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THE COUNTDOWN: Bidding farewell to 2024, The Independent’s music critics Mark Beaumont and Helen Brown count down the best albums of the year
BI's music reporter ranked the 20 best albums of 2024. Beyoncé's country-inspired triumph "Cowboy Carter" took the top spot. Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, The Marías, and Taylor Swift rounded out ...
Pitchfork gave the album a score of 8.6 out of 10, as well as the site's "Best New Music" designation. The site's Matthew Strauss wrote in his review, " Only God Was Above Us is [also] the most honest album Vampire Weekend have made, an encapsulation of what the band does best, melodic and abstruse in Koenig's own masterful way."
This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales. Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales.
THE COUNTDOWN: From sprawling hip-hop opuses to haunting rock’n’roll swansongs, a handful of posthumous albums stand out among hundreds of duds. As the final record from alt-pop pioneer Sophie ...
Timeline of the highest-selling album record Year record set Artist Album Record-setting sales (millions) Total sales (millions) Ref(s) 1945 Various Artists Oklahoma! (78 rpm album) 0.5 1.0 [214] [215] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [216] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [217] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
The top-performing albums and EPs in the U.S. are ranked on the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data is compiled by Luminate Data based on multi-metric consumption as measured in album-equivalent units , which comprise album sales, track sales , and streams on digital music platforms.
For their sixth album, Green Day initially hired producer Scott Litt, who guided R.E.M.’s mid-career pivot towards expansive, acoustic-driven albums like Out of Time and Automatic for the People ...