ** - Pistol Annies
97. Circuital ** - My Morning Jacket
98. Nothing But the Beat - David Guetta
99. Shed ** - Title Fight
100. No Time for Dreaming ** - Charles Bradley