Top 100 Music Albums of 2021
by 
Keatownrodriguez 
With every passing day I grow to love what 2021 had to offer musically more and more. It was the year of spectacular female pop acts for sure. But I honestly felt like each end of my musical taste was substantially fed.
Songs of the year
1. Hysterical Us - Magdalena Bay
2. Ameoba - Clairo
3. California - Chvrches
- Chart updated: 05/21/2025 04:15
- (Created: 01/05/2021 16:20).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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For what it is it's SUPER solid. I'm torn between liking it because It's good, and not really caring about it just because I don't feel like the target demographic at all. I feel like I'm trying to get myself not to like anything about the record even though it's just really easy to enjoy. I can confidently say the breakup talk is very ham-fisted and overdone. Like seriously EVERY track is about a breakup. I like a good breakup song but when it's done this much on one project it feels bitter.... oh shoot that's why it's called sour. Oh well, just because it's self-aware doesn't make it pleasant. Also, the track placement is strange, to say the least. Brutal is a smart energetic opener but then the next track slows way down and then... Drivers License??? That should've been a no-brainer for a closer or at least close to it. But if you take away the insanely repetitive lyrical content and strange decisions there's legitimate talent here. It feels passionate and sincere which is far from what I expected. Not to mention the instrumentation goes in some different directions. Good 4 U and Brutal are Paramore-style rockers while Deja Vu and enough for you are more traditional ballads with cool synth-type things attached to make it interesting. Really just surprised and honestly confused on how to think at the moment so we'll see how my opinion changes as time goes on.
[First added to this chart: 06/01/2021]
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2021
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 composition
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| Weezer | 2 | 2% | |
| Genesis Owusu | 1 | 1% | |
| Piana | 1 | 1% | |
| Foo Fighters | 1 | 1% | |
| Japanese Breakfast | 1 | 1% | |
| Black Midi | 1 | 1% | |
| Jon Batiste | 1 | 1% | |
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59 | 59% | |
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17 | 17% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 30 from 69th to 39th For The First Time by Black Country, New Road |
| Up 21 from 67th to 46th Drunk Tank Pink by Shame |
| Up 16 from 64th to 48th Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 17 from 17th to 34th Juno by Remi Wolf |
| Down 12 from 43rd to 55th The Indigo Child: Prologue: Cycle 8 by The Dear Hunter |
| Down 11 from 51st to 62nd Ignorance by The Weather Station |
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| ! | 12/30/2021 11:24 |  DommeDamian | 1,004 | 89/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2021 05:27 |  Arthurknight | 382 | 89/100 |
| ! | 06/20/2021 04:02 |  Purplepash | 1,688 | 88/100 |
| ! | 05/05/2021 23:25 | jackq | 273 | 92/100 |
| ! | 03/17/2021 17:36 |  desh79 | 1,278 | 93/100 |
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From DommeDamian 12/30/2021 11:24 | #278204
DommeDamian 12/30/2021 11:24 | #278204
Great 2021-list, one of the best on this site.
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Repo 02/10/2021 20:25 | #266142
Totally agree with your top six! All great picks!
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