Best Albums of 2026 (so far)

Listed below are the best albums of 2026 (so far) as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 3 hours ago).
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2026 year summaryThe best artists of 2026 are Gorillaz, Dry Cleaning, By Storm, U2, Ratboys, Mitski, Joyce Manor, Lucinda Williams, Slayyyter and Courtney Barnett.
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"Once again, Gorillaz come up with something that is impossible to confuse with work by any comparable outfit and is yet totally original. This is the best new album I have heard this year, so far."  Reply
- dukeboxkool | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Each new dry cleaning album is a lottery of surreal images, memories and notes from everyday life that vocalist Florence Shaw generates in her head. hardly any big language model can predict her train of thought throughout "secret love". "When I was a kid, I wanted to be a horse," she says in the..."  [+]  Reply
- CaptainPain | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"An astonishingly mature album that doesn't try to win you over right away, but rather grows on you over time and leaves a lasting impression. It also takes courage to record these songs without copying other indie bands. They did a great job of it."  Reply
- cronadigallina | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"I'm torn on this project. On the one hand, I've long since accepted that U2 will not bow out gracefully from the music industry and will likely keep making progressively more mediocre music that inspires very little praise, while continuing to make serious money playing their greatest hits on tou..."  [+]  Reply
- BurndenAce | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"A sub-20 minute run time works wonders for this record; were it any longer it would run the risk of completely falling apart. As it is, this post-pop-punk effort (can we call it that?) moves at an absolutely blistering pace, each song following a basic, addictive song structure accompanied by mea..."  [+]  Reply
- spigelwii | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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