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Most Acclaimed Albums of Each Year by AOTY

Guess the highest rated albums by user score of each year (1958-2025) from albumoftheyear.org. Genre is given, Artist is NOT, but only album title is required for a correct answer. Sometimes will take the 2nd highest rated IF the discrepancy between number of ratings is too large (e.g. if #1 has an 88 rating, and #2 has an 87 rating but has 20000 more ratings, will go with #2 as most acclaimed for that year).
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Year
Genre
Avg. Score
Answer
1958
Hard Bop
87
John Coltrane - Blue Train
1959
Cool Jazz/Modal Jazz
91
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
1960
Hard Bop
86
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
1961
Post-Bop
87
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
1962
Hard Bop
84
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Mosaic
1963
Avant-Garde Jazz
92
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
1964
Bossa Nova
87
Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
1965
Spiritual Jazz
90
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
1966
Pop Rock/Psychedelic Pop
89
The Beatles - Revolver
1967
Psychedelic Pop/Pop Rock
88
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1968
Psychedelic Rock/Blues Rock/Acid Rock
91
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
1969
Pop Rock
92
The Beatles - Abbey Road
1970
Jazz Fusion
90
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
1971
Progressive Soul
92
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
1972
Glam Rock/Pop Rock
91
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
1973
Progressive Rock/Art Rock/Psychedelic Rock
91
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
1974
Progressive Rock/Art Rock
90
King Crimson - Red
1975
Art Rock/Progressive Rock
94
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1976
Soul/Progressive Soul
94
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
1977
Progressive Rock/Art Rock
91
Pink Floyd - Animals
1978
Minimalism
87
Steve Reich and Musicians - Music for 18 Musicians
1979
Disco
89
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
1980
New Wave/Post-Punk
90
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1981
Jazz Fusion/Jazz Rock
89
Masayoshi Takanaka - THE RAINBOW GOBLINS
1982
Dance-Pop/Contemporary R&B
90
Michael Jackson - Thriller
1983
Salsa/Salsa Dura
88
Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe - Vigilante
1984
Pop Rock/Synth Funk
91
Prince and The Revolution - Purple Rain
1985
Art Pop/Progressive Pop
90
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
1986
Thrash Metal
89
Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987
Contemporary R&B
87
Prince - Sign "☮︎" the Times
1988
Hardcore Hip Hop/East Coast Hip Hop/Conscious Hip Hop/Political Hip Hop
86
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1989
Gothic Rock/Post-Punk/Dream Pop
90
The Cure - Disintegration
1990
Dream Pop/Ethereal Wave
90
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
1991
Jazz Rap/East Coast Hip Hop/Conscious Hip Hop
90
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Year
Genre
Avg. Score
Answer
1992
Smooth Soul/Sophisti-Pop/Downtempo
91
Sade - Love Deluxe
1993
Hardcore Hip Hop/Boom Bap/East Coast Hip Hop
91
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
1994
Boom Bap/East Coast Hip Hop/Hardcore Hip Hop
93
Nas - Illmatic
1995
Gangsta Rap/East Coast Hip Hop/Boom Bap
90
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
1996
Neo-Psychedelia/Dream Pop/Ambient Pop
90
Fishmans - LONG SEASON
1997
Alternative Rock/Art Rock
93
Radiohead - OK Computer
1998
Neo-Soul/Contemporary R&B/East Coast Hip Hop
91
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1999
Piano Rock/Singer-Songwriter/Alternative Rock
91
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
2000
Post-Rock
93
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
2001
Art Pop/Electronic
93
Björk - Vespertine
2002
Avant-Folk/Psychedelic Folk
88
The Microphones - Mount Eerie
2003
Instrumental Hip Hop/Jazz Rap
90
Nujabes - Metaphorical Music
2004
Abstract Hip Hop/Experimental Hip Hop
92
Madvillain - Madvillainy
2005
Chamber Pop/Singer-Songwriter
91
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2006
Progressive Folk/Chamber Folk/Singer-Songwriter/Freak Folk
89
Joanna Newsom - Ys
2007
Art Rock/Alternative Rock
93
Radiohead - In Rainbows
2008
Post-Punk/Shoegaze/Post-Rock/Gothic Rock
91
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
2009
Progressive Metal
88
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
2010
Pop Rap
89
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2011
Industrial Hip Hop/Hardcore Hip Hop/Experimental Hip Hop/Abstract Hip Hop
89
Death Grips - Exmilitary
2012
West Coast Hip Hop/Conscious Hip Hop
94
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
2013
Alternative Rock
89
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
2014
Gangsta Rap
90
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
2015
Conscious Hip Hop/Jazz Rap/West Coast Hip Hop/Political Hip Hop
95
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2016
Art Rock/Experimental Rock/Jazz Rock
90
David Bowie - ★ [Blackstar]
2017
Singer-Songwriter/Indie Folk
89
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
2018
Indie Rock
90
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
2019
Neo-Soul/Alternative R&B
91
Tyler, The Creator - IGOR
2020
Chamber Folk/Singer-Songwriter
88
Ichiko Aoba - Windswept Adan
2021
Experimental Hip Hop/Hardcore Hip Hop
90
JPEGMAFIA - LP! (Offline Version)
2022
Art Rock/Post-Rock/Chamber Pop
90
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
2023
Experimental Hip Hop/Hardcore Hip Hop/Glitch Hop
87
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES
2024
Neo-Psychedelia/Synthpop
90
Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
2025
Gangsta Rap/Southern Hip Hop
87
Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
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