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Pitchfork Readers’ Poll Results 2018

Featuring your picks for the best (and worst) in the world of music
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Overrated! Underrated! These are your picks from this year’s Readers’ Poll.

Top 50 Albums

  1. Mitski: Be the Cowboy
  2. Kanye West / Kid Cudi: Kids See Ghosts
  3. Beach House: 7
  4. Pusha-T: Daytona
  5. Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour
  6. Car Seat Headrest: Twin Fantasy
  7. Parquet Courts: Wide Awake!
  8. Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer
  9. Earl Sweatshirt: Some Rap Songs
  10. Snail Mail: Lush
  11. BTS: Love Yourself 轉 ‘Tear’
  12. Greta Van Fleet: Anthem of the Peaceful Army
  13. SOPHIE: OIL OF EVERY PEARL’s UN-INSIDES
  14. The 1975: A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
  15. Robyn: Honey
  16. A.A.L (Against All Logic): 2012 - 2017
  17. Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
  18. Kali Uchis: Isolation
  19. Father John Misty: God’s Favorite Customer
  20. Travis Scott: Astroworld
  21. IDLES: Joy as an Act of Resistance
  22. Low: Double Negative
  23. Rosalía: El Mal Querer
  24. Yves Tumor: Safe in the Hands of Love
  25. Blood Orange: Negro Swan
  26. Ariana Grande: Sweetener
  27. Daughters: You Won’t Get What You Want
  28. Noname: Room 25
  29. Amen Dunes: Freedom
  30. Saba: CARE FOR ME
  31. U.S. Girls: In a Poem Unlimited
  32. MGMT: Little Dark Age
  33. boygenius: boygenius EP
  34. Soccer Mommy: Clean
  35. JPEGMAFIA: Veteran
  36. Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
  37. Kanye West: ye
  38. BROCKHAMPTON: Iridescence
  39. Denzel Curry: TA13OO
  40. Lucy Dacus: Historian
  41. Julia Holter: Aviary
  42. Playboi Carti: Die Lit
  43. Hop Along: Bark Your Head Off, Dog
  44. Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy
  45. Death Grips: Year of the Snitch
  46. Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel
  47. Let’s Eat Grandma: I’m All Ears
  48. Tierra Whack: Whack World
  49. Mac Miller: Swimming
  50. Iceage: Beyondless

Top 50 Songs

  1. Mitski: “Nobody”
  2. Childish Gambino: “This Is America”
  3. The 1975: “Love It If We Made It”
  4. Pusha-T: “If You Know You Know”
  5. Travis Scott: “Sicko Mode” [ft. Drake]
  6. Janelle Monáe: “Make Me Feel”
  7. Ariana Grande: “thank u, next”
  8. Snail Mail: “Pristine”
  9. Robyn: “Honey”
  10. Parquet Courts: “Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience”
  11. Drake: “Nice for What”
  12. Arctic Monkeys: “Four Out of Five”
  13. Beach House: “Lemon Glow”
  14. Kanye West / Kid Cudi: “Kids See Ghosts”
  15. boygenius: “Me & My Dog”
  16. Snail Mail: “Heat Wave”
  17. Lana Del Rey: “Venice Bitch”
  18. Beach House: “Dive”
  19. Kacey Musgraves: “High Horse”
  20. Mitski: “Geyser”
  21. JPEGMAFIA: “Baby I’m Bleeding”
  22. Ariana Grande: “No Tears Left to Cry”
  23. Robyn: “Missing U”
  24. Janelle Monáe: “PYNK” [ft. Grimes]
  25. Rosalía: “Malamente (Cap. 1: Augurio)”
  26. Blood Orange: “Charcoal Baby”
  27. SOPHIE: “Is It Cold in the Water?”
  28. Yves Tumor: “Noid”
  29. Kacey Musgraves: “Space Cowboy”
  30. Car Seat Headrest: “Nervous Young Inhumans”
  31. Pusha-T: “The Story of Adidon”
  32. Father John Misty: “Mr. Tillman”
  33. A.A.L (Against All Logic): “I Never Dream”
  34. Soccer Mommy: “Your Dog”
  35. Earl Sweatshirt: “The Mint” [ft. Navy Blue]
  36. Thom Yorke: “Suspirium”
  37. Earl Sweatshirt: “Nowhere2go”
  38. Rosalía: “Pienso en Tu Mirá (Cap. 3: Celos)”
  39. Amen Dunes: “Believe”
  40. Julia Holter: “I Shall Love 2”
  41. Anderson .Paak: “Bubblin’”
  42. Deafheaven: “Honeycomb”
  43. Beyoncé / JAY-Z: “APESHIT”
  44. Hop Along: “How Simple”
  45. Playboi Carti: “Shoota” [ft. Lil Uzi Vert]
  46. Troye Sivan: “My My My!”
  47. U.S. Girls: “Rosebud”
  48. BROCKHAMPTON: “1999 WILDFIRE”
  49. Let’s Eat Grandma: “Falling Into Me”
  50. Frank Ocean: “Moon River”

Most Underrated Album

  1. BTS: Love Yourself 轉 ‘Tear’
  2. Greta Van Fleet: Anthem of the Peaceful Army
  3. Kanye West / Kid Cudi: Kids See Ghosts
  4. Kanye West: ye
  5. Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
  6. MGMT: Little Dark Age
  7. Saba: CARE FOR ME
  8. IDLES: Joy as an Act of Resistance
  9. Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer
  10. JPEGMAFIA: Veteran

Most Overrated Album

  1. Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy
  2. Drake: Scorpion
  3. The 1975: A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
  4. Kanye West: ye
  5. Travis Scott: Astroworld
  6. Ariana Grande: Sweetener
  7. Kanye West / Kid Cudi: Kids See Ghosts
  8. Mitski: Be the Cowboy
  9. Snail Mail: Lush
  10. Beyoncé / JAY-Z: Everything Is Love
Photo by Lera Pentelute

Best New Artist

  1. boygenius
  2. Rosalía
  3. Snail Mail
  4. JPEGMAFIA
  5. Tierra Whack
  6. BTS
  7. Greta Van Fleet
  8. Sheck Wes
  9. Noname
  10. Superorganism
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Best Live Act

  1. BTS
  2. Travis Scott
  3. Greta Van Fleet
  4. BROCKHAMPTON
  5. Car Seat Headrest
  6. Radiohead
  7. Mitski
  8. IDLES
  9. boygenius
  10. Beach House
Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Best Way to Listen to Music

  1. Spotify
  2. Vinyl
  3. Apple Music
  4. Other
  5. CD
  6. YouTube
  7. Cassette
  8. SoundCloud