Metacritic - The 30 Best-Reviewed Albums of the Year

Το Metacritic συγκεντρώνει βαθμολογίες απο διάφορες πηγές (διαδικτυακές και μη) για κάθε κυκλοφορία και βγάζει ένα μέσο όρο. Οι 30 κυκλοφορίες λοιπόν με τις καλύτερες κριτικές:

1. Ali Farka Toure - Savane
2. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
3. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
4. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
5. Joanna Newsom - Ys
6. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
7. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
8. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
9. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
10. Los Lobos - The Town and the City
11. Tom Zé - Estudando o Pagode
12. Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel Like You
13. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
14. OOIOO - Taiga
15. Scott Walker - The Drift
16. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
17. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
18. Serena-Maneesh - Serena-Maneesh
19. Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
20. Vince Gill - These Days
21. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
22. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
23. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
24. The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home
25. J Dilla aka Jay Dee - Donuts
26. The Roots - Game Theory
27. Alan Jackson - Like Red On a Rose
28. Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head
29. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
30. Solomon Burke - Nashville