Your Favorite Albums, Songs, and Music Videos of 2021

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 Your Favorite Albums, Songs, and Music Videos of 2021

I was trying to hold off on making this thread until the end of December, but I can't help myself. I want to at least make the thread so we all can start thinking and planning our lists!

Every year, I put all songs, albums, and music videos from my artists/music I listen to released within the year in a Google Doc, and I rank my top 25, top 10, and top 10 respectively. Since I am not done with my lists and the year is not quite over yet, I am leaving this blank for the time being, but will try and show the structure at least. I'm very curious to know what your picks will be. I love spending a lot of time comparing projects and songs and stuff, so consider spending some time on this and have fun (aka make yourself go crazy) by selecting your favs!

(I will revisit this later in the month - probably around Christmas - to fill in the empty spaces)

Top 10 Albums of 2021:

1. Blue Banisters - Lana Del Rey

2. Born Against - Amigo The Devil

3. Rhymes & Rhythms - Teenage Priest

4. Solar Power - Lorde

5.  Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Lana Del Rey

6. Outside Voices - K.Flay

7. Songs For Every Condition - Jax Anderson

8. OK Human - Weezer

9. Mercury - Act I - Imagine Dragons

10. Long Lost - Lord Huron

 

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Top 10 Music Videos of 2021:

1. Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Lana Del Rey (Dir. BRTHR)

2. Enemy - Imagine Dragons & JID (Dir. Arnaud Delord & Bart Maunoury)

3. Mine Forever - Lord Huron (Dir. Anthony Wilson)

4. The Wake Up Call - Jax Anderson (Dir. Jax Anderson)

5.  Ouija Board - French for Rabbits (Dir. Misma Andrews)

6. Lamb's Wool - Foster The People (Dir. Thomas Jarrett)

7. Arcadia - Lana Del Rey (Dir. N/A)

8. Turnaround (Cocaine Song) - Tōth (Dir. Kyle Derry)

9. Riverside - Barrie-James O'Neill & Lana Del Rey (Dir. N/A)

10. Your Touch - Foreign Air (Dir. Luke Adams)

[Gravitate 3,921]

My favorite song this year was probably Text Book or Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish. Both are so great it would be hard for me to just choose one. Text Book is such a beautiful opener. When it was released as a single, I would’ve never expected it to work as well as it does for the opening track. The production slowly building up throughout the song makes it impossible to be bored. It’s truly a masterpiece. Happier Than Ever is just a mf bop. We want rock Billie. 

 

Edit: Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m adding all of BB and most of COCC to my top song this year. I love all of them I cannot choose just a few 

[Venice Jesus Whore 4,471]

album - Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish

song - Stoned at the Nail Salon by Lorde

music video - Lost Cause by Billie Eilish

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Oh I know what I’m doing when I get home… 

Spoiler

Making this list & posting the answers 

 

[rightofjupiter 16,596]

oh hell yes this is the procrastination activity i've been waiting for lol  mine:

 

Top 10 Albums of 2021 (not necessarily in order tho the top 6 are close-ish? mostly i just listened to new lana, kacey & halsey honestly):

1. COCC

2. star-crossed- kacey musgraves

3. BB

4. if i can't have love i want power- halsey

5.  solar power- lorde

6. montero- lil nas x

7. is this desire (demos)- pj harvey

8. stories from the city stories from the sea (demos)- pj harvey

9. uh huh her (demos)– pj harvey

10. white chalk (demos)- pj harvey

 

Top 25 Songs of 2021 (also not necessarily in order tho the lana songs would remain at the top):

1. white dress

2. COCC

3. WAH

4. NAWWAL

5.  yosemite

6. DTWD

7. BBS

8. IYLDWM

9. NOTG

10. LL

11. CB

12. sweet carolina

13. bells in santa fe- halsey

14. you asked for this- halsey

15. i am not a woman i'm a god- halsey

16. the lighthouse- halsey

17. people disappear here- halsey

18. good wife- kacey musgraves

19. easier said- kacey musgraves

20. keep lookin up– kacey musgraves

21. the path- lorde

22. the man with the axe- lorde

23. 1000 doves (planningtorock remix)- gaga

24. whispering glades- nicole dollanganger

25. spinning & out out- charli xcx (& some other ppl lol)

 

Top 10 Music Videos of 2021 (honestly i can't even remember what videos i've watched this year but here is my best try at remembering, could only come up w 6):

1. COCC

2. BB

3. star-crossed– kacey musgraves (album film)

4. if i can't have love i want power– halsey (album film)

5.  good ones- charli xcx

6. arcadia (alternate video)

 

 

[Solar Fields 4,163]

Top 20 Songs

1. Tori Amos - Northern Lad

2. Mariah Carey - Whenever You Call

3. Lana del Rey - LMLYLAW

4. Mariah Carey - Outside

5. Lana del Rey - White Dress

6. Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale

7. Lana del Rey - Tulsa Jesus Freak

8. Lana del Rey - Wildflower Wildfire

9. Lana del Rey - Wild at Heart

10. Lana del Rey - COCC

11. Tori Amos - 1000 Oceans

12. Tori Amos - Tear in Your Hand

13. Lana del Rey - NAWWAL

14. Tori Amos - Baker Baker

15. Tori Amos - Cars and Guitars

16. Tori Amos - Playboy Mommy

17. Tori Amos - The Wrong Band

18. Tori Amos - Hey Jupiter

19. Tori Amos - Past the Mission

20. Tori Amos - Glory of the 80s

 

Top 5 Albums

1. Lana del Rey - Chemtrails over the Country Club

2. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel

3. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me

4. Mariah Carey - Butterfly

5. Lana del Rey - Blue Banisters

[Cherry Blossom 21,544]

Top Albums of 2021:

1. Red (Taylor’s Version)

2. Chemtrails Over The Country Club

3. Blue Banisters

4. star-crossed

5. Life Support

6.  Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

7. A Beginner’s Mind

8. Donda

9. Happier Than Ever

 

Haven’t really enjoyed many releases this year, and I still have a few to listen to yet

[Barry 5,934]

Top 10 Albums of 2021:

1. Hall of Fame - Polo G

2. Donda - Kanye West

3. Too Deep For Tears - OMB Peezy

4. Dum & Dummer 2 - Young Dolph & Key Glock

5.  The Voice of the Heroes - Lil Baby & Lil Durk

6. Nightmare Babies - Kodak Black, Syko Bob & Snapkatt (Sniper Gang)

7. Shiesty Season - Pooh Shiesty

8. Free Dem Boyz - 42 Dugg

9. Big Grim Reaper - Big Scarr

10. Beam Me Up Scotty - Nicki Minaj

 

Top 25 Songs of 2021:

1. Back In Blood - Pooh Shiesty ft. Lil Durk

2. Top - Fredo Bang ft. Lil Durk

3. Clueless - Polo G ft. Pop Smoke & Fivio Foreign

4. 4 Da Gang - 42 Dugg ft. Roddy Ricch

5. Big Homie - OMB Peezy ft. Jackboy & King Von

6. Lying - Lil Baby & Lil Durk

7. Off The Grid - Kanye West ft. Playboi Carti & Fivio Foreign

8. Jesus Lord - Kanye West ft. Jay Electronica & Larry Hoover Jr

9. Super Gremlin - Kodak Black

10. Seeing Green - Nicki Minaj ft. Drake & Lil Wayne

11.  Be This Way - OMB Peezy

12. Savage - 21 Lil Harold

13. Skyscrapers - DMX ft. Bono

14. Joe Dirt - Big Scarr

15. Guard Up - Pooh Shiesty

16. Neighbors - Pooh Shiesty ft. BIG30

17. 2040 - Lil Baby & Lil Durk

18. So Real - Polo G

19. Rapstar - Polo G

20. Rain Rain - Young Dolph & Key Glock

21. Invoices - Gucci Mane

22. The Bottom - OMB Peezy

23. See Red - Pooh Shiesty

24. Shotts Out Da Vette - BIG30

25. A Goat & A Dolphin - Young Dolph & Key Glock

 

Top 10 Music Videos of 2021:

1. Back In Blood - Pooh Shiesty ft. Lil Durk

2. Top - Fredo Bang ft. Lil Durk

 

I left Lana out all of it. Only 2 videos since I dont really watch them or know many but I did like those two I put as they both have a part where the people in the video shout in the background which I always liked lol

[lanaismamom 11,544]

yosemite 

[Glitter Boy 16,558]

This is gonna be so hard and I might revisit this later, but I think it's like this:

 

Albums

1. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters
2. Adele - 30
3. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
4. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails over the Country Club
5. Hayley Williams - Flowers for Vases
6. Agnes - Magic Still Exists
7. merho - SKY ON FIRE
8. Doja Cat - Planet Her
9. Imagine Dragons - Mercury — Act 1
10. Yota - Lucid Dreams
11. LP - Churches
12. EMM - Sapphire
13. Iggy Azalea - The End of an Era
14. iamnotshane - One Less Year Alive
15. MARINA - Ancient Dreams In a Modern Land

I wanted to include a couple more but they were just not good enough for the list, so I kept them out  

 

Songs

(I tried to keep Lana mostly out of this, but I just can't with some. And a lot of the songs I left out of this listing really deserved, like half of Chemtrails and half of Blue Banisters deserved to be here too)

1. Lana Del Rey - Black Bathing Suit
2. merho - the same
3. Casey Conroy - Honest
4. EMM - Top of the Mountain
5. Agnes - 24 Hours
6. Lana Del Rey - Wildflower Wildfire
7. Yota - Blame Me
8. Lana Del Rey - Yosemite
9. Florrie - Walk Away
10. Adele - Oh My God
11. Hayley Williams - My Limb
12. Agnes - Here Comes the Night
13. Billie Eilish - Your Power
14. Adele - My Little Love
15. Doja Cat - Been Like This
16. MARINA - Venus Fly Trap
17. @BluVelvUnderground - Rainier Spaceships (Beyond the Time to Pretend, Pt. I)
18. Adele - Can I Get It
19. Billie Eilish - Goldwing
20. Lorde - Mood Ring

Music Videos

(I don't really watch music videos, but I can rank the few videos I got to see and I feel they deserve the spot)

1. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails over the Country Club
2. EMM - Vice
3. Charli XCX - Good Ones
4. merho - the same
5. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters
6. Agnes - 24 Hours
7. EMM - End
8. Billie Eilish - NDA
9. Doja Cat - You Right (feat. The Weeknd)
10. MARINA - Venus Fly Trap

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6 hours ago, DeadSeaOfMercury said:

Oh I know what I’m doing when I get home… 

  Reveal hidden contents

Making this list & posting the answers 

 

Well, I’m home 

So I realize I’ve kept y’all waiting, For this I do apologize. But I shall be forgiven - for my list is so precious… So here it goes… Now…

In no particular order…

 

For the top 10 Albums of 2021:

Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters 

Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails

St. Vincent - Daddy’s Home

Lilith Czar - Created From Filth&Dust

Duran Duran - Future Past

Adele - 30

Slayyyter - Troubled Paradise 

Iggy Azalea - End Of An Era

Chvrches - Screen Violence 

Poppy - Flux

 

”Honorable Mention to Nicki & Taylor - But I couldn’t count reissues…”

 

For the top 25 songs of 2021:

 

All Lana, Yes I’ve cheated, Do get over it.

Good Ones - Charli XCX

Give It All Up - Duran Duran ft. Tove Lo

Player Of Games - Grimes

Out Out - Charli XCX

Sad But True - St. Vincent 

Nothing Else Matters - Dave Gahan

Kiss Me More - Doja Cat

Pressure - Martin Garrix ft. Tove Lo

I’m Not A Woman, I’m A God ft. Halsey

Solar Power - Lorde

I Am The Stripclub - Iggy Azalea 

Flux - Poppy

OMG - Adele

King - Lilith Czar

Edge Of 17 - Lilith Czar

Live In The Dream - St. Vincent

Melting Of The Sun - St. Vincent

How Not To Drown - Chvrches

Electric - Katy Perry

Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran

Call Me Cruella - FLORENCE&TMFM

Down - St. Vincent 

Working For The Knife - Mitski

Troubled Paradise - Slayyyter 

 

And for the top 10 Music Videos:

 

Chemtrails - Lana Del Rey

Blue Banisters - Lana Del Rey

Good Ones - Charli XCX

How Not To Drown - Chvrches 

Love Again - Dula Peep

Take My Breath - The Weeknd

Easy On Me - Adele

Electric - Katy Perry

ANNIVERSARY - Duran Duran

Down - St. Vincent…

Thank You

[Alison by Slowdive 26,148]

besides lana, i don't think there were any releases this yr i actively followed/paid attention to but there are a couple songs that i remember were released this year that i love:

 

back to oz - sufjan stevens

welcome back - neil young and crazy horse

 

 

[Lindsay Lohan 10,452]

Top 10 Albums of 2021:

1. If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power - Halsey

2. Life Support - Madison Beer

3. Paranoia - Maggie Lindemann

4. Troubled Paradise - Slayyyter

5. Chemtrails Over The Country Club - Lana Del Rey

 

Besides the first 4 albums I listed there was nothing this year I loved... Honestly one of the worst years for music 

 

Top 25 Songs of 2021:

1. Whispers - Halsey

2. Different - Maggie Lindemann

3. Easier Than Lying - Halsey

4. You Asked For This - Halsey 

5. Chemtrails over the Country Club - Lana Del Rey

6.  Dealer - Lana Del Rey

7. MONEY - LISA

8. She Knows It - Maggie Lindemann

9. Honey - Halsey

10. Effortlessly - Madison Beer

11. Scissorhands - Maggie Lindemann

12. Default - Madison Beer

13. Mood Ring - Lorde

14. Kiss Me More - Doja Cat

15. Everything Happens For A Reason - Madison Beer

16. Wonder - Holly Macve

17. Clouds - Slayyyter

18. GASLIGHT! - Maggie Lindemann

19. Get Into It (Yuh) - Doja Cat

20. Leader of a New Regine - Lorde

21. Carried Away - Madison Beer

22. The Path - Lorde

23. Sweet Caroline - Lana Del Rey

24. Dog House - Slayyyter

25. Eye of the Storm - Holly Macve

 

Top 10 Music Videos of 2021:

1. Chemtrails over the country Club - Lana Del Rey

3. Knife Under My Pillow - Maggie Lindemann

3. Halsey's movie

 

idk...

 

[Mer 61,775]

Top Albums 

1. Red (Taylor’s Version) 

2. Blue Banisters

3. 30 

4. Daddy’s Home 

5. How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?

6. SOUR

7. Chemtrails Over The Country Club

 

Top Songs

1. All Too Well (10 Minute Version)

2. The Lakes (Original Version)

3. Black Bathing Suit

4. Thunder

5. Wild At Heart

6. Renegade (feat. Taylor Swift) 

7. Violets for Roses

8. Strangers By Nature 

9. Love Is A Game 

10. At The Holiday Party 

[Pico Ocean Boulevard 41,092]

My favourite music video this year is the Chemtrails Over The Country Club music video 

[WaitForLife 5,238]

Top 5 Albums:
1. Red (Taylor's Version)
2. Keys
3. Dancing With The Devil ... The Art Of Starting Over
4. Blue Banisters
5. Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Top 10 Songs:
1. Dead End Road - Alicia Keys
2. Bite Me - Avril Lavigne
3. Better Man - Taylor Swift
4. I'm Sorry - Demi Lovato
5. Dealer - Lana Del Rey
6. Beautiful - Lana Del Rey
7. The Way You Don't Look At Me - Demi Lovato
8. Plentiful - Alicia Keys
9. Babe - Taylor Swift
10. White Dress - Lana Del Rey

[PrettyBaby 2,219]

Top Albums:

1. Blue Weekend - Wolf Alice

2. COTCC - Lana Del Rey

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23 hours ago, Glitter Boy said:

 

1. Lana Del Rey - Black Bathing Suit
2. merho - the same
3. Casey Conroy - Honest
4. EMM - Top of the Mountain
5. Agnes - 24 Hours
6. Lana Del Rey - Wildflower Wildfire
7. Yota - Blame Me
8. Lana Del Rey - Yosemite
9. Florrie - Walk Away
10. Adele - Oh My God
11. Hayley Williams - My Limb
12. Agnes - Here Comes the Night
13. Billie Eilish - Your Power
14. Adele - My Little Love
15. Doja Cat - Been Like This
16. MARINA - Venus Fly Trap
17. @BluVelvUnderground - Rainier Spaceships (Beyond the Time to Pretend, Pt. I)
18. Adele - Can I Get It
19. Billie Eilish - Goldwing
20. Lorde - Mood Ring

omg, you are such a sweetheart. I am not worthy! thank you so much! 

 

 

my top 20 as of now

 

01. LP! - JPEGMAFIA

02. BLUE BANISTERS - LANA DEL REY

03. BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX - INJURY RESERVE

04. SOMETIMES I MIGHT BE INTROVERT - LITTLE SIMZ

05. I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES - BACKXWASH

06. BET - BERRY

07. SINNER GET READY - LINGUA IGNOTA

08. VOLCANIC BIRD ENEMY AND THE VOICED CONCERN - LIL UGLY MANE

09. DIRT - KENDALL :3

10. FOR MY MAMA AND ANYONE WHO LOOK LIKE HER - MCKINLEY DIXON

 

11. CHEMTRAILS OVER THE COUNTRY CLUB - LANA DEL REY

12. PRIVATE REASONS - BRUNO PERNADAS

13. JUST POPPING IN TO SAY HI - CRYWANK

14. THE HEART PUMPS KOOL-AID - ---___--____

15. DISPOSSESSION - IANO

16. BLACK MOON LILITH IN PISCES IN THE 4TH HOUSE - JOHANNA HEDVA

17. HALLÅ, KÄRA FLOD! - QUIET COMMOTION

18. FOR THE FIRST TIME - BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD

19. HOME VIDEO - LUCY DACUS

20. SMILING WITH NO TEETH - GENESIS OWUSU

 

 

 

for the sake of covering more ground and not being all by the same couple of artists, i'm applying a one song rule here...

 

01. "Chemtrails Over the Country Club" - Lana Del Rey

02. "Point and Kill" - Little Simz

03. "Reclaim My Name" - Adeem the Artist

04. "Hazard Duty Pay!" - JPEGMAFIA

05. "Worth It for the Feeling" - Rebecca Black

06. "Pennsylvania Furnace" - Lingua Ignota

07. "Welcome to the Garden" - Emily Steinwell

08. "Make a Poet Black" - McKinley Dixon

09. "Porcelain Slightly" - Lil Ugly Mane

10. "Crystal Ball" - MIKE

11. "Footwork in a Forest Fire" - Injury Reserve
12. "Prickly Pear" - kendall :3

13. "Gold Chains" - Genesis Uwusu

14. "Posing for Cars" - Japanese Breakfast

15. "Good Ones" - Charli XCX

16. "Blouse" - Clairo

17. "Hard Drive" - Cassandra Jenkins

18. "LUMBERJACK" - Tyler, the Creator

19. "SUN GOES DOWN" - Lil Nas X

20. "Boxer's Dementia (Waterworks)" - Quiet Commotion

21. "Luvrboy92" - Richie Woods

22. "Theme Vision" - Bruno Pernadas

23. "The Last Man on the Moon" - David Clemmer

24. "666 in Luxaxa" - Backxwash

25. "Happier Than Ever" - Billie Eilish

haven't seen enough videos this year 

 

[viktoria 3,176]

Okay!

Spoiler

Top 10 Albums of 2021:

1. Chemtrails Over The Country Club

2. kick iiii

3. KicK iii

4. Blue Banisters

5. kiCK iiiii

6. KICK ii

7. Daddy's Home

8. If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

9. Troubled Paradise

10. Magic Still Exists

 

Top 25 Songs of 2021:

1. Crown by Arca

2. Lost Woman Found by Arca

3. Scripture by Eartheater

4. Troubled Paradise by Slayyyter

5. Rain On Me (Arca Remix) by Lady Gaga

6. Andro by Arca

7. 24 Hours by Agnes

8. Wild At Heart

9. Wildflower Wildfire

10. Electra Rex by Arca

11. Prada by Arca

12. NDA by Billie Eilish

13. The Melting of The Sun by St. Vincent
14. Live In The Dream by St. Vincent

15. Assimilation by Roisin Murphy

16. All Too Well (10 Minute Version)

17. Please by Jessie Ware

18. Bells In Santa Fe by Halsey

19. Puppy by Doss

20. Skinnydipped by Banks

21. Deja Vu by Olivia Rodrigo

22. Kiss of Life by Kylie Minogue

23. Arcadia

24. Babylon (Haus Labs Version) by Lady Gaga

25. Player of Games by Grimes

 

Fave Music Videos of 2021:

1. Chemtrails Over The Country Club

2. Prada / Rakata by Arca

3. All Too Well by Taylor Swift

I don't really watch music videos

 

 

[LanasLeftCheekFiller 3,382]

I don't listen to many artists so this thread has made me remember some of the good albums that have come out this year

that I had forgotten about. I had exactly ten albums to work it so this is perfect

 

Top 10 Albums of 2021:

 

1. Clairo - Sling

2. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

3. The Marías - CINEMA

4. Lorde - Solar Power

5. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters

6. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club

7. Claud - Super Monster

8. Tinashe - 333

9. Molly Burch - Romantic Images

10. Still Corners - The Last Exit

 

 

Top 10 Music Videos of 2021:

 

1.  Mitski - Working for the Knife

2. Japanese Breakfast - Posing in Bondage

3. Mitski - The Only Heartbreaker (aka Barack Obama's song of the year )

4. Lana Del Rey - Arcadia

yeah idk I don't watch music videos

 

Top 25 Songs of 2021 (work in progress):

1. Paint Studio - Drawing Track #3