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November 19, 2012

As "best of 2012" year-end music lists appear online I will aggregate them in this post as I have in past years, updating the list daily.

If you post or see an online 2012 music list on a blog, newspaper, magazine, or other media site that isn't listed, please feel free to e-mail me the link or leave a comment.

Read daily updates to this list.

Revisit the lists for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, 2000-2009 (best of the decade lists), 2010, and 2011.



@neddyo (favorite albums)

#1 Hits from Another Planet (top albums)

#SoIndie (best albums)

1146 Miles (favorite songs)

1146 Miles (favorite EPs)

2 U I Bestow (international albums)

2 U I Bestow (top Irish albums)

2 U I Bestow (top music videos) albums)

21st Century Geek (best albums)

[225] (top albums)

28candles (best albums)

28candles (best songs)

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/3am-awards-2012-longlist/3:AM Magazine (albums)

3 Minus 3 (top running songs)

32ft/sec (top songs)

The 405 (albums)

The 405 (best album artwork)

The 405 (best free mixtapes and albums)

88.3 Southern FM (best albums)

A.V. Club (band names)

A.V. Club (best comedy albums)

A.V. Club (favorite songs)

A.V. Club (holiday albums)

The A.V. Club (celebrities' favorite albums)

A.V. Club (least essential albums)

Abluvion (favorite albums)

About.com (top classic rock live albums)

Absolut Noise (favourite albums and songs)

Absolut Noise (favourite albums)

Achis' Reggae Blog (best reggae albums)

Accidental Music (favorite albums)

AccordingtoG.com (top albums)

Ad Fontes (favorite albums and songs)

Ad Hoc (favorite songs)

Adam Sherwood's Writings (favorite albums)

Adam's World (top albums)

Addistock Sessions (favourite albums)

Adelaide Now (best albums and songs)

Adventures in Thyme and Spates (top albums)

The Adventures of Dusky Panther (favorite albums)

Adventures of a Loose Wreck (favorite albums)

Adversaria (top gothic/industrial albums)

Aesthetes Anonymous (top albums)

Agunsux (best albums)

Airwaves (top albums)

Album of the Year (albums sorted by aggregated review score)

Alabama Shakes (top albums)

Alankomaat (beste albums)

ALARM (favorite albums)

ALARM Magazine (favorite songs)

Album Review (top albums)

Alcoholic Faith Mission (best albums)

Alfonso X (favorite albums)

Alice at 97.3 (top albums)

All the City Lights (favorite albums)

All the Young Punks (best albums)

All Things Go (top albums)

All Things Go (top music videos)

All Things Go (top remixes)

All Things Go (top songs)

AllMusic (best albums)

Alphabet Bands (albums)

Alphabet Bands (EPs)

Alter the Press (albums)

The Alternative Culture Corner (top songs)

Alternative Press (albums)

The Alternative Review (albums)

altrockchick (favorite albums)

AM Noon PM (top albums)

The Amazing Music Blogspot (best albums)

am New York (best albums)

Amazon MP3 editors (albums)

Amazon (best music)

Amazon MP3 editors (songs)

Amber Waves of Twang (best albums)

American Songwriter (top albums)

American Songwriter (top songs)

Amoeba Music (albums)

ampede2 (albums)

Analog's Anonymous (best albums)

AnAvidOpinion's Blog (best songs)

Andrew Gospe (favorite albums)

Andrew Keenan-Bolger's Blog (best songs)

andrewdsweeney (best albums)

Andy DiGelsomina (top rock/metal albums)

Animal My Soul (favourite albums)

Ann Powers (top songs)

AnnArbor.com (best albums)

Another-Day (best albums)

Another-Rock-Blog (top albums)

Anthony J. Langford (best songs)

Anthony Valadez (top albums)

Antiquiet (best songs)

Antiquiet (top albums)

Antiquiet (top metal albums)

Any Major Dude with Half a Heart (albums)

The Arbitrary Line - Corey (top albums)

The Arbitrary Line - Kyle (albums)

Arizona Republic (best albums)

The Arkansas Traveler (best under-the-radar albums)

Armchair Musician (top albums)

Arousing Sounds (songs)

The Art of Fiction (albums)

Artemis Sere's Xenomorphine (best albums)

Artinfo (top albums)

The Arts Desk (best reissues)

The As-Close-to-Famous-as-I'll-Ever-Get Blog

Asian Junkie (top Korean songs)

Ask Me Anything (favorite songs)

The Aspiring Polymath (favorite songs)

Atlanta Music Scene (favorite songs)

Atlantic City Weekly (best albums)

Audio Muffin (top albums)

Audio Secrecy (albums)

Audiofrail (top metal albums)

Augustus Speaks (top albums)

Aural Eyes (best albums)

Aural Tethers (albums)

Austin Chronicle (music books)

Austin Town Hall (top Austin albums)

Austin Town Hall (top songs)

Austin Vesely (favorite music videos)

Austin Writes Music (favorite albums)

Auto-didact (best albums and songs)

Awake and Open (top songs and videos)

Awkward Sound (best albums)

Awkward Sound (best songs)

The Awl (songs)

Backseat Sandbar (top albums)

Baeble Blog (artists' favorite album lists)

BAGeL Radio (top songs and albums)

Balthazar Music (best songs)

BAM's Blog (top Oklahoma albums)

Banal Leakage (top albums)

The Bark (best albums)

BaropBop (favorite albums)

Barricades Rise (best albums)

Barry Gruff (Irish albums)

Basic_Channel (top albums)

The Bay Bridged (favorite Bay Area songs)

BBC Music (best albums)

BBC Music Blog (best mixtapes)

BBC Radio 1 - Zane Lowe (hottest records)

Bearclaws (top metal albums)

Beardhole Pleasures (albums)

Beards etc. (best metal songs)

Beat Magazine (top albums)

Beat Surrender (best EPs)

Beatpitch (best albums)

Beats, Frames and Life (best albums)

Beats Per Minute (favorite tapes and cassette labels)

Beats Per Minute (top albums)

Beats Per Minute (top EPs)

Beats Per Minute (top music videos)

Beats Per Minute (top songs)

Beaver Times (best albums)

Bedwetting Cosmonaut (best albums)

Bedwetting Cosmonaut (best songs)

Ben E. Kessler (favorite songs)

The Benevolent Solipsist (top albums)

BenSketchingBlog (favorite albums)

Berkeley Place (best Bandcamp EPs and albums)

Berkeley Place (best indie albums)

Best of the Year (best songs)

BET (best songs)

Between (albums)

Between Two Speakers (top albums)

Big Bear and the Hour of Chaos (favorite albums)

The Big City (jazz albums)

The Big T (favourite albums)

Billboard (holiday albums)

Black Metal and Brews (top albums)

The BLACKout Magazine (best albums)

Blah Blah Blah (best remixes)

Blake on Wax (favorite albums)

Blast Beats and Silver Screens (top albums)

The Bleader (favorite albums)

The Bleader (favorite jazz albums)

Bleep (best albums)

Bleep (best artists)

Bleep (best compilations and reissues)

Bleep (best EPs)

Bleep (best labels)

Bleep (best songs)

The Blend (top Irish albums)

BLOG (best songs)

Blog-O-Fun (top albums)

The Blog of Gigs (favorite albums)

Blog on the Tracks (song of the year)

Blog Riley (albums)

A Blog Supreme (top jazz Christmas albums)

Bloody Disgusting (best albums)

Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs (top albums)

BollySpice (top albums)

Bone Rolling Reviews (albums)

Bonnaroo (staff top albums)

Boogie Woogie Brody (top albums)

The Book of Linda (best albums)

Booming Music Scene (favorite albums)

Booming Music Scene (favorite songs)

Born Under Punches (top albums)

Boston Globe (best albums)

Boston Globe (best albums)

Boston Herald (top songs)

Boston Phoenix (best Boston pop artists)

Boycotting Trends (favourite albums)

Bradley's Almanac (favorite albums and songs)

Brain Pickings (favorite albums)

Brandish (top debut albums)

Brandish (top psychedelic albums)

Brandish (top under the radar singer-songwriter albums)

Brannon.org (albums and songs)

The Breakdown with Ben (top albums)

Breakin' Sixpence (favourite songs)

Breaking More Waves (top albums)

Brilliant Nature (favorite albums)

Britticisms (favorite songs)

BroBible (best hip-hop albums)

The Brockett Blog (favorite songs)

Broken Branches (best songs)

Brooklyn Allman (favorite albums)

Brooklyn Hater (albums)

buffaBLOG (staff's best albums and songs)

Bums Logic (best albums)

Bunyip Voodoo (best albums)

A Burdz Eye View (best Scottish albums)

Burgo's Music Blog (best songs)

Burgo's Music Blog (top albums)

Burned All My Notebooks (favorite albums)

The Burning Wreck (albums)

Butchslap (best albums)

Buy This Record? (best albums)

Buzzbands.LA (top albums)

Buzzbands.LA (favorite LA albums)

Buzzfeed (albums you might have missed)

Buzzine (top albums)

BuzzSugar (best rock albums)

BuzzSugar (favorite albums)

C Notes (best jazz albums)

C Notes (top folk albums)

CAC on Funk (top albums)

Cacophemisms (top albums)

Caitlin Can Rock a Todo List (best albums)

Cali Canuck (best albums)

Camisado Mind (top K-Pop albums)

Can You See the Sunset (favorite albums)

Canton Rep (top albums)

Capital Gazette (top albums)

Captain's Dead (favorite albums)

Cargo (albums)

Carl Gregg (best albums)

Carlita Loves Music (top albums)

caseychapmanlists (best albums)

Catfish Vegas (favorite albums)

Caught in the Dreaming (best albums)

Cause = Time (best albums)

CBC Music (top albums)

CBS News (best archival releases)

CBS News (Christmas albums)

Ceci n'est pas un Blog (top albums)

cesspitofsound (favourite albums)

Chapman/Chapman (favorite albums and songs)

Chapter One (top albums)

The Charlatan (best albums)

Charlie Griggs the Writer (top mainstream hip-hop albums)

Chase (top albums)

Chasing Vinyl (best albums)

Cherry Stained Cigarettes (albums)

Chewing Gum for the Ears (favorite albums)

Chicago Sun-Times (best albums)

Chicago Sun-Times (best albums by Chicago artists)

Chicago Sun-Times (best Latin music albums)

Chicago Tribune (top Chicago indie albums)

Chicagoist (favorite albums)

Chill Music Every Day (top albums)

Chline (top albums)

Chris DallaVilla (top albums)

ChrisQueen.net (top albums)

Christianity Today (top albums)

Chromewaves (favourite albums)

Chromewaves Radio (favorite albums)

Chromewaves Radio (favorite songs)

Cine-Mac (best albums)

A Cinema of Sunshine (favorite songs)

CitySound Inertia (jazz albums)

Citizen Ghost Town (best albums)

CKTK - CK (top albums)

CKTK - TK (top albums)

Clash (top albums)

A Classic Big Boy - With Cheese (favorite albums)

Classic Rock Magazine (top albums)

Clicky Clicky Music (top albums)

Clicky Clicky Music (top songs)

A Closer Listen (top ambient albums)

A Closer Listen (top electronic albums)

A Closer Listen (top rock and post-rock albums)

Closer to the Truth and Further from the Sky (best albums)

Cloudie Reviews (best albums)

Club Fonograma (best songs)

Clueless in Seattle (top metal albums)

CMT (country Christmas albums)

CMT Edge (favorite Americana albums)

Coastal Burn (favorite albums)

Coins and Culture (best songs)

Columbia Daily Herald (best albums)

Columbus Alive (top albums)

Columbus Music Examiner (top albums)

The Coming Down and the Letting Go (favorite albums)

A Commonplace Book (favorite albums)

Complex (best albums)

Complex (best songs)

Concert Addicts (top albums)

Connected Isolation (best songs)

Consequence of Sound (top albums)

Consequence of Sound (top music videos)

Consequence of Sound (top songs)

Cooking with Satan (best albums)

Cool Music Central (top albums)

Cool Music Central (debut albums)

Coolsville (top albums)

Corsairs Affairs (top albums)

Cosmopolitan (favorite songs)

Cosy Catastrophes (favorite albums)

Cosy Catastrophes (favourite tracks)

The Couch Sessions (best albums)

Country Universe (top albums)

Country Weekly (top albums)

Cover Me (best cover albums)

Cover Me (best cover songs)

Coverfolk (best cover singles)

Coverfolk (best tribute albums and covers collections)

Crack Magazine (top albums)

Crackedhorizon (best albums)

Craig Finn (top albums)

Crashlandapollo (best albums)

Craven Hermit (best albums)

CraveOnline (best albums)

Creamofgold (best albums)

Creative Review (best album covers)

The Crimson White (top albums)

Critical Sam (best albums)

Cubicle Post (favorite albums)

Culture (in Context) (top albums)

Culture Priest (top albums)

Culturemisnomer (top metal albums)

Cyclus Goes K (best albums)

The DaDaDa (favorite albums)

dadrock (jazz albums)

The Daily Beast (best songs)

The Daily Blam! (best and worst music albums)

Daily Dischord (top albums)

Daily Mail (best albums)

The Daily Meh (favorite albums)

The Daily Record (top albums)

Dale-a Gogo (favorite albums)

Damn Fine Tunes (best albums)

Dan Bruno (albums by female artists)

Dancing Astronaut (albums and EPs)

Dancing Astronaut (artists)

Dancing Astronaut (essential mixes)

Dancing Astronaut (top underground artists)

Dani Never Dreams (top albums)

Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches (best jazz albums)

Dauphin (albums)

David Hearts Rock (favorite albums)

Days of Yore (best albums)

Daytrotter (best songs)

DC9 at Night (rap albums)

Dead Horse March (top albums)

DeadBilly's Steaming Pile of Vinyl (favorite albums)

The Death of Enthusiasm (favorite songs)

Decibel (top albums)

Deer Lodge (favorite albums)

Defending Axl Rose (top albums)

Della Grace's Life (top albums)

Dennis Cooper (favorite albums)

Denver Post (top jazz albums)

dereksmusicblog (best box sets)

Dialogue Incorporated (top albums)

Dialogue Incorporated (top songs)

The Diamondback (best albums)

Diaries from a Musical Mind (best albums)

Diesel Reviews the World (top albums)

Diffuser.fm (best albums)

Digiblog (favorite songs)

Digital Spy (top albums)

Dirty.Electro.Sounds (top electro house songs)

Discovery Through Disconnect (favorite albums)

Diverse Hip-Hop (top hip-hop albums)

Divinest Sense (albums)

DOA (albums)

Dog Gone Blog (best albums)

Donewaiting - Wes Flexner (albums)

Don't Count on It Reviews (top EPs)

Don't Talk Loud (best albums)

Dots and Dashes (albums)

Doubtful Sounds (top albums)

Douginstereo's Blog (favorite albums)

Dragon's Gate (top albums)

The Drift Record Shop (albums)

dropnamer (best albums)

Drowned in Sound (favourite albums)

Drowned in Sound (songs)

Drowned in Sound (top albums)

DrunkenWerewolf (best albums)

The Dumbing of America (favorite albums)

The Dumbing of America (musicians' top albums)

Dummy (best labels)

Dummy (best songs)

Dundee Media Corner (top albums)

Dusted (albums)

Dyscyplynary Action (top albums)



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