52. "1st list: pop-ish, most played" In response to In response to 0
Listened to and enjoyed way too much new music to make a single best of this year, so I thought I'd do a few lists, starting with the most general and then winnowing them down to highlight some clear favorites from the year.
This is a large, broad list of my most played new records this year, mostly in order of release. I've starred ones that especially got a lot of play *and* are clear favorites for me, but other than that it's purely a matter of "did I play it a lot?". Next list I'll pull together some of my favorite pop albums regardless of how much replay they actually got.
- Emily King - Scenery* - Choosey & Exile - Black Beans - Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet* - Damien Jurado - In the Shape of a Storm* - Kevin Morby - Oh My God* - Anderson Paak - Ventura* - Kota - Foto* - Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!* - Sault - 5 and 7 - Kirk Franklin - Long Live Love - Quantic - Atlantic Oscillations - Broken Social Scene - Let's Try the After Vols I and II - weyes blood - titanic rising* - Ybn Cordae - Lost Boy* - Bryony Jarman-Pinto - Saffron Yellow* - Springsteen - Western Stars - Blu & Damu the Fudgemunk - Ground & Water* - Snoh Aalegra - Ugh, those feels again* - Murs & 9th - Iliad is Dead... - Little Brother - May the Lord Watch* - Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee - Skyzoo & Pete Rock - Retropolitan - Brittany Howard - Jaime - Sabrina Claudio - Truth Is* - New Pornographers - In the Morse code of the Brakelights - Wilco - Ode to Joy* - Konradsen - Saints and Sebastian Stories - Sorcha Richardson - First Prize Bravery - Lucy Dacus - 2019 - FKA Twigs - Magdalene* - Beck - Hyperspace - DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age - Gangstarr - One of the Best Yet
And for posterity, Apple Music (do a lot of streaming there) is telling me most five most played new records were Little Brother, Paak, Kota, Andrew Bird, and Damien Jurado (in that order).