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NPR's top 25 albums & songs of 2019

Year-end list season continues, and here’s NPR with their lists of the 25 best albums and 25 best songs of the year. As you’d expect from NPR, tons of styles of music are represented, including country, rap, indie, jazz, modern classical, Afro-pop, R&B, reggaeton, electronic, experimental, pop, soul, and more. They’ve got a handful of the usual suspects (Lana Del Rey, Tyler the Creator, Angel Olsen, Solange, Weyes Blood, FKA twigs, Sharon Van Etten, Big Thief), but there’s a good chance you’ll discover something new on these lists too. Check out the full lists below and read more about their picks here and here.

NPR also has other year-end lists HERE including best rock albums, rap albums “that raised the bar(s) in 2019,” best debut albums, and lots of others.

NPR’s 25 Best Albums of 2019
25. Tyler, The Creator – IGOR
24. Tanya Tucker – While I’m Livin’
23. Kris Davis – Diatom Ribbons
22. Bad Bunny & J Balvin – OASIS
21. John Luther Adams – Become Desert
20. Sault – 5
19. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell
18. iLe – Almadura
17. Holly Herndon – PROTO
16. Burna Boy – African Giant
15. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – Ancestral Recall
14. Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
13. Our Native Daughters – Songs Of Our Native Daughters
12. Ari Lennox – Shea Butter Baby
11. Vagabon – Vagabon
10. Jenny Hval – The Practice Of Love
9. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal – Hiding Places
8. Lankum – The Livelong Day
7. Caroline Shaw / Attacca Quartet – Orange
6. Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
5. Aldous Harding – Designer
4. Solange – When I Get Home
3. Raphael Saadiq – Jimmy Lee
2. Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
1. Brittany Howard – Jaime

NPR’s 25 Best Songs of 2019
25. Sech feat. Darell- “Otro Trago”
24. Che Apalache- “The Dreamer”
23. DaBaby- “Suge”
22. Caleb Burhans- “A Moment For Jason Molina”
21. Molly Tuttle- “Take The Journey”
20. Islam Chipsy & EEK- “El Daynasour”
19. 21 Savage feat. J. Cole- “a lot”
18. Summer Walker- “Wasted”
17. Great Grandpa- “Digger”
16. Caroline Polachek- “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings”
15. Carly Rae Jepsen- “Too Much”
14. Yola- “Faraway Look”
13. Tanya Tagaq- “Snowblind”
12. Cuco- “Bossa No Se”
11. Rapsody- “Nina”
10. Vampire Weekend- “Harmony Hall”
9. Residente feat. iLe & Bad Bunny- “Afilando Los Cuchillos”
8. FKA Twigs- “Cellophane”
7. Ashley McBryde- “One Night Standards”
6. Cimafunk- “El Potaje”
5. Billie Eilish- “bury a friend”
4. Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus- “Old Town Road (Remix)”
3. Lizzo- “Juice”
2. The Highwomen- “Highwomen”
1. Big Thief- “Not”