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The Best Music of 2018
Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 2018. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.
For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 2018, check out this list.
| Albums (?) | Wikipedia | |
| Alice in Chains | Rainier Fog | ☆ |
| Arctic Monkeys | Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino | ☆ |
| Ariana Grande | Sweetener | ☆ |
| Ashley McBryde | Girl Going Nowhere | ☆ |
| Bad Bunny | X 100pre | ☆ |
| Cardi B | Invasion of Privacy | ☆ |
| Carrie Underwood | Cry Pretty | ☆ |
| Chvrches | Love Is Dead | ☆ |
| Courtney Barnett | Tell Me How You Really Feel | ☆ |
| Dave Matthews Band | Come Tomorrow | ☆ |
| David Byrne | American Utopia | ☆ |
| Father John Misty | God's Favorite Customer | ☆ |
| Ghost | Prequelle | ☆ |
| Imagine Dragons | Origins | ☆ |
| Janelle Monae | Dirty Computer | ☆ |
| John Prine | The Tree of Forgiveness | ☆ |
| Judas Priest | Firepower | ☆ |
| Juice WRLD | Goodbye & Good Riddance | ☆ |
| Kacey Musgraves | Golden Hour | ☆ |
| Kamasi Washington | Heaven and Earth | ☆ |
| Kanye West | Ye | ☆ |
| Kendrick Lamar and Various Artists | Black Panther Soundtrack | ☆ |
| Lucy Dacus | Historian | ☆ |
| Mac Miller | Swimming | ☆ |
| MGMT | Little Dark Age | ☆ |
| Mitski | Be the Cowboy | ☆ |
| of Montreal | White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood | ☆ |
| Post Malone | Beerbongs & Bentleys | ☆ |
| Robyn | Honey | ☆ |
| Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 | Black Times | ☆ |
| The 1975 | A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships | ☆ |
| Travis Scott | Astroworld | ☆ |
| Various Artists | A Star Is Born: Original Soundtrack | ☆ |
| Songs (?) | Wikipedia | |
| 5 Seconds of Summer | Youngblood | ☆ |
| Arctic Monkeys | Four Out of Five | ☆ |
| Ariana Grande | thank u, next | ☆ |
| Brandi Carlile | The Joke | ☆ |
| Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin | I Like It | ☆ |
| Childish Gambino | This Is America | ☆ |
| Dan + Shay | Speechless | ☆ |
| Drake | God's Plan | ☆ |
| Florence + the Machine | Hunger | ☆ |
| Ghost | Dance Macabre | ☆ |
| Greta Van Fleet | When the Curtain Falls | ☆ |
| Janelle Monae | Make Me Feel | ☆ |
| Judas Priest | No Surrender | ☆ |
| Juice WRLD | Lucid Dreams | ☆ |
| Kacey Musgraves | Butterflies | ☆ |
| Kacey Musgraves | Slow Burn | ☆ |
| Kendrick Lamar feat. SZA | All The Stars | ☆ |
| Lady Gaga (w/ Bradley Cooper) | Shallow | ☆ |
| Leon Bridges | Bad Bad News | ☆ |
| Lewis Capaldi | Someone You Loved | ☆ |
| Mumford & Sons | Guiding Light | ☆ |
| Muse | Thought Contagion | ☆ |
| Nicholas Britell | Succession (Main Title Theme) | ☆ |
| Of Montreal | Paranoiac Intervals/Body Dysmorphia | ☆ |
| Panic! at the Disco | High Hopes | ☆ |
| Post Malone feat. Swae Lee | Sunflower | ☆ |
| The Struts | Body Talks | ☆ |
| Toby Keith | Don't Let the Old Man In | ☆ |
| Travis Scott feat. Drake, Swae Lee, Big Hawk | Sicko Mode | ☆ |
| Weezer | Africa | ☆ |
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