Best Of The Year

Essential records from another turbulent, yet tremendous year for new music

These artists made memorable first statements with their debut albums

We’ve collated our writers’ ‘best of’ lists and crunched the numbers in a big old music ranking machine. You can’t argue with science

End-of-year stuff is always a big deal for us here at NME, so it’s extremely exciting to unveil our pick of the best albums...

It's clearly Grime Time. As the latest, reinvigorating wave of UK rappers unleashed their debut albums onto 2017 in a hail of 'blud's and...

It's now far enough into 2016 that all of the end of year lists are out – including NME's own 50 best albums of 2016 – and...

If the top end of many end-of-year album lists hailed 2016 as a prime year for cutting-edge rap and pop, isolating the best debut...

Albums Of The Year 1 Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks 2Bob Marley And The Wailers Natty Dread 3Bob Marley And The Wailers Live 4Little Feat The Last Record Album 5Nils Lofgren Nils Lofgren 6Bob Dylan The...

Albums Of The Year 1 Bob Dylan Desire 2Bavid Bowie Station To Station 3Dr Feelgood Stupidity 4Graham Parker Heat Treatment 5The Ramones The Ramones 6Blue Oyster Cult Agents Of Fortune 7Kate & Anna McGarrigle Kate & Anna McGarrigle 8Jackson Browne The...

Albums Of The Year 1 David Bowie Heroes 2Ian Dury New Boots And Panties 3Elvis Costello My Aim Is True 4Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks 5Television Marquee Moon 6Bob Marley Exodus 7The Clash The Clash 8Iggy Pop Lust For Life 9The...