Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 2013

They just heard the news.

Here comes Rolling Stone. With Vampire Weekend, Kanye West and Daft Punk on top, a rather surprising Paul McCartney at #4 and some albums you probably won't find in other charts (John Fogerty's Wrote a Song for Everyone, Ashley Monroe's Like a Rose, Bombino's Nomad, Keith Urban's Fuse and even the sheet-only Beck's Song Reader).

Enjoy.

P.S. Complete series of Spotirama end-of-2013 playlists (with charts by Amazon, Jazzwise, Mojo, PopMatters, Pretty Much Amazing, Q, Renowned for Sound, Revolver, Rough Trade, Uncut, Zane Lowe) is here.

ROLLING STONE 50 BEST ALBUMS OF 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #50)

(3 tracks, from #1 to #50)

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Full list

Strikethrough albums (3/50) are not available on Spotify (some, like Lorde's Pure Heroine, Keith Urban's Fuse and Sky Ferreira's Night Time, My Time may not be available in some countries). Usually I don't include cover albums in Spotirama playlists. But Song Reader (#50) is a sheet album Beck published inviting artists and fans to record their own version. So in the playlists you find a full cover version of it. :-)


1. Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
2. Kanye West - Yeezus
3. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
4. Paul McCartney - New
5. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
6. Queens of the Stone Age - ... Like Clockwork
7. Lorde - Pure Heroine
8. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
9. Arctic Monkeys - AM
10. John Fogerty - Wrote A Song For Everyone
11. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
12. Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
13. Disclosure - Settle
14. Drake - Nothing Was The Same
15. Atoms for Peace - Amok
16. David Bowie - The Next Day
17. Danny Brown - Old
18. Ashley Monroe - Like A Rose
19. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
20. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
21. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
22. Phoenix - Bankrupt!
23. My Bloody Valentine - MBV
24. Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP 2
25. Elton John - The Diving Board
26. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
27. Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
28. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
29. Bombino - Nomad
30. Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
31. Haim - Days Are Gone
32. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
33. Pusha T - My Name Is My Name
34. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
35. Best Coast - Fade Away EP
36. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
37. The So So Glos - Blowout
38. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
39. Keith Urban - Fuse
40. Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
41. J. Cole - Born Sinner
42. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
43. Savages - Silence Yourself
44. Valerie June - Pushin' Against a Stone
45. Avicii - True
46. Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts Right Words Right Action
47. M.I.A. - Matangi
48. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
49. The Flaming Lips - The Terror
50. Beck - Song Reader