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Best Albums of 2024

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Our favourite albums from an enormous yr for pop blockbusters.

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As we construct towards the 2024 Billboard Music Awards on Dec. 12 and Billboard’s Year-End Charts reveal on Dec. 13, try our editorial checklist of employees picks for the perfect albums of the yr.

In 2023, the yr was largely outlined by pop hitmakers who dominated the yr with out releasing authentic albums — our high three Greatest Pop Stars for ’23 all spent the interval touring and/or constructing off of LPs they’d launched the second half of the yr earlier than. This yr: We’ve obtained ourselves some correct, old school huge, huge pop albums by huge, huge pop stars. Some of these stars have been minted in 2024, some have been that huge for a decade, a few of them have been icons for even longer. But it felt like an everybody-in-the-pool yr for pop music on the albums entrance, in probably the most satisfying methods we are able to bear in mind in a very long time.

But in fact, the pop stars weren’t the one one making waves. It was additionally an awesome yr for brand spanking new and returning indie rock fixtures, for main nation gamers — together with from some first-timers to the style — and for rising stars on the worldwide scene who we anticipate to be listening to even larger issues from within the years to come back. And in fact, we had one huge title getting in just below the wire for 2024 year-end season, with an album that had us scrambling to seek out room on our particular person lists — an issue we have been in the end very blissful to have.

Check out our full checklist under — and make sure to verify again for our high 100 songs of 2024 checklist, which we’ll unveil tomorrow (Dec. 5).

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