Top Albums of 2013
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Album▼ Genres▼
1
152
 Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City Indie Pop
2
187
 Kanye West Yeezus Experimental Hip Hop
3
325
 Daft Punk Random Access Memories Nu-Disco
4
354
 Beyoncé Beyoncé Contemporary R&B
5
402
 Arctic Monkeys AM Indie Rock
6
632
 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Push the Sky Away Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Art Rock
7
639
 Deafheaven Sunbather Blackgaze
8
728
 The Knife Shaking the Habitual Electronic, Experimental
9
733
 My Bloody Valentine m b v Dream Pop, Shoegaze
10
753
 Disclosure Settle Deep House, UK Garage
11
796
 The National Trouble Will Find Me Indie Rock
12
866
 Chance the Rapper Acid Rap Hip Hop
13
1058
 Sky Ferreira Night Time, My Time Synthpop
14
1199
 Lorde Pure Heroine Pop
15
1336
 James Blake Overgrown Alternative R&B, Art Pop
16
1340
 Haim Days Are Gone Pop Rock
17
1360
 Arcade Fire Reflektor Alternative Dance, Indie Rock
18
1388
 Savages Silence Yourself Post-Punk
19
1405
 Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe Alternative R&B, Synth Funk
20
1486
 Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork Alternative Rock
21
1567
 Jon Hopkins Immunity IDM, Microhouse
22
1574
 DJ Rashad Double Cup Footwork
23
1575
 Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
24
1780
 David Bowie The Next Day Art Rock
25
1789
 CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe Electropop, Synthpop
26
2127
 These New Puritans Field of Reeds Art Rock, Post-Rock
27
2189
 Julia Holter Loud City Song Ambient Pop, Art Pop
28
2194
 Jason Isbell Southeastern Americana, Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
29
2261
 Drake Nothing Was the Same Contemporary R&B, Pop Rap
30
2264
 Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest Ambient Techno, IDM
31
2356
 Janelle Monáe The Electric Lady Contemporary R&B, Funk
32
2372
 Bill Callahan Dream River Americana, Singer/Songwriter
33
2398
 Danny Brown Old Hardcore Hip Hop
34
2502
 Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Rock
35
2509
 Earl Sweatshirt Doris Hip Hop
36
2684
 Darkside Psychic Art Pop
37
2822
 King Krule 6 Feet Beneath the Moon Singer/Songwriter
38
2871
 Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven Progressive Electronic, Vaporwave
39
2910
 La Femme Psycho Tropical Berlin French Pop, Synthpop
40
2971
 Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels Hardcore Hip Hop
Deerhunter Monomania Indie Rock, Noise Pop
Tim Hecker Virgins Ambient, Drone
Biffy Clyro Opposites Alternative Rock
Burial Rival Dealer EP Ambient Pop, Future Garage
Phosphorescent Muchacho Americana
Foals Holy Fire Indie Rock
A$AP Rocky Long.Live.A$AP Hip Hop
Holden The Inheritors IDM
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience [1 of 2] Contemporary R&B, Pop
Rhye Woman Alternative R&B, Smooth Soul, Sophisti-Pop
Gorguts Colored Sands Technical Death Metal
Foxygen We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic Psychedelic Pop
Carcass Surgical Steel Melodic Death Metal
Kelela Cut 4 Me Alternative R&B, UK Bass
Paramore Paramore Power Pop
Stromae Racine carree Dance-Pop, Electropop
Neko Case The Worse Things Get the Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Fuck Buttons Slow Focus Electronic, Neo-Psychedelia
Dean Blunt The Redeemer Alternative R&B, Art Pop
Pet Shop Boys Electric House, Synthpop
Moderat II Futurepop, IDM
Autre Ne Veut Anxiety Alternative R&B, Art Pop
Jessy Lanza Pull My Hair Back Alternative R&B
Yo La Tengo Fade Indie Rock
Unknown Mortal Orchestra II Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock, Psychedelic Pop
Cate Le Bon Mug Museum Art Pop, Psychedelic Pop
Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth Future Garage
Jagwar Ma Howlin Alternative Dance, Baggy / Madchester
Juana Molina Wed 21 Art Pop, Folktronica
Pusha T My Name is My Name Gangsta Rap
Tegan and Sara Heartthrob Electropop
Forest Swords Engravings Neo-Psychedelia
John Grant Pale Green Ghosts Singer/Songwriter, Synthpop
Factory Floor Factory Floor Minimal Wave, Tech House
Jai Paul Jai Paul / Leak 4-13 (Bait Ones) Alternative R&B, Indietronica
M.I.A. Matangi Electropop, UK Hip Hop
The Haxan Cloak Excavation Ambient Dub, Dark Ambient, Dubstep
Low The Invisible Way Slowcore
London Grammar If You Wait Art Pop, Indie Pop
Special Request Soul Music Jungle, Techno
The Flaming Lips The Terror Neo-Psychedelia
Matana Roberts Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile Spiritual Jazz
Thee Oh Sees Floating Coffin Garage Punk, Psychedelic Rock
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer Mathcore
Atoms for Peace Amok Glitch Pop
Mikal Cronin MCII Power Pop
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal Metalcore, Post-Hardcore
Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer Different Park Contemporary Country
Majical Cloudz Impersonator Ambient Pop
Daniel Avery Drone Logic Tech House
Iceage You're Nothing Art Punk, Post-Punk
Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse Indie Rock
Bombino Nomad Tishoumaren
Kvelertak Meir Hardcore Punk
The Ocean Pelagial Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Post-Metal, Progressive Metal
DJ Koze Amygdala Deep House, Minimal Techno
Charli XCX True Romance Electropop, Synthpop
Prefab Sprout Crimson/Red Sophisti-Pop
Jacco Gardner Cabinet of Curiosities Baroque Pop, Psychedelic Pop
Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty Ethereal Wave
Ty Segall Sleeper Psychedelic Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Superchunk I Hate Music Indie Rock, Power Pop
Future of the Left How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore
Woodkid The Golden Age Art Pop, Chamber Pop
Phoenix Bankrupt! Indie Pop, Pop Rock
Daughter If You Leave Art Pop, Indie Pop
Thundercat Apocalypse Neo-Soul, Nu Jazz
Nils Frahm Spaces Ambient, Modern Classical
Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light Experimental, Post-Minimalism
Ghost Infestissumam Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories) Progressive Rock
Laurel Halo Chance of Rain IDM, Techno
Primal Scream More Light Alternative Dance, Neo-Psychedelia
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba Jama Ko Mande Music
Jonathan Wilson Fanfare Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Sigur Rós Kveikur Post-Rock
John Wizards John Wizards Indietronica, Kwaito
Hookworms Pearl Mystic Psychedelic Rock
Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Art Pop
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro Victoria mistica Noise Pop, Noise Rock
Suede Bloodsports Britpop
Charles Bradley Victim of Love Deep Soul
Agnes Obel Aventine Chamber Pop, Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Anna Calvi One Breath Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Art Rock
The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation Pop Punk
Laura Mvula Sing to the Moon Chamber Pop, Contemporary R&B
Villagers {Awayland} Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Logos Cold Mission UK Bass, Weightless
Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action Post-Punk Revival
Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks Electro-Industrial
Ashley Monroe Like a Rose Contemporary Country, Country Pop
Manic Street Preachers Rewind the Film Acoustic Rock
Speedy Ortiz Major Arcana Indie Rock
AlunaGeorge Body Music Alternative R&B, Electropop
William Tyler Impossible Truth American Primitivism
Black Sabbath 13 Heavy Metal
Ka The Night's Gambit Hip Hop
Caitlin Rose The Stand In Country Pop
Young Thug 1017 Thug Southern Hip Hop, Trap
Valerie June Pushin' Against a Stone Americana, Country Soul
Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt Alternative Rock
Mavis Staples One True Vine Deep Soul, Gospel
Local Natives Hummingbird Indie Rock
Okkervil River The Silver Gymnasium Indie Folk, Indie Rock
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld Still Smiling Art Pop, Chamber Pop
MONEY The Shadow of Heaven Dream Pop, Indie Pop
The Drones I See Seaweed Art Rock, Punk Blues
Autechre Exai Experimental, IDM
Palma Violets 180 Indie Rock
The Strokes Comedown Machine Indie Rock
Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse Psychedelic Pop
Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat Ambient, Psychedelic Folk
Rokia Traoré Beautiful Africa Mande Music
Torres Torres Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Goldfrapp Tales of Us Art Pop, Chamber Folk, Chamber Pop
Julianna Barwick Nepenthe Ambient
Volcano Choir Repave Indie Folk
Eleanor Friedberger Personal Record Indie Pop, Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Pop Rap
Everything Everything Arc Art Pop, Indie Pop
Pissed Jeans Honeys Noise Rock
Pharmakon Abandon Death Industrial
Fire! Orchestra Exit! Experimental Big Band
Steve Mason Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Toro y Moi Anything in Return Alternative R&B, Chillwave
Suuns Images du futur Indie Rock
Connan Mockasin Caramel Alternative R&B, Psychedelic Pop, Psychedelic Soul
Los Campesinos! No Blues Indie Rock
Death Grips Government Plates Abstract Hip Hop, Deconstructed Club, Glitch Hop, Industrial Hip Hop
Baths Obsidian Glitch Pop, Indietronica
Paul McCartney New Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Four Tet Beautiful Rewind Tech House
Alela Diane About Farewell Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Midlake Antiphon Folk Rock, Indie Rock
Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge Twelve Reasons to Die Boom Bap
Zomby With Love Dubstep, Trap [EDM], UK Bass
Cult of Luna Vertikal Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Post-Metal
Drenge Drenge Garage Punk
Dirty Beaches Drifters/Love is the Devil Ambient, Experimental Rock, Post-Punk
MGMT MGMT Neo-Psychedelia
Cass McCombs Big Wheel and Others Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
The Field Cupid's Head Minimal Techno
Mazzy Star Seasons of Your Day Dream Pop, Psychedelic Folk
Fuzz Fuzz Garage Rock, Heavy Psych
Tyler, the Creator Wolf Hardcore Hip Hop
Nails Abandon All Life Grindcore, Powerviolence