Entertainment Weekly (US) - old EOY lists

[Monte]

I don't think this has been posted before.

1990: https://ew.com/article/1990/12/28/1990s ... rst-music/
1991: https://ew.com/article/1991/12/27/1991s ... rst-music/
1992-1999: http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/eweekly.html
https://ew.com/article/1996/12/27/music-4/
https://ew.com/article/1998/12/25/10-best-albums-1998/
https://ew.com/article/1999/12/24/best-music-1999/

[StevieFan13]

Not on the site, probably eligible.

[StevieFan13]

1990:
1 | Sinead O'Connor | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
2 | Paul Simon | The Rhythm of the Saints
3 | Youssou N'Dour | Set
4 | Jane's Addiction | Ritual de lo Habitual
5 | Prince | Graffiti Bridhe
6 | Sonic Youth | Goo
7 | The Silos | The Silos
8 | Rosanne Cash | Interiors
9 | Ernie Isley | High Wire
10 | 808 State | Utd. State 90

Best Country: The Kentucky Headhunters | Pickin' on Nashville
Best Jazz: The Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra | The Hearinga Suite
Best Classical: Beethoven | Diabelli Variations; Alfred Brendel, piano

1991:
1 | Nirvana | Nevermind
2 | Guns N' Roses | Use Your Illusion I and II
3 | Public Enemy | Apocalypse 91…The Enemy Strikes Black
4 | P.M. Dawn | Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience
5 | Metallica | Metallica (The Black Album)
6 | Sam Phillips | Cruel Inventions
7 | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Weld
8 | Marty Brown | High and Dry
9 | Motorhead | 1916
10 | Beethoven | Symphonies 1-9, Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Best Singles:
Losing My Religion- R.E.M.
Crazy- Seal
I’ve Been Thinking About You- Londonbeat
Temptation- Corina
Walking Down Madison- Kirsty MacColl
Enter Sandman- Metallica
(Interesting having Nirvana top the album list but not including any of their singles)

1992:
Albums

1. Sonic Youth - Dirty
2. Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of...
3. Neneh Cherry - Homebrew
4. Suzanne Vega - 99.9 F
5. Loudon Wainwright III - History
6. Eye & I - Eye & I
7. Mary-Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On
8. Lou Reed - Magic and Loss
9. The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
10. Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe

Singles

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
• John Secada - Just Another Day
• U2 - One
• L7 - Let's Pretend We're Dead
• Ce Ce Peniston - Finally

1993:
Albums

1. U2 - Zooropa
2. PM Dawn - The Bliss Album...?
3. Sliver - Soundtrack (Sharon Stone Film)
4. Yo La Tengo - Painful
5. Nirvana - In Utero
6. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
7. Rosanne Cash - The Wheel
8. Come - Eleven: Eleven
9. LL Cool J - 14 Shots To The Dome
10. Tool - Undertow

Singles

• Toni Braxton - Another Sad Love Song
• Duran Duran - Come Undone
• Janet Jackson - If

1994:
Albums

1. Beck - Mellow Gold
2. Hole - Live Through This
3. Soundgarden - Superunknown
4. Various Artists - Above The Rim (Soundtrack)
5. Madonna - Bedtime Stories
6. Jeff Buckley - Grace
7. Waterlillies - Tempted
8. Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era
9. Sebadoh - Bakesale
10. Luscious Jackson - Natural Ingredients

Singles

• Offspring - Come Out And Play
• Snoop Doggy Dogg - Gin And Juice
• Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia
• Des'ree - You Gotta Be
• Veruca Salt - Seether

1995:
Albums

1. Joan Osborne - Relish
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness
3. Moby - Everything is Wrong
4. Coolio - Gagsta's Paradise
5. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
6. Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves
7. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
8. Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
9. k.d. lang - All you Can Eat
10. Count Bass-D - Pre-Life Crisis

Singles

• Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
• TLC - Waterfalls
• Juliana Hatfield - Universal Heart-Beat
• Blues Traveler - Run Around
• Seal - Kiss From a Rose
• Real McCoy - Another Night

1996
Organized weirdly - both albums and singles, plus general movements
The British Reinvasion (general umbrella for Britpop - not sure how you'd count that)
• Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded (album)
• 2Pac - "California Love" (song)
• R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi (album)
• Richard Thompson - You?Me?Us? (album)
• Quad City DJ's - "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" (song)
• Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow (album)
• Tracy Bonham - "Mother Mother" (song)
• Able Tasmans - Store In A Cool Place (album)
• The Tony Rich Project - Words (album)

Runner-Up Albums

• Beck - Odelay
• Patti Smith - Gone Again
• Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
• Dirty Three - Horse Stories
• Suzanne Vega - Nine Objects Of Desire
• Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter

1997
• Radiohead - OK Computer (album)
• The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole (album)
• White Town - "Your Woman" (song)
• Hanson - Middle Of Nowhere (album)
• Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly (album)
• Tuatara - Breaking The Ethers & Mark Eitzel - West (albums)
• Yo La Tengo - "Autumn Sweater" (song)
• David Holmes - Let's Get Killed (album)
• OMC - "How Bizarre" & Forest For The Trees - "Dream" (songs)
• Spice Girls - "Wannabe" & "Say You'll Be There" (songs)

1998

1. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (album)
2. Fatboy Slim - "The Rockafeller Skank" (song)
3. Pulp - This is Hardcore (album)
4. R.E.M. - Up (album)
5. Madonna - Ray of Light (album)
6. Alan Jackson - "I’ll Go On Loving You" (song)
7. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals (album)
8. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright (album)
9. Bob Dylan - Live 1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert) (album)
10. Eliza Carthy - Red Rice (album)

1999

1. Robbie Williams – The Ego Has Landed (album)
2. Fiona Apple – When The Pawn… (album)
3. Backstreet Boys – “I Want It That Way” (song)
4. Moby – Play (album)
5. TLC – “No Scrubs” (song)
6. Underworld – Beaucoup Fish (album)
7. Luscious Jackson – “Ladyfingers” (song)
8. Beth Orton – Central Reservation (album)
9. Mos Def – Black On Both Sides (album)
10. The Beta Band – The Three EP’s (album)

[Henrik]

I think these lists were done by a single critic.