|
Rank |
Album (2012) |
Artist/Group |
|
1 |
Channel Orange |
Frank Ocean |
|
2 |
good kid, m.A.A.d city |
Kendrick Lamar |
|
3 |
Lonerism |
Tame Impala |
|
4 |
The Idler Wheel Is Wiser… |
Fiona Apple |
|
5 |
Celebration Rock |
Japandroids |
|
6 |
Visions |
Grimes |
|
7 |
The Seer |
Swans |
|
8 |
An Awesome Wave |
Alt-J |
|
9 |
Blunderbuss |
Jack White |
|
10 |
R.A.P. Music |
Killer Mike |
|
11 |
Kaleidoscope Dream |
Miguel |
|
12 |
Devotion |
Jessie Ware |
|
13 |
Shields |
Grizzly Bear |
|
14 |
Until the Quiet Comes |
Flying Lotus |
|
15 |
Attack on Memory |
Cloud Nothings |
|
16 |
Bloom |
Beach House |
|
17 |
Boys & Girls |
Alabama Shakes |
|
18 |
Kill For Love |
Chromatics |
|
19 |
Tramp |
Sharon Van Etten |
|
20 |
Wrecking Ball |
Bruce Springsteen |
|
21 |
Red |
Taylor Swift |
|
22 |
Life Is Good |
Nas |
|
23 |
Tempest |
Bob Dylan |
|
24 |
Django Django |
Django Django |
|
25 |
All We Love We Leave Behind |
Converge |
|
26 |
Old Ideas |
Leonard Cohen |
|
27 |
The Money Store |
Death Grips |
|
28 |
Sun |
Cat Power |
|
29 |
Swing Lo Magellan |
Dirty Projectors |
|
30 |
Our Version of Events |
Emeli Sandé |
|
31 |
Fear Fun |
Father John Misty |
|
32 |
Luxury Problems |
Andy Stott |
|
33 |
On the Impossible Past |
The Menzingers |
|
34 |
Life Is People |
Bill Fay |
|
35 |
Koi No Yokan |
Deftones |
|
36 |
Locked Down |
Dr. John |
|
37 |
De Vermis Mysteriis |
High on Fire |
|
38 |
Cancer 4 Cure |
El-P |
|
39 |
METZ |
METZ |
|
40 |
Slaughterhouse |
Ty Segall Band |
|
41 |
Ekstasis |
Julia Holter |
|
42 |
Harmonicraft |
Torche |
|
43 |
Ugly |
Screaming Females |
|
44 |
R.I.P. |
Actress |
|
45 |
Ten Freedom Summers |
Wadada Leo Smith |
|
46 |
Accelerando |
Vijay Iyer Trio |
|
47 |
Crown and Treaty |
Sweet Billy Pilgrim |
|
48 |
Fetch |
Moritz von Oswald Trio |
|
49 |
Bouger le Monde! |
Staff Benda Bilili |
|
50 |
Book Burner |
Pig Destroyer |
|
51 |
Young Man In America |
Anais Mitchell |
|
52 |
3 Pears |
Dwight Yoakam |
|
53 |
L'Enfant Sauvage |
Gojira |
|
54 |
Blue Lines [2012 Mix/Master] |
Massive Attack |
|
55 |
Graceland [25th Anniversary Edition] |
Paul Simon |
|
56 |
Copper Blue [Deluxe Edition] |
Sugar |
|
57 |
Dopesmoker [Reissue] |
Sleep |
|
58 |
Loveless [Reissue] |
My Bloody Valentine |
|
59 |
L.A. Woman [40th Anniversary Edition] |
The Doors |
|
60 |
Biokinetics [Reissue] |
Porter Ricks |
|
61 |
Blur 21 [Box Set] |
Blur |
|
63 |
Woody at 100 |
Woody Guthrie |
|
64 |
The Complete Beat [Box Set] |
The [English] Beat |
|
65 |
Babel |
Mumford & Sons |
|
66 |
Battle Born |
The Killers |
|
67 |
Born to Die |
Lana Del Rey |
Note: The above ranking is based on statistics of Metacritic.com, including the Music Critic Top 10 Lists, the Best Albums of 2012, and Metacritic Users Poll Results.
