Highest Rated Album of Each Year on Best Ever Albums

Can you guess the highest rated album of each year on besteveralbums.com?

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Hint	Artist	Album
2025	Geese	Getting Killed
2024	Magdalena Bay	Imaginal Disk
2023	Sufjan Stevens	Javelin
2022	Black Country, New Road	Ants From Up There
2021	Little Simz	Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
2020	The Strokes	The New Abnormal
2019	Lana Del Rey	Norman F*cking Rockwell!
2018	Car Seat Headrest	Twin Fantasy (2018)
2017	Kendrick Lamar	Damn.
2016	Radiohead	A Moon Shaped Pool
2015	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly
2014	The War on Drugs	Lost in the Dream
2013	Vampire Weekend	Modern Vampires of the City
2012	Kendrick Lamar	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
2011	Fleet Foxes	Helplessness Blues
2010	Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2009	Animal Collective	Merriweather Post Pavilion
2008	Fleet Foxes	Fleet Foxes
2007	Radiohead	In Rainbows
2006	Arctic Monkeys	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2005	Sufjan Stevens	Illinois
2004	Arcade Fire	Funeral
2003	The White Stripes	Elephant
2002	Wilco	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2001	The Strokes	Is this It
2000	Radiohead	Kid A
1999	Sigur Rós	Ágætis Byrjun
1998	Neutral Milk Hotel	In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1997	Radiohead	OK Computer
1996	Belle And Sebastian	If You're Feeling Sinister
1995	Radiohead	The Bends
1994	Jeff Buckley	Grace
1993	The Smashing Pumpkins	Siamese Dream
1992	R.E.M.	Automatic for the People
1991	Nirvana	Nevermind
1990	Depeche Mode	Violator
1989	Pixies	Doolittle
1988	Sonic Youth	Daydream Nation
1987	U2	The Joshua Tree
1986	The Smiths	The Queen is Dead
1985	Kate Bush	Hounds of Love
1984	Prince and the Revolution	Purple Rain
1983	R.E.M.	Murmur
1982	Michael Jackson	Thriller
1981	Rush	Moving Pictures
1980	Talking Heads	Remain in Light
1979	The Clash	London Calling
1978	Bruce Springsteen	Darkness on the Edge of Town
1977	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours
1976	Stevie Wonder	Songs in the Key of Life
1975	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here
1974	King Crimson	Red
1973	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon
1972	David Bowie	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust And the Spiders From Mars
1971	Led Zeppelin	Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV)
1970	Black Sabbath	Paranoid
1969	The Beatles	Abbey Road
1968	The Beatles	The Beatles (The White Album)
1967	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1966	The Beatles	Revolver
1965	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited
1964	The Beatles	A Hard Day's Night
1963	Charles Mingus	The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
1962	Ray Charles	Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
1961	John Coltrane	My Favorite Things
1960	Miles Davis	Sketches of Spain
1959	Miles Davis	Kind Of Blue
1958	John Coltrane	Blue Train
1957	Little Richard	Here's Little Richard
1956	Elvis Presley	Elvis Presley
1955	Frank Sinatra	In the Wee Small Hours
1954	Chet Baker	Chet Baker Sings
1953	Peggy Lee	Black Coffee with Peggy Lee
1952	Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie	Bird & Diz
1951	Thelonious Monk	Genius of Modern Music
1950	Yma Sumac	Voice of the Xtabay