Lists & Guides
- 2022Year in Music
- 2021Year in Music
- 2020Year in Music
- 2019Year in Music
- 2018Year in Music
- 2017Year in Music
- 2016Albums/Tracks
- 2015Albums/Tracks
-3.png)
The 44 Most Anticipated Tours of 2024: Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Olivia Rodrigo, and More
Bruce Springsteen, Adele, Bob Dylan, Mitski, Green Day, and more of the most essential tickets of the year.
-2.png)
The 50 Most Anticipated Albums of 2024
New releases to look forward to in the coming months, from Brittany Howard, Kali Uchis, MGMT, Bleachers, Dua Lipa, the Smile, and more.
The 13 Best Concerts of 2023 (That Weren’t Taylor Swift or Beyoncé)
Featuring live shows from SZA, Lana Del Rey, Yaeji, Shygirl, Rauw Alejandro, Feist, and more
The 30 Best Jazz and Experimental Albums of 2023
Our favorite unfamiliar, unsettling, provocative, transgressive, spaced-out, psychedelic, surreal, meditative, and confrontational albums of the year.
The Best Music by Latine and Spanish Artists in 2023
The year in dembow, raptor house, corridos tumbados, pop-flamenco, Brazilian funk, and everything in between.
The Best Pop Music of 2023
Opulent disco-pop, R&B hook-up jams, raging hot-mess anthems: These are the songs and albums that defined the year in pop music.
The 42 Best Rap Songs of 2023
From Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem’s exuberant collaboration to billy woods’ apocalyptic visions to Little Simz’s myth-making swagger
The Best Music of 2023, According to Pitchfork Readers
Featuring your picks for the best albums and songs of the year
The Best Electronic Music of 2023
Yaeji, Aphex Twin, Skrillex, Tirzah, Avalon Emerson, and more: these are the songs and albums that defined the year in electronic music.
The 37 Best Rock Albums of 2023
The year in indie rock, punk, singer-songwriter and solo guitar music, shoegaze, metal, and everything in between.
The 50 Best Albums of 2023
Featuring Sufjan Stevens, Kali Uchis, SZA, boygenius, Caroline Polachek, André 3000, and more
The 100 Best Songs of 2023
Featuring Ice Spice, Olivia Rodrigo, Lana Del Rey, Troye Sivan, Amaarae, NewJeans, and more
The 10 Best Music Books of 2023
Our favorites include an homage to pop’s most random decade, a graphic novel reintroducing a ’70s Cambodian rock legend, and the best Lou Reed biography to date.
The Best Music Merch Gifts of 2023
The Cure trading cards, Ice Spice lunch boxes, Olivia Rodrigo rings, Snail Mail plush toys, and more unique gift ideas for every type of music fan.
The 62 Best Albums of 2023 So Far
A rolling list of our favorite albums of the year, updated somewhat frequently.
24 Great Records You May Have Missed: Spring/Summer 2023
The best under-the-radar finds in hip-hop, rock, ambient, and more
The 48 Most Anticipated Albums of Fall 2023
New releases to look forward to in the coming months, from Mitski, Drake, Sufjan Stevens, Taylor Swift, and more.
The 25 Funniest Rappers of All Time
Including punchline aficionados Danny Brown and Nicki Minaj, roastmasters Cam’ron and Cardi B, surrealist oddballs Kool Keith and RXK Nephew, and many more.
The 30 Best Movie Performances by Rappers
From DMX in Belly to A$AP Rocky in Dope, these are the roles that proved rappers could be movie stars, too.
Pitchfork Staffers on Their Most Formative Rap Albums
The hip-hop records that rearranged our brains, including classics by DMX, MF DOOM, Missy Elliott, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, A Tribe Called Quest, and more
17 Artists on Their All-Time Favorite Rap Songs
In celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, Lil B, Black Thought, Amaarae, E-40, DJ Drama, Maxwell, and more go deep on the rap songs they love most.
20 Contenders for 2023’s Song of the Summer
SZA’s unkillable hit, Bad Bunny’s take on club rap, “Padam Padam,” and all strains of weed-smoking anthems: Here are 20 selections to soundtrack the season.